Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate
Beyond Ben Klassen's financial ties to
William Pierce,
the COTC's path has intersected with
assorted other white supremacists and right-wing extremists
over the years. Principal among these
connections was Klassen's relationship with
Tom Metzger; for
example, in January 1985, a letter from
Klassen invited Metzger to form a COTC group in California,
suggesting that he would appoint
Metzger to "a higher title (equivalent to a bishop,
cardinal, etc. in the Catholic Church, except we
would come up with some Latin name for it)... which would
provide prestige and some legal
protection." Klassen reprinted the letter in a 1989 issue of
Racial Loyalty, reiterating the offer.
On both occasions, Metzger rebuffed Klassen, yet he
apparently retained respect for the like-minded COTC leader. In an August 1993 telephone message,
Metzger stated, "It is with deep regret
to announce [sic] the death of a long-time fighter for the
cause, Ben Klassen.... Tom Metzger and Ben
Klassen had a somewhat stormy relationship. Ben was not the
easiest person to get along with.
However, his dedication and sacrifice should be noted by
even his strongest critics." The following
week, Metzger promoted the two main COTC "religious"
manuals, Nature's Eternal Religion and The
White Man's Bible, in his next telephone address.
In May 1992, Racial Loyalty published an essay by
David Lane on "the Christian Right-wing
American Patriots, C R A.P. (since that is what they do to
[sic] the future of all White children)."
Lane, 54, was a member of the far-right terrorist group
known as
The Order, who is currently serving a
40-year racketeering sentence, as well as a 150-year term
for civil rights violation in connection with
the 1984 murder of a Denver, Colorado, Jewish radio
personality, Allen Berg. (Lane had driven the
getaway car in the killing.)
More recently, current COTC leader Rick McCarty has
appointed as his Florida state director
Mike McCaffrey, whose extremist career includes a stint as
producer of the neo-Nazi public access TV
show "Race and Reason," hosted by Florida hatemonger Herb
Poinsett. (The program itself is a spin-off of a Tom Metzger public access series, also called "Race
and Reason.")
In addition, Racial Loyalty has printed a number of
encouraging letters from Holocaust-deniers
affiliated with the
Institute for Historical Review
(IHR).
This pseudo-scholarly "Institute" is closely
tied to
Liberty Lobby, the most important anti-Semitic
propaganda outfit in the U.S., founded and
led by longtime Jew hater
Willis Carto. The willingness of
these Holocaust "revisionists" to endorse
the Church of the Creator's genocidal rhetoric further
betrays the lie that these propagandists are
engaged in an "objective" search for truth. Among the
deniers who have written to the COTC
tabloid are Martin A. Larson and Revilo P. Oliver, both of
whom serve on the "Editorial Advisory
Committee" of IHR's Journal of Historical Review, and Carlos
Porter, the author of such books as Made
in Russia: The Holocaust, distributed by IHR.
In addition to these long-standing advocates of the
Holocaust "revisionist" cause, a more recent
associate of the IHR,
David Cole, published a letter in the
July 1989 issue of Racial Loyalty. The
producer of a grotesque 1992 IHR video about the Auschwitz
concentration camp, Cole wrote to the
COTC. "I am very happy to become a member of the Church of
the Creator.... Creativity gives my
Race meaning and, therefore, gives my whole life meaning....
My work as a video producer puts me in
touch with many other White Men who are looking to wrestle
away the mass media from its Jew
controllers and use the media to further the goals of the
White Race." However, Cole's more recent
prominence in IHR circles, which seek to mask the anti-
Semitic intent of their propaganda, is
directly attributable to his claim of being Jewish.
Nonetheless, COTC has also made a number of enemies in
the typically fractious extremist
community. The most vociferous of these detractors include
the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, led by
"Pastor"
Thom Robb; the Knights, who dress up their racist
and anti-Semitic agenda with David
Duke-inspired euphemisms promoting "White, Christian
values," despise the Church of the Creator's
virulent rejection of Christianity. An equally hostile feud
has taken place between Ben Klassen and
Harold Covington, a North Carolina-based neo-Nazi whose most
recent affiliation has been with a
British right-wing terrorist group, Combat 18. The rivalry
accounted for a bilious exchange of
obscenities, taunts, and threats between the two hatemongers
and their supporters. For example, the
January 1992 Racial Loyalty printed, "AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
JEW BASTARD [Covington]
THAT SENT THE PORNOGRAPHIC POST CARD CONDEMNING OUR PONTIFEX
MAXIMUS THROUGH THE MAIL!...if I could ever be so lucky to
meet you, I promise I'll trim
your wick."
The
original plaintext version
of this file is available via
ftp.
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