[CTRL] Fw: (whiteoak) Celtic Cross, KKK, Aryan Nations, Scotland

[Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard]

 -Caveat Lector-

-----Original Message-----
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 12:51 PM
Subject: (whiteoak) Celtic Cross, KKK, Aryan Nations, Scotland


>This was posted on another list. My apologies to those of you who have
already
>seen it. Unfortunately the sender does not give the web address for the
>original post but I have included his address in case you want to contact
him.
>I am forwarding this for general comment and to make everyone aware of this
>kid of nonsense. I do not in any way support these views (and neither does
the
>original sender).
>    Saille
>*********************************************************
>   From: ForestMage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Aryans & Celtic Cross
>The following is an article which was sent to another list I'm on.
>I thought it might be of interest here.
>
>ForestMage
>
>--------------------------------------
>
>GUARDIAN 30.1.1998> > KLANSMEN TAKE THEIR LEAD FROM SCOTS  GEORGE
>SEENAN
> REPORTS ON US RACISTS' OBSESSION WITH THE  HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
> breeder of racially pure children for the Aryan Nation, recommends
>use
> of the Celtic cross. "it's the easiest way to let other Aryans>
>know
> what you believe without attracting attention from the ignorant
>Jews
>and
> Liberals," she says. On The internet's Aryan Dating page, where
>young
> American neo-nazis can find mates with whom to breed for the
>coming
>race
> war, there is similar support for the cross, held to allude to the
>most
> pure of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. Dave Barley, spokesman for
>the
> Christian Identity movement, also has an affinity for Celtic and,
>in
> particular, Scottish culture. From his America's Promise
>Ministries at
> Sandpoint in Idaho, he has distributed 50,000
> copies of the Declaration of Arbroath, the 14th century manifesto
>for
> Scottish Independence. Pastor Barley believes the text represents
>the
> perfect rallying call for a modern-day white America blighted by
>an
> interfering> government, Jews, and racial impurity. He is not
>alone.
> Across the southern states, more and more groups are using
>Scottish
> history as justification for their extreme dogma and for their
>assertion
> of the right to bear arms. "This obsession with Scotland among the
>klan
> and hardcore militia groups has been rising," says Mark Potok,
>editor
>of
> the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in
>Alabama,
> which monitors the militia movement. "These  supremacist groups
>need to
> create a history for themselves that paints them as bearers of
>true
> belief oppressed by a remote government. They see the historical
> Scottish struggle as like theirs." Though some historians dispute
> Scotland's links with the Ku Klux Klan, it is believed the
>movement
> started in the 1860s as a club for Confederate cavalry officers of
>Scots
> descent, before evolving into a secret society to inspire terror
>among
> freed slaves. Many klan rituals are said to be based on those of
>the
> secretive Society of the Horseman's Word, once active in
>North-East
> Scotland. The stereotypical burning of the cross is a corruption
>of the
> traditional clan call to arms.
>  However, militia groups are more recent converts. "It all gained
> momentum with Braveheart, That film is on the shelf of every white
> supremacist in America,"  says Mr Potok.  "The Christian Identity
>and
> klan groups have always believed the Celts are the most racially
>pure,
> but the neo-nazis, by definition not Christian, really got into
>Scotland
> after Braveheart. Now it's often a focal point for
> discussions." When Mel Gibson's historically duboious epic film
>was
> released, the militia monitoring group at Radio for Peace
>international
> in Central America heard so many references on short wave
>broadcasts it
> had to arrange for a screening to find what the film was about.
>The
> group had been used to an occasional reference to Scotland, but,
>after
> Braveheart, its history became a talking point. Hatewatch,an
>Internet
> monitoring group, reports a similar shift. Mr Potok says:"There's
> definitely an obsession. Maybe you guys should be careful -these
>are
>not
> the kind of people you want hijacking your history".
> Though Pastor Barley has never been to Scotland, he has an
>intimate,
>if
> somewhat skewed, knowledge of its history and culture. "We are
>very
> interested in Scotland, very interested," he says. "We believe the
>Declaration of  Arbroath categorically proves the Celtic people
>are the
> most pure of the lost tribes of Israel. Also, the Stone of Destiny
>[where Scottish kings were crowned]may be the very pillow where
>Jacob
> lay to see the ladder to heaven."
> >From his Idaho church, the pastor uses the Internet to distribute
>pamphlets asserting Jews  are the children of Satan and blacks
>are"no
> better then the beasts in the fields". But there are other, more
>extreme
> individuals. The  most famous passage of the declaration,
>addressed to
> the Pope by Scottish noblemen when at Edward II's behest he
> excommunicated Robert the Bruce, refers to their desire to be free
>of
> tyranny: "For, so long as a hundred reamain alive, we will never
>in any
> degree be subject to the dominion of the English. Since not for
>glory,
> riches or honours do we fight, but for freedom alone, which no man
>loses
> but with his life."
> For militias who believe their government is  corrupt and
>oppressive,
> the delcaration has resonance. On the Internet It is mentioned
>with
> casual frequency in pamphlets with titles like Guns, God and The
>Fight
> For Freedom. Ron Cole, a former leader of the North American
>Liberation
> Association, currently in jail for firearms offences, is a fan.
> But, alongside the interest in history among the terrorist
>hardcore,
> there are also references to modern Scotland. Cole, entirely
>falsely,
> has claimed to have links to the Scottish National Party. On the
> Internet there is praise for  the UK's tiny extremist Scottish
>Phalange
> group. "There are plenty of militia and klan groups out there who
>claim
> to have close links to Scotland. Probably that's not true; but
>it's a
> little worrying that they get their inspiration from Scotland, and seem to
>be,
> getting more obsessed by it," Says Mr Potok.
>
>
>

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