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...abhorrent as I find the very idea of the white-supremacist "hate-core music" promoted by neo-Nazi William Pierce's Resistance Records [MUSIC GOES GLOBAL, SPECIAL ISSUE, FALL 2001], I am strangely comforted by living in a society strong enough to tolerate such idiocy. It would be worse to live in a country where the enjoyment of music is prohibited, as in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Of course, Pierce dreams of a day when he and his mediocre clan can have Taliban-like power over the masses, but until then people like me are free to denounce him publicly...
Resistance was a struggling hate-music label when William Pierce, perhaps America's leading neo-Nazi, bought it two years ago as a recruiting medium. Pierce, head of the white supremacist National Alliance, has been a pioneer in developing multi-media hooks to ensnare young people in his hate brigades. He has used magazines, leaflets, short-wave radio, the Internet, even hate comic books. He has also used novels: Pierce, a onetime Oregon State physics professor, is best known as the author of The Turner Diaries, a bloody tale that may have inspired Timothy McVeigh...
...takes time to sift through the possibilities (and plenty of spiritual and technological dead ends). Some sites are affiliated with particular sects, some are the ungrounded fantasies of individuals. Others couch extremist rhetoric in reverent tones or disguise hatred as doctrine (the white supremacist Church of the Creator in the U.S., for example...
Lawsuits against the more extreme groups have also taken their toll. Last October, in a case brought by the SPLC, the Aryan Nations white-supremacist group in northern Idaho lost its 20-acre compound near Coeur d'Alene. The Aryans are planning a parade with armed guards through the town this July, but police expect antimilitia protesters to outnumber marchers...
...nowhere. A magazine most people had never heard of was in the spotlight. On TV, John Ashcroft was getting fire-tested at his nomination hearings for a interview he'd given in 1998 to Southern Partisan. On Meet the Press, Delaware Senator Joe Biden called it "a white supremacist magazine, so I'm told." How could Ashcroft be a fit Attorney General if he agreed with it? "We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect," Ashcroft told the magazine, "or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes...