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 ^[1] of its investigative magazine Intelligence Report, and its cover story ^[2] 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 ^[3] details the modern history of right-wing extremism in the American military, and a related editorial ^[4] 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 ^[5] 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 ^[6] 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 ^[7] 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 ^[8] 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 ^[9] 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 ^[10] and what he sees as its genocidal program.

8 Comments To "New Intelligence Report Focuses on Mass Murderer of Sikhs"

#1 Comment By Reynardine On November 27, 2012 @ 8:50 am

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