UK media are reporting about a white supremacist, Neo-Nazi teenager Nicky Davison, being charged with plotting terrorism along with his father Ian Davison.
Police Oracle: “Milkman Accused Of Terrorism”
— Police Oracle: “White supremacist father and son plotted terror attacks, court hears. Nicky Davison, 19, joined his father in the creation of Aryan Strike Force, a website demonstrating an apparent obsession with Zionist domination, a jury at Newcastle crown court was told. Computers seized in a police raid on a house in Annfield Plain, County Durham, last year yielded data showing that “ops” involving bombs were in the early stage of planning.”
— “Ian Davison has already pleaded guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism and producing a chemical weapon, using homemade ricin. The poison extracted from castor beans is deadly and has been at the centre of several terrorism scares.”
— “Nicky Davison denies three charges of possessing material useful to a terrorist while helping to run the Aryan Strike Force website. The jury was told that the group had been established in January 2008 and at the time of the police raid last June was ‘in the early stages of becoming active'”
— “The website was not merely a propaganda vehicle for supporters, who also called themselves the Wolfpack and Legion 88. It showed interest in “violence in different forms to advance the aims of white supremacy in these islands”.
— “Shortly before the raid, Nicky Davison had posted messages on the site saying he was ‘concerned about the risk of detection and arrest”. His on-screen name, Thorburn1488, was an obscure code relating to the work of an American white supremacist and shorthand for ‘Heil Hitler'”
— Prosecutor Andrew Elis: “They wanted to resist what they called ZOG, which stood for Zionist-occupied government. They were fighting against the government because they believed it has been taken over by Jews, so it had to be resisted by those interested in white supremacy.”
— London Times: “Teenager in white supremacist group plotted to overthrow Government” — “A teenage former milkman helped his father to run a white supremacist movement that plotted to overthrow the Government, a court was told yesterday.”
— “Police also discovered copies of The Anarchist’s Cookbook and the Mujahideen Explosives Handbook, along with several other digitalised manuals on a computer at the home Nicky Davison shared with his mother and younger brother in Co Durham.”
— “The teenager is accused of helping to maintain the Aryan Strike Force website, which declared its mission ‘to bring all national socialists, nationalists, racists and fascist together or people who consider themselves national socialists.'”
UK Guardian: White supremacist father and son plotted terror attacks, court hears — “Shortly before the raid, Nicky Davison had posted messages on the site saying he was ‘concerned about the risk of detection and arrest’. His on-screen name, Thorburn1488, was an obscure code relating to the work of an American white supremacist and shorthand for ‘Heil Hitler'”
— “Davison and his father, Ian, 41, were not simply ‘keyboard warriors’, said Andrew Edis, prosecuting. “They made a distinction between people who were associated with the group they were forming – who were just supporters who might hand out leaflets – and members, who were to be of a different category, more interested in action,’ he said.”
AP reports that Neo-Nazi and white supremacist propaganda such as the “Turner Diaries,” as well as Adolf Hitler books, and weapons were discovered in a recent raid of a suspected Hutaree militia members in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The “Turner Diaries” propaganda found was also used to inspireterrorist Timothy McVeigh in the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing.
— “Several cardboard tubes including two ‘with green/cannon fuse;’ a 6-by- 3/4-inch-gallon nipple with end caps; a two-page document about a “funnel shape charge;” a 2005 daily planner book; a grenade holder; a Hutaree flag; three DVDs labeled ‘Waco’; a notebook detailing the doctrine and ranks of the Hutaree; and gas masks; at Stone’s trailer home in Lenawee County’s Dover Township.”
— ” Substances believed to be crack cocaine and steroids and a lock pick set at the mobile home of suspected Hutaree member Kristopher Sickles in Sandusky, Ohio.”
— “A copy of “My New Order” by Hitler; audio of ‘The Turner Diaries,’ a novel that is popular with white supremacists; a samurai sword; a jeweled dagger; a ballistic helmet; an intrusion detection machine; and a CD titled ‘Explosives, Ordnance and Demolition;’ at the two-story home of suspected Hutaree member Thomas Piatek in Whiting, Ind.”
Cover of White Supremacist - Neo Nazi Propaganda "The Turner Diaries" Used to Inspire April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombings and Audio Now Found in Hutaree Militia Raid (Image: Anti-Defamation League ADL)
One Stormfront forum member wrote “After living through a decade of attacks against the Confederate battle flag and school administrators suspending students who wear Dixie regalia, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is, like a true Johnny Reb, fighting back.”
Another Stormfront forum member wrote “For 8 years we went without it, but its back again. Any WN [white nationalist] ought to consider themself [sic] a confederate – my people are from the North, but we all know where our allegiances would lie today.”
Stormfront "White Nationalist Hate Group" Forum Members Praises Virginia Governor McDonnell's Decision on "Confederate History Month"
Washington Post: McDonnell’s Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders
— Washington Post reports: “Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base.”
— “The two previous Democratic governors had refused to issue the mostly symbolic proclamation honoring the soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. McDonnell (R) revived a practice started by Republican governor George Allen in 1997. McDonnell left out anti-slavery language that Allen’s successor, James S. Gilmore III (R), had included in his proclamation.”
Image from Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington, Virginia - Managed by U.S. National Park Service - Where R.E.A.L. Held Its August 28, 2009 Demonstration
Related Reports by R.E.A.L:
Virginia - August 28, 2009: R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm Challenges Confederate Nostalgia and Racial Hate at Robert E. Lee Memorial
We Have A Responsibility — Jeffrey Imm in Arlington, Virginia: “We have a responsibility to challenge those who would use symbols of division to continue to spread hate and to challenge our shared values of equality and liberty. Reverend Timothy James of the Disciples of Christ recently stated that ‘for African Americans the confederate flag is a system of terror, oppression, separation, and racism.’ We shouldn’t need to be reminded of this. We have seen the use of the Confederate symbol of division used over and over again in our nation. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by the Ku Klux Klan. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by white supremacist organizations. Most recently, we have seen the Confederate symbol of division in the tragic terrorist attack in June on the Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Virginia and throughout our nation today, there are over 90 Neo-Confederate hate groups that use that symbol of our past divisions to spread hate and to attack our shared values of equality and liberty.”
— the Virginia-headquartered, white nationalist hate group Occidental Dissent today called for taking away the rights of women to vote in America in a report “Why Voting Should Be Male Only” — the white nationalist Occidental Dissent group argues that “unlimited democracy with universal suffrage is a terrible idea, and largely responsible for the problems we face”
— the white nationalist group concludes that “regardless of the other failings of society, any state constructed in the future must restrict the vote to men only. A failure to do this will result in disaster.”
— see also screen shots of the Occidental Dissent white nationalist group calling for taking away women’s suffrage: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Both the Occidental Dissent and VDARE have been supporters of the “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance (AmRen) to hold events in the Washington DC area; Alternative Right has also interviewed AmRen’s Jared Taylor to defend his views on “white nationalism.”
We urge all those who promote racial hate or misogyny to support our universal human rights. Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Louisiana: May 3 is latest trial date in Ku Klux Klan (KKK) killing
— AP reports: “The latest trial date for the man charged with second-degree murder in the death of a would-be Ku Klux Klan recruit is May 3, according to the district attorney’s office in St. Tammany Parish.”
— “Raymond Foster of Washington Parish is the suspect in the November 2008 shooting death of Cynthia Lynch of Oklahoma.”
White Woman Cynthia Lynch, 43, Murdered for Deciding Not to Join Ku Klux Klan (Photo: AP)
The media has reported on the murder of “notorious white supremacist” Eugune Terre’Blanche, who was murdered apparently over a dispute over backwages owed by him to employees. AP is reporting (according to the mother of one of the suspects) that Terre’Blanche threatened one of his killers. Eugene Terre’Blanche was a leader of the pro-apartheid Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging party (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), whose members had previously been convicted under the South Africa Terrorism Act. At one point, AWB sought to declare war on South Africa if it ended apartheid. Terre’Blanche also did prison time for “nearly beating a black man to death.” The AWB reportedly used “neo-Nazi anthems” and was “swastika-like symbols,” and was a major promoting of “hard-line apartheid” ideology. Terre’Blanche reported praised Adolf Hitler. The AWB reportedly has vowed “revenge” for the Terre’Blanche killing. See media reports below.
Guardian reports: “White supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche is hacked to death after row with farmworkers”
— “A notorious white supremacist who once threatened to wage war rather than allow black rule in South Africa was hacked to death at his farm yesterday following an argument with two employees. Eugene Terre’Blanche’s mutilated body was found on his bed along with a broad-blade knife and a wooden club, police said.”
— “‘He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap,’ one family friend, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters.”
— “Local media quoted a member of Terre’Blanche’s Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging party (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB) as saying that the 69-year-old had been beaten with pipes and machetes. Police said two males, thought to be workers on the farm, have been arrested and will appear in court on Tuesday.”
— “Terre’Blanche, with striking blue eyes and white beard, was the voice of hardline opposition to the end of racial apartheid in the early 1990s, and the AWB was infamous for its swastika-like symbols and neo-Nazi anthems. But he had been in relative obscurity since his release in 2004 after a prison sentence for beating a black man nearly to death”.
— “Last year he attempted a comeback, announcing plans to rally far-right groups and to apply to the United Nations for a breakaway Afrikaner republic.”
— “His death comes amid heightened racial tension in South Africa, where Julius Malema, leader of the youth wing of the governing African National Congress, has caused anger by singing a struggle song with the words, ‘Shoot the Boer’. Terre’Blanche called himself a Boer, which means farmer in Afrikaans.”
— “Civil rights groups say that 3,000 white farmers have been killed since the end of apartheid and accuse Malema of inciting further violence against them. Last week a high court banned Malema from repeating the lyric but he did so yesterday during a visit to Zimbabwe.”
— “Police in South Africa’s North West province said last night that Terre’Blanche had been attacked and killed at his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp. Captain Adele Myburgh said Terre’Blanche was attacked by a man and a minor who worked for him after they allegedly had an argument about unpaid wages at around 6pm, the South African Press Association reported.”
— AP reports white supremacist threatened worker — AP reports: “When they asked for their money, Terreblanche told them to first make sure that all his cattle had been brought in from pasture and counted. When they did that, Terreblanche still refused to pay them.”
— “‘He (Terreblanche) said ‘I will kill you and throw you to hell,” the mother said, speaking in Tswana, repeating what she was told by her son.”
— “Angry white supremacists mourn S.Africa leader”
— Reuters: “Terre’blanche’s Afrikaner Resistance Movement, marginalised since his failed struggle to preserve apartheid in the 1990s, has vowed to avenge a death it blames on sentiment whipped up by the leader of the ruling ANC’s youth league.”
— The Guardian reports that the AWB organization was reported to be involved in killings of their own, and Terre’Blache and other AWB members have previously been convicted under the South Africa Terrorism Act.
Eugene Terre'Blanche in Ventersdorp, South Africa, in 1995. (Photograph: John Moore/AP)
— Daily Telegraph: “Asked about his attitude to Hitler, Terreblanche praised the dictator as a clever statesman, who led his country out of the depression of the Thirties and transformed the Germans into a fighting people.
Eugene Terreblanche at an AWB meeting in South Africa in the 1980s. Photo: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Guardian: "Eugene Terre’Blanche waves to his supporters after he was released from prison in Potchefstroom in June 2004 after he had served part of a five-year sentence for the attempted murder of a black security guard." (Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
R.E.A.L Comment: It is deeply disturbing to see people who are victimized for generations become victimizers themselves – but we need to remember that is what is happening in South Africa in some cases. Yes there are atrocities against whites in South Africa and that is deplorable and wrong. But in this particular report, thus far it appears that White Supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche was simply the victim of a crime over money.
Let’s also be clear that blacks in South Africa have suffered generations of violent oppression under whites there through apartheid. We all know that. We all know what apartheid means and the long history of violent hate that it represented to black South Africans.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights.
We urge people of all race and ethnicity to Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has learned that a “Christian Identity” supporting “church,” the Abundant Life Fellowship, in Morgantown, Indiana has hosted one white nationalist speaker, and plans to show a film by Craig Bodeker (who was scheduled to be a speaker at the white nationalist “American Renaissance” conference.) The Abundant Life Fellowship hosted an event in Martinsville, Indiana on March 27, and now plans to show Craig Bodeker’s film denying the existence of racism, “A Conversation About Race,” on the evening of April 2 (7 to 9 PM), on Good Friday, at the Abundant Life Fellowship facility at 140 E. Washington Street in Morgantown, Indiana. (See also our “correction” on this.)
Craig Bodeker is a supporter of the white nationalist “American Renaissance” organization’s conferences, and was scheduled to speak at their biannual conference in the Washington DC area in February 2010, before DC area hotels became aware of the racist nature of group’s ideology and chose to cancel their event. The American Renaissance is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a “white nationalist hate group.” American Renaissance’s Craig Bodeker wrote to R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm, warning him to stop educating the public about the American Renaissance’s ideological nature or someone might “decide to correct your behavior” among other comments. At the DC conference, Craig Bodeker was to speak with “white nationalists” and racist individuals including Nick Griffin, who has called the Holocaust “the Holohoax.” Craig Bodeker has created a film called “A Conversation about Race” which seeks to deny that racism exists.
White Nationalist Conference Supporter Craig Bodeker’s Film to be Shown in Morgantown, Indiana – Denies Existence of Racism (Photo: Facebook)
The Indiana events in Martinsville and Morgantown have been supported by Occidental Dissent contributor Matt Parrott, who is also the local Indiana leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), which is also listed by the SPLC as a “white nationalist hate group.” Occidental Dissent, where Matt Parrott writes his articles on “white nationalism,” describes its mission as “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America.”
Regarding the “White Nationalist community,” Matt Parrott claims to be a “veteran of the movement for a decade.” He complains that “Jews are directing our foreign policy, running Hollywood, controlling our media, and dominating our academic institutions.” (Prior to his involvement with the racial oriented, “Christian Identity”-supporting Abundant Life Fellowship Church events, Matt Parrott was a member of an atheist organization, whose home page illustrates someone defiling a crucifix.)
White Nationalist Matt Parrott Speaks at Martinsville, Indiana Racial Event Hosted by Abundant Life Fellowship Church (Photo: YouTube)
Indiana Events Promoted on Stormfront “Hate Group” Web Site by Church
The Indiana events have also been promoted on the “Stormfront” group’s web site, led by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and former American Nazi Party member Don Black. Don Black defines his Stormfront group as “white nationalist” with a logo using a white cross with the slogan “white pride worldwide.” The Stormfront group is also listed by the SPLC as a “white nationalist hate group.”
The Indiana events were promoted on the Stormfront “white nationalist hate group” website by a local volunteer who is a member of the local Indiana CofCC “hate group,” and states that she is the wife of an Indiana CofCC member at the Martinsville, Indiana rally. They have also been promoted there by the “associate pastor” of the Abundant Life Fellowship “church.”
This CofCC wife, with the Stormfront name “remain in the light,” is a “Friend of Stormfront Sustaining Member.” She writeson the Stormfront web site about the Abundant Life Fellowship white nationalist speaker planned for April 2 event in Morgantown, Indiana: “As an individual, I would like to extend the invitation to all of our white brethren regardless of religion (or lack thereof). I understand that it may be awkward for those not of the Christian faith to attend an event at a church, but please remember that the emphasis is on race and heritage. All white kinsmen welcome!”
She also writes on Stormfront that “We need to be united in our fight for the white race…. [and that] This experience will hopefully help any future theological dialogues that occure [sic] once we secure a white nation… [and that our judicial system has failed] since it has been infested by Jews.”
Abundant Life Fellowship “associate pastor” Ed Glasgow is also a forum member of the Stormfront “hate group,” and has been there for six years. He also uses the Stormfront web site to promote the Morgantown, Indiana white nationalist events. According to his biography on Abundant Life Fellowship church, “In 1997 Ed and Sarah attended a debate on ‘Who is Israel?’ and was there introduced to the Christian Israel truth.” “He served as Asst. Pastor at Union Christian church in Paragon, Indiana until it was disbanded.”
Abundant Life Fellowship “Associate Pastor” Ed Glasgow (Photo: Abundant Life Fellowship Web Site)
Ed Glasgow goes on to make his views about Jews very clear on the Stormfront “hate group” web site, stating: “I am the asst. pastor at Abundant Life Fellowship. Yes we are a Christian Israel church. We believe that the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples make up the physical descendants of the Israelites in the Bible. We do not believe those who claim to be jews, or the modern state of IsraeLIE are, and in fact are just the impostors mentioned in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9.” Ed Glasgow has spoken at Indiana events along with Jonathan Harness at events hosted by the “Heritage Connection” white nationalist band, who fly a banner on the blog with the Stormfront logo “white pride worldwide.”
Indiana’s “Abundant Life Fellowship Church” Views on Race
Abundant Life Fellowship “church” pastor Jonathan Harness describes his church as a “Christian Israelite fellowship.” For those wondering what a “Christian Israelite fellowship” is, elsewhere he clarifies this as “Christian Israel (or Identity).” On the Abundant Life Fellowship web site, they have posted an article by Lawrence Blanchard criticizing a book called “Race Over Grace – The Racialist Religion of the Christian Identity Movement,” which gives a good idea of the “racialist” views held by the Abundant Life Fellowship “church.” (Lawrence Blanchard agrees with the book where it states the Christian Identity movement has been too fragmented, and needs to be more unified, not about criticism of its racist views.)
In a recent list of prayers at the Abundant Life Fellowship “church,” pastor Jonathan Harness calls for prayers and praise for “Christian Identity ministries all over.”
Abundant Life Fellowship “Church” Calls for Support for “Christian Identity ministries all over” (Image: Abundant Life Fellowship Church Web Site)
The “Christian Identity” movement has been described by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a “racist and anti-Semitic religious sect whose adherents believe that white people of European descent are the descendants of the ‘Lost Tribes’ of ancient Israel.” ADL also states that “Many consider Jews to be the Satanic offspring of Eve and the Serpent, while non-whites are ‘mud peoples’ created before Adam and Eve. Its virulent racist and anti-Semitic beliefs are usually accompanied by extreme anti-government sentiments. Despite its small size, Christian Identity influences virtually all white supremacist and extreme anti-government movements. It has also informed criminal behavior ranging from hate crimes to acts of terrorism.”
The SPLC also provides an essay on the past history of the Christian Identity ideology and its links to terrorist and militia groups, such as “The Order” and the “Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord (CSA).” The Occidental Dissent group, where Matt Parrott writes, has used slogans from white nationalist David Lane, the founder of “The Order.”
Abundant Life Fellowship’s Jonathan Harness at Martinsville, Indiana Racial Event
Throughout his writings, “pastor” Jonathan Harness describes his “biblical” views on race, rejecting racial integration, focusing on the leadership of Christian by “white men,” viewing that leaders must be “white,” and seeking to defend white heritage and denying the existence of racism. (See also his various comments on “race,”“racial,”“racism,” and “white” people on his website.)
— Harness defending “white heritage importance,” rejecting “the fallacy called racism,” stating “It is by the mouths of our enemy, those anti-Christ deceiving liars, who continue to keep this “supposed” sin alive in our midst to keep the white race beat down and oppressed by causing the compassion of the white race to be turned into self-loathing for a sin that none of us personally committed!”
— Not unlike Craig Bodeker, however, “pastor” Johnathan Harness also seems to believe that racism doesn’t exist, stating that:
“I have had a minister of this faith speak ill against brethren in the name of ‘racism’; a word that is filled with emotion, but is used by our common enemy to destroy us all and we continue to use it on one another. I challenge you all to find the origin of the word, ‘racism’. It isn’t an old word, but rather a fairly new word within the last century. And yet, we continue to ‘judge’ others for supposed ‘racism’ when it is bringing the judgment back on ourselves as we stand as racial separatist and therefore are bunched together (whether we like it or not) by the semantic of it!”
— Harness condemning racial integration: “My opponent began this treatise with an argument about the New Covenant being established for ‘all men’ and obviously my opponent has not studied that topic out thoroughly as their point was of a racially integrated relationship within the Kingdom of God through His Christ and that is absolutely against the premises of Scripture.”
— Harness on the only hope for Christianity in the white race: “We can only find the answer in one people group and one alone; that being the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian, Kindred peoples. Even today you do not find the fulfillment of these expectations any greater than in the white man. The white man has been faithful in carrying the Gospel message throughout the globe.”
— Harness calling for “white Christians” to condemn free elections: “Could it be that the conservative white ‘Christians’ are beginning to “wake up” to the reality of tyranny that is upon this country through the curses of Deuteronomy 28? Could it be that we, White Americans, with true birth right are realizing the weight of this election and what it might mean to us and our progeny?”
“It is with a very heavy heart that I write this article this week! We, as a nation of believers in America, have seen history in the making clearly and unobstructed. Moreover, we are the reason that we have seen this history being unfurled before our very eyes!”
“This week our nation elected its first black President! This is an unbelievable feat as I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s; a time that was still inundated with pride for heritage and country: I believe that most during that time and before will agree that we still respected the forefathers beliefs on the necessity of being ‘white’ for ‘high’ leadership purposes.”
Jonathan Harness decries that “They sold the generation before mine on integration… The Bible has explicitly warned us of our errors and has offered us a way of correcting them, but we have to be willing to accept that we have the ability to accomplish things for His Kingdom.”
Abundant Life Fellowship Pastor Harness Denying Existence of Racism
According to his biography on the Abundant Life Fellowship church web site, “Pastor Jonathan attended the Bible Institute in St. Paul, MN. He has been in ministry since he was 16 years old.” It also states that he and his wife “worked as Youth Pastors, Youth Directors for the Church of God United Assembly, Outreach Pastors, and both served on the board of directors of the National Christian Outreach.”
The Abundant Life Fellowship church sells books by white nationalist Matt Parrott, books condemning interracial marriage, a book by Lawrence Blanchard “Did All Races Come from Adam?,” “The Story of Celto-Saxon Israel,” and “Symbols of our Celto-Saxon Heritage,” among others.
Morgantown Pastor Speaks Out to Defend Christianity and Equality for All Races
In a separate discussion with the pastor of the Morgantown Baptist Church in Indiana, R.E.A.L. learned some additional facts about the Abundant Life Fellowship “church” to provide context on this group.
Pastor Ben Swopes states that the white nationalist and racist views of the Abundant Life Fellowship members do not represent Morgantown, Indiana, and that they represent only a small fraction of what is a very small town of about 2 miles. Pastor Swopes states that he knows the town very well as he served as president of the town board for a year and a half. Moreover, it would appear many others in the small town have not heard about the planned Craig Bodeker film, there has been no local advertising about the event, nor is there likely to be any parking at the Abundant Life Fellowship “church,” if many show up to attend.
Pastor Ben Swopes states that he believes “that there is only one race, the human race” and that “we are to share the gospel to the whole human race.”
Morgantown, Indiana Baptist Church Seeks to Preach the Christian Gospel to People of ALL Races (Photo: Morgantown Baptist Church web site)
A Decision to Make – Defy the Legacy of the Past and Promote Human Rights – Or – Hope for the Best?
But despite Pastor Swopes’ hopeful, loving, and inspirational view of his neighbors, history shows that parts of Indiana still must shake off remnants of a past era when white supremacists held power in Indiana, and where cities such as nearby Martinsville, Indiana was considered by some as a “sundown town” where blacks dared not venture after dark. Martinsville and other parts of Indiana continue to seek to defy that legacy of racist hate, and seek to build a new reputation of hope and understanding for Indiana. But there remain those who continue to seek to drag Indiana and America back to the “bad old days” of racial hatred and division.
Indiana’s “Fiery Cross” from the 1920s when Many Thousands Supported the Ku Klux Klan
It is no small irony that the “white nationalist” Craig Bodeker film event at the “Abundant Life Fellowship church” should fall on the Christian Good Friday on the cusp of the most important spiritual holiday in the Christian religion, their “Easter resurrection day”. Should Christians who honor Jesus’ commandment to love one another remain silent as racist “white nationalism” ideologies are being spread on behalf of “Christian” events as Christians throughout Indiana, America, and the world are preparing for Easter?
Christians and human rights activists struggle with the decision to make over the remnants of racial supremacist ideologies and groups, such as the growing efforts by some to promote “white nationalism” in America. But while many believe that they can just “ignore the extremists” in hopes that they will simply go away, the unfortunate truth is that every year we are finding more and more groups being added to the Southern Poverty Law Center hate group listings. We are seeing racial intolerance and hate speech growing more and more in our public discourse and in society.
Furthermore, this comes less than a week after federal government raids on the “Christian militia” Hutaree in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
When will Americans reach the point where “looking the other way” no longer works? After a white supremacist terrorist attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009, and a foiled terrorist plot where a white nationalist Stormfront forum member sought to kill 102 Americans, what more will it take? How many more churches, synagogues, and mosques need to be defaced in America? How many more racial slurs need to be hurled? How many more black Americans need to be spit upon in our streets? At what point, do Americans and American Christians need to actively defy racism in America, especially racism in the name of “Christianity”?
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life to his nation for his “dream,” so we too must realize that we have “a responsibility.” We believe that Americans need to be responsible for equality and liberty. Perhaps only then will we finally all be able to say together that we are “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge “white nationalist” supporters and all those who promote hate against others to drop the burden of the hate of from their hearts.
Choose love, not hate. Love wins.
Note: R.E.A.L. inaccurately reported in our initial report that Craig Bodeker was also going to speak at the Morgantown event, and we have since learned that only his film is going to be shown. We apologize for the inaccuracy. We also apologize to Mr. Bodeker on this inaccuracy.
The Virginia headquartered, “white nationalist” group Occidental Dissent today condemned the March 28, 2010 public awareness event by Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) to promote racial equality, gender equality, and religious pluralism and freedom. The R.E.A.L. event was remembering the sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was assassinated on April 4, 1968. In addition, R.E.A.L. was honored to have Damanga Executive Director Mohamed Yahya speak on the need to address the continuing genocide in Darfur.
The “white nationalist” group Occidental Dissent condemned such efforts to promote human rights, however, stating “In your words, we are trying to ‘rebuild a network of hate,’ which is not far from the truth.”
The “white nationalist” Occidental Dissent also group condemns those seeking defending Darfur from genocide, stating: “Unlike you, White Nationalists don’t care about African countries like Sudan. In your honor, I have created a Facebook group called ‘I Don’t Give a Damn About Darfur.'”
In their condemnation of the March 28 R.E.A.L. human rights event, the Occidental Dissent quotes the “14 words” slogan of terror plotter and “white nationalist” David Lane, who was one of the founders of the white supremacist terrorist group “The Order,” which dedicated itself to delivering “our people from the Jew and bring total victory to the Aryan race.” Convicted David Lane is infamous for his “14 word” slogan used by Neo-Nazi groups and white supremacists, including terrorist plotters such as Stormfront forum member Daniel Cowart who recently pleaded guilty to a plot to kill 102 Americans, including a plot to behead 14 black Americans (in homage to this Lane’s “14 word” slogan).
In the Occidental Dissent’s “letter to Jeffrey Imm,” it states “I have no objection to your description of Occidental Dissent as a ‘White Nationalist’ group, but I would like to be personally referred to as a ‘Neo-Confederate.’ Some other favorites are ‘secessionist,’ ‘disunionist,’ and ‘Southern nationalist.’ I have stated that my ultimate goal is the creation of a White ethnostate in the American South. I don’t foresee this ethnostate including Washington, D.C. Most of us would prefer to cede that cesspool to the present multiracial regime.”
Occidental Dissent’s mission is “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America.” They seek to spread such “white nationalist” hate views in Virginia, the Washington DC area, and around the nation.
Occidental Dissent was a promoter of a “white nationalist” conference led by the Virginia group “American Renaissance” that was to be held in the Washington DC area in February 2010, before R.E.A.L. educated the public about their “white nationalist” ideology, and it was subsequently canceled by local hotels. One of the scheduled speakers for the February “American Renaissance” conference was a man who called the Holocaust as “the Holohoax,” and who had previously spoken at an event attended by white supremacist terrorist James Von Brunn. James Von Brunn attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in June 2009 and killed black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other groups promoting the DC-area “American Renaissance” conference included the Stormfront group (where members praised Von Brunn as a “martyr”) and the VDARE group that called Von Brunn “an intelligent man.”
Like other hate groups, the Occidental Dissent seeks to attack private individuals, and continues to spread lies about Jeffrey Imm’s wife Ariele, as part of their efforts to get Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) to end their defense of human rights.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge “white nationalist” supporters and all those who promote hate against others to drop the burden of the hate of from their hearts.
