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...Aryans' leader seems shaken by that prospect. Since the suit was filed last year, Butler has been soliciting support from fellow racists: five producers of "white power" music recordings are donating proceeds from sales of titles like Holocaust 2000. Butler says he's at least $60,000 in debt, from fighting "Morris the sleaze with his Jew faggots...
...Butler's defense: his men weren't authorized to conduct actions off his property, and they were volunteers, not employees. "This case is really about Dees vs. Butler," says the Aryans' lawyer, Edgar Steele. "It's a free-speech case. I'm representing one of the most vilified men in the country. People don't like his views. But it's still legal to hate Jews...
Some of the evidence of negligence, though, comes from a former Aryan Nations security guard. In sworn testimony, Floyd Cochran admits that guards regularly operated off-premises because Butler "never told us not to." Moreover, Dees says, Butler's compound has long been a haven for ex-cons, a training ground for violence-prone men to commit crimes against "Aryan enemies...
...evidence that he's advocated breaking the law." Yet Dees points to alumni like Buford Furrow, who is awaiting trial on charges of shooting up a Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles and killing a Filipino postal worker last summer. Furrow, who pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only...
...snow-capped mountains, turquoise lakes and trout-filled streams. The region is a magnet for families fleeing congested cities-Kootenai County is one of the state's fastest-growing areas-but civic leaders feel that its allure to industry and tourism has been marred by its association with Butler's Aryans. "No one's calculated how much revenue's been lost," says Jonathan Coe, president of Coeur d'Alene's Chamber of Commerce. With 33,000 people, the city recorded 11 hate crimes in 1998, far more than similar size towns like Kokomo, Ind., or Allen, Texas...