Re: Metzger reference

[Guest guest]

Kayleigh wrote:

<< I just did an Ask Jeeves search for Metzgar and Metzcar and came up

dry. Are you sure of the spelling?

Nevertheless, just let me say that most people in this country are far

more sensitive to, and ready to condemn racism than they would be AA, an

organization that for the most part is held in high esteem. >>

Hi Kayleigh and list --

Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who founded the

vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held liable in

the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their hate

group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the Anti-Defamation

League:

****begin forwarded article****

Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

$12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and " White

Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant in

Portland, Oregon

Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation League of

B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

W.A.R. Veteran

--------------

Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with the

Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, and his

own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and 90s.

On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million judgment

against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting neo-Nazi

skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in Portland

two years earlier.

The Portland Trial

On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in Portland

called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian immigrants

with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads -

three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

Resistance.

Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella, our

national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how we

operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to get

respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence against

Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will spread and

they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers. He

did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR member, he

had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning to

blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit brought on

behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and

ADL.*

The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as follows:

WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4 million; and

two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20, 1993, this

judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

history.

A Genealogy of Hatred

Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961 to work

in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined Duke's

Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming " Grand

Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most violent

groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

" minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

" Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American Nazi

Party also associated with Duke.**

A Foray Into Politics

In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a California

Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan leader

faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a margin of

over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California Klan

and formed the White American Political Association, the forerunner of

WAR.

Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California in

1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current name;

the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance " group

reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian rhetoric.

A Family Affair

Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach to the

skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has served

as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

Movement and the White Student Union).

The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger on

radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988 segment of

the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which 's

nose was broken by a flying chair.

Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television exposure,

the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets in 13

states.

The Aryan Women's League

Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella is

the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's daughter,

Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication, WAR,

described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to battle the

Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke conspiracy...

has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against us

yet... "

Telephone Bulletins

Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone call-in

line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course, replete

with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer news

about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble tirades

against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries, ADL

and SPLC.

In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the looters:

" The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big Brother

is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City Hall

and the Federal Building. "

After the Oregon Verdict

Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was brought

up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a 1983

cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence was

commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave the

country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from Canada in

July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist Heritage

Front in Toronto.

Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home -

have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it is

unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

publications continue to generate support. Given his track record of

hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

remains cause for concern.

* The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

skinheads in the desert.

** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, " ADL

Special Edition, October 1991.

<c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

[Guest guest]

If I thought the only respect I could command would be earned by

swinging baseball bats at people's skulls, I would check myself into

a

mental hospital.

Thanks, and Rita, for the info.

There is NO parallel with the AA situation, however. For that to be

the case, they would have to be not only urging, but training AA

members to rape their fellows.

> Hi Kayleigh and list --

>

> Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who

founded

the

> vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held liable

in

> the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their hate

> group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

> blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the

Anti-Defamation

> League:

>

> ****begin forwarded article****

>

> Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

>

> Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

> $12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and

" White

> Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant

in

> Portland, Oregon

> Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation League

of

> B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

> W.A.R. Veteran

> --------------

> Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

>

> Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

> California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

> 30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with

the

> Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, and

his

> own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and

90s.

> On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million

judgment

> against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting

neo-Nazi

> skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in

Portland

> two years earlier.

>

> The Portland Trial

>

> On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in

Portland

> called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian immigrants

> with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

> Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads -

> three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

> Resistance.

>

> Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

> Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella,

our

> national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how we

> operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

> operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

> color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to

get

> respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence

against

> Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will spread

and

> they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

>

> Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

> decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers.

He

> did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR

member,

he

> had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning to

> blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit

brought on

> behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

and

> ADL.*

>

> The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as

follows:

> WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4 million;

and

> two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20, 1993,

this

> judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

> history.

>

> A Genealogy of Hatred

>

> Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961 to

work

> in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined

Duke's

> Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming

" Grand

> Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most

violent

> groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

> " minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

> " Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American

Nazi

> Party also associated with Duke.**

>

> A Foray Into Politics

>

> In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a California

> Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan

leader

> faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a

margin of

> over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California

Klan

> and formed the White American Political Association, the forerunner

of

> WAR.

> Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California in

> 1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

> Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current

name;

> the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance "

group

> reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian

rhetoric.

>

> A Family Affair

>

> Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

> extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach

to

the

> skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has

served

> as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

> Movement and the White Student Union).

>

> The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger on

> radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988

segment of

> the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which 's

> nose was broken by a flying chair.

>

> Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television

exposure,

> the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

> Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets in

13

> states.

>

> The Aryan Women's League

>

> Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella

is

> the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's

daughter,

> Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication, WAR,

> described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

> A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to battle

the

> Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke

conspiracy...

> has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against

us

> yet... "

>

> Telephone Bulletins

>

> Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone call-in

> line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course,

replete

> with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer

news

> about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble

tirades

> against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries,

ADL

> and SPLC.

>

> In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

> telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the looters:

> " The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

> corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big

Brother

> is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City

Hall

> and the Federal Building. "

>

> After the Oregon Verdict

>

> Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was

brought

> up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a

1983

> cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence

was

> commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

> ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

>

> As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave the

> country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from

Canada

in

> July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist

Heritage

> Front in Toronto.

>

> Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home -

> have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it is

> unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

> million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

> through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

> profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

> publications continue to generate support. Given his track record of

> hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

> remains cause for concern.

>

> * The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

> evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

> photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

> skinheads in the desert.

>

> ** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, " ADL

> Special Edition, October 1991.

> <c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

[Guest guest]

Rita,

This is awful reading. Similar things happen in UK -- a Nazi's just been

jailed for bombing a gay pub in London, leaving many seriously injured and

three dead . . . houses burn down, blacks die in custody . . . thank God the

courts seem to know what they're dealing with when these people come up for

trial. It's the ones who don't who are scarey, in conjunction with the

morally inert component of the population with worries about immigration,

etc., that's prepared to buy the Nazis' " white decency, law and order,

racial purity " stuff. That this goes on in a country that bled, sweated,

and wept to keep the murderous swine out of here in 1939 -- 1941 is

unbelievably sad.

.

>From: rita66@...

>Reply-To: 12-step-freeegroups

>To: 12-step-freeegroups

>Subject: RE: Re: Metzger reference

>Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:38:44 -0400 (EDT)

>

>Kayleigh wrote:

>

><< I just did an Ask Jeeves search for Metzgar and Metzcar and came up

>dry. Are you sure of the spelling?

>

>Nevertheless, just let me say that most people in this country are far

>more sensitive to, and ready to condemn racism than they would be AA, an

>organization that for the most part is held in high esteem. >>

>

>

>Hi Kayleigh and list --

>

> Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who founded the

>vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held liable in

>the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their hate

>group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

>blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the Anti-Defamation

>League:

>

> ****begin forwarded article****

>

>Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

>

>Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

>$12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and " White

>Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant in

>Portland, Oregon

>Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation League of

>B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

>W.A.R. Veteran

>--------------

>Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

>

>Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

>California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

>30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with the

> Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, and his

>own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and 90s.

>On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million judgment

>against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting neo-Nazi

>skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in Portland

>two years earlier.

>

>The Portland Trial

>

>On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in Portland

>called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian immigrants

>with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

>Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads -

>three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

>Resistance.

>

>Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

>Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella, our

>national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how we

>operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

>operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

>color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to get

>respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence against

>Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will spread and

>they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

>

>Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

>decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers. He

>did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR member, he

>had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning to

>blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit brought on

>behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and

>ADL.*

>

>The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as follows:

>WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4 million; and

>two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20, 1993, this

>judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

>history.

>

>A Genealogy of Hatred

>

>Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961 to work

>in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined Duke's

>Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming " Grand

>Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most violent

>groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

> " minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

> " Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American Nazi

>Party also associated with Duke.**

>

>A Foray Into Politics

>

>In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a California

>Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan leader

>faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a margin of

>over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California Klan

>and formed the White American Political Association, the forerunner of

>WAR.

>Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California in

>1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

>Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current name;

>the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance " group

>reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian rhetoric.

>

>A Family Affair

>

>Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

>extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach to the

>skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has served

>as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

>Movement and the White Student Union).

>

>The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger on

>radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988 segment of

>the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which 's

>nose was broken by a flying chair.

>

>Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television exposure,

>the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

>Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets in 13

>states.

>

>The Aryan Women's League

>

>Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella is

>the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's daughter,

>Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication, WAR,

>described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

>A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to battle the

>Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke conspiracy...

>has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against us

>yet... "

>

>Telephone Bulletins

>

>Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone call-in

>line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course, replete

>with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer news

>about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble tirades

>against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries, ADL

>and SPLC.

>

>In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

>telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the looters:

> " The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

>corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big Brother

>is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City Hall

>and the Federal Building. "

>

>After the Oregon Verdict

>

>Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was brought

>up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a 1983

>cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence was

>commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

>ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

>

>As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave the

>country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from Canada in

>July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist Heritage

>Front in Toronto.

>

>Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home -

>have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it is

>unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

>million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

>through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

>profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

>publications continue to generate support. Given his track record of

>hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

>remains cause for concern.

>

>* The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

>evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

>photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

>skinheads in the desert.

>

>** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, " ADL

>Special Edition, October 1991.

><c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

>

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[Guest guest]

Kayleigh,

AA is not, of course, training or exhorting anyone to rape or kill. I don't

think it's stretching a point too far, however, to say that " stepNazis " are

effectively trained in the exercise of forms of psychic and moral violence,

ways of putting their stuff over that have some equivalence to physical

bullying because big ideas sealed with fear are laid on those who often lack

the intellectual muscle to examine and dismantle what they're getting. I can

see some nasty dreams of a future in which some outfit like Metzger's is in

power and the 12steps the basis of his state religion -- they'd get on

fine. Got to go, I can hear the paranoids coming,

.

>

>Reply-To: 12-step-freeegroups

>To: 12-step-freeegroups

>Subject: Re: Metzger reference

>Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 05:02:30 -0000

>

>If I thought the only respect I could command would be earned by

>swinging baseball bats at people's skulls, I would check myself into

>a

>mental hospital.

>

>Thanks, and Rita, for the info.

>

>There is NO parallel with the AA situation, however. For that to be

>the case, they would have to be not only urging, but training AA

>members to rape their fellows.

>

>

>

> > Hi Kayleigh and list --

> >

> > Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who

>founded

>the

> > vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held liable

>in

> > the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their hate

> > group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

> > blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the

>Anti-Defamation

> > League:

> >

> > ****begin forwarded article****

> >

> > Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> >

> > Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

> > $12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and

> " White

> > Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant

>in

> > Portland, Oregon

> > Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation League

>of

> > B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

> > W.A.R. Veteran

> > --------------

> > Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> >

> > Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

> > California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

> > 30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with

>the

> > Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, and

>his

> > own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and

>90s.

> > On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million

>judgment

> > against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting

>neo-Nazi

> > skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in

>Portland

> > two years earlier.

> >

> > The Portland Trial

> >

> > On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in

>Portland

> > called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian immigrants

> > with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

> > Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads -

> > three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

> > Resistance.

> >

> > Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

> > Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella,

>our

> > national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how we

> > operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

> > operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

> > color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to

>get

> > respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence

>against

> > Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will spread

>and

> > they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

> >

> > Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

> > decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers.

>He

> > did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR

>member,

>he

> > had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning to

> > blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit

>brought on

> > behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

>and

> > ADL.*

> >

> > The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as

>follows:

> > WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4 million;

>and

> > two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20, 1993,

>this

> > judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

> > history.

> >

> > A Genealogy of Hatred

> >

> > Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961 to

>work

> > in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined

>Duke's

> > Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming

> " Grand

> > Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most

>violent

> > groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

> > " minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

> > " Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American

>Nazi

> > Party also associated with Duke.**

> >

> > A Foray Into Politics

> >

> > In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a California

> > Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan

>leader

> > faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a

>margin of

> > over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California

>Klan

> > and formed the White American Political Association, the forerunner

>of

> > WAR.

> > Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California in

> > 1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

> > Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current

>name;

> > the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance "

>group

> > reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian

>rhetoric.

> >

> > A Family Affair

> >

> > Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

> > extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach

>to

>the

> > skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has

>served

> > as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

> > Movement and the White Student Union).

> >

> > The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger on

> > radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988

>segment of

> > the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which 's

> > nose was broken by a flying chair.

> >

> > Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television

>exposure,

> > the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

> > Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets in

>13

> > states.

> >

> > The Aryan Women's League

> >

> > Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella

>is

> > the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's

>daughter,

> > Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication, WAR,

> > described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

> > A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to battle

>the

> > Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke

>conspiracy...

> > has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against

>us

> > yet... "

> >

> > Telephone Bulletins

> >

> > Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone call-in

> > line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course,

>replete

> > with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer

>news

> > about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble

>tirades

> > against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries,

>ADL

> > and SPLC.

> >

> > In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

> > telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the looters:

> > " The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

> > corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big

>Brother

> > is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City

>Hall

> > and the Federal Building. "

> >

> > After the Oregon Verdict

> >

> > Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was

>brought

> > up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a

>1983

> > cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence

>was

> > commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

> > ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

> >

> > As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave the

> > country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from

>Canada

>in

> > July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist

>Heritage

> > Front in Toronto.

> >

> > Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home -

> > have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it is

> > unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

> > million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

> > through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

> > profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

> > publications continue to generate support. Given his track record of

> > hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

> > remains cause for concern.

> >

> > * The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

> > evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

> > photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

> > skinheads in the desert.

> >

> > ** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, " ADL

> > Special Edition, October 1991.

> > <c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

>

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: this has always been my main problem with AA. I never experienced

physical abuse, but I feel strongly that I was emotionally abused. However,

I agree with Kayleigh that _12 step treatment_ is the bigger culprit, in

many ways. I get confused, though, when it comes to the details of how a

lawsuit would work.

> AA is publishing and distributing materials that can and have lead to

emotional damage of the people who believe in it, those who don't and feel

they should and those that don't and don't care but utilize the information

in the material to exploit new members. AA is aware of the abuse but

appears to be doing little if anything about it.

>

> Does not AA have a responsibility to protect it's members from any of the

above? If so to what extent? And at what point can they be found criminally

negligent?

>

> What are the 12 steps if they aren't blue prints for depression in a

modern culture? Are members encouraged and trained in their use?

>

> Anyone care to hazard a guess or post stats on treated and untreated

depression rates in XA?

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[Guest guest]

Hi , Rita

I think we need to put this in context. Though these problems do

exist, they arent commonplace. The bomber was very much a loner

who,

ironically, tried to implicate a Nazi group, Combat 18, which he did

not belong to. The problem with *organized* Nazis I am sure is less

than both that of the US and many European countries, including

France

and Germany.

P.

> >

> ><< I just did an Ask Jeeves search for Metzgar and Metzcar and

came

up

> >dry. Are you sure of the spelling?

> >

> >Nevertheless, just let me say that most people in this country are

far

> >more sensitive to, and ready to condemn racism than they would be

AA, an

> >organization that for the most part is held in high esteem. >>

> >

> >

> >Hi Kayleigh and list --

> >

> > Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who

founded the

> >vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held

liable

in

> >the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their

hate

> >group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

> >blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the

Anti-Defamation

> >League:

> >

> > ****begin forwarded article****

> >

> >Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> >

> >Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

> >$12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and

" White

> >Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant

in

> >Portland, Oregon

> >Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation

League

of

> >B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

> >W.A.R. Veteran

> >--------------

> >Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> >

> >Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

> >California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

> >30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with

the

> > Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,

and

his

> >own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and

90s.

> >On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million

judgment

> >against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting

neo-Nazi

> >skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in

Portland

> >two years earlier.

> >

> >The Portland Trial

> >

> >On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in

Portland

> >called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian

immigrants

> >with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

> >Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads

-

> >three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

> >Resistance.

> >

> >Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

> >Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella,

our

> >national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how

we

> >operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

> >operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

> >color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to

get

> >respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence

against

> >Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will

spread

and

> >they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

> >

> >Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

> >decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers.

He

> >did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR

member, he

> >had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning

to

> >blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit

brought on

> >behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

and

> >ADL.*

> >

> >The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as

follows:

> >WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4

million;

and

> >two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20,

1993,

this

> >judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

> >history.

> >

> >A Genealogy of Hatred

> >

> >Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961

to

work

> >in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined

Duke's

> >Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming

" Grand

> >Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most

violent

> >groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

> > " minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

> > " Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American

Nazi

> >Party also associated with Duke.**

> >

> >A Foray Into Politics

> >

> >In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a

California

> >Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan

leader

> >faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a

margin of

> >over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California

Klan

> >and formed the White American Political Association, the

forerunner

of

> >WAR.

> >Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California

in

> >1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

> >Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current

name;

> >the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance "

group

> >reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian

rhetoric.

> >

> >A Family Affair

> >

> >Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

> >extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach

to the

> >skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has

served

> >as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

> >Movement and the White Student Union).

> >

> >The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger

on

> >radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988

segment of

> >the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which

's

> >nose was broken by a flying chair.

> >

> >Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television

exposure,

> >the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

> >Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets

in

13

> >states.

> >

> >The Aryan Women's League

> >

> >Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella

is

> >the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's

daughter,

> >Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication,

WAR,

> >described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

> >A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to

battle

the

> >Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke

conspiracy...

> >has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against

us

> >yet... "

> >

> >Telephone Bulletins

> >

> >Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone

call-in

> >line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course,

replete

> >with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer

news

> >about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble

tirades

> >against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries,

ADL

> >and SPLC.

> >

> >In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

> >telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the

looters:

> > " The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

> >corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big

Brother

> >is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City

Hall

> >and the Federal Building. "

> >

> >After the Oregon Verdict

> >

> >Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was

brought

> >up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a

1983

> >cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence

was

> >commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

> >ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

> >

> >As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave

the

> >country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from

Canada in

> >July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist

Heritage

> >Front in Toronto.

> >

> >Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home

-

> >have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it

is

> >unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

> >million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

> >through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

> >profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

> >publications continue to generate support. Given his track record

of

> >hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

> >remains cause for concern.

> >

> >* The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

> >evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

> >photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

> >skinheads in the desert.

> >

> >** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, "

ADL

> >Special Edition, October 1991.

> ><c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

> >

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Pete

Yes, I hope you're right -- there is reassurance in the coldly level-headed

tone of BBC news reports touching on the more murderous manifestations of

evil politics, reassurance that such things are quite beyond the ambit of

what British society will tolerate or countenance.

Heard a poem read the other night, the poet, Grahame Davies, declaring

" I'm the Wandering Welshman.

I'm Jewish everywhere.

Except, of course, in Israel.

There, I'm Palestinian " .

As a poet and a Welshman, I know just how he feels, and I suppose that's why

I err on the side of paranoia when confronted with signs of Nazism, etc., in

the contemporary " civilized " world.

Best wishes,

Yours,

.

ps -- buy " Oxygen " , Seren 2000, -- just my plug for my new publisher's

latest anthology, containing the above and some more excellent stuff from

Davies.

D.

>From: watts_pete@...

>Reply-To: 12-step-freeegroups

>To: 12-step-freeegroups

>Subject: Re: Metzger reference

>Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:31:31 -0000

>

>Hi , Rita

>

>I think we need to put this in context. Though these problems do

>exist, they arent commonplace. The bomber was very much a loner

>who,

>ironically, tried to implicate a Nazi group, Combat 18, which he did

>not belong to. The problem with *organized* Nazis I am sure is less

>than both that of the US and many European countries, including

>France

>and Germany.

>

>P.

>

>

> > >

> > ><< I just did an Ask Jeeves search for Metzgar and Metzcar and

>came

>up

> > >dry. Are you sure of the spelling?

> > >

> > >Nevertheless, just let me say that most people in this country are

>far

> > >more sensitive to, and ready to condemn racism than they would be

>AA, an

> > >organization that for the most part is held in high esteem. >>

> > >

> > >

> > >Hi Kayleigh and list --

> > >

> > > Tom and Metzger are a father-and-son hate team who

>founded the

> > >vicious hate group " White Aryan Resistance " . They were held

>liable

>in

> > >the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by members of their

>hate

> > >group (which openly advocates violence against what it calls " jews,

> > >blacks, and other 'mud people'. " A reference from the

>Anti-Defamation

> > >League:

> > >

> > > ****begin forwarded article****

> > >

> > >Subject: Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> > >

> > >Summary: An introduction to Tom Metzger, on the anniversary of the

> > >$12.5-Million dollar judgement against him, his son, , and

> " White

> > >Aryan Resistance " for their role in the death of a Black immigrant

>in

> > >Portland, Oregon

> > >Special Edition - A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation

>League

>of

> > >B'nai B'rith - Civil Rights Division. June 1993

> > >W.A.R. Veteran

> > >--------------

> > >Tom Metzger's Long March of Hate

> > >

> > >Tom Metzger, a 54-year-old television repairman from Fallbrook,

> > >California, may be America's most notorious hatemonger. His nearly

> > >30-year career in the radical right has included affiliation with

>the

> > > Birch Society in the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,

>and

>his

> > >own organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), during the 80s and

>90s.

> > >On October 23, 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million

>judgment

> > >against Metzger and his son, , for their role in inciting

>neo-Nazi

> > >skinheads to murder Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, in

>Portland

> > >two years earlier.

> > >

> > >The Portland Trial

> > >

> > >On the night of November 12, 1988, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang in

>Portland

> > >called the East Side White Pride attacked three Ethiopian

>immigrants

> > >with a baseball bat and steel-toed boots; Seraw was killed.

> > >Investigation into the murder revealed links between the skinheads

>-

> > >three of whom were convicted of murder - and Metzger's White Aryan

> > >Resistance.

> > >

> > >Crucial among these links was a letter to the skinheads signed by

> > >Metzger, which stated in part: " Soon you will meet Dave Mazzella,

>our

> > >national vice-president, who will be in Portland to teach you how

>we

> > >operate and to help you understand more about WAR.... " Among the

> > >operations Mazella taught the Portland gang was attacking people of

> > >color. Mazzella later explained: " Tom Metzger said the only way to

>get

> > >respect from skinheads is to teach them how to commit violence

>against

> > >Blacks, against Jews, Hispanics, any minority. The word will

>spread

>and

> > >they'll know our group is one you can respect. "

> > >

> > >Mazzella, who was not charged in connection with the murder, later

> > >decideed to renounce his racist past and his ties to the Metzgers.

>He

> > >did so by contacting ADL; he later revealed that while a WAR

>member, he

> > >had cased the League's Los Angeles office several times, planning

>to

> > >blow it up. Mazella became a key witness in the civil lawsuit

>brought on

> > >behalf of Seraw's family by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

>and

> > >ADL.*

> > >

> > >The jury awarded the Seraw family $12.5 million, distributed as

>follows:

> > >WAR, $5 million; Tom Metzger, $3 million; his son , $4

>million;

>and

> > >two of the murderers, $500,000. Upheld on appeal on April 20,

>1993,

>this

> > >judgment is one of the largest civil verdicts of its kind in U.S.

> > >history.

> > >

> > >A Genealogy of Hatred

> > >

> > >Metzger, an Indiana native, moved to Southern California in 1961

>to

>work

> > >in the electronics field. By the mid 1970s, he had joined

>Duke's

> > >Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually becoming

> " Grand

> > >Dragon " of its California branch, one of the largest and most

>violent

> > >groups in the organization. Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a

> > > " minister " in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an

> > > " Identity " group led by K. Warner, a veteran of the American

>Nazi

> > >Party also associated with Duke.**

> > >

> > >A Foray Into Politics

> > >

> > >In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a

>California

> > >Congressional primary. In the November general election, the Klan

>leader

> > >faced incumbent Rep. Clair Burgener, who defeated Metzger by a

>margin of

> > >over 210,000 votes (88% to 12%). Metzger soon left the California

>Klan

> > >and formed the White American Political Association, the

>forerunner

>of

> > >WAR.

> > >Next Metzger ran in a primary for the U.S. Senate from California

>in

> > >1982, and received 75,593 votes - roughly 2.8% of the total cast.

> > >Following this defeat, Metzger's organization adopted its current

>name;

> > >the change from a " Political Association " to an " Aryan Resistance "

>group

> > >reflected a shift toward more openly violent, totalitarian

>rhetoric.

> > >

> > >A Family Affair

> > >

> > >Metzger now found a receptive audience among a newer segment of the

> > >extremist underworld - the neo-Nazi skinheads. Metzger's outreach

>to the

> > >skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son , who has

>served

> > >as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth

> > >Movement and the White Student Union).

> > >

> > >The recuiting effort involved appearances by Tom and Metzger

>on

> > >radio and TV talk shows. One such appearance, a November 1988

>segment of

> > >the " Geraldo Show, " led to an onstage brawl in which

>'s

> > >nose was broken by a flying chair.

> > >

> > >Sensing the publicity and recruitment benefits of television

>exposure,

> > >the Metzgers had begun their own public access TV series, " Race and

> > >Reason, " in 1983. The show now claims distribution in 49 markets

>in

>13

> > >states.

> > >

> > >The Aryan Women's League

> > >

> > >Another skinhead outreach program operating under the WAR umbrella

>is

> > >the Aryan Women's League (AWL), ostensibly led by Metzger's

>daughter,

> > >Lynn. A 1989 editorial in White Aryan Resistance's publication,

>WAR,

> > >described the women's auxiliary by stating: " The

> > >A.W.L. is trying to recruit White racially concious women to

>battle

>the

> > >Jew/mud/Zombie/Mutant, degenerate, lesbos...This Jew-dyke

>conspiracy...

> > >has to stop as it is the jews' [sic] most vicious campaign against

>us

> > >yet... "

> > >

> > >Telephone Bulletins

> > >

> > >Ad additional propaganda outlet for WAR is a taped telephone

>call-in

> > >line (updated every few days). These messages are, of course,

>replete

> > >with Metzger's familiar hatemongering; moreover, they often offer

>news

> > >about skinhead gangs affiliated with WAR, as well as predicatble

>tirades

> > >against rival hate group leaders and Metzger's legal adversaries,

>ADL

> > >and SPLC.

> > >

> > >In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Metzger also used the

> > >telephone hotline to express a perverse solidarity with the

>looters:

> > > " The courts and the police along with our keepers in Washington are

> > >corrupt to the core...Any attack on that system that weakens Big

>Brother

> > >is fine with white separatists...Too bad they didn't take out City

>Hall

> > >and the Federal Building. "

> > >

> > >After the Oregon Verdict

> > >

> > >Further legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991 when he was

>brought

> > >up on misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a

>1983

> > >cross-burning incident in Los Angeles. Found guilty, his sentence

>was

> > >commuted after serving 46 days so that Metzger could attend to his

> > >ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.

> > >

> > >As a result of this conviction, Metzger was ordered not to leave

>the

> > >country without permission. Nonetheless, he was deported from

>Canada in

> > >July 1992 after attempting to attend a rally of the extremist

>Heritage

> > >Front in Toronto.

> > >

> > >Since the Portland decision, Metzger's assets - including his home

>-

> > >have been seized to help compensate the Seraw family. Although it

>is

> > >unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5

> > >million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for

> > >through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's

> > >profits have gone toward this penalty. Yet Metzger's hotlines and

> > >publications continue to generate support. Given his track record

>of

> > >hatred and violence, his continuing presence on the extremist scene

> > >remains cause for concern.

> > >

> > >* The League was responsible for introducing another key item of

> > >evidence which demonstrated Metzger's advocacy of violence - a

> > >photograph of Metzger with an AK-47, instructing a group of racist

> > >skinheads in the desert.

> > >

> > >** See also " Religion as Bigotry: The Identity Church Movement, "

>ADL

> > >Special Edition, October 1991.

> > ><c> 1993 Anti-Defamation League

> > >

> >

> >

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