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It couldn't have been scripted any better in Tinsel Town. After surging ahead of the sieg-heiling pack in membership and notoriety, the "Hollywood Nazis" of the National Socialist Movement have imploded in a debacle featuring hate-radio jocks, anti-racist provocateurs, superhuman egos, allegations of underage sex, and Satan.
The party's problems began last June, when Citizens Against Hate discovered that NSM's Tulsa post office box was shared by The Joy of Satan Ministry, in which the wife of NSM chairman emeritus Clifford Herrington is High Priestess. Knowing that NSM ally and hate-radio host Hal Turner was a Catholic-raised convert to the white supremacist theology of Christian Identity, the anti-racist group decided to plant a metaphorical banana peel under NSM's unsuspecting jackboot.
In early July, Citizens Against Hate member "Tony Willow" called in to Turner's show (that night featuring NSM Minister of Information Michael Blevins) and informed him of the Satanic connection. The hate-jock took the bait. On July 3, Turner posted a message on his website declaring that unless NSM severed all connections to Satanism, the group would no longer have access to free or discounted air time on the Turner Radio Network. Within NSM ranks, meanwhile, a bitter debate was sparked over the propriety of Herrington's Joy of Satan connections.
Appearing on cue to keep things rolling was none other than Bill White, the irascible and pompous 29-year-old NSM media handler and veteran of extremist causes and groups across the left-right spectrum. As Citizens Against Hate had hoped, White responded to Turner with a snap and a snarl, both defending Mrs. Herrington's membership in the Joy of Satan -- "Her religious views are very similar to the Radical Traditionalism and Aryan Paganism shared by most of the NSM's leadership," he wrote -- and questioning Turner's motives for threatening the NSM.
The real reason for Turner's attack, White strongly implied, was money. "Turner," White wrote, "has been needing additional cash to maintain his radio network for several months, and has been negotiating for additional fees from the NSM for several weeks."
In response to White's rebuttal, a furious Turner promptly cancelled NSM's program. "This man," wrote Turner of White, "[has] wrecked the NSM radio show on the biggest pro-white media outlet in the world. How much more damage is Bill going to be allowed to do before somebody puts a stop to it?"
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