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NATION, Page 43American NotesIDAHODearth of a Nation
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."
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.