Montana Extremist Issues Threats
A recent Montana transplant who once sat at the feet of Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, neo-Nazi Karl Gharst sent letters to a host of civil rights groups, naming them 鈥淛ewish criminals and traitors to the white race.鈥�
In September, neo-Nazi Karl Gharst started writing. A recent Montana transplant who once sat at the feet of Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, he sent letters to a host of civil rights groups, naming them 鈥淛ewish criminals and traitors to the white race.鈥�
In one letter last October addressed to Media Matters that mentioned the Southern Poverty Law Center, La Raza and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Gharst said he would hold all four guilty of 鈥渋llegal operations鈥� that 鈥渧iolat[ed] the sovereignty of Montana by working against and contrary to the lawful and rightful citizens of the SState [sic].鈥� (By lawful, he meant white.)
This is not the first time Gharst has turned aggressive. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from threats to a social worker he called a 鈥済reasy, turd-colored mongrel.鈥� Then, last September, Gharst sent an E-mail to the Montana Human Rights Network accusing the anti-racist group of being a 鈥淛ewish criminal organization working with other Jewish organized crime networks.鈥� The letter threatened that Gharst would form a 鈥渃itizen grand jury鈥� to indict his enemies, who include anyone who dares question his ardent white supremacist views.
But the idea had started weeks before. In an interview with the Intelligence Report several weeks before he started writing his letters, Gharst accused this reporter of being an 鈥渋llegal alien鈥� unqualified to conduct the interview. Montana was formed as a 鈥渟anctuary for the persecuted white Christian,鈥� he said, and it would not be ruined by efforts to expose the actions of racist extremists like him.
鈥漎ou stand for the death of our race,鈥� Gharst said. 鈥淪ieg Heil!鈥�
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