The Heritage Front
White Aryan Resistance
On Saturday June 28, 1992 the Heritage Front held a rally at
which the keynote speakers were Tom and John Metzger, two leading
American White supremacists.
Tom Metzger is the leader of the
California-based White Aryan Resistance (WAR) and his son John is
a co-founder of the skinhead movement. Tom Metzger and two
co-defendants were sentenced to six months in jail last December
for participating in a cross burning in 1983. In 1990, both
Metzgers were held liable in a civil suit for the murder of an
Ethiopian immigrant beaten to death by skinheads in Oregon.
The Heritage Front rally which the
Metzgers addressed was attended
by 175 people, mostly skinheads. It was not the first Heritage Front
meeting which members of White Aryan Resistance have addressed.
After the
Metzgers were arrested the night of their speech, the
Heritage Hotline referred to them as "imprisoned heroes." The
Metzgers were deported for entering Canada to break the country's
anti-hate laws.
Upon their return to California, the
Metzgers thanked "the Heritage
Front, the
COTC, and all the other groups and individuals that made
our trip to Canada a rousing success, beyond our wildest
expectations." WAR is probably the Heritage Front's closest
American contact. In the December 1992 issue of the WAR newspaper,
the Heritage Front's hotline number was listed as the White Aryan
Resistance Toronto Phone Centre. It is also alleged that the Front,
through Grant Bristow, passed information to WAR on Canadian
anti-racist groups and Jewish leaders.
Ku Klux Klan
Wolfgang Droege trained with
David Duke's Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan in Louisiana, and helped Duke in one of his early unsuccessful
political bids. He invited him to speak in Toronto in 1977, and in
1978 contacted residents of Vancouver who had acquired memberships
in Duke's American Klan.
Although Droege claims he finds Duke's current efforts dishonest,
he still refers to him as a personal friend, and Duke's articles
are published in Up Front. Although Droege labels the Ku Klux Klan
as lacking the ideals of the Heritage Front, there was a Ku Klux
Klan representative at the 1990 Martyr's Day Rally. Droege himself
was reportedly the Heritage Front representative at the Klan's
'Aryanfest '92' in Quebec. Furthermore, Droege recently spoke out
in defence of the KKK's reputation in wake of the distribution of
Klan propaganda in Peel Region, Ontario.
Aryan Nations
In 1983
David Maxwell French, who would later become one of the
founders of the Heritage Front, went to the
Aryan Nations compound
in Idaho. This facility, located in the town of Hayden Lake, is a
sprawling armed camp devoted to training White "soldiers" for
racial war.
But
French is not the only Front member to have ties with
Aryan
Nations; in fact it is believed that several Canadians affiliated
with the HF have received paramilitary training in Hayden Lake.
In addition, Sean Maguire, a senior member of
Aryan Nations came
to Toronto in 1991 and met with Heritage Front co-founder Grant
Bristow. Both men were arrested in Scarborough for possessing
illegal fireanns and electronic surveillance equipment. Maguire
was deported, but Bristow never came to trial. In fact, Holocaust
denier
Ernst Zundel stated in August 1994 that when no charges
were pressed against Bristow, he suspected that the HF security
chief was a spy.
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