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New Intelligence Report Focuses on Mass Murderer of Sikhs
When Wade Michael Page strode into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and began to kill, it was the culmination of more than a decade in the neo-Nazi movement. The best evidence suggests that Page came to his racist beliefs while serving at a North Carolina Army base that was then a hotbed of white supremacist activity — beliefs that were further honed by years on the white power music scene.
The Southern Poverty Law Center today released the latest issue of its investigative magazine Intelligence Report, and its cover story analyzes the background and ideological development of Page, who murdered six people and wounded four others last August before putting a bullet in his own head. An accompanying sidebar details the modern history of right-wing extremism in the American military, and a related editorial traces the growth of political violence aimed at Muslims.
“Wade saw the military as a transformational time in his life,” one expert who was also a personal acquaintance of Wade told the Intelligence Report. “He always said, ‘If you don’t go in the military a racist, you’re sure to leave as one.’”
Other stories in the newly released Report:
- More than a decade after the headquarters of the Aryan Nations was shut down, a protégé of the neo-Nazi group’s late founder is building a new Idaho compound that is already attracting Klansmen and other radicals.
- Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, an iconic figure of the militia movement of the 1990s, is back, spreading radical ideology as head of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
- A man who was one of the three “commissioners” heading the deadly Aryan Brotherhood prison gang spills the beans in an interview touching on the racist group’s murders, its banking and collection systems, and a whole lot more.
- A plot that authorities say developed on a Georgia military base this year might have been taken as a joke, had the conspirators not allegedly murdered two of their own and acquired nearly $90,000 worth of weaponry.
- The American Front, a skinhead group whose leader was murdered last year, is now headed by a man who mixes racism with opposition to capitalism.
- An intellectual who once worked at American Renaissance, a journal specializing in the “psychopathology” of black people, says he now rejects white nationalism and what he sees as its genocidal program.
on November 27th, 2012 at 8:50 am
I’ll check out the new issue.
on November 29th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Glen Beck is several bricks short of a full load. That is why he appeals to the right wing nut cases.
on December 4th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Roger, I think that you need to stop labelling people and calling them names, that is not nice. You should be more respectful of others and their beliefs.
on December 4th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Shane, Roger is not insulting either Glenn Beck or his followers. He is describing them.
on December 6th, 2012 at 11:43 am
How do you know that Wade Michael Page was “white”? Race does not exist. It’s an optical illusion. That’s what I see people posting on here all the time.
Now, If there’s no such thing as ‘race’, then ‘racists’ don’t exist either. It’s an optical illusion. Wade Michael Page descended from the same common African ancestor as his victims did.
on December 7th, 2012 at 6:41 am
Eugene, spend a day in the general population of any American prison and you will quickly lean the power of this optical illusion.
on December 11th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Eugene/Ezra/Jason/Annie:
I’m glad that you’ve seen the light and realized that there is no such thing as “race,” and that all men and women are created equal.
However, while “race” may not exist, “racism” exists in the minds of idiots like yourself, who are obsessed with this subject.
But I’m glad you have finally realized that race is an optical illusion…now perhaps you can go back to American Renaissance and spread your epiphany with your friends, and finally do something positive and useful with your life.
on January 20th, 2013 at 6:18 pm
I agree that Race should never be an issue, yes racism is alive and unfortunately well in the lives of those who refuse to thing productively.
I guess it’s easier for them to go around hating and exalting themselves because no one else is going to give them awards for racist idiocy.