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...eyes of a skinhead, Portland, Oregon, looks like the city of the future. Not that Loren Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...
...arrests came just days after the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith released a survey on the growth of the skinhead movement in America. In 1988 there were about 1,500 skinheads in 12 states; today there are about 3,500 in 40 states, and they are responsible for at least 22 killings over the past three years. "The skinheads are today the most violent of all white-supremacy groups," the B'nai B'rith report concluded. "Not even the Ku Klux Klan, so notorious for their use of the rope and the gun, comes close...
...minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members' backgrounds. Fisher, the skinhead leader, is the son of a grade-school teacher and a computer- science instructor; neighbors say many of his friends...
...This is one of the most successful infiltrations of white-supremacist groups to date," said Terree Bowers, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, whose office will prosecute most of those arrested. "We think it will put a severe dent in the skinhead movement in Southern California...
...Resistance, is the godfather of these programs. Produced in Southern California, the nine-year-old show is seen in 49 markets, according to Metzger. The no-frills talk format provides a forum for Metzger's white- supremacist views, as well as those of guests like Marty Cox of the skinhead band Extreme Hatred, who snarled in one recently taped show, "We're not gonna walk around the streets and let some nigger come and beat us up." Says Metzger: "We reach many more people than you could ever expect by having a rally or standing on a street corner...