Combat 18 Accused Of Purloining David Lane's Ashes
He鈥檚 been dead nearly two years, but there鈥檚 a fight brewing in the white nationalist movement over one of its heroes, .
Actually, the brouhaha is over only a part of Lane. About one-fourteenth of him. That portion of his ashes is reportedly in Perth, Western Australia, more than 9,000 miles from where he died in Indiana. The last time a dead man鈥檚 ashes traveled this far may be when the cremains of LSD devotee Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were blasted into orbit in 1997.
How Lane's ashes got聽all the way to Perth is a matter of controversy. Women for Aryan Unity activist Victoria 鈥淰ickie鈥� Cahill is accusing members of the Australian division of the violent neo-Nazi skinhead group Combat 18 of misappropriating the ashes 鈥渢hrough lies鈥� and then 鈥渟ending rape threats, threats of beatings鈥� to Cahill and other WAU members when they protested.
鈥淲e want those ashes back,鈥� Cahill posted to Stormfront and her MySpace page March 9.
Some background:
Lane died in May 2007 in a federal prison in Terre Haute at the age of 68. He was serving a 190-year sentence for racketeering, conspiracy and violating the civil rights of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, who was murdered in his driveway in 1984 by Lane and other members of the Bruders Schweigen, or Silent Brotherhood. The terrorist group was also known as The Order. Lane, a onetime member of the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan, was a founding member of the group and served as the getaway driver in the Berg murder.
While in prison, Lane wrote screeds about race and became revered among white nationalists. He is perhaps best known for coining the 鈥�14 Words," 聽鈥淲e must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.鈥� He co-founded 14 Word Press in Idaho to publish his writings. After his death, announced that she 鈥渁nd the gals from WAU [Women for Aryan Unity]鈥� had created a memorial fund to have Lane鈥檚 ashes stored in the capstone of a pyramid monument to be erected in a white homeland, per Lane鈥檚 wishes.
But the gals couldn鈥檛 raise enough money for a full-sized pyramid, Gaede later revealed, and so they decided to apportion Lane鈥檚 ashes among 14 miniature pyramids 鈥� one for each of the 14 Words. Each of the puny pyramids was to be enshrined in the homes of 14 white nationalist women, including Cahill.
It wasn鈥檛 long before Gaede and Cahill and other members of Women for Aryan Unity were over Lane-related matters, with Gaede accusing the WAU coven of 鈥渟howing off鈥� Lane鈥檚 remains at white nationalist events.
Now Cahill is urging a boycott of a proposed 鈥渁sh spreading memorial service鈥� for Lane in Perth. An invitation to 鈥減ro-White concious [sic] people鈥� to attend the big event was posted last month on Stormfront. 鈥淒ate will be finalized when attending numbers have been estimated,鈥� it read. 鈥淐ivil and neat attire is expected for the proceedings.鈥�
Cahill is vowing to reclaim the ashes before said proceedings can proceed. 鈥淚f I have to make my way to Australia to get these ashes I will,鈥� she wrote. Cahill then added, ominously, 鈥淚 will be contacting the bruders about this.鈥�
