Blood and Politics (109 page)

19.
Kenneth S. Stern,
A Force upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 37.

32. Clinton’s First Year and the Culture War

  
1.
David Gunn, Sacred Heart Hospital Autopsy Protocol, MLA93-100, complaint no. 93-14390, G. D. Cumberland, M.D., forensic pathologist, March 12, 1993.

  
2.
Michael Frederick Griffin, Pensacola Police Department Arrest Report, no. 128260, Steven A. Ordonia, badge no. 161, March 10, 1993.

  
3.
Jeanie Russell Kasindorf, “A Call to Murder,”
Redbook
, August 1993.

  
4.
Michael Frederick Griffin, “Enlistee Evaluation Report[s],” U.S.S.
Whale
, period from January 1983 to April 1987, for Michael Frederick Griffin.

  
5.
Monsanto Textiles Company Pensacola, Florida, Performance Appraisal for Michael Griffin, August 15, 1989.

  
6.
“Ex Parte Order Enjoining Domestic Violence,” Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit Escambia County, Florida, 91-1564-ASP, April 8, 1991.

  
7.
James Risen and Judy L. Thomas,
Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War
(New York: Basic Books, 1998), p. 195 (quote taken from interview with Risen and Thomas, courtesy Judy Thomas).

  
8.
David Mark Chalmers,
Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987), pp. 378–81.

  
9.
Peter Gunn Jr. v. John Burt
, amended complaint, Circuit Court of Escambia County, Florida, 95-391-CA.

10.
Risen and Thomas,
Wrath of Angels
, pp. 342–43.

11.
Dr. Edward Fields, letter to reader,
The Truth at Last
, December 1, 1993.

12.
Tom Metzger, White American Resistance recorded phone message, reported in
The Hammer: Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist News and Analysis
8 (Fall 1984), p. 12.

13.
“NAF Violence & Disruption Statistics,” National Abortion Federation, December 31, 1997.

14.
Risen and Thomas,
Wrath of Angels
, p. 338.

15.
S. L. Gardiner,
Rolling Back Civil Rights: The Oregon Citizens’ Alliance at Religious War
, Coalition for Human Dignity, Portland, Oregon, 1992; Timothy Egan, “Oregon Measure Asks State to Repress Homosexuality,”
The New York Times
, August 16, 1992.

16.
Coalition for Human Dignity,
The Dignity Report
1, nos. 1–6, 1993.

17.
Kevin McCullen, “Decision a Victory for 3 Cities’ Laws,”
Rocky Mountain News
, May 21, 1996.

18.
Romer v. Evans
, 517 U.S. 620 (1996).

19.
Justice Kennedy, Opinion of the Court,
Romer v. Evans
, 517 U.S. 620 (1996); in dissent, Justice A. Scalia wrote: “In
Bowers v. Hardwick
[a previous case out of Georgia] we held that the Constitution does not prohibit what virtually all states had done from the founding of the Republic until very recent years—making homosexual conduct a crime. That holding is unassailable . . .”

20.
Author, notes on videotaped focus group discussions sponsored by the Human Rights Project, Kansas City, 1992.

21.
Ralph Reed, “Casting a Wider Net,”
Policy Review
, Summer 1993, p. 31.

22.
Samuel Francis, “Religious Wrongs,” in Samuel T. Francis,
Revolution from the Middle
(Raleigh, N.C.: Middle American Press, 1997), pp. 209–10.

23.
Ibid., p. 209.

24.
Ibid., p. 208.

25.
Ibid., pp. 210–11.

26.
Ibid., pp. 205–11.

27.
Ibid., p. 209.

28.
Francis, “Culture and Power: Winning the Culture War,” in
Revolution from the Middle
, p. 175.

33. Inferno at Waco and Randy Weaver Wins at Trial

1.
Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Investigation of Vernon Wayne Howell also known as David Koresh
, September 1993, pp. 96–107, figures 33 and 34.

  
2.
“ATF Stunned by Jubilee-Beam Counterattack,”
The Jubilee
6, no. 3 (November/December 1993); Kirk Lyons, interview with author, August 31, 1995; “Special Report on WACO for NRA Members,” CAUSE Foundation (distributed at 1995 NRA convention); Leonard Zeskind, “Armed and Dangerous,”
Rolling Stone
, November 10, 1995.

  
3.
Colleen LeMay, “Allusion to Cult Standoff Puts Agent on the Defensive,”
The Idaho Statesman
, June 4, 1993.

  
4.
Kirk D. Lyons, “White-Collar Racists,”
Sally Jessy Raphael
, March 18, 1993; Ben Stocking, “Hate Groups Have an Ally in Lawyer,”
The News and Observer
, April 19, 1992.

  
5.
Melanie Threlkeld, “Friends Call Weaver Close Religious Family,” and
Statesman
staff, “Friends Say Weaver a Separatist, Not a White Supremacist,”
The Idaho Statesman
, August 27, 1992.

  
6.
Martin Johncox, “Weaver Pleads Innocent,”
The Idaho Statesman
, September 2, 1992.

  
7.
Martin Johncox, “US: Weaver Had ‘Aryan’ Plan,”
The Idaho Statesman
, October 3, 1992.

  
8.
Associated Press, “Defense Attorney: Feds Are Trying to Smear Weaver,” September 30, 1992.

  
9.
Timothy Egan, “U.S. Case Looks Weaker in Idaho Siege,”
The New York Times
, June 23, 1993.

10.
Dean Miller, “Supremacists Could Face Death Penalty,”
The Spokesman Review
, October 7, 1992; Quane Kenyon, “Accounts of Mountaintop Shootout Differ,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, September 20, 1992; Dean Miller, “Aryan Leader Tells Jury About Weaver, Beliefs,”
The Spokesman Review
, September 30, 1992; “2 Acquitted in U.S. Marshal’s Slaying,”
The New York Times
, July 9, 1993.

11.
Colleen May, “Will Waco Repeat Results at Trial? Government Force Issue Will Take Spotlight Again When Branch Davidians Face Trial,” and “How Weaver-Harris Standoff, Trial Unfolded,”
The Idaho Statesman
, July 9, 1993.

34. A Suicide in North Carolina and the Birth of Resistance Records

  
1.
Ben Klassen, “Will and Lucinda Williams,” in Ben Klassen,
Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
(Niceville, FL.: Church of the Creator, 1993), p. 215. At eight minutes after 8:00 on August 8, 1988, Will Williams married his girlfriend, Lucinda, at the COTC camp.

  
2.
Ben Klassen, “Prelude,” in Ben Klassen,
The Klassen Letters. Volume One: 1969–1976
(Otto, N.C.: Church of the Creator, 1988).

  
3.
Ibid., p. 7.

  
4.
Ben Klassen,
Nature’s Eternal Religion
(Milwaukee: Milwaukee Church of the Creator, 1973), pp. 180 and 248–317;
Racial Loyalty
, August 1991.

5.
Ron Word, “Sailor Slain,” Associated Press, August 12, 1992; “In Memoriam,”
Racial Loyalty
, March 1992, p. 3 (announces wife’s death); William Pierce, letter to Ben Klassen, published in
Racial Loyalty
, May 1992, p. 4.

  
6.
Rev. Brandon O’Rourke, P.M. [Pontifex Maximus], “RAHOWA! Six Years Later,”
Racial Loyalty
no. 83 (January 1993); “New Leadership, New Location, New Challenges for the Church of the Creator,”
Racial Loyalty
84 (March 1993), p. 3; “Members, Supporters and Friends,” letter insert in March tabloid, signed: Dr. Rick McCarty, Executive Director, COTC.

  
7.
Klassen,
Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
, pp. 308–12; Rick McCarty, “From the Desk of Dr. McCarty,”
Racial Loyalty
85 (1993), p. 10.

  
8.
“Federal Grand Jury Indicts White Supremacists Plus One Additional Defendant,” news release no. 97-181, U.S. Attorney Terre A. Bowers, July 29, 1993; Leonard Zeskind, “State of the Union,”
Searchlight
, September 1993, p. 23; “Church of the Creator Founder Ben Klassen Commits Suicide,”
Klanwatch Intelligence Report
, Southern Poverty Law Center, August 1993, p. 7; “Final Judgement,”
Connie Mansfield v. the Church of the Creator
, Circuit Court for Escambia County, Florida, 94-345-CA, May 2, 1994.

  
9.
Stephan Talty, “The Method of a Neo-Nazi Mogul,”
The New York Times Magazine
, February 25, 1996.

10.
Under the Hammer: The Resistance Records Report
, Resistance Records, Autumn 1993.

11.
Joseph Carl, “Jack London: An American Racialist,”
Resistance
6 (Spring 1996), pp. 20–24.

12.
George Burdi, “Writer Identifies ‘Skinheads’ as Concerned Young People,”
The Spotlight
, August 14, 1995, p. 18.

13.
Eric Anderson, “Punk and the ‘Symbolic Universe,’” in “Skinheads: From Britain to San Francisco,” p. 59; Mark Hamm,
American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime
(Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994), p. 85: “My hypothesis is that neo-Nazi skinheads emerge in a society not because of style, or rebellion. Instead, they emerge through the specific educational and behavioral management efforts orchestrated by adult racists.”

14.
Anderson, “Skinheads: From Britain to San Francisco,” pp. 64, 97; George Burdi, interview with Southern Poverty Law Center, “Present at the Creation,”
Intelligence Report
, Fall 2001.

35. Willis Carto Loses Control of the Institute for Historical Review

  
1.
“Declaration of Michelle Matteau,” October 17, 1993,
Legion for the Survival of Freedom v. Foundation to Defend the First Amendment
, Superior Court of the State of California, 719141.

  
2.
“Declaration of Mark Weber,” “Declaration of Sandra Lee Sisson,” “Declaration of Thomas J. Marcellus,” “Declaration of Theodore J. O’Keefe,” “Declaration of William S. Hulsy,”
Legion for the Survival of Freedom v. Foundation to Defend the First Amendment
, Superior Court of the State of California, 719141.

  
3.
“Declaration of Thomas J. Marcellus,” December 28, 1993, at point 47,
Legion for the Survival of Freedom v. Foundation to Defend the First Amendment
, Superior Court of the State of California, case no. 719141.

  
4.
Ibid., at point 58.

  
5.
Ibid., at points 41–46.

  
6.
Ibid., at point 76.

  
7.
Ibid., at point 14.

  
8.
“Declaration of Thomas J. Marcellus,” points 72–92; “Minutes of Special Board Meeting of Board of Directors of Legion for the Survival of Freedom, September 24, 1993”; Kerr later backed away from Weber and Marcellus: “Supplemental Declaration of Tom Kerr,” December 29, 1993.

  
9.
Sam Dickson, “Declaration of Sam Dickson,” December 29, 1993; Tom Marcellus, letter to Sam Dickson, October 17, 1993.

10.
Jean Farrel, letters to Willis Carto, August 31, 1983, and October 17, 1983, homepage.mac/lsf/litigation/farrel/831017jfeletter.html (accessed December 3, 2001).

11.
“Complaint,”
Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc. v. First Union National Bank and Joan Althaus
, Superior Court of North Carolina, Henderson County, May 16, 1986; “Plaintiff’s Answers to Defendant’s First Set of Interrogatories,” December 4, 1986,
Legion for the
Survival of Freedom, Inc. v. First Union National Bank and Joan Althaus
, Superior Court of North Carolina, Henderson County, 86 CVS 463.

12.
Tom Marcellus Declaration of December 28, 1993.

13.
Last Will of Jean Farrel, Edison, January 16, 1984.

14.
Willis A. Carto, “Dear Mr. Gibson,” letters, October 7, 1985, October 19, 1985, November 1, 1985.

36. The Common Law Courts, Partners to the Militia

  
1.
The Kansas City Star
, January 28, 1994; “Agent Testifies He Urged ATF to Cancel Waco Raid: Superiors ‘Not Truthful’ About Warning,”
The Washington Post
, January 29, 1994.

  
2.
Second superseding indictment,
United States of America, Plaintiff v. Leroy M. Schweitzer, Daniel E. Petersen, Rodney O. Skurdal, Dale M. Jacobi, Richard E. Clark, John P. McGuire, Russell Landers, Dana Dudley a/k/a/ Dana Landers, William Stanton, Agnes Stanton, Ebert Stanton, Ralph Clark, Emmet Clark, Cheryl Petersen, Defendants
, U.S. District Court for the Billings Division of Montana, CR 96-117-BLG-JMB, November 22, 1996.

  
3.
Clair Johnson, “People’s Justice? Anti-Government Activity: A Special Report,”
Billings Gazette
, March 27, 1994; Susan Hansen, “A Rule of Their Own,”
The American Lawyer
, May 1996, pp. 59–61; David A. Neiwert,
In God’s Country
(Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1999), p. 102.

  
4.
“Rule Ten: Our Posse Comitatus is under full protection of our supreme Law of the Land ex vi termini,” Lawful Precept, In our Supreme Court in and for Justus Township, signed by William L. Stanton, April 27, 1994; Daniel Levitas, “Roots of Common Law: An Interview with an Expert on the Posse Comitatus,
Intelligence Report
90 (Spring 1998).

  
5.
Rodney Skurdal, “Edict,” Common Law Affidavit in support for this Common Law,
Israel Appointing Power
, October 28, 1994.

  
6.
A Season of Discontent: Militias, Constitutionalists, and the Far Right in Montana, January Through May 1994
(Helena: Montana Human Rights Network, 1994); “‘Freeman’ in Jordan Threaten to Hang Local Sheriff,”
Human Rights Network News
, Montana Human Rights Network 3, no. 2, June 1994; Devin Burghart and Robert Crawford,
Guns & Gavels: Common Law Courts, Militias & White Supremacy
, Coalition for Human Dignity, 1996; James Brooke, “Officials Say Montana ‘Freeman’ Collected $1.8 Million in Scheme,”
The New York Times
, March 29, 1996.