Hate literature found at the site of the three fires in Sacramento, which blames Jews for NATO’s activities in Kosovo, is connected to rhetoric that ADL’s Internet Monitoring Unit has been tracking online for several months. While there is no direct link between certain anti-Semitic hate groups and the arsons, ADL has monitored the activities of hate groups in the Sacramento area. Following is the background on both hateful rhetoric and Sacramento area hate groups:

• WORLD CHURCH OF THE CREATOR
• NATIONAL ALLIANCE
• POSSE COMITATUS

• The active women’s branch of the WCOTC in Sacramento, the Women’s Frontier, released the following statement in the June issue of its newsletter:

  "As racially aware White women and Sisters of the WCOTC, we continue to be disgusted and appalled by the Clinton JOG war against fellow Whites in Serbia, but we are especially horrified by the agony that White children of Kosovo are suffering - seeing their families and homes destroyed and blown apart, and for what? So the Jew World Order can tighten its stranglehold on our People worldwide. The Jews always proclaim so loudly their love of "women and children" but when they want to drop the bombs, they don't hesitate to destroy anything that stands in their way."

• In December, a winter solstice celebration held by the WCOTC in Sacramento was attended by 25 people including Skinheads.

• In April 1999, there were at least three separate reports of WCOTC distributing flyers in the Sacramento area. In one instance, flyers were distributed in a synagogue parking lot after a Yom Hashoah service.

• The group’s militant rhetoric attacks Judaism, Christianity, Blacks and immigrants with equal vehemence.

• WCOTC is currently led by Matt Hale, who is in his 20s. He has a law degree, but his admission to the Illinois State Bar is pending.

• During the early 90s, WCOTC was one of the most violent organizations on the radical right.

• The group considers itself a "racial religion" whose "prime goal" is the "survival, expansion, and advancement of the white race."

• Many WCOTC followers are Skinheads.

• WCOTC members have been connected to one Florida murder, and two conspiracies to commit hate crimes on the West Coast.

• The group believes in a Racial Holy War.

• The group has over 35 contact addresses in the U.S., including 8 in California.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE

• At the National Alliance Web site there is a flier, "Hands Off Yugoslavia!," for supporters to print and hand out.

• The flier claims that "the aggression against the Serbian people has been planned and ordered by the entirely kosher gang around Clinton which now runs America’s foreign policy and uses America’s armed forces to support its scheme for a dictatorial New World Order rather than to defend America."

• Also at the National Alliance Web site are audio and printed versions of radio broadcasts by group leader William Pierce.

• "It is pretty clear that the media bosses are solidly in cahoots with the Jewish gang around Clinton in this latest war effort," Pierce claims in one broadcast.

• In another, he calls the conflict "a Jewish war to strengthen the grip of the New World Order."

• In a third broadcast, Pierce calls for a "deliberate, clear-headed decision now on the part of every American patriot to begin a course of careful, planned, and coordinated action aimed at destroying America's domestic enemies."

• The National Alliance has an active local unit in Sacramento, which is under the leadership of Jim Ring.

• Ring has flown a Nazi flag outside his home, has promoted the National Alliance by taking out ads in the local paper, operating a telephone hotline, distributing NA literature and selling NA materials at area gun shows. Ring has also hosted monthly membership meetings and annual parties in celebration of Hitler’s birthday.

• In July 1998, two synagogues in the San Fernando Valley were vandalized with graffiti. In both instances, the National Alliance’s Web site address was scrawled in red spray paint across and outside wall of the synagogue, along with the words, "Stop Murdering the White Race."

• The National Alliance is the single most dangerous organized hate group in the United States.

• It is the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the nation.

• Its numbers have more than doubled since 1992, and it now has a reported membership of 1,000.

• It has 16 active cells (in 11 states) across the country and has been visible in at least 26 states, most notably those in the mid-Atlantic region.

• It is led by William L. Pierce, 66, former University of Oregon physics professor and veteran anti-Semite, who learned his stock and trade in the American Nazi Party.

• Pierce’s weekly radio show is heard by hundreds of people across the country.

• While the National Alliance’s ideology dehumanizes both Blacks and Jews, it sees Jews as a more immediate threat to "white survival."

• In his radio broadcasts and literature, Pierce emphasizes Jewish control of the government, economy and media.

• The group is anti-democracy and anti-Christian.

POSSE COMITATUS

• At their Web site, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus leaders August Kreis and Jim Wickstrom call the war on Serbia a "jewish [sic] orchestrated MURDER of White Christians using the armed forces of the U.S. and others under the cover of NATO!"

• Kreis and Wickstrom declare, "never forget that it is the jew [sic] that is behind all the evil in the world…there will be no Peace on earth until they are all exterminated!"

• Kreis and Wickstrom ask, "when will you White Russians go to the AID of your Allies? Tell the AmeriCan [sic] jew [sic] dominated government to stick their 4 billion in foreign aid!"

• Kreis proclaims, "for EVERY Serb murdered by NATO/UN, retaliation should be 100+ fold against NATO/UN and the enemies of Christianity within and without Yugoslavia all around the world."

• The Posse Comitatus is an anti-Semitic, racist Identity Church group composed of loosely affiliated bands of armed anti-tax and anti-Federal government vigilantes and survivalists.

• Posses believe that all government power is rooted at the county, not Federal, level.

• In 1991, Jim Wickstrom was convicted of plotting to distribute $100,000 in counterfeit bills to white supremacists at a 1988 Aryan Nations event.

• In 1983, active Posse member Gordon Kahl murdered two Federal Marshals in North Dakota and became a fugitive. He died in a shootout with Arkansas law enforcement officers.