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The Puppeteer

Issue Number: 
106
 | 
Summer
 
2002

In the world of anti-immigration groups, John Tanton pulls the strings. A contentious Idaho custody battle puts long-time white supremacist Louis Beam back in the news. Shortwave radio dispenses rabid voices of hate.

In This Issue

The Puppeteer

The organized anti-immigration 'movement,' increasingly in bed with racist hate groups, is dominated by one man, John Tanton.

The Firebrand: Racist Leader Headed for Downfall?

Louis Beam, revolutionary leader, fire-breathing orator and racist strategist par excellence, could be facing his waterloo.

In Hate's Pay

By James Latham
Behind shortwave hate radio is a group of entrepreneurial station owners who claim they love free speech

Descent into Darkness

By David Barry
Two liberal San Francisco attorneys got involved in the Aryan Brotherhood. It cost them their freedom, and their souls.

More Features

From Berlin to Washington

Editorial
By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow
France's immigrant-hating populist, Jean-Marie Le Pen, had shocked the world by winning one in five votes to take second place in the initial round of presidential elections.

Aryans, Interrupted

The Aryan Nations, long a top neo-Nazi group, is homeless, split, accused of blackmail, and in jeopardy of irrelevance

'Patriot' Free Fall

For the fifth consecutive year, the antigovernment movement that produced American militias undergoes a major decline

Defending Immigrants

A key activist in the struggle for immigrant rights discusses the evolution and nature of the anti-immigration movement

Revolution by the Numbers

An alleged plot by a tiny but well-armed Montana militia group has officials scratching their heads

From UFOs to Yoga

By Martin A. Lee
A new book, Black Sun, explores the bizarre fringes of National Socialism, past and present.

El titiritero

El 'movimiento' organizado anti-inmigración, cada vez más profundamente relacionado con los grupos de odio racial, está dominado por un solo hombre, John Tanton.

Briefs

Strange Bedfellows

In South Carolina, pro- and anti-Confederate flag groups find themselves on the same side of a state lawsuit

Music Manufacturer Boots Resistance Records

White Power Music
Music manufacturer boots neo-Nazi Resistance Records

Latest Anthrax Hoax Targets Latinos

Terrorism
Forty Latino organizations and individuals receive anthrax threats

Citing Neo-Nazi and Racist Sources, Buchanan Sounds the Alarm

Mainstreaming Extremism
New book from former presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan cites racist literature

Holocaust 'Revisionism'

Difficult days for deniers
When Holocaust "revisionists" gathered in Moscow for a major conference in January, they got a dose of the usual and also a dollop of the bizarre.

Running on Race

Racially charged political campaigns in four states
Extremist politicians have been making waves — and winning a surprising amount of support — in local and statewide elections across the country.

Kirk Lyons Gets a Licking

Radical Lawyers
As "chief trial counsel" for the Southern Legal Resource Center, flamboyant Kirk Lyons has made a name for himself as the legal champion of the neo-Confederate movement.

'Goodbye, League of the South'

White Nationalism
Lake High, former chairman of South Carolina League of the South, defects

Death of a 'Truth-Telling Gentleman'

Academic Racism
Glayde Whitney, academic racist and active member the Council of Conservative Citizens, dies