Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate
Barbara Loeb was sentenced to one year in jail on
weapons possession charges; she served at least nine months
of her term in New York State. George Loeb was extradited to
Florida in December
1991 to face murder charges for killing Mansfield. During
the trial, which began the following July,
Loeb chimed that he was acting in self-defense when he shot
the sailor; he also told jurors that he
had considered fleeing to Canada because it is a
"predominantly white country," where he might
expect to be treated more impartially. Regardless, on July
29, a jury of nine whites and three African-Americans, after only three hours of deliberation, found
Loeb guilty of first-degree murder.
The night after his conviction, Loeb attempted suicide
by slashing his forearms with the blade of
a disposable razor included in his prison toiletries kit. By
the time police discovered his injuries,
apparently only minutes after he inflicted them, Loeb had
lost 20% of his blood, and had gone into
shock. A police report stated that Loeb told officers while
his wounds were being treated that, "I
want to die because the whole world is an asshole." As a
result of his suicide attempt, Loeb's
sentencing was moved up one week, to August 12; he received
a life sentence with no chance of
parole for 25 years.
Members of the COTC predictably hailed Loeb as a hero
and martyr. The August 1991 edition
of Racial Loyalty, for example, printed a letter from "A Pro-White Activist" under the heading "Self-Defense is Our Right" which stated: "[Loeb] was supposed to
have been just another non-publicized
statistic in the wave of the black/mud/Jew criminal terror
against Whites -- how evil and racist of
him to spoil The Plan. SELF-DEFENSE is our right, and they
will never be able to destroy us Whites
if we keep pulling these stunts" In the same issue, the
tabloid reprinted a Tampa Tribune account of
the murder under the headline, "More publicity for the COTC!
White Man, spread the word of
Creativity. Words are powerful weapons."
At least publicly. however, Klassen shrank from
connecting his organization with the Loeb
murder. By most accounts, it was this incident in particular
which motivated the Pontifex Maximus's
desperate attempts to disentangle himself from the COTC.
Indeed, when questioned on the subject
by Miabella, Klassen said, "I am no more responsible for
that than the pope is responsible for all the
Catholic felons in prison.... Not at all." The reporter
interviewing Klassen then pointed out that
another COTC member, Steve Thomas, who was charged with
aiding and abetting Loeb's flight from
Florida, was currently living at the North Carolina
compound. "Oh," Klassen replied, "He's leaving
tomorrow."
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