Word: aryan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India's birthright for use as a political weapon. Schopenhauer's mythical India, by displacing the Semitic tradition as the oldest known to the west, is said to have caused its fall from veneration into disfavor, eventually leading to Gobineau's Inequality of the Races and the creed of Aryan supremacy...
...common thread in this network of bigotry is the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization in Hayden Lake, Idaho, that Mathews and Yarbrough belonged to before breaking off and forming their own action-oriented splinter group. In December, Oregon Senator Robert Packwood and his family received police protection after an informant told the FBI that the Aryan Nations planned to assassinate Packwood, a strong supporter of Israel. Aryan Nations and its "Church of Jesus Christ Christian" are run by Richard G. Butler, 66, a former flight engineer who moved to Idaho from California in 1973. Butler has claimed to have...
...rith's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which investigates extremist groups, says that Ayran Nations and the Klan have set up computer networks that can be reached through telephone numbers in Idaho, Texas and North Carolina. The computer system was established by Louis Beam, a Texas Klan leader and the Aryan Nations' "ambassador-at-larg e." It provides anti- Semitic and racist reading for hackers, as well as an "enemies" list of organizations like the A.D.L...
Butler's Church of Jesus Christ Christian is part of the so-called Identity movement, which claims Jesus was an Aryan and that white Anglo-Saxons, rather % than the Jews, are the true chosen people. The A.D.L. says Identity beliefs have influenced the Klan and many other white supremacist groups. A prominent spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon...
With the spread of fringe-group violence, ten states have enacted laws against paramilitary training. Laws against malicious harassment of people for racial or religious reasons exist in 29 states. Idaho's law was passed in 1983 after an Aryan Nations follower hounded a racially mixed family. Authorities have taken other steps to make Idaho extremists pay for their legacy of violence. The FBI and other federal agencies have mounted a "major investigation" of the state's right-wing cults. The Aryan Nations "church" has lost its federal and state tax exemption...