Neo-Nazi Child Porn Enthusiast Reappears Under New Name
, founder of the now-defunct neo-Nazi hate group , apparently is trying to shuck off his former identity following release from federal prison three years ago on a child pornography conviction.
Hatewatch spotted Strom, born again as 鈥淛ulian Dene,鈥� a squeaky-clean gentleman clad in buttoned-to-the-neck white shirt, in a phony Facebook (FB) page that violates FB rules barring the use of fake names.
Could Dene be for real? There is an apparently real Julian Dene on the Internet, a blogger from Northwest England who identifies himself as a 鈥渞etired semi professional photographer with a love of Victorian architecture.鈥�
Not likely. The Facebook Dene鈥檚 photos show that that he has the very same face as Strom鈥攁nd the same rogue鈥檚 gallery of friends, along with two of Strom鈥檚 children. Dene boasts 176 of them, including a number of luminaries of the radical right, the very people Strom hung out with before his child porn debacle.
Many of Strom鈥檚 old friends repudiated him after the conviction, viewing the veteran activist as a severe liability to their cause. Strom had founded National Vanguard in 2005 after being expelled from the , the most important neo-Nazi group in the U.S. until the death of its long-time leader, , in 2002. Strom failed in his bid to become Pierce鈥檚 successor and took hundreds of disgruntled Alliance members with him when he departed to form National Vanguard.
Strom pledged 鈥渢o lay the groundwork for a healthy White nation to emerge from the chaos ahead,鈥� lamenting on the group鈥檚 website that 鈥渘o civilization has ever survived racial mixing let alone on the scale which has engulfed the U.S. since the 1960s.鈥� Another key insight from National Vanguard: 鈥淛ewish interest groups have been at the forefront of nearly all the negative changes which have taken place in the White world during the last 100 years.鈥�
Strom鈥檚 group never amounted to much, in part because many neo-Nazis saw him as a weak and effeminate leader. But it was utterly destroyed with Strom鈥檚 embarrassing arrest and imprisonment. Since then, Strom has stayed under the radar鈥攗ntil surfacing as the faux Julian Dene on Facebook.
Among the Facebook Dene鈥檚 friends, according to his page:
:聽 A Kalispell, Mont., neo-Nazi activist, she鈥檚 posted countless racist and anti-Semitic screeds on websites of the movement. Gaede left the National Alliance with Strom and became active in National Vanguard. She鈥檚 best known as the mother of teenaged twin daughters, Lynx and Lamb, who performed for a time as a . The sisters, now 19, , saying they preferred tolerance and medical marijuana.
: Founder of the New Century Foundation, a pseudo-intellectual think tank, he edits its magazine. The publication, under a false scientific veneer, features blatantly racist articles. Taylor, a Yale graduate, argues that white superiority is just common sense. 鈥淲hen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization鈥攁ny kind of civilization鈥攄isappears,鈥� he has written in the magazine. New Century also hosts periodic conferences that draw Holocaust deniers and eugenicists.
: An anti-Semitic psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach, MacDonald published a trilogy that purports to 鈥減rove鈥� that Jews are driven by their genes to try to destroy Christian societies. He鈥檚 a board member of the white supremacist and a director of the , a racist political party whose founder once sought to deport every American with an 鈥渁scertainable trace of Negro blood.鈥�
Troy Southgate: A British Southgate broke away from the neofascist International Third Position group to create a that pushes a 鈥渕onoracial Europe鈥� and shattering of the 鈥渆conomic imperialism of Zionism.鈥�
Craig Bodeker: Identifying himself on his Facebook page as connected to the University of Hawaii, Bodeker is known for a he made suggesting that modern-day racism is a myth. Though he has presented himself as a non-racist thinker, Bodeker has to black people as 鈥淓VIL monkeys,鈥� 鈥淣AZIS,鈥� people with 鈥渓imited intelligence,鈥� and more. (Despite that, black Vanderbilt Professor Carol Swain has endorsed his film enthusiastically.)
: A former Forbes magazine editor and National Review columnist, Brimelow is a British immigrant who started a racist anti-immigrant website called . Although Brimelow has described the role of race as 鈥渆lemental, absolute, fundamental,鈥� he has not, up to now, been known for befriending neo-Nazis.
Larry Darby: Once a lonely atheist in hyper-religious Alabama and an advocate of marijuana legalization, Darby several years ago morphed into a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier who called, , for the return of racially segregated schools. He attended a 2006 National Vanguard rally, where he may have first become friendly with Strom and Gaede, among others.
The Facebook Julian Dene says he attended Northeastern University, a step up from Strom, who didn鈥檛 go to college. Sounding a little lonely, he lists among his favorite quotations: 鈥淎chieving love is much more than finding the right person, it is a matter of being the right person,鈥� and, 鈥淟ooking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.鈥�
But the big mystery is how Strom turned into 鈥淛ulian Dene.鈥� Is there some special significance to the name? Or is the bogus moniker explained all too clearly by the outfit Dene lists as his 鈥渆mployer鈥� on the Facebook page: 鈥淪ociety for the Propagation of False Doctrine.鈥�
