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- NATION, Page 43American NotesIDAHODearth of a Nation
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- The occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring
- the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard
- Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan
- Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler
- wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian
- identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he
- defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the
- years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to
- predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the
- next wave."
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- Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did
- not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected"
- mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights
- activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage
- an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had
- to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by
- a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound
- in Hayden Lake.
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