Seems like there must better retirement gigs out there than hate group compound construction.......like anything else...
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/0...us-hate-group/
National Alliance (NA) chairman Erich Gliebe has shut down the group’s constellation of websites, suspended recruiting and continues liquidating what is left of the NA’s assets, including attempting to sell off a 289-acre portion of the group’s West Virginia compound, where deceased founder, William Pierce, was buried a decade ago.
But now, two former senior Alliance members have announced their intention to reform what remains of what was once America’s most influential neo-Nazi organization and bring it again to glory: one a retired Army special forces operator, the other a convicted pedophile with a long history on the racist right.
William W. Williams, 66, a former U.S. Army officer, has partnered with broadcast engineer, Kevin Strom, 57, and announced plans to rebuild the Alliance using a barn on Williams’ remote property in Mountain City, Tennessee as a base of operations.
The announcement comes as a surprise, given Gliebe’s failed leadership that seemed to spell out the end of what was once a powerhouse group on the radical right. But Williams, an outspoken and self-described “biological racist,” remains one of the most respected membership coordinators in the history of the Alliance, and he has high hopes.
Unlike Gliebe, Williams is seemingly unafraid of media attention, Internet criticism or much of anything or anyone else in the white nationalist movement. A close quarters brawler on racist forums and an absolutist when it comes to Pierce’s unique brand of national socialism, Williams is known to work both publicly and behind the scenes advancing Alliance ideology and fighting his enemies.
Erich Gliebe
And among them he surely counts Gliebe.
“What has Gliebe won, exactly? The privilege of having to look over his shoulder the rest of his life, waiting for retribution for having hijacked the Alliance and driven it into the ground? Some winner. He actually believes he can convert Alliance assets for his own personal use with impunity. That’s treason in the eyes of many,” Williams wrote on Stormfront, the largest white supremacist Web forum.
Despite the implied threat, Williams doesn’t seem to want the property. He is not aggressively challenging Gliebe’s possession of the NA compound in West Virginia, nor struggling to take the remaining assets of Pierce’s estate. Based on his recent writings and activity, he appears to be intent on simply reforming the Alliance from the ranks of those who have resigned.
Kevin Strom
Most of the push back from the racist movement this week over Williams’ announcement has centered on Strom’s conviction and the reputational consequences of having his name again associated with white nationalism. But it remains unclear why Williams decided to align himself with Strom –– and defend –– a convicted pedophile and registered sex offender, who was released from federal prison in 2008 after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
Williams did not return telephone messages left on Monday, but at least for now, he seems deeply committed to defending Strom online, even to the point of threatening legal action to anyone who calls Strom a pedophile.
“Kevin was framed; he didn’t do ‘it,’ and did what he had to do to be with his children when faced with a trumped up 10-year prison sentence and possible $250,000 fine,” Williams wrote. “He has returned to fight another day and I will defend him from all comers, ‘friend’ and foe alike.”
Much of the criticism so far has come from the National Alliance Reform and Reformation Group (NARRG,) based out of Sacramento, directed by Jim Ring and intent on restoring the Alliance to its former glory.
In a post on the group’s website, titled,”A Perverted False Prophet Returns,” Ring wrote:
“It’s bad enough our National Alliance has had to suffer years of Erich Gliebe but now with the entrance of interloper Strom, it would be like going from the frying pan to the fire. As we continue to fight the dishonest and corrupt leader Erich Gliebe and his so-called board of director cronies, you can be certain that we will vigorously do likewise with the pedophile Kevin Strom.”
Williams replied on Stormfront, “You’d be wise to disabuse your NARRG boys of their spurious smears and have them cease and desist forthwith their claiming Kevin is a pedophile.”
Though the record disputes Williams’ claims of Strom’s innocence, his version of the 2007 federal case against Strom is gradually becoming gospel in the racist movement. The fact that Williams is willing to put his own credibility on the line to publicly defend him also underscores Strom’s skills as a seasoned propagandist.
One of the brightest and most creative racists in the movement, Strom has effectively crafted an alternative reality about his criminal record that essentially argues he was the “victim” of a vindictive spouse and an over-reaching federal government that fabricated the allegations against him. Strom’s skills at twisting the narrative by exploiting the racist movement’s innate paranoia and distrust of government and media are having an effect.
A handful of influential neo-Nazi discussion forum posters are increasingly supportive of Strom’s claims of innocence. Former Alliance member Todd van Biber, a convicted bomber and bank robber, commented on Strom’s case this week on Phora. Under the name “Todd in FL,” Van Biber claimed the charges against Strom were “thrown out” and that his wife put the child pornography images found on Strom’s computer. Another of Strom’s most ardent supporters online over the past few years has been former National Alliance and National Vanguard member, Aaron Shiels, of North Vancouver, Canada. (Shiels also did not return telephone messages left on Monday.)
Known for his promotional support of David Duke while posting as “British74″ on Stormfront, Shiels promotes his 132-page e-book, titled, “The Zionist Attack on White Civilization,” as a downloadable e-book, in every post he puts online. The book, at least in part, appears to be in violation of Canadian laws against inciting racial hatred.
“Jews are hated because of their wicked immoral practices of their religious Satanic book called The Talmud. Jews are hated because they have been caught Ritually Sacrificing and Murdering White children in occult religious practices. Jews are hated because they are importing the criminal third world into productive White nations,” Shiels wrote. He then added, venemously: “Jews are hated because they are a plague upon humanity.”
Williams and associates can claim Strom was “framed” and allege he was “set-up” by his estranged wife, but the record and Strom’s own admissions contradict these assertions.
Strom was arrested in January 2007. He had come to the attention of police after the mother of an 11-year-old girl filed a criminal complaint with Virginia authorities after the child began receiving gifts from an anonymous man, later determined to be Strom. Almost a year later, in October 2006, the FBI eventually searched Strom’s home and computer and found more than a hundred photographs of the 11-year-old child, including images of her in a bathing suit. Agents also recovered a song Strom had written to the fifth grader, to be sung to “Here We Come a Wassailing” with the lyrics, “Once I met a pretty girl, her name was [NAME OF 12-YEAR-OLD]… I will be showered with the kisses of [NAME] and we’ll be married.”
The case unraveled two days into Strom’s October 2007 trial when federal prosecutors failed to convince US District Judge Norman Moon that Strom had explicitly attempted to have sexual relations with the victim and Moon dismissed two of the charges. Moon did, however, acknowledge that Strom was “obsessed” with the child and that he was, in fact, a pedophile, which is defined as a “person who is sexually attracted to chlldren.”
“I think the jury can find he was sexually attracted to this child,” said the judge. But that alone is not illegal. And when prosecutor Gould reminded Moon of Strom driving past the girl’s house, Moon replied, “That’s what these people do when they’re obsessed.”
Strom ultimately plead guilty to possession of child pornography. Among the images found on his computers, according to the indictment, were files named “teen rape,” “Lolita Dreams,” “Wings,” and “Eternal Nymphets Natural Gold.”
Strom now lives in in Johnstown, Penn., where he has emerged from the shadows, ready to rehabilitate himself as a leader in the neo-Nazi movement. And despite his unequivocal record, many in the racial nationalist subculture seem willing to welcome him back –– most especially Williams.
In a Phora post last week, Williams stated he introduced Kevin Strom to his new girlfriend. He wrote: “I talked to Kevin earlier today and to his girlfriend that I introduced him to. She’s a lot younger than he, so, yes, he is attracted to younger females. Good for him. So am I. My wife is 24 years lounger. Kevin’s teen-aged daughter lives with him, too. You think she’s not safe around her daddy? Kevin is no threat to anyone but the GD Jew, who he will continue to expose despite having his life turned upside down by JOG. Bowed but not broken!”
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