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Ex-Skinhead Leyden on Supremacist Motivation, Threat
TJ Leyden
TJ Leyden, 43, spent 15 years as a leader in the white supremacist movement. He covered his body with Nazi tattoos and advocated violence against Jews and other minorities. And then the scales fell from his eyes, and Leyden realized he’d been living a lie and dragging others into it.
Since his transformation more than a decade ago, Leyden, who grew up in Fontana and wreaked havoc in Los Angeles, has promoted not hatred but tolerance. He wrote a book, “Skinhead Confessions” (Cedar Fort Inc., 2008), and worked at the Museum of Tolerance in West L.A. until moving last year to southern Utah, where he hopes to open a ranch for troubled youth. In the wake of last week’s fatal shooting of a museum guard by James von Brunn, an 88-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, at the United States Museum of the Holocaust, Leyden talked to The Journal about the thinking behind such actions.
Jewish Journal: How do white supremacists see the world?
TJ Leyden: It’s pretty much black and white. The white race and everybody else. Jewish people technically are white; Asians have light skin. But they say they technically are not white because of features and religion.
JJ: Why is there so much overlap between white supremacists, neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists?
TL: If people start to buy them and believe them, conspiracies are a good recruitment school. The government was behind Sept. 11 and all this other stuff. Who’s really in control, and who really planned this whole thing was the government, who is controlled by Israel. And the person will say, ‘Wow, you know even more than most people.’
JJ: The Jews always are the ones at the root of the problem, right?
TL: As far as they are concerned, yes. That is pretty much how it boils down.
JJ: Do you think most white supremacists have any interaction with Jews?
TL: They have absolutely no interaction. I think they have no clue about Judaism; I don’t think they have any clue about the different types of Judaism that are out there. They basically think all Jews are the same. All Jews are wealthy; all Jews are money-grubbers; they all have the hooknose — all the old stereotypes that you saw from Nazi Germany. But they also will say that you’ve got to be careful, because some Jews will pretend to be Christian; some will pretend to be conservative; some will pretend to be liberal. But they think they are all the same, that they all are in this cabal together.
JJ: How did you get involved in the skinhead movement?
TL: I got involved back before it had any racist overtones whatsoever. We had just come out of the Carter era; everybody was loving the flag; we had just gotten the hostages back. We all started to become ultra-nationalists, and then we started to hear from England that if you want to protect your country, look at who the problem is. That’s when the racism started to come in. Oh, it’s the blacks, it’s the Hispanic gangs that are dealing dope to white kids at school. Then we started to hear that it wasn’t them — it was the Jews who were in control, and if the Jews weren’t in America, America would be all white. They got you to hate so many groups first, and then once you got a good hatred base, they brought in the Jewish question.
JJ: What was your reaction Wednesday to the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum?
TL: When it happened I was waiting to find out whether it was a radical Muslim or a white supremacist. I knew it had to be one or the other, and when I found out it was a white supremacist, I wasn’t surprised. Sadly, I don’t think this is going to be the last situation. I’ve worried about the Holocaust museum there in D.C. I worry about the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. These are public venues, and sadly these guys look at these places as propaganda tools instead of historical places trying to educate people so we don’t go through this mass genocide again.
JJ: James von Brunn, the suspected shooter, considered himself a lone wolf. Do such so-called rogues really operate on their own, or are they part of a bigger movement?
TL: They do these actions on their own, but the ideology they did not get on their own. The idea of the lone wolf was an offshoot of Louis Beam’s leaderless resistance. He’s a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas. He came up with this thing saying you’ve got to go into a cell program, six guys max. And when you get more than six, you break into two groups. That way, if you get busted for a crime they only bust three or four, and your unit can keep going. So these guys started figuring out that if it works that way, why don’t we break it down smaller into one- and two-man groups. That’s how we got lone wolfs. These guys go out and do these acts, but then the groups they belong to say, “He doesn’t belong to us.” And if he’s not part of the group, you can’t go after the group civilly or monetarily.
JJ: How surprised would most Angelenos be to learn about the supremacist currents that run through Los Angeles and its surrounding communities?
TL: They would be shocked if they knew that California is No.1 for white supremacy groups. California has 88 white supremacy groups. The closest state to California is Texas, which has 66.
JJ: Do they pose much of a threat, or are they more prison gangs at this point?
TL: They pose a very vehement threat. They are not going to overthrow the U.S. government tomorrow. Their goal is to divide, to disrupt, to create animosity and division among people. Their main goal isn’t full revolution, because they don’t have the numbers and power they are looking for at this time. So they are looking to build that animosity and division.
JJ: What should the community, Jewish and greater, do? Both to protect itself from attacks like those on the Holocaust Museum last week or from the kinds of divisions you’re talking about?
TL: The more proactive the community can be, the better. If the community knows where these guys are and what they are up to, that is a good start. But we all know that if someone wants to commit an act of terrorism, they can probably do it.
By Kriesgberichter
Court says man brought racial taunt on himself
6/24/2009 2:00 PM
By Justin Anderson -Statehouse Bureau
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by the state Human Rights Commission, which awarded a man money because a co-worker uttered a racial epithet at him.
In a unanimous opinion filed Monday, the court said Victor T. Peoples, who is black, incited a heated exchange between him and a white co-worker on a job site in 2004.
The court ruled that in order for Peoples to prove he was subjected to a hostile work environment through racial discrimination, he had to show that the discriminatory conduct was unwelcome.
The court also said that Peoples failed to show that his employers, Sue J. Erps and William G. Erps, doing business as Improvements Unlimited, fired him in retaliation for reporting the comment made by the co-worker.
In 2007, the commission awarded Peoples a total of $32,898 in damages, including lost wages, interest and incidental damages for humiliation.
Peoples was hired on at Improvements Unlimited on April 13, 2004, according to the opinion, written by Chief Justice Brent Benjamin.
On June 16, 2004, Peoples was part of a crew building a wall at a business college in Virginia.
During the work, Peoples taunted another worker, Wayne Bragg, by calling him “white trash” and a “honky.” Bragg later testified that this made him angry, as did when Peoples made fun of his speech impediment.
In building the wall, Bragg was digging holes and Peoples was pounding rebar into the holes with a sledgehammer, the opinion said. At one point, Peoples asked Bragg to dig the holes deeper to make it easier to pound in the rebar.
According to the opinion, Bragg told Peoples: “You say another word I’ll cut your f—ing head off with this shovel, n—-r.”
Both men approached their supervisor, David Yontz, about the situation. Yontz ordered the men back to work in separate locations.
But Peoples was not satisfied and demanded to know what Yontz was going to do about Bragg’s usage of the epithet.
Yontz told Peoples that the situation was over and to get back to work. When Peoples continued his demands, Yontz told him to get back to work or be fired.
Peoples told Yontz to send him home, Yontz again told him to get back to work. Peoples refused, handed Yontz the sledgehammer and told his supervisor “to do what he had to do.” Yontz then fired Peoples.
Peoples called William G. Erps and told him about what happened. Erps told him that Bragg shouldn’t have used that word and that he would handle the situation. The opinion says Erps called Bragg and told him not to use the word again, but didn’t discipline Bragg.
Peoples declined to personally speak to Erps about the situation. Erps made two attempts to meet with Peoples, but no more. The last attempt was when Peoples came to the business to pick up his final paycheck.
Peoples filed his complaint with the Human Rights Commission on July 2, 2004. Subsequently, Peoples complained that William Erps and his employees were following and chasing him.
He said another black employee of the business approached him and offered him money to drop the complaint. Peoples also said that workers for another company owned by Erps’ brother were intimidating him.
In overturning the commission ruling as to the hostile environment claim, the court said Peoples did not prove that Bragg’s comment was unwelcome.
“While we do not condone Mr. Bragg’s comments, we cannot ignore the significant role which Mr. Peoples had in creating the very situation of which he later complained,” the opinion said, “something Mr. Peoples appears to ignore and something which the commission appears to have minimized.”
As to the retaliatory discharge finding, the court said that Peoples was fired because he refused to return to work, not because he complained about Bragg’s comment.
While the commission found that Peoples refusal to go back to work was because the supervisor would not take action against Bragg, therefore the firing was in retaliation for complaining about the comment, the court said the facts don’t support the finding.
The court pointed to William Erps’ telling Peoples that he wasn’t fired — even after Yontz fired him at the job site — and urged him to return to work, but he didn’t.
By Kriesgberichter
Romantic Violence “Choosers Of The Slain” artwork almost complete!
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Romantic Violence – “Choosers Of The Slain” – Coming Soon – Summer Of 2009
Romantic Violence album coming soon
Romantic Violence have finished the production of their first full length album – “Choosers Of The Slain.” Romantic Violence feature the powerful and refreshing female vocals of Tara and solid R.A.C. musicianship that’s going to take our music scene by storm: True Warrior – Alien Invasion – Johnny – Omens Of War – Make A Choice – Drop Out – United Worldwide – Show Us Betsy – Choosers Of The Slain – Krystalnaught – Bring On The Storm – Revolution – Solitude – Hybrid Moments.
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