Word: churches
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Before last week, it was hard to imagine Matthew Hale ever amounting to much. Hale, 27, runs a racist hate group he grandly named the World Church of the Creator. But even as one of the largest such organizations in the nation, WCOTC has at most a few thousand dues-paying $35-a-year members, many of whom were recruited on the Internet and have never so much as gathered in a beer hall. The group's headquarters is Hale's bedroom in his dad's house in East Peoria, Ill. It measures members' success by the number of racist...
...group's rhetoric were responsible for Smith's shooting spree. Proving anything will be difficult, but antihate lawyers hope such a lawsuit might bankrupt the group. In 1994 the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $1 million fine against the WCOTC's previous incarnation--called simply the Church of the Creator, a group founded by a former Florida legislator--because of its ties to violence. In the '90s alone, at least 10 of its members pleaded guilty to or were convicted of racially motivated crimes. Before Hale revived the group in 1996, it was nearly dead and gone because...
...cars, Dawson watches Hard Copy and is in bed by 8:30. His only vacations are occasional jaunts to Shreveport to meet recipients of the scholarships named in honor of his parents. His only real luxuries are the Burberry's suits he wears on college visits and sometimes to church...
...FINGERS Is anti-Semitism the only thing World Church of the Creator supremacist Matt Hale and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have in common? Nope. Both are serious violinists. As they're both from Illinois, maybe a duet is in the offing? A glimpse at their musical preferences...
Dershowitz, who called Hale's organization "a church of psychopaths," said Hale had to be aware that his message could provoke violence. "When Hale says he has no sympathy for the victims but only for Smith, that sends out a message of violence," Dershowitz said...