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I'm having as much trouble as Mr. Sadin finding John Birch Society info on
the net that isn't put out by the JBS. Mostly I'm finding John Birch
Society members who are associated with various other right-wing groups.
I'll post a few of the articles I've found that reference JBS in one
way or another (but not necessarily put out by paragons of non-biased
reporting).
** GOD, GUNS & TERROR: MISSIONARIES TO THE PREBORN **
By Tom Burghardt,
Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)
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Missionaries to the Preborn (MTP), is one of the most
dangerous and violent of the direct action anti-abortion groups
active in the United States. Since its founding in 1990 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin by the Rev. Matthew Trewhella, four of
Milwaukee's nine women's clinics have been closed; primarily as a
result of their relentlessly brutal attacks. Missionaries to the
Preborn have recently re-located their national office to San
Bernadino county in California.
Matthew Trewhella, Joseph Foreman and Gary McCullough, the
chief organizers of the group, are ardent proponents of the neo-
fascist, Christian Reconstructionist movement. All three are
members of Howard Phillips' far-right, United States Taxpayers
Party (USTP). Trewhella is a member of the USTP's National
Committee. Additionally, MTP leaders have supported Rev. Paul J.
Hill's Defensive Action organization in Pensacola, Florida. At
the May 1994, Wisconsin state party convention of the USTP, the
100 page "Principles Justifying the Arming And Organizing Of A
Militia," was sold to participants.1
Foreman and Trewhella signed Hill's Defensive Action
"Declaration," circulated widely among anti-abortion activists, in
the wake of the March 1993 assassination of Dr. David Gunn by
Rescue America militant, Michael Griffin.2 Dr. Gunn's killer was
an associate of "former" Klansman, John Burt, the Regional
Director of Rescue America.3 Rescue America activists including
Burt, Donald Gratton and Floyd Murray joined Pensacola anti-
abortion operatives, Michael Conroy -- and Paul Hill -- in a
covert operation that identified David Gunn's replacement. Dr.
John Bayard Britton, assassinated by Paul Hill July 29, 1994 was
the physician.4
Gary McCullough, Editor of the "Prisoners of Christ," a
national directory of "pro-life prisoners of war," was listed as
Paul Hill's media consultant during Michael Griffin's trial.
McCullough's name appeared under a Defensive Action letterhead
bearing the endorsement of some thirty national leaders of the
direct action anti-abortion movement.5
The Christian Reconstructionist ideological connection to the
most violent wing of the anti-abortion movement is well-
documented and represents a serious threat to women's rights.
Rev. Hill, the convicted assassin of Dr. John Bayard Britton and
clinic escort, James Barrett, was a former minister with the
Orthodox Presbyterian sect. Many of the sect's top leaders,
including the Rev. Joseph Morecraft of Georgia, the Rev. Leonard
Coppes of Colorado and the Rev. Charles McIlhenny of California,
are close associates of Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony, the
President of the Chalcedon Foundation and chief ideologist of the
movement.6
Christian Reconstructionists' work towards the creation of a
totalitarian "Christian Republic" in the United States. Many of
the movement's key leaders are members of diverse far-right
organizations such as the John Birch Society, the United States
Taxpayers Party, the American Independent Party, the secretive
Council for National Policy -- and Operation Rescue.7
The Reconstructionists' work towards the elimination of
abortion, homosexuality, labor unions, divorce, pornography,
social welfare and secular education. A growing number of
Reconstructionists are also proponents of armed "Citizens Militia"
organizations such as the Christian Patriots Defense League, the
racist, Christian Identity-influenced, Posse Comitatus, and other
white supremacist groups such as the Aryan Nations and the
American Front.8
Other proponents of the movement include the Rev. Jay
Grimstead, Director of the Coalition On Revival (COR). COR is an
umbrella group linking more than 100 Christian Reconstructionist
organizations in the United States. Emanuele Cannistraci, senior
pastor of Evangel Christian Fellowship in San Jose, CA, is a COR
Steering Committee member as well as a top leader of COR's
National Coordinating Council (NCC). During Operation Rescue
National's "Cities of Refuge" campaign in July 1993, Cannistraci's
church was OR's base of operations.9
Sitting on Grimstead's Steering Committee, is avowed
Christian Identity racist, Barry Byrd, of the Washington-based,
Watchman Singers. In 1988, Byrd joined the Rev. Pete Peters, a
top leader of the Christian Identity movement, and signed a racist
"Covenant Statement," at Peters' Rocky Mountain Family Bible Camp,
based in La Porte, Colorado.10 Currently Barry Byrd is organizing
"Agricultural Covenant Communities" in the Pacific Northwest, a
hot-bed of racist activity and violence.11
In California, Brian Kemper, a top tactical leader of
Operation Rescue, is a "former" skinhead who was removed by BACORR
activists from the San Mateo Planned Parenthood clinic, during
OR's aborted "Cities of Refuge" campaign. Though claiming not to
be a racist, Kemper's arms are adorned with neo-Nazi tattoos,
including the ominous "777" of the South African AWB. Kemper,
however, claims his "only" concern is "saving babies" and creating
a "Bible-based society."12
A major tenet of Reconstructionist doctrine is the formation
of paramilitary militias for the imposition of "Biblical Law,"
through force of arms. When combined with the "leaderless
resistance" doctrine of Aryan Nations/KKK leader, Louis Beam, and
Tom Metzger, leader of the murderous White Aryan Resistance (WAR),
it is chillingly clear that proponents of anti-abortion direct
action, have in their grasp an operational model for waging a
campaign of terror against women and abortion providers.13
As reported by Michael Novick in "Turning The Tide,"
Chalcedon Board member, John Saunders III, spoke from the same
platform as Aryan Nations leader, Louis Beam, at the racist
"Jubilation" conference held last August in Bakersfield, CA. The
group's "Jubilee" newspaper is a major propaganda arm of the
Christian Identity movement.14
In May 1994, MTP leader, Matthew Trewhella gave a speech at
the USTP's Wisconsin state convention, urging churches to "hold
militia days and teach their men how to fight."15 In June 1994,
Trewhella participated in a weapons training exercise at the rural
farm of MTP members, Robert and Mary Briedis. More than 20
MTP/USTP members attended the training. Cadres practiced using
semi-automatic assault weapons, according to news reports.16
What differentiates Missionaries to the Preborn from other
"rescue" organizations such as Joseph Scheidler's Pro-Life Action
League (PLAL), Donald Treshman's Rescue America (RA), or Jeff
White's Operation Rescue of California (ORC), is the full-time
commitment made by MTP cadres to the organization. Trewhella
believed that Operation Rescue had "peaked" by the summer of 1989.
According to Joseph Foreman's account:
"If we could not make this peak the basis of the next step,
then we would slump and all those who had joined the effort for
the quick WIN would be shaken out..."17 (emphasis in original)
Therefore, "rescue's" next focus would be the forging of
cadre-style organizations that wage a ceaseless low-intensity
warfare campaign that directly target abortion providers: Randall
Terry's "weak link." Organizations such as Missionaries to the
Preborn use all available means at their disposal, from legal
political organizing and electoral venues to street-level clinic
violence and covert terrorism, to destroy women's access to
reproductive health care.
The dual-track strategy of such groups bear an alarming
resemblance to fascist organizations such as those spawned
throughout Europe during the 1930's -- and today. Electoral
politics on the one hand, terror on the other: demagoguery and
violence remain the quintessential signs of fascist terror.
According to the definition above, MTP represents the next
stage of the transformation of amorphous "rescue" groups into a
violent reactionary vanguard: "Rescue's" terrorist shock troops.
Missionaries to the Preborn is the Protestant analog of the
predominantly Catholic, Lambs of Christ. There are, however,
important differences between the two organizations.
Unlike the Lambs of Christ, who enter a city for a limited
period, generally as an auxiliary "rescue" force during a specific
mobilization, MTP cadres take up residence and focus their
attention on a particular city for an extended period. According
to Foreman's account:
"Missionaries focus on their particular city, perhaps even a
single abortion clinic within that city. They do not shift their
focus, and they rescue whenever free. Thus they have changed some
of the tactics which have come to be associated with Rescue.
ONE SUCH FORMER TACTIC WAS THAT OF REFUSING TO COOPERATE
THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM. Instead, missionaries cooperate in custody
because they want to make the single focus of their work that they
would rescue whenever free..." 18 (emphasis in original)
MTP operatives, unlike their Lambs of Christ counterparts,
who often languish in jail for months at a time, cooperate with
authorities when in custody and will accept bail. They are often
more inclined to play hardball with their opponents.
Missionaries will target judges, prosecuting attorney's and
cops with phone campaigns, residential pickets and the like.
Citizens for Life/Missionaries to the Preborn operative, Monica
Migliorino Miller, declared during her January 1993 trial: "If a
police officer is escorting a woman into an abortion clinic and
somebody were to shoot the police officer...I could not say that
pro-lifer did something immoral..."19
Cadres have targeted clinic defenders and patient escorts,
the ubiquitous "deathscorts" of anti-abortion propaganda, with
residential picketing campaigns, death threats and physical
violence, especially during the initial phases of clinic
invasions. Their support for no-holds-barred clinic violence is
one reason behind Joseph Foreman and Gary McCullough's move to
California. According to one account, Foreman and Matthew
Trewhella have had a major clash over personal differences;
Foreman was unwilling to play second fiddle to Trewhella, who
continues to call the shots, at least in Milwaukee.20 In any
event, they have much in common with Operation Rescue of
California, and Jeff White, the group's Director. White's
"Minuteman Strike Team," similarly employs violent, paramilitary
tactics during attacks on California women's clinics.21
Cheryl Sullenger, a "No Place to Hide" team captain in San
Diego, is a convicted clinic bombing co-conspirator. Sullenger
was a key organizer in a plot to bomb women's clinics in southern
California during the late 1980's. Along with John Birch Society
operative, the Rev. Dorman Owens, Sullenger procured explosive
devices, gasoline and detonators for a campaign of terror in San
Diego.22
Missionaries to the Preborn is multi-tiered; there are
different levels of commitment from individual cadres. Though
seemingly a hierarchial, "top-down" entity, MTP may function more
autonomously than Joseph Scheidler's front-groups. As a
paramilitary "rescue" formation, each "cell" functions more or
less independently. Though Foreman and Trewhella occupy the
pinnacle of the organization's pyramid, cadre development dictates
that strategic/tactical/political tasks remain decentralized.
This makes sense from a purely "military" perspective. If
prominent cadres' take a "hit," there is another layer of
"missionaries to take their place. Organizational continuity, is
therefore assured. Branches of the organization exist in
Milwaukee, Wichita, Atlanta and now, California.
The purpose of the organization, in contradistinction to the
Lambs of Christ, is to set up shop in a particular locale and to
make life as miserable as possible for women and health care
providers. Since the core-group is full-time, they will be at the
targeted clinic every day that it's open. This strategy, as
mentioned above, has been successfully employed in Milwaukee.
MTP tactics cover the entire spectrum of anti-abortion direct
action: "legal" picketing, "No Place to Hide" residential pickets
at physician/clinic worker homes; clinic blockades and violent
clinic invasions.
Similar to the Lambs of Christ, Missionaries to the Preborn
go to great length to close clinics during blockades/invasions.
Their tactics are derived from those described in the terrorist
"Army of God" manual.23
Recently obtained by BACORR, the "Army of God" manual
provides the "pro-life termite" with a host of dirty tricks for
permanently closing women's clinics.24
The "advice" provided in this clandestine manual is NOT
theoretical; this a detailed, step-by-step, practical guide for
violent anti-abortion terrorism. Among the topics covered in "99
Covert Ways to Stop Abortion," the authors provide detailed
instructions on obtaining and using butyric acid ("Liquid Rescue
or LR"); explicit "how-to" instructions for structural sabotage of
clinic facilities using ready-mix concrete and pvc pipe; the
fabrication of explosive devices -- firebombs, pipe bombs and the
like.25
There is incontrovertible evidence in this writer's opinion,
that Missionaries to the Preborn operatives, are either the
author's of certain of sections described in the manual -- or have
intimate knowledge who compiled portions of the "Army of God."
Missionaries to the Preborn tactics include staging elaborate
clinic blockades and invasions using junked cars that are steered
in front of the doors of women's clinics.
"Rescuers," using elaborate kryptonite bicycle chains, locks,
55-gallon drums filled with ready-mix concrete, will oftentimes
weld themselves underneath or inside the vehicles; effectively
closing the clinic for hours at a stretch. According to the "Army
of God," such tactics are termed "Krypto Park-Ins."
"The most beautiful Krypto park-ins to date are where
rescuers lock their ankles to the axle or feather springs of a
junked car which they have towed to the doorway of the mill.
"Remember, the general principle of daylight krypto usage is
to attach a human being as closely as possible to the place where
the fire department must cut to remove the rescuer -- so that the
fire department will hesitate to risk injury to the rescuer in a
clearly non-emergency situation. In fact, some krypto
applications are so intimate (the mini-lock on to ankles) that
many fire departments have refused to even attempt removal and the
mill remains shut the whole day."26
Such tactics have routinely been employed by Missionaries to
the Preborn and have been adapted by a score of "rescue" groups
across the country. Detailed accounts of these tactics appear
regularly in Andrew Burnett's LIFE ADVOCATE magazine. Burnett,
and his organization, Advocates for Life Ministries (AFLM),
endorse and are key advocates of Paul Hill's "justifiable
homicide" position.
Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon, currently serving an eleven year
prison term in Kansas, is a long-time member of Burnett's group as
well as the attempted assassin of Dr. Tiller in August 1993.
Oregon State Police retrieved the "Army of God" manual from
Shannon's home in Oregon. Shannon had been arrested in Milwaukee
along with other MTP militants.
In February 1993, Shelley Shannon journeyed to Milwaukee and
visited MTP operative, Dwight Monagan, who was in custody at the
time. Monagan, also a member of the Lambs of Christ, is a super
glue "specialist." Monagan's "Lamb" name is "Handbag."27 The
Army of God manual provides detailed instructions for using super
glue in order to sabotage women's health care facilities.28
The violent upsurge by the anti-abortion movement is not
accidental. Having lost in the courts, legislatively, and more
importantly for pro-choice activist's -- in the streets, the
"rescue" movement has reached an impasse. Terror is now their
preferred method of operation.
Despite posturing by Janet Reno and the Justice Department,
the violent terrorist campaign launched by the anti-abortion
movement is far from over. According to BACORR's analysis, the
escalation of violence -- clinic bombings, arson, butyric acid
attacks, vicious campaigns of harassment, assault and murder --
will continue.
With the political shake-out currently underway within the
Christian Right, key leaders of "rescue," Randall Terry, Joseph
Foreman, Matthew Trewhella, Jeff White, Joseph Slovenec, David
Shedlock, and probably hundreds of direct action anti-abortion
cadres are forging political ties and direct links with openly
racist and fascist political forces.
The significance of Missionaries to the Preborn's alliance
with "secular" far-rightists and Christian Reconstructionists such
as the United States Taxpayers Party, John Birch Society,
Coalition On Revival, Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Patriots
Defense League, Posse Comitatus and probably also with neo-Nazi
gangs such as the American Front, White Aryan Resistance and
Confederate Hammerskins, lies not with their chances of winning
elections. Clearly, their prospects of electoral success are
bleak, at best. This, however, misses the point.
As organizations such as MTP openly embrace a fascist
political orientation, their willingness to ally themselves -- and
adapt -- paramilitary terror tactics in order to wage a
clandestine guerilla war against women's rights, becomes a
practical exercise, and object-lesson, for racists and xenophobes
everywhere.
As demonstrated by the covert circulation of manuals such as
the "Army of God," and the widespread adaptation of the tactics it
describes, we are witnessing the potential birth of anti- abortion
death squads. Analgously, the movement's apparent adoption of
Aryan Nations leader, Louis Beam's "leaderless resistance"
doctrine serves both as a theoretical model -- and a hammer --
that increasingly will be used by the far-right to terrorize their
opponents. The ominous escalation of racist, anti-immigrant and
homophobic attacks across the country, underline in blood, the
seriousness of the threats we currently face today.
Debate with such forces or a search for "common ground" is
both a fruitless exercise and a suicidal strategy that will disarm
our movement in the face of escalating rightist provocations.
Such a retreat only prepares the ground for an ever-more vicious
and brutal campaign of terror.
As BACORR has argued many times over the years, only a
comprehensive strategy -- and uncompromising hardball tactics that
rely on independent mass mobilizations, mutual aid and
collaboration with anti-racist and anti-fascist forces, using
DIRECT ACTION -- are capable of breaking the enemy's will to
fight, thus driving off and DISPERSING the fanatical mobs who lay
siege to our clinics. We will continue to do so -- without
apology.
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SOURCES
1. John Goetz, "Missionaries Leader Calls For Armed Militias,"
Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1994, p. 1, FRONT LINES RESEARCH, Public
Policy Institute, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 14th
Floor, 810 7th. Ave., New York, New York 10019
2. "Declaration," 1993, DEFENSIVE ACTION, Pensacola, FL
3. Michael Novick, "Women's Rights: Target For Racist Terror.
Neo-Nazi Involvement in the Anti-Abortion Movement," 3rd., Revised
Edition, 1993, People Against Racist Terror (PART), P.O. BOX
1990, Burbank, CA 91507
4. NA, "Florida pro-lifers ID replacement for Gunn," LIFE
ADVOCATE, Portland, OR, September 1993, p. 19
5. "Declaration," op. cit.
6. Skipp Porteous, "SWAT Teams for Jesus," re-printed 1993 in,
Frederick Clarkson & Skipp Porteous, "Challenging the Christian
Right: The Activist's Handbook," Institute for First Amendment
Studies (IFAS), P.O. Box 589, Great Barrington, MA 01230
7. Russ Bellant, "The Coors Connection: How Coors Family
Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism," 1990, Cambridge,
MA, Political Research Associates, multiple citations; see also,
Tracey Jeffries-Renault & Jerry Sloan, "WITHOUT JUSTICE FOR ALL:
A Report on the Christian Right in Sacramento and Beyond," 1994,
multiple citations; Planned Parenthood of Sacramento Valley,
Public Affairs Department, 2415 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95816-
5001
8. Loretta J. Ross, "Anti-Abortionists and White Supremacists Make
Common Cause," October 1994, THE PROGRESSIVE, pp. 24-25. Ms. Ross
is the national program research director for the Center for
Democratic Renewal (CDR), P.O. BOX 50469, Atlanta, GA 30302- 0469
9. Tom Burghardt, "Mobilized for Repression: Operation Rescue of
California," June 1994, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Coalition for
Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)
10. Sara Diamond, "Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the
Christian Right," 1989, Boston, MA, South End Press, p. 141
11. Ann Byrd, "Agricultural Covenant Communities: We Must Build
An Ark!" CROSSWINDS: THE REFORMATION DIGEST, Vol. 1, No. 1,
Winter 1992, Coalition On Revival (COR), P.O. Box A, Sunnyvale, CA
94087
12. Author's on-site observations, July 18, 1993, San Mateo, CA
Planned Parenthood; author's conversation with Brian Kemper, July
9, 1994, Rolling Hills Community Church, Danville, CA; Operation
Rescue of California's "Summer of Missions '94" caravan
13. Frederick Clarkson, "HardCOR," reprinted, op. cit., 1993,
Clarkson & Porteous, pp. 23-25
14. Michael Novick, "In Bakersfield: Coalition Challenges
Racism," TURNING THE TIDE, Vol. 7, No. 5, September-October 1994,
People Against Racist Terror, p. 12
15. Goetz, op. cit., p. 2
16. Mike Mulvey, "Trewhella tied to 2 who held arms training.
Pair are in abortion foe's church," THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, August
19, 1994, p. 1
17. Joseph Lapsley Foreman, "Shattering The Darkness: The Crisis
of the Cross in the Church Today," 1992, Montreat, North Carolina,
The Cooling Spring Press, p. 183
18. ibid., p. 182
19. Judge Charles B. Schudson's judgement of January 26, 1993,
filed as No. 92-1602-CR, State of Wisconsin; Goetz, op. cit. p. 2
20. Joan Clark, Milwaukee Clinic Protection Coalition (MCPC),
September 1, 1994, personal communication with the author
21. Burghardt, June 1994, op. cit.
22. Dallas A. Blanchard & Terry J. Prewitt, "Religious Violence
and Abortion: The Gideon Project," 1993, University Press of
Florida, pp. 201-205
23. NA, "When Life Hurts We Can Help...THE ARMY OF GOD," 1993,
Third Edition
24. ibid. pp. iii-v
25. ibid., multiple citations
26. ibid, pp. 11-12
27. Joan Clark, "Dossier" on Missionaries to the Preborn, 1994,
Milwaukee Clinic Protection Coalition (MCPC)
28. THE ARMY OF GOD, op. cit., pp. 10-11
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PERSONAL PROFILE OF WHITE ARYAN RESISTANCE DIRECTOR
Tom Metzger was born in Warsaw, Indiana, on April 9, 1938. Warsaw is a small
city in northern Indiana. The economic base is small business, light
manufacturing recreation (98 lakes), and farming - Tom Metzger lived on a small
farm near Warsaw. In 1956, when he was 18, he joined the U.S. Army Signal Corp
and was trained on micro-wave repair at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., Signal School
during 1957. Metzger spent two years stationed in Germany near Kaiserslautern
at a micro-wave relay station. During these two years, Metzger traveled
extensively in Europe. Metzger was honorably discharged in late 1959.
Metzger then returned to Warsaw and worked in electronic's service for two
years.
He then traveled to California and went to work for Douglas Aircraft in Santa
Monica, CA. During the five years he worked at Douglas Aircraft, he attended
many anti-communist film showings and meetings during lunch.
During this period, Metzger married and started a family. In 1964, Metzger
became more involved in right-wing politics. He became a campaign worker for
the election on Barry Goldwater during Goldwater's failed election bid against
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Upset with the defeat, Metzger joined the right wing John Birch Society rising
to chapter leader. During this period, 1964-1968, Metzger also worked on the
Ronald Reagan bid for Governor of California.
He left Douglas Aircraft in a labor dispute and went back to consumer
electronic's service work.
In 1968, Metzger and his family moved to Fallbrook, CA, where he opened his own
electronic service business. Metzger continued his John Birch Society
membership from 1968 until 1971. During that period, he also became active
working for the candidacy of Governor George Wallace for president. He joined
the American Independent Party and worked in the Congressman John Schmitz for
president campaign.
Metzger broke with the John Birch Society in 1971 over its soft approach.
Metzger remained active in the American Independent Party rising to the County
Central Committee position and then State Central Committee position. Metzger
broke with the AIP over soft action in 1973-1974.
Metzger joined the National Tax Rebellion in 1972, refusing to pay taxes
because he perceived the Vietnam war to be a farce, with no real intention on
the part of the government to win. During this period, Metzger's home in
Fallbrook was seized and temporarily held by Federal IRS officials.
Subsequently, Metzger got his house back and signed a contract to pay his back
taxes.
During and after these confrontations, Metzger became more radical against the
government itself. He drifted toward racial politics and read many books on the
subject of Jewish international financial control. Metzger met Colonel William
P. Gale, ex-aide to General Douglas MacArthur, and became further radicalized
on the Jewish and racial question.
In 1975, Metzger met David Duke, Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan. Duke convinced Metzger to join forces. Metzger soon became David Duke's
California Grand Dragon. In 1977, Metzger broke with Duke over personal issues
and Metzger formed the California Ku Klux Klan. Metzger became a high profile
Klansman, generating several national media events. Metzger ran for County
Board of Supervisors in San Diego County in 1971, receiving 10,000 votes in a
field of five.
Encouraged by his success in politics, Metzger promoted that klansmen get
involved in politics. Metzger had been David Duke's campaign manager in Duke's
unsuccessful run for State Senate in Louisiana, in 1976. By 1980, Metzger was
well-known nationally. Metzger ran for U.S. Congress in 1980, winning the
Democratic Party nomination with 45,000 votes. During that campaign, Metzger
was involved in a full scale riot in Oceanside, California, when he and his men
were attacked by several Marxists' groups and police, while he attempted to
have a political rally.
Metzger lost the general election as large amounts of Jewish support was
funneled to his opponent. Plus, white economic king pin attacks.
At the end of this campaign, he dismantled the KKK of California and created
the White American Political Association. In 1982, Metzger ran for U.S. Senate
against a field of seven, including Jerry Brown and writer Gore Vidal. He
received 75,000 votes, but failed to win nomination of the Democratic Party.
In 1983, Metzger changed the name of the group to White Aryan Resistance. In
1984, Metzger began production of his national television program, Race and
Reason, which continues in production today. Race and Reason is playing in 11
states.
Metzger was called before several local and federal grand juries during the
80s. Metzger always refused to answer any questions.
Metzger supported the ideas of the militant and sometimes violent Silent
Brotherhood, who had a short but significant anti-system spree, robbing armored
cars and banks. The Silent Brotherhood also was accused of planning the
assassination of many nationally known anti-Aryans.
Metzger includes many articles by imprisoned political extremists in his WAR
newspaper, which is circulated across North America and in other white nations.
During the late 80s, Metzger befriended the youth from the skinhead movement, a
militant white street movement. Metzger also recruited activists from the
left-wing, including an ex-Trotskyite to edit his paper, along with a feature
writer that was a past leader of the Canadian branch of the I.W.W. Union.
During the 80s, Metzger also began moving further away from the conservative
right-wing.
Metzger broke with the Christians during this period, moving toward a nature
view and condemning Judeo Christianity.
In the early 90s, Metzger has been viewed as one of the countries most
dangerous competitors to the Washington criminals and Third World immigration.
Metzger was sued in a civil sham trial in Portland, Oregon for the wrongful
death of a Portland Ethiopian. He was unable to hire lawyers and lost the case
while he and his son, John, fought desperately, pleading their own case.
Metzger has appealed this case. Both the Oregon Supreme Court and the United
States Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.
In Los Angeles, Metzger fought an eight year struggle in court from a 1983
cross lighting case. He was convicted in 1991, of illegal assembly and was
sentenced to six months in L.A. County jail and was given a $100,000 bail.
Metzger served 46 days and was released to be with his dying wife, Kathleen, in
February of 1992. Two weeks after his release, Kathleen Metzger died of lung
cancer.
Metzger has six children, five girls and one boy.
Metzger's house and business were seized by the Southern Poverty Law Center and
the Anti-Defamation League in the Portland case.
Metzger continues to fight in courts around California. He openly supports
militant racial separatism, publishes his newspaper, produces his television
show and appears on national television programs, promoting his goals.
His enemies and organized Jewry continue to harass Metzger at every turn.
Metzger maintains race, population and environment will be the key issues of
the coming century.
In the face of severe persecution, the Metzgers have continued to publish their
newspaper entitled, WAR, to produce their television show, Race and Reason,
which is now in its eleventh year of production.
Since the mid 70s, Metzger has had sporadic contact with the Nation of Islam.
Metzger was the guest of Minister Farrakhan at the Forum in Inglewood,
California in 1985. In 1993, Metzger was the guest speaker at the Black Panther
Convention in Dallas, Texas. The leader of the Black Panthers is Michael McGee
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Also in 1993, Metzger met with a pan- African group
Pan-African Independent Nation (PAIN), in Florida. Metzger has recently
endorsed the International Separatist Front, made up of spokesmen of various
racial and national groups. Metzger has allied with the International
Separatist Front of Florida and now carries on dialogue when possible with
separatist causes worldwide.
Metzger's most recent move was a trip to Tokyo, Japan, where he addressed Army
officers, immigration officials, police officers and businessmen during a two
day seminar. Metzger has promoted a Leaderless Resistance program along with a
networking process as opposed to rigid organizational structure. This and other
positions have furthered alienated Metzger from the racial conservative
right-wing.
Metzger's son John was deported from Germany in early 1994 for "being a risk to
the German government and German citizens." (Tom and John Metzger have also
been refused entry forever from Canada because they "are more than likely to
commit an indictable offense.")
Metzger is widely known in many countries around the world and continues in his
struggle for racial separation, along with his desire to punish the Washington
criminals.
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White Aryan Resistance PO Box 65 Fallbrook, CA 92088 (619) 723- 8996
metzger@cts.com
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