For some right-wing extremists, serving time in jail bolsters their status in the eyes of their supporters. For example, members of The Order (including Scutari and David Lane) are treated as "prisoners of war" in the rhetoric of racist publications. Moreover, Thule and other publications continue to provide a forum for such extremists to voice their hate: since his imprisonment in 1985 (for racketeering, conspiracy and for violating the civil rights of slain radio personality Alan Berg), Lane has written for The New Order, WAR, Jew Watch, Aryan Nations Newsletter and The Klansman, published by the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In the December 1997 issue of Storm Watch, he writes, "When it is truly written that judeo-America [sic] and judeo-Christianity [sic] were the twin murderers of the White race, let the executioner's devices be equally recorded. And let the last generation of the true White men wreak vengeance with death and destruction. For 'tis far better that the great race die with the roar of a lion than the bleat of a judeo-christian [sic] sheep.

"14 Words" refers to the phrase, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

"Lane's message of hate is further publicized by his wife, Katya, who set up a small company called 14 Word Press in St. Maries, Idaho, in 1995 to publish "the political writings and religious teachings of David Lane."

Another popular "prisoner of war" in far-right circles is Gary "Gerhard" Lauck, now serving a four-year sentence in a German jail for inciting racial hatred by disseminating anti-Semitic and racist materials. Lauck is head of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based neo-Nazi group NSDAP/AO (the German acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party­Overseas Organization) whose publication, The New Order, lists Lauck as "Publisher & Political Prisoner." A March 16, 1998 article in The Spotlight, probably the most widely read extremist publication in America today, focused on jailed German Holocaust deniers and encouraged readers to write to them as well as to Lauck, whose prison address was supplied.

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