--- Support our Sponsor ------------------------------------ GREAT DEALS FIND YOU - Deep discounts on travel, movers, new cars, insurance, mortgages, lots more! Tell us just what you want, we connect you with the best deals. New FREE service! http://click.topica.com/aaaaTibz8SnrbAjwjxa/Imandi ------------------------------------------------------------ SPECIAL ISSUE ON ALEX CURTIS __________________________________________________________________________ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Wednesday, 15 November 2000 Special Issue on Alex Curtis -- #488 __________________________________________________________________________ Ongoing News Coverage of Alex Curtis Arrest Marisa Taylor (San Diego Union Tribune), "Indictment charges 4 with hate crimes: Years-long, graffiti-strewn trail led to arrests, authorities say," 11 Nov 00 Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance), "Late Alex Curtis Bulletin," 10 Nov 00 Rocky J. Suhayda (American Nazi Party), "I Want Every Racialist In This Entire Movement to Aid Curtis," 11 Nov 00 Crosstar/Nationalist, "Curtis charged with civil-rights violations: Webmaster called others 'insane' for not being terrorists," 11 Nov 00 James Gordon Meek (APB News), "White Supremacist Charged With Hate Crimes: Arrested for Threatening Civil Rights Group, 'Non-white' Politicians," 13 Nov 00 Marisa Taylor (San Diego Union Tribune), "Man denies he's guilty of rights violations: Officials says he's been running a 'hate business'," 14 Nov 00 Anti-Defamation League , "ADL Welcomes Arrest of White Supremacist Alex Curtis for Civil Rights Violations," 10 Nov 00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONGOING NEWS COVERAGE OF ALEX CURTIS ARREST Indictment charges 4 with hate crimes: Years-long, graffiti-strewn trail led to arrests, authorities say Marisa Taylor (San Diego Union Tribune) 11 Nov 00 First came the Nazi swastikas that appeared one day outside Rep. Bob Filner's office in Chula Vista. Then came the gift box packed with a dummy grenade for Art Madrid, the mayor of La Mesa. Finally, the 7-foot snakeskin arrived -- draped over a rose bush outside the East County home of Clara Harris, a civil rights activist. Between January 1997 and May of this year, Filner, Madrid, Harris and other community leaders periodically found their offices and homes defaced, spray-painted and barraged with Nazi and racist propaganda. Some were angry. Others were afraid. All of them wondered who did it. Federal authorities say they now know. After a two-year investigation, the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego yesterday unsealed federal civil rights charges against Alex Curtis -- a Lemon Grove man whom the Anti-Defamation League has called a "rising star among bigots" -- and three other men. The group is accused of leaving a string of threatening messages, including racist slogans advocating violence against minorities. Sometimes the group repeatedly targeted a single person, according to the indictment. Morris Casuto, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, found swastika stickers and fliers near his office and home several times. After Filner's office was covered with stickers, a snakeskin was slipped into the office mail slot. Over the years, Filner said, he has dealt with crank calls and other anti- Semitic insults. But the incidents attributed to Curtis and the three others were more troubling, he said. "My employees felt particularly threatened," he said. "It was more visible and more organized." Group members also are accused of spray-painting anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on the Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Carlos and the Temple Adat Shalom in Poway. Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal of Tifereth Israel said many members of his congregation were especially horrified by the incident because they are concentration camp survivors. "To come into their house of worship after suffering that experience was like experiencing it all over again," Rosenthal said. "It was extremely traumatic." William Gore, the special agent in charge of the FBI office in San Diego, said Curtis encouraged his followers to take a "lone wolf" approach to white supremacy by operating individually. "He also told his followers to use whatever means necessary to accomplish their white supremacist goals," Gore said. Sometimes it appeared that Curtis was taunting authorities, Gore said. One of the anti-Hispanic stickers that appeared on Madrid's front door listed the telephone number of a hate hotline that Curtis runs. On Thursday, authorities seized Nazi books, propaganda and a licensed 9mm handgun from Curtis' room in his parents' house. They also seized Curtis' computer, which he is said to have used to set up a Web site where he posted racist writings. Yesterday, the Web site was still operating. Curtis, 25, and Michael Brian DaSilva, 21, of Lakeside were arrested Thursday. Next week, they will be arraigned on the four-count indictment. So far, they have not hired attorneys, officials said. The two other men, Robert Nichol Morehouse, 55, and Kevin Christopher Holland, who authorities estimate is 22, had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights. According to the indictment, DaSilva told Holland's wife that Holland would die if he cooperated with authorities. Each of the men faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. David Zugman, Morehouse's attorney, said his client is a night watchman who lives with and cares for his parents, who are in their 80s. "He's not exactly the coming of the Third Reich," said Zugman, who declined to comment on the allegations against his client. Zugman criticized the federal case as a superficial response to a problem with hate crimes and racism. "This is window dressing," he said. "This is only going to calcify their positions and makes them martyrs." But the community leaders who became victims of the propaganda praised the federal indictment. "Authorities have sent a message to those who would presume to decide who is to live safely and freely and who is to be taunted, harassed and intimidated," Casuto said. Filner said: "I'm glad it was pursued, because any expression of hatred against one group is something that everyone should be concerned about." Clara Harris of the Heartland Human Relations and Fair Housing Association said she met Curtis years ago when he was a teen-ager. Over the years, she said, she tried to reach out to him and invited him to some of the meetings of her civil rights organization. But the last time she talked with Curtis, she said, he told her that he was going to show up at one of those meetings with Tom Metzger, San Diego County's most famous racist and Curtis' mentor. Curtis never showed up. "I'm very sad that they have decided to waste their lives, because for the most part they're bright young people who could do a lot for their community," she said. - - - - - Late Alex Curtis Bulletin Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance) 10 Nov 00 The latest from the Alex Curtis case. Three others arrested Michael DaSilva, Robert Morehouse, and Kevin Holland. Morehouse and Holland have both plead guilty to one count of Civil Rights violations and are rolling. The events used to justify the arrests stem from 1997 and 98. Get this a plastic fake hand grenade on the front steps of Mestizo Mayor Art Madrid of La Mesa, Ca. Sending out material describing KIKE Congressman Bob Filner As a KIKE. Alleged graffiti on a Jew Synagogue. Also implied threats against the Head of the ADL in San Diego Morris the TURK Casuto. In other words a bullshit bunch of nothing. One very important added factor. Now we know the corporate media is an enemy but usually its been words. Now San Diego, s channel 8 and 10 have admitted hiring an investigator to follow Curtis for over a year attempting to get incriminating video evidence on Curtis and others. I now make the appeal to all serious activist's to refuse further interviews with the press. We do not need the press to accomplish our goals especially when the media is using investigators outside their normal routine. They have joined up with the thought police and other obviously biased groups. These charges are the new Federal Hate crime programs that will link up with the so called racist gang tag. So now all you right wing sissy's what's your next move?? You will follow every law right into the concentration camp or worse capitulate and fade away. Sorry that's not for me. Dig in soldiers its going to get hot!!! - - - - - I Want Every Racialist In This Entire Movement to Aid Curtis Rocky J. Suhayda (American Nazi Party) 11 Nov 00 Dear Racial Comrades: I am NOT writing this as "Chairman" of the American Nazi Party, I am writing this to you as an Old man who has been a fighter in our Racial Struggle for over three decades. I AM WRITING THIS AS AN INDIVIDUAL. Perhaps this message will be MISUNDERSTOOD by some, perhaps it will not be recieved as being in "good taste", but I have NO TIME for "diplomacy"...so I'm going to be BLUNT in my words, and hope that ALL of YOU take it in the spirit of MY INTENDING IT TO BE A POSITIVE MESSAGE. Comrade ALEX CURTIS of the Nationalist Observer, has been ATTACKED and ARRESTED BY FBI ZOG. I WANT EVERY RACIALIST IN THIS ENTIRE MOVEMENT TO COME TO HIS AID! Alex may "rub" some of you the "wrong way", BUT HE IS ONE OF US...A RACIALIST WHO "DOES SOMETHING"...even IF it ISN'T the "path" everyone can agree upon. For all of you OLD FIGHTERS...HE IS ONE OF THE YOUNG LEADERS, who WILL take OUR PLACE, when we are gone...and there aren't MANY young ones out there, who ARE even interested in carrying OUR banner, that we can AFFORD to LOSE THIS ONE! Being YOUNG, perhaps his "maturity level" has not grown to what you might wish, BUT WHERE WERE YOU at HIS age? Were YOU even "INVOLVED"? Here is WHAT I'm requesting of ALL of YOU out there in "movement land". I want everyone on this list alone, to SEND HIM $5 to HELP WITH GETTING DECENT LEGAL REPRESENTATION. IF everyone does this, he would have at LEAST $10,000. I want this message, or if you like, a SIMILAR "better written" message, sent out on EVERY RACIALIST LIST THAT EXISTS....INCLUDING the National Alliance, WCOTC, WAR,...EVERYONE. I want to see VINCENT BERTONELLI, who helped Richard Butler so generously, to OPEN UP those deep pockets of his and GIVE to SAVE a FUTURE LEADER of OUR FOLK. I want DAVID DUKE, to fly in to San Diego like JESSE JACKSON would for one of HIS "bro's" and FOCUS some "light" on this persecution, lest it be "buried under the rug" by ZOG in a "fast/hidden conviction". The SAME could be said for MATT HALE...YOU know the LAW...pitch in! I respectfully request that WILLIAM PEIRCE use ALL his INFLUENCE, as he has for the German Hendrick Moebus' recently...to rally HIS FOLLOWERS, to HELP the DEFENCE COSTS for this AMERICAN RACIALIST. You "music people" out there, who raised funds for Pastor Butler...who to put it bluntly, was "on his last legs anyways"...HELP this FUTURE ACTIVIST LEADER, as you DID with Aryan Nations. It is IMPORTANT that EVERYONE of US, who ARE RACIALISTS join together, AGAINST ZOG succeeding in successfully bringing this young man DOWN. IF EVERYONE of US, "HIGH and LOW" sends in ONLY $5 to this DEFENCE FUND...we CAN raise enough to give this Comrade a "fighting CHANCE". PLEASE, please put ASIDE your DIFFERENCES for a MOMENT, and DO the RIGHT/WHITE THING. I KNOW from MY OWN "experience" of earlier this Spring, when I lost my job of 25 years, because of "movement activities", how FEW of YOU even CARED. So be it. NOW, I'm NOT ASKING FOR MYSELF...this goes BEYOND just Alex, it boils down to, CAN WE RACIALISTS EVER UNITE ON ANYTHING? IF we cannot even SAVE one of our OWN, no matter how much we might "disagree" with them...it's STILL "US RACIALISTS" against the world of ZOG, and I would be making this "BEGGING LETTER" for YOU TOO. Even those that I myself, "disagreed" with on "policies". Let this INSTANCE, be the FIRST time that the Racialists PRESENT A UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE SYSTEM...if for NO other reason, but on PRINCIPAL. Whether your a POOHBAH or a CHICKEN PLUCKER, a LEADER or a FOLLOWER... no matter WHAT movement "sect" you might be, lets get our ACT TOGETHER for ONCE, and POOL OUR RECOURCES. I'm NOT asking that you mortgage your home, I'm SINCERELY "BEGGING" if you wish, for EVERYONE to COME TO THE AID of a FELLOW RACIALIST ACTIVIST for ONCE. FIVE measly DOLLARS won't bankrupt anyone, but together it WILL add up! Now, I realize that "SOME" of you will think that what I have written to be too "forward", or too "demanding", and if so...I SINCERELY APOLIGIZE for offending you. But, IGNORE ME the "messenger", and CONCENTRATE on the "MESSAGE". You might not even"like" ME...thats OK, lots of folks don't like me...but, HELP this young man as YOU would want to be helped in a similar predicament. What happened in the PAST, when Tom Metzger was "left hanging" by his Comrades in the "movement", as well as similar PAST situations...MUST END NOW! If we CAN start a "mutual aid" commitment NOW, and CONTINUE it in the FUTURE, can you imagine to what "strength" it could FINALLY LEAD TO, in our Racial Movement's struggle? Well, I'm not going to belabor the point, those of you who DEEP in your HEARTS know WHAT I am trying to do...will DO IT. For the rest, I would just be "prostrating" myself to no purpose. As I said in the begining of this message...THIS COMES FROM ME, to YOU. If you have ANY "respect" for myself, I simply ask that you consider what I ask, and if you "understand" it...ACT NOW, don't "put it off". PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE...its NOT a nice thought, is it? I'm going to also ASK all those Old Comrades, whom I've soldiered with in the Cause in the PAST, to allow me to "call in" any "old chips" that I may have won with them, by my doing my duty to the Folk. PLEASE help Alex out for MY sake, if for NOTHING else. If you think that I "deserve" any consideration...put $5 bucks into the mail, simply because Ol'Rock asked you to...it MEANS that MUCH to me, thanks. Once again, NO ONE "asked" me to write this, and NO ONE else is "associated" with this appeal, so if ANY criticism it due, BLAME IT ON ME ALONE. I really hope that I can count on ALL of you. -- Sincerely, Rocky J. Suhayda 14/88 Please Send Donations To- Alex Curtis Legal Defence Fund P.O.Box 152603, San Diego, CA 92195 - - - - - Curtis charged with civil-rights violations: Webmaster called others 'insane' for not being terrorists Crosstar/Nationalist 11 Nov 00 LOS ANGELES - A self-described "lone wolf," who waged a year-long, one-man war against Nationalists over the Internet, has been arrested for "hate" violations. Alex Curtis, 25, was apprehended by FBI agents in Lemon Grove, where he lived with his parents and maintained a website. Curtis, who proclaimed his devotion to Oklahoma-bomber Tim McVeigh, had been attacking Nationalists over the Internet for not mimicking McVeigh's tactics. He repeatedly urged viewers to become underground terrorists, who he called "lone wolves." Richard Barrett, General-Counsel of The Nationalist Movement, issued a statement saying that he was not surprised that the dominoes of violence- provokers were falling: I am not surprised that the dominoes are falling of those who try to conduct right-wing activism as some kind of Gambino-family criminal- enterprise. It is ludicrous and outrageous for Alex-Curtis-types to think that they can get away with criminal conspiracies. Curtis had been expressly vociferous against Barrett for warning people not be on his e- mail list. Barrett said that he began to warn people away over potential "hate" and conspiracy prosecutions when Curtis started to provoke violence about two years ago. Curtis then posted a page complaining that Nationalists were frightening his viewers away: He [Barrett] has gone out of his way to "frighten" some of my supporters by telling them it is too dangerous to even be on my mailing list. When Curtis was a student at Helix High School in 1993, he was expelled after being linked to swastikas and Ku Klux Klan symbols painted all over two classrooms. In 1997, he was convicted of using a La Mesa Police Department insignia during flyer-distribution. On his website, he featured pictures of Hitler, a scantily-clad terrorist Richard Scutari and neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell. He, also, wrote laudatory articles about imprisoned murderers and bank-robbers and counseled terrorists to conceal their deeds. After a two-year investigation, a sealed indictment was handed down by the U.S. District Court for numerous "hate" crimes and "civil-rights" violations, according to FBI spokeswoman Jan Caldwell. Nationalists had posted Curtis on their Internet page detailing individuals who had run afoul of the law and who used disapproved methods. According to Barrett: It is unacceptable for Curtis to conduct himself in such a reckless way as to smear pro-majority Americans as criminals when, in fact, they are patriots. I have denounced Curtis' lawless behavior before and warned people away from him. And, I continue to do so. Barrett, who conducted an anti-immigration rally at San Ysidro, explained that Nationalists take stringent precautions to work within the law. "We recently installed a feature in our Crosstar Forum which deletes buzz words which can get people busted," he said. "It's a shame that Americans cannot speak more openly, these days, but it is more of a shame for people to say and do things that land them senselessly in jail." Shortly before his arrest, Curtis had lambasted Nationalists as "insane" and "goofballs" on his website. Notwithstanding, Curtis, who called himself the Nationalist Observer, had been garnering rave reviews from various anti-Nationalist pressure groups. Abraham Foxman, chief of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, had dubbed Curtis a "rising star." Foxman had used the same words to describe the ill- fated Andrew Greenbaum, whose short-lived, cyberspace "Nationalist Party" folded when it was revealed that Greenbaum was a Jew. Curtis has, also, been ballyhooed by pro-minority lawyer Morris Dees, who termed him "one of the most prominent leaders in the country." However, the Union-Tribune reported a recent interview stating that "Curtis described himself as having few friends and working occasionally at minimum-wage jobs." Curtis' most recent posting had praised Ryan Wilson, a Philadelphia man who was fined $1 million for using the Internet for terrorism and who is being sought as a fugitive. Nationalists had been preparing legal action to prevent Curtis from using the name "Nationalist." Also charged along with Curtis for making threats, vandalism and "intimidation" was Michael DaSilva, 21, who was already in jail for possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Two other associates, Robert Morehouse, 53, and Kevin Holland, 22, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy and are cooperating with authorities against Curtis. Police seized a framed picture of Hitler and a terrorist manual written by communist Che Guevera from Curtis' bedroom, which they said they would use as evidence. Curtis and DaSilva face forty-year sentences on four federal charges. - - - - - White Supremacist Charged With Hate Crimes: Arrested for Threatening Civil Rights Group, 'Non-white' Politicians J ames Gordon Meek (APB News) 13 Nov 00 SAN DIEGO -- A long-running feud between the local office of the Anti-Defamation League and white supremacists has escalated with the arrests of several men accused of threatening the anti-hate group's officials, as well as a Jewish congressman and a Hispanic mayor. Accused racists Alexander James Curtis and Michael Brian DaSilva were arraigned in federal court today and face felony charges for allegedly committing a two-year spree of hate crimes intended to make their targets fear for their own safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amalia Meza told APBnews.com that Curtis, who publishes an Aryan rights newspaper and Web site, is more than just an activist espousing his views on race. "Protected speech is speech that can advocate hatred or racism," she said. "But when you cross the line, actually targeting specific people and delivering messages to their homes or their offices, then that's a federal violation." Threats, gift grenade The incidents cited in the federal indictment began in 1997 when the suspects allegedly left signs with epithets near the San Diego offices of Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., including one message that read, "Yabba Dabba Doo, Kill Every Jew." Filner is Jewish. La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid, who is Hispanic, also became an alleged target of the white supremacists after he spoke out against a spate of unsolved hate crimes in the area that he said victimized minorities. The official soon received racist fliers at his home, and eventually a box was left at his residence with a red bow and an inert hand grenade inside. Madrid said the inference was clear: The "non-white mayor," as one message described him, was unwelcome in America. Mutual recrimination Just weeks ago, the national ADL issued a report about Curtis, 25, who publishes the Nationalist Observer newspaper and Web site that have for years slammed the civil rights organization. The ADL report characterized Curtis as "an anti-Semitic and racist activist" and a "rising star among bigots on the Web." In response, Curtis' Web site said the ADL was a hate group itself, one that "languishes at the bottom of the Jew-pressure group barrel, having been dwarfed by the successful and powerful [World Jewish Congress], which secured $2 billion for Jews worldwide in Holyhoax reparations." The screed apparently referred to reparations sought by Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust in World War II. Curtis is not yet represented by counsel, and calls placed to several phone numbers he uses were not answered. Years of threats Morris Casuto, regional director of the ADL's San Diego office, said the cyber-rhetoric between the Jewish organization and Curtis is nothing new, but that the "terroristic threats" against him personally needed to be stopped. Casuto alleged that Curtis began sending anonymous threatening letters in 1993, when Curtis was a local high school student. The notes, which said Casuto would be killed if he ever entered the California community of Lemon Grove, were signed by the Exalted Cyclops of the Lemon Grove Ku Klux Klan. Curtis was later arrested by police for his purported Klan activities there. In late 1997, Casuto's name -- with a cross through it -- was among racist symbols spray-painted on a local synagogue. A swastika was later pasted to the front door of his residence, and federal prosecutors are now charging Curtis with both crimes. One-way argument Of the long-standing feud, Casuto said it has largely been a one-way argument. "We don't engage in discussions with people we have no idea of how to reach," he said. "The ADL seriously encourages law enforcement to look into investigating individuals who we believed were committing crimes, and [Curtis] wasn't happy with that." Both Casuto and Madrid said they would be concerned for their families' safety if Curtis was granted bond and released. Meza said today that she would ask that Curtis and DaSilva be detained until trial and denied bail. Each of the three felony conspiracy charges carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Two other men, Kevin Christopher Holland and Robert Nichol Morehouse, were previously arrested and pleaded guilty to defacing the synagogues. Madrid said a message needed to be sent to Curtis, his followers, and any others who are like-minded that hate crimes against public officials who speak out against bigotry will not be tolerated and can be criminally prosecuted. "They would not have targeted me had my name been Art Madrid the truck driver," the mayor said. - - - - - Man denies he's guilty of rights violations: Officials says he's been running a 'hate business' Marisa Taylor (San Diego Union Tribune) 14 Nov 00 A Lemon Grove man denied yesterday that he organized a group of white supremacists who harassed several community leaders, including U.S. Rep. Bob Filner. Alex Curtis, 25, pleaded not guilty to three federal counts of conspiracy to violate civil rights. If convicted, he faces 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. Curtis and a Lakeside man, Michael Brian DaSilva, are accused of repeatedly harassing community leaders with a string of racist messages, including slogans advocating violence against minorities. Curtis' father, Dale, appeared in court and sat next to Tom Metzger, a Fallbrook founder of the racist group known as the White Aryan Resistance. Dale Curtis, who owns an engineering company, criticized the case against his son. "This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion," Curtis said. Dale Curtis said he didn't know Metzger before the hearing. But as they waited for the court hearing to begin, they talked and laughed. During a break, the two men lunched together. "I like this kid," Metzger said of Alex Curtis outside the courtroom. In a 1990 lawsuit, the Southern Poverty Law Center claimed Metzger should be held responsible for the actions of his skinhead followers after they were convicted of fatally beating an Ethiopian man with baseball bats in Portland, Ore. The center won a multimillion-dollar judgment. When asked to comment on the case against Curtis, Metzger said: "Screw the government." Alex Curtis is in custody pending a hearing in federal court. Prosecutors said they plan to argue that Curtis, who runs a racist Web site, should be held without bond because he is dangerous and could flee the country. Robert Ramirez, a federal defender who represented Curtis during the hearing, said in court that Curtis is a student at San Diego State University and earns about $3,000 a year working for his father. But Michael Necochea, a FBI agent in the case, said Curtis told officials when he was booked that he was unemployed and was not a student. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amalia Meza said she plans to argue that Curtis should not be represented by a court-appointed attorney because he has about $30,000 in a bank account. "He has been running a hate business out of his home," she said. Two other men charged in the case, Robert Nichol Morehouse and Kevin Christopher Holland, have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights and are awaiting sentencing. According to federal prosecutors, the group harassed Filner, La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid, civil rights activist Clara Harris and Morris Casuto, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego. In addition, they are accused of spray-painting anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on two area synagogues. DaSilva is also accused of threatening to kill Holland if he cooperated with authorities. DaSilva, 21, is scheduled to be arraigned today. - - - - - ADL Welcomes Arrest of White Supremacist Alex Curtis for Civil Rights Violations Anti-Defamation League 10 Nov 00 SAN DIEGO -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the arrest of Alex Curtis, a major player in the white power world, for conspiracy to violate the civil rights of various individuals and institutions, including synagogues and public officials. Morris Casuto, ADL's Regional Director in San Diego, who has been a target of Curtis' terrorist tactics, said, "Curtis' arrest by federal authorities for civil rights violations sends a clear message to white supremacists that they can not determine who has a right to live in this country. Those of like minds should be on notice that law enforcement will act swiftly when hatemongers attempt to deprive individuals of their constitutional rights." Casuto praised the diligent work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Diego Police Department, La Mesa Police Department and the San Diego Sheriff's departments that led to the arrest. ADL, a leader in monitoring and countering extremism, has been aware of Alex Curtis for many years. On October 26, 2000, ADL released "Alex Curtis: Lone Wolf of Hate Prowls the Internet," which exposes Curtis' blueprint for terrorism on the Internet. The ADL report cites Curtis' advice to white supremacists and other extremists on how to effectively attack Jews, Blacks and other minorities and notes that Curtis' Web site tells racists who commit acts of violence how to minimize the punishment they receive for their crimes. The League's report describes how Curtis, a once little-known racist, now ranks as one of the most vocal proponents of "lone wolf" activism, thanks largely to the power of the Internet. Using his "White Racist" Web site as a means of distributing anti-Semitic and racist literature, Curtis, 25, of San Diego, encourages fellow racists to act alone in committing violent acts so their cohorts will not be held legally responsible for their crimes. Mixed with his virulent attacks against minorities, his model of "lone wolf" activism has captured the imagination of some of the hate movement's most visible and notorious figures. "Here is an individual who not only advocates individual acts of terrorism, but goes so far as to provide advice on how to carry them out," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "Alex Curtis personifies a new kind of hater, a person who casts himself as an ideologue and agitates for violent underground campaigns gainst the government. 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