White Supremacist Sentenced to 40 Years
Matt Hale, a white supremacist from the group World Church of the Creator, was sentenced to 40 years today in the plot to kill a judge, according to the The New York Times. Hale wanted to the judge dead after an unfavorable ruling in a copyright case over the use of the name of his organization.
What the article in the New York Times doesn't discuss is the ideology of the group, and how effectively they've translated themselves onto the internet. The WCOTC preaches a gospel of white racial superiority and purity from all 'race mixing.' Nothing much new or different there from other white supremacist organizations. The unique twist of WCOTC and one that gets it tax-free status from the U.S. government is its claim that 'the white race' is their 'religion.'
Nowhere near the first white supermacist site on the web, the WCOTC website has the distinction of being the one most frequently out-of-the-business of racist hate mongering on the web, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center, who have effectively shut them down a number of times.
It will be interesting to see what the incarceration of Matt Hale does to the group he leads. My prediction is that it won't slow them down initially, and may even galvanize them for awhile. Over the long term, however, it's got to hurt them.
For more on the history of the World Church of the Creator go here.
What the article in the New York Times doesn't discuss is the ideology of the group, and how effectively they've translated themselves onto the internet. The WCOTC preaches a gospel of white racial superiority and purity from all 'race mixing.' Nothing much new or different there from other white supremacist organizations. The unique twist of WCOTC and one that gets it tax-free status from the U.S. government is its claim that 'the white race' is their 'religion.'
Nowhere near the first white supermacist site on the web, the WCOTC website has the distinction of being the one most frequently out-of-the-business of racist hate mongering on the web, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center, who have effectively shut them down a number of times.
It will be interesting to see what the incarceration of Matt Hale does to the group he leads. My prediction is that it won't slow them down initially, and may even galvanize them for awhile. Over the long term, however, it's got to hurt them.
For more on the history of the World Church of the Creator go here.
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3:14 PM
