Neo-Nazi girl band reinvent themselves as liberal ‘healers’ with medicinal marijuana cards
They rose to fame as the faces of Neo-Nazi pop band Prussian Blue.
Now, twin sisters Lamb and Lynx Gaede say they have reformed their extremist ways, blaming their hateful messages of white supremacy on youthful naivete.
The 19-year-olds, who both have medical marijuana cards, consider themselves ‘healers’ and say they are ‘pretty liberal now’.
Reformed: Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who founded Neo-Nazi singing group Prussian Blue in 2003, say they now ‘love diversity’
Disturbing: The girls, wearing smiling Hitler-inspired T-shirts, became ‘the children of hate’ with songs including Aryan Man Awake and Hate for Hate: Lamb Near the Lane
Lamb and Lynx formed the group in 2003, at the age of 11, at the suggestion of White Nationalist leader William Pierce.
By 2006, they had recorded a roster of songs that were infuriating the nation, with titles including Aryan Man Awake and Hate for Hate: Lamb Near the Lane, co-written by David Lane – the late member of terrorist group The Order and Lamb’s then pen-pal.
Lane was ten serving 190 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of Jewish talk show host Alan Berg in 1984.
Soon after the song’s release, the girls were labelled by the media ‘the new faces of hate’, fuelling the firestorm with their angelic faces and smiley-faced Hitler T-shirts.
The sisters now say, however, they simply didn’t know better.
New outlook: The twins now channel their creative energy into painting and consider themselves ‘healers’. Both have medical marijuana cards
In an exclusive interview with The Daily, Lynx said: ‘My sister and I were home-schooled. We were these country bumpkins. We spent most of our days up on the hill playing with our goats.’
Lamb echoed: ‘I was just spouting a lot of knowledge that I had no idea what I was saying.
The twins credited their mother, April Gaede, with influencing their skewed perspective – as a member of racist fringe groups like the National Alliance and the National Vanguar – and said while they didn’t regret being in the group, they wished they had been pushed to do something more mainstream.
Their mother, however, still defends encouraging the extremist side project.
‘I thought it would just be a little fun thing to do,’ she said, adding, ‘I didn’t expect it to get as big as it did. If the girls feel regretful about it, I guess I would have to as well.’
Lamb and Lynx said enrolling in public school and moving to northwest Montana has helped them become more open-minded.
‘I’m stoked that we have so many different cultures,’ Lynx said. ‘I think it’s amazing and it makes me proud of humanity every day that we have so many different places and people.’
The teenager has also adopted a more open-minded view with the help of medical marijuana.
Lynx was diagnosed with cancer during her freshman year of high school, when doctors removed a tumour from her shoulder; she was prescribed OxyContin and morphine to deal with the pain. She also suffers from a rare condition called cyclic vomiting syndrome.
About a year ago she began smoking to ease withdrawal symptoms and nausea.
‘I have to say, marijuana saved my life,’ she said. ‘I would probably be dead if I didn’t have it.’
Lamb, who suffers from ‘scoliosis and chronic back pain, lack of appetite and emotional stress’, soon acquired a medical marijuana card of her own.
They said the drug has reignited their creativity, which they now channel in other ways.
Both sisters paint. Lynx, who lives at home with her mother, her stepfather and her half-sister, Dresden, also restores furniture. Lamb works as a hotel chambermaid not far away.
They said their mother still has dreams of forming an ‘intentional’ white community in Montana, called Pioneer Little Europe.
But they are reluctant to follow her lead. ‘I’m not a white nationalist anymore,’ Lamb said. ‘My sister and I are pretty liberal now.’
The sisters closed the door with Prussian Blue following the band’s 2006 European tour, and have spent the last few years ‘lying low and trying to live a normal life,’ Lamb said.
They do worry about a backlash from their former fans.
‘There are dangerous people in White Nationalism that don’t give a f***, and they would do awful things to people who they think betrayed the movement,’ Lamb said, adding, ‘We’re stepping on eggshells.’
The sisters, who famously denied the Holocaust, are not completely reformed, however.
Asked whether the Holocaust happened, Lynx replied, ‘I think certain things happened. I think a lot of the stories got misconstrued. I mean, yeah, Hitler wasn’t the best, but Stalin wasn’t, Churchill wasn’t. I disagree with everybody at that time.’
Lamb added: ‘I just think everyone needs to frickin’ get over it. That’s what I think.’
They hope to enrol in college, and plan to dedicate their time making medical marijuana legal in all 50 states.
Five years on from quitting the band, the twins said they are simply ready to move on.
‘We just want to come from a place of love and light,’ Lamb said, adding, ‘I think we’re meant to do something more – we’re healers. We just want to exert the most love and positivity we can.’
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Neo-Nazi Skinhead Arrested After Getting Knocked Out Cold by Boxer!
A neo-Nazi skinhead, with a body covered in racist tattoos, is in jail under $75,000 bond on felony malicious harassment charges because he didn’t read the back of a T-shirt worn by a man he’s accused of assaulting.
The skinhead, identified as Daren C. Abbey (right), 28, formerly of Sacramento, Calif., is accused of verbally confronting and then assaulting Marlon L. Baker, a 46-year-old African American, inside a Bayview, Idaho, bar on July 3, authorities said Friday.
Not wanting a confrontation, Baker left the bar and walked toward a marina on Lake Pend Oreille about 9 p.m. Sunday to watch an Independence Day “boat parade” on the waterfront, said Kootenai County Sheriff’s Major Ben Wolfinger. “He didn’t want trouble, so he walked away,’’ Wolfinger said.
But the racist skinhead followed Baker out of the bar, confronting him again with racial slurs before finally pushing him with witnesses watching, the sheriff’s official said.
Fearing for his own safety at that point, Baker took one punch, striking the skinhead in the face and knocking him to the ground, unconscious, Wolfinger said. There were several witnesses who saw the incident and verified Baker’s version of events, according to reports by deputies.
Deputies and an ambulance responded.
When he regained consciousness, Abbey was arrested and booked into jail on charges of battery, a misdemeanor, and felony malicious harassment. Baker was not injured and not charged, Wolfinger said.
The sheriff’s official described Abbey as a “white supremacist” who has numerous tattoos, including at least three Nazi swastikas, and other racist symbols on his arms, neck and torso.
Abbey was treated for a possible broken nose after being booked into the Kootenai County Jail, where he remained on Friday, pending trial.
As he was being led away in handcuffs, Abbey apparently was finally able to see the backside of the T-shirt Baker was wearing. It said, “Spokane Boxing Club champion.”
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Neo-Nazis Trade Skinhead Image for ‘Fashionable’ Violence
German skinheads are shedding their dreadful image but are more dangerous because they retain their hate under fashionable clothes, according to Der Spiegel.
A report by the German Interior Ministry and by intelligence officials, quoted by the German publication, stated that “anarchist nationalists” are less interested in the skinhead sub-culture. However, they warned that the same neo-Nazis “instead prefer to wear articles of clothing or brands that orient themselves more toward general trends in youth fashion and that use corresponding lettering or symbols to signal their membership in the scene in a less visible way.”
The report added, “It is possible to see a rise in the potential for violence as well as in the willingness to employ violence to attain one’s political goals.”
Crimes by the far-right have decreased nationwide but have increased in five provinces that were part of East Germany after World War II.
The same report also found an increase across the country in far-left violence for political motives. “To a certain extent, attacks by left-wing extremist perpetrators display a significantly higher aggressiveness and willingness to assume risks” to the extent that they are “on the cusp of a new left-wing terrorism.”
Muslim extremism also was covered in the report, which warned that Germany “remains in the focus of Islamist terrorist groups.”
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MSNBC Presents ‘Erasing Hate,’ The True Story Of A Skinhead’s Redemption
MSNBC PRESENTS ‘ERASING HATE,’ THE TRUE STORY OF A SKINHEAD’S REDEMPTION
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL HOSTS—SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 9 PM ET
NEW YORK, NY—JUNE 7, 2011—MSNBC will premiere its latest documentary, “Erasing Hate,” an unforgettable true story of transformation and redemption hosted by Lawrence O’Donnell, on Sunday, June 26 at 9 PM ET. “Erasing Hate” chronicles Bryon Widner’s 16 years in a major skinhead organization, where he was known as a heavy drinker and a ‘pit bull’ – the enforcer who would turn extremely violent at the drop of a hat. While most skinheads are known for brandishing tattoos, Bryon’s head-to-toe ink made his appearance especially menacing.
After years of extreme violence against minorities in the name of the white race, Bryon’s life changed forever when he became a husband and father in 2006. He and his wife Julie shared a common bond – both were becoming disenchanted with what they saw as hypocrisy in the skinhead culture. They knew that they couldn’t raise their family within the white power movement, but getting out wasn’t easy. As Bryon puts it, “that’s the skinhead philosophy; the retirement program is either prison or the grave.” Amidst endless harassment and death threats toward themselves and their family, Bryon and Julie fled from Michigan to Tennessee in search of a new life.
But the Widners quickly learned that moving on isn’t just about location. Bryon’s racist tattoos were a constant reminder of his haunting, violent past, and he found it nearly impossible to support his family. With financial aid from the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2009, Widner made the life-changing decision to embark on an extensive and excruciating 20-month laser removal process at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Erasing Hate” producers spent nearly two years chronicling Bryon’s incredibly painful tattoo removal treatment—a penance of sorts for the hurt he had caused to so many others in his past.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell hosts “Erasing Hate,” Sunday, June 26, 9 PM ET.
“Erasing Hate” is produced, written and directed by Bill Brummel, Bill Brummel Productions. Dan Wolfmeyer is Editor, and Kevin O’Brien and John Rhode are Directors of Photography. Michael Rubin is Vice President, Long Form Programming, MSNBC. Scott Hooker is Senior Executive Producer, Documentary Production and Development, MSNBC. Vicki Sufian is Senior Producer, Long Form Programming, MSNBC.
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