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Here Kitty: Aryans Were Dangerous As Well As Losers

Ask Father Wasmuth if the Aryan threat was real? They bombed his parish residence. The federal building was bombed and so was a business on NW BLVD. I worked downtown the day that happened and it was real. The Aryans may have been (they were) a motley crew of social misfits, malcontents and losers but they were an issue. A very amateurish group of haters but they also were a part of the Matthews bunch that bombed Widbey Island and Butler served time for counterfeiting as well. They harassed those of jewish decent, practicing or non practicing and they harassed blacks and racially mixed couples and children. They were menaces to society. I attended one of their parades, from the comfort and safety of the high-rise apartments nearby. There were militia-like swat teams on hand that really seemed surreal. It was an unpleasant era and as a native resident I ignored it Poolman says he did, but I was simply being naive?Here Kitty. More here

Question: Did you ever meet Richard Butler or any of the other Aryans who made headlines for committing crimes?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.