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History Forum / General / General Topics / September 2004Nazi Incompetent Croaks
William Daffer <whdaffer@wabcmail.com> wrote in message news:<X4ednftS2-BrH8jcRVn-vg@giganews.com>... <blah blah snipped> ================================================================ GASPING FOR AIR, HATING OLD NAZI DIES IN HIS SMALL SHACK -FAXHOR ================================================================ http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2411796 ARYAN NATIONS FOUNDER DIES WITHOUT REALIZING HIS DREAM End of an era? Butler's brand of white supremacy has lost favor among the radical right, but other forms survive By Sarah Kershaw The New York Times SEATTLE - Toward the end of his life, the man who was once the nation's most visible face of white supremacy, a Nazi-uniform-wearing, jackbooted ideologue whom his critics called "the grandfather of hate," was a frail old widower gasping for breath in a tiny donated house in northern Idaho. And when he died in his sleep Wednesday at 86, Richard Butler, who founded the Aryan Nations in the 1970s, had already long ago lost his power and influence over the radical right, a collection of extremist subcultures, militias and neo-Nazi offshoots that his movement spawned. Still, the death of one of the founders of the 20th century white separatist movement signals the end of a chapter in the nation's social history. And it certainly marks the failure of Butler's ambition to create what he had envisioned as ''an autonomous Aryan homeland'' in the Pacific Northwest. "Butler's death, in a way, marks the end of an era," said Daniel Levitas, author of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (St. Martin's Press, 2002). "But it certainly is not removing somebody from the scene who was actively playing a role of any great significance at the time of his death." Butler's brand of white supremacy was based on a theology known as Christian Identity, combining a heretical interpretation of the Bible and a belief that Jews were Satanic and blacks "mud people." Before the seams of that movement began to come apart, Butler's 20-acre compound in the pine-forested hills of northern Idaho was a gathering spot for white supremacists. But Butler had become increasingly isolated. "Christian Identity long ago lost its kind of hegemonic sway within the radical right," Levitas said. Most experts agree that though white supremacy may be ebbing, it has certainly not died along with Butler. Indeed, there are signs on the Internet and in rallies that it may still be thriving, from Washington state to West Virginia, although in new forms. "Is the radical right in trouble, faltering and fading away?" said Mark Potok, who tracks extremist groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. "I don't think so. I think it's yet again starting to morph." On Wednesday, after Butler's body was taken away for an autopsy, his relatives moved the belongings of his Aryan Nations roommates out of the house in Hayden Lake and placed them on the doorstep, a local newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, reported. Then they took down an Aryan Nations flag from a window. ================================================================ >ARYAN NATIONS FOUNDER DIES WITHOUT REALIZING HIS DREAM >End of an era? Butler's brand of white supremacy has lost favor >among the radical right, but other forms survive by Edgar J. Steele I knew Richard Butler. He was my friend. Pastor Butler was a client of mine for a much-publicized lawsuit. Though we never became buddies, always we were friendly toward one another. Indeed, that seemed to be a constant with him - friendliness. Not once did I observe Pastor Butler raise his voice or disparage another who was not unjustifiably hounding or maligning him or those he loved. Always, I was struck by the disparity between his public image and the man I knew. I knew Richard Butler only very late in his life, just during the past five years, so cannot speak to how he was or what he did earlier. I know from personal experience that one cannot believe anything one reads in the media concerning such a man, however. Current reporting, especially from the local Spokane newspaper, which has chosen to boorishly, crudely and falsely mock the man in death, has borne this out with a vengeance. In my experience, Richard Butler was soft spoken and respectful of those around him. He cared. Indeed, caring was his downfall. He cared too much for those who came to him in need. Always, he offered a bed, a meal, some encouragement, to the derelicts, homeless and societal rejects that drifted through his compound in Hayden, Idaho. Some were okay. Some were not. Some were criminals and, when found out, sent on their way. Ultimately, it was three of the people he took in who cost him his home and his church. At trial, I was flabbergasted by the lies told by witnesses who had been bought and paid for by Morris Dees and company. Because of the endless media vilification and despite our having proven up so many of those lies, the jury chose to slap Pastor Butler with the most ridiculous verdict I have ever seen. Idaho's bond requirement made it impossible for us to appeal. For what it is worth, I was in the trial and at his side every step of the way. We put up an excellent fight, the best of my career. We beat Dees at every turn. We beat him on the law. We beat him on the facts. What we couldn't beat was the passion and prejudice of the community, as reflected in the minds of the jurors. Some of them spoke to the press afterwards, recounting how they considered not one shred of evidence, not one factual issue, not one legal principle, in immediately resolving to bankrupt Pastor Butler so that he would leave North Idaho. For that, the press is largely accountable, as it had been conducting a relentless war of disinformation against Butler and his followers for years. Always, the attempt is made to link Robert Matthews' violently revolutionary group, The Order, to Richard Butler simply because Matthews once was a member of the Aryan Nations. Butler explained to me that Matthews' demand for a more proactive, even violent, approach is what led to Matthews being shown the door. Blaming Butler for what Matthews did is like blaming the Army for every crime committed by a veteran. "Are you a White supremacist?" I asked Pastor Butler one day. "No," he responded, "I am a White separatist. I don't wish harm to befall other races - I just want to be able to live apart from them." Always, the media endeavors to paint Butler as a criminal never jailed because he managed to dance just out of reach of the authorities. In reality, he was never jailed because he never did anything wrong. Unless you view speaking your mind and standing by your principles to be wrong. Even the true Richard Butler public image was calculated for effect. In private, he showed me to be a much more accepting and forgiving man than he dared show his followers. In a sense, he was a captive to his followers, albeit a willing captive. Most leaders are, you know. The Buford Furrow shooting in LA took place while I was working with Pastor Butler on his case and, before his followers got to work on him, he authorized me to issue a press release that condemned Furrow's actions in no uncertain terms and made plain that Furrow and the Aryan Nations had parted company long beforehand. The people with Fox News, to whom I read the statement, literally dropped their jaws in amazement at Butler's reasonableness and compassion. Eventually, however, his web site was to carry a much different sort of statement. Richard Butler had a large number of followers, all around the globe, most of whom genuinely loved him. A much larger number of the local population here in North Idaho thought well of him than the media would have you believe. I know because they continually come up to me and say so (though they might not admit such even to their own families). I have met and spoken with his daughters and their husbands. While they did not share his beliefs, they loved him. Nor did I share Richard Butler's beliefs. However, I respected his honesty and his simple dignity. I admired his way with others. Say what you will about Richard Butler. However, anyone among us would do well to pass on while loved so much, by so many. I remember Richard Butler. He was my friend. www.spearhead-uk.com http://www.natvan.com http://www.altermedia.info http://www.RealNews247.com ================================================================ GASPING FOR AIR, HATING OLD NAZI DIES IN HIS SMALL SHACK -FAXHOR ================================================================ http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2411796 "Richard Butler looked like a kindly grandfather. But when he spoke, it was to issue vile diatribes against Jews and minorities" - Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040911_680.html Dear Nazi Dupe Topaz, Butler was not a nice old man!!! Faxhor ================================================================ "With his white hair and lined face, Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler looked like a kindly grandfather. But when he spoke, it was to issue vile diatribes against Jews and minorities, and to call for a whites-only enclave in the Northwest. Butler, who died in his sleep on Sept. 8 at the age of 86, surrounded himself with thugs and skinheads, and decorated his home with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. For three decades his neo-Nazi group became the dominant public image of northern Idaho. He is mourned by few." - The Associated Press (USA), Sep. 19, 2004 ================================================================ "I have destroyed nothing in Germany. I have always proceeded very carefully, because I believe - as I have already said - that we cannot afford to wreck anything." - Nazi Adolph Hitler Rheinmetall-Borsig Works, Berlin December 10, 1940 ================================================================ >Dear Nazi Dupe Topaz, > >Butler was not a nice old man!!! The Jews control your media and everything you think you know is a lie. There was a book in ordinary bookstores called "An Empire of Their Own". It was a pro-Jewish book but it showed that the Jews ran Hollywood. Here are some quotes from a magazine for Jews called "Moment". It is subtitled "The Jewish magazine for the 90's" These quotes are from the Aug 1996 edition after the Headline "Jews Run Hollywood - So What?": "It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential pruduction executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." "the famous Disney organization, which was founded by Walt Disney, a gentile Midwesterner who allegedly harbored anti-Semetic attitudes, now features Jewish personnel in nearly all its most powerful positions." The head of Walt Disney studios is now the Jew Michael Eisner. On studios that were bought out by the Japanese the magazine says: "When Mitsushita took over MCA-Universal, they did nothing to undermine the unquestioned authority of Universal's legendary - and all Jewish - management triad of Lew Wasserman, Sid Scheinberg, and Tom Pollack." Here are some quotes from the paper "Jews Control the Media and Rule America" It may be rather out of date but it still explains why things are the way they are. "American Broadcasting Companies (ABC), Coumbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Each of these three has been under the absolute control of a single man over a long enough period of time--ranging from 32 to 55 years--for him to staff the corporation at every level with officers of his choosing and then to place his imprint indelibly upon it. In each case that man has been a Jew. "Until 1985, when ABC merged with Capital Cities Communications, Inc...the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer (CEO) of the network was Leonard Harry Goldenson, a Jew...In an interview in the April 1, 1985 issue of Newsweek, Goldenson boasted 'I built this company (ABC) from scratch.'" "CBS was under the domination of William S. Paley for more than half a century. The son of immigrant Jews from Russia..." "There has been no move by top G-E management to change the Jewish "profile" of NBC or to replace key Jewish personel. To the contrary, new Jewish executives have been added: an example is Steve Friedman..." "The man in charge of the television entertainment division at CBS is Jeff Sagansky. At ABC the entertainment division is run by two men....nearly all of the men who shape young Amercians' concept of reality, of good and evil, of permissible and impermissible behavior are Jews. In particular, Sagansky and Bloomberg arre Jews. So is Tartikoff. Littlefield is the only Gentile who has had a significant role in TV entertainment programming in recent years." "American Film magazine listed the top 10...entertainment companies and their CEOs...Time Warner Communications (Steven J Ross, Jew) Walt Disney Co. (Michael D. Eisner, Jew)...Of the 10 top entertainment CEOs listed above, eight are Jews." "The Newhouse media empire provides an example of more than a lack of real competition among America's daily newspapers; it also illustrates the insatiable appetite Jews have shown for all organs of opinion... The Newhouse's own 31 daily newspapers, including several large and important ones, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the nation's largest trade book publishing conglomerate, Random House, with all its subsideries; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the countries largest cable networks- the Sunday supplement Parade, with a circulation of more than 22 million copies per week; some two dozen major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Madamoiselle, Glamour, Vanity Fair, HQ, Bride's, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self, Home&Garden...." "Furthermore, even those newspapers still under Gentile ownership and management are so thoroughly dependent upon Jewish advertising..." "the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. These three...are the newspapers which set trends and guidlines for nearly all others. They are the ones which decide what is news and what isn't, at national and international levels. They originate the news; the others merely copy it. And all three newspapers are in Jewish hands...The Suzberger family also owns, through the New York Times Co. 36 other newspapers; twelve magazines, including McCall's and Family Circle..." "New York's other newspapers are in no better hands than the Daily News. The New York Post is owned by billionare Jewish real-estate developer Peter Kalikow. The Village Voice is the personal property of Leonard Stern, the billionaire Jewish owner of..." "There are only three newsmagazines of any note published in the United States: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report....The CEO of Time Warner Communications is Steven J. Ross, and he is a Jew. "Newsweek, as mentioned above, is published by the Washington Post Co., under the Jewess Katherine Meyer Graham..." "U.S. News & World Report... owned and published by Jewish real estate developer Mortimer B. Zucherman..." " The three largest book publishers...Random House... Simon & Schuster , and Time Inc. Book Co....All three are owned or controlled by Jews...The CEO of Simon & Schuster if Richard Snyder, and the president is Jeremy Kaplan; both are Jews too." "Western Publishing...ranks first among publishers of childrens books, with more than 50 per cent of the market. Its chairman and CEO is Richard Bernstein, a Jew." "Jewish spokesmen customarily will use evasive tactics. "Ted Turner isn't a Jew!" they will announce..." "We are doing more than merely giving them a decisive influence on our political system and virtual control of our government; we also are giving them control of the minds and souls of our children..." www.spearhead-uk.com http://www.natvan.com http://www.altermedia.info http://www.RealNews247.com >>Dear Nazi Dupe Topaz, >> >>Butler was not a nice old man!!! >> > The Jews control your media and everything you think you know is a > lie. Including that. [snip] whd  SignatureEwan Jackson, confirming his status as a self-admitted liar. (From http://tinyurl.com/2g53v) [Jeffrey Brown asked] Were you lying when you told us your real name was Jerome Gregory, or were you lying when you told us it wasn't? [Ewan answered] Yes. >> Dear Nazi Dupe Topaz, >> >> Butler was not a nice old man!!! >> > The Jews control your media and everything you think you know is a > lie. http://www.netaxs.com/~balpert/jewfaq.html > William Daffer <whdaffer@wabcmail.com> wrote in message news:<X4ednftS2-BrH8jcRVn-vg@giganews.com>... > <blah blah snipped> > ================================================================ > GASPING FOR AIR, HATING OLD NAZI DIES IN HIS SMALL SHACK -FAXHOR [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > By Sarah Kershaw > The New York Times Excuse me? Why are you posting this in response to me? In particular, why doesn't my message-id appear in the references header? [snip] whd SignatureRoss, on the meaning of his response in <20010802014157.12518.00002213@ng-fq1.aol.com> Message-ID: <20010802191550.00840.00002241@ng-cl1.aol.com> ROTFL.... It takes a jew with a University degree to detect an obvious farce. |
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