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(BIAFS) THE BETHUNE INSTITUTE FOR ANTI-FASCIST STUDIES: Aryan Nations - Christian Identity and Fascist Terror [excerpts] * * * AFIB EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: Christian Identity, the "religion" of the racist right, got a huge shot in the arm from two unlikely sources: multi-millionaire exiles from California's Silicon Valley. Driven by a belief in "end times" theology and white supremacy, computer chip moguls Carl E. Story and R. Vincent Bertollini, are planning to pour huge sums of money into the Pacific Northwest's most dangerous Identity congregations - Dave Barley's America's Promise and Richard Butler's neo-nazi Aryan Nations. The low-key duo's organization, The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, has already financed a slickly-produced racist, anti-Semitic poster and other propaganda, mass-mailing them to thousands of Idaho residents. As recent revelations of close ties between top Republican party politicians and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens indicates, fascism is making significant inroads into the political "mainstream." That Aryan Nations now have well-heeled corporate benefactors is a new and very serious development; one with grave consequences if underestimated or left unchecked. * * * _________________________________________________________________ SPENDING A FORTUNE ON BELIEFS _________________________________________________________________ Ex-Californians tap wealth to promote white supremacy THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Spokane, Washington Sunday, December 6, 1998 http://www.spokane.net/ By Bill Morlin, Spokesman-Review Staff Writer Two men who made their fortunes in California's computer industry are spending large chunks of money promoting two white supremacy churches in North Idaho. Carl E. Story and R. Vincent Bertollini are using their ministry, The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, to benefit America's Promise and the Aryan Nations. For Story, his new alliances evolved after he gave $4 million to TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and $5 million to a charismatic Christian church near San Francisco almost a decade ago, his friends say. An engineer-turned-businessman, Story was convicted in 1979 of illegally shipping his computer chip manufacturing equipment to the Soviet Union. The high-tech hardware apparently made its way to the Soviets' missile development facility during the Cold War, federal investigators say. Now, Story and Bertollini are promoting Christian Identity, the same racist theology that underlies Aryan Nations and America's Promise Ministries in North Idaho. But the pair bring something to the movement that alarms human rights activists: money. The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger has spent $1.5 million in the past eight years, Bertollini said recently. "What's new is the amount of money that Story and Bertollini are willing to spend on their anti-Semitic and racist message of hate," said Bill Wassmuth of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment. The two men paid for the production ans separate mailings of a large color poster explaining Christian Identity, and a videotape of an interview with Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler. A $4 pamphlet, published by anti-Semite Charles Weisman of Burnsville, Minn., was included in the mailings. Bertollini said the posters cost $9.45 each to print, fold and mail. The posters were sent in September to 9,000 people, including thousands of residents in Kootenai and Bonner counties. Butler also handed out copies of the poster and pamphlet during last summer's Aryan World Congress, which included a parade in Coeur d'Alene. In 1996, the men paid to bring anti-government lecturer Joyce Riley to Sandpoint for two nights of speeches. Hundreds of people attended the lectures at the Panida Theater, including Militia of Montana co-founder John Trochmann. At the lectures, Riley claimed the U.S. government is lying about Gulf War syndrome. The speech was sponsored by America's Promise Ministries. But Bertollini's name is on documents promoting the Riley appearances, and he now says he and Story picked up the tab. Story, 65, and Bertollini, 59, operated in obscurity until last fall's mass mailings. Law enforcement officials and human rights activists knew little about the two men. Bertollini declined requests for a formal interview, but answered a few questions when he attended a human rights community meeting in Sandpoint last month. The meeting was called in response to the Remnant Messenger mailings. He and Story don't promote hate or white supremacy, Bertollini said. "Our intent is to bring truth to a world that believes a lie. It's a burden, a burden on my heart, and it's Carl Story's burden, too." Story refused to be interviewed or answer written questions. "An interview will never happen!" he responded in large print over a letter requesting an interview. "Do what you will." LEFT CALIFORNIA IN 1995 Story and Bertollini, who've been friends 30 years, formed The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger in 1990 when they still lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. The name apparently refers to mankind's final days and Story and Bertollini's belief that they and other whites are remnants of God's chosen people. During their business careers, the two men used their engineering and marketing skills to help make two computer chip companies multimillion-dollar concerns. The pair left California in 1995 and decided to move to North Idaho after spending six months touring the United States. "We crossed the bridge into Sandpoint and said, `Voila, this is it!'" Bertollini said. He wouldn't say if they were attracted to the region by the presence of America's Promise, which moved to Sandpoint from Arizona in 1989, or Butler, who arrived from California in the mid-1970s. Story, who is divorced, lives in an upscale home overlooking Lake Pend Oreille. Bertollini is married and lives in Sandpoint. They both own Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Lincoln Town Cars, and are known at various Sandpoint restaurants and lounges for quoting the Bible and leaving $100 tips. Bertollini has performed at least one wedding in Bonner County as a "lay minister" for the Remnant Messenger, public records show. He is serving 10 days in jail for drunken driving and driving without privileges in Bonner County. The Remnant Messenger literature lists a Sandpoint maildrop as its "business suite," and Bertollini sometimes uses the name Vincent Bert. He said the alias isn't meant to be deceptive. "Bertollini is too long, too hard to say, and so Bert is easier," he said. Story's son, Craig Story, also lives in Sandpoint but didn't want to talk publicly about his father. He did, however, provide a written statement saying he has nothing to do with his father's beliefs. "I would like it to be known that I do not agree whatsoever with the 11th Hour Remnant ministry and its message," Craig Story wrote. "I am completely opposed to their latest scroll and the manner it was sent to homes in Sandpoint and surrounding area unsolicited." Stewart C. Best of Wheeler, Wis., said he has known Carl Story for several years and described him as evolving from a non- Christian, to a fundamentalist Christian, to a charismatic Christian, to a Christian Identity believer. Best operates Best Video Productions, which sells a variety of conspiracy theory and Christian prophecy videos. For a time, Story spent thousands of dollars on multiple copies of such videos as "Daniel and the Four Beasts," "Iron Mountain" and "False Prophets," Best said. "He believed the message and would send them out all over the world," Best said. At the time, Story and Best shared the religious view that all mankind is embraced by God's "agape," or divine, love. But Best said his friendship ended when Story embraced Christian Identity. Best later wrote Story and Bertollini letters, denouncing their beliefs. "I warn you through tears that you have gone down a wrong pathway, one that will take you both to eternal ruin and loss," his letter said. Best also said Story once told him he gave TV evangelist Swaggart $4 million when his ministry was on the verge of collapse about ten years ago. Swaggart's limousine occasionally visited Story's home in an exclusive development adjoining a golf course in Cupertino, Calif., former neighbors say. "I met Jimmy Swaggart myself in Carl's back yard in Cupertino," said former Cupertino neighbor Mike Meurisse, who now lives in North Carolina. "Carl told me that he gave Jimmy Swaggart a great deal of money." Swaggart and his staff didn't return telephone calls and e- mail requests for comment. Best and others said Story also gave an estimated $5 million to the Jubilee Christian Center, an independent, nondenominational church with about 8,000 members. At some point, Story began drifting toward people preaching about redemption and the end times -- the study of eschatology. "He told me he had done everything else, and now he was going to start his own church," one former neighbor said, asking not to be identified. TAPING BUTLER FOR POSTERITY Bertollini said the Remnant Messenger "has sent 10 major mailings, all over the world." One of its first publications was an "urgent, special report," entitled "The Loss of Woman in the Home." The changing role of women in Western society is "pervasive, diabolical and insipid," says the publication, written by Vincent Bert. It quotes Bible passages and claims that "virtually every modern convenience" that women use today on the home was designed by a man. The devices allow for more freedom for women who should like remaining home, it says. From that, the Remnant Messenger went on to publish a large poster explaining "True Salvation." Another publication describes "How Man Has Deceived Man in Our Day." For example, a piece of 2x4 lumber really isn't 2 inches by 4 inches, it says. "The American public has come to accept this as a natural deviation in their daily lives. It is a lie, it always was a lie and we no longer think anything about this, most obvious lie!" The most recent productions include the videotape of Butler being interviewed at the Aryan Nations compound. The interviewer isn't identified on the tape, but Bertollini reluctantly confirmed that he is the one asking the questions of Butler in the video. Bertollini described Butler as a "rather benign guy" who isn't "dangerous at all." They produced and distributed the video so the Aryan leader's message will be recorded for posterity, Bertollini said. One Remnant Messenger publication describes how the United States "has not only provided technology to the Soviets, sanctioned by the government, but has given food and other commodities to our `friends.'" It doesn't mention that Story sold technology to the Soviets while working in California's Silicon Valley. Story and his former business partner, Gerald Sterak, were convicted in 1979 of shipping $299,970 worth of computer-chip- handling equipment to the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Three shipments of computer chip robotic equipment made their way in the mid-1970s to a military facility outside Moscow, investigators said. Authorities believe the gear was used to develop Soviet missile-guidance systems. "It was cutting edge technology and these shipments were sold strictly for money," said U.S. Customs case agent Charles McLeod. The fourth intended shipment was secretly intercepted by the Customs agent in Kansas City, and the computer equipment was replaced with bags of sand, Mcleod said. In a plea bargain, Story avoided federal prison but paid a $25,000 fine and was placed on three years probation, court records show. `I'M ON A MISSION' Bertollini says he and Story are committed to spending their money to "get the truth out" before the end of the world, which they believe is fast approaching. The truth, as Bertollini explained it, is that white people are the true Israelites, descendants of Abel. Nonwhites and Jews are descendants of Cain, born after a mating of Satan and Eve. It's called two-seed Christian Identity theology. Bertollini said nonwhites "have a special place on this planet." But "They don't have to deal with the law and redemption and the power of Jesus Christ" like white people do. "We don't hate them. God, we're blessed that they're here. They don't have to deal with what we have to deal with. They don't have the responsibility that we have." White people, he said, "are caretakers of the world." "Don't you see that? Isn't that simple? Isn't it obvious?" One woman who knows the men said they're convinced they must give their wealth to their religious cause to win God's redemption. "I'm on a mission from God, and it will not end until my last breath is gone." Bill Morlin can be reached at (509) 459-5444 or by e-mail at billm@spokesman.com Copyright 1998 The Spokesman-Review ***** * THE BETHUNE INSTITUTE FOR ANTI-FASCIST STUDIES * Web: http://bethune.w-3productions.com/ Research Directors: David Lethbridge, sacar@shuswap.net Helmut-Harry Lowen, hloewen1@uwinnipeg.ca ----- _________________________________________________________________ ARYAN NATIONS: CHRISTIAN IDENTITY AND FASCIST TERROR _________________________________________________________________ By David Lethbridge http://bethune.w-3productions.com/documents/cift.html * * * PRELIMINARY Aryan Nations is simultaneously a religious movement and a political movement. The two aspects cannot be separated one from the other. It is profoundly white racist and anti-Semitic. In order to achieve its ends, it has, in the past, resorted to every form of terror: from threats, to intimidation, to armed robbery, to assault, and to murder. There is every indication that it will continue to do so. Its ultimate aims are the destabilization and overthrow of the governments of the United States and of Canada, and the creation of a white racist State either in the Pacific Northwest alone, or throughout North America. While the influence of Aryan Nations within the much larger en-Nazi movement continues to rise and fall, and to rise again, the presence of an Aryan Nations outpost constitutes a serious danger to the community in which it becomes established. IDENTITY: A BRIEF THEOLOGY Another name for Aryan Nations is the Church of Jesus Christ, Christian. As such, Aryan Nations is an Identity church. Identity, sometimes called Christian Identity, or Kingdom Identity, is a particularly perverse and racist variant of the Christian religion. Identity is widespread in the USA and Canada, and has a distinct history which will be examined shortly. As a theology, Identity belief has managed to unite diverse sectors of the extreme right, including many groups within the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, the Posse Comitatus, some groups of Nazi skinheads, and a number of survivalist factions. It should not be imagined, as some commenters do, that Identity religion is simply a convenient cover for psychopathic violence, or a method of seeking tax advantages through claiming religious status. On the contrary, Identity believers are often much more devout and committed than many so-called "mainstream" Christians. The central beliefs of Identity are that: 1) - The Biblical God, or Yahweh, created a single race in his own image - the White Race. These are the Chosen People. The message of the Bible, both Old and New testaments, is a message only for the White People. Only White People have souls, or have a hope of salvation. The identity of the White People - and hence the name Christian Identity - is that they are the Old Testament Israelites. Some Identity believers follow all of the dietary laws and prohibitions of the early chapters of the Bible, and the majority maintain a fundamentalist belief in the literal interpretation of Biblical texts. In their view, Christ himself was a blue-eyed, blond-haired Israelite, with absolutely no Jewish ancestry, or any connection to the Jews. To claim that Christ had a Jewish genealogy is, from the point of view of Identity, a blasphemy of the first order. The White People eventually became dispersed from Israel and settled in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Britain, and eventually, in the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These White People are known as the Aryans, and where they live are the Aryan Nations. 2) - Before the creation of Adam and Eve, the God Yahweh created a second race. These are sometimes called "Mud People" in Identity literature, and are the ancestors of all people of color; Africans, Asians, Aboriginal Australians, African- Americans, and so on. These "Mud People" were intended by God to be the servants and slaves of the White People. They have no souls, are not truly human, and are not valued by God. 3) - The third race of people are the Jews. According to Identity, they were not created by God but by Satan. They are not the Old Testament Israelites, but have simply falsely assumed that ancestry in order to hide their evil origin, and as a cover for their Satanic purposes. The Jews have intermarried with the Mud People and created a variety of mixed racial groups in order to further insinuate themselves into the human community. Lacking souls, or even a conscience, they are able to devote themselves to their true task - the destruction of God's chosen people - the Aryans. The Jews do this through slyly pitting people of color against the Aryans; through taking control of the world banking and financial institutions; through the invention of socialism and communism; by taking control of the media and of the government; and by an endless conspiracy to seize global control through a One World Government. 4) - Identity theology maintains that any intermarriage between Aryans and non-Aryans automatically yields off-spring who are spiritually, biologically, and mentally degenerate, and who are soul-less. They believe that intermarriage is slowly polluting Aryan gene pools and destroying the Aryan peoples. Any Aryan who has mixed-race children, who marries a Mud person or a Jew, is a "race traitor." Race traitors, so defined, are frequently the objects of intimidation, assault, or murder. In the white racist State advocated by Aryan Nations and other militant Identity groups, race traitors would be summarily executed by the State. Parenthetically, the term "race traitor" is sometimes used in Identity literature to denote Aryans who are actively opposed to Identity, such as anti-fascist or anti-racist workers. 5) - Identity also maintains a strong belief in the Second Coming of Christ. Like many fundamentalist Christians, they believe that Christ will return soon and usher in the Millennium - a thousand years of God's Kingdom on earth. However, they also believe that Christ will not return until the Aryan people have done their duty and restored God's original plan; namely, the return of people of color to servant and slave status, and the genocide of the Jews. Identity theology recognizes that the Jews will not kill themselves, nor will people of color voluntarily return to slave status. Therefore, many Identity groups are heavily armed and engaged in weapons training and survivalist tactics. They are prepared for a racial war - a racial holy war - as a long period of what they call "Tribulations" before Christ's ultimate return. The bombings, murders, and assassinations that Identity organizations have already engaged in must be understood within this religious and political context. IDENTITY: A BRIEF HISTORY Identity is a more militant form of British-Israelism, which had its origins in 19th century England. British-Israel maintains that Anglo-Saxons, and Aryans generally, are the descendants of the Old Testament Israelites. People of color, and the Jews, were considered inferior to the white Israelites. British-Israel ideology moved into the United States through British Columbia and Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th century, and gradually became transformed into the more extreme racist and more extreme anti-Semitic form of Identity. In Canada today, some British-Israel organizations are more moderate, and some have become outright Identity groups. Identity, as a distinct theological and political movement, can be traced back to Wesley Swift, a former California Ku Klux Klan organizer, who founded the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian in 1946. Swift argued vehemently from his pulpit for the genocide of all Jews. Another early Identity preacher, William Potter Gale was an associate of Wesley Swift. Gale introduced Richard Butler, head of today's notorious Aryan Nations, to Swift in 1963. Throughout the 1970s, Butler developed the Aryan Nations, and Gale helped create the Posse Comitatus. In the 1980s, James Wickstrom became the major Identity preacher for the Posse. Together, Aryan Nations and the Posse Comitatus have been among the most violent of the Identity organizations. Today, there are literally hundreds of Identity groups in the USA and Canada. The Reverend Pete Peters, a rising star in Identity, broadcasts a radio message from Colorado that can be received widely throughout the US. Peters is not only a white racist and anti-Semite, but has called for the death penalty for homosexuals. Violence against homosexuals has become an increasing trend within Identity. An underground Identity group called the Phineas Priesthood has recently been discovered as a result of a series of bank robberies. The Phineas Priests special calling is to act as God's executioners for race traitors. An October 1994 catalog from the Sacred Truth Ministries in Mountain City, Tennessee offers for sale a list of 800 Identity groups. Sacred Truth is itself an Identity ministry and book service. It sells Bibles, Bible commentaries, the works of Wesley Swift, of Posse Comitatus leaders, of Hitler and Goring, of the American Nazi Party, and an entire range of racist literature. This catalog was itself offered for sale by the Council on Public Affairs, in Salmon Arm, BC, itself a group with Identity leanings. JAMES WICKSTROM AND THE POSSE COMITATUS "Posse Comitatus" means "power of the county." Posse believers, like many white supremacists, maintain that the federal and state governments of the US have been taken over by a world-wide Jewish conspiracy, or "ZOG": the Zionist Occupation Government. The Posse was first organized in 1969 by Henry Beach, formerly of the Silver Shirts - a pro-Nazi US group that operated in the 1930s. The Posse operates mostly in the mid-West and Western US and has more recently spawned a number of anti-tax organizations in their region. Posse members have committed robberies and murders, and issued numerous death threats. As an Identity organization, they are violently anti-Semitic. While William Potter Gale was the primary Identity preacher of the Posse in its earliest phase, James Wickstrom had overshadowed him by the mid-1980s. Wickstrom's sermons and literature advocated guerrilla warfare, paramilitary training, and the lynching of Jews, Communists, and all opponents of the Posse. Wickstrom published a regular periodical called the "Posse Noose Report" which featured an illustration of a hangman's rope beside its violent Identity message. One of Wickstrom's close associates in Kansas, Mike Ryan, had 50 automatic and semi-automatic weapons, 150,000 rounds of ammunition, and a number of Wickstrom tapes on his farm, when he was arrested for the torture-killings of a five-year-old boy and a young man in his twenties. Ryan had said the small boy was a "racial mongrel" because his mother had sex with an Indian. After serving a short jail term for impersonating a public official, Wickstrom moved to western Pennsylvania where he set up the Identity "Church of Christ in Israel." It is through this church that Charles Scott was ordained as an Identity minister by James Wickstrom. August Kreiss III, a former Klansman and another Church of Christ in Israel pastor in Pennslyvania, is closely connected to Scott. Kreiss has threatended to send armed militia members across the US border to defend Scott. Scott also claims to have been involved in security work at the Aryan Nations headquarters in Hayden Lake, Idaho, and to have been ordained there by its leader, Richard Butler. RICHARD BUTLER AND THE ARYAN NATIONS Richard Butler's Aryan Nations holds a unique place in the history of organized racism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Aryan Nations led the drive toward increased militancy and armed resistance. Butler's vision of an all-white nation appealed to large sectors of the extreme right. Aryan Nations was able to form a volatile merger of neo-Nazis, the Klan, and Identity religion, and became the unifying force of white supremacy. Besides holding annual conferences and congresses, Aryan Nations publishes two periodicals: "Calling Our Nation" and "The Way." Both are prison newsletters aimed at white convicts, and are a major part of the Aryan Nations prison outreach program. At least two ultra-violent groups have been spawned from with Aryan Nations: The Order, and The Order II. The first Order was led by Bob Mathews, and engaged in an 18-month terrorist wave of armed robberies and assassinations. Of the $4 million dollars stolen by The Order, most of it was never recovered. It is believed to have been distributed across the country to help finance other white-racist groups. Much of the money almost certainly went towards the purchase of arms. Bob Mathews himself was shot to death in 1984 by FBI agents on Whidbey Island, Washington, and he has become a revered hero and martyr among white racists throughout the US and Canada. In 1988, Butler and 9 other leading white supremacists were charge by the US government for treason and sedition. All were acquitted. The Aryan Nations symbol aptly combines a Christian cross, a half-swastika, and a sword: the cross indicating Identity, the swastika glorifying Nazism, and the sword representing the necessity for violent action. ARYAN NATIONS CONNECTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS Richard Butler's Aryan Nations has a wide web of connections and associations. When the American Nazi Party originally split apart in the 1960s, two major factions were created which eventually became James K. Warner's Christian Defense League, in Metairie, Louisiana; and William Pierce's National Alliance, in West Virginia. The Christian Defense League is strongly Identity; the National Alliance is not. The National Alliance is more overtly pro-Hitler, and retains much of the Nazi Party influence. Richard Butler is well connected to both organizations, as well as to several important Ku Klux Klan leaders. Close Canadian connections are with John Ross Taylor, formerly of the Western Guard; Tony McAleer of the Canadian Liberty Net, and associated with the Aryan Resistance Movement; Terry Long, leader of the Canadian division of Aryan Nations, Randy Sanders, of the Ku Klux Klan in Alberta, and several others including, of course, Charles Scott. Internationally, Butler has developed close ties to Manfred Roeder, a major leader of the German neo-Nazi movement who, in turn, has worldwide neo-Nazi connections. Copyright 1998 The Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies. * * * ** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, material appearing in Antifa Info-Bulletin is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for research and educational purposes. 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