The terrorism threat in Missouri is real, but it's not al-Qaida foreign fighters we should fear.
It's a white man from Kirksville named Alex Linder....On Sunday, the neo-Nazi punk announced his presence in Columbia.
...Not satisfied with a tiny hold of the Internet hate world, Linder started a newspaper for his Vanguard network...."Vanguard News Network presents the Aryan alternative. Uncensored news for whites," it trumpets.
...In Missouri, the...white-power movement is alive and well thanks to men such as Linder. He is one of two Missouri men to appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "40 to Watch" list, which tracks some of the nation's most dangerous hatemongers. The center calls Linder a "foul-mouthed but nattily dressed neo-Nazi" whose Internet site is so vulgar that it offends "even many of the most extreme racists and anti-Semites."
...His newspaper lists a Springfield man named Glenn Miller as responsible for printing his vile screed. Miller doesn't answer his phone, though the one-time member of North Carolina's White Patriot Party has plenty to say on the Web site belonging to the equally racist Church of True Israel. "The U.S. government is our enemy because it is controlled by Jews. Never forget it," he posted in a forum earlier this year.
In fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center has had its eye on Miller for years. He's an ex-Army soldier with Special Forces training who has a violent past. "He's a pretty scary guy," says Mark Potok, director of the SPLC Intelligence Project. Miller has ties to the violent group called The Order and at one time was in the witness-protection program for testifying against other white supremacists.
Linder isn’t the only Missourian on the Southern Poverty Law Center's watch list. There is also Bridgeton's George Baum, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a racist group that until the late 1990s tried to present itself as a legitimate political power. Baum has since shed the cloak of respectability and now, like Linder, publishes a newspaper intended to bring more white supremacists into the fold.
It's a white man from Kirksville named Alex Linder....On Sunday, the neo-Nazi punk announced his presence in Columbia.
...Not satisfied with a tiny hold of the Internet hate world, Linder started a newspaper for his Vanguard network...."Vanguard News Network presents the Aryan alternative. Uncensored news for whites," it trumpets.
...In Missouri, the...white-power movement is alive and well thanks to men such as Linder. He is one of two Missouri men to appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "40 to Watch" list, which tracks some of the nation's most dangerous hatemongers. The center calls Linder a "foul-mouthed but nattily dressed neo-Nazi" whose Internet site is so vulgar that it offends "even many of the most extreme racists and anti-Semites."
...His newspaper lists a Springfield man named Glenn Miller as responsible for printing his vile screed. Miller doesn't answer his phone, though the one-time member of North Carolina's White Patriot Party has plenty to say on the Web site belonging to the equally racist Church of True Israel. "The U.S. government is our enemy because it is controlled by Jews. Never forget it," he posted in a forum earlier this year.
In fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center has had its eye on Miller for years. He's an ex-Army soldier with Special Forces training who has a violent past. "He's a pretty scary guy," says Mark Potok, director of the SPLC Intelligence Project. Miller has ties to the violent group called The Order and at one time was in the witness-protection program for testifying against other white supremacists.
Linder isn’t the only Missourian on the Southern Poverty Law Center's watch list. There is also Bridgeton's George Baum, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a racist group that until the late 1990s tried to present itself as a legitimate political power. Baum has since shed the cloak of respectability and now, like Linder, publishes a newspaper intended to bring more white supremacists into the fold.
"The U.S. government is our enemy..." I wonder if these guys are on the no-fly list. We turn out the worst of the worst here. We do things whole hog in Missouri. You can add Linder, Baum and Miller to your list of Missourians we wish we never knew, along with John Ashcroft and Rush Limbaugh.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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