Trouble In Whitopia
In this Sept. 5, 2000, file photo is Tom Metzger, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, speaks in in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. Metzger told The Associated Press today that he is returning property in Leith, N.D., that Craig Cobb deeded to him because he disagrees with his methods and he's too controversial. The prominent white separatists says he is distancing himself from Cobb, another white supremacist, who faces terrorizing charges for allegedly threatening residents of the North Dakota town he's trying to turn into an Aryan enclave. (AP Photo/Barbara Minton, File)
One of the most prominent white separatists in the country is distancing himself from a white supremacist who faces terrorizing charges for allegedly threatening people in a North Dakota town he's trying to turn into an Aryan enclave. Tom Metzger, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he has instructed his attorney to return property in Leith that Craig Cobb has deeded to him. "The way he does business is not the way I do business," said Metzger, who still considers Cobb a friend. "I think people should move into communities as regular people and become part of the community, and not necessarily declare their racist views/Associated Press. More here.
Question: Are you surprised that supremacists don't get along with one another?