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Metzger, one of the early pioneers of using cable television to promote his message, has long described himself as an anti-corporate leftist, despite his neo-Nazi views, and has worked to cultivate workers and labor unions. Since WAR was bankrupted by a 1990 Southern Poverty Law Center civil suit over the murder of a black graduate student, Metzger has served as a kind of ideologue and godfather figure for the racist skinhead scene.

Criminal History

Metzger was jailed in 1991 for 45 days of a six-month sentence (he was released early to attend to his dying wife) in Los Angeles County for unlawful assembly after attending a cross burning in 1982. He and his son, John, were jailed for five days in Toronto, Ontario, in 1992 for violating Canada's immigration laws by entering the country "to promote race hatred." In 2009, Metzger's home was searched in connection with the arrest of two brothers accused of carrying out a mail bomb attack that injured an Arizona diversity director.

In His Own Words

"The right wing is dead. The Marxists are dead. It's a white revolution."

— 1989 speech at "Aryan Woodstock 2" white power concert

"We will put blood on the streets like you've never seen. And advocate more violence than both world wars put together."

— 1990 WAR telephone hotline message

"My total concern is with the survival of the white European people in North America."

— 2002 MSNBC interview

"We have to infiltrate! Infiltrate the military! Infiltrate your local governments! Infiltrate your school board! Infiltrate law enforcement!"

— 2004 speech to skinheads at a hate-rock festival

"Jews are supreme masters of manipulation and deceit. They run and distort our foreign policy because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable as grifters."

— Undated commentary on Metzger's website

Background

An Indiana native, Thomas Linton Metzger joined the U.S. Army as a young man, then moved to Los Angeles when his tour of duty ended in the early 1960s. He became interested in the far right and joined the John Birch Society, but quit the anticommunist organization because it didn't share his anti-Semitic zeal. In the ensuing years, Metzger joined and quit the violently anticommunist Minutemen paramilitary group, supported the unsuccessful presidential bids of libertarian Barry Goldwater and segregationist George Wallace, publicly opposed the Vietnam War, formed an organization called the White Brotherhood and finally joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1975. KKKK leader David Duke eventually promoted Metzger to grand dragon, or state leader, of California.

Up until this time, Metzger had been running a television repair business in relative obscurity in the San Diego County town of Fallbrook, known for its avocado groves and being the retirement home of baseball hall-of-famer Duke Snider. That changed in 1979, when he and other armed Klansmen began patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border near Tijuana for illegal aliens. Called Border Watch, the patrols were little more than a publicity stunt, but they received major press coverage. Around the same time, Metzger became an ordained minister of the Christian Identity theology. Adherents typically believe that Jews are the "seed of Satan," people of color are soulless "mud people," and the Bible is the history of the white race.

Metzger and Duke had a falling out, and in 1980 Metzger split his state organization away from the KKKK to form the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He led 30 to 40 Klansmen armed with bats, chains and nightsticks in a clash with anti-Klan demonstrators in the city of Oceanside, a melee that left seven people injured. Also in 1980, Metzger decided to run for Congress in the Democratic primary in a conservative district. He stunned many people when he won with more than 33,000 votes, or 37% of the total. He was disavowed by the Democratic Party, however, and then was trounced by the Republican incumbent in the general election. But the election made Metzger into a formidable figure on the racist right.

After that loss, Metzger left his own Klan group and formed the White American Political Association to promote "pro-white" political candidates. In 1982, he ran in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in California and lost badly. A year later, he changed the name of the group to White Aryan Resistance, or WAR. The loose-knit organization had no membership initiation or rosters, and no uniforms.

Soon, Metzger was hosting a local access cable television show called "Race and Reason" that at one time aired in 62 cities in 21 states. (Local access cable stations were required to allow local programming, something Metzger and many other racial activists took advantage of during the 1980s and 1990s.) And WAR began publishing a monthly newspaper that proclaimed itself "the most racist newspaper on earth." Featuring scurrilous and crudely drawn cartoons, anti-Semitic and racist articles, and information on where to purchase items such as white power music and racist books, the WAR tabloid became a key Metzger tool in organizing racist skins to become the "shock troops" of the coming revolution. Indeed, the newspaper ran display ads for Skrewdriver, the influential British white power band revered by skinheads. "I was the first in the country to recognize skinheads and befriend them," Metzger boasted in a 2004 interview. Other Metzger tools were a telephone hotline to disseminate the latest racist information and an electronic bulletin board by which racist skinheads and others could more easily communicate with each other.

Additionally, Metzger expressed an appreciation for black racists who, like him, were anti-Semitic and wanted to keep the races separate. He donated $100 to the Nation of Islam in 1985 after Louis Farrakhan, the Nation's vitriolic leader, gave an anti-Semitic speech that Metzger attended. That same year, Metzger and 200 white supremacists convened in Michigan to pledge their support for the Nation of Islam.

It was 1988, however, that was a pivotal year for Metzger. He and his son John that year organized the first-ever hate rock festival, Aryan Fest. Racist skinheads of all stripes traveled to Oklahoma for the event. The father and son also appeared on an infamous episode of "The Geraldo Rivera Show" that ended in a televised melee, with Rivera's nose broken by a thrown chair. But, most importantly, 1988 was the year that a Metzger protégé, Dave Mazella, went to Portland, Ore., to organize a skinhead group called East Side White Pride (ESWP). Mazella was vice president of the Aryan Youth Movement, WAR's youth unit. Mazzella carried an introductory letter from Metzger and arranged for ESWP members to speak him by phone.

Three weeks after Mazella's arrival in Portland, ESWP skinhead Ken Mieske and two others beat to death an Ethiopian graduate student named Mulugeta Seraw in a street confrontation. The killers, Metzger said later, had done their "civic duty."After Mieske and two other ESWP skins pleaded guilty to murder, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League sued the Metzgers and WAR on behalf of the victim's family. Using the doctrine of vicarious liability, plaintiffs' attorneys argued that the Metzgers should be found liable for intentionally inciting the skinheads to engage in violent confrontations with minorities. A jury agreed, returning a record $12.5 million verdict against the Metzgers and WAR. Tom Metzger was personally responsible for $5.5 million of that sum.

Metzger lost his house, truck and tools (although $45,000 was returned to him after his house was sold, under provisions of California's Homestead Act) and was required to make monthly payments to Seraw's estate for 20 years. The verdict crippled Metzger's organization, which today is little more than a vehicle for his ideas and propaganda. But Metzger remained active, albeit much less influential, in the white supremacist movement. He was able to continue running his WAR phone hotline and the publishing of white supremacist pamphlets. Twice in the 1990s, he and his son traveled to Japan to push their separatist views there. He also was sued in 1991 for using the Bart Simpson character on "Nazi Bart" T-shirts.

In 2006, after a long period of cheering the racist right from the sidelines, Metzger left Fallbrook and returned to his hometown of Warsaw, Ind., the "Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World." He reportedly inherited a house there after his mother died. Today, Metzger is fond of wearing a black cowboy hat and operates a website, resist.com, along with a telephone hotline. He also offers a quarterly online version of his newspaper, called The Insurgent. His website advises that he is available for lectures and interviews, but he no longer engages in street actions.

In 2009, Metzger got caught up in a federal indictment involving two longtime white supremacists, Dennis Mahon and his twin brother, Daniel. The Mahons were arrested in June after an Arizona federal grand jury indicted them for allegedly conspiring to damage and destroy buildings and property, stemming from a 2004 mail bomb explosion in Scottsdale's diversity office. Diversity Director Don Logan needed extensive surgery to repair injuries to his hands and arms. His secretary suffered injuries to her face and eyes. A third employee was treated on the site....

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Thomas Linton Metzger (born April 9, 1938) is an American white supremacist, skinhead leader and former Klansman.^[1][2][3][4] He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR). He was a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Metzger has voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United States. In the early 1980s, he was registered with the Democratic Party. In 1980 he won the Democratic nomination for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. He has been incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California, and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has been the subject of several lawsuits and government inquiries. He, his son, and WAR were fined $12 million as a result of the murder of an Ethiopian by skinheads affiliated with WAR.^[4]

Early life

Metzger was born and raised in Indiana.^[5] He served in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1964 when he moved to Southern California to work in the electronics industry.^[5] For a short time, he was a member of the right-wing group the John Birch Society, and attended anti-Communist luncheon meetings sponsored by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation.^[5]

By 1968 Metzger had moved to Fallbrook, California, and he supported Democrat-turned-independent George C. Wallace for President.^[5] Metzger stopped paying taxes in the 1970s, and by 1972 his tax protest over the Vietnam War had destroyed his thriving television business but introduced him to other tax protesters who, he said, were "atheist racists, Christian Identity racists, Nazis, all kinds of people."^[5]

Ku Klux Klan

During the 1970s he joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was led by David Duke, and he eventually became the Grand Dragon for the State of California. In the summer of 1979, he organized a patrol, the Klan Border Watch,^[6] to capture illegal Mexican immigrants south of Fallbrook, California.^[6] Metzger's Klan organization also had a security force which was involved in confrontations with Communists and anti-Klan protesters.^[7][8]

Metzger's branch of the Klan split with Duke's organization in 1980 to form the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.^[9] Also in 1979, he took Greg Withrow of the White Student Union "under his wing", which later became the Aryan Youth Movement (AYM), for youth associated with White Aryan Resistance.^[10]

In 1985, Metzger attended a Nation of Islam rally in San Diego, led by Louis Farrakhan.^[11] During the rally, he compared America to a “rotting carcass” and praised Farrakhan for “understanding” that Jews are “living off the carcass” and called them “parasites”.^[12]

Views

According to Steven Atkins, author of The Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism in Modern American History, Metzger's ideology "differs from other white supremacists by rejecting the basic tenets of the Christian Identity movement because he considers himself to be the champion of the Third Position. The Third Position is a form of racism that is oriented towards attracting the white working class and it is also anti-capitalist in orientation. Metzger believes that the United States should be divided into designated areas for different racial groups except Asian Americans, who should be expelled from the United States." ^[4] In 1988 Metzger, recorded this message on his "WAR Hotline":

You have reached WAR Hotline. White Aryan Resistance. You ask: What is WAR? We are an openly white-racist movement—Skinheads, we welcome you into our ranks. The federal government is the number one enemy of our race. When was the last time you heard a politician speaking out in favor of white people? [...] You say the government is too big; we can’t organize. Well, by God, the SS did it in Germany, and if they did it in Germany in the thirties, we can do it right here in the streets of America. We need to cleanse this nation of all nonwhite mud-races for the survival of our own people and the generations of our children.^[4]

White Aryan Resistance

Main article: White Aryan Resistance

In 1982 he left the Klan to found a new group, the White American Political Association, a group dedicated to promoting "prowhite" candidates for office. After losing the 1982 California Senate Democratic primary, Metzger abandoned the electoral route and reorganized WAPA as White American Resistance in 1983 and then reorganized it as White Aryan Resistance, to reflect a more "revolutionary" stance.^[13][14]

In 1985 Metzger was invited to speak at a rally of the Nation of Islam. Despite Metzger's open racism towards blacks, the two groups found common ground based on their desire for racial separation and their hatred of Jewish people. Metzger donated $100 to the Nation of Islam.^[15]

Metzger made numerous television appearances in addition to hosting his own cable TV public-access television show, Race and Reason. In one of his first cable episodes, Metzger invited the gothic rock band Radio Werewolf onto the show, during which a confused Metzger was given an honorary membership in the band.^{[16][verification} ^needed] In November 1988, his son John appeared on an episode of the Geraldo show in which a brawl broke out and Geraldo Rivera's nose was broken.^[17] Metzger also appeared on the Wally George Hot Seat show with the head of the Jewish Defense League Irv Rubin in what was a very contentious debate. The debate ended when Rubin threw water in the face of Metzger. Security intervened and the Anaheim Police were called. The debate was considered unusual for George's program who typically brought in liberal guests that argued with Wally. Since both guests were extreme, George essentially served as a moderator. Wally despised the racist nationalism by Metzger even though Metzger of the two was the obvious right wing guest.^[18]

Oregon civil trial

The group was eventually bankrupted as the result of a civil lawsuit centered on its involvement in the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who had moved to the United States to attend college. In 1988, white power skinheads affiliated with WAR were convicted of killing Seraw and sent to prison. Kenneth Mieske said he and the two others killed Seraw "because of his race".^[19] Metzger declared that they did a "civic duty" by killing Seraw.^[20] Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a civil suit against him, arguing that WAR influenced Seraw's killers by encouraging their group East Side White Pride to commit violence.^[21][22]

Metzger's decision to represent himself at his trial became the source of considerable civic derision through the legal incompetence which he displayed — never more so than when he accepted an option for a new trial judge during the initial stages of the trial in place of the interim appointed judge whom he thought was Jewish; only after he had made his decision did he discover that the new judge, Ancer L. Haggerty, was African American.^[23][24]

At the trial, WAR national vice president Dave Mazzella testified about how the Metzgers instructed WAR members to commit violence against minorities. Tom and his son John Metzger were found civilly liable under the doctrine of vicarious liability, in which one can be liable for a tort committed by a subordinate or another person who is taking instructions. The jury returned the largest civil verdict in Oregon history at the time—$12.5 million—against Metzger and WAR.^[25] The Metzgers' house was seized, and most of WAR's profits go to paying off the judgment.

Post-Oregon trial

After the trial, Metzger's home was transferred to Seraw's estate for $121,500, while Metzger was allowed to keep $45,000 under California's Homestead Act.^[26] The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League came up with the $45,000 needed to pay Metzger for the home.^[26] Metzger was warned that any damages left in the house would result in a lawsuit, and while he left it in "a mess" with cracked windows, there was no serious damage.^[26] As a result of the sale of his home, he was forced to move into an apartment.^[26]

In May 1991, Metzger agreed to stop selling T-shirts of Bart Simpson in a Nazi uniform with the words "Pure Nazi Dude" and "Total Nazi Dude".^[27] In 1991 he was convicted of burning a cross in 1983, and sentenced to six months in prison and 300 hours of community service by working with minorities.^[28] He was released from prison 46 days into his sentence so he could be with his critically ill wife.^[29] In 1992, Metzger and his son John violated a court order not to leave the country and entered Canada to speak to the Heritage Front. Soon afterwards, he was arrested for violating Canadian immigration laws by entering the country to "promote racial hatred".^[30]

Since the early 1990s, Metzger has advocated the "lone wolf" method of organization, of which there are many, for white nationalist groups, which states that a person should not outwardly display his/her racist ideology, but must act covertly.^[31]

In 2003, Metzger appeared in Louis and the Nazis, a documentary made by Louis Theroux.^[32][33]

Metzger moved to Warsaw, Indiana at some point in the mid-2000s; as recently as 2004, he was the subject in an online article from a San Diego-based periodical that outlined his love of karaoke, sparse white activist action, and bemused feelings over the state of his hoped-for white revolution. On June 2, 2009, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided Metzger's home. No arrests were made and no information was released on what was found inside his house. Metzger was allowed to leave the premises during the search and stated that address books, compact discs, tapes and computers were seized in the raid.^[34][35]

Metzger is still mandated to make payments to Seraw's family.^[36] Metzger now hosts an Internet radio talk show. Metzger no longer resides in Warsaw, IN, having moved back to California.^[37]

Mainstream party politics

Metzger has registered at various times as a Democrat. In 1980, Metzger won the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40,000 votes in a San Diego-area district.^[38] The national Democratic Party chairman disavowed his candidacy, instead endorsing incumbent four-term Republican Clair Burgener.^[39] Metzger lost by over 200,000 votes in November 1980 to a several-term incumbent in a heavily Republican district.

In 1982 he sought the Democratic Party's senatorial nomination, running against then-Governor Jerry Brown and author Gore Vidal, winning almost 76,000 votes (2.8% of the vote) in the Democratic Party primary.^[citation ^needed]

In 2010, Metzger took out an advertisement in the Warsaw Times-Union, in order to announce his intention to challenge, as an independent, U.S. Representative Mark Souder, a Republican from Indiana's 3rd congressional district. "I'd go to Washington and get into Congress, and have a fistfight every day," Metzger told a local news station.^[40] Metzger did not make it into the ballot for the election, which was ultimately won by Republican Marlin Stutzman.

Electoral history

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File - In this Sept. 5, 2000 file photo is Tom Metzger, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, speaks in in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.

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Tom Metzger, KKK Grand Dragon and founder of the influential hate group White Aryan Resistance, reads a copy of the California Klan News in 1980. Metzger's connection to the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw would leave him, and WAR, bankrupt. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)