Former leader of the National Alliance, at one time the largest hate group in the United States, now a PPC activist in Ontario.

I'm not sure I can articulate how big a deal this is. The National Alliance was founded by William Pierce and under his leadership became the largest hate group in the United States. He is also infamous for having written The Turner Diaries which depicts a violent revolution in the United States which ultimately leads to the extermination of non-white and Jewish Americans; ultimately the genocide of non-Europeans and Jews is extended worldwide by the new racist American government. This novel was used by the terrorist group The Order, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and a host of others who have used the novel as inspiration for their murders.

After Pierce's death the National Alliance began to collapse. Erich Gliebe would succeed Pierce and after his resignation Shaun Walker briefly assumed leadership in part as a result of Kevin Strom's efforts to take over the group (Strom would later be convicted on child pornography charges):

In June of 2006, however, Walker's past caught up with him. He was arrested on federal civil rights charges for allegedly leading a series of organized attacks on Mexicans and Native Americans in Salt Lake City bars in 2002 and 2003. The conditions of his pre-trial release prohibited Walker from having any contact with past or present members of the National Alliance, forcing him to resign as chairman and hand the reins back to Gliebe. Walker and two co-defendants, Travis Massey, the former Utah spokesman for the Alliance, and Eric Egbert, were convicted in April 2007 of conspiracy to interfere with the civil rights of individuals based on their race. On Aug. 13, 2007, Walker was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison. He later won a sentence reduction and was released on Nov. 27, 2009.

Walker now appears to be living in Ontario and is a member of the Peoples' Party of Canada led Max Bernier.

Thank you to Atlanta Antifascists for all the hard work they did digging up this information:

(THREAD) Shaun Walker once led the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization.

In 2006, Walker & associates were arrested for racially-motivated attacks in Salt Lake City.

We've traced Walker to Ontario, Canada, where he's a grassroots activist w/ the People's Party of Canada. pic.twitter.com/Rb4nl2QhjC

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

Article on Walker's hate crime conviction in 2007.https://t.co/yctrJFxQnS

In 2009, Walker's sentence was reduced following an appeal. https://t.co/LTQ1dXLR7D

Walker was released later that year.

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

If you've been looking at our Twitter recently, you've probably seen something about Chester Doles, a white supremacist in north Georgia who used to lead the National Alliance for our state.

Doles is organizing a far-Right rally in Dahlonega, GA, Sept.14.https://t.co/s4tVMdcaT6

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

On Facebook, Chester Doles makes a special appeal to "Shawn W" to attend the Dahlonega rally, writing on August 3rd: "I need you to stand with me [...] join me old friend."

(Of course, this does not mean Walker will actually make the trip to Georgia.) pic.twitter.com/tncRVyDkgU

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

Shaun Walker describes his background image on FB as "a vineyard in Vineland, Ontario, near Niagara Falls".

Facebook "likes" include Martin Cox, a neo-Nazi rock musician. One of Martin Cox's bands released music on Resistance Records in 2006 - a label owned by National Alliance. pic.twitter.com/3Up3cuwSpZ

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

None of this would matter if Shaun Walker had left the white power movement.

However, Walker broadcasts his worldview on Twitter, where he rails against immigrants, promotes the myth of white "genocide" in South Africa, and supports the white nationalist "Identitarian" movement. pic.twitter.com/GS3xF7PDfZ

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

Online databases show that Shaun Alan Walker - the ex-National Alliance leader - lived in Napa, California as well as Salt Lake City UT and in West Virginia near the National Alliance headquarters. Napa CA is known for its vineyards.

This matches Walkers' statements on Twitter pic.twitter.com/0DJz2QmabM

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

Recently, Shaun Walker has been active in with the People's Party of Canada, a Right-wing populist party with anti-immigrant stances. Walker helped establish the local Party group for the PPC in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Do they know Walker's history as violent neo-Nazi leader? pic.twitter.com/aN5HhSrWQn

— Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) August 29, 2019

UPDATES 1:

the person he's responding to in the second image is Leigh Stuart, who got booted from the PPC for posting neo-nazi imagery on fb. she also harassed refugees with 2 other white nationalists last year: https://t.co/RJJpxbG431

— Bob Nesta Makhno 🌈🔥🏴 (@GilletteMachNo) August 29, 2019

More. I checked out Shaun Walker's profile using one of my socks. He and my sock have a mutual friend in the late Ingrid Zundel (nee Rimland), wife of holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. pic.twitter.com/teyzi9ggyO

— (((Anti-Racist Canada))) 🧛‍♂️ (@ARCCollective) August 29, 2019

UPDATE 2: Looks like he preemptively blocked the ARC Twitter account.

The question is whether he did it after I tweeted the story or prior to it being published which would suggest he wanted to stay out of ARC's sights?

"Alt-Right" and Overt Racist Misogynists Focus Attention On Lauren Southern

Something that has become clear during my 10 years of running ARC as well as the decade of work preceding the blog is that most of the racists I've come across hate women as much as they hate any non-white ethnic group, Jew, or Muslim as per the following rather disgusting example:

This shouldn't be a surprise. The racist movement has historically been dominated by men who view women even of the same ethnicity not as their equals but at best as baby factories. Relatively few women seem to enter into this world which further supports the jaded view of these men that "white women" are morally weak and easily led astray by cultural trends. Of those few women who do enter this world, many if not most soon become disillusioned by the hypocrisy, rampant sexual violence, and toxic social environment fostered by the movement. The mindset of many men, frustrated by their inability to find sexual partners, might be understood in the context of the novel KD Rebel written by convicted murderer and terrorist David Lane. The novel is for all intents and purposes an extended rape fantasy in which the heroes kidnap women from urban centers, divide them among themselves, and sexually assault them until they accept their fate as wives and incubators of the new order while their "husbands" engage in a campaign of genocidal terror.

ARC has written about this many times in the past including one article that examined the phenomena from both an historical and contemporary perspective  (we also had a guest author who came at the issue from a sociological point-of-view). A frequent example of the "white nationalist" mind regarding women found on ARC has been VNN mainstay and London, Ontario resident Tomasz Winnicki:

In recent years the racist movement has made an effort to rebrand itself as "alt-right." Those alt-right supporters linked to.... let's say 4Chan are also notoriously misogynistic as well (see Gamergate controversy as an example), however some members of this subgroup of bigots are often more adept at using social media and cultural touchstones. They couch their hatred in appeals to nationalism and tradition. The movement is also notoriously anti-feminist. Still, that anti-feminism has counter-intuitively attracted some women who have become quite prominent figures in the alt-right:

Lauren Southern, formerly of Ezra Levant's "Rebel Media," has been a bit of a darling of the alt-right due to youth and attractiveness, her attacks on feminism, and her support of ultra-conservative traditionalism; she has amassed a considerable following. Her appeal has crossed over into the more overt racists on Stormfront and even the even more racist VNN:

However she and other female alt-right personalities have come to shockingly learn that their male alt-right anti-feminist admirers are misogynistic assholes who thought it was all cute that these women were speaking out in support of their retrogressive values, but now it is time for them to shut up, marry good white men, and start pumping out the babies:

• Alt-Right Women Want To Be Equal To Alt-Right Men & That’s … Feminism
• 'Alt-Right' women are sick of sexism from 'Alt-Right' men
• "Alt-right" women discover that bitter racists are also sexist jerks

One of those "alt-right" men attacking their female alt-right counterparts is rape advocate Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh who's trip to Canada went rather poorly, though Ezra (as it turns out ironically) engaged in a softball interview with him.

It's All Over But the Crying: Lemire Loses Appeal

We at ARC believe in serendipity.

Earlier today, a new friend who's interest in the history of the far right perhaps surpasses out own sent us a link to this document:

The above Masters thesis, published in December of 1997, focuses on the Canadian racist right's use of the Internet in the 1990s. And featured prominently within the text is Marc Lemire, the Freedom-Site, and some earlier projects of Lemire's (such as The Canadian Patriots Network):

 

 

 

 

Even as early as 1997, those who were studying the racist movement in Canada noted some disturbing documents on the Freedom-Site:

One of those documents was written by Kevin Strom, a leader in the virulently racist National Alliance:

 

Nearly eight years later, this particular document resulted in a protracted legal struggle before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the Federal Court, and most recently the Federal Court of Appeals lasting an additional nine (roughly) years.

Today, it would appear that it is now all over.

Paul Fromm's Support For a Cause Makes His Friendship With Kevin Strom a Bit Awkward

Paul Fromm and Kevin Strom with other notables in the, "White
Nationalist" Movement. Would hate to be Nick Griffin. Who
Knows what Strom had been doing with that hand
earlier in the day?

Paul Fromm has known and worked with Kevin Strom, formerly of the National Alliance before he abandoned the racist group to form his own, the National Vanguard, for many years. For example, in 2004 both of them signed on to David Duke's New Orleans Protocol which attempted to mend the rifts that existed between, "White Nationalist" groups and aimed create a climate in which the various groups could work together for the common cause (how's that working out for you fellas, by the way?).

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that when Strom joined Facebook, one of the first he added as a friend was Paulie:

Paulie's Continual Cry For Attention. This Time Versus Tim Horton's

You all know the story of David and Goliath. It's a very rare situation where one would cheer for Goliath to crush David, but such is the case in Paulie's latest futile efforts.

If any of our dear readers have been watching Canadian television during the past 2 months, they would recognize this description of a recent Tim Horton's commercial. In it, two couples are driving to a vacation spot, but before they head off, the two men make plans that if they lose contact with each other, they will meet up at the next Tim Horton's they come to. Early on in the trip, and even though the two are clearly in each other's sights, the two pretend to lose contact with each other as an excuse to stop at Tim Horton's (hmmm, with the number of times we've mentioned them in this brief description, we feel they should send us money for promoting them).

In short, it's a standard, non-controversial, and quite frankly lazy and predictable commercial from the iconic Canadian coffee shop. Unless you're Paul Fromm (pictured to the left wearing a Black Sun t-shirt... not even trying anymore, eh Paulie?) who sees it as a nefarious plot to promote miscegenation:

Hey, We Appreciate the Honesty

Paul Fromm and his ilk often claim that they favor total freedom of speech (meaning the freedom to disseminate hate, but we shan't split hairs) as a rationale for why they oppose Sec. 13 as well as the "hate speech" provisions in the criminal code. He and his fellow travellers claim that a country administered by their values, among other things, would enshrine complete freedom of speech in the law for all white Canadians (the non-white Canadians having presumably been asked politely to leave Canada some time before).

And then you get what they honestly believe, as stated by John Marleau:

Revisionism: It Ain't Just For the Holocaust

Any new photos of Paulie, you ask? Take a gander at this one:

Why, oh why, do you make this so easy for us Paulie?

Now while we might think that this is yet another picture of Paulie trying, and failing, to pull off the rugged outdoors man look, he does have a new friend who thinks he embodies all the mythic hero of a Joseph Campbell archetype:

Well, Kevin Strom, formerly of the National Alliance and, after a huge falling out with the new leadership of the NA soon after the death of William Pierce founded National Vanguard, isn't exactly a new friend of Paulie as they have a pretty long history. And we actually are less interested in making fun of Paulie than we are addressing some revisionist comments made by both, er.... men.

Still More Neo-Nazi Infighting

Last night we were scrolling through our blog, reading old articles and reminiscing about the work we've done thus far when we came across this poignant and powerful image depicting what was then the blossoming of a beautiful friendship:


Oh, those were such heady days in the lives of Kyle McKee and Dustyn Johnson, and such an unusual friendship, what with McKee looking like Gollum and Johnson one of the orcs. But the world was, for a short time, their oyster. A rancid, sickly oyster, but a shellfish of some sort nonetheless.

But sadly, it couldn't last. Too bad. Johnson could have been Spike to McKee's Chester.

Hardy to his Laurel.

Blaster to his Master.

Now, they simply resort to sniping at each other impudently online, such as when McKee, "talks smack" (the kids still say that, right?) about Johnson on Josh Steever's Facebook profile:

Paul Fromm and His Neo-Nazi Body Guards

Earlier this week (September 21) in Kennsington, Maryland, a meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens took place. For a brief background on this hate group in suits:

Roots in Jim Crow

The roots of the CCC rest in white opposition to integration during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The group is a successor to the Citizens' Councils of America (originally configured as the White Citizens' Councils), an overtly racist organization formed in the 1950s in reaction to the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing school segregation. Trumpeting the "Southern way of life," the CCA used a traditionalist rhetoric that appealed to better-mannered, more discreet racists; while the Klan burned crosses, the CCA relied on political and economic pressure. 

You'll notice when you click on the link that one of the extremists associated with the CoCC is none other than Canada's own Paul Fromm. Guess who was one of the keynote speakers?

Paulie did have a welcoming committee. A number of anti-racists protested his presence and the CoCC meeting itself. Our friends with the One Peoples' Project and Lady Liberty's Lamp covered the story (there is also a video included with the article):