White Aryan Resistance
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The White Aryan Resistance is a white supremacist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader Tom Metzger. It is based in California, USA. The group was originally known as the White American Political Association or WAPA, but was changed briefly to the White American Resistance, and later American was changed to Aryan. They hold views which are self-described as racist, as seen in their website sections "Racist Jokes" and "Racist Videos," and in the tagline for their newspaper The Insurgent, as "the most racist newspaper on earth."
Like many other other white supremacist and nationalist groups, WAR has a restricted definition of "white", which includes only non-Jewish Europeans and people of European descent. They view whites as genetically superior to other races.
WAR has general policies on what its members should do. WAR promotes the strategy of leaderless resistance, or "Lone Wolf" activism. WAR does extensive prison organizing and, unlike the KKK, does not claim to be a Christian organization, condemning Christianity as a form of Judaism.
Legal and financial problems
The WAR organization was effectively bankrupted as the result of a civil lawsuit resulting from WAR's involvement in the death of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college. In 1988, Seraw was murdered by racist skinheads, who were convicted of the crime and sent to prison. Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a civil suit against Metzger, arguing that WAR influenced Seraw's murderers by encouraging the group East Side White Pride to commit violence. The jury returned the largest civil verdict in Oregon history at the time — $12.5 million against Metzger and WAR.See also
External links
- [WAR official website]
- [Nikzor page] An anti-Nazi group.
- [Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance (WAR)] ADL page
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