Day: April 20, 2009

(U.S.) St. Louis: Nazi rally draws verbal protests and one arrest
— “The National Socialist Movement and over 150 counterdemonstrators squared off Saturday in an angry, rhetoric-filled but ultimately nonviolent confrontation on the grounds of the Gateway Arch”
— “For the better part of an hour, chants of ‘White Power’ and ‘Sieg Heil’ echoed from beneath the Arch as 70 black-uniformed members of the American Nazi Party gathered for the most public event of the organization’s national convention”
— American Nazi Party rallies at the Arch

— Nazis, protesters face off in St. Louis
— “The Saturday demonstration by about 70 black-uniformed members of the American Nazi Party featured chants of “White Power” and “Sieg Heil,” while about 150 counter-protesters responded by yelling profanities, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported”

(U.S.) Idaho: AP – Neo-Nazi Aryan Nations recruiting again in northern Idaho
— “The fliers show a young girl asking her father ‘Why did those dark men take mommy away?'”
— Other AP reports (1), (2)

(U.S.) Idaho: Aryan Nations Racist group leaves fliers on lawns
— “They depicted a girl asking her father what he did during the ‘revolution’ and asking ‘Where have all the White people gone daddy?’ and ‘Why did those dark men take mommy away?’ The fliers were signed ‘Aryan Nations, Church of Jesus Christ Christian,’ and listed a post office box and a Web site. The group’s address is listed as ‘Couer d’Alene, Idaho.'”
— “The Aryan Nations Web site lists Jerald O’Brien and Michael Lombard as the ‘pastors’ who have taken over after longtime leader Richard Butler’s death in September 2004”
— “Newspaper files show O’Brien marching in a neo-Nazi parade in Coeur d’Alene in July 2004 and joining in a skinhead rally that drew eight people outside the Spokane County courthouse in June 2007. O’Brien has a large swastika tattoo on his scalp”
— “A new Alabama location for the ‘Aryan Nations World Headquarters’ was posted on the group’s Web site soon after Butler’s death. A splinter group set up shop in Pennsylvania.”

Tennessee: Updated News Reports on Court Proceedings Against Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman in Terrorist Plot Against Obama and Black Americans
— Daniel Cowart allegedly linked to Neo Nazi Organizations
— Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart alleged to be racial supremacists
— Terror plot was to kill 88 black Americans and Barack Obama
— Jackson Sun: Skinheads appear in court
— “Stitts said Clark Cowart told him that Daniel Cowart had been living with them for a while and had become very involved with a group on the Internet that may have been a skinhead group. Clark Cowart also told Stitts that Daniel Cowart had been ‘getting out of control.'”
— “Crockett County Sheriff Troy ‘Klyce testified he then noticed that the car was covered with a swastika and other messages such as ‘Honk if you love Hitler’ and ‘Sieg Heil.'”
— “Klyce said he exclaimed, ‘What the hell?’ Daniel Cowart responded with a sentence that ended with ‘cease to co-exist with these people,’ Klyce testified.”
— “Klyce said Schlesselman told him the sawed-off shotgun belonged to him. Schlesselman seemed very nonchalant, Klyce said, commenting on what a pretty night it was.”
— “When asked if the two would have followed through on their plot, Secret Service Agent Jeff Barker testified that ‘the actions they took were actions they needed to take to carry out their plot.'”
— Jackson Sun: Cowart’s grandfather testifies in federal court
— Memphis Commercial Appeal: Defense: Evidence in Obama plot illegally seized
— AP: Obama plot suspects want Tennessee evidence thrown out
— “Authorities describe Daniel Cowart and Schlesselman as white supremacist skinheads who met over the Internet and hatched a plot for a crime spree they planned to wrap up by dressing in white tuxedos and top hats and shooting at Obama, then the Democratic candidate for president, from a speeding car.”
— See also:
— April Court Date for White Supremacists in Terror Plot to Murder African-Americans, Assassinate Barack Obama
— Tennessee: Judge refuses to dismiss charges – white supremacist terror and assassination plot on Obama