Revolt Plans Tied to White Supremacists

Documents from a computer network operated by a white supremacist group contain plans for a revolution aimed at overthrowing the U.S. and Canadian governments, a published report said Tuesday.

The Montgomery Journal-Advertiser said information gathered by the anti-klan group Klanwatch indicates that the racist group advocates revolutions in the United States and Canada by assassinations and terrorism.

The newspaper said Klanwatch obtained the documents from the telephone-linked computer network operated by the Church of the Aryan Nations, an Idaho group suspected of killings and robberies in the Northwest, law enforcement officials said.

The group is also known as the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.

The documents also contained veiled death threats against Montgomery civil rights attorney Morris Dees, the founder of Klanwatch, the newspaper said.

The computer network, called “Aryan Nation Liberty Net,” contains messages criticizing federal welfare and foreign aid programs and warns that “mongrelism” and “social experiments” have undermined U.S. society, the Journal-Advertiser reported.

“We shall fight! We shall not allow ourselves to be enslaved as those in Russia. Arm yourselves! Liberate Canada!” one message read.

Another listed enemies of the white supremacist movement who are wanted for “crimes” such as acting as informants for federal law enforcement officials.

The enemies “shall suffer the extreme penalty when lawful government is restored upon this continent,” the message read.

One of the enemies singled out is Dees, who filed suit against the klan on behalf of black marchers involved in a 1979 shoot-out with robed klansmen in Decatur, Ala.

“According to the word of our God, Morris Dees has earned two death sentences,” one message said.

Dees, whose office was burglarized and firebombed last year, said it was apparent that right-wing supremacist groups have begun a system of terrorism and violence against opponents.

Joe Garner, identified by prosecutors as a klansman, was indicted last month on burglary and arson charges in the Dees case. Prosecutors also claim that Garner, who is jailed under $468,000 bond, is linked to the Church of the Aryan Nations.

“The evidence is pretty plain that the Aryan Nations and other klan-Nazi groups are working together in a unified underground effort to damage property and assassinate people who are committed to civil rights operations, and government officials, FBI agents and others,” Dees said.