July 21, 2005 A group of Las Vegas neo-Nazis has filed papers in Carson City to create a "White People's Party." While the group stands little chance of achieving electoral success, the media coverage they have already received represents an accomplishment for them.  The idea was the brainchild of Michael O'Sullivan, head of the Las Vegas unit of the racist and anti-Semitic National Vanguard, a newly created neo-Nazi group that broke away from the older National Alliance in 2005…

July 13, 2005   White supremacist James Randall Eckert has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a Hillsboro, Oregon, man last year. Eckert, 36, of Beaverton, was found guilty of shooting Dennis Steffen in the chest in June 2004.  After the guilty verdict was read in Washington County Circuit Court, Eckert, who has a shaved head and sports tattoos of African Americans being hanged and kicked, reportedly said, “at least I’m still breathing.” …

June 29, 2005   A man with a long history of white supremacist activity is one of two men facing hate crime charges in Illinois for allegedly beating two teenage girls at a suburban park in Zion. Patrick Langballe, 29, of Winnetka, and Aaron Rush, 20, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, were arrested on June 23 and charged with hate crimes for attacking the two girls and threatening them with a sledgehammer after they told the two men they were lesbians. The girls told investigators they…

June 28, 2005 Thirty-three people, including members of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, have been arrested in six northeast Ohio counties as part of an investigation into drug and weapon sales. Authorities indicate that over 80 weapons, including automatic machine guns, were seized during raids, which took place in the early hours of June 23 in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Summit, Trumbull, Mahoning and Lake counties; a methamphetamine lab was also raided.  The…

May 13, 2005   White supremacist Martin Lindstedt, of Granby, Missouri, was arrested by Newton County authorities on May 10, and charged with first degree statutory sodomy, a charge that indicates the victim was under 12 years of age.   For years, Lindstedt, a former truck driver, has been a vocal white supremacist and an adherent of Christian Identity, a racist and anti-Semitic religious sect.  Most recently, he had been the Missouri contact for…

April 06, 2005 Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the threat to the United States from domestic extremists is still a serious one.  On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 men, women and children, and injuring hundreds more.  It was the second most deadly terrorist act to occur on American soil. The bombing shocked Americans, most of whom had little idea that fellow citizens…

April 06, 2005   April is a month that looms large in the calendar of many extremists in the United States, from racists and anti-Semites to anti-government groups.  Some groups organize events to commemorate these April dates.  Moreover, there is always a certain threat that one or more extremists may choose to respond to these anniversaries with some sort of violent act. Because of these anniversaries, law enforcement officers, community leaders and school officials…

March 29, 2005 Bo Gritz (rhymes with “rights”), a former Green Beret and highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, became a prominent figure on the right-wing fringe after leading unsuccessful commando-style missions to rescue alleged American POW’s in Vietnam in the 1980s. He ran briefly for Vice President in 1988 and for president in 1992, both times on the Populist Party ticket. His non electoral activities have ranged from attempting to mediate high-profile standoffs…

March 24, 2005   Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has long expressed anti-Semitic views, is increasingly reaching out to members of the New Black Panther Party, perhaps the largest organized anti-Semitic black militant group in America.  Farrakhan's outreach to the New Black Panther Party demonstrates that he has not abandoned his hostile attitude toward the Jewish community and that his efforts to portray himself as a mainstream Black leader are a sham. …

March 15, 2005    Since its founding in 1973 as Church of the Creator, the group now known as the Creativity Movement has been associated with violent criminal activity ranging from hate crimes to acts of terrorism.  Here are some selected criminal incidents from the past 15 years.  From 1996 to 2002, it was called the World Church of the Creator.  Following its loss in a trademark infringement lawsuit in 2002, it has been known as the Creativity Movement. …

February 28, 2005   Ku Klux Klan leader David Wayne Hull has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for violating federal firearms laws. Hull, a 42-year-old Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a small Pennsylvania-based group, gave bomb making materials to a government informant posing as an anti-abortion activist, according to prosecutors.  Hull also showed another man how to use pipe bombs during a white supremacist gathering on his property. Hull…

February 23, 2005 New Black Panther Party National Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz vilified Jews and white people during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University on February 17.  The event was sponsored by Spirit, a multicultural group at the university.  Shabazz addressed several issues relating to Jews and Israel during his nearly three-hour address. He declared that "Zionism is terrorism" and called Israel a "terrorist state." He said that "you cannot be a real Jew and a Zionist at…

February 16, 2005   Greater Ministries International (GMI) is a Central Florida-based “church” run by anti-government extremists who, for much of the 1990's, ran a massive pyramid investment scheme, cloaked in Christian rhetoric, that took in hundreds of millions of dollars from thousands of naive and/or greedy investors. In 2001 its main leaders were convicted on numerous charges, and received prison sentences ranging from 13 to 27 years.   Read the full…

February 02, 2005 An Idaho extremist and longtime activist in the anti-government sovereign citizen and tax protest movements was convicted in federal court for plotting to kill a federal judge, prosecutor and IRS agent who were involved in a tax case against him. David Roland Hinkson, 48, of Grangeville, Idaho, was convicted by a jury in Boise on multiple counts of solicitation of a crime of violence and two additional counts of retaliation against a federal official by threatening a…

November 01, 2004   A white supremacist from Lancaster, California, was sentenced to over 34 years in prison for shooting at law enforcement officers during a high speed pursuit. Brian Tobias, 27, has been linked to the Nazi Low Riders, a white supremacist street and prison gang.  He was earlier found guilty of evading an officer, shooting at an occupied vehicle and exhibiting a deadly weapon to a police officer.  Tobias was sentenced on October 27, 2004.  He…

October 30, 2004 Aryan Nations/Church of Jesus Christ Christian was one of the country's best-known enclaves of anti-Semitism and white nationalism. While founded as a Christian Identity outpost, the organization also incorporated neo-Nazi themes; its founder and longtime leader, Richard Girnt Butler, openly adulated Hitler. Recent years have not been kind to Aryan Nations. Bankrupted by a lawsuit from a mother and son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards, the group lost its Idaho…

September 28, 2004 A self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi and leader of Aryan Nations in Reno, Nevada, was arrested and charged with mailing e-mail threats to Jews, government officials, law enforcement officers, media and others in Nevada and California. Steven Holten, 40, was arrested September 22, 2004, on a federal charge of transmitting a threat by interstate commerce. In his email, Holten allegedly threatened that Aryan Nations of Reno would take "terrorist actions" against people and groups on…

September 09, 2004 For nearly three decades, "Reverend" Richard Butler led Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian -- the nation's most well-known bastion of neo-Nazism and Christian Identity. During the past few years, however, Butler's tenure was fraught with upheaval and uncertainty. In the fall of 2000, with membership already on the decline, both he and Aryan Nations were bankrupted by a lawsuit (stemming from an assault by the group's guards). Butler was forced to…

July 15, 2004 Sheriff's deputies from Riverside County, California, have captured a white supremacist fugitive from Utah, 24-year-old Curtis Michael Allgier.  Allgier was the Utah Department of Corrections' most wanted escaped parolee. According to authorities, Allgier is a white supremacist who has associated with members of various Utah-based racist prison gangs, including Soldiers of the Aryan Culture, Silent Aryan Warriors, and 4th Reich.  He also allegedly has connections to…

July 13, 2004 Three of the most active Christian Identity groups in the U.S. are planning three separate events in Montana and Idaho on the weekend of July 16-18, 2004.  Collectively, these events are expected to gather most of the major Christian Identity figures from around the country.  Christian Identity is a racist and anti-Semitic religious sect that figures prominently in right-wing extremist groups and movements in the U.S. America's Promise Ministries and Aryan Nations…