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…

July 12, 2004 Right-wing extremist Stephen John Jordi has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after being convicted for plotting to blow up gay bars, abortion clinics and churches.  Authorities say Jordi had hoped to emulate alleged bomber Eric Rudolph after the latter's May 2003 arrest. The sentence was handed down on July 8, 2004, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by U.S. District Judge James Cohn.  Judge Cohn rejected prosecutors' request that Jordi be sentenced under a…

June 10, 2004   A white supremacist convicted for his role in the brutal killing of a homeless man in Tacoma, Washington, will serve a term of life in prison for the crime. Kurtis William Monschke, 20, an avowed white supremacist with admitted links to the white supremacist group Volksfront, was sentenced on June 4, 2004, in Pierce County Superior Court after a jury found him guilty of aggravated first-degree murder for his involvement in the murder of Randall Mark Townsend. …

April 28, 2004   The U.S. District Court in Macon, Georgia, sentenced Dwight "Malachi" York, the founder of the anti-government United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, to 135 years in federal prison on child molestation and racketeering charges. The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors (originally the Nubian Islamic Hebrews) is a predominantly African-American, pseudo-religious group with a history of promoting racist and anti-government beliefs. York, 58, was found guilty of 10 counts…

April 26, 2004 Sean Michael Gillespie, a reputed member of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations, was arrested in Russellville, Arkansas, on April 16, 2004, for allegedly trying to firebomb a synagogue in Oklahoma City two weeks earlier. Gillespie, 20, is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Temple B'Nai Israel on April 1, 2004. The incendiary device caused only minor damage. He was arrested two weeks later at a fast food restaurant in Russellville, Arkansas, by FBI agents, Arkansas State…

February 18, 2004 On February 13, 2004, Stephen John Jordi, a thirty-five-year-old former Army Ranger from Coconut Creek, Florida, charged with planning a terrorist bombing campaign, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of attempted firebombing. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped two other charges against Jordi, including distributing explosives information and possession of an unregistered silencer. Jordi was arrested in Miami Beach on November 11, 2003,…

February 13, 2004 On February 12, 2004, a solider with the U.S. National Guard, Ryan Gibson Anderson, was arrested at Fort Lewis in Washington for allegedly attempting to spy on behalf of Al Qaeda. According to military officials, Anderson is suspected of attempting to share information, through a chat room on the Internet, about U.S. military and weapons capabilities with people whom he thought were associated with Al Qaeda. However, the chat room was monitored by law enforcement…