And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:25:19 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: heads up >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 > >Sunday December 20 12:15 PM ET > >White Supremacists Get Cash Boost >AP Photo > >By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer > >SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) - Two former California businessmen are pouring >dollars into the often cash-strapped white supremacist movement, >allowing it to reach out to thousands of households in northern Idaho. > >Vincent Bertollini and Carl Story, who grew wealthy in California's >computer industry, financed the mailing of racist and anti-Semitic >posters and videos to some 3,000 homes this fall. > >Human-rights activists are alarmed at the infusion of money into the >movement and say they are scrambling to counter the mailings. > >Bertollini and Story have adamantly refused interviews. > >``Our message speaks for itself,'' Bertollini wrote in an e-mail >response to an interview request. ``We do not grant interviews.'' > >Their message is a stew of quasi-biblical prose that attacks Jews and >contends that ``Jesus said they were murderers and liars from the >beginning.'' > >Calling themselves The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, the two men paid to >create and mail the glossy, 6-foot-long by 3-foot-wide poster with >colorful artwork that purports to show ``The Adamic Race Pure Blood >Seedline.'' > >The poster asserts that nonwhites are the product of sexual relations >between Eve and Satan, who begat Cain, ``a hybrid, mongrel, bastard and >soul-less child.'' > >It is the posters' quality as much as their message that alarms human >rights groups. According to Bertollini, the posters cost $9.45 each to >print and mail. By comparison, Kinko's in Spokane charges 80 cents a >piece for 3,000 copies of a four-page color brochure. > >``The difference is they've got money,'' said Bill Wassmuth, director of >the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment. ``That enables >them to extend their message on a broader range.'' > >The Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Ala., which monitors hate >groups across the country, expressed surprise at the quality and >sophistication of the mailings. The center had never heard of the two >men, said researcher Mark Potok. > >``The problem of the white supremacist movement for decades has been >financing,'' Potok said. It took Timothy McVeigh half a year to raise >the $10,000 to buy the materials for the Oklahoma City bomb, he said. > >The emergence of Bertollini and Story, and their money, is ``terribly >important,'' Potok said. > >The Remnant Messenger also paid for the recent production of a video >mailed to Sandpoint homes showing Richard Butler, founder of Aryan >Nations, explaining his views. > >Additionally, Aryan Nations handed out copies of Remnant Messenger's >poster at its parade through downtown Coeur d'Alene last summer and sent >thousands more copies to people on its mailing list. > >Northern Idaho has long been hospitable to white supremacist groups, >with Aryan Nations headquartered in Hayden and the anti-government >Militia of Montana based in Noxon, Mont., just across the border from >Sandpoint. It counts several active congregations of Christian Identity, >a white supremacist religion that considers white people the true >Israelites and superior to Jews and nonwhites. > >The region was also home to Randy Weaver, the white separatist whose >wife and 14-year-old son were killed in an 11-day standoff with the FBI >at Weaver's remote cabin in Ruby Ridge in 1992. > >Bertollini, 59, and Story, 65, friends for 30 years, moved to Sandpoint >in 1995. Despite their reluctance to speak with reporters, the two men >have hardly kept low profiles in this lakeside tourist town of 5,200 >people. They live in large homes in posh neighborhoods and are known to >dine out often, frequently leaving $100 tips for waitresses. > >Public records show Bertollini has performed at least one wedding in >Bonner County as a lay minister for the Remnant Messenger. > >The Spokesman-Review newspaper of Spokane, which has reported >extensively on the two men's activities, says they used engineering and >marketing skills to help build two California computer chip companies - >I.I. Industries of Cupertino, since absorbed by other firms, and Silicon >Valley Group -into multimillion-dollar concerns. They formed The 11th >Hour Remnant Messenger in 1990. > >Gretchen Albrecht-Hellar, leader of the Bonner County Human Rights Task >Force, said she was alarmed by the recent poster mailing and worried >that the concentration of white supremacists in Idaho was serving as a >magnet for others of like minds. > >The task force charges just $1 for lifetime dues and cannot compete with >the money behind Remnant Messenger, she said. > >The Rev. Paul Graves, a Sandpoint city councilman, is organizing a >January protest by area ministers. > >``They're a flat-out distortion of scriptural record,'' Graves said of >the posters. ``They totally distort Christianity.'' > >Bertollini was a surprise visitor at a recent meeting rally called by >Sandpoint residents disturbed by the mailings. The only person in the >crowd wearing a suit and tie, Bertollini arrived in the company of >Richard Butler. > >A Spokesman-Review reporter was covering the meeting and recorded the >exchange with the press-shy Bertollini. > >``Is there anything in our literature that says anything about hate?'' >Bertollini asked the crowd. ``No. It just says we white people are >different. > >``Our intent is to bring truth to a world that believes a lie. It's a >burden, a burden on my heart, and it's Carl Story's burden, too.'' > >Nonwhites ``have a special place on this planet,'' but white people >``are caretakers of the world,'' he told the reporter. ``Don't you see >that? Isn't that simple? Isn't it obvious?'' > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." 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