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Thread ID: 10793 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-10-28
2003-10-28 07:27 | User Profile
Race-hate extremist faked conversion to fool talk shows Burhan Wazir Observer Sunday October 7, 2001
The founding member of the Aryan Youth Movement - America's leading racist group - who has famously denounced the organisation for the past 14 years, now says his defection was part of a plan to infiltrate race rights organisations throughout the country. Greg Withrow came to prominence in America's right-wing movement in the Eighties. In a speech at the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, in 1986, Withrow cemented his future as America's leading race-hate firebrand, calling for the 'total extermination of all subhuman, non-Aryan peoples from the face of the North American continent: men, women and children, without exception or appeal.' The following year, however, Withrow abruptly turned his back on the Aryan Youth Movement. Interviewed in May 1987, he said he was writing an exposé of the white-supremacy movement. He said he had fallen in love with a woman named Sylvia who had shown him the error of his ways. Withrow's denunciation provoked astonished fury from his previous followers. In July 1987, he was beaten up by a gang of white racists armed with baseball bats. One month later, he was crucified with nails driven through his hands in an empty parking lot. He now says the latter attack was staged to win him public sympathy. A repentant Withrow was reclaimed as a liberal champion, appearing on talk shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Phil Donahue and Jenny Jones. He was a key witness to the Commission on the Prevention of Hate Violence in Los Angeles in 1991. And in 1994, he married MarÃÂa RodrÃÂguez - a woman of Mexican origin. As recently as October last year, Withrow was receiving glowing endorsements from anti-racist groups. Discussing Child of the Fourth Reich, Withrow's forthcoming book, Richard G. Hirschhaut, the regional director for the San Francisco office of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote: 'The autobiography of Greg Withrow is a literary catharsis of a tormented soul. Moreover, Child of the Fourth Reich is a document of our times - the dark side of a demi-monde that few realise even exists. It is a riveting account of one person's passage through the subterranean milieu of paranoia and hatred and his ultimate redemption through love.' More recently, actor Woody Harrelson's production company touted a Withrow biopic - even contacting Sean Penn as a possible lead. Withrow now says his 13-year spell as a reformed neo-Nazi was a ruse - conceived to infiltrate the government and America's race organisations for information gathering purposes. And last August he filed a lawsuit in California, proposing that all hate crime laws be dismantled: the lawsuit further proposes compensation of $1 million for whites accused of racist crimes. To ensure himself maximum publicity, Withrow has appended the lawsuit with 68 pages of accusations and repudiations connected to his 14-year life as a 'mole'. 'The basic question was this,' he says. 'Could the greatest democracy on earth be fooled? Its Senate, its judiciary, its talk-show hosts, its greatest minds and philosophers and what not - could they be fooled with a board, two nails and a hammer? And if so, could this have been done 2,000 years ago in a more primitive society by a Jew? And so the question is answered: "Yes". I was a mole for the white Aryans, the cause of revolution.' Born in 1961, Withrow attended American River College in the Seventies, where he founded the White Student Union in 1979. The group later mushroomed into the skinhead Aryan Youth Movement - an organisation that eventually replaced old-guard organisations like the Ku Klux Klan. 'My father was a racist,' he says. 'He preferred me never to mention Jews or non-whites. He also taught me the art of survival - I remember he once gave me a knife and told me to attack the family bull terrier. I was to injure it or he would set the dog on to me.' His marriage to Rodriguez lasted six years. It provided him with the perfect platform to infiltrate minority groups: 'The marriage got me into places that they otherwise wouldn't let me go. I had as much feelings for her as you do for undocumented workers; as much feelings for her as one would have a dog, maybe less. More like feelings toward her as a slave.'
[url]http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,564719,00.html[/url]
2003-10-28 08:26 | User Profile
Let's call this a touch down for U.S. Salute!
2003-10-30 00:56 | User Profile
This guy is just a nut job, like most people in the "movement."
2003-10-30 04:34 | User Profile
W.R.I.T.O.S,
I always thought he was a nut job. :wacko:
I hope none of these so-called "racist" groups are so stupid as to let him back in!
[QUOTE]This guy is just a nut job, like most people in the "movement."[/QUOTE]
2003-10-30 05:12 | User Profile
The fact that he's been identified as a turncoat makes him a failure. We'll never hear about the real successes, and it should be that way.
2003-10-30 07:54 | User Profile
I remember reading about him when he turned traitor, but the story posted here was the first I ever heard of it.. I don't have TV cable or sat, just a TV for classic movie's like the "The Birth Of A Nation" etc., but I subscribe to A.R. and read NNN, maybe I forgot it.. Has any one read the book "100 Little Hitler's", yet? As long as treason rule's U.S. MO and Abe will not be arrested and tried for treason to U.S. and Western civilization... The arrest of Zundel, Dole's and other's is a warning from the lawless thug's who control U.S., as it is a given the the Bill of Right's are history now... The Media, must be in our hand's to end to the lie's and treason.....
2003-10-30 19:22 | User Profile
Infiltrating other groups is something I'd love to do, but... you don't tell people about it. What a goof.
2003-10-30 19:28 | User Profile
Who in their right mind would trust someone who "converts" from one side to the other practically overnight? Now, of course, neither side will trust him. He can still make a living doing the talk show curcut, I suppose.
2003-11-01 17:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Rumblestrip]Who in their right mind would trust someone who "converts" from one side to the other practically overnight? Now, of course, neither side will trust him. He can still make a living doing the talk show curcut, I suppose.[/QUOTE]
There is no doubt that the guy is nuts and propably publicity hungry, so his story is to be regarded with deep suspicion. Any real infiltrator would not blow his cover as long as possible, while passing the useful information to people who could take advantage of it. On the other side, I kind of like the idea of infiltrating the ZOG institutions and the 'anti-racist' groups. They are doing it to us all the time, so why not, for once, turn the table on them?