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  Tom Metzger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metzger ran for the United States Senate in 1982, winning almost 76,000 votes (and 2.8% of the vote) in the Democratic Party Primary.
Tom and John Metzger were found civilly liable under the doctrine of vicarious liability, in which one can be liable for a tort committed by a subordinate or other person taking instructions.
In 1991, Metzger had to agree to stop selling T-shirts of Bart Simpson in a Nazi uniform with the words "Pure Nazi Dude." Metzger was convicted in 1991 of burning a cross in 1983, and sentenced to six months in prison and 300 hours community service working with minorities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Metzger   (768 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/adl/tom-metzger/adl-metzger
Also in 1975, Metzger was ordained a "minister" in the Louisiana-based New Christian Crusade Church, an "Identity" group led by James K. Warner, a veteran of the American Nazi Party also associated with Duke.** A Foray Into Politics In the fall of 1980, Metzger was the surprise winner of a California Congressional primary.
Metzger's outreach to the skinheads has been largely orchestrated by his son John, who has served as nominal head of WAR Youth (previously known as the Aryan Youth Movement and the White Student Union).
Although it is unlikely that Metzger will ever fully pay his portion of the $12.5 million judgment, all subsequent revenues have been accounted for through court supervision so that a substantial percentage of WAR's profits have gone toward this penalty.
www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/orgs/american/adl/tom-metzger/adl-metzger   (1010 words)

  
 .: Print Version :.
Metzger said in a telephone interview that he relocated from Fallbrook to northern Indiana about three weeks ago, but declined to say which town he was living in.
Metzger, who said he still records daily radio broadcasts spreading his racial and political viewpoints, made national news for years as head of the White Aryan Resistance, an organization that preached the protection and advancement of the white European race at all costs.
At the height of his leadership in the White Aryan Resistance, Metzger and his son John were sued in 1990 in connection with the 1988 race-related murder of an Ethiopian student in Oregon.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/03/15/news/inland/20_07_253_14_06.prt   (692 words)

  
 Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) -- Extremism in America
Metzger even advocated that his associates voice protest against the show as a means of generating publicity.
Additional legal troubles befell Metzger in late 1991, when he was accused and found guilty of misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly for his role in a 1983 cross-burning incident in Los Angeles.
Metzger's sentence was commuted after he served 46 days so that he could attend to his ailing wife, Kathleen, who died in March 1992.
www.adl.org /learn/ext_us/Metzger.asp   (2784 words)

  
 San Diego CityBEAT
Metzger, the once dreaded Klansman and founder of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), has fended off the advances of a pretty blonde half his age who has wandered by twice to say hello, wrap her arms over his broad shoulders and peck him lightly on the cheek.
To Metzger the ring is important, not just a wolf but a “Lone Wolf,” a symbol of that anti-government agent who, in the Timothy McVeigh model, assumes all the trappings of a normal life to conceal a radical political agenda.
Metzger’s girlfriend, Mary, pulls up a chair as he winds down with his second pick, “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground,” a tribute to the bar’s former owner, Whitey, who carried a sawed-off shotgun strapped to his back and walked home every night with more than a $1,000 cash in his pocket.
www.sdcitybeat.com /article.php?id=2548   (2835 words)

  
 SEPCMinutesOctober13,1999.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Metzger reported that the resolution reaffirming University of Pittsburgh policies of non-discrimination and supporting lesbian and gay students was passed unanimously by the Faculty Assembly.
Metzger announced that at the recent Faculty Assembly meeting, faculty were assured that the current modem pool would be sustained and no charges assessed for access to it.
Metzger is writing a letter to the Provost asking him to generate an inquiry to all Deans and Directors about their incentives for faculty for excellence in teaching and the methods they use to assess it.
www.pitt.edu /~dmc/SEPCMinutesOctober13,1999.html   (524 words)

  
 oregon
Metzger’s connection to the case was pegged on a letter of introduction to the local skinhead group.he had given to one of the assailants.
Tom Metzger's decision to act as his own lawyer, was, from a legal point of view, a disaster for him.
Metzger lost the case, and the plaintiffs were awarded monetary damages; the trial cost him his house.
www.nystringer.com /html/oregon.html   (524 words)

  
 portland imc - 2001.10.03 - Tom Metzger and the white power movement on the rise in Portland?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Oregonian and the local news have apparently been reporting that Tom Metzger (the founder of the now defunct White Aryan Resistance group) is coming to speak in Portland in december.
Tom Metzger is not in town, but will be here for a few days in early December.
Metzger is scheduled to speak at that event.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2001/10/3843.shtml   (343 words)

  
 knot.magazine : print
Metzger is somewhat of a white nationalist chameleon.
Metzger couldn't afford to hire a lawyer and was forced to defend himself against the well-financed civil rights group.
Tom Metzger didn't raise his voice and never uttered a racial slur, he didn't curse me or question my intelligence for disagreeing with him.
www.knotmag.com /?print=1025   (1805 words)

  
 University Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At Pitt for 32 years, Metzger was remembered by his colleagues as a feisty and pleasant scholar to debate and spend time with, especially during Friday afternoon “fluid mechanics seminars” at the former Faculty Club.
Metzger received his B.A. from Seton Hall in 1965, an M.S. from Creighton University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University in 1971.
“Tom was a staunch defender of graduate studies, and at the same time had the welfare of the entire department uppermost in his mind,” said departmental colleague Stuart Hastings.
mac10.umc.pitt.edu /u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=2466&-Find   (956 words)

  
 Zundel Denounces 'Racist' Publisher
Zundel said he had the newspaper's publisher, Tom Metzger, on his talk show in the early 1990s, but the German native and former Toronto resident denied any knowledge of Metzger's views advocating violence against minorities.
Metzger is no stranger to the Canadian and American legal systems.
In 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5-million judgment against Metzger and his son for inciting the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant by skinheads.
www.rense.com /general42/decounce.htm   (554 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro > Diane Bell -- Metzger no longer in Fallbrook
Metzger told her he was headed to Indiana, where he has inherited a house from his late mother.
Metzger, 69, recently had notified McElroy he was about to retire and urged him to lower the $850 monthly amount.
In McElroy's opinion, Metzger went from being one of the most powerful figures in the white supremacy movement – with his toll-free hotline, TV appearances and W.A.R. newspaper attracting about $200,000 in donations a year from all over the world – to a virtual nobody.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/bell/20060309-9999-7m9bell.html   (828 words)

  
 JewishJournal.com
Metzger, better known and not yet well understood, changed the dynamics of the primary election.
Metzger was unmasked, and from that day until Election Day, stories focused not on how unusual Metzger’s philosophy was but on how un-American it was.
After the election, Metzger went on to become the leader of the White Aryan Resistance, eventually losing millions of dollars in a court suit brought against him for instigating the beating death of an Ethiopian student in Oregon.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=12659   (1022 words)

  
 Tom Metzger pushes separatist views - religious cults and sects
PLEASANT HOME, Ore. _ Tom Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance, returned to the Portland area over the weekend, reiterating his separatist views.
Metzger added that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the troubled economy will lead more people to seek a white-only state.
Metzger's appearance fell on a date racist organizations sometimes refer to as "Martyr's Day." On Dec. 8, 1984, federal agents killed Robert Mathews, founder of a white-supremacist gang called The Order, in a standoff on Whidbey Island, Wash. The Order robbed banks and an armored truck to finance a race war based in the Northwest.
www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an011211-03.html   (551 words)

  
 Ernesto Portillo Jr.: Please, don't call it racism: It's separatism. Yeah, right | www.azstarnet.com ®
Metzger is a racist, er, I mean separatist.
Metzger, who was living in north San Diego County, had been invited by Louis Farrakhan another racist, er, I mean separatist, to attend a Nation of Islam rally in Los Angeles.
In the corrosive separatist world of Abernethy, Metzger and Farrakhan, whites are in one place, fls in another, browns somewhere else, and Jews out of here.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/34251   (613 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marin and her crew met Tom Metzger in a hotel in Warsaw, Ind., where he was visiting his family.
Metzger, like some others in the movement, is a person who believes that violence can be a means to an end, Marin reported.
Metzger and his son were convicted in 1990 in Oregon for inspiring skinheads to murder an Ethiopian immigrant.
www.officer.com /news/IBS/wmaq/news-2649009.html   (639 words)

  
 qwesi.com » Blog Archive » Alright Paco, Got a Greencard?
Metzger’s mother is a Christian and it seems that his mother’s pastor back in Indiana, advised her to disown her son, and to have nothing else to do with him.
Since Metzger’s mother has disowned her son due to the advice of her church pastor, that has driven Metzger away from ever being open to the gospel.
Many are under the opinion now, that Metzger’s mind is reprobate, and he is a lost cause, because of the hardness of his heart.
qwesi.com /?p=176   (659 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: people/m/metzger.tom/racist-mind-excerpt
Metzger and his close associates have mastered videotaping and have put together a series of 'educational' videos with racist leaders; they sell these tapes to supremacist groups around the country who show them, or try to show them, on public-access cable television channels.
Over the years, Metzger has devised a variety of provocative actions that could be easily publicized and that embarrassed conventional authorities and made them choose between being embarrassed or acting unconstitutionally.
Metzger, despite recent setbacks and the death of his wife, will be a major force for many years.
www.nizkor.org /ftp.py?people/m/metzger.tom/racist-mind-excerpt   (926 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Woman gets year in jail for harassing calls
Metzger said he wanted a tougher sentence for Manning, who he met in Montgomery, Ala., a dozen years ago when she gave him information on some mutual acquaintances.
Manning told the judge she met Metzger 10 years ago in a Fallbrook bar and thought he was involved in a number of crimes, including homicide.
She told a probation officer that she was harassed by liquor store employees and Metzger because she dates minorities, according to court documents.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20030826-9999_1m26metzger.html   (630 words)

  
 Metzger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As the Affiliate Relations Director of the Texas State Networks during the early 80's Tom led the effort that created the world's largest sports network for the Dallas Cowboys, with over 250 stations in North and South America.
Tom has taught seminars one-on-one with corporate executives and in groups, large and small.
Tom has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin Option II MBA program, the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas at Sam Houston State University, and frequently in the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston.
www.cdevelop.com /Metzger.htm   (222 words)

  
 Portland Mercury - News - City - The Nazis are Coming! The Nazis are Coming!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"Tom Metzger was one of the founders of the Aryan Nation," explained Detective David Yamasaki, with the Portland Bias Crimes Police Unit.
In October 1990, Metzger and WAR were ordered to pay $12.5 million to the family of an Ethiopian man, Mulugeta Seraw, who had been murdered in Oregon two years earlier.
Blazak explained that Metzger, who he believes served as a father figure to many of the Neo-Nazis in the late '80s and early '90s, was more or less banned from Portland after the ruling.
www.portlandmercury.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=25879&category=22101   (819 words)

  
 SEPCMinutesJanuary11,2000.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Metzger described the discussion that occurred at the meeting.
Metzger strongly urged members to review the draft and convey any questions that people wish to be raised at the January 25 meeting.
Metzger also noted that Dr. Crossman is still not listed as a pro tem member.
www.pitt.edu /~dmc/SEPCMinutesJanuary11,2000.html   (316 words)

  
 White Racist Endorses Bustamante in California Recall -- 09/08/2003
The unusual endorsement by Tom Metzger, former Grand Wizard of the California Ku Klux Klan and director of the White Aryan Resistance, was accompanied by a call for all like-minded Californians to vote for Bustamante in the Oct. 7 election.
Metzger, on the other hand, supports white control of the United States and although Bustamante "champions another race," Metzger supports Bustamante because his election would highlight the issues of race and nationalism.
Metzger said that he plans to schedule talks with the Nation of Aztlan.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200309\POL20030908a.html   (786 words)

  
 Portland Mercury - News - City - Straight from the Neo-Nazi's Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tom Metzger, longtime white supremacy activist and leader of White Aryan Resistance (WAR), is speaking somewhere in the Portland area on December 8.
The event is meant to commemorate the death of Eric Banks, a member of WAR who was shot in an alleged dispute with a group of anti-racist skinheads, 12 years ago.
Metzger hasn't been through Portland for nearly a decade, when he was fined and, subsequently, had to pay $12 million for his responsibility in the death of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who was murdered in a racist act.
www.portlandmercury.com /portland/Content?oid=25986&category=22101   (799 words)

  
 TIME.com: Making War on WAR -- Oct. 22, 1990 -- Page 1
Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability.
In taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR).
Metzger, a television repairman, and his son run WAR from their family's home in Fallbrook, Calif., north of San Diego.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,971437,00.html   (776 words)

  
 Tom Metzger - Celebrity Atheist List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Metzger, who found WAR (White Aryan Resistance) and is active on the radical/racial right is an atheist according to the book Soldiers of God: White Supremacists and Their Holy War for America by Howard L. Bushart, John R. Craig, and Myra Barnes.
I don't think his rejection of religion is based on science, rather it is based on a aesthetic rejection of Christianity as not suited for the white man.
Editor's note: Before you get pissed off about Metzger being here, keep in mind that those of us putting together this list try to be impartial in presenting the full diversity amongst living atheists, from the geniuses who enlighten us to the garden-variety kook who manages to land in the headlines.
www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Tom_Metzger   (239 words)

  
 Willamette Week Online | News | COVER STORY | SKINHEAD REVISITED | Wednesday September 10th, 2003
Just as guilty, he said, was a Southern California white supremacist named Tom Metzger, a pudgy TV repairman who hadn't set foot in Oregon in years.
Metzger's physical presence was irrelevant, argued Morris Dees and his colleagues at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In front of a courtroom packed with the national press corps, they socked Metzger and his son, Tom, with a multimillion-dollar judgment, to be paid to the family of Mulugeta Seraw.
www.wweek.com /story.php?story=4310   (3103 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: James McElroy Biography
"By sheer coincidence, Morris Dees was in San Diego working on the Tom Metzger case," recalls McElroy, referring to the Center's landmark lawsuit against Metzger and his hate group, White Aryan Resistance (WAR).
Dees was in San Diego to take Metzger's deposition in the case that ultimately resulted in a $12.5 million judgment against Metzger and WAR.
When the case was over, he assumed responsibility for seizing Metzger's assets and making sure they got to Seraw's family, including his son, Henock, in Ethopia.
www.splcenter.org /center/history/mcelroy.jsp   (839 words)

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