Blood and Politics (103 page)

  
4.
Author, notes on Hoffmeister’s opening statement, February 17, 1988; “Chris Notes,” Center for Democratic Renewal staff observations, February 17, 1988.

  
5.
Larry Lee, “Attorney Tells Strange Story,”
Southwest Times Record
(Fort Smith), April 6, 1988, p. 7A.

  
6.
Ben Stocking, “Hate Groups Have an Ally in Lawyer,”
Raleigh News & Observer
, April 19, 1992, p. 15A.

  
7.
James Ridgeway and Leonard Zeskind, “Can Timothy McVeigh Beat the Death Penalty,”
The Village Voice
, April 9, 1996. During an interview with Ridgeway and Zeskind, Elohim City chief Robert Millar confirmed Lyon’s 1988 stay.

  
8.
Author’s notes on Pierce’s demeanor from personal observation at the Seattle RICO trial and the Fort Smith trial; Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 396 (Pierce sentenced to 100 years in Seattle and an additional 150 years in the Berg civil rights trial in Denver).

  
9.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 395 (Lane sentenced to forty years in Seattle and an additional nonconsecutive 150 years in the Berg civil rights trial in Denver).

10.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 397 (Scutari sentenced to forty years for racketeering and twenty years for the Ukiah robbery).

11.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 392 (Barnhill sentenced to forty years for racketeering).

12.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 395 (McBrearty sentenced to forty years for racketeering).

13.
Flynn and Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 398 (Smalley was sentenced to five years in a previous gun case).

14.
“Government’s Pre-Trial Memorandum,”
United States of America v. Robert E. Miles et al.
, U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas Fort Smith Division, Criminal no. 87-20008, pp. 16–19.

15.
Robert Miles, “Mrs. Snell,”
From the Mountain
, May–June 1988; “The Clock Is Ticking for Death Row Captive Richard Snell,”
The Jubilee
, January/February 1995;
The Last Call Bulletin
, November/December 1989; Mary Snell, publisher, The Last Call Ministries, letter to subscriber, July 11, 1990.

16.
Author, notes taken during prosecution’s opening statement, February 17, 1988.

17.
Author, notes on Beam’s opening statement, February 17, 1988.

18.
Beam,
Essays
, p. vi.

19.
Author’s notes.

20.
“Sedition Trial,” Associated Press, February 9, 1998 (judge throws out evidence on Beam).

21.
Robert Miles, “Introduction of Glen Miller,” transcription of tape recorded by Russell Bellant, April 19–20, 1986, meeting on Miles’s homestead.

22.
Larry Lee, “Training Target Questioned,”
Southwest Times Record
, March 12, 1988.

23.
Bob Miles,
From the Mountain
, September/October 1987, “F. Glenn Miller . . . failed to lead when the acclaim and laurels turned to thorns. No man should lead if he cannot face the stake and the fire”; Bob Miles, “Aryan Update” phone message recorded by author, March 13, 1988 (Miller was a “turncoat, a pancake which was flipped up on its end”).

24.
Author, notes on testimony by Peter Lake on February 18, 1988; Rhonda Fears, “Beliefs Come Out in Trial,”
Southwest Times Record
, February 20, 1988; James Ellison, transcription of testimony tape in 87-20008, pp. 85–87.

25.
James Ellison, transcription of testimony, p. 120.

26.
Ellison, transcription of testimony about weapons, pp. 173–93.

27.
James Ellison, transcription of testimony, p. 142.

28.
Ibid., p. 100.

29.
Ibid., p. 426.

30.
James Parker, question to James Ellison, transcription of testimony, p. 427.

31.
James Ellison and Louis Beam, transcription of testimony at pp. 346–47.

32.
FBI FD 302, Bruce Carroll Pierce, “Statement taken by SA Thomas J. McDaniel and SA Wayne F. Mannis,” April 1 and 2, 1985, Atlanta, Georgia, transcription on April 22, 1985. This affidavit had been admitted into evidence during The Order’s Seattle RICO trial.

33.
Larry Lee, “Accused Says He Will Change Sedition Plea,”
Southwest Times Record
, March 9, 1988; Larry Lee, “Defendant Will Not Give Guilty Plea,”
Southwest Times Record
, March 10, 1988. After the trial, Miles also commented favorably in his
From the Mountain
newsletter about Bruce Pierce.

34.
Larry Lee, “Arnold Suppresses Confession,”
Southwest Times Record
, March 17, 1988; Larry Lee, “FS Defendant Acquitted,”
Southwest Times Record
, March 19, 1988.

35.
UPI, “Trial of White Supremacists Is ‘McCarthyism,’ One Says,”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, April 3, 1988.

36.
Larry Lee, “Bills for Sedition Trial Mounting,”
Southwest Times Record
, April 13, 1988.

37.
Larry Lee, “Beam’s Scorn not Disguised—Attorney Hoists Confederate Flag,”
Southwest Times Record
, April 8, 1988.

38.
David Lane,
Autobiographical Portrait of the Life of David Lane & the 14 Word Motto
(St. Maries, Idaho: 14 Word Press, 1999). While in prison Lane married Katya Maddox, who operated a newsletter and published his writings; David Lane, “Vengeance Now!,”
WAR
13 (March 1994); David Lane, “If Federals Don’t Succeed, They Will Try and Try Again,”
The Spotlight
, June 5, 1995; “Getaway driver in radio talk show host murder dies in prison,” KUSA-TV, Terre Haute, Indiana, May 29, 2007.

39.
Rodney Bowers, “Juror, Accused in Love,”
Arkansas Gazette
, n.d.; Associated Press, “Juror in Sedition Case to Marry Defendant,”
Dallas Morning News
, September 13, 1988; author’s notes, December 14, 1994, phone call to McGuires confirmed their marriage.

40.
“Juror Admires Defendant,” Associated Press,
Southwest Times Record
, April 27, 1988; “Impartiality of Some Jurors in Sedition Trial Is Questioned,”
Klanwatch Intelligence Report
41 (December 1988), Southern Poverty Law Center.

41.
Robert Miles, “Fable of the Rams,”
From the Mountain
, January/February 1988.

42.
Robert Miles, “Monday AM Q-B Views,” and “’Nuff Sed,”
From the Mountain
, May/June 1988. Miles also described the entirety of the trial in the January/February and March/April 1988 editions of
From the Mountain
.

43.
“Subpeona to Testify Before Grand Jury,” United States District Court—North Dakota, May 8, 1991, reproduced in
From the Mountain
, June 1991; Bob Miles, letter to Jim Ridgeway, June 30, 1992.

44.
“In Memory of Robert Edward Miles,” memorial service announcement for death on August 16, 1992; “From Pastor and Mrs. Miles Daughter,”
From the Mountain Final Newsletter
, April 1993.

45.
“From Pastor and Mrs. Miles Daughter,”
From the Mountain Final Newsletter
, April 1993: “I believe he loved my mother so much he did not wish to remain here without her.”

46.
Robert Miles,
From the Mountain
, July–August 1990 (Miles summarizes his own history and the overall situation for his movement at that time); Robert Miles,
From the Mountain
, March/April 1988, for quote “movements yet to be born.”

19. Pete Peters’s Family-Style Bible Camp for Identity Believers

  
1.
James A. Aho,
The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990), pp. 135–63.

  
2.
Ann Burlein,
Lift High the Cross: Where White Supremacy and the Christian Right Converge
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 35–37.

  
3.
Cheri Peters, “The Masculinized Female,” For Women Only,
Scriptures of America Newsletter
, March 1987, p. 7. Cheri Peters’s For Women Only page appeared in almost every issue of the newsletter.

  
4.
Kathleen Blee,
Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 122–38.

  
5.
Peggy Christensen, “The Wife Secret Behind Man’s Courage,” Scriptures for America videotape no. RMR 88-19; Peggy Christensen, publisher,
The Correspondent
8, no. 7 (July 1989).

  
6.
“Mystery Speaker/W. A. Carto, Publisher of the Spotlight,” photo of Carto,
1994 Scriptures for America
, 10th Anniversary Rocky Mountain Family Bible Camp; Louis Beam, “Break
the Sword, Overcoming Fear, Inaction And Doubt,” tape no. 9301,
Scriptures for America
, 1993 Rocky Mountain Family Bible Retreat, audio- and videotape list; Kirk Lyons,
Scriptures for America
, 1988 Rocky Mountain Family Bible Retreat, audio- and videotape list.

  
7.
Ed Cohen, “Hoskins Advisory: It’s Not a Typical Investment Letter,”
The News & Daily Advance
(Lynchburg, Va.), August 23, 1981.

  
8.
Lib Wiley, photo with cutline, “At Hoskins Home,”
Lynchburg Daily Advance
, December 17, 1959.

  
9.
Robert Woodrum, “City Man’s Extremist Writings Crop Up in Civil Rights Case,”
The News & Daily Advance
(Lynchburg, Va.), November 1, 1991.

10.
Richard Kelly Hoskins,
Our Nordic Race
(publisher not listed, 1959); Richard Kelly Hoskins,
Our Nordic Race
, 7th ed. (1975), pp. 7–8.

11.
Richard Kelly Hoskins,
Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood
(The Virginia Publishing Company, 1990), p. 383 (“I notified Senator Harry Byrd, Senator Willis Robertson, and half a dozen Virginia congressmen who were members of the Defenders”).

12.
Richard Kelly Hoskins, “Two Controversial Ideas,”
Western Destiny
, July 1964, p. 5; Richard Kelly Hoskins, “The Unique West,”
Western Destiny
, October 1964, p. 6; Richard Kelly Hoskins, “Organic Civilization,”
Western Destiny
, August 1965, p. 7: “Wherever a sizeable number of alien cells gather they form a tumor . . . In each of our larger cities these alien tumors tend to blight the area which they occupy, and following the habit of tumors they have a high demand for body nutrients, poor efficiency and always take more than they give.”

13.
Gene Gunn, “Hoskins: Understanding and Knowledge Are Not the Same Thing,”
The Justice Times
, June 1987, p. 1, cont’d p. 4 (“Hoskins said he was an alcoholic in the early 1960s”; the quote about “couldn’t work . . . no money” is also from this article).

14.
Richard Kelly Hoskins,
War Cycles, Peace Cycles
(Lynchburg: The Virginia Publishing Company, 1985), p. 244.

15.
Scriptures for America
, newsletter, vol. 5 (1988), p. 33.

16.
Ibid., p. 32.

17.
“The Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Israel Belief,”
Destiny
magazine, January 1941.

18.
Howard Rand, ed.,
Destiny
, second quarter 1969, pp. 218–19. This publication was a preeminent source for British Israelism in North America during the 1920s–1940s.

19.
Michael Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994). This book (mistakenly) precluded considering one seeders like Pete Peters from Christian Identity ranks; author conversation with Michael Barkun in New York at American Jewish Committee meeting.

20.
Dan Gayman, “Parable of the Tares of the Field,”
The Watchman
13, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 37.

21.
The Holy Bible
, Authorized King James Version, 1985 edition, The Gideons International.

22.
Pete Peters, “The Way of Cain,” Parts One and Two, Scriptures for America, Tapes 600 and 601.

23.
The Holy Bible
, King James Version, 1985 edition, The Gideons International, Genesis 27:29.

24.
Author, interviews with Mark Thomas, May and June 1996. Thomas, an Aryan Nations leader and convicted felon, had an excellent grasp of the various permutations of Christian Identity.

25.
Contra James Aho,
The Politics of Righteousness
. This book counts a breed of “non-racist” Identity believers, and contends that men such as Dan Gayman are not anti-Semitic (pp. 93–94).

26.
Charles A. Weisman,
Who Is Esau-Edom?
(Weisman Publications, 1991), p. 49.

27.
Ibid., p. 55.

28.
Weisman claims that so-called physical differences between Jews and white Europeans are “primarily a result of their genetic differences,” p. 56.

29.
Weisman,
Who Is Esau-Edom?
p. 22.

30.
Ibid., pp. 63, 113: “It is a genetic function of the Jew’s existence to do the works of their ancestor, Esau, by destroying the white Adamic race.”

31.
Ibid., p. 27, “It is the Jews’ fate, as bearers of the blood and characteristics of Esau-Edom, to lack the essential attributes needed to create and build a civilization of their own.”

32.
Pete Peters,
A Scriptural Understanding of the Race Issue
(Scriptures for America, 1990), p. 1.

33.
Pete Peters, “Inter-racial Marriage Pt. 2” (Scriptures for America), audiotape no. 171 (B side).

34.
Peter J. Peters,
Death Penalty for Homosexuals Is Prescribed in the Bible
(Scriptures for America, 1992).