tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26665892569715464812024-03-19T05:42:45.195-07:00WHITE PRISON GANGSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-32335159946198526902010-04-20T14:01:00.001-07:002012-06-15T13:45:55.681-07:00ARYAN BROTHERHOOD OF TEXAS<div style="text-align: center;">
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The ABT was founded in the early 1980s when a group of white Texas inmates petitioned the California Aryan Brotherhood for permission to establish a chapter in Texas. Although the California Aryan Brotherhood refused the request, the Texas inmates still formed the ABT.<br />
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Since its founding, the ABT has made several attempts to change its name or hide behind the umbrella of a religious organization, such as the Aryan Reich or the Church of Aryan Christian Heritage. Although the gang experienced severe internal problems and a high dropout rate shortly after these unsuccessful attempts, ABT still remains a formidable group in and out of the Texas prison system.<br />
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The ABT is led by a steering committee comprised of five offenders, each of whom is responsible for a specific geographic area and maintains control of the group’s activity in and out of the prison system. The steering committee is also responsible for making all rules and regulations for the organization.<br />
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Although the ABT uses “Aryan Brotherhood”in its name, it is not associated with prison gangs in other state and federal correctional facilities that use the same name. It is considered a Texas prison gang and uses the words “of Texas” to distinguish itself from other similar groups. It should be noted that ABT members are incarcerated in various state and federal prisons.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4No_kuWa_4hpClh8FsnqEQNCU4-1FduQirSI61xHkNcPHVb1pGMpE4_cylJzva-wVS0AoTXrfNNoTjIVwhz1QOLs7LTD2Z1zc94DPYhraF61sqobMxr9YNWF5cH_oCpTX08UBEk0AyC38/s800/texas-ab-2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4No_kuWa_4hpClh8FsnqEQNCU4-1FduQirSI61xHkNcPHVb1pGMpE4_cylJzva-wVS0AoTXrfNNoTjIVwhz1QOLs7LTD2Z1zc94DPYhraF61sqobMxr9YNWF5cH_oCpTX08UBEk0AyC38/s800/texas-ab-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 348px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABT uses a modified version of the <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html">Aryan Nations</a> logo</span></div>
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Tattoos<br />
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The ABT insignia or tattoo depicts a shield with a Nordic dagger running through it, the letters “A” and “B” over the top of the shield, and the words “of Texas” located under the shield. All members are given the choice to put on the tattoo or not. Many have chosen to hide or disguise their tattoos in an effort to thwart detection by correctional and law enforcement agencies.<br />
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See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html" style="font-weight: bold;">AB members & associates</a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong></strong></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Silverstein</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong>Aryan Nations</strong></a>
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<em>From The Houston Chronicle:</em><br />
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang is the “most violent extremist group in the United States, contends the Anti-Defamation League, which has studied and tracked the group for years.<br />
The ADL published its findings Wednesday in a blog posting. It says in part:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCPXUx3Xeu4AAWL8rloBEYVGDShaR-dZ1h2XfibeM1ILsn-CyWcAG3sGEdRASJqDxvHRsgyM7ogdsI28IYQRlZdDxNipvGApWqf393kPbwi4lv40Ujtf4QevndYcXo6UlmekfTo8Pg1ZI/s1600/ARYAN.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCPXUx3Xeu4AAWL8rloBEYVGDShaR-dZ1h2XfibeM1ILsn-CyWcAG3sGEdRASJqDxvHRsgyM7ogdsI28IYQRlZdDxNipvGApWqf393kPbwi4lv40Ujtf4QevndYcXo6UlmekfTo8Pg1ZI/s200/ARYAN.png" width="163" /></a><em>“What’s the most violent extremist group in the United States today? The answer may be surprising: it is the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), one of the largest white supremacist prison gangs in the country. According to ADL records, since 2000, this racist group—which has no relationship to the older, “original” Aryan Brotherhood—has killed more Americans than any other domestic extremist group.</em><br />
<em>Since 2000, ABT members and associates have committed at least 29 murders in the United States, all in Texas or neighboring states. The true number is likely considerably higher, as most murders that occur behind prison walls do not get reported by the media. The 29 known killings are all “street” killings, more evidence of the growing presence of racist prison gangs on the streets of America.”</em></blockquote>
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The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is a prison-born gang that formed in the 1980s, and based in part on the Aryan Brotherhood.<br />
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A piece published earlier this week in the Houston Chronicle looked at an ongoing law-enforcement probe that has put more than 60 of the gangs members in state or federal prison and continues.<br />
The allegations described in numerous court documents and records, which were used to prosecute the gang’s members, including ranking generals, describe an organization where betrayal can bring an order they be killed. The most recent killings do overwhelmingly seem to be kept to the gang’s inner circle and not draw in civilians.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Clayton Anthony Fountain </span>(1955 -- 2004) was born into a military family at Fort Benning, GA. As a young man he himself entered the armed services. While stationed in the Philippines in the 1970’s Clayton murdered his immediate military superior, for which he was incarcerated and consigned to the Federal Penitentiary at Marion, IL. While at Marion, Clayton murdered three prisoners and one guard. These acts merited Clayton's designation as “<span style="font-style: italic;">Most Dangerous Prisoner</span>” in the federal system.<br />
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In 1983 Clayton was moved to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. There, he was confined in a “Special Housing Unit” (SHU) where he lived for over twenty years in virtual isolation from everyone except for specially authorized personnel. In 2004, Fountain died of a heart attack.<br />
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See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html" style="font-weight: bold;">AB members & associates</a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong></strong></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Silverstein</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/officer-hoffman-usp-marion.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Officer Hoffman</span></a> was murdered by prisoner Clay Fountain. Fountain managed to slip off his handcuffs and stab one of the three officers escorting him back to his cell. The other two officers rushed in. One of these officers was injured and the other, Officer Hoffman, was killed attempting to protect his fallen comrade. Following this unprovoked, brutal stabbing, inmate Fountain waved his arms in a victory expression as he walked down the cell ranges in front of other inmates. This inmate was serving a life sentence for the murder of a staff sergeant while in the United States Marines. He had repeatedly engaged in extremely violent acts, including the murders of inmates in 1979, 1981, and 1982. He was serving three life sentences at the time he murdered Officer Hoffman......<br />
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"Inmates were frequently killing each other not because of any actual slight but because of the color of their skin. In one incident, Silverstein and an A.B. associate, Clayton Fountain, who, according to a friend, was eager to "make his bones," stabbed a leader of the rival gang D.C. Blacks sixty-seven times in the shower, then dragged his bloody corpse through the tiers while other white inmates chanted racial slurs. After Silverstein was charged with murdering another inmate, he boasted in court, "I have walked over dead bodies. I've had guts splattered all over my chest from race wars."<br />
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On a Saturday morning in the fall of 1983, at Marion federal prison, in southern Illinois, <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Silverstein</a> waited for guards to take him for a routine shower. Marion, which is about a hundred miles southeast of St. Louis, was opened in 1963, the year that Alcatraz closed, and was designed to cope with the profusion of violent gang members--in particular, men like Silverstein, who by then had been convicted of murdering three inmates and had earned the nickname Terrible Tom (as he often signed his letters, with looping strokes).<br />
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Before taking Silverstein to the bathroom, the guards frisked him, to make sure he hadn't fashioned any weapons. (He often had pens and other sketching tools for his art work.) They also shackled his wrists. Three guards surrounded him, one of whom was a hard-nosed, nineteen-year veteran with military-style gray hair named Merle Clutts. Clutts, who was to retire in a few months, was perhaps the only guard in the unit who didn't fear Silverstein; he once reportedly told him, "Hey, I'm running this *beep* You ain't running it."<br />
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As the guards escorted Silverstein through the prison, he paused outside the cell of another gang member--who, as planned, suddenly reached between the bars and, with a handcuff key, unlocked Silverstein's shackles. Silverstein pulled a nearly foot-long knife from his conspirator's waistband. "This is between me and Clutts," Silverstein hollered as he rushed toward him.<br />
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One of the other guards screamed, "He's got a shank!" But Clutts was already cornered, without a weapon. He raised his hands while Silverstein stabbed him in the stomach. "He was just sticking Officer Clutts with that knife," another guard later recalled. "He was just sticking and sticking and sticking." By the time Silverstein relinquished the knife--"The man disrespected me," he told the guards. "I had to get him"--Clutts had been stabbed forty times. He died shortly afterward.<br />
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A few hours later, Clayton Fountain, Silverstein's close friend, was being led through the prison when he paused by another inmate's cell. In an instant, he, too, was free. "You *beep* want a piece of this?" he yelled, waving a blade. He stabbed three more guards. One died in the arms of his son, who also worked in the prison. Fountain reportedly said that he didn't want Silverstein to have a higher body count.<br />
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It was the first time in the history of American federal prisons that two guards had been killed on the same day. "You got to understand," Thompson said. "Here were guys in restraints, locked in the Hole in the most secure prison, and they were still able to get to the guards. It sent a simple message: We can get to you anywhere, anytime."<br />
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"On October 22, 1983, a Marion inmate named Thomas Silverstein managed to shake the federal prison system to its core. Returning to his cell from his weekly shower, handcuffed and escorted by three guards, Silverstein paused outside the H-unit cell of another inmate, Randy Gometz. In the flash of an eye, Gometz reached through the bars, unlocked Silverstein's cuffs with a hidden key and passed him a "shank"--a homemade knife.<br />
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Silverstein broke away from two of his captors and cornered the third, Officer Merle Clutts, who'd been distracted by another prisoner. By the time Silverstein was subdued, Clutts had been fatally wounded, stabbed more than forty times.<br />
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Later that same day, another H-unit inmate, Clay Fountain, performed a similar handcuff trick, killed another guard and stabbed two others. Like Silverstein, Fountain was already serving three life terms for the murders of other inmates. Both men were reputed members of the Aryan Brotherhood, with a pathological hatred of corrections officers; both had virtually nothing to lose. Prison legend has it that Fountain didn't want Silverstein to "get ahead" in the body count.<br />
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The murders triggered a lockdown of the entire prison--a lockdown that, with few modifications, persists to this day. In testimony before Congress and in media interviews, BOP officials still invoke the deaths of the two guards as ample justification for their policies regarding predatory inmates."<br />
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"In one infamous 24-hour period in 1983, two AB lifers escaped their handcuffs and killed two guards in the most secure unit of the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. They did it, most chroniclers of the event agree, for sport as much as spite, simply because they could -- spurring the outcry for a federal supermax that eventually led to the construction of ADX, the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." Yet despite being housed in the bowels of ADX, Mills and Tyler Davis "The Hulk" Bingham have allegedly continued to direct AB activities in other prisons, including the killing of black inmates in Illinois and Pennsylvania during a racially charged turf war in the late 1990s."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Clayton’s religious conversion</span></div>
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Clayton writes: Not long after my placement in the SHU I underwent a five year “trial-by-fire purification” process in which God worked to purge me of the inner ‘poisons’ (that is, hatred, rage, bias, bitterness, revenge, vengeance, violence, and so forth) that I had foolishly permitted to control much of my life so that I not only failed to make responsible choices and decisions for my life, but also ended up in prison. (From a letter to Fr Mark.)<br />
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Clayton’s conversion process resulted in his receiving Catholic baptism and confirmation both on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1992.<br />
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Simultaneous to Clayton’s moral turnaround and religious conversions, he embarked on an intellectual adventure as well. Through correspondence courses, Clayton was granted, first a high school diploma, and later an AA degree (in 1997), and a Bachelor of Specialized Studies (in 2000), the latter two both from The Ohio University. In addition, he was awarded the Catechetical Diploma from the Catholic Distance University in 2001. At the time of his death, Clayton was already enrolled in the Master’s Degree program at CDU with hopes to seek admission to a Doctor of Theology program<br />
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In his Catholic period, Clayton made the acquaintance with our Fr Robert and with Fr Paul Jones, one of our other two Family Brothers. These became Clayton’s spiritual mentors. Through their guidance, Clayton was able to sustain and deepen his conversion. He creatively turned his solitary confinement into a rich and full eremitical life, follow a fairly detailed daily regime of prayer, study, exercise, and work.<br />
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The monks of Assumption Abbey are proud to include Clayton among their members. His life resembles in many ways the most dramatic stories of the early Desert Fathers. One is reminded, too, of the story of St Bernard. Return to Clairvaux after a trip, Bernard came across a murderer being led by the authorities to his execution. Bernard spoke to the captain: “Give him to me, and I will put him to death myself,” referring, of course, to the to sin and conversion to Christ in the Cistercian monastic way of life.<br />
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W. Paul Jones, a Roman Catholic priest and family brother in the Trappist order, here recounts his unlikely relationship with Clayton Fountain, a multiple murderer who was condemned to live out his days in solitary confinement. Fountain’s life and his remarkable religious conversion are the subject of Jones’s gripping new book.<br />
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My new book, <a href="http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=9780802866516" target="_blank">A Different Kind of Cell: The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk</a>, is an attempt to share with as wide a readership as possible the pilgrimage that I was on for years with a man regarded as the most dangerous person in the entire federal prison system, Clayton A. Fountain. Clayton’s downward spiral began in a deadly fight with his sergeant in Vietnam, followed by an escape involving a SWAT team and incarceration at Leavenworth prison. In the book I describe how, despite heightened security in each new prison, this man only became increasingly incorrigible — until, even in solitary confinement in the highest security prison of the nation, he killed four more persons in succession. By that time prison authorities had more than enough and declared him totally beyond their ability to control. They constructed an underground steel and concrete cell just for him, where he would remain in total segregation and isolation for the rest of his life. <a href="http://eerdword.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/clayton-fountain-murderer-friend-brother-by-w-paul-jones/" target="_blank">[...Read more]</a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Clayton A. Fountain's Resume'</span></strong></div>
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<strong>Education: </strong><br />
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A.A. Ohio University. Major in Social Sciences. <br />
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B.S.S. Ohio University. Major in Philosophy and Business. <br />
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C.C.D. Catholic Distance University (CDU). Catholic Catechetical Diploma '. (special ecclesiastical teaching certificate). Major in Religious Studies. <br />
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Currently a candidate for a Master of Arts in Religious Studies (MA) degree at the Catholic Distance University (CDU), Hamilton, Virginia, with twenty-four (24) semester credit hours earned and twelve (12) semester credit hours in progress. Currently holding a graduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.800 (on a 4.0 scale). <br />
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<strong>Experience: </strong><br />
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1995 -Present Employed in prison job as Clerk-Typist for Education and Recreation Departments. Major duties and responsibilities include the typing of any non-essential education and recreation material, special program fliers, miscellaneous education and recreation forms, or any other duties assigned by the Supervisor of Education and work supervisor. Pay grade 1, $66.00 per month--which .is used to pay for tuition in Master of Arts in Religious Studies (MA) degree program at the Catholic Distance University (CDU) in Hamilton, Virginia. <br />
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1983 -Present Incarcerated at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri (SMCFP-Springfield). Confined in a "Special Housing Unit" (SHU), under virtual isolation from all other prisoners and only limited contact with correctional staff, for the past twenty (20) years. <br />
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1976 -Present Transferred into the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), in April 1976.<br />
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1974 -1976 Incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; transferred into federal prison system in April 1976.<br />
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1972 -1974 Enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps (USMC); part of a Fleet Marine Force aboard naval ships cruising the Southeast Asia area. Confined to brig on 6 March 1974; General Courts Martial trial and conviction for murder on 19 July 1974. <br />
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<strong>Scholarly Productivity:</strong> <br />
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Received an award from The National Dean's List on 8 September 1999, ID #88017-17-5537-9, and selected for inclusion in the 22nd annual edition of The National Dean's List, 1998-1999. <br />
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Have prepared eighteen (18) critical analysis papers of literature relevant to a study being conducted by Professor David A. Ward, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, entitled "Study of the Effects of Long Term Confinement in Super Maximum Custody": <br />
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1). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Code of the Streets," .by Elijah Anderson (Atlantic Monthly, 1995.<br />
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2). Critical Analysis of the Article, "On Killing," by Dave Grossman (Little, Brown and Co., 1997).<br />
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3). Critical Analysis of Chapter 1, from the book, Seductions of Crime, by Jack Katz (Basic Books, 1998). - <br />
4). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Imagining the Penitentiary," by John Bender, dated: 6 May 1 998. <br />
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5). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Psycopathological Effects of Solitary Confinement," by Stuart Grassian, M.D., dated: 22 July 1998. <br />
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6). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Infamous Punishment: The Psychological Consequences of Isolation," by Craig Haney, dated: 13 August 1998. <br />
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7). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Solitary Confinement in the Correctional Setting: Goals, Problems, and Suggestions," by Peter Suedfield, dated: 9 January 1999. <br />
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8). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Solitary Confinement As A Rehabilitative Technique: Reply To Lucas," by Peter Suedfield, dated: 28 January 1999. <br />
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9). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Reactions and Attributes of Prisoners In Solitary Confinement," by Peter Suedfield et al., dated: 1 April 1999. <br />
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10). Critical Analysis of the Article, "Criminal Homicide As A Transaction," by David F. Luckenbill, dated: 15 September 1999. <br />
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11 ). Critical Analysis of the Article, "War Behind Walls," by Edward Bunker, dated: 4 November 1999. <br />
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12). Critical Analysis of Chapter 5: "The Anatomy of Gang Violence," from the book, Island In The Street: Gangs and American Urban Society, by Martin Sanchez Janknowski, dated: 30 June 2000. <br />
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13). Critical Analysis of Chapter 4: Marion Penitentiary: A Brief History of Americas Toughest Prison, from the book, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State, by Malcolm F. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin, dated: 8 February 2001. <br />
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14). Critical Analysis of the Foreword, Chapter 1: Defining Desistance, Chapter 3: Sample Prognosis: Dire, Chapter 5: Making Good: The Rhetoric of Redemption, and Chapter 8: The Rituals of Redemption, from the book, . Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, by Shadd Maruna, with a foreword from Hans Toch, dated: 23 August 2001. <br />
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15). Critical Analysis of the Article, "The Purposes, Practices, and Problems of Supermax Prisons," by Leena Kurki and Norval Morris, from Volume 28 of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Edited by Michael Tonry, (The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 2001; pp. 385- 424), dated: 24 July 2002. <br />
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16). A Comparative Analysis of Two (2) "Special Housing Units" (SHU) Operated By The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) At The U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (USMCFP) Located In Springfield, Missouri, dated: 10 January 2003. <br />
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17). Critical Analysis of "The Hole: Solitary Confinement," from the book, In The Belly Of The Beast: Letters From Prison, by Jack Henry Abbott, With An Introduction By Norman Mailer (pp. 43-53) (New York, NY: Random House, 1980), dated: 28 May 2003. <br />
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18). Critical Analysis of "Chapter Three: The closed emotional world of the security wing" (pp. 60-85), and "Chapter Four: Time am Deterioration" (pp. 86-111) , from the book, Psychological Survival: The Experience of Long-Term Imprisonment, by Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor (New York NY: Penguin Books, 1975), dated: 3 July 2003. <br />
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As for the quality of these eighteen ( 18 ) works that have been done for Professor Ward's study since 1992, one may refer to an analysis provided by Professor Ward. Specifically, Professor Ward provides an analysis of the work I have done for him, based on his communications with me in writing, over the telephone, and through in-person visits since early 1992: <br />
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Mr. Fountain has been a significant help to me and to this project due to his superior intellectual ability. Under conditions of confinement that would depress and discourage most men, Mr. Fountain has challenged himself to improve his education, his methods of dealing with frustration, his relationship to prison staff, and making amends for his previous actions as best he can; his religious conversion has been the key to his new way of dealing with life's daily, and long term, annoyances and problems. <br />
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I have asked Mr. Fountain to read and critically review many articles and sections of books relating to crime, punishment, race relations, prison life, etc., and he has provided detailed and thoughtful analyses at a level equal to some of the best doctoral students I supervise. Mr. Fountain's writing provides clear evidence of superior intelligence, his ability to handle abstract concepts, and to grapple with complex issues in criminology and penology. <br />
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In addition, I am currently working on two (2) other critical analysis papers: one for Professor Ward and the second an independent project. The critical analysis paper for Professor Ward is entitled, "Critical Analysis of Chapter Four: Time and deterioration" (pp. 86-111), from the book, psychological Survival: The Experience of Long-Term Imprisonment, by Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1975)." The second critical analysis paper, an independent project, is entitled, "Critical Analysis of the book, Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals In Death Penalty Cases," by Cathleen Burnett (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2002). <br />
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<strong>Future Educational Plans:</strong> <br />
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After completion of my MA degree program at COO (in approximately three more years), to seek admission into the Doctor of Theology (DTh) in Systematic Theology (or, alternatively, in Religious Studies) offered by the University of South Africa (UNISA). This is a two (2) to three (3) year doctorate program that will cost approximately six-thousand ($6,000.00) dollars in United States currency . <br />
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I am currently learning to master reading and translating classical Latin. My tutor is Fr. Donald Joseph Hamilton at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri. I will also need to learn to master reading and translating classical Hebrew and Greek. Learning to master these three (3) classical languages is needed as preparation for the DTh program at UNISA. After I complete mastering classical Latin, I can take classical Hebrew and Greek as undergraduate correspondence courses from UNISA.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-29736643184084004252009-08-16T19:25:00.001-07:002012-03-16T16:14:40.152-07:00Nazi Low Riders<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7v0SSbx24Bh3957VHaJA4AE9JrYfKEc9zJ4MP5QV_vPmgRcYr1bFbKokG8XzYnzh4RFy2U5UE8hO26L0YPzRY5r2dY3GmLt-4iMfEsEYleOKYRjO3r2CdO2vVkqcuHuivIgFqTpiG0qf/s1600-h/nrl_gang_identification.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; height: 343px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350226442248603410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7v0SSbx24Bh3957VHaJA4AE9JrYfKEc9zJ4MP5QV_vPmgRcYr1bFbKokG8XzYnzh4RFy2U5UE8hO26L0YPzRY5r2dY3GmLt-4iMfEsEYleOKYRjO3r2CdO2vVkqcuHuivIgFqTpiG0qf/s400/nrl_gang_identification.jpg" /></a><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nazi Low-Riders</span> (NLR) began in the late 1970s in the California prison system. Youth incarcerated within the California Youth Authority were enticed by Aryan Brotherhood leader John Stinson to form a white supremacy organization. Stinson's goal was to use the organization as a strong-arm of the Aryan Brotherhood. The youth adopted the name Nazi to display their pro-white philosophy, and the term 'lowrider' came from white/Hispanic members of the gang. It was not until the early 1990s that the NLR was deemed a threat by law enforcement authorities.<br /><br /><br />Members of the gang often display tattoos promoting White Supremacy beliefs such as SWP (Supreme White Power), White Pride, White Power, NLR, the swastika, 88 (Heil Hitler), SS, lightning bolts and other Nazi-related images. Also satanic tattoos (skulls and demons) are commonly used by White Supremacy groups as well as Vikings and other Germanic and Celtic images. NLR members may wear T-shirts printed with white power logos and bands and adopt the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html">Skinhead</a> style of dress. Members often deny membership and claim the NLR stands for "never lose respect" or "no longer racist." Some Hispanic members have been accepted into the group, but according to one former member, "you must have at least half white blood, but no black blood."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxSbwQ2jgC3uGEUi2RPs1s7seGq1T7KjEgnwrPqbci_mBDqomkz_Mx-Fike3Gf39StCa6mhicvzZVIyPYiUitOmkkIbw-f1s3b3SE6oYQhtS_fb61E7JIDdDhLsIIwIWa_TGIQY2PLiOU/s1600-h/nlr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 305px; height: 328px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362084689273637442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxSbwQ2jgC3uGEUi2RPs1s7seGq1T7KjEgnwrPqbci_mBDqomkz_Mx-Fike3Gf39StCa6mhicvzZVIyPYiUitOmkkIbw-f1s3b3SE6oYQhtS_fb61E7JIDdDhLsIIwIWa_TGIQY2PLiOU/s400/nlr.jpg" /></a><br />The NLR has achieved a stronghold in several Southern California cities. They have been identified in several Western states both on the streets and in prison. It has been estimated the NLR has over 3,000 hardcore members and continues to be the fastest growing prison gang.<br /><br />The NLR is notorious for several vicious attacks and murders in an attempt to promote their racists beliefs. Many members claim the primary purpose of their organization is the protection of incarcerated Whites, while others claim their goal is to "rid the streets of Blacks." Members are required to show loyalty to the White race and have a record of proven criminality. The gang has earned the reputation as being the most vicious and fastest growing White supremacist organization both in prison and on the streets. The NLR is also heavily involved in the production and distribution of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/08/shake-and-bake-methamphetamine.html">methamphetamine</a>. In addition, they have been involved in robberies, extortions and numerous murders and violent attacks.<br /><br />Latest reports indicate the Aryan Brotherhood has stated that the NLR should stop accepting members if they have mixed blood. Many NLR members have rejected this order, because they themselves or their friends are part Hispanic. It has been rumored that the Aryan Brotherhood has given approval for Public Enemy Number 1 (PENI) to murder any NLR members who have not accepted the AB's orders.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEGk5k6a-sGZGKBBT5ZSVIrGa2vYIsdFVGkEEj2-MiCxjt-ZQneTU0ZnUrVH9mW0ETNzhW2LZor5n4pUdgW77c5pjZx40bCK1hnax0Ak5B7prAivjx9LHcSJxDV_yjC02-mat-RAfw1b9z/s1600-h/lowrider-skin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 394px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369883516250083506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEGk5k6a-sGZGKBBT5ZSVIrGa2vYIsdFVGkEEj2-MiCxjt-ZQneTU0ZnUrVH9mW0ETNzhW2LZor5n4pUdgW77c5pjZx40bCK1hnax0Ak5B7prAivjx9LHcSJxDV_yjC02-mat-RAfw1b9z/s400/lowrider-skin.jpg" /></a><b><br />The Nazi Low Riders Oath</b><br /><br />1. I, as a Nazi Low Rider, hereby swear an unrelenting oath upon the green graves of our sires, upon the children in the wombs of our wives, upon the throne of god almighty, sacred to his name, to join together in the holy union with the brothers in this circle and to declare forthright that from this day moment on that I have no fear of death, no fear of foe, that I have a sacred duty to do whatever is necessary to deliver our people from the Judas and bring total victory to the Nazi Low Riders.<br />2. I, as a Nazi Low Rider Warrior, swear myself to complete secrecy to the Order and total loyalty to my comrades.<br />3. Let me bear witness to you, my brothers, that should one of you fall in battle, I will see to the welfare and well being of your family.<br />4. Let me bear witness to you, my brothers, that should one of you be taken prisoner, I will do whatever is necessary to regain your freedom.<br />5. Let me bear witness to you, my brothers, that should an enemy agent hurt you, I will chase him to the ends of the earth and remove his head from his body.<br />6. And furthermore, let me bear witness to you, my brothers, that if I break this oath let me be forever cursed upon the lips of our people as a coward and an oath breaker.<br />7. My brothers, let us be his battle axe and weapons of war. Let us go forward by one’s and two’s, by scores and legions and as true Nazi Low Riders with pure hearts and strong minds face the enemies of our brotherhood and families, with courage and determination.<br />8. We hereby invoke the blood covenant and declare that we are in a full state of war and will not lay down our weapons until we have driven the enemy into the sea and reclaimed that which is rightfully ours. Through our blood and gods will, the land will be that of our children.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">“UNTIL DEATH”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-56859372653430365692010-05-22T19:00:00.000-07:002011-02-18T14:57:50.618-08:00White Prison Gangs<strong></strong> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: pointer" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivInmQjEOVGH4YzKA9wg0rPOVIl_jrGwfA7jM8-TElrQd5-o6Hk1i6qm3l0FFimRAFdetOivBpxA2zN8c-tQdJ1FdcC2HTH2OMmhKL9dHTvoy1Mf4T_0sGDUmbQv_k3teP8i1YHL9eo2K0/s400/ab-members.jpg" /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>Aryan Brotherhood photo used in Federal trial</strong></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div><br /><hr /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaD4muQVxgQMcVAzH_4DaxZICM5J_1HIpcvM2MyvZKGSEDrkhblDT8jqEraHZYeVndVDMKF0ANtDauzhuFEMG4Dy3uvdXjy_AdoVoItQNVEx47hlC1r8tppWbhR6qiOZeZhIlzfJsMw4R-/s800/ab-1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 248px; CURSOR: pointer" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaD4muQVxgQMcVAzH_4DaxZICM5J_1HIpcvM2MyvZKGSEDrkhblDT8jqEraHZYeVndVDMKF0ANtDauzhuFEMG4Dy3uvdXjy_AdoVoItQNVEx47hlC1r8tppWbhR6qiOZeZhIlzfJsMw4R-/s800/ab-1.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:arial;" >WHITE GANGS BEHIND BARS</span></span><br /></div><br />The findings are summarized from a 2004 survey which asked the prison respondent to identify the name of a white prison gang. Table 1 presents the top ten white prison gangs in America today. The ranking system here is based on the extent of the problem across jurisdictions. For example, it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with this problem that the Aryan Brotherhood gang is listed as the number one gang on this national list. The Aryan Brotherhood or AB’s have been documented in all 50 states, and this dates back over a decade. The book entitled <a href="http://www.peteearley.com/books/hothouse.html" target="_blank">The Hot House</a> by Pete Earley is based on interviews from AB’s in the federal prison system and is a very accurate portrayal of the gang’s sophistication and its violent potential.<br /><br />In the racially charged tension of the prison system in America, most white gangs are in a constant “state of war” with black and hispanic gangs. But, it should be stated that not all white gangs are racist. Perhaps we should say that even if they are racist, or have lots of racist members, such “non-racist” gangs may also have an alliance with black or hispanic gangs.<br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"></span><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Table 1</span><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Top 10 white prison gangs ranked by the level of their representation in the national gang problem behind bars</span><br /><br /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/public-enemy-number-1-peni.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></a>1. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a><br />2. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong>Aryan Nations</strong></a><br />3. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html">Skinheads</a><br />4. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/kkk-ku-klux-klan.html">Ku Klux Klan</a><br />5. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/peckerwood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Peckerwoods</span></a><br />6. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-circle.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Circle</span></a><br />7. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Aryan_Resistance" target="_blank">White Aryan Resistance (WAR)</a><br />8. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazis.html"></a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazis.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Neo-nazis </span></a><br />9. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/dirty-white-boys.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dirty White Boys</span></a><br />10. United <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a><br /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/public-enemy-number-1-peni.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></a><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Table 2</span><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Top 50 white prison gangs in the USA (unranked)</span><br /><br />1. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a> - Nationwide<br />2. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a><br />3. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-circle.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Circle</span></a> - South<br />4. Aryan Family<br />5. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html">Aryan Nations</a><br />6. Brothers of White Strength - Connecticut<br />7. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity" target="_blank">Christian Identity</a><br />8. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/dirty-white-boys.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dirty White Boys</span></a> - South, Midwest<br />9. Irish Mob - New York<br />10. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/hammerskins_02.html">Hammerskins</a> - Nationwide, International<br />11. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/kkk-ku-klux-klan.html" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a><br />12. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/nazi-low-riders.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">NLR - Nazi Lowriders</span></a> - California, West, South<br />13. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazis.html" target="_blank">Neo-nazis</a><br />14.<span style="COLOR: rgb(238,238,204); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/northsider-prison-gang.html">Northsiders</a> </span>- Illinois, Midwest<br />15. Outlaw Mafia<br />16. Oklahoma <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a> - Oklahoma<br />17. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/pagans-motorcycle-club.html">Pagans MC</a> - Northeast<br />18. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/peckerwood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Peckerwoods</span></a> - West, South<br />19. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/simon-city-royals.html">Simon City Royals</a> - Midwest, South<br />20. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html">Skinheads</a> - Nationwide, International<br />21. Southern Brotherhood - Alabama<br />22. United <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a><br />23. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Aryan_Resistance" target="_blank">White Aryan Resistance (WAR)</a><br />24. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_Movement" target="_blank">World Church of the Creator</a><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> </span><span style="font-size:0;"></span><br />25. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pride" target="_blank">White Pride</a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"></span><br />26. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/aryan-knights.html">Aryan Knights</a> - Idaho<br />27. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/aryan-warriors.html">Aryan Warriors</a> - Nevada<br />28. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Honour" target="_blank">Blood and Honour</a><br />29. Caucasian Cartel - Ohio<br />30. Cincinnati Caucasian Cartel - Ohio<br />31. DOTAR (Defenders of the Aryan Race)<br />32. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/european-kindred.html">European Kindred</a> - Oregon, West<br />33. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_Train_Riders_of_America" target="_blank">Freight Train Riders Association (FTRA)</a><br />34. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/hells-angels-motorcycle-club.html">Hell’s Angels MC</a> - Nationwide, International<br />35. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/insane-gangster-disciples.html">Insane Gangster Disciples</a> - Midwest, South<br />36. Iron Eagle <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html">Skinheads</a><br />37. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">National Alliance</a><br />38. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_%28organization%29" target="_blank">Posse Comitatus</a><br />39. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/saxon-knights.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Saxon Knights</span></a> - Indiana, Midwest<br />40. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/silent-aryan-warriors.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SAW - Silent Aryan Warriors</span></a> - Utah, West<br />41. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/soldiers-of-aryan-culture.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SAC - Soldiers of Aryan Culture</span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"> </span>- Utah, West<br />42. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/sons-of-silence.html">Sons of Silence MC</a> - Midwest, South, Germany<br />43. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/texas-mafia.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Texas Mafia</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></a><br />44. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pride" target="_blank">White Pride</a> World Wide<br />45. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">National Socialist Movement</a><em></em><em></em><br />46. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/white-knights.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">White Knights</span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"> </span><br />47. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/united-brotherhood-kindred.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">United Brotherhood Kindred</span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"> </span>- Michigan<br />48. Universal <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a><br />49. Stone Mercenaries<br />50. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/fourth-reich.html">Fourth Reich</a> - Utah<br /><br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-man-inc.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dead Man Inc</span></a> - Northeast, South<br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/public-enemy-number-1-peni.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">PENI - Public Enemy Number One</span></a> - California, West<br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/krieger-verwandt.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Krieger Verwandt</span></a> - Utah<br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/brotherhood-of-aryan-alliance.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span>Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance<br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/08/chicago-gaylords.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chicago Gaylords</span></a> - Illinois, Midwest<br />* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/08/211-crew.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">211 Crew</span></a> - Colorado<br />* Wood Pile Gang - Colorado<br />* Hard Ass Crackers - Alabama<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >THE TOP WHITE RACIST “RELIGIOUS” FRONT GROUPS</span><br /><br />One of the open-ended questions on the survey asked “what are the largest white racist “religious” front groups that are proselytizing to the inmates in your facility?”<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Top 10 </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">white racist “religious” front</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> groups in American prisons today (ranked by frequency cited nationally)</span><br /><br />1. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_Movement" target="_blank">World Church of the Creator</a><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(Creativity Movement)</span><br />2. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(not a religion)</span><br />3. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong>Aryan Nations</strong></a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">†</span><br />4. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/kkk-ku-klux-klan.html" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">†</span><br />5. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asatru_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">Asatru</a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(Norse paganism)</span><br />6. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odinism" target="_blank">Odinism</a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(Germanic paganism)</span><br />7. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity" target="_blank">Christian Identity</a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">†</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"></span><br />8. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html">Skinheads</a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(not a religion)</span><br />9. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations">Church of Jesus Christ Christian</a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">†</span><br />10. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotansvolk" target="_blank">Wotansvolk</a> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">Wotanism </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,204,204)">(David Lane's brand of Odinism)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-23789053772279797242009-08-16T21:03:00.000-07:002010-06-16T08:21:32.976-07:00Insane Gangster Disciples<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MV1heHkLp0AL6Vm57qIR5J655Q1uNwjvN2MDd4slqYlecmqNgE-MVOQJv6dSFsPSEzrLKpO2WP0uO6heOhe4RKSOZR6Ia6rFDpFFFcu50vcU08K0j_b60aXuwBQdxeLUtZy2u_iFc2eV/s800/igd-gang-identification.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 525px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MV1heHkLp0AL6Vm57qIR5J655Q1uNwjvN2MDd4slqYlecmqNgE-MVOQJv6dSFsPSEzrLKpO2WP0uO6heOhe4RKSOZR6Ia6rFDpFFFcu50vcU08K0j_b60aXuwBQdxeLUtZy2u_iFc2eV/s800/igd-gang-identification.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insane Gangster Disciples</span> are white kids who grew up admiring the hip-hop life, and once in custody found themselves face-to-face with the real thing: thus they dare not call themselves “real” Gangster Disciples, they call themselves “Insane Gangster Disciples”, aka White kids in the GD-identified gang. They get their “literature” right over the Internet, or through the GD book: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/blueprint-of-new-concept-larry-hoover.html">Blueprint for Growth and Development</a>. They do exist by the same name independently of the GD’s, but they are in many respects spouting the same language and symbols as their Black GD counterparts. Sometimes, in prison, though, real GD’s do not want anything to do with “wannabe” white GD’s such as Insane GD’s. But the real GD will always take any pleasure or advantage offered in respect from an Insane white GD. It's basic economics: it is an economic advantage to the real GD gang to have wannabe white GD’s in the wings offering free goods and services, thus the Insane GD gang is “tolerated” as a kind of white bread “auxiliary unit”. Within the real prison-based Gangster Disciple gangs, the black members generally view the IGD’s as subservient flunkies.<br /><br /><center><div style="width: 600px; height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T5r3g3RrZz98hgMw8eVe8iYuxt4Kx9-fHBxwquc2iVPSRoXqP4GD-f7rQNv3_OgK7KGmqSMNPEF0TSYKONUsPrLWjMxs9y1CUxUHNpo2ZSlmKGr_ndB4E6Z96YuwEgZNtVaAfLwK8ck3/s1600-h/igd-76574.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T5r3g3RrZz98hgMw8eVe8iYuxt4Kx9-fHBxwquc2iVPSRoXqP4GD-f7rQNv3_OgK7KGmqSMNPEF0TSYKONUsPrLWjMxs9y1CUxUHNpo2ZSlmKGr_ndB4E6Z96YuwEgZNtVaAfLwK8ck3/s400/igd-76574.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370575651180556850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddDcP2HMCZlhECZbzmMdCirqBckjQTQOXotiDpRiqUXub9_CcGTPdj7uJay0Y-jQuALgJeiYScEh5E7LVY_T1fgvO4yL8VPDP1cnQY1gBJcF7TsS_20etbh7CZyKUqiDmtPktn56zHzQP/s1600-h/insane_gangster_disciples2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddDcP2HMCZlhECZbzmMdCirqBckjQTQOXotiDpRiqUXub9_CcGTPdj7uJay0Y-jQuALgJeiYScEh5E7LVY_T1fgvO4yL8VPDP1cnQY1gBJcF7TsS_20etbh7CZyKUqiDmtPktn56zHzQP/s400/insane_gangster_disciples2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367320967929488258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwp8-kgl7dX3zqalxDHZPh-SyjMFKTnz0y_w-Czn3QWrMjhO-WnGBOLN_3V-zmybN8JdeqS5NjTNd_9Ibaob8pt56B1ZieZnY54w1cY2NC5PQPeMyfJWX3buV3zFt-9UfmeoJHLiEc-Nyq/s1600-h/insane_gangster_disciples1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwp8-kgl7dX3zqalxDHZPh-SyjMFKTnz0y_w-Czn3QWrMjhO-WnGBOLN_3V-zmybN8JdeqS5NjTNd_9Ibaob8pt56B1ZieZnY54w1cY2NC5PQPeMyfJWX3buV3zFt-9UfmeoJHLiEc-Nyq/s400/insane_gangster_disciples1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367320869152886370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeHJgsnOSLQWdn-v50dv9nD5TDywQ2Mm8HOGPUmifHXOxWs8p2nW-s_Poi4J0D_t2b35Sr2z83d_HoMAQrcK6dU3VYWzM2wc97ZAUalOxkdoh5BqJ44TZFG9NUCnmqTnIbBGqiJnwbqqJ/s800/gangster-disciple-tattoo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeHJgsnOSLQWdn-v50dv9nD5TDywQ2Mm8HOGPUmifHXOxWs8p2nW-s_Poi4J0D_t2b35Sr2z83d_HoMAQrcK6dU3VYWzM2wc97ZAUalOxkdoh5BqJ44TZFG9NUCnmqTnIbBGqiJnwbqqJ/s800/gangster-disciple-tattoo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div></center><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Identifiers/symbols:</span><br /><br />* initials "IGD" or "974"<br />* six-point star<br />* pitchforks<br />* heart w/wings<br />* devil horns<br />* 3-point king's crown (or imperial style)<br />* devil's tail<br />* number[s] six, 360, and 720<br /><br />Hat turned to the right side (pant leg up, shoe untied, earring, etc).<br /><br />Oakland Raiders <span>(team) </span>clothing is common and they often carry bandannas with gang colors.<br /><span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Colors:</span> black, blue, white, and grey<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Ethnicity:</span> predominantly white<br /><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Territory:</span> </span><span>Midwest</span><span> (not in Chicago), and southern states<br /><br /></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Allies:</span> Folk Nation </span>(<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/simon-city-royals.html">Simon City Royals</a>, GD's, Latin Disciples, etc) <span>, Crips<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Rivals:</span> People Nation (Latin Kings, Vice Lords, etc), Bloods</span><span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Criminal activities:</span> drug dealing, burglary, vandalism, weapons violation, robbery, assault<br /></span><br /><hr /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOT_mUIeXsU&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdq6IOKP_4lRGHVguts0QKa-uZ7YKBLy3JAzhY8YSwNaHSxUmpBpqjY9Hap68AE7OiMhN5lcmwTuG1Moj3y9wzXsmnKkfHddnBPkA8QmFMSN8s6ffmudK4ALAp5LXirdPYlzRvKLE9Q4Z/s800/stacking2.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IGD FOLK STACKING</span><br /></div><br />Stacking is the act of throwing up gang signs while throwing down rival gang signs to show disrespect.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOLK STACKING</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=folk+stacking" target="_blank"><br />http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=folk+stacking</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />FOLK STACCIN</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=folk+staccin" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=folk+staccin</a><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhI_6m_n_rfMivBclXJdzj66GbNa-3H5YEQaF_Ustn1JRAyIdQqNfADX5KQZJ8zlEXYvoqZ4w0V3dHm4gyNd4DRpeNr7EyvPJEkWK4jS93gmqGLFJfnqz9gFSCr4ows9BbkswNommS8Nt/s400/0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhI_6m_n_rfMivBclXJdzj66GbNa-3H5YEQaF_Ustn1JRAyIdQqNfADX5KQZJ8zlEXYvoqZ4w0V3dHm4gyNd4DRpeNr7EyvPJEkWK4jS93gmqGLFJfnqz9gFSCr4ows9BbkswNommS8Nt/s400/0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-89516840159385968952009-09-19T14:28:00.000-07:002010-06-16T08:15:02.397-07:00Neo-Nazis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Sy3FywyGvJ8_P2B9HLUs8VpOSaIXbuBWIfTkh1af4COnq6L7Rpqe9FMPrZdi9cajOrZAeTNfju1NEP2o1LMHXmkVLVAibLhlYavoEtfvlC_tcXxStVlX3vubOn6MCoo_yl46I64Cz0gn/s1600-h/neo-nazis.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383294172847226946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 374px; cursor: pointer; height: 351px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Sy3FywyGvJ8_P2B9HLUs8VpOSaIXbuBWIfTkh1af4COnq6L7Rpqe9FMPrZdi9cajOrZAeTNfju1NEP2o1LMHXmkVLVAibLhlYavoEtfvlC_tcXxStVlX3vubOn6MCoo_yl46I64Cz0gn/s400/neo-nazis.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The term <span style="font-weight: bold;">neo-Nazi </span>refers to any post-World War II social or political movement seeking to revive Nazism, or some variant that echoes core aspects of National Socialism. Members of neo-Nazi groups (excluding the NSM) prefer to be called "white nationalists, white separatists, or, white racialists," and object to the term neo-Nazi. The vast majority of neo-Nazis have beliefs that differ from actual Nazism, but they still advocate white supremacy.<br /><br />During the 1960-70s, all racist non-Klan groups were labeled generically as neo-Nazis, and so were the racist skinhead groups that emerged during the 1980s. The Ku Klux Klan started as a domestic "homegrown" hate movement, and was not directly influenced by Nazi ideology.<br /><br />There are a number of small neo-Nazi groups in the United States today. The earliest example of this ideological tendency can be traced back to the 1930s and the formation of the German-American Bund. The German-American Bund and similar groups achieved limited popularity. The zenith of the Bund's history occurred on President's Day, February 19, 1939 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Some 20,000 people attended and heard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Julius_Kuhn" target="_blank">Fritz Kuhn</a> criticize President Franklin D. Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as “Frank D. Rosenfeld”, calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal." The Bund's popularity rapidly faded with the onset of World War II. The groups either disbanded or were dismantled by force of law (such as the 1942 sedition trial) during the war period. After the war, new organizations formed, with varying degrees of support for Nazi principles.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU0lM8UCPAdMFePek4gDDbcDREBry4JTmo24Tw0yWksr2qrt_R4Qh1RnthSW8uqzVC7vWsdst7aag-lPB6l989HHuif1fIMzncepcr_WiEU8E5DLDJUUKDRfX0vF_rkidt0vyKhMflsG3z/s1600-h/george-lincoln-rockwell.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383350534753063362" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 224px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU0lM8UCPAdMFePek4gDDbcDREBry4JTmo24Tw0yWksr2qrt_R4Qh1RnthSW8uqzVC7vWsdst7aag-lPB6l989HHuif1fIMzncepcr_WiEU8E5DLDJUUKDRfX0vF_rkidt0vyKhMflsG3z/s400/george-lincoln-rockwell.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">George Lincoln Rockwell</span><br /></div><br />In 1959, the first explicitly postwar American neo-Nazi group was founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell" target="_blank">George Lincoln Rockwell</a>. The American Nazi Party achieved high-profile coverage in the press through their public demonstrations.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nVSrF0LLSCk/S-t7tAKhd2I/AAAAAAAAC18/3wBZh_EcXZQ/s400/rockwell-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nVSrF0LLSCk/S-t7tAKhd2I/AAAAAAAAC18/3wBZh_EcXZQ/s400/rockwell-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Nazi Party</span></div><br />Organizations which report upon American neo-Nazi activities include the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center. While a small minority of American neo-Nazis draw public attention, most operate underground, so they can recruit, organize and raise funds without interference or harassment. American neo-Nazi groups often operate websites, occasionally stage public demonstrations, and maintain ties to groups in Europe and elsewhere.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nVSrF0LLSCk/SviIUqETLUI/AAAAAAAACHc/tfh-fL6BEvE/s400/jeff-schoep-nsm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nVSrF0LLSCk/SviIUqETLUI/AAAAAAAACHc/tfh-fL6BEvE/s400/jeff-schoep-nsm.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">NSM Commander Jeff Schoep</span></div><br />The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, which allows political organizations great latitude in expressing Nazi, racist, and anti-Semitic views. A First Amendment landmark was the "Skokie Affair", in which neo-Nazis threatened to march in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago. The march never took place in Skokie, but the court ruling allowed the neo-Nazis to stage a series of demonstrations in the Chicago area.<br /><br />Members of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_%28group%29" target="_blank">The Order</a> were convicted of crimes such as murder, racketeering, conspiracy, violating civil rights and sedition. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/matthew-f-hale-15177-424.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew F. Hale</span></a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_Movement" target="_blank">Creativity Movement</a> was imprisoned for soliciting the murder of a federal judge. <span>Aryan Nations</span> lost a $6.2 million dollar lawsuit after Aryan Nations members opened fire on a passing vehicle. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong>Aryan Nations</strong></a> has since lost its headquarters and paramilitary training grounds, and has split into three separate organizations. Other neo-Nazi groups in the US, include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">National Alliance</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Aryan_Resistance" target="_blank">White Aryan Resistance</a> (WAR), <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/american-front.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Front</span></a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">National Socialist Movement</a> (NSM). The NSM was founded in 1974 by Robert Brannen, former member of the American Nazi Party before its decline. The group claims to be the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAxqYvod2at97QVpzY0r6Dc6ZzrAzlgJbWQ248DvWaDDE0pA_TBU0a8MOOOdo3c3z0EDuF5XqssVvV7OyArJvELctciN4stEPpwUudZqZBfSH-kJSZDylcf8MS2b2t6qe5NbXy93-aLkf/s1600-h/combat-18.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383389836829958178" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAxqYvod2at97QVpzY0r6Dc6ZzrAzlgJbWQ248DvWaDDE0pA_TBU0a8MOOOdo3c3z0EDuF5XqssVvV7OyArJvELctciN4stEPpwUudZqZBfSH-kJSZDylcf8MS2b2t6qe5NbXy93-aLkf/s400/combat-18.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Combat 18</span><br />(skull insignia based on the Nazi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf" target="_blank">Totenkopf</a>)<br /><br /></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18" target="_blank">Combat 18</a> (C18) is a neo-Nazi group based in the UK. C18 is an international group with chapters in Europe, South America, Australia, Canada, and the US. A former C18 leader, Del O'Connor, moved to the US and started <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/tcb-hate-crew.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TCB Hate Crew</span></a>, a small skinhead group in Texas and parts of the Midwest (now defunct). Del O'Conner and his C18 splinter group, White Wolves, were initially believed to have been involved in masterminding the bombing of a gay nightclub and several other locations in London. He is now a representative for the group <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/volksfront.html" title="Volksfront">Volksfront</a>.<br /><br /><br />See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-nazi-skinheads.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neo-Nazi Skinheads</span></a>, <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/kkk-ku-klux-klan.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ku Klux Klan</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-51298644141119154552010-04-18T12:23:00.000-07:002010-06-02T19:47:49.778-07:00Volksfront<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7vpY1NutG4SIpl6sCOSN0-oyfv5u-35LnU4WyIisoS7tnv5Wcpqruh5gOUJ0c-6oDAz6FqWlnST92kT3fzqvLRr2JgqEkgymIR96Ta6x73T9-0UbS5fsr7Vv_fdvmkqtqNcH1TKww1fK/s1600/Volksfront-logo.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7vpY1NutG4SIpl6sCOSN0-oyfv5u-35LnU4WyIisoS7tnv5Wcpqruh5gOUJ0c-6oDAz6FqWlnST92kT3fzqvLRr2JgqEkgymIR96Ta6x73T9-0UbS5fsr7Vv_fdvmkqtqNcH1TKww1fK/s400/Volksfront-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461568302916897906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Volksfront</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGfB1DVuuro17LL_k4lQCYg0shTFaGWy3KyETrB-8RjZnoec5UggLxKHX9S0QwUOdqShsztRPvlc9Uj3b_gqYTtDsOyPLQ2a48yBSEM4udZjD-X-PABMZWZxkonxLd90Yl3oT7a2m-pdt/s1600/Big-Red-Volksfront.jpg"><br /></a>Volksfront is a white supremacist group that evolved from a prison gang, founded in 1994 by Randal Lee Krager and Richard Arden in the Oregon State Penitentiary. It has been called "neo-Nazi" and a "racist skinhead group" in press reports. The Anti-Defamation League has called the group "one of the most active skinhead groups in the United States." The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has added Volksfront to its list of hate groups.<br /><br />EXPANSION<br /><br />Volksfront has expanded to four continents and seven countries: Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Official supporter chapters abroad exist in Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, and New Zealand. Volksfront has chapters in states such as Oregon, Massachusetts, Arizona, California, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Virginia. As of 2009, they had approximately 600 members worldwide.<br /><center><div style="width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow-y: scroll;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGfB1DVuuro17LL_k4lQCYg0shTFaGWy3KyETrB-8RjZnoec5UggLxKHX9S0QwUOdqShsztRPvlc9Uj3b_gqYTtDsOyPLQ2a48yBSEM4udZjD-X-PABMZWZxkonxLd90Yl3oT7a2m-pdt/s1600/Big-Red-Volksfront.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGfB1DVuuro17LL_k4lQCYg0shTFaGWy3KyETrB-8RjZnoec5UggLxKHX9S0QwUOdqShsztRPvlc9Uj3b_gqYTtDsOyPLQ2a48yBSEM4udZjD-X-PABMZWZxkonxLd90Yl3oT7a2m-pdt/s320/Big-Red-Volksfront.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461565498300005362" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">A VF member that joined the gang in prison</span><br /></div><br /></div></center><br />ALLIANCES<br /><br />The gang formed an alliance with the violent European Kindred prison gang in 1997 and has gained the support of the Hammerskin Nation and Aryan Nation.<br /><br />INTELLIGENCE DATA<br /><br />In 1994, the Volksfront is founded by Randal Lee Krager and Richard Arden in the Oregon State Penitentiary. (Gang Intelligence 101)<br /><br />In December 2000, Volksfront members brutally attack an African-American man in Jacksonville, Florida. (Associated Press)<br /><br />In April 1998, Volksfront member Brian Zauber is charged with ordering a brutal assault on three lesbian women in Arizona. (Associated Press)<br /><br />In 2001, Volksfront members and Richard Butler of the Aryan nation host a skin head rally in Arizona. (Associated Press)<br /><br />On January 25, 2003, five Volksfront members brutally beat a 17-year-old black youth in Vancouver, Washington. (Associated Press)<br /><br />On March 23, 2003, several members of the Volksfront gang brutally beat and murder Randy Townsend, a black homeless man in Tacoma, Washington. (State v. Monschke, 135 P.3d 966 (Wash. App., 2006)<br /><br />On June 4, 2004, Volksfront member Gabriel Kurtis Monschke is sentenced to life in<br />prison for the March 23, 2003 murder of Randall Mark Townsend.<br /><br />In 2004, Stuart McBeth establishes a Volksfront chapter in Australian. (Associated Press)<br /><br />On October 5, 2007, Volksfront and the Hammerskin Nation organize a skin head rally. (Associated Press)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-19379590398232268862010-04-19T12:25:00.000-07:002010-05-25T22:46:57.384-07:00Gang Identification PostersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-9116766093158708552010-05-22T18:03:00.000-07:002010-05-24T18:48:11.829-07:00Dallas Scott<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX36rWQ1UyzfOdE5mEPRCWxTdEDx90OExXRY33MTS_flhVTAjKjlWReFEVQwoZxhcT3O0G4s56JQ28Toeh3cAuxwqU56GbSw5JtFJTcthZqrpJ8F5qQFZ8HoxmKLe-BYvYOxuZqceXhy9X/s800/dallas-scott.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX36rWQ1UyzfOdE5mEPRCWxTdEDx90OExXRY33MTS_flhVTAjKjlWReFEVQwoZxhcT3O0G4s56JQ28Toeh3cAuxwqU56GbSw5JtFJTcthZqrpJ8F5qQFZ8HoxmKLe-BYvYOxuZqceXhy9X/s800/dallas-scott.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bureau officials claim that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span> was a founding member of the Aryan Brotherhood.<br /><br />In the outside world the tattoos would have made Scott look like a circus freak, but in Leavenworth they were badges of honor, particularly one tattoo cut directly under his heart. It was a cloverleaf with the numbers 6-6-6 printed over it. Even fish knew what the tattoo represented. It was the insignia of the Aryan Brotherhood, the most savage white prison gang ever formed. The three sixes referred to a mark given by "the beast" - the Antichrist, or son of Satan.<br /><br />The bureau's gang expert, Craig Trout, explained. "What we are dealing with is a professional lifelong criminal... An AB member like Dallas Scott is actually doing a life sentence - only he's doing it on the installment plan, serving a few years at a time.<br /><br />Of the prison gangs, the Aryan Brotherhood is the most secretive, and with good reason. Any member who betrays its secrets is automatically sentenced to die.<br /><br />As we talked that morning, I noticed that Scott marked events in his life by prison incidents. "I hit the federal system the same year they executed the red Light bandit" he said. Seconds later, he added that something had happened. "About the same time as the race wars at San Quentin." When this was called to his attention, Scott shrugged. "Ive never had much concept of life outside jail. I was twelve years old the first time I went in and haven't really been out long enough to know anything else but this life."<br /><br />"As the years go by and you get older, you realize more and more that your life is considered a failure by society's standards," Scott continued. "You are a jailbird. You don't have any money, no house, no job, no status. In society's eyes you are a worthless piece of ****. Now, you can buy into what society says and decide you really are a piece of **** or you can say ,"**** society, Ill live by my own rules. They aren't society's but they are mine and that's what I've done. In your society, I may not be anybody, but in here I am."<br /><br />In 1966 he robbed a bank in California, was caught and sentence to San Quentin. At the time, San Quentin was in the midst of what prison officials now acknowledge was an all-out race war. The racial turmoil in the world outside prison, where fires were burning in Watts, Detroit, and Chicago, was magnified in San Quentin. Blacks and whites were stabbing one another, not because of anything anyone had done, but simply because of their skin color. "Your hate was at peak" Scott recalled. "Your adrenaline was at a peak, everything was at a peak level all the time. It was like a jungle. You'd get yourself fired up, so by the time the cell doors opened, you'd be ready. You'd have a whole head of steam. You didn't have time to analyze or rationalize or philosophize, you just got strapped (got yourself a knife) and went out of your cell and did what you had to."<br /><br />It was in this climate that the Aryan Brotherhood was born. Bureau officials claim that Dallas Scott was one of its founding members. I asked Scott if he recalled the birth of the AB, and without acknowledging that he was a member, he explained why the gang had formed at San Quentin. He didn't hide his racial attitude. "Whites are everyones natural enemies," he said. "Minorities stick together, but the white man by nature walks alone. I've seen whites sit by and watch a bunch of ******s attack a white kid in a cell. These yahoos were sitting there and thinking, "Goddamn, I'm sure glad its not me being ****ed" but if one white guy had the courage to say 'hey leave the kid alone' and he stepped forward, then there was a good chance that the pack will back off. See people who herd together deep down are afraid of someone who has the balls to stand up on his own. Now I ain't saying that the white man who stands up ain't going to get his ass kicked. But when he stands up, he's letting everyone know that he's willing to do what it takes, and get killed if necessary, because he don't like what's going down, and that is intimidating to someone who runs in a herd like blacks do.<br /><br />"At San Quentin the herds were getting out of hand and a bunch of old white bulls simply said "**** this" and they decided to stand up, and you can be damn sure that when these old bulls formed the tip (Aryan Brotherhood), there were a bunch of white guys, who either weren't strong enough on their own or were afraid, who were damn glad."<br /><br />Scott's explanation, it turned out was largely based on fact. The Aryan Brotherhood originally formed to protect white inmates from being victimized by black and Hispanic prison gangs. The Black Guerrilla Family, a militant, black revolutionary gang with ties to the Black Panther party, was the first known prison gang, and was strong at San Quentin at the time. Chicanos were divided into two gangs: The Mexican Mafia, composed of urban Hispanics from Maravilla section of East Los Angeles, and their hated rivals, the Nuestra Familia (Our family), made up of rural Chicanos. The Black and Hispanic gangs preyed on whites, as well as on members of their own race.<br /><br />A study by the criminal Intelligence section of Arizona Department of public safety later suggested that several outlaw bikers who called themselves the Diamond Tooth Gang were the forerunners of the Aryan Brotherhood. The gang members, each of whom had diamond shaped pieces of glass embedded in his front teeth, tried to recruit other whites at San Quentin but failed to attract sufficient "soldiers". Next came the Blue Bird gang, so-called because its members had bluebirds tattooed on their necks, but it didn't last. The Aryan Brotherhood was born when remnants of the Blue Birds joined forces with several neo-Nazi groups. It is unlikely that it would have survived, either, except for an unusual tactic adopted by its original members. Blacks and Hispanics had always relied on numbers for strength, and routinely pressured new inmates to join. The Aryan Brotherhood took the opposite tack. It based its membership on each others physical strength and willingness to kill. Anyone who wished to join the AB had to meet a "blood in, blood out" rule.<br /><br />As soon as it was organized, members of the AB put themselves under what they called "kill on sight" orders. When the cell doors at San Quentin opened each morning, AB members were required to hunt down and attack black inmates regardless of whether they belonged to a gang. The white gang was convinced that the best way to keep other gangs at bay was to prove that the Aryan Brotherhood was the most ruthless and savage gang in prison.<br /><br />California prison officials do not know the precise time when this kill on sight order went into effect. But in 1970, the California system began seeing a dramatic increase in gang related violence. Seventy nine gang related assaults and eleven deaths were reported that year. In 1971, there were 123 assaults and nineteen deaths and in the following years 186 assaults and thirty four gang related deaths. The Aryan Brotherhood was not solely responsible for the increases, but among convicts in San Quentin it did earn a reputation for being bloodthirsty. Its founding members, estimated by prison officials to be one hundred men, tolerated "zero disrespect" from other inmates. Even a casual comment about the brotherhood could result in a stabbing if members felt "their" brothers had been insulted.<br /><br />Legend has it that the best and most respected AB warriors at San Quentin had tattoos of fierce Norsemen drawn on their arms. I noticed that Scott had a Norseman tattoo, among many others on his forearm.<br /><br />When black militancy began to wane in the mid seventies, the various gangs decided to sign a truce. This brought to a close what convicts called the California race wars, but none of the gangs dispersed. The politically motivated Black Guerrilla Family was eventually replaced by the drug dealing bloods and cripps. The AB developed into an organized predatorial gang whose main interest became protection, extortion, and narcotics in prison. The white gang also began to specialize in contract murders for other gangs and individuals, Caltabiano wrote, maintaining its savage reputation. - excerpts taken from "The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison," by Pete Earley.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> READ THE BOOK!</span><br /><br />The book entitled <a href="http://www.peteearley.com/books/hothouse.html" target="_blank">The Hot House</a> by Pete Earley, is based on interviews from AB’s in the federal prison system and is a very accurate portrayal of the gang’s sophistication and its violent potential.<br /><p align="left"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.peteearley.com/books/hothouse.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 202px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewVmNwMyaxKi8GQwghz807HraKA6zvydcTLVWqJW-lXU1hEwqYCA-EI966wDT0UrUDsh18D2i_Zm5Zw7C2MyV_JLnw-XEYhRlaEspAWFQ6Yy1VYX1YsgePs7JhCmP-vGyFQBK8mgnRFIL/s800/hothouse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html">AB members & associates</a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong></strong></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html">Thomas Silverstein</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-51867672037951653002009-08-16T19:20:00.000-07:002010-05-22T20:28:08.269-07:00Aryan Brotherhood<center><div style="overflow-y: scroll; width: 600px; height: 500px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Aryan Brotherhood members make up less than one percent of the nation's prison inmate population, yet the white prison gang is responsible for 18% of all prison murders.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2MH1l9LsAYapWzMe61ADXOKSzEMdd4Ws3uMd1PHyLNvpCZ1oGWOBCuTz7xK2PDQl_oYniFsc9icWUeNnyEcZx9PANJ1NaV8-_MBFMTK3NndIf1FE6NWDqvYFC4iO5-LfGFlZTTrU4gpn/s1600-h/Aryan_Brotherhood_Identification.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347642194108631362" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 353px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2MH1l9LsAYapWzMe61ADXOKSzEMdd4Ws3uMd1PHyLNvpCZ1oGWOBCuTz7xK2PDQl_oYniFsc9icWUeNnyEcZx9PANJ1NaV8-_MBFMTK3NndIf1FE6NWDqvYFC4iO5-LfGFlZTTrU4gpn/s400/Aryan_Brotherhood_Identification.jpg" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span> picked the name because it showed white supremacy and the shamrock (clover) because it is the sign of the Irish (the original members had to be part Irish). They use the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">666</span>", which is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast" target="_blank">sign of the beast</a> (it's earned for committing a murder), and the swastika, for one that takes pride in being hated & feared by their enemies. Only members of the AB are permitted to wear the "brand" of the gang; individuals found to be wearing the tattoo without consent are subject to being murdered.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrd3DwIwgZGHeNRPlcWUHafQ-D8eC60xknUpzEKlundrLx9dAewAhei-mBGtTmkqJtQhws9rpXiIv9i8xdlZh-hd58QjKamQdYFi9Akg9nuK6iufroI_Ur4DY8xdCWDTgxoxbvehg1ub_4/s1600-h/ab-tattoo-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384527799596154450" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrd3DwIwgZGHeNRPlcWUHafQ-D8eC60xknUpzEKlundrLx9dAewAhei-mBGtTmkqJtQhws9rpXiIv9i8xdlZh-hd58QjKamQdYFi9Akg9nuK6iufroI_Ur4DY8xdCWDTgxoxbvehg1ub_4/s400/ab-tattoo-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_Precepts"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rPEZgFhvnNGu9WFIevK6k1IAQRwhycxnX6c-Y5acz-r3ovlFffN1SS-HGCdLX5m6JxaquvGHPHDF38LJRyBIfAPrq3aP1nurR2ggQTbyhXKmRMc7EB4OWCZamf9aLjr8kT4MOzxsQRm0/s1600-h/ab-tattoo-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384527646031672034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rPEZgFhvnNGu9WFIevK6k1IAQRwhycxnX6c-Y5acz-r3ovlFffN1SS-HGCdLX5m6JxaquvGHPHDF38LJRyBIfAPrq3aP1nurR2ggQTbyhXKmRMc7EB4OWCZamf9aLjr8kT4MOzxsQRm0/s400/ab-tattoo-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1488</span> = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14_words" target="_blank">14 Words</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_Precepts" target="_blank">88 Precepts</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZG9bRLTtbYubPU5t-iLtjwxvD-2FVrcSwG6XIpt03L3-h8UmHaTbFPgOJFJ-FZbkb4UI5TS0fjhMLutw6-5n5HvLrWL9vScM9kTEONTNRIqRcXmY2d4rf_PSbk0dnK9YLOq5c-YmoS_VQ/s1600-h/lightning-bolts-bicep.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365833618670890674" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 311px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZG9bRLTtbYubPU5t-iLtjwxvD-2FVrcSwG6XIpt03L3-h8UmHaTbFPgOJFJ-FZbkb4UI5TS0fjhMLutw6-5n5HvLrWL9vScM9kTEONTNRIqRcXmY2d4rf_PSbk0dnK9YLOq5c-YmoS_VQ/s400/lightning-bolts-bicep.jpg" border="0" /></a>Lightning bolts (cracker bolts) tattoo on the inner bicep is earned for stabbing someone.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gcZARN2F1W61n83mw0nsuB410MsJlIHJjB53snsYtY3pvT2FnrTxUgzVAGY0b3SHT_awKpDIZ7gWUAzuh5kmWu0Kg4Qy1Ph3uYrgY-J2YWyT1Piswpra1_MkGFUnEDP6wuUatoweS2bW/s1600-h/an-ab_gang_identification.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351243478157728834" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 314px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gcZARN2F1W61n83mw0nsuB410MsJlIHJjB53snsYtY3pvT2FnrTxUgzVAGY0b3SHT_awKpDIZ7gWUAzuh5kmWu0Kg4Qy1Ph3uYrgY-J2YWyT1Piswpra1_MkGFUnEDP6wuUatoweS2bW/s400/an-ab_gang_identification.jpg" border="0" /></a>Some AB's use variations of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations" target="_blank">Aryan Nations</a> shield, and may follow a racist religion known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity" target="_blank">Christian Identity</a>. However, religious affiliation in the AB is not required.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEBAVvlhnkLdUXQUWxDhyrBmJ8hFm4myPda2yiJlbWgdfTWhfM5SCLwHWT4bd89Gm9cZGiPoKv5bq0N9FkKzKzq-MFW0koM4U6v40z2g_9lBYtxkLwYgv-z9C6RHIcTheyeVPZk_RnoHR/s1600-h/ab-sinn-fein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362867744161055874" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 298px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEBAVvlhnkLdUXQUWxDhyrBmJ8hFm4myPda2yiJlbWgdfTWhfM5SCLwHWT4bd89Gm9cZGiPoKv5bq0N9FkKzKzq-MFW0koM4U6v40z2g_9lBYtxkLwYgv-z9C6RHIcTheyeVPZk_RnoHR/s400/ab-sinn-fein.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AJxZ7OEaHuZsw95KII8yRHAtZgiJT5JcrlxCUoXrM7x_tj-ZtiE8UfNvTGJQCvvXWEBLuZSSyDxApRGCFvQkaBBIQNQwPVBtPBa2C73Dj42Udy0wKQ37rybD9WKbnRyVytXXxCLITdYR/s1600-h/sinn-fein2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372606652699935602" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 271px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AJxZ7OEaHuZsw95KII8yRHAtZgiJT5JcrlxCUoXrM7x_tj-ZtiE8UfNvTGJQCvvXWEBLuZSSyDxApRGCFvQkaBBIQNQwPVBtPBa2C73Dj42Udy0wKQ37rybD9WKbnRyVytXXxCLITdYR/s400/sinn-fein2.jpg" border="0" /></a>The slogan <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sinn Fein</span>, Irish for "ourselves alone," is a recent AB tattoo (No relation to the Sinn Féin political party in Ireland).<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaB7t24PcAWaGU8WlW3hP1VAt9-irGk1GlhhepbzwJ8jdmEgFuKsZwix0JU7o3Bc1uJxd4IiVLJbKdZQutyZq1zxohRZ3WkeNbxFvhhDNzO31Guy_wyNcd9rNemzfIOMnN990UpwogZZfd/s1600-h/brotherhood.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362872375043519426" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 360px; cursor: pointer; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaB7t24PcAWaGU8WlW3hP1VAt9-irGk1GlhhepbzwJ8jdmEgFuKsZwix0JU7o3Bc1uJxd4IiVLJbKdZQutyZq1zxohRZ3WkeNbxFvhhDNzO31Guy_wyNcd9rNemzfIOMnN990UpwogZZfd/s400/brotherhood.jpg" border="0" /></a>AB members are known to have Viking & Celtic tattoos, including the runic alphabet. Norse symbols are not gang affiliated, and are commonly used by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odinism" target="_blank">Odinists</a> (racist & non-racist).<br /></div></div></center><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Sworn code of the AB:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I will stand by my brother.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My brother will come before all others.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My life is forfeit should I fail my brothers.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I will honor my brother in peace as in war.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood Pledge</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">An Aryan brother is without a care,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">He walks where the weak and heartless won’t dare,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And if by chance he should stumble and lose control,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">His brothers will be there, to help reach his goal,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For a worthy brother, no need is too great,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">He need not but ask, fulfillment’s his fate.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For an Aryan brother, death holds no fear,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Vengeance will be his, through his brothers still here.</span><br /><br />As legend has it the Aryan Brotherhood formed at <b>San Quentin Prison </b>in California in 1967 in the cauldron of the prison race wars to fight the Black Guerrilla Family, a black prison gang led by the notorious Black Panther, revolutionary and author of Soledad Brother, George Jackson. The white supremacist group, which later became known as the Brand was originally comprised of prisoners of Irish descent and former members of 50's biker tips such as the Diamond Tooth gang and the Bluebird gang. The tips came together in the gladiator school style type prisons under a neo-Nazi banner. The Aryan Brotherhood was for whites only and its members were the most violent and ferocious of their race. By 1975 the gang was all throughout the California system.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX36rWQ1UyzfOdE5mEPRCWxTdEDx90OExXRY33MTS_flhVTAjKjlWReFEVQwoZxhcT3O0G4s56JQ28Toeh3cAuxwqU56GbSw5JtFJTcthZqrpJ8F5qQFZ8HoxmKLe-BYvYOxuZqceXhy9X/s800/dallas-scott.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bureau officials claim that <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a> was a founding member of the Aryan Brotherhood.<br /><br />As their notoriety increased and membership grew they established a chain of command modeled loosely on the structure of the Italian Mafia with commission that communicated via correspondence through 3rd parties passing orders to their prison based branches all across the US. The 3 man commissions were also a way to channel the gangs’ violence and resolve in-house feuds. They established drug trafficking, security, extortion and gambling rackets in prisons all over the country. The leaders who had multiple life sentences worked out of solitary confinement cells in some of the most secure prisons in the world. From <b>Pelican Bay</b>, the supermax in California, and <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/adx-florence.html"><b>ADX </b><b>Florence</b></a>, the Alcatraz of the Rockies, the Brand ran a prison empire through coded invisible ink letter. The FBI investigated them from 1982 to 1989, but the US Attorney declined prosecution. But the FBI reported that "the purpose of the AB is now power and is not a racial organization as it has been in the past." They even took a hit from John Gotti, the Mafioso, who offered the Brand $100,000 to kill the black prisoner who assaulted him at <b>USP Marion </b>in 1996.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAb1mO8vQkTXp26FvUIT0CXOLxH04JpWeM0K2wtM18cuVFY306NE-ARQ4qhB_-jsrOCuWpsGofvPLnD3L9EeKjKSjzFOrKvo8gYJ350VtyNVG7aEJnEqlBGWQ3UwOE2_wL08kj5LVEXqQ3/s1600-h/mills-bingham.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347644718794717090" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 390px; cursor: pointer; height: 259px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAb1mO8vQkTXp26FvUIT0CXOLxH04JpWeM0K2wtM18cuVFY306NE-ARQ4qhB_-jsrOCuWpsGofvPLnD3L9EeKjKSjzFOrKvo8gYJ350VtyNVG7aEJnEqlBGWQ3UwOE2_wL08kj5LVEXqQ3/s400/mills-bingham.jpg" border="0" /></a>On August 28, 2002, AUSA Greg Jessner indicted virtually the entire leadership of the gang. The indictment reached back 20 years spanning 3 decades and 32 murders. Forty members were indicted of federal racketeering charges in a 140, 10 count indictment. The majority of the gang members were already doing life sentences, so 23 of them are eligible for the death penalty. "This is a homicidal organization," Jessner announced. "That’s what they do. They kill people I suspect they kill more then the Mafia. They may be the most murderous criminal organization in the United States." The indictment is the largest capital case in the history of California and the AUSA indicted the Brand, a prison gang with laws originally passed to target Mafia leaders. "Inmates and others who do not follow orders of the AB are subject to being murdered as is anyone who uses violence against an AB member or anyone who cooperates with law enforcement." The indictment reads.<br /><br />US vs Mills, No CR02-938 (C) (C.D. Calif.) is the docket number and the alleged leaders of the Brand have become legendary figures. <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/barry-mills-14559-116.html"><strong>Barry Byron "The Baron" Mills</strong></a>, aged 57 and TD <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/tyler-bingham.html"><strong>Tyler Davis "The Hulk" Bingham</strong></a>, aged 58 are the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood the government alleges. The indictment says that they've orchestrated the brotherhoods campaign from their cells at ADX, the federal supermax. Mills is doing life for a 1979 prison murder, but Bingham is scheduled for release in 2012, but if both are convicted they'll face the death penalty.<br /><br />Another primary in the case is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html">Thomas "Terrible Tom" Silverstein</a> who started the AB-DC Black race war by killing Raymond "Cadillac" Smith, the leader of the DC Blacks in 1982 by stabbing him 67 times in the <b>Marion Control Unit</b>. "Within the gangs’ lore, Silverstein has become the Christ figure," AUSA Jessner said. And the race war with the DC Blacks is the central factor in the governments case as the 1997 killing of 2 DC Blacks at <b>USP Lewisburg </b>was allegedly ordered by Bingham in an invisible ink message written in urine.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq1GEXbulYlxe9iq2aRwBe9j2tRFvP6rna-KAplZfKBCYCeBRckHb8cQoOpWQTfXCN5ztraFj9FFAxlIqvSGje9XanajdDEB4E0HE4j5IF3laq_X8nZcEbMxwjI2DcYilCYuIY3VDo_tdu/s1600-h/aryangroup.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347646396876262978" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 373px; cursor: pointer; height: 203px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq1GEXbulYlxe9iq2aRwBe9j2tRFvP6rna-KAplZfKBCYCeBRckHb8cQoOpWQTfXCN5ztraFj9FFAxlIqvSGje9XanajdDEB4E0HE4j5IF3laq_X8nZcEbMxwjI2DcYilCYuIY3VDo_tdu/s400/aryangroup.jpg" border="0" /></a><b>AB members at USP</b> <b>Leavenworth<br /><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivInmQjEOVGH4YzKA9wg0rPOVIl_jrGwfA7jM8-TElrQd5-o6Hk1i6qm3l0FFimRAFdetOivBpxA2zN8c-tQdJ1FdcC2HTH2OMmhKL9dHTvoy1Mf4T_0sGDUmbQv_k3teP8i1YHL9eo2K0/s1600-h/ab-members.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347939946171343714" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 262px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivInmQjEOVGH4YzKA9wg0rPOVIl_jrGwfA7jM8-TElrQd5-o6Hk1i6qm3l0FFimRAFdetOivBpxA2zN8c-tQdJ1FdcC2HTH2OMmhKL9dHTvoy1Mf4T_0sGDUmbQv_k3teP8i1YHL9eo2K0/s400/ab-members.jpg" border="0" /></a>AB members in an exhibit in the narcotics-trafficking trial of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Michael "Big Mac" McElhiney</span> (shirtless) who co-ran AB operations at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois.<br /></div><p><br /><br /><b>Enemies of The Brand</b><br /><br />The AB was originally formed to fight the Black Guerrilla Family, which was founded in San Quentin by George Jackson in 1966. The Former Black Panther, revolutionary and author of Soledad Brother had a vile hatred of the system and all things white. The BGF would beat, kill and maim random white when they caught them out of their cells for no other reason than that they were white. This cauldron of hate and atmosphere of tension, which existed at <b>San Quentin </b>at the time fermented the race wars in the California system and led to the rise of the big four prison gangs, which were divided along racial lines-The Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerrilla Family, Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia. The BGF allied with the Nuestra Family and fought a constant battle against the AB's who allied with the Mexican Mafia who was constantly at war with their counterparts from the northern part of California, Nuestra Familia while they represented the southern part of California.<br /><br />The BGF was the most politically oriented of the gangs. It was formed as a revolutionary organization along paramilitary lines. Its goal was to overthrow the US government. They were led by a Supreme Commander or Chairman and the lowest echelon of gang members were known as soldiers. They originated out of the MAD Adjustment center at <b>San Quentin</b>, the first SHU in the country. They recruit members of black street gangs like the Crips, disenchanted members of radical black organizations and are aligned with the Black Liberation Army. Their founder George Jackson was killed by guards at <b>San</b> <b>Quentin</b> in the early seventies. A victim of his fame and notoriety.<br /><br />The race wars in the federal system started on Nov 22, 1981 when the body of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/chappelle-murder.html">Robert M. Chappelle</a>, a member of the DC Blacks was found dead in his cell at <b>USP Marion</b>. Thomas Silverstein was the killer and Chappelle’s death worried bureau official who thought it might spark a war, which it certainly did.<br /><br />Raymond "Cadillac" Smith, the alleged national leader of the DC blacks was the next person killed. Terrible Tom struck again on Sept 27, 1982 stabbing Cadillac 67 times in the <b>Marion control Unit </b>and dragging his body up and down the tier so that those locked in their cells could see. The race wars against the DC blacks raged across the feds in the early 1980's and again in the 1990's when 2 DC blacks were killed at <b>USP Lewisburg </b>by AB members who stabbed them 35 and 34 times to death. The violent campaign against the DC Blacks and the alleged race war are at the center of the government’s 2002 indictment against the Aryan Brotherhood.<br /><br />The DC Blacks are prisoners from Washington DC who usually make up the largest single ethnic group from any single city making up 10 percent of the overall federal prison population. They are well schooled in violence from their time spent at <b>Lorton</b> the infamous DC penitentiary, and are known as notorious locker knockers, petty thieves and for pressuring prisoners for sex. A lot of DC Blacks were members of the Moorish religion at one time.<br /><b><br /><br />Timeline </b><br /><br />"The most ferocious and notorious of any of the prison groups is the Aryan Brotherhood," the FBI reported. Over its four decade history the gang has evolved from an organization focusing on aggression against blacks to a violent white supremacist group that runs sophisticated gambling, extortion and dope operations in prison across the nation.<br /><br />The Brand as the gang is called makes it members read <a href="http://www.paxlibrorum.com/res/downloads/taowde.pdf" target="_blank"><b><i>The Art of War</i></b></a><b><i> </i></b>by <b>Sun Tzu</b>, <b>Machiavelli's</b>, <i><b><a href="http://andesebla.googlepages.com/ThePrince_NicoloMachiavelli.pdf" target="_blank">The Prince</a> </b></i>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nietzsche's</span> <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/TheWillToPower-Nietzsche/will_to_power-nietzsche.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Will To Power</span></a>, as well as, exercising vigorously to stay in shape and studying <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/107/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gray's Anatomy</span></a> books, so as to know where to stab enemies and inflict killing blows. They've been accused of running-a barbed wire empire of terror, drugs and extortion. The case reached back 40 years to include stabbings, strangulations, poisonings, contract hits, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery and narcotics trafficking.<span style="font-size:0;"> A brief history of the gang:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1964:</span> The Aryan Brotherhood is founded in California's San Quentin maximum-security prison. Irish bikers formed the Brotherhood to fight against the Black Guerrilla Family. It is rumored that the AB sprung from a 1950s gang known as the Bluebirds.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1980:</span> Throughout the 1980s, the gang becomes more organized as it establishes a chain of command. Two factions of the gang exist -- federal and California state. The federal faction creates a three-man commission to supervise gang activity in federal prisons. Allegedly, Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham are selected to oversee the gang's actions as high commissioners.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1982:</span> An FBI report states that members of the Brotherhood are recruiting new members from prisons around the country. Prison officials try to disband the group by moving members throughout the correctional system. The AB forms a California commission and council that must approve the murder and assault of gang members who violate the organization's rules.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oct. 22, 1983:</span> Four guards are stabbed, two fatally, by AB members at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Ill. It is the first time in federal prison history that two guards are killed on the same day.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1990s:</span> Authorities relocate most of the Brotherhood's leaders to "Supermax" prisons, where prisoners are held in single cells for almost the entire day. The gang continues murdering prisoners and trafficking drugs.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1992:</span> Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Jessner begins investigating the gang after it is linked to the strangulation of a prisoner in his cell at the Lompoc federal prison in California.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1993:</span> The AB's federal commission forms a council that organizes day-to-day gang activity in the federal faction.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1994:</span> Michael Patrick McElhiney arrives at the maximum-security federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. He came from the Marion federal prison, where he served time with Barry Mills. McElhiney quickly becomes a much-feared AB gang member. In 2002, he is charged with running the gang's day-to-day operations at Marion and with controlling drug trafficking at Leavenworth.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">March 24, 1995:</span> Pelican Bay State Prison, a Supermax facility in northwest California, releases gang member Robert Scully on probation. Six days later, Scully fatally shoots a police officer -- evidence that AB crimes have moved beyond gang grudges and prison walls.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1997: </span>Barry Mills and T.D. Bingham allegedly order a race war at a prison in Lewisburg, Pa., leading to the deaths of two black inmates.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1999:</span> Barry Mills writes letters to paroled gang members, urging them to expand the gang's activities outside the prison. The gang allegedly used paroled members as drug dealers, gunrunners, stickup men and hit men.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aug. 28, 2002: </span>Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Jessner indicts nearly all the members suspected of being leaders in the gang. He charges them with carrying out stabbings, strangulations, poisonings, contract hits, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, robbery and narcotics trafficking.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">March 14, 2006:</span> The first in a series of gang-member trials begins in Orange County, Calif., for Barry "The Barron" Mills, T.D. "The Hulk" Bingham, Edgar "The Snail" Hevle and Christopher Overton Gibson. The four are accused of ordering or participating in 15 murders or attempted murders in the last 25 years. Federal racketeering charges are brought against 40 AB members, including Michael McElhiney. In a 140-page indictment, federal prosecutors outline gang actions that allegedly resulted in 32 murders or attempted murders in and out of prison.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">July 2006:</span> The first of a series of trials involving four high level members ended in convictions.Tyler Bingham and Barry Mills were convicted of murder and sent back to United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, where they are serving life sentence with no parole, escaping the death penalty. Edgar Hevle and Christopher Gibson were sentenced to three life terms without the possibility of parole.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">September 2006:</span> The nineteen inductees not eligible for the death penalty had plead guilty.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">October 2006:</span> Eleven more Aryan Brotherhood members are expected to go on trial in Los Angeles for similar racketeering charges<b><br /></b><br /><br /><b>Aryan Brotherhood Lexicon</b><br /><br /><b>The Brand-</b> the name the brotherhood is known by to members and refers to the shamrock or clover leaf tattoo found on members that denotes membership and signifies the Brand.<br /><br /><b>Blood In, Blood Out-</b> This is the process by which someone is accepted into the gang meaning they have to kill to get in and the only way to get out is by death.<br /><br /><b>Making Your Bones-</b> This is the initiation into the gang. When you kill someone to get in it is called <b style="font-weight: bold;">making your bones</b><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><b>Rocking Someone To Sleep-</b> This is the process of disarming a target for murder by making him think you are friends. By rocking someone to sleep it makes them easier to kill when they aren't expecting it.<br /><br /><b>Lie or Die-</b> When questioned by law enforcement types the Brand's motto is to lie or die because if you tell the truth and cooperate with law enforcement you will be marked for death, so you must lie to them and make them think you are telling the truth.<br /><br /><b>Getting Writted-</b> This is when one AB member has a case and his defense lawyer gets all his brothers and fellow gang members writted in to be defense witnesses in the case at hand so that all the brotherhood members can be gathered at one place to discuss gang business.<br /><br /><b>Keistered- </b>This is when a gang member in transit or in the hole sticks contraband such as drugs, tobacco or shanks up his ass so that it won't be found in strip searches and body searches.<br /><br /><b>In the Hat-</b> this term is used when someone is marked or targeted for death. If someone is <b>in the hat </b>in gang parlance it means he will be killed soon.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Dq_NCzj8M" target="_blank">Burpees</a>-</b> this exercise consisting of a combination of push ups and jumping jacks is performed by AB members on lockdown to stay in good shape. Sometimes thousands of <b>burpees</b> will be done a day.<br /><br /><b>Polishing the Rock- </b>this term refers to gang members on the outside doing things to further gang and brotherhood business on the outside. Before leaving prison they will be urged to keep <b>polishing the rock.</b><br /><br /><b>Kytes-</b> this is what letters or notes to fellow prisoners are called. They might be in invisible ink or coded and are often sent via transferring prisoners or via a third party on the outside who will mail it to the appropriate gang member. <b>Kytes</b> typically contain instructions and order for furthering brotherhood business.<br /><br /><b>Runners-</b> this term refers to girlfriends, associates and people on the outside who help the gang to achieve their goals by ferrying messages into and out of various prisons. They also gather mail at designated mail drops and forward them to other gang members in different prisons, smuggle drugs for the brotherhood into prisons through the visiting rooms and gather and collect monies sent to the higher ups in the gang either to put on their account or to pay for more drugs coming into the prisons,<br /><br /></p><p></p><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prisons (and jails) that have reported AB activity in the past 3 years</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />* San Quentin State Prison in California<br />* California State Prison in California<br />* Pelican Bay State Prison in California<br />* USP Marion Federal Prison in Illinois<br />* Folsom State Prison in California<br />* California Institution for Men in California<br />* Harris County Jail in Texas<br />* Estelle High-Security Unit in Texas<br />* Garner Correctional Institution in Connecticut<br />* Lompoc Federal Prison in California<br />* High Desert State Prison in Nevada<br />* Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Mississippi<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Allies:</span> Mexican Mafia, Hells Angels, PENI, Nazi Low Riders<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rivals:</span> La Nuestra Familia, Black Guerilla Family, DC Blacks<br /><br /><br />See also: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html">AB members & associates</a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong></strong></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html">Thomas Silverstein</a>; <span><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a></span></div><p align="center">------------------------------- </p><p align="left">The book entitled <a href="http://www.peteearley.com/books/hothouse.html" target="_blank">The Hot House</a> by Pete Earley, is based on interviews from AB’s in the federal prison system and is a very accurate portrayal of the gang’s sophistication and its violent potential.<br /><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.peteearley.com/books/hothouse.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 202px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewVmNwMyaxKi8GQwghz807HraKA6zvydcTLVWqJW-lXU1hEwqYCA-EI966wDT0UrUDsh18D2i_Zm5Zw7C2MyV_JLnw-XEYhRlaEspAWFQ6Yy1VYX1YsgePs7JhCmP-vGyFQBK8mgnRFIL/s800/hothouse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-22149832295374652402009-08-28T04:43:00.000-07:002010-05-22T20:20:31.274-07:00Thomas Silverstein 14634-116<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSw04m6UU-hgILrdNfJ2rMo_yX1-6iCCoJ0Fym_2xrhPOYu07r1sOSVY8YqDqqngKl6NK1n-b2a8LQ0fTmsFQPu9mIxOU5Sz5I-Dr_lbZReJbz1v0pgD2DlWZt6GMRMBEWNbDov_-d9ta4/s1600-h/silverstein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375030905136810306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 391px; cursor: pointer; height: 315px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSw04m6UU-hgILrdNfJ2rMo_yX1-6iCCoJ0Fym_2xrhPOYu07r1sOSVY8YqDqqngKl6NK1n-b2a8LQ0fTmsFQPu9mIxOU5Sz5I-Dr_lbZReJbz1v0pgD2DlWZt6GMRMBEWNbDov_-d9ta4/s400/silverstein.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas "Terrible Tom" Silverstein</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Convicted of murdering Federal Correctional Officer Merle E. Clutts.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;" align="center">Prisoner at ADX Florence, the United States supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. </div><div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><embed src="http://content.longtailvideo.com/files/mediaplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="file=http://www.peteearley.com/media/resources/audio/silverstein.mp3&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSw04m6UU-hgILrdNfJ2rMo_yX1-6iCCoJ0Fym_2xrhPOYu07r1sOSVY8YqDqqngKl6NK1n-b2a8LQ0fTmsFQPu9mIxOU5Sz5I-Dr_lbZReJbz1v0pgD2DlWZt6GMRMBEWNbDov_-d9ta4/s800/terrible-tom-tommy-thomas-silverstein.jpg&&autostart=false" height="20" width="400"></embed><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Silverstein Interview</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thomas Silverstein entered the federal prison system in 1975 after he was convicted of three bank robberies that he pulled with his father and his uncle. He was 19 years old. Three years later, he was convicted of murdering an inmate who had run afoul of the Aryan Brotherhood, the most feared white gang in prison. Silverstein was identified as a member of the AB, convicted, and sent to the federal prison in Marion, Illinois, the harshest in the country at the time.<br /><br />A judge later overturned this conviction after ruling that the witnesses against Silverstein, which included a prison guard, were not believable. His ruling came too late, however. By then, Silverstein had been convicted of a second prison murder -- this time the strangulation of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/chappelle-murder.html">Robert Chappelle</a>, a high-ranking member of the DC Blacks. Another murder soon followed. It involved Raymond "Cadillac" Smith, the national leader of the DC Blacks prison gang who had sworn to avenge his fellow gang member's death.<br /><br />Prison records show that Smith made several attempts to murder Silverstein, yet prison officials kept the two men in cells close to each other. Silverstein and another inmate, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/clayton-fountain-89129-132.html">Clay Fountain</a>, broke out of an exercise area and caught Smith as he was leaving a shower area. They stabbed him 67 times and then dragged his body up-and-down the prison tier so that other prisoners, still locked in their cells, could see the bloody corpse.<br /><br />Officer <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/officer-clutts-usp-marion.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Merle E. Clutts</span></a> was assigned to help bring order to the cellblock where Silverstein and Fountain were housed. Silverstein claims Clutts immediately began harassing him, but an investigation by the federal Bureau of Prisons and FBI would later clear Clutts of any wrongdoing. Silverstein would claim those two probes were whitewashes. Regardless, Silverstein became obsessed with Clutts and spent months plotting his murder.<br /><br />On October 22, 1983, as Silverstein was returning to his cell from his weekly shower, handcuffed and escorted by three guards, he paused outside the H-unit cell of another inmate, Randy Gometz. In the flash of an eye, Gometz reached through the bars, unlocked Silverstein's cuffs with a hidden key and passed him a "shank"--a homemade knife. Silverstein broke away from the two guards escorting him and cornered the third, officer Merle Clutts, who'd been distracted by another prisoner. By the time Silverstein was subdued, Clutts had been fatally wounded, stabbed more than forty times.<br /><br />Later that same day, Clay Fountain, performed a similar handcuff trick, killed another officer, Robert L. Hoffman, and stabbed two others in the same housing unit. Like Silverstein, Fountain was already serving three life terms for the murders of other inmates. Both men were reputed members of the Aryan Brotherhood, with a pathological hatred of corrections officers; both had virtually nothing to lose.<br /><br />See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/ab-members-associates.html">AB members & associates</a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-nations.html"><strong></strong></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a>;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html"></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/adx-florence.html"></a> <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/clayton-fountain-89129-132.html">Clay Fountain</a><br /><br /></div><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><hr /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQojxJwtKMP5iMdKvBO4a631ZJ8y5ERp5geolnYJiLG2FoztqkOYrK7qu8ihp1x3YIvEkjW-LvxLjlxZF1FJyqbX3vi0L_65unilqK5qpt5bk7gPnWnJGmjCuO24LJzVc8Xszhs_sFby2/s400/thomas_silverstein.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQojxJwtKMP5iMdKvBO4a631ZJ8y5ERp5geolnYJiLG2FoztqkOYrK7qu8ihp1x3YIvEkjW-LvxLjlxZF1FJyqbX3vi0L_65unilqK5qpt5bk7gPnWnJGmjCuO24LJzVc8Xszhs_sFby2/s400/thomas_silverstein.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Caged Life</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:0;"><br /></span><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past...or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?</span><br /></em>By Alan Prendergast<br />published: August 16, 2007<br /><br />When the goon squad showed up at his place at five in the morning, Tommy Silverstein knew something was up. He wasn't accustomed to greeting guests at such an ungodly hour — much less a team of corrections officers, helmeted and suited up for action.<br /><br />In fact, Silverstein wasn't used to company at any hour. His home was a remote cell, known as the Silverstein Suite, in the special housing unit of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. He'd been cut off from other inmates and all but a few emissaries from the outside world for more than two decades.<br /><br />He stayed in the Silverstein Suite 23 hours a day. His interactions with staff typically amounted to some tight-lipped turnkey delivering his food through a slot in the cell door. The only change of scenery came when an electronic door slid open, allowing him an hour's solitary exercise in an adjoining recreation cage. Visitors were rarely permitted, and entire years had gone by during which he never left the cell.<br /><br />But this day was different. Silverstein could think of only a couple of reasons why so many well-padded, well-equipped officers would be at his door, ordering him to strip for a search. Cell shakedown? Time for a game of hockey, with Tommy as the puck? No, that was a captain leading the squad. Something big.<br /><br />A transfer.<br /><br />So it came to pass that on July 12, 2005, U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate #14634-116 left his cage in Kansas for one in Colorado. Security for the move was tighter than Borat's Speedo — about what you'd expect for a former Aryan Brotherhood leader convicted of killing four men behind prison walls. (One conviction was later overturned; Silverstein disputes the second slaying but admits the other two.) The object of all this fuss didn't mind the goon squad. He was enjoying the view — and hoping that the move signaled the end to his eight-thousand-plus days of solitary confinement. Maybe, just maybe, his decades of uneventful good behavior had paid off.<br /><br />"They said for me to keep my nose clean, and maybe one day it'd happen," he recalled recently. "So I foolishly thought this was it. If you saw me in that van, you'd think I was Disneyland-bound, smiling all the way."<br /><br />But the smile vanished after Silverstein reached his destination: the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum, better known as ADX. Located two miles outside of the high-desert town of Florence, ADX is the most secure prison in the country, a hunkered-down maze of locks, alarms and electronic surveillance, designed to house gang leaders, terrorists, drug lords and other high-risk prisoners in profound isolation. Its current guest list is a who's who of enemies of the state, including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, shoe bomber Richard Reid, plane bomber Dandenis Muñoz Mosquera, abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph and double-agent Robert Hanssen.<br /><br />When it opened in 1994, ADX was hailed as the solution to security flaws at even the highest levels of the federal prison system. Much of the justification for building the place stemmed from official outrage at the brutal murders of two guards in the control unit of the federal pen in Marion, Illinois, during a single 24-hour period in 1983. The first of those killings was committed by Thomas Silverstein, who was already facing multiple life sentences for previous bloodshed at Marion. The slaying of corrections officer Merle Clutts placed Silverstein under a "no human contact" order that's prevailed ever since, and it gave the Bureau of Prisons the perfect rationale for building its high-tech supermax. Although he never bunked there until 2005, you could call ADX the House that Tommy Built.<br /><br />What greeted Silverstein two years ago was nothing like Disneyland. His hosts hustled him down long, sterile corridors with gleaming black-and-white checkerboard floors that reminded him of A Clockwork Orange or some other cinematic acid trip. One set of doors, then another and another, until he finally arrived at the ass-end of Z Unit, on a special range with only four cells, each double-doored. His new home was less than half the size of the Silverstein Suite and consisted of a steel slab with a thin mattress, a steel stool and desk, a steel sink-and-toilet combination, a steel shower and a small black-and-white TV.<br /><br />Stripped of most of his small store of personal belongings, Silverstein had little to do besides take stock of his eighty-square-foot digs. The Silverstein Suite was a penthouse at the Plaza compared to this place. There were steel rings on the sides of the bed platform, ready for "four-pointing" difficult inmates. A camera mounted on the ceiling to record his every move. If he stood on the stool and peered out the heavily meshed window, he could get a glimpse of a concrete recreation cage and something like sky. So this was his reward for all those years of following the rules — 24-hour surveillance in his own desolate corner of the Alcatraz of the Rockies. He was no longer simply in the belly of the beast. He was, he would later write, "stuck in its bowels, with no end/exit in sight."<br /><br />The double doors muffled sound from outside. But over time, Silverstein realized that there was one other prisoner on the range. He shouted greetings. The man shouted back. He asked the man how long he'd been in the unit. Four years, the man said.<br /><br />Silverstein told the man his name. His neighbor introduced himself: Yousef. Ramzi Yousef. Convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the one that killed six people and injured a thousand. Nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda leader who recently confessed to planning that failed effort to bring down the towers as well as the 9/11 attacks.<br /><br />His keepers had put Silverstein in the beast's bowels, all right — right next to the one man in the entire federal system more loathed than he was. Still, it was somebody to talk to. Shouting to Yousef was the first conversation with another inmate that Silverstein had managed in almost twenty years.<br /><br />But talking wasn't allowed. Within days, a new barrier was erected in the corridor outside his cell, preventing any further communication between the two residents of the range. Inmate #14634-116's transfer to ADX was now complete.<br /><br />In the late 1980s, Pete Earley, a former Washington Post reporter, persuaded Bureau of Prison officials to grant him an unprecedented degree of access to inmates and staff at the Leavenworth penitentiary. Earley was allowed to walk the yard without an escort, to interview inmates without official monitoring, to talk candidly with veteran corrections officers about the dangers and frustrations of their work.<br /><br />The resulting book, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, is one of the most vivid works of prison reportage ever published. Among several unsettling portraits of career criminals and their keepers, the most memorable character is probably one Thomas Silverstein, who was then being housed, a la Hannibal Lecter, in a zoo-like cage in Leavenworth's basement, where the fluorescent lights stayed on around the clock to make it easier to watch him. Wild-haired and bearded — the BOP would not allow him a razor or a comb — Silverstein spent hours talking into Earley's tape recorder, describing his violent past and the petty torments he claimed the guards were putting him through in an effort to drive him insane.<br /><br />Earley's book made Leavenworth's dungeon monster seem not only rational but quite possibly human. Granting a journalist unfettered access to him was a public relations blunder the BOP has been unwilling to repeat. Silverstein hasn't been allowed to have a face-to-face interview with a reporter for the past fifteen years. When Westword recently asked to visit him, ADX warden Ron Wiley promptly denied the request, citing "continued security concerns." But then, Wiley and his predecessors haven't let any journalist inside ADX to interview any inmate since 2001 because of "continued security concerns" (see related story).<br /><br />Although he readily agreed to an interview with Westword, Silverstein isn't a huge fan of the press, either. He remains friendly with Earley, but he's learned to be wary of hit-and-run tabloid writers following in his wake, eager to write about "the most dangerous prisoner in America." Most of what the outside world knows about him, if it pays any attention at all, is the fragmentary image presented in The Hot House; he's a captive of his own legend, like some prehistoric insect trapped in amber. His letters seethe with contempt for lazy "plagiarists" who have simply appropriated snatches of Earley's account as well as for those who've produced long magazine pieces or cheeseball cable programs about the Aryan Brotherhood that largely rely on the lurid tales of government snitches.<br /><br />"For some odd reason the media pees when Master snaps his fingers," he wrote recently. "I wouldn't call 'em 'mainstream' any more cuz there isn't anything mainstream about 'em. They're just lackeys for the powers that be."<br /><br />Silverstein's response to the "injurious lies" spread about him has been to launch his own information campaign at www.tommysilverstein.com. That's right — America's most solitary prisoner, a man who's been inside since before the personal computer was invented and has never been allowed near one, has his own website, maintained by outside supporters who forward messages to him and post his responses.<br /><br />"He's got a pretty impressive network," says Terry Rearick, a California private investigator who has communicated with Silverstein by letter and phone over several years. After the two lost touch for a time, Rearick got a call from a woman in England on Silverstein's behalf.<br /><br />The same woman posts regularly on the website, where Silverstein himself duels at length with his detractors. (A similarly heated debate has ignited over the wording of Silverstein's entry on Wikipedia; his defenders and his critics alternately revise the account to suit their competing versions of his crimes.) Some visitors to his site dismiss him as a textbook psychopath. But Silverstein contends that if people understood the grim context in which the killings at Marion took place, the snitch games and psychological warfare and organized violence of prison life, they wouldn't be so quick to demonize him.<br /><br />It's a strangely disconnected argument — a garbled dialogue between cultures on different planets. Most of the visitors to his website know little about Silverstein's world, just as he knows little about theirs. He's been in prison for the past 32 years, and much of what he's learned about life on the street since he was put in solitary in 1983 has come from reading or watching television. No American prisoner, not even Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, has ever been condemned to such a walled-off existence for such a long period of time. Many of Stroud's years of solitary confinement were spent in relative ease at Leavenworth; he had not only frequent visitors, but also a full-time secretary. Even his seventeen-year stretch in Alcatraz allowed for much more daily communication with others than Silverstein has had.<br /><br />"I'm amazed that he's not stark, raving mad," says Paul Wright, the editor of Prison Legal News, who's corresponded with Silverstein for years and published some of his writing. "He's been in total isolation for almost 25 years. The only people I can think of that have been held in anything remotely like this in modern times are some of the North Korean spies held in South Korea."<br /><br />Yet the no-contact conditions imposed on Silverstein are becoming less unique by the day. There are now 31 supermax prisons in the country, with more under construction, including Colorado's own 948-bed sequel to the current state supermax, known as Colorado State Penitentiary II. They are costly on several levels — the operational expense per cell can be double that of a less-secure prison, and the rate of mental illness in solitary confinement far exceeds that of the general prison population — but lockdown prisons are all the rage with a vengeful public. Increasingly, they are being used not for short-term punishment (disciplinary segregation) but for long-term confinement of hard-to-manage inmates (administrative segregation), whose privileges keep shrinking. Colorado, for example, no longer allows journalists to interview its supermax inmates except by mail.<br /><br />"The phenomenon is disturbingly common," says David Fathi, a staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project. "If it's disciplinary confinement, it's finite — when you're done, you're done. But with administrative segregation, there's a real lack of transparency about what a prisoner can do to earn his way out."<br /><br />In the federal system, the past decade has seen the rise of "special administrative measures," or SAMs, which are imposed on terrorists or other inmates whose communications with the outside world "could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons." There are now at least two dozen SAMs cases in federal prisons, including Yousef and Zacarias Moussaoui, whose access to mail, phone calls, media interviews or other visits are extremely limited or banned outright. At present the restrictions must be approved by the U.S. Attorney General, but the Bush administration is considering changes that would allow wardens at ADX or other high-security prisons to designate inmates as terror threats and thus ban them from all media contact — even if they haven't been convicted on terrorism charges yet, Fathi notes.<br /><br />Silverstein isn't a SAMs case. He still has his website and his mail (although he claims it's frequently withheld or "messed with" in other ways). But he may be the prototype of what the government has in mind for other infamous prisoners — to bury them in strata of supermax security to the point of oblivion.<br /><br />Responding in letters to questions about the psychological impact of his isolation, Silverstein struggles to find the right words. "Trying to explain it is like trying to explain what an endless toothache feels like," he writes. "I wish I could paint what it's like."<br /><br />In an article a few years ago, he called solitary confinement "a slow constant peeling of the skin, stripping of the flesh, the nerve-wracking sound of water dripping from a leaky faucet in the still of the night while you're trying to sleep. Drip, drip, drip, the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, constantly drip away with no end or relief in sight."<br /><br />In a Darwinian world, predators have to adapt or die, just like their prey. Tommy Silverstein arrived in the federal prison system at a critical phase of its evolution, when the number of inmate assaults on other inmates and staff was rising sharply and officials were looking at the idea of control units as a way to neutralize the growing threat posed by prison gangs. Silverstein quickly became a symbol of the problem — and the inadequacy of the proposed solution. It's not a stretch to say that the Marion control unit helped to make him what he became, just as the mayhem that erupted there helped to reshape the American prison system.<br /><br />Before he reached the nether regions of the BOP, Silverstein's criminal career had been thoroughly unremarkable. Born in 1952 in California, he'd grown up in a middle-class neighborhood in Long Beach, but he was bullied by other kids who thought he was Jewish. (<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">According to The Hot House, Silverstein's biological father was a man named Thomas Conway, whom his mother divorced when Tommy was four years old; she later married a [Jewish] man named Silverstein.</span>) As a teenager, he ripped off houses for money to buy drugs; his sister, Sydney McMurray, says he was battling a heroin addiction and problems with his volatile, controlling mother.<br /><br />"We were taught never to throw the first punch, but never to walk away from a fight," McMurray recalls. "My brother started getting into trouble because he was running away from a violent environment at home. Then he got into drugs, and he became a brother I never knew."<br /><br />At nineteen, Silverstein landed in San Quentin for armed robbery. Paroled, he was soon arrested again for series of robberies — pulled with Conway and another relative — that yielded less than $1,400. This time, he went into the federal system on a fifteen-year jolt. He was 23 years old, and his life on the streets was already over.<br /><br />At Leavenworth Silverstein became closely associated with Aryan Brotherhood members who allegedly controlled the heroin trade inside the prison — close enough that when convict Danny Atwell was found stabbed to death, supposedly because he'd refused to be a mule for the heroin business, Silverstein and two other AB members were charged with the murder. In 1980, he was convicted at trial on the basis of shifting testimony from other inmates and sentenced to life in prison. A federal appeals court later ruled that much of the testimony should never have been allowed and threw out the conviction. But by that time, Silverstein was in the Marion penitentiary and facing more murder charges.<br /><br />Marion opened in 1963, the same year that Alcatraz closed. It was intended to be not just a replacement for the Rock but an improvement, with a more open design and modern rehabilitation programs. Yet by the late 1970s, it had the most restrictive segregation unit in the BOP; not coincidentally, it was also the most violent prison in America, a dumping ground for gang leaders and crazies. Between 1979 and 1983, the prison logged 81 inmate assaults on other inmates and 44 on staff; 13 prisoners were killed. BOP reports issued in 1979 and 1981 proposed turning the entire facility into a "closed-unit operation."<br /><br />Confined to a one-man cell in the control unit 23 hours a day, Silverstein says he spent much of his time learning how to draw and paint. "I could hardly read, write or draw when I first fell," he explains. "But most of us lifers are down for so long and have so much time to kill that we actually fool around and discover our niche in life, often in ways we never even dreamt possible on the streets. We not only find our niche, we excel."<br /><br />Prison officials worried that Silverstein was finding his niche in other areas, too. Long-simmering disputes between white and black gangs had a way of coming to a boil in the control unit. In 1981, D.C. Blacks member Robert Chappelle was found dead in his cell. He'd apparently been sleeping with his head close to the bars and had been strangled with a wire slipped around his neck, plied by someone exercising on the tier. Silverstein and another convicted killer, Clayton Fountain, received life sentences for the crime; inmates who testified for the prosecution claimed the two had boasted of it.<br /><br />Silverstein has always denied killing Chappelle. (Another inmate later claimed to have done the deed, but investigators found his confession at odds with the facts.) Yet even if he hadn't been convicted in court, the suspicion that he was responsible was sufficient to trigger more violence. Shortly after the slaying, the BOP saw fit to transfer one of Chappelle's closest friends, D.C. Blacks leader Raymond "Cadillac" Smith, to the Marion control unit from another prison. Within days, Smith had tried to stab Silverstein and shoot him with a zip gun. Silverstein and Fountain responded by cutting their way out of an exercise cage with a piece of hacksaw blade and paying a visit to Smith while he was in the shower. Smith was stabbed 67 times, in what Silverstein still describes as an act of convict self-defense.<br /><br />"Everyone knew what was going on and no one did anything to keep us apart," he told Earley. "The guards wanted one of us to kill the other."<br /><br />At the time, there was no federal death penalty for inmate homicides — and not much the system could do to Silverstein, who was already serving multiple life sentences in the worst unit of the worst prison the BOP had to offer. But some staffers, concerned about Silverstein's outsized rep among white inmates, apparently did their best to keep him in check. In the months that followed Cadillac's death, Silverstein began to regard Officer Merle Clutts, a bull-headed regular of the control unit, as his chief tormentor.<br /><br />Silverstein has given different explanations about what Clutts did to deserve such attention. Clutts trashed his cell during shakedowns and withheld mail; he smudged his artwork and taunted him; he even tried to set him up for attack by other inmates, Silverstein has suggested. Silverstein claims he told Earley "the whole story," but only pieces made it into The Hot House. Earley won't comment, saying he no longer discusses Silverstein with other reporters because of past misunderstandings.<br /><br />The BOP has denied that Clutts harassed Silverstein. Whatever the source of the feud might have been, there's no question that Silverstein became fixated on Clutts. One study by Harvard psychiatrist Stuart Grassian suggests that prisoners in control units sometimes experience "the emergence of primitive, aggressive fantasies of revenge, torture, and mutilation" of the guards who watch over them.<br /><br />Silverstein thought about Clutts, and he thought about the difficulties involved in getting to his enemy when he was allowed out of his cell only one hour a day, shackled, escorted by three guards.<br /><br />Locked down for life, he had a mountain of time to consider the problem.<br /><br />One day in solitary is pretty much like another. Prisoners have different strategies for filling up their days, but there are always more days to come.<br /><br />In his cell at Florence, 54-year-old Tom Silverstein usually rises before dawn, catches up on letters and reads, waiting for the grand event that is the delivery of his breakfast. He goes to rec for an hour, comes back to the grand event that is lunch, showers and cleans his cell. Time for some channel-flipping on the small black-and-white TV, in search of something fresh amid the religious chatter and educational programs he's watched over and over. More reading, some yoga. Then dinner, more TV - he's a sucker for Survivor, Big Brother and other "reality-type shows" — and so to bed.<br /><br />When he was in the Silverstein Suite at Leavenworth, Silverstein had access to paintbrushes, pens and other art supplies. At ADX, he's only permitted pastels, colored pencils and "cheap-ass paper," he reports; consequently, he hasn't drawn a lick since he's been there. He says that every few weeks, he's moved from the cell with the heavily meshed window to one with no window at all, then back again a few weeks later. There are rare, glorious interruptions in the routine — a visit with sister Sydney last May, an occasional lawyer checking in. Visitors sit in a booth outside the cell and talk to him on a phone; he sits shackled on the other side of a glass partition and talks back. But these dazzling bursts of conversation quickly fade into a muddle. Did the last lawyers come before or after his sister? Silverstein isn't sure.<br /><br />"It's all a blur, a dream state of mind," he writes. "Like my memories. When I venture back to my yesterdays, it's hard to distinguish fact from fiction."<br /><br />Yet there is one memory, one day that stands out from all the rest — the day that started it all. Twenty-four years later, Silverstein is still in the position of analyzing, defending and regretting the act that has defined his fate. But nothing can explain away the act itself, a murder that was meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed.<br /><br />Marion wasn't designed to be a supermax. Control unit prisoners had to be shackled and escorted to the shower every day, and the guards permitted them to have brief conversations with other inmates in cells along the way. On October 22, 1983, Silverstein was on his way back from his shower when another inmate in a rec cage called over one of his three escorts — Merle Clutts. Now flanked by only two guards, Silverstein paused at the cell of one of his buddies, Randy Gometz, and struck up a conversation.<br /><br />Before the guards knew what was happening, Gometz had reached through the bars, uncuffed Silverstein with a hidden key — and supplied him with a shank. Silverstein broke away from the guards and headed toward Clutts, now isolated at the far end of the tier. "This is between me and Clutts!" he shouted.<br /><br />He stabbed the officer forty times before the dying Clutts could make it off the tier. Hours later, Silverstein's friend Clayton Fountain pulled the same handcuff trick and attacked three more guards in the control unit, fatally wounding Robert L. Hoffman Sr.<br /><br />Two federal officers slaughtered in one day, on what was supposed to be the most secure unit in the entire BOP, sent the system into shock. The bureau's response was to forge ahead with the long-considered plan to turn all of Marion into a control unit while whisking Silverstein and Fountain into even more restricted quarters. (Fountain died in 2004 at the age of 48).<br /><br />For years prison activists attempted to challenge the Marion lockdown in court, charging that the prison staff set about beating other prisoners and subjecting them to "forced rectal searches" as payback for the deaths of Clutts and Hoffman. In 1988, a federal judge ruled that the inmate accounts of staff brutality were simply not credible.<br /><br />By that point, Silverstein and the bureau were already on the road that would lead to ADX — a place where communication among inmates, and physical contact between inmates and staff, could be strictly controlled and all but eliminated.<br /><br />If the guard killings in Marion happened at any federal prison today, the perpetrators would almost certainly face the death penalty. Silverstein has suggested more than once that death would have been a more merciful option in his case.<br /><br />"Even though we may not execute people by the masses, as they do in other countries, our government leaders bury people alive for life in cement tombs," he writes. "It's actually more human to execute someone than it is to torture them, year, after year, after year."<br /><br />Silverstein's last taste of some kind of freedom came in the fall of 1987. Rioting Cuban prisoners broke into his special cell in the Atlanta federal penitentiary and set him loose. For one surreal week, he was able to roam the yard while the riot leaders dickered with federal negotiators over the release of more than a hundred prison staffers who'd been taken hostage.<br /><br />Then the Cubans jumped him, shackled him and turned him over to the feds. Surrendering Silverstein had been high on the BOP's list of demands for resolving the situation, right up there with releasing all hostages unharmed.<br /><br />Contrary to the bureau's expectations, Silverstein didn't butcher any guards during his precious days of liberty. He didn't harm anyone. He suggests the episode shows that he's not the killing machine the BOP says he is, and that he could exist in a less restrictive prison without resorting to violence.<br /><br />Terrible Tommy says he's changed. He claims to have gone 21 years without a disciplinary writeup. Other long-term solitaries go berserk, smearing their cells with feces and "gassing" their captors with shit-piss cocktails. Not him.<br /><br />"The BOP shrinks chalk it up as me being so isolated I haven't anyone to fight with," he writes, "but they're totally oblivious to all the petty BS that I could go off on if I chose to. I can toss a turd and cup of piss with the best of 'em if I desired. What are they going to do, lock me up?<br /><br />"But I just have more self-control now, after 25 years of yoga, meditation, studying Buddhism and taking some anger-management courses. All that goes unacknowledged."<br /><br />McMurray says her brother has learned a great deal about patience and suffering over the years. "He's more like the brother I knew on the outside years ago," she says. "I have spoken with the guards who deal with him every day, and they don't have a bad thing to say about him. It's the ones in administration who are trying to make it as difficult as they can for him.<br /><br />"But my brother has a spirit that is unbreakable. In Leavenworth, at least he could draw. It's been more of a challenge for him in this situation, but he hasn't let it break his spirit."<br /><br />Silverstein has told reporters that he wants to apologize to the families of the men he killed, "even though it was in self-defense." He has recanted some oft-quoted lines from his interviews with Earley about "smiling at the thought of killing Clutts" and feeling the hatred grow every time he was denied a phone call or a visit. He says he regrets the grief he's caused and no longer seethes with hatred.<br /><br />Silverstein has been cut off from the operations of the Aryan Brotherhood for decades. His story is still told among the faithful, in an effort to keep his memory alive among the younger members, but he disputes that the group is a white supremacist organization. His own paintings include an ethnically diverse array of portraits. "I think it's worth noting that Tommy is no longer a racist, if he ever was," says Prison Legal News editor Wright.<br /><br />Twice a year, prison officials hold a brief hearing to review Silverstein's placement in administrative segregation. For many years, the hearings were held in the corridor outside the Silverstein Suite in Leavenworth. Silverstein stopped attending because the result was always the same: no change. At ADX, he's taken to filing grievances, claiming that the move has left him more isolated, with fewer privileges than ever before.<br /><br />"I am being punished for good conduct under ploy of security reasons," he wrote last year in a formal appeal of his situation. "The goal of these units is clearly to disable prisoners through spiritual, psychological and/or physical breakdown."<br /><br />In his response, Warden Wiley pointed out that Silverstein is provided with food and medical care, "daily contact with staff members" and access to television, radio and reading materials.<br /><br />"It's ridiculous to call a nameless guard that shoves a food tray through the hole in the door...a source of meaningful 'human contact,'" Silverstein fired back. "I request placement in general population."<br /><br />He took his appeal to the regional office, then to headquarters, where it was swiftly denied. "You are serving three consecutive life terms plus 45 years for bank robbery and murder, including the murder of Bureau of Prisons staff," an administrator noted. "You are a member of a disruptive group and an escape risk. Your heinous criminal and institutional behavior warrant a highly individualized and restrictive environment."<br /><br />Wiley declines to comment on Silverstein's treatment at his prison. Last spring, a group from Human Rights Watch was allowed to tour certain areas of ADX. The group wasn't let in Z-Unit, where Silverstein lives, or anywhere near A-Unit — the "hole," where most disciplinary cases are housed. But they saw enough to realize that the staffers who bring meals "do not converse regularly, if at all, with the inmates." Despite claims that clinical psychologists checked on prisoners every other week, "several inmates said they had not spoken to a psychologist in many months," and such conversations tended to be brief.<br /><br />The group also reported that many ADX prisoners are trapped in a catch-22 predicament — they've been sent there directly after sentencing but have never been provided any opportunity to "progress" to a less restrictive setting because of the nature of their crime. Every placement review finds that the "reason for placement at ADX has not been sufficiently mitigated."<br /><br />"No matter how well they behave in prison, they cannot undo the past crimes that landed them in prison, generally, and then ADX, specifically," Human Rights Watch director Jamie Fellner wrote to BOP director Harley Lapin.<br /><br />Some crimes, it seems, are beyond redemption.<br /><br />Silverstein got a copy of the do-gooders' report and immediately fired off a letter to the group, suggesting that they come see him in Z-Unit if they want the real story about the government's "failed and draconian penal system."<br /><br />No one from the group has come to see him yet. Silverstein waits for them in his box within a box. He knows that the bureau just wants to bury him and that he turned the key himself. But he also knows he didn't build that box all on his own.<br /><br />His earliest possible date of release is eighty-eight years away. He has nothing but time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-5180881713368413172009-08-16T13:08:00.000-07:002010-05-22T20:16:32.399-07:00AB Members & Associates<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NmPiFxhpOa7IOJXuS82Pv5-F8NUQd66JhlgHDj84-XgT0BWoZV0R8m-yt3ohQLtl9KdncES6V1WubHPhNq0xXt2acJzP8zi-y4X6GtC96iQ7tBkUfwk4vSE0Wza0mc7LBmy20GnI6KJW/s400/sm11lede3c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698907784984162" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/barry-mills-14559-116.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barry Byron Mills</span></a><br />(a.k.a. “The Baron” or “McB”)<br /></div>An AB founder. Indicted for racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder — as well as actually carrying one out, the 1979 near-decapitation of inmate John Mazloff (for allegedly cheating fellow AB leader Thomas Silverstein in a drug deal). Eligible for the death penalty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkenglJUF2sD5Wc6G7qbqwrb5MFyvWnop2HPBHBTWIHtVUsTx6BHQU3BJzTPTLKew_qLfnTDAwLHF01JyIu9wdDKkDZnqzZrTYlqKQew0KmSl-KXYRmWPDEGpx4x2i9_bC3vmBrKwiBci/s400/sm11lede3d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698909814718018" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/tyler-bingham.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tyler Davis Bingham</span></a><br />(a.k.a. “T.D.” or “The Hulk”)<br /></div>An AB leader. Accused of ordering the murders and assaults of AB enemies and dropouts. Eligible for the death penalty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2vH0KA5m9AkDdWA6Ehi9YyUEXKg53gvb57SIwEJJSwiSFC6qO8R5pyHoy1Th0Tcq993lupXn4oJJxbvkw2DzhVeo-qLNyfNt7LlBbvLocupsLTbINMsP12IftxO1o3Jzua1wdadWjL1W/s400/Michael-McElhiney.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474297587123387954" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael “Big Mac” McElhiney</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">An AB chief that co-ran operations at the Marion Federal Penitentiary in Illinois.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqymnIwLO_dvAuz2e7iNbgQngA-OFOWQk0GtozuhUPSIzxsKcx5VqS-2w8eTy0gy-ZgRt66YWJo4kt20HtAaVY25fGGQcgemhGRbr4qlZj4ghnKGA2bdIV49v70kJuxZy9Z4KDKyqKQnW7/s400/sm11lede3n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699437880936674" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Overton Gibson</span><br /></div>Accused of attempted murder for restraining inmate Jeff Barnett while Steven Hicklin stabbed him. Last year, Gibson assaulted a Sheriff’s deputy while incarcerated at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. Eligible for death penalty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhWyMO0_dtWIF3FeVKUO5JbeEOllfQU5GxmbNo18EChf03MP6isKJ_CYhWrrmWBQ6wuNVeoWx1BrafaVnb9qZ_SBMDOdtE7pQoiwxCGc08zp4hjrkAM_L-KwREIph6HZ6pJur3Zj1HubX/s400/hevle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699445269519490" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edgar "The Snail" Hevle</span><br /></div>A former member of the three-man commission that oversaw the federal branch of the prison gang.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvatnT95HK2gLIPJ0ov9vKmRJ2Ylmz45Jc6iCKal4ccX2ME6N2m6cZxpoHOhDb7_m-SbWDrolJlbS5uiEVsSqr91luWw79mBMqppenvzigfP9R6bL8j0UZUPH-4ylKE7WX7M7-q3viZFyR/s400/sm11lede3e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698914256665026" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Lloyd Terflinger</span><br />(a.k.a. “Bart Simpson”)<br /></div>AB jailhouse lawyer. Eligible for the death penalty for conspiracy in the 1983 assassination of Temple City resident Richard “Lefty” Barnes because Barnes’ son Steven had testified against an AB member.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0B87ek-aCJN_uTZRCeDv76oaHbqjJxGSSUb2CnwokkKf77uRjMWz9DsHE2jkrGRJ6PuNmqC2mA5mRRidvSJbZZfeITwfS_HST9dODCk0qMWb87YHpHn44H-MnjHqcgqzujDcBI-PJZk8Y/s400/sm11lede3f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698921224016450" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ronald Boyd Slocum</span><br />(a.k.a. “Slo” or “McCool”)<br /></div>Prominent member who allegedly provided recently released AB members and associates with tasks to perform outside of prison. Alleged to have participated in murders for the AB as well as narcotics trafficking. Eligible for the death penalty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14tYyCFm6iZzS3VDB4xJyQ8smhIOjYndZwE5YvsVPLyi7unTdTHGGimwlzDbZxjCxNTaSu89btLuGX3dzb657QJuCOETjGAQvnUhtIYBIcCLVN24a5-We57-Njy9L6rrjwmOViRWo7v4L/s400/sm11lede3g.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698923649975554" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Glenn Richard Filkins</span><br />(a.k.a. “G”)<br /></div>Indicted for possessing an AB “oath” and a list of purported AB enemies who were targeted for assassination. Previously sentenced to life for the garroting of fellow prisoner Arva Lee “Baby” Ray.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKKqqnwCALI8t2mbeVSyk8PQ1F-wcBLSywoN90Igj_smhMMUqZY5xndh5V-SwxC91DMM7GJksmY2XHOHAQ2LpqRsD2nI5SYPIaf4WobKcK0L-vDoWkoGYCbhR9Aoj-BXZL6MCMWJJCp-f/s400/sm11lede3h.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699237028192034" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph Principe</span><br /></div>Former correctional officer for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, accused of arranging meetings between AB leaders. Previously incarcerated on charges of kidnapping and assault.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_50RQrjs5KMDk7UOAtfy9N7USdAntnoQY3FJStJ0BJAIEyThkdEUeYPwnjOhw1SC7RPed8luHf-AiwtCTLDbiEDEZH2DG-AQpQcDeJcowCY8b4r6esao407rd8_Y9_JHcolZN0p9a3Cp/s400/sm11lede3i.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699244104366258" border="0" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleo Roy</span><br />(a.k.a. “Elroy” or “Cow Hampshire”)<br /></div>At the age of 16, killed a police officer. While at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, allegedly murdered another AB member, Thomas Lamb, who had run afoul of the organization.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFW-jznfovxAEBdHhS0COlaoOEc4hyphenhyphenn1CRLjOxYl04nZE3lgd5UeuaaHhIeKsQv9Mph4qKpw4DeDY7WWVPiOAte8xPqpifP2JOz_2LoTVPXDBtplghuVWAfL9KLb7UTD_GYa4_EjJ_aQFr/s400/sm11lede3j.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699247273045698" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Alan Nyquist</span><br />(a.k.a. “Big Mark” or “Mark Owen”)<br /></div>A member of both the California and federal factions who allegedly was in charge of narcotics trafficking for the AB at Leavenworth.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDHY3g1nCl76lpfU00J6KgzF-Jvb_SK_ZN3KjcjuZCLtN4YX-LycUs4_PO6Al3FJDazk6iBkbuzrCASI4vq3XsGOd4b7FKjZA2WnZtGz6q1xr0kb3WeRgIb6OZOEAL3-S17kN9bfKzfiMF/s400/sm11lede3k.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699252676994642" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Donald Edward Kennedy</span><br /></div>An associate of the AB once incarcerated in the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta on kidnapping charges. Accused of murdering an AB member who had failed to follow the organization’s rules.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYjnAmYar7mxuXnVmUX65GSQMgyQyu_vjCEslbWDYvAlcNzVbCfOcwQxaB1k0Z_MFbEUh0jORJI-yJajvVOaxpK0ojkUt_GeUxLgSZtbaVnmmWWXP493fohLHOdHAXTzDP1zm6Z4Vua6-/s400/sm11lede3l.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699254264086594" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manuel “Larry” Jackson</span><br /></div>Reputed member of the Mexican Mafia, allegedly beat and stabbed another inmate to within an inch of his life for making disparaging comments about the AB.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWAt4Es_1f4MGaV8F70Om1mE5orPMi5s71vDECEvkEpOBHfwRDetAG-MTgrZJanOsBKfJ0iwqHDPQxkDU7nBOmCes88wT0P6IE_3T1sQ4W-4QawraObnY0iW1WjPx3jSY925Q3HF0iGlz/s400/sm11lede3m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367699436153384626" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steven William Hicklin</span><br /></div>Originally incarcerated in Colorado on charges of bank robbery. Accused of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing inmate Jeffrey Barnett.<br /><br /><hr style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The two killers that started SUPERMAX</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNHS3kN4jAJkHKrC_23yBRgQLFKNbonHw1IhSzevvuA30dVM7EMefUmvRcmH5p4WE-j0kh19i2sJHGEG9PwAD2RTTYRzwQQTp1fHjU43S13xKMCwH7jvjV8mwhvVjT-ekcV7juQnbWSl7/s400/fountain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377184689648757282" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/clayton-fountain-89129-132.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clayton Fountain</span></a><br />Called the “Most Dangerous Prisoner” in the federal system. (deceased)<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0pagp43WSW2N_txysXrDPHX6CH4LtIH-wspx6fUzu4owKOUsx5N_mIPbO93kLajzt7gw5oAbGwMN_TFRkDEPKXqVLxPL0uKN0oe3kCXi4gRriFPQihmnemR07eJTqnQziuC834HHe-SB/s400/tomsilverstein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377184698877792050" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-silverstein-14634-116.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Silverstein</span></a><br />One of the most notorious prisoners in the federal system.</div><br /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Founding Members of the AB</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX36rWQ1UyzfOdE5mEPRCWxTdEDx90OExXRY33MTS_flhVTAjKjlWReFEVQwoZxhcT3O0G4s56JQ28Toeh3cAuxwqU56GbSw5JtFJTcthZqrpJ8F5qQFZ8HoxmKLe-BYvYOxuZqceXhy9X/s800/dallas-scott.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/05/dallas-scott-aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dallas Scott</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (deceased)<br /><br /></span><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NmPiFxhpOa7IOJXuS82Pv5-F8NUQd66JhlgHDj84-XgT0BWoZV0R8m-yt3ohQLtl9KdncES6V1WubHPhNq0xXt2acJzP8zi-y4X6GtC96iQ7tBkUfwk4vSE0Wza0mc7LBmy20GnI6KJW/s400/sm11lede3c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367698907784984162" border="0" /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/barry-mills-14559-116.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barry Byron Mills</span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><hr /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/aryan-brotherhood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood</span></a>; <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-of-texas.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</span></a>; <a href="http://gangtaskforce.blogspot.com/2010/04/aryan-brotherhood-miscellaneous.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AB Trial 2006</span></a><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-35644150854574046192009-08-16T20:52:00.000-07:002010-05-16T21:10:45.546-07:00Dead Man Inc.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpgm1GGSeCuW3dQ2eeKuuNAbkpnzlhIyY9yk_itVVyZHAlu4zvyh4Du-jwmPmhZXsd1acTvw1O_mpo-8el58IvQEeEiRbzIKSADOhsa-2yb-9sWT6xfmv0Kl87JU0Drg1gU1Np7BDZ0F4/s1600-h/dmi-gang-tattoo-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpgm1GGSeCuW3dQ2eeKuuNAbkpnzlhIyY9yk_itVVyZHAlu4zvyh4Du-jwmPmhZXsd1acTvw1O_mpo-8el58IvQEeEiRbzIKSADOhsa-2yb-9sWT6xfmv0Kl87JU0Drg1gU1Np7BDZ0F4/s400/dmi-gang-tattoo-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384710021694103186" border="0" /></a><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 300px; height: 104px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5fTpvpuA4sw8DUYkGyO0gFq9qOwIqPJk3-YFlnlrC6_qbe3Lrpp5SFxHdmZD4i8JCS-QcIDU6VkP4ahs0ImDqQ6i1YAyuh-FEZp-c2rj9gbShJxPHvIBYI1ZjUl9Y57iRjuZdDpy8nek3/s400/dmi_gang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350846414648145010" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The roman numerals <span style="font-weight: bold;">IX-XIII-IX</span> </span>( 4-13-9 ) <span style="font-style: italic;">represent the letters DMI in the alphabet.</span><br /></div><br />According to the members, the gang was started by a man named Perry Roark, who court records show is from Bel Air and is currently being held at the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, known as Supermax. Roark, who is white, wanted to join the established Black Guerrilla Family, and though he was respected and knew BGF members, he was not allowed to join because of his race. So he started Dead Man Inc. in the late 1990s to serve as a white off-shoot of the BGF. The main beliefs were anti-government and anti-religion; homosexuals, rapists and snitches need not apply, members said.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdxvZAvkF-9aPQHffNvAFq1KwT9FFbzx2FR3m2x4MB6dBaX_KphA4H9MsBE-zXKgvwn3_iCMOoY-eG9oszkgyBMoh6Y2lkFwEt3dlDxwIF-XoWI7dTv52XIYu3SjO0geto6_u64G9tDry/s1600-h/dmi-leaders.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdxvZAvkF-9aPQHffNvAFq1KwT9FFbzx2FR3m2x4MB6dBaX_KphA4H9MsBE-zXKgvwn3_iCMOoY-eG9oszkgyBMoh6Y2lkFwEt3dlDxwIF-XoWI7dTv52XIYu3SjO0geto6_u64G9tDry/s400/dmi-leaders.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356115838669721234" border="0" /></a><br />The History Channel's "Gangland" series focused on Maryland's Dead Man Inc. The show listed two other co-founders - James Sweeney and Brian Jordan - who were sent to facilities in Texas and Louisiana, respectively, to break up the gangs activities. But according to the narrator, that only served to spread DMI's influence. The show claimed that DMI has 10,000 members nationwide.<br /><br />Among those interviewed on camera from behind prison walls were Ricky Tolson, 30, who said he is an "elder" in the gang, and a man named Kristopher "Little Kris" Horner. According to the state's inmate locater, Horner is being held at the Maryland Correctional Institute in Hagerstown, while Tolson has apparently been released since his interview.<br /><br />Tolson said DMI was in a recent "downward spiral because of infiltration by a lot of people who shouldn't be involved." Tolson, Horner and another member named William Kern said the gang was being overrun by new members who didn't share the group's core values and wouldn't back up others in fights. Members were committing acts of violence against fellow members, and no one knew who to trust. Tolson displayed scars from a stabbing carried out by a fellow member.<br /><br />Roark (the gang's leader) handed down an edict that members not abiding by the rules, or those who illegitimately claimed membership, had until April 13, 2009 to get out or face consequences.<br /><br />Law enforcement officers said the gang is headed for a turning point. Roark wants to keep the status quo and keep the gang affiliated with the BGF. But Sweeney, who is being held in Texas, wants the gang to move more toward white extremism.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">A faction of DMI, known as <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>POA or Power Over All</b></i></span> is moving into the white racist prison gang movement and has made alliances with the Aryan Brotherhood.<br /><br /><center><div style="width: 600px; height: 400px; overflow-y: scroll;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcihiY6tgySoNiu6MUJxlvQAD_G3Mit-vFSMMjndrrv71dieRiBh80NgeEBb6g3TrLW63b7NdgcCx9bExexIVjVbTuwDBc0cvWg0jyDb4SJBHxVUspSXLg1ALj4A8zF97xLkvsvP3eW084/s800/dead-man-inc.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcihiY6tgySoNiu6MUJxlvQAD_G3Mit-vFSMMjndrrv71dieRiBh80NgeEBb6g3TrLW63b7NdgcCx9bExexIVjVbTuwDBc0cvWg0jyDb4SJBHxVUspSXLg1ALj4A8zF97xLkvsvP3eW084/s800/dead-man-inc.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWx8MY3H5-ByOrygG9suOww30n7RF3b0MURU_bOirTSLjwYS8Zuv05NjrVXEkINLr57ayt8E7UQ2WJSaWujYSarPnW1IGRKwWEz2-zkQUYukyPcbD67CoG2oLVjW6ZlryjUCYmhgqfh6wV/s1600-h/dmi-gang-tattoo-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_D8cmoHl-G5SIL9sE11CVOhhkr2VN-y8IZ2hzmG5St4ZBalvzZ0iZQdNvx27LmdIwFdxrgfiIoIepBBrVX3HGlnymYVuCn-MqV9x6ePKPHNr6bnGXKsNe0HB9jJvWcvnD4S7kOTec2bG/s400/dawg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363744339323572978" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">DTID = Deadman Till I Die</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIsz59UgZidF63vpkALzrYSK8K4-uxggoBs2HstY7hSpezpHF5rIqIFdg4mMbi2ZXt_wJnav7vO7waEjsihUYE9N5R0hV7o5pzDJGJpGbS5BH4m2DGf0OJqphhXFA3s8wbb1TJ7pobmGB/s1600-h/soldier1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIsz59UgZidF63vpkALzrYSK8K4-uxggoBs2HstY7hSpezpHF5rIqIFdg4mMbi2ZXt_wJnav7vO7waEjsihUYE9N5R0hV7o5pzDJGJpGbS5BH4m2DGf0OJqphhXFA3s8wbb1TJ7pobmGB/s400/soldier1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369775431347451986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pitbull DAWG and the word "SOLDIER"<br />DAWG = DMI Against World Government<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqAAZ3dvQJvMhnNv3_sg1R-2DnSgGclCq_2nDRIylbZa8TxK1OEM-UYyeNzMQybLD7KQEIyLBSEbTZwIGW8nU_XHyteBKV-wKLKBNJ7uLR42pGYkyXBKIic_D17MkIJMrfediAgjko7J1/s1600-h/soldier2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxV7XZ-S0JpgvhqddzdaB8V4fCfs2FDrdpXGFIc8Kii18XnaZWW8BlfRzi-oMRU6i0C16L1gf1JzObTfVOfD-TdMYfKNF94edOodsHGpxgyYzwIP3Nr1Qrjftlgs_B1mklmqx8i1WT7q8m/s400/screenshot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363735687348269346" border="0" /></a><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/gangland-dmi-videos.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gangland: Dead Man Inc. (video)</span></a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-5093825471774388072009-11-10T07:49:00.000-08:002010-05-12T17:45:37.813-07:00Operation Black Biscuit<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWRACSi9p6PriWCM-elaUzMe2uBA5jF8hUtINO4Ml7T-QMUVYFgbm4lZ1jkdVBfkc6-hh6aCh47in_SxJHXKzxDPO3JhxPF5XrTbrBv-paXG7Hzh3QNi9jPr7jBaukPd0fgDzIrpynSho/s1600-h/Operation-Black-Biscuit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWRACSi9p6PriWCM-elaUzMe2uBA5jF8hUtINO4Ml7T-QMUVYFgbm4lZ1jkdVBfkc6-hh6aCh47in_SxJHXKzxDPO3JhxPF5XrTbrBv-paXG7Hzh3QNi9jPr7jBaukPd0fgDzIrpynSho/s400/Operation-Black-Biscuit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506757586274034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Operation Black Biscuit<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br />Key Players in Operation Black Biscuit</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Informers</span><br /><br />* Rudolph "Rudy" Kramer, 46, president of Tijuana-based Solo Angeles4 motorcycle club, infiltrated Hells Angels chapters statewide as Confidential Informant #790. Convicted of weapons violation.<br /><br />* Michael "Mesa Mike" Kramer, 38, former Hells Angels member, helped sting fellow bikers in Arizona and California as Confidential Informant #376. Pleaded guilty to murder.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bikers</span><br /><br />* Kevin Augustiniak, 24, member of Hells Angels charter in Mesa, indicted for murder, pleaded not guilty, trial pending.<br /><br />* Paul Eischeid, 33, prospect with the Mesa chapter, also indicted for murder, pleaded not guilty, trial pending.<br /><br />* Robert J. "Bad Bob" Johnston Jr., 48, former president of Mesa chapter, indicted for racketeering and conspiracy, pleaded not guilty.<br /><br />* Michael Coffelt, prospect at Cave Creek chapter in Phoenix, shot during law enforcement raid; charge of aggravated assault dismissed with prosecution appeal pending.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agents<br /><br /></span>* <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/11/jay-dobyns-aka-jaybird.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay "Jaybird" Dobyns</span></a>, Tucson special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; posed undercover as member of Tijuana-based Solo Angeles; supervised informer Rudy Kramer.<br /><br />* Joseph Slatalla, Phoenix ATF agent; also worked with Rudy Kramer.<br /><br />* John Ciccone, Los Angeles ATF agent, supervised informer Michael Kramer.<br /><br />The task force included six special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, plus detectives from the Phoenix, Tempe and Glendale police departments.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hells Angels Motorcycle Club</span><br /><br />The <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/07/hells-angels-motorcycle-club.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hells Angels Motorcycle Club</span></a> maintains chapters in 23 states and 25 foreign countries. There are 126 members in Arizona, plus dozens more associates, operating under six charters.<br /><br />The list includes one Nomad group with no home base, plus chapters in Phoenix, Mesa, Cave Creek (north Phoenix) Tucson and Skull Valley near Prescott.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sources: ATF reports and U.S. District Court records.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------------</div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Hells Angels: The Federal Infiltration</span><br /><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special42/articles/0123hellsangels23.html" target="_blank">The Arizona Republic</a> ®<br />by Dennis Wagner<br />Jan. 23, 2005<br /><br />The man's body lay crumpled in a ditch, face down, unidentifiable except for a blood-soaked leather jacket bearing the Mongols Motorcycle Club insignia.<br /><br />Burly, tattooed bikers stood around admiring their work, taking digital photographs under a blazing sun.Among them was Jay "Jaybird" Dobyns, who had told Arizona Hells Angels associates in advance that he and a companion were going to Mexico to kill a rival Mongols gang member.<br /><br />Two days later in a trailer near Prescott, Dobyns showed off the jacket and snapshots to admiring Hells Angels brothers, who announced that he would be adopted into the world's most notorious outlaw biker club without a required year-long probation.One of the men grabbed Dobyns and hugged him, saying, "How does it feel to be a Hells Angel?"<br /><br />The answer came six months later in the form of handcuffs and a criminal indictment. That's how Hells Angels learned that the Mexico homicide was a theatrical ruse: The Mongol was really a federal agent covered with cow's blood and very much alive. Dobyns was a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, working undercover.<br /><br />Operation Black Biscuit was touted as "...the most successful undercover operation ever pulled on an outlaw motorcycle club." In July 2003, three dozen Arizona suspects were charged with gunrunning, murder for hire and narcotics violations. Five months later, indictments charged 16 Arizona Hells Angels members and associates, including three chapter presidents, in racketeering, conspiracy, murder and drug dealing. Those arrests were synchronized with raids in Nevada, California, Alaska and Washington state netting scores of additional suspects.<br /><br />Today, there is little doubt that investigators risked their lives to penetrate the club known for its death-head logo and tough-guy attitude, or that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club across America's West was crippled. The National Association of Police Officers fetéd task force members with "Top Cop" Awards.<br /><br />But officials failed to mention serious problems with bikers who worked undercover for the government during the two-year sting. One informer used drugs, beat people up and lied to his handler. Another was arrested by state police and had to be pulled off the street. Both received questionable plea deals.<br /><br />While prosecutors and task force members declined comment, Hells Angels leaders and lawyers say Black Biscuit is a case study in the misuse of informers. As the case moves to trial this spring, records obtained by The Arizona Republic lend credence to that criticism and raise a question: Was Operation Black Biscuit an undercover success that took dangerous gangsters off the streets, an undercover sting that veered out of control or both?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Informer</span><br /><br />Hard-core detectives have a saying about going undercover: The best way to catch a sleazeball is with another sleazeball.<br /><br />Operation Black Biscuit began, according to ATF Special Agent Joseph Slatalla, with a drug-abusing felon who belonged to the Solo Angeles, a biker club based in Tijuana. A search warrant affidavit written by Slatalla refers to the man only as "CW," initials for cooperating witness. But court papers submitted by defense lawyers identify him as Rudolph "Rudy" Kramer, 46, of Queen Creek, a pony-tailed biker with 10 aliases and a felony rap sheet. Federal agents and prosecutors have not released the identities of informers or commented on their roles in the case.<br /><br />It is unclear when Kramer joined the Solo Angeles, but records show the sheetmetal worker moved to Arizona in the 1990s looking for a new life. According to a sentencing memo by defense lawyer James Park, Kramer found his answer in Jesus and a job making helicopters.<br /><br />"He and his wife wanted, and began to have, a normal life..." Park wrote. "They attended church together...Rudy was on his way to walking away from his past and joining 'Middle America.'"<br /><br />Instead, Kramer wound up walking into the arms of federal agents. Park blamed a sleeping disorder and a doctor's misguided prescription: Kramer, who suffered from narcolepsy, was given Desoxyn (methamphetamine) in September 2001 and promptly consumed a 40-day supply of pills in 48 hours. The result: psychotic behavior and an arrest by ATF agents for weapons violations.<br /><br />Court records indicate that Kramer, with a baby at home and facing a long prison term, played the defendant's trump card: He agreed to become, in the criminals' vernacular, a "snitch", infiltrating outlaw biker gangs. In arraignment papers, a federal magistrate noted Kramer's long drug history and wrote, "Substance abusers, especially those who use meth, are inherently unreliable and untrustworthy."<br /><br />That warning did not deter ATF agents. Two months after the arrest, charges were dismissed. Kramer was out of jail, on the loose and dealing in meth and guns again. Only this time he was operating under the color of law.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Getting in deep</span><br /><br />As president of Solo Angeles, Kramer burrowed into Arizona's criminal biker world, making drug and firearm contacts in Tucson, Phoenix, Mesa, Bullhead City and Prescott.He was so busy, in fact, that a pair of Hells Angels intelligence gatherers showed up at his Queen Creek house in June 2002 and announced that they had been sent to interrogate him.<br /><br />Kramer crafted an answer that appealed to the rivalry with the Mongols Motorcycle Club: According to ATF records, he said he was arming the Solo Angeles in Mexico to combat a Mongols chapter there. He also said he wanted the Solo Angeles in Arizona to collaborate with the Hells Angels on narcotics and weapons smuggling.<br /><br />The story worked. In July 2002, Kramer met with Robert "Bad Bob" Johnston Jr., president of the Mesa club, and began introducing ATF agents as members of Solo Angeles to Hells Angels leaders statewide.Months of drug trafficking, gun dealing and partying ensued. Task force members set up undercover houses and used hidden cameras to film biker parties. They helped plan warfare with Mongols. They were offered drugs, frisked for wires and forced to strip before trafficking in methamphetamines and firearms.<br /><br />One undercover agent got so tight with Hell Angels' leaders that Johnston treated him as a confidant, sharing information he hadn't even divulged to the club's Cice President. ATF records show that as operatives conducted black-market business for the investigation, Arizona Hells Angels chapters waged a secret recruitment competition, inviting the undercover agents to become prospects. They were guests at Hells Angels' funerals and weddings. They took part in an annual biker parade past Florence prisons.<br /><br />They even posed for snapshots with Sonny Barger, the iconic king of outlaw bikers.Barger, who faces no charges in Operation Black Biscuit, declined comment except for a terse criticism of law enforcement tactics: "It's too bad they get away with what they're doing."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Sting</span><br /><br />In an undercover sting, security is essential. One slip-up could be fatal to informers and agents. And, as the case evolved, Rudy Kramer became a liability.<br /><br />On Sept. 6, 2002, Department of Public Safety officers stopped his car near an Apache Junction meth factory and found drug paraphernalia inside. No new charges were filed, but within days the old firearm indictment was reinstated and Kramer was incarcerated. Word soon leaked from prison that Kramer was talking to federal agents behind bars. Johnston, the Mesa Hells Angels president, confided to an undercover operative that Kramer might have to be "shanked" in prison.<br /><br />About that time, Hell Angels leaders in Arizona began hearing rumors from Southern California that the Solo Angeles in Arizona were imposters and should not be trusted.Black Biscuit task force members came up with an ingenious plan to ensure credibility. In mid-June 2003, Dobyns put out word that he and another Solo Angel were heading to Mexico to battle Mongols. After a murder scene was concocted in Phoenix, Dobyns called Arizona leaders of the Hells Angels to report that his lethal mission in Sonora was accomplished.<br /><br />"The girl down here blew a head gasket.", he explained in code, adding that his companion was killed in the gunplay.The ruse solidified the Solo Angeles status with bikers.Meanwhile, Kramer filed a guilty plea in court and wrote a letter to the judge begging for leniency: "Your honor, I give my word I will never again come in contact with, own, buy, sell or in any way possess another firearm or weapon for the remainder of my life. I swear to you and my Heavenly Father, this is true."He was sentenced to five years in prison and vanished, apparently into protective custody.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Biker respect</span><br /><br />Rudy Kramer wasn't the only government plant. Federal agents unwittingly signed up a murderer as well. On Oct. 27, 2001, the Mesa Hells Angel chapter held its weekly "church meeting": a membership assembly at the clubhouse in a residential area near the city's heart. After official business was completed, the bikers began to party. A Hells Angels prospect was instructed to go out and find women. He returned with 44-year-old Cynthia Yvonne Garcia, who joined the festivities.<br /><br />As the evening progressed, Garcia began "talking trash" about club members and their patches. ATF reports say one of the bikers, 38-year-old Michael Christopher Kramer (no known relation to Rudy) grabbed Garcia by the hair and warned her be respectful. She kept lipping off, so Hells Angels member Kevin Augustiniak allegedly knocked her to the floor and began kicking her face, joined by Paul Eischeid, a prospect at the club.<br /><br />ATF records say a semiconscious Garcia was loaded in the trunk of a car, driven to Usury Pass Road near the Salt River and dragged into bushes. Augustiniak and Eischeid purportedly stabbed her more than two dozen times. Michael Kramer heard gurgling noises and felt Garcia grab his pant leg. He was given a knife and slashed at her neck. Augustiniak allegedly tried to sever the woman's head, but failed. The corpse was found on Halloween.<br /><br />Michael Kramer had been a Hells Angel for five years, and a member of Arizona's Dirty Dozen biker club before that. Yet, one month after the killing, he met with Los Angeles ATF Agent John Ciccone and, without disclosing his crime, offered to become an informer. It was an offer the lawman did not refuse.<br /><br />Testifying at a federal drug trial in California, Kramer claimed he started working for the ATF to avoid prison and to be safe from his accomplices. "I got a conscience," he added. "...What happened out there in the desert was screwed up."<br /><br />Despite pangs of conscience, Kramer told Ciccone only that he had information on a "hypothetical" incident in Arizona, without providing details. The upshot: On Dec. 1, 2001, the government enlisted a killer as a paid operative. Michael Kramer quit his job as a garbage-truck driver, moved to the San Fernando Valley and began to infiltrate the Hells Angels there, playing the role of an Arizona drug runner.<br /><br />Federal taxpayers covered Kramer's rent, utilities and other living expenses. He was given cash to buy guns and drugs, plus an extra $500 a week. The informer contract prohibited him from breaking laws except when authorized by agents as part of the sting, a provision he ignored.<br /><br />Behind Ciccone's back, Kramer repeatedly got high on meth and gave it to bikers, strippers and others. He beat a man with a baseball bat and left a biker dead on the freeway in a traffic accident. He also lured an untold number of people into drug deals.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Better Knives</span><br /><br />Two months after Michael Kramer became a confidential informer, he offered to help solve the hypothetical crime in Arizona.He wanted immunity. Agents wanted to crack an unsolved murder case. A deal was struck.<br /><br />Kramer came back to Mesa bearing a pair of expensive knives as gifts for his alleged accomplices. In a recorded conversation with Eischeid, he joked that sharper blades would make decapitation a breeze: "I figured this time, you know, instead of having to do it 50 times, we could just (take) one good one and a good (expletive) twist."<br /><br />"Yeah," Eischeid agreed, "...these are (expletive) great knives."Kramer also brought a knife to Augustiniak, who discussed the likelihood of getting caught. "If you turn out to become a rat on the whole deal, well, then you'll get handled the way she was handled." he said."Same to you, brother." Kramer answered.<br /><br />In January 2003, 14 months after Michael Kramer became an operative, he signed a plea agreement to serve five years of probation for murder, but not one day behind bars.Eischeid and Augustiniak, who pleaded not guilty, are awaiting trial.Family members of Garcia, the murder victim, could not be reached for comment.Michael Kramer was unavailable, apparently under federal protection.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Legal Battles</span><br /><br />By midsummer 2003, Operation Black Biscuit had run its course. Top Justice Department officials decided to spring their enormous trap, raiding Hells Angels clubhouses, homes and businesses throughout the West. Hundreds of law officers were brought in to conduct searches, arrest suspects and turn the Hells Angels inside out.<br /><br />D-Day was July 8. At 4:42 a.m., Glendale police SWAT officers with an armored vehicle and a videographer moved into position outside headquarters for the Hells Angels Cave Creek charter on a quiet residential street in north Phoenix. Club prospect Michael Coffelt was alone inside, on security duty, when bedlam struck. A voice yelled, "Police! Police!" The armored vehicle rammed through a wall. Officers shot a backyard dog. Flash-bang grenades sailed through the clubhouse window.<br /><br />Coffelt opened the front door. Amid the confusion, Glendale police Officer Laura Beeler, stationed just outside with a rifle, pulled the trigger repeatedly, hitting Coffelt with bullets and shrapnel.The takedown, practiced at a mock clubhouse, lasted 14 seconds. Coffelt survived to face a charge of aggravated assault after Beeler reported he had shot first. A gun found beside Coffelt had not been fired.<br /><br />Last month, Judge Michael Wilkinson of Maricopa County Superior Court ruled that the police raid was really an unlawful "attack" and dismissed charges against Coffelt, a decision being appealed by prosecutors. The judge found that Beeler's actions were understandable under the chaotic circumstances. Reviews by the Glendale Police Department and County Attorney's Office cleared the officer. Coffelt has filed a civil suit.<br /><br />In the scheme of things, it was a minor victory for the Hells Angels. But club members and lawyers say the raid was symbolic of law enforcement practices throughout Operation Black Biscuit.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Truth by Trial</span><br /><br />In Arizona alone, the government assembled 800 hours of bugged conversations, 92,000 phone calls and 8,500 seized documents to prove that Hells Angels is a criminal enterprise.<br /><br />Investigators confiscated computers and files containing drug ledgers, membership lists, meeting minutes and bylaws. They seized 600 guns along with silencers, explosives, drugs, stolen vehicles, cash and a human skull. The combined evidence paints many Hells Angels as violent, cop-hating, drug-dealing, gunrunning criminals.<br /><br />As the prosecution rumbles toward an April trial in U.S. District Court, some defendants are expected to cut plea deals. Others are trying to get charges thrown out because of government wrongdoing, especially the role of informers.<br /><br />Defense attorneys argue that operatives who duped their ATF handlers may have entrapped Hells Angels suspects and are likely to lie under oath in court. They complain that task force members went on America's Most Wanted to brag about their big sting, yet prosecutors won't formally identify the snitches or divulge their deals.<br /><br />"The conduct of the government violates, irreparably, the rights of the defendants to due process, to a fair and impartial jury.", defense attorney Mark Paige wrote.<br /><br />Michael Kramer's character is especially problematic. In the California drug case, prosecutors were forced to admit that their paid informer used drugs, assaulted people and lied throughout the operation. If ATF agents cannot trust their operatives, Hells Angels lawyers ask, why should a judge or jury believe anything they say?<br /><br />"Based on what I've seen, this is not a racketeering case," said Brian Russo, an attorney for Johnston, the Mesa charter president. "This is overstepping by the government."<br /><br />In court papers, prosecutor Michael Kemp answered that informers were never asked to lie except as part of the sting. He said their testimony is backed by tape recordings, photos, statements from agents and physical evidence. He explained that agents appeared on America's Most Wanted for a legitimate purpose: seeking public help to track down fugitives. In short, Kemp argued, the deceit by informers is not grounds to squelch a huge criminal case.<br /><br />Today, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club appears to be a shambles: leadership behind bars, mystique broken, organizational records in government hands. Prosecutors are trying to gain ownership of chapter houses by having the entire Arizona club labeled a criminal enterprise.<br /><br />Legal jousting continues from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and elsewhere. In Phoenix, Judge David Campbell of the U.S. District Court in Arizona has sided mostly with prosecutors. But it remains to be seen whether Operation Black Biscuit will go down as a historic undercover success, or a sting that went bad.<br /><br />Dennis Wagner - <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special42/articles/0123hellsangels23.html" target="_blank">The Arizona Republic</a> ®Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-9059447212693646202009-06-21T10:35:00.000-07:002010-05-12T17:39:40.454-07:00Warlocks Motorcycle Club<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4MqYElaunIemYqDp7wbJ9T6WQbuPgF_7hmMCzPhBixuSL0FiM63lJI7fBFHEhqQcmG_efGDA62UeEEFn346krBbAwnPfZ9xxSUyjmMSVGVpx2U5FkJ0KTMTws8UhY6St7mWFCLPgpRA/s1600/warlocks-mc-florida.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4MqYElaunIemYqDp7wbJ9T6WQbuPgF_7hmMCzPhBixuSL0FiM63lJI7fBFHEhqQcmG_efGDA62UeEEFn346krBbAwnPfZ9xxSUyjmMSVGVpx2U5FkJ0KTMTws8UhY6St7mWFCLPgpRA/s400/warlocks-mc-florida.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470546186173362386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida Warlocks MC</span><br /></div><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Warlocks Motorcycle Club</span> is the name used by a number of motorcycle clubs in the United States and other countries. The two most notable clubs which use the name were both founded in 1967, one in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida</span> and one in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pennsylvania</span>.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Warlocks MC</span>, or Warlock Nation, is a "one-percenter" motorcycle gang with chapters in various parts of the United States, England and Germany. The club was established by Tom "Grub" Freeland, an ex-US Navy sailor, on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida in 1967 and the Mother Chapter is still based there. They have over nine chapters in Florida, five in South Carolina, three in Virginia, two in West Virginia, one in New York, two in Lincolnshire, England and one in Germany. There are also several Nomads who live and work in states that don't have Warlocks chapters. The club's insignia is a Phoenix sandwiched between the top and bottom rockers, and their colors are black, red and yellow. Their mottos include "To find us... you must be good, to catch us... you must be fast, to beat us... you must be kidding" and "Warlocks forever, forever Warlocks" ("W.F.F.W.").<br /><br />Established: Summer 1967 in Orlando, Florida, United States<br />Founder: Tom "Grub" Freeland<br />Years active: 1967-present<br />Territory: East Coast of the United States. Also chapters in England and Germany.<br />Ethnicity: White<br />Membership: 500+<br />Criminal activities: Drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution and arms dealing<br />Allies: Hells Angels, Sons of Silence and Vagos<br />Rivals: Outlaws and Pagans<br /><br />The Warlocks were investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 1991, after Steve Martin, an undercover agent, infiltrated the club, and several members were arrested and convicted of drug trafficking, gun running, murder and a number of other charges. Again, in 2003 the ATF investigated the Warlocks, and convicted several members of drug and weapon charges once more.<br /><br />There is one non-affiliated Warlocks club in central Johannesburg in South Africa. It is essentially a split from the Satan's Saints (which was a split from the Hells Angels some years ago).<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">------------------------------<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-zoUgylS1xen-PZbJLBx05qBi78NfITkKcgrtWxe0UJiwJEF2IpVcdZdONERNoL47ZO96xGyV6wE5YfBy_S3EnStlPQ6yZcz3bpiH28icMDJQTFeygCpyFoOdFGk4CaOcgt8N01buwM/s1600/pa-warlocks-mc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-zoUgylS1xen-PZbJLBx05qBi78NfITkKcgrtWxe0UJiwJEF2IpVcdZdONERNoL47ZO96xGyV6wE5YfBy_S3EnStlPQ6yZcz3bpiH28icMDJQTFeygCpyFoOdFGk4CaOcgt8N01buwM/s400/pa-warlocks-mc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470545151956712082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pennsylvania Warlocks MC</span><br /></div><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/warlocks-motorcycle-club.html"><br /></a> <div class="post-header-line-1"> <span class="post-labels"> </span> </div>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pennsylvania</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Warlocks MC</span> is "one-percenter" motorcycle gang that was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1967. It was the first official outlaw motorcycle club founded in Pennsylvania. and there are now chapters throughout the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Ohio areas. They bear "colors" that are unique to the other Warlocks organizations and are the first of the known Warlocks to possess the 1%er diamond patch, worn on their "colors" over their hearts.<br /><br />The club's insignia is a Harpy, a legendary winged creature in Greek mythology, and their colors are red and white. The club expanded rapidly at the end of the Vietnam War when thousands of ex-soldiers returned to the United States, many to Pennsylvania, feeling outcast from society. Members of the club must be White males.<br /><br />Established: February 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States<br />Years active: 1967-present<br />Territory: Northeastern United States<br />Ethnicity: White<br />Membership: 100+<br />Criminal activities: Assault, Drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, murder, and arms dealing<br />Allies: Pittsburgh and Philadelphia crime families<br />Rivals: Outlaws, Hells Angels, Pagans and The Breed<br /><br />They have been associated with gang violence and organized crime and have allegedly participated in drug trafficking, extortion, and various other illegal acts, sometimes for higher criminal organizations. A number of their members have been convicted of crimes including murder, assault and drug trafficking. They are especially known for their violent conflicts with members of other motorcycle clubs, including the Pagans and the Breed.<br /><br />In 2008, Tommy Zaroff, 34, a former President of the Bucks County chapter of the Warlocks was arrested on suspicion of possessing ten pounds of methamphetamine and on February 4, 2009, Daniel "Dirty Dick" McElheney, 64, was arrested after his home was raided by police. Police seized six rifles, ten handguns and various illegal drugs.<br /><br />In October 2008, four Warlocks members were arrested and charged with producing, transporting and distributing methamphetamine throughout Berks and Montgomery Counties. They sold over 500 pounds of methamphetamine, worth around $9 million.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-28067840308034351072009-05-21T08:34:00.000-07:002010-05-10T19:06:48.695-07:00Chicago Gaylords<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAwd9zxNTF4szLTIjF9S_6ouBIibGGIas4zW-b2izAZQF_hUax1JJ3Xmu02GZd8cv-O5mGvNCfxZ4y1-8TySYWoOXIxgLip9ioLsTlzNFkIB7qa-0VFrPQzjJzlDLE_Mos0T-6K7HrooZ/s1600-h/gaylords.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAwd9zxNTF4szLTIjF9S_6ouBIibGGIas4zW-b2izAZQF_hUax1JJ3Xmu02GZd8cv-O5mGvNCfxZ4y1-8TySYWoOXIxgLip9ioLsTlzNFkIB7qa-0VFrPQzjJzlDLE_Mos0T-6K7HrooZ/s400/gaylords.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373554853839461906" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Almighty </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gaylords</span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Chicago's Almighty Gaylords</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">G</span>rand <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>venue <span style="font-weight: bold;">Y</span>oung <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lords</span>, is one of Chicago's oldest white street gangs, that started in the early 1950s. The gang was originally a neighborhood club. Like other clubs of that era, Gaylords had their own clubhouse and baseball team. The Gaylords clubhouse was on the corner of Ohio and Noble Street. The gang would eventually leave that area as the neighborhood's population became less white and more Hispanic.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xYGmq-d5rOkHwjb2AZsxeJR0jBmWXe0p-HDA1dkbDuO2L_8rXqpE94W8Jb7D4J19wAYjOdIIt4RHzlVld4DReIGuwPTOTyKU-gvgFjV_CFx9yPH0pyzEA4w6UN9QxYqJRHD2d4ZkJY3t/s1600-h/gl-spooky.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 321px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xYGmq-d5rOkHwjb2AZsxeJR0jBmWXe0p-HDA1dkbDuO2L_8rXqpE94W8Jb7D4J19wAYjOdIIt4RHzlVld4DReIGuwPTOTyKU-gvgFjV_CFx9yPH0pyzEA4w6UN9QxYqJRHD2d4ZkJY3t/s400/gl-spooky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373793333385730514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gaylord wizard tattoo<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">Throughout the 1960-70s, Gaylords, like many other white neighborhood gangs, took a pro-white stance - not white supremacy - but a white pride attitude, that said “We are white, and we're proud of our heritage!” The Hispanic gangs used "Spanish" and "Latin" in their names, so this was done to separate themselves from the gangs they were fighting against at that time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKz-042-4EgLwy1tH5_79V0up0ALQ4pPiWaOysMQ6P4uQioDv5uFXTs_53tCigAoxA4xYVPYE-Iy3WTU7QHUCFMm_65XPmhxkSDSrPeH5CeAclRzbMiUp9T79YNp4K-PuYmBMxMUau5BB/s1600-h/gaylord-freak-cross.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKz-042-4EgLwy1tH5_79V0up0ALQ4pPiWaOysMQ6P4uQioDv5uFXTs_53tCigAoxA4xYVPYE-Iy3WTU7QHUCFMm_65XPmhxkSDSrPeH5CeAclRzbMiUp9T79YNp4K-PuYmBMxMUau5BB/s400/gaylord-freak-cross.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382118501674191538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gaylord fire cross</span><br /></div><br />At one point during the 1970s, the gang had over a thousand active members. Gaylords held sets (or sections) in both the North Side and the South Side of Chicago. Their South Side sections included Back of the Yards (around 55th and Ashland, Sherman Park), Marquette Park, Pilsen (18th and Western), and Bridgeport (Throop Street). Their North Side presence included Humboldt Park (Maffat and Campbell), Logan Square (Palmer and California, Lawndale and Altgeld), Uptown (Sunnyside and Magnolia, Lawrence and Broadway), Kilbourn Park, and Ravenswood (Seeley and Ainslie).<br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvygNBleMSJLg4G4p3oY7aJtYJ4cY09JkFrlUUfjflTVE3SzYjP8hfXLYYQ67DuzHEoqdKx95XQPdSFFCOvFg2h38jninKqVcmHbnQQ5EcY4ho_dXOUYAJSMJp2XTOgguiQylEVX-fshG/s1600-h/gl-handsign.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvygNBleMSJLg4G4p3oY7aJtYJ4cY09JkFrlUUfjflTVE3SzYjP8hfXLYYQ67DuzHEoqdKx95XQPdSFFCOvFg2h38jninKqVcmHbnQQ5EcY4ho_dXOUYAJSMJp2XTOgguiQylEVX-fshG/s400/gl-handsign.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374658284549118594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">G/L handsign<br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span>The Gaylords experienced continual growth throughout the early 1980s, and held their neighborhoods while most white families moved to the suburbs (white flight). The gentrification of their neighborhoods diminished the gang's ability to recruit new members. In 1984, Gaylords joined the "People Nation" gang alliance, that's predominantly black and Hispanic. </span><span></span><span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Identifiers/symbols:</span><br /><br />* initials "GL"<br />* numbers "7-12"<br />* latin cross w/two dashes<br />* wizard/grim reaper<br /><span>* five-point star<br />* cane (</span><span>seldom used</span><span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Colors:</span> black and light blue, or black and gray<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Ethnicity:</span> predominantly white<br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Territory:</span> Chicago area, </span><span>Midwest</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Allies:</span> Jousters, Freaks, People Nation (Latin Kings, Vice Lords, etc)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rivals:</span> Folk Nation (<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/simon-city-royals.html">Simon City Royals</a>, Gangster Disciples, Latin Disciples, etc)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Criminal activities:</span> drug possession, armed-robbery, weapons violation, assault, murderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-60536857388302003482010-04-10T11:42:00.000-07:002010-05-10T11:42:49.533-07:00Mongols MC<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMING SOON</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-6706584580622541292009-05-24T03:27:00.000-07:002010-05-09T08:40:22.708-07:00SAW: Silent Aryan Warriors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoOCUXrC8cDhMfclLFpTWHRj70VnUu6oWvshCMOWLBqVdTKNGm-iPYo0RoVDVD3RsmhQaT5Id9777_RJXn2WyQEL2C3gr_Qpy13kv_CNIP0KCCsymZh8JcYEYg0fwsV1aNkwgkyTOZ1AEI/s1600-h/saw_gang_indentification.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoOCUXrC8cDhMfclLFpTWHRj70VnUu6oWvshCMOWLBqVdTKNGm-iPYo0RoVDVD3RsmhQaT5Id9777_RJXn2WyQEL2C3gr_Qpy13kv_CNIP0KCCsymZh8JcYEYg0fwsV1aNkwgkyTOZ1AEI/s400/saw_gang_indentification.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350843837804412354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Silent Aryan Warriors</span> (SAW) originated in the Utah prisons in the 1990s, and is the largest white supremacist gang in the Utah State prison system. It's known for its involvement in the methamphetamine trade. Law enforcement officials have reported a rash of crimes linked to SAW, particularly identity/mail theft, where personal checks are taken from homes and public letter boxes, then “washed” and forged. Mail theft has increasingly been linked to methamphetamine addicts and white supremacist gangs—more than 30 SAW and <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/soldiers-of-aryan-culture.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Soldiers of Aryan Culture</span></a> members have been arrested on methamphetamine and mail fraud charges.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiev6reZ7uGklTIxnlM0_-UcIaCyuWRwwaZVCjM5PekGX4IP6hBtdG0nh0b6-SLSjVSm97sHRzUEHwmmo55YZjeGtDjmGBALbtoTV9-J14_d0Zx6IKGK8Mon09mZ4jIrwjj2iXigjW5eGrH/s800/Tatoo-White-Supremacist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiev6reZ7uGklTIxnlM0_-UcIaCyuWRwwaZVCjM5PekGX4IP6hBtdG0nh0b6-SLSjVSm97sHRzUEHwmmo55YZjeGtDjmGBALbtoTV9-J14_d0Zx6IKGK8Mon09mZ4jIrwjj2iXigjW5eGrH/s800/Tatoo-White-Supremacist.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Utah's white supremacist groups are not as wedded to racist philosophies as they are to drugs</span> - particularly methamphetamine - and money, two gang experts said Thursday.<br /><br />"Everything about these guys is just meth, meth and meth," said Ogden police Detective Tony Hansen, a member of the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force. "They're not the neo-Nazis you see on TV."<br /><br />Hansen and Detective Brent Jex, a West Jordan police officer and member of the Salt Lake Area metro gang unit, spoke Thursday at the 2003 Gang Conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Aimed mainly at law enforcement, the conference is sponsored by the metro gang unit.<br /><br />There are five major supremacist gangs in Utah — the Soldiers of Aryan Culture, the Silent Aryan Warriors, Fourth Reich, American Peckerwoods and Krieger Verwandt.<br /><br />Their members are "really into dope and ripping people off" despite their sometimes prominently displayed racist tattoos, Hansen said.<br /><br />The crimes they commit are more likely to be drug-related than triggered by racism, he said — home invasions to collect owed drug debts, for example. Members have also been known to dabble in identity theft.<br /><br />And Utah's white supremacists are not averse to hooking up with Latino gangs or those of other races for drug-related business deals. "When it comes to meth, they don't care," Jex said. "It's funny to see how they're trying to portray themselves and how they actually are."<br /><br />At least one of the groups also sought to align itself with a national white supremacy organization, the World Church of the Creator, Jex said. But "a lot of the national groups are looking at them and saying, 'You guys are a mess,' " he said.<br /><br />"I have no doubt there are some that have the [white supremacist] belief system," he said. "But they don't follow it."<br /><br />Utah's white supremacist groups originated in state prisons or jails, mostly during the 1990s, the officers said.<br /><br />They continue to flourish there today, although some people join the groups for protection in prison and disavow them when released, Hansen said.<br />- Source: Meth Fuels Supremacist Utah Gangs, The Salt Lake Tribune, Apr. 25, 2003<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> There are four principal white supremacist groups in Utah:</span> Silent Aryan Warriors (SAW), Soldiers of Aryan Culture (SAC), 4th Reich, and Krieger Verwandt (KV). The origins of these groups can be traced to Utah correctional facilities in the 1990s.<br /><br />Police say most people who join a white supremacist group in prison do it for protection and survival, not necessarily because they share racist beliefs.<br /><br />Despite the accusations of violence that surround them, white supremacist members will try to pass off their organizations as nothing more than a fraternity, Johnson said. But, he added, they're only doing that to try to divert attention.<br /><br />"These people are dangerous," Johnson said. "These groups are not fraternities."<br /><br />SAC is the biggest Aryan Nation group in Utah — and the most violent, Draper said. There are estimated to be more than 150 SAC members in the state.<br /><br />Members have established a SAC chapter in Sunset, where many members head after they are paroled, Davis County sheriff's detective Ty Berger said. There are also reports that SAC wants to use Box Elder County as its home base and has secured a compound in a secluded area, Brigham City police Cpl. Jeff Johnson said.<br /><br />SAW is the second-biggest group, followed by 4th Reich and KV. Because KV isn't as well-organized as the other gangs, Draper said that group is apparently being taken over by 4th Reich. Police say 4th Reich has been the most active in recruiting members in and out of prison.<br /><br />American Peckerwood and Lone Wolf are two other small white supremacist gangs in Utah that are merging with 4th Reich, according to law enforcers.<br />- Source: Racist groups catching Utah's eye: Police see rise in activity of white supremacy gangs, Deseret News, Sep. 7, 2002<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Criminal exploits turn deadly</span><br />On October 9, 2001, members of the Silent Aryan Warriors kidnapped a man in Salt Lake County. The gang members covered his head and upper torso with a sheet, wrapped his wrists and ankles with duct tape, and drove him to a rural area. One gang member dragged the man thirty feet off the road and dropped an eighty-three pound rock on his head, killing him. The police found the gang member who committed the murder. The court then sentenced him to consecutive prison terms of five years to life and fifteen years to lifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-75897252167316044022009-06-28T21:09:00.000-07:002010-05-05T17:16:06.213-07:00Gangland: Dead Man Inc. (video)<center><br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/KVcnXfYC4zA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/KVcnXfYC4zA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 1</span><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/AGuM5A-OGDk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/AGuM5A-OGDk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 2</span><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xnGtUX_F74g&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xnGtUX_F74g&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 3</span><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/oft1uROu2z8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/oft1uROu2z8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 4</span><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/cNkzwgisyUs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/cNkzwgisyUs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 5</span><br /><br /></center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-49098162181085552092010-04-03T13:27:00.000-07:002010-05-04T00:20:08.959-07:00GITF FORUMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-14110836633405895822010-04-19T22:14:00.000-07:002010-05-04T00:19:06.563-07:00Trivia<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-4832282947563562902009-06-22T11:22:00.000-07:002010-05-03T13:20:45.808-07:00JukeboxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-35546406657563012982010-04-19T20:40:00.000-07:002010-04-30T11:26:52.493-07:00Links<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.gangsorus.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.GangsOrUs.com</span></a><br />Excellent website that covers all prison & street gangs.<br /></div><hr style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://chicagogangs.org/index.php?pr=Chicago_Gangs" target="_blank">www.ChicagoGangs.org</a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Street gang tattoos & data. It's important to note that most gangs originated in Chicago and California.</span><br /><hr /><a href="http://www.gangink.com/index.php?pr=GANG_LIST" target="_blank">www.GangInk.com</a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">More Chicago gang tattoos</span><br /><hr /><a href="http://gangs.globalincidentmap.com/home.php" target="_blank">Gangs.GlobalIncidentMap.com</a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Interesting website that displays current data</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">on gangs & etc.</span><br /></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/gang-identification-posters.html">Gang Identification Posters<br /></a></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latinoprisongangs.blogspot.com/2010/04/mexicanhispanic-gang-tattoos.html">Mexican/Hispanic Gang Tattoos</a><br /></div><hr /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gang Identification Task Force websites</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpcEa6yosYcqoIIj43FA3eYhVTXJsnVNPzZZhjhXGFxiPMLSVeBFZUhTD3-FyPV2FOstRbRQpcfRsqWpDC92K5Pi15yEhGhnlGo9wU417vHAKvcatcUWi29eq4EQbUOuqMfvWHLAOOGa-A/s800/black-prison-gangs.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://blackprisongangs.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: white;">BLACK PRISON GANGS</a><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqpYLDI8vBsVU52IEIjAjdQokznqeQhYCl0yL-T5uhmMu8aZTesAWw_rqw3TssJN94FDCeAVUmvMbTFmtAGrQStwe8GFD6TUkj43Ce_99z2h9g8CyRCAVJrunyOX44y_NOGwbN2wVTS3F/s800/latino-prison-gangs.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://latinoprisongangs.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: white;">LATINO PRISON GANGS</a><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNHIVGK78pkiUh1oNKkfK8HeiOgCsIOHProvMdeeLlEHYLpGrz3QziQ09ucgNE_giXUg5FhiamhmsiBW9mswMcv0xsA6oaQ9AMxTQjPqNThyujWcUOxym1yQEQUiWWRGibmMsrbz-Q8e6b/s800/white-prison-gangs.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: white;">WHITE PRISON GANGS</a><br /><br /></span></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Gang identification e-books</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whiteprisongangs/Home/ngta2009.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> National Gang Threat Assessment 2009</a><br /><br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whiteprisongangs/Home/Prison-Gang-Tattoo-Recognition.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Prison Gang Tattoo Recognition</a><br /><br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whiteprisongangs/Home/Aryan-Circle-FBI-file.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Aryan Brotherhood FBI File</a><br /><br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whiteprisongangs/Home/Aryan-Circle-FBI-file.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Aryan Circle FBI File</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/safe_drugfree/docs/Gang%20ID/GangIntellPoster-General11X17.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Gang Intell Poster-General 11x17</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/safe_drugfree/docs/Gang%20ID/GangIntellPoster-Aryan11X17.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Gang Intell Poster-Aryan 11x17</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/safe_drugfree/docs/Gang%20ID/GangIntellPoster-Norteno11X17.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Gang Intell Poster-Norteno 11x17</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/safe_drugfree/docs/Gang%20ID/GangIntellPoster-Sureno11X17.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Gang Intell Poster-Sureno 11x17</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/TexasGangs/texas-gangs.pdf"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0jABiaSnZTvqTr66oDH2egd6TRm5oDOztw4YhElf3BOSyzq6lwcmoviB_tzhofb3i5UspPtU3QHHhgGEp4PZXrrEbKMwTMc1YZvyvbkTVa_PL4i3P4bKdVls_VbwBTXpHxHiusZO2020/s800/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF Icon" height="11" width="11" /> Texas Gangs (recognition)</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-73038642828394814782009-07-01T01:13:00.000-07:002010-04-27T00:37:53.284-07:00Gangland: Pagans MC "Devil's Fire" (video)<center><br /><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzE1vaS676M&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI-5oEurXLbNezAYZFd9ozpv1n3Sz5dHtEMuIn6siz0zdfpDYZSsP1I7pxWc2oq60YXMVRvE0o00J_N1KG3jJpIt6LX25Anjg8K4fdj-wyJJ9cJ5GwFYn7ksikYsY0Lz61lFo-p7VsTLT/s400/pagans.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 1</span><br /><br /></div><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blcao7geEns&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI-5oEurXLbNezAYZFd9ozpv1n3Sz5dHtEMuIn6siz0zdfpDYZSsP1I7pxWc2oq60YXMVRvE0o00J_N1KG3jJpIt6LX25Anjg8K4fdj-wyJJ9cJ5GwFYn7ksikYsY0Lz61lFo-p7VsTLT/s400/pagans.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 2</span><br /><br /></div><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJATdgG4YfM&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI-5oEurXLbNezAYZFd9ozpv1n3Sz5dHtEMuIn6siz0zdfpDYZSsP1I7pxWc2oq60YXMVRvE0o00J_N1KG3jJpIt6LX25Anjg8K4fdj-wyJJ9cJ5GwFYn7ksikYsY0Lz61lFo-p7VsTLT/s400/pagans.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 3</span><br /><br /></div><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXtVXj8X6Ls&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI-5oEurXLbNezAYZFd9ozpv1n3Sz5dHtEMuIn6siz0zdfpDYZSsP1I7pxWc2oq60YXMVRvE0o00J_N1KG3jJpIt6LX25Anjg8K4fdj-wyJJ9cJ5GwFYn7ksikYsY0Lz61lFo-p7VsTLT/s400/pagans.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 4</span><br /><br /></div><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62CABA-SxQ&image=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI-5oEurXLbNezAYZFd9ozpv1n3Sz5dHtEMuIn6siz0zdfpDYZSsP1I7pxWc2oq60YXMVRvE0o00J_N1KG3jJpIt6LX25Anjg8K4fdj-wyJJ9cJ5GwFYn7ksikYsY0Lz61lFo-p7VsTLT/s400/pagans.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Part 5</div><br /></center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/06/pagans-motorcycle-club.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Pagans MC</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666589256971546481.post-8399259328600877632009-05-16T17:28:00.000-07:002010-04-27T00:34:53.068-07:00Skinheads<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4ITvlg_Eh7qcgbIGjSqx_vU3mGR-CF-R0RgRgmM71ubgzUHMmbH_mzIDnYtIccMaiTIbXh-jOyqSgWgg0fx4unQzOII7757Tzu-5zZ3MuxnP_sNK29I77fx-z9VVssUNoq21FgvFreKN/s1600-h/skinhead_gang_identification.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 374px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4ITvlg_Eh7qcgbIGjSqx_vU3mGR-CF-R0RgRgmM71ubgzUHMmbH_mzIDnYtIccMaiTIbXh-jOyqSgWgg0fx4unQzOII7757Tzu-5zZ3MuxnP_sNK29I77fx-z9VVssUNoq21FgvFreKN/s400/skinhead_gang_identification.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353940321257643970" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">RACIST SKINHEADS IN THE U.S.</span><br /><br />Despite widespread media coverage and consistent monitoring by civil rights organizations, racist skinhead gangs in the United States remain understudied by social scientists. While American skinheads are a relatively small portion of the overall gang picture, they have maintained a continuous presence in the United States for the last twenty-five years and can be found in every region of the country. Although American skinheads have been neglected in the academic literature, the original British skinheads received considerable scholarly attention. Using a neo-Marxist inspired conception of youth subculture, these studies tended to focus exclusively upon style, which they explained as an attempt to resolve a marginal working-class status in a class·based society. One of the consistent controversies surrounding the study of skinheads has been whether to define them as stylistic subcultures (as British scholars did), gangs, hate groups, or even terrorists. In the United States skinheads have typically been excluded from gang studies on the grounds that they are better understood as “hate groups” and/or "terrorists” sharing little in common with traditional street gangs. In contrast to street gangs, racist skinheads have been portrayed as closely organized around an ideological system of “Aryan supremacy" and as lacking traditional gang territorial claims. Moreover, it is commonly believed that skinheads differ from traditional gangs in that they do not spend significant amounts of time “hanging out" on the streets; instead, they are said to be “inside . . .working on their materials; or if outside, they’re looking for a target, not just lounging around . . . skinheads are focused, always planning. . . . Skins prefer narrower ranges of trouble.”<br /><br />Yet a careful review of the literature suggests the inadequacy of conceptualizations of racist skinheads as completely distinct from traditional youth street gangs. Stephen Baron‘s (I997) study of Canadian racist skinheads and Erik Anderson‘s (1987) study of San Francisco skinheads, for example, found these youth to be neither highly organized nor politicized. Skinhead youth lived on the streets or in other transient circumstances (e.g., crashpads) and often used violent and other criminal means for survival and the settlement of disputes with other urban and suburban youth cliques. This chapter examines the early development of U.S. racist skinhead gangs, their organizational characteristics including the relationship between skinheads and white supremacist groups, and current trends within the skinhead scene.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVVh5V4x6m8trySVq35iH_yqNUhwDG7ylnIyzBoERz2Emg4HQGoxXfUINpUi4cKL-HP1zlq48p2RZwyWAvVwoUwt0ly3vMh5XMIIvrJa0-c-zxk8WHjpdiW8xMMfARGUUbVD17nuwPq4q/s1600-h/skinhead-fashion.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVVh5V4x6m8trySVq35iH_yqNUhwDG7ylnIyzBoERz2Emg4HQGoxXfUINpUi4cKL-HP1zlq48p2RZwyWAvVwoUwt0ly3vMh5XMIIvrJa0-c-zxk8WHjpdiW8xMMfARGUUbVD17nuwPq4q/s400/skinhead-fashion.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353937877257708658" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">History of Skinheads in the UK<br /><br /></span>A significant component of skinhead culture is their appearance. Traditionally skinhead style included closely cropped hair or shaved head, work pants or denim jeans, Doc Marten steel·toed work boots, suspenders, and tattoos. As one observer pointed out, skinheads dressed like a “caricature of the model worker." Skinhead culture began in Great Britain and developed in two waves through the 1960s and 1970s. The first skinheads emerged in Great Britain in the late 1960s in response to deteriorating traditional working-class communities stemming from a stagnating economy, competition with immigrants for scarce jobs, and withering neighborhood traditions. While they did not explicitly associate themselves with Nazism, they were ardently nationalist in political orientation and fervently opposed to foreign immigration, which was reflected by their affinity for violently attacking Pakistani immigrants aka "Paki-bashing.” The first skinheads "were aware that they attended the worst schools, lived in the poorest districts, and had the worst jobs with the smallest wages. They perceived hippies in the same way as they viewed students, as idle layabouts living off the state.”<br /><br />While the first skinheads defined themselves along themes of nationalism, ultra-masculinity, and working-class issues (e.g., lack of economic opportunity), they expressed political sentiments primarily through stylistic imagery, hence, they were not typically involved in traditional, organized political activities (e.g., unions, political parties, marches, etc.), This lack of politicization began to change as a second wave of English skinheads emerged in the late 1970s and tentatively became associated with the National Front (NF) and the British National Party (BNP), extreme right-wing political parties, who saw the utility of drawing disaffected white youth into their ranks. The second wave of skinheads spread beyond Britain and emerged in several other European countries as well as North America.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The Development of American Skinheads</span><br /><br />Although the skinhead style spread to America through a process of international cultural diffusion, American skinhead gangs formed in response to changes in local punk rock scenes as well as larger changes in the wider social structure. ln the late 1970s, local punk rock scenes starting getting "hardcore,” which signaled a more violent and suburban trend in punk rock. Hardcore referred to a faster style of music and a more hostile attitude, which was expressed through random violence directed at other punks during music shows. For younger suburban kids, hardcore aggressiveness provided an important security device from those antagonistic toward punk style. During this time, the skinhead style evolved from hardcore and, similar to hardcore, became a popular alternative to kids attracted to an ultra-aggressive style. In the early 1980s, local youth cliques across urban and suburban areas in the United States began forming skinhead gangs. The first skinhead gangs bonded around identity markers and shared interests (e.g., shaved heads, clothing styles, musical preferences, slang, tattoos, etc.). Skinheads were building a collective identity with organizational names, initiation rites, semi·hierarchical social roles, and nonspecialized, “garden-variety” delinquency (e.g., vandalism, under-age drinking, petty theft, and maybe most important, fighting). Yet skinhead identity was also loose, unstructured, and tied to social gatherings that were relatively unregulated, allowing for the innovation needed to create oppositional identities. Most skinheads describe their early participation as involving "street socialization" within urban and suburban locales such as malls, parks, music shows, etc. Street socialization is a street·based process providing peer guidance, creating an alternate set of values and norms among youth who lack parental supervision and positive school experiences. Contrary to what some observers contend, skinhead gangs have not been devoid of local neighborhood-based territoriality which can be seen in their choice of gang names (e.g., South Bay Skins, San Francisco Skins, etc.) and claiming specific locations, such as parks or music clubs by using graffiti “tags" and other more physically aggressive means.<br /><br />In addition to changes in local punk scenes, skinhead gangs were also forming in response to changes involving the larger socio·political environment. Since the mid-1960s, increasing "non-white" immigration had been significantly altering U.S. demographics. Initially the skinhead response to these changes bore great resemblance to the kinds of conflict that ethnic/racial migration spurred in New York and other large urban centers only a few decades earlier. Race was only implicitly important, in much the way that it was to the punks. The majority of (but not all) punks and skinheads were white youth, and although pockets of explicitly racist sentiments existed among punks and the early skinheads, racist political activism was not a primary emphasis before the late 1980s.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Organizational Characteristics of Skinhead Gangs</span><br /><br />Most skinheads become involved between the ages of twelve and nineteen, are predominantly male (60-70 percent), and tend to coalesce around a unique subculture that is autonomous and distinct from adult hate groups such as the Klan. Because skinheads have maintained a presence in the United States since the late 1970s, there are now skinheads in their early forties, however, very little is known about these “O.G.” skinheads or more generally about how aging affects a skinhead’s identity or life course trajectory. Many skinhead gangs are short·lived and have overlapping membership (e.g., sometimes a smaller skinhead clique will be completely compromised of members from other larger skinhead gangs). Most skinhead gangs are either organized at the state-level (e.g., West Virginia Skinheads), county and/or city-level (e.g., Orange County Skins, las Vegas Skins), or even neighborhood and/or school-based (e.g., Milwaukee Eastside Bullies). One of the few exceptions is the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/hammerskins_02.html">Hammerskin Nation</a> (HSN) which is an international skinhead organization that was originally formed in Dallas, Texas, in 1988. Currently the HSN has five regional chapters in the United States (e.g., Northern Hammers, Midland Hammers, etc.) and outside the United States an additional ten countries also have official HSN chapters.<br /><br />Through much of the 1980s the skinhead scene was an umbrella without clearly demarcated boundaries, allowing fluid forms of participation; yet there emerged within the scene subgroups with clearer boundaries of membership (skinheads often referred to these as “crews"). Over the years as some skinhead gangs became closely aligned with white supremacist groups the distinction between racist and anti-racist skinheads has become relatively clear-cut; however, this was not the case initially, as factions along lines of racial ideology were originally much blurrier Even today some ambiguity continues to persist as skinheads change allegiances between racist and anti·racist. In conclusion, the most important lessons of skinhead gangs involve three points: (1) racist skinhead gangs do not fit neatly in any one particular category—they are diverse and change frequently; (2.) despite rapid turnover and group splintering, the U.S. skinhead scene has been able to persist; and (3) although some skinhead gangs have become a branch of the contemporary white supremacist movement, many other skinhead gangs remain oppositional in localized terms without a clear political program for broad social change.<span id="lblTitle" class="book_headline block"> -Encyclopedia of Gangs </span><span id="lblPubDate">2007<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKu8g_YzETC-qbVJCv8JjfIEGzPOZ31AjD9nJaYTVVvuyHcwh2IQ_An6jDjFH4UffW3Jt4IconZFg6XJ_1EHnQ8gLZb4-fvwcby9RIjab-Ns-nbzHhdEW0m58ZQrYQ7nrn3p6sGKthEIJk/s1600-h/ianstuart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 378px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKu8g_YzETC-qbVJCv8JjfIEGzPOZ31AjD9nJaYTVVvuyHcwh2IQ_An6jDjFH4UffW3Jt4IconZFg6XJ_1EHnQ8gLZb4-fvwcby9RIjab-Ns-nbzHhdEW0m58ZQrYQ7nrn3p6sGKthEIJk/s400/ianstuart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380951934528815138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ian Stuart Donaldson<br /><br /></span></div>To a considerable degree, the emergence of neo-Nazi Skinheads can be attributed to British singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stuart_Donaldson" target="_blank">Ian Stuart Donaldson</a> (often referred to as Ian Stuart), who began as a punk rocker but by the 1980s had transformed himself and his band, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrewdriver" target="_blank">Skrewdriver</a>, into explicit promoters of racism and white supremacy. Racist "Oi!" music was a genre of punk music that was popular among early skinheads. By the early 1980s, white power bands in Europe and the U.S. played racist Oi!, racist hardcore punk (often called hatecore), and racist metal music.<br /><br />During the ensuing decade, hate music (often called "WP music," or "white power music," and "R.A.C.," or "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Communism" target="_blank">Rock Against Communism</a>") increased its hold among young racists around the world. When Ian Stuart Donaldson died in an auto accident in 1993, he became a white supremacist icon. He did not live to see the transformation of his legacy, however. Within a few years of his death, the emergence of the World Wide Web radically altered the world of hate music, making it dramatically more accessible, more global, more visible, and more lucrative.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">HATE MUSIC</span><br /><br />* Racist Oi!/RAC: The oldest genre of hate music is derived from Oi!, an offshoot of punk music that originated in the 1970s and became heavily associated with the emerging skinhead subculture. In the wake of Skrewdriver, some racist Oi! bands emerged, sometimes calling their music RAC (Rock Against Communism).<br /><br />* Hatecore: Hatecore is essentially a racist version of hardcore punk, a musical subgenre that emerged in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Some hardcore punk musicians later merged it with heavy metal music to create thrash or speed metal; there are racist versions of this as well.<br /><br />Hate Rock music is now a major recruitment tool and source of funding for hate groups. Many hate group members, especially neo-Nazi skinheads, have been drawn to white supremacy by listening to hate rock on the Internet, on CDs, and at concerts, often promoted and coordinated online, where crowds violently slamdance to the music of bands such as Angry Aryans, Blue Eyed Devils, and H8Machine.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZH6ame-F8&image=http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nVSrF0LLSCk/Svh8rSJnYmI/AAAAAAAACHA/7DrzEw9hGI0/s400/moshpit.jpg&&autostart=false&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill" height="340" width="400"></embed><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skinheads in a "moshpit"</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">See also: <a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/09/skinhead-oi-music.html">LIST OF HATE ROCK BANDS</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnYYk9TuS8bjMBToalAhsRxExZcunFASNq7f1ofRi22sxuRiNAbaHl83Mr_1dmhQbQ8587GPu4nslWwEIYmSoqzUKzv_TryUZ24ptvJ8sf5JeFApOTSqyyoUw_D1ZM1t6FCgFwbu7Go8w/s1600-h/SkinheadsAttackingVictim.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnYYk9TuS8bjMBToalAhsRxExZcunFASNq7f1ofRi22sxuRiNAbaHl83Mr_1dmhQbQ8587GPu4nslWwEIYmSoqzUKzv_TryUZ24ptvJ8sf5JeFApOTSqyyoUw_D1ZM1t6FCgFwbu7Go8w/s400/SkinheadsAttackingVictim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370183571749432002" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Criminal Skinheads</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />Criminally motivated skinhead groups spend most of their time engaged in for-profit criminal activities, such as drug sales and burglaries. Incidental to their criminal activity, they commit hate crimes. Criminally motivated skinheads are typically classified by law enforcement agencies as criminals first, and haters second. The San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods (SVP) in California was a criminally motivated skinhead group. SVP members primarily sold meth-amphetamines and committed residential burglaries. Periodically, SVP members attacked minorities with weapons and, on one occasion, placed packages resembling bombs near an apartment complex where black people lived. Members intended for the fake bombs to frighten current residents to relocate and to discourage other black families from moving into the complex.<br /><span><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/peckerwood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></span><span><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/peckerwood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></span><br />Criminal Skinhead Gangs: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whiteprisongangs.info/2009/05/public-enemy-number-1-peni.html">Public Enemy Number One (PENI)</a>, <span><a href="http://whiteprisongangs.blogspot.com/2009/05/peckerwood.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peckerwoods</span></a><br /><br /></span><span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">RACIST SKINHEAD GROUPS: ALPHABETICAL LIST</span><br /><div style="width: 600px; height: 200px; overflow-y: scroll;"><br />American Front<br />American Thule Society (ATS)<br />Arizona Hammerskins<br />Arizona Northern American Skinheads/SS Guardians (ANAS/SSG)<br />Aryan Fourth Reich Skins<br />Aryan Renaissance Society/Aryan Fourth Reich Skins<br />Atlantic City Skinheads/AC Skins<br />Bergen County Hooligans (BCH)<br />Blood and Honour<br />Blood and Honour Kentucky<br />Blood and Honour/Combat 18<br />Canyon State Skinheads<br />Central New York White Pride<br />Combat 18<br />Confederate Hammerskins (CHS)<br />Confederation of Racialist Working Class Skinheads (CRW Skinheads)<br />C.O.O.R.S. (Comrades of Our Race's Struggle)<br />- Family Skins/Coors Family Skinheads (CFS)<br />Deadline Skinheads/Deadline Family Skins<br />Deaths Head Hooligans (DHH)<br />East Coast Aryan Brotherhood<br />East Coast Aryan Brotherhood (ECAB)<br />East Coast Hate Crew (ECHC)<br />Eastern Hammerskins (EHS)<br />Eastern Washington Skinheads<br />Family Affiliated Irish Mafia (FAIM)<br />Final Stand Records<br />Fond du Lac Skins<br />Free Your Mind Productions<br />Furiat<br />Goetterdaemmerung National Socialist Korps<br />Golden State Skinheads<br />Hammerskin Nation<br />Hated Skins<br />Hoosier State Skinheads (HSS)<br />Insane Peckerwood Society<br />Insane White Boys<br />Iron Eagle Skinheads<br />Keystone United (formerly Keystone State Skinheads KSS)<br />Lake County Skinheads<br />Lancaster Skins<br />Las Vegas Skinheads<br />Maryland Skinheads<br />Micetrap White Power Music<br />Midland Hammerskins<br />Midland Hammerskins/Midland Skins<br />Milwaukee East Side Bullies<br />Montana Front Working Class Skinheads<br />National Socialist Skinhead Front (NSSF)<br />National Socialist White People`s Party<br />Nazi Low Riders (NLR)<br />New Jersey State Prison Skins<br />New Order Skins<br />Northern California Aryan Volk (NCAV)<br />Northern Hammerskins<br />Northside Wrecking Crew<br />Northwest Hammerskins (NWHS<br />Norwalk Skins<br />Ohio State Skinheads<br />Old Glory Skins<br />Orange County Skins<br />Outlaw Hammerskins (OHS)<br />Panzerfaust Records<br /><span>Peckerwood Syndicate</span><br /><span>PENI Skins (Public Enemy Number 1 Skins)<br />Racine County Skins<br />Retaliator Skinheads<br />River City Skins<br />Roswell Aryan Front<br />Salt City Skins<br />San Fernando Valley Skins<br />Scioto Valley Skinheads<br />Scioto Valley Skinheads/Scioto Skins<br />Show-Me State Skinheads/St. Louis Crew<br />Silent Aryan Warriors (SAW)<br />Skinhead Dogs<br />Skinheadz<br />Small Town Peckerwoods<br />So Cal Assassins (SCA Peckerwoods)<br />Society Skin Nation<br />Soldiers of Aryan Culture (SAC)<br />South Florida Aryan Alliance (SFAA)<br />Southeastern Pennsylvania White Pride<br />Southern California Skinheads<br />TCB (Taking Care of Business) Hate Crew<br />The Pride<br />Those Opposed<br />Tualatin Valley Skins<br />United Skinheads of Atlanta<br />UOAS (Universal Order of Aryan Skinheads)<br />Upfront Records/Intimidation One<br />Vinland Winds Records<br />Volksfront<br />West Virginia Skinheads<br />Western Hammerskins<br />White Heat Productions<br />White Plague Skinheads (WPS)<br />White Plague Skinheads (WPS) Byrd Division<br />White Plague Skins (WPS)<br />White Power Liberation Front (WPLF)<br />White Wolves<br /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hate Code</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9</span><br /><div style="width: 600px; height: 200px; overflow-y: scroll;"><br />8/H= Hate<br /><br />88/HH= Heil Hitler<br /><br />18/AH= Adolf Hitler<br /><br />58/EH= Extreme Hatred<br /><br />83/HK= Haken Kreuz: German for Swastika<br /><br />83/HC= Heil Christ: Used by racist Christian groups<br /><br />5 Words= I have nothing to say<br /><br />16/AF= American Front<br /><br />816= Heil American Front<br /><br />28= Blood and Honour<br /><br />828/HBH= Heil Blood and Honour<br /><br />228/BBH= Brotherhood Blood and Honour<br /><br />211/BAA= Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance<br /><br />38= Crossed Hammers<br /><br />386= Crossed Hammers Forever<br /><br />311 or 3/11= Ku Klux Klan<br /><br />23= White or Wood (short for Peckerwood)<br /><br />14 Words= We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.<br /><br />14 Words for Women= Because the beauty of the White Aryan women must not perish from the Earth.<br /><br />55/HF-FH= Hammerskins Forever-Forever Hammerskin<br />H/8 F/6 8+6=14 Now if you break down 14 1+4=5<br /><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com