Blood and Politics (116 page)

  
3.
Erich Gliebe interview, “Fighting for the Ultimate Cause,”
Resistance Magazine
9, Fall 1999, pp. 53–56.

  
4.
“Message from the Publisher,”
Resistance Magazine
10, Winter 2000, p. 3.

  
5.
“ZGram—September 7, 1996—Update on David Irving,” E. Zundel, Internet, September 7, 1996;
David John Cawdell Irving and (1) Penguin Books Limited, (2) Deborah E. Lipstadt
, in the High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division, RWE1, National Alliance, pp. i–ii.

6.
Jim Llewellyn, “David Duke Visit Ignites Melee at Lithuanian Hall,”
Sun News
, May 22, 1997; David Duke photo,
Resistance Magazine
9, Fall 1999, p. 36.

  
7.
Connie Mansfield, Personal Representative of the Estate of Harold Mansfield, on behalf of herself and the Estate v. William Pierce
, U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Civil Action no. 2:95CV62, February 27, 1995; Ronald Smothers, “Verdict Means White Supremacist Must Pay Black Family,”
The New York Times
, May 20, 1996.

  
8.
“Expanding Radio Coverage,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, November–December 1992, p. 2.

  
9.
William Pierce, “Rising Graph,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, July 1999, pp. 9–10.

10.
William Blythe, “The Guru of White Hate,”
Rolling Stone
, June 8, 2000, pp. 99–106, 140–42; “Iran Radio Interview,” “Bismarck Radio,” “Tampa TV Interview,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, February 1999, p. 2.

11.
“Confederate Memorial Ceremony,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, April 1999, p. 5.

12.
“National Membership Coordinator,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, June 1999, p. 1.

13.
“National Leadership Conference,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, August 1999, p. 1.

14.
“New Acquisition,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, October 1999, pp. 1–3.

15.
William Pierce letter to Eric Fairburn: “Todd is no longer involved in the management of Resistance Records,” September 19, 1999.

16.
“Fighting for the Ultimate Cause,”
Resistance Magazine
9, Fall 1999, pp. 53–56; Editorial,
Resistance Magazine
10, Winter 2000, p. 2.

17.
“Dear Resistance Reader,”
Resistance Magazine
11, Spring 2000, p. 2.

18.
Ibid.

51. Liberty Lobby in Bankruptcy Court

  
1.
Doug Luna, report to author re: July 1, 1999, hearing, e-mail sent July 2, 1999; “Motion of United States Trustee for the Appointment of a Chapter 11 Trustee,”
Liberty Lobby, Inc, Debtor
, 98-1046, Chapter 11, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia.

  
2.
“Texas Court Rejects Carto’s Bid to Take Control of Institute for Historical Review,” Institute for Historical Review (“Harris County District Judge Harvey Brown rejected Carto’s argument . . . lawsuit no. 94-40825 . . . Harris County 152nd Judicial County Court”);
Liberty Lobby, Inc. and Willis Carto Plaintiffs v. Mark Weber, Greg Raven, et al. Defendants
, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 1:98CV00236, January 29, 1998, Complaint re: Civil RICO; “Liberty Lobby’s ‘Megasuit’ Dismissed by DC Court,”
Christian News
, May 17, 1999; “Another Judge Slaps Liberty Lobby,”
The Spotlight
, May 3, 1999.

  
3.
“LL ‘Bankrupt’ But Still Fighting,”
The Spotlight
, June 1, 1998 (“On March 27 Maino issued an order giving a receiver . . . authority to seize mail addressed to ‘Liberty Lobby’ and ‘Willis Carto’”).

  
4.
Ibid.

  
5.
“‘Fifth Amendment Willie’ Has Another Bad Day in Court,”
News About IHR
, February 27, 1998 (Legion describes Carto during a February 20 settlement conference); Willis Carto answered questions directly during a “Debtor Examination,” N64584, June 21, 2001.

  
6.
Blayne Hutzel, “Testimony at 341 Meeting of Creditors,” United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, 98-01046, June 19, 1998; Hutzel testified that the most recent printing of
The Spotlight
had been 81,000, of that 64,573 were paid subscribers (the numbers would drop further from there); Liberty Lobby, Inc., Cash Disbursements Summary Report Month Ended November 31, 1998, p. 4, Total Revenue, Year-to-Date $1,642,227; p. 5, Total Expenses, Year-to-Date $1,984,164.

  
7.
Blayne Hutzel, “Testimony,” 341 Meeting of Creditors, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, 98-01046, June 19, 1998.

  
8.
Ibid.

  
9.
“Motion of United States Trustee for the Appointment of a Chapter 11 Trustee,” June 11, 1999,
In re: Liberty Lobby, Inc.
, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, 98-01046.

10.
Paul Pearlstein, Attorney for the Debtor, Argument before Judge Martin Teel, July 1, 1999,
Liberty Lobby, Inc, Debtor
, 98-1046, Chapter 11, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia; Douglas Luna, report to author.

11.
Todd Blodgett, testimony, July 1, 1999, transcript by Johnson Transcription Service, July 1, 1999,
Liberty Lobby, Inc, Debtor
, 98-1046.

12.
Judge Martin Teel, “Adjournment,”
Liberty Lobby, Inc, Debtor
, 98-1046.

13.
“Forbearance and Settlement Agreement and Mutual General Release,” signed by Willis Carto, July 17, 1999, LaVonne Furr, July 26, 1999, Lewis Furr, July 26, 1999, Greg Raven for the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, August 2, 1999 (
Legion for the Survival of Freedom v. Willis Carto et al.
, California Superior Court, N64584).

14.
Vince Ryan, “Good News for Liberty Lobby; Bad News for Our Enemies,”
The Spotlight
, September 13, 1999, p. 7.

52. The Millennium Changes

  
1.
Kenneth L. Woodward, “Prophecy—Millennial Visions: What the Bible Says About the End of the World,”
Newsweek,
November 1, 1999, pp. 66–74.

  
2.
Ibid., pp. 70–71.

  
3.
Philip Lamy, “Millennialism in the Mass Media: The Case of Soldier of Fortune Magazine,”
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
31(4): 408–24 (postmodern secular millennialism); Philip Lamy,
Millennial Rage: Survivalists, White Supremacists, and the Doomsday Prophecy
(New York: Plenum Press, 1996); Chip Berlet,
Y2K and Millennial Pinball: How Y2K Shapes Survivalism in the U.S. Christian Right, Patriot and Armed Militia Movements, and Far Right
, January 26, 1999; Michael Barkun, ed.,
Millennialism and Violence
(London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1996).

  
4.
Newsweek
, November 1, 1999, p. 4.

  
5.
Leonard Zeskind (unsigned), “Y2K Is Not the End of the World Says Identity Preacher,”
Searchlight
, October 1998, p. 23.

  
6.
“Millennium Y2Kaos: Fears of Computer Bug Fueling the Far Right,”
Intelligence Report
, Fall 1998. Many experts, including Barkun and the FBI’s Blitzer, agree that extremists’ fears and hopes surrounding Y2K have increased the danger of domestic terrorism. “It adds to apocalyptic fears,” says Chip Berlet, who studies the far right for Cambridge-based Political Research Associates. “Therefore, it adds to the potential for violence.”

  
7.
Project Megiddo
, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999; Sam Francis, “FBI May Be the Real Danger,”
The Spotlight
, December 6, 1999, p. 13.

  
8.
Chip Berlet, e-mail communication, November 1, 1999 (“Why so late? . . . when apocalyptic violence tied to millennial expectation has been happening for years . . .”).

  
9.
Dan Boyer, “Conservatives Want Probe of FBI Terrorism Report,”
The Washington Times
, November 19, 1999.

10.
Sam Francis, “FBI May Be the Real Danger,”
The Spotlight
, December 6, 1999, p. 13.

11.
Michael Collins Piper, “Private Espionage Group Feeds FBI Apocalypse Report,”
The Spotlight
, November 15, 1999, p. 1; “The Two Main Groups Targeted by the F.B.I.’s ‘Project Megiddo,’ ”
America’s Promise Newsletter
, November/December 1999, pp. 7–8.

12.
Project Megiddo
, FBI, pp. 4–5.

13.
Ibid., p. 17.

14.
“Millennium Y2Kaos.”

15.
George Petrisek, “Posse Leader: Y2K Will Bring Famine, Chaos,”
Potter Leader-Enterprise
, Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, August 12, 1998 (“. . . James Wickstrom . . . warned that white Anglo-Saxon Lombards must be prepared to defend themselves . . .”).

16.
Bo Gritz, “The Colonel’s Corner,”
Center for Action Newsletter
3, no. 2 (September 1993), pp. 2–5; event brochure: “SPIKE Training,” author received February 1993.

17.
Robert Crawford, Steven Gardiner, Jonathan Mozzochi, “Almost Heaven? Bo Gritz, SPIKE and the Christian Covenant Communities,”
Coalition for Human Dignity (CHD)
, CHD Research Report, February 1994; Timothy Egan, “Idaho Community Built on Hatred and Fear,”
The New York Times
, October 5, 1991.

18.
Bo Gritz, “The Colonel’s Corner,”
Center for Action—SPIKE
, vol. 3, no. 8 (March 1994), pp. 1–3.

19.
Conversation with author, “Preparedness Expo,” Bartle Expo Hall, Kansas City, Missouri, April 16–18, 1999.

20.
“Don’t Be Fooled on Y2K,”
The Spotlight
(News You May Have Missed), December 14, 1998, p. 2.

21.
Andrew Arnold, “Doomsayers Cash In on Year 2000 Hysteria,”
The Spotlight
, January 17, 2000, p. 9.

22.
Special bulletin, “American Family Preparedness: Important Additional News and Views from
The Spotlight
on Your Constitutional Rights,” Winter 1999 (
The Spotlight
twenty-page insert).

23.
Pastor Peter J. Peters, “Y2K Millennium Bug: The Latest Fear Fad,”
Scriptures for America Newsletter
, vol. 3, 1998; Zeskind, “Y2K Is Not the End of the World Says Identity Preacher.”

24.
Pastor Pete Peters, “A Special Message and Invitation,”
Scriptures for America
, mailing insert and invitation to Peters’s wedding on April 24, 1999, received March 25, 1999.

25.
Pastor Peter J. Peters, “Y2K Millennium Bug.”

26.
Leonard Zeskind,
The Christian Identity Movement: Analyzing Its Theological Rationalization for Racist and Anti-Semitic Violence
, Center for Democratic Renewal, Published by the Division of Church and Society, National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., October 1986, pp. 21–25.

27.
Michael Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 110–12 (“for Identity, the ultimate disaster is not natural but demographic, and the harbor an obsessive concern with racial obliteration”), pp. 118–19 (“Identity’s millenarian scenario is interwoven with [various instances of human action]”).

28.
“U.S. Summary 2000,” United States Census Bureau, Census 2000, July 2002.

29.
“By the Time She Retires, Will the U.S. Be an Overcrowded Country?,”
Middle American News
, August 2003 (back page).

30.
See also Jared Taylor, “Race and Nation.” Text of 1996 speech at American Renaissance Conference in Jared Taylor, ed.,
The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America
(Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation, 1988).

31.
Racial Attitudes of 18–29 Year Olds
, The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College, August 1999, cosponsored by the NAACP and Zogby International, question no. 7, p. 5.

53. Elections 2000: The Neo-Confederate Resurgence

  
1.
Leonard Zeskind, “Neo-Confederates Fight NAACP Boycott,”
Searchlight
, February 2000; Joseph S. Stroud, “6,000 Attend Spirited Rally for Confederate Flag,”
The State
, January 9, 2000; Jim Davenport, “6,000 Rally for Confederate Flag,” Associated Press, January 8, 2000; Joseph S. Stroud, “As Legislators Return, S.C. Senator’s ‘Insult’ Hardens Flag Debate,”
The State
, January 11, 2000.

  
2.
Leonard Zeskind, “Neo-Confederates Fight NAACP Boycott.”

  
3.
David Nordan, “Miller Vows to Strike Battle Flag,”
Daily News
, May 29, 1992; “Flags That Have Flown over Georgia: The History of the Georgia State Flag,” Georgia secretary of state Karen C. Handel, Georgia State Flag 2001–2003, sos.georgia.gov/museum; “Georgia Legislature Endorses New Flag,” CNN.com, April 26, 2003; “Georgia Flag Facts,” Camp 1399 Sons of Confederate Veterans, Warner Robins, Georgia.

  
4.
“Big Pro-flag Rally Hilton Head Island, SC September 4th” and “South Carolina C of CC,”
Citizens Informer
25 (Summer 1994), p. 5. “State C of CC chairman Dr. William G. Carter.”

  
5.
Charles Hamel, “The Confederate Flag Battle: What Really Happened in South Carolina,”
Southern Partisan
, 1st Quarter 2000.

  
6.
Jared Taylor, “The Broader Context of Attacks on Our Flag,”
Citizens Informer
25 (Spring 1994), p. 9 (reprinted from “Confederate Crossroads newsletter John Hunt Morgan Camp SCV Louisville Ky April 1994”).

  
7.
J. Michael Martinez, “Confederate Symbols, the Courts, and the Political Question Doctrine,”
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), pp. 321–35.