How the Arayan Nations Influence Society
The question we are addressing is how the Aryan Nations influence society. The Aryan Nations was once of the country's best-known enclaves of anti-Semitism and white nationalism. While founded as a Christian Identity outpost, the organization also incorporates neo-Nazi themes; its founder and longtime leader, Richard Girnt Butler, openly Loves Hitler. It is no surprise, then, that Aryan Nations has for many years had members in common with several other white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups and that the Aryan Nations compound at Hayden Lake has served as one of the central meeting points and rallying grounds of far-right extremists of all types.
Several Aryan Nations associates have also acted on their aggression. During the early 1980s, for example, Butler followers joined with members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance and Ku Klux Klan groups to form The Silent Brotherhood, known more widely as The Order, which planned to overthrow the United States government in hopes of establishing an Aryan homeland in the Pacific Northwest. In order to raise funds for this revolution, members of the group went on a crime spree in 1983-1984 that included bank robberies, counterfeiting, bombings, armored car holdups and murder. The counterfeiting operation was based at the Aryan Nations compound. However, The order's activities came to an end in December 1984, when Robert Mathews, died in a fire during a shootout with federal agents on Whidbey Island, Washington, and many of its members were caught and sent to prison/Jail. Now The Aryan nations target youth across the Internet, inspiring a new generation of would-be white revolutionaries and further reinforcing the Aryan Nations "brand
On August 10, 1998, the group received negative publicity when a 37-year-old Aryan Nations guard named Buford Furrow shot and wounded three young boys, a teenage girl and a receptionist at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. Furrow had mental problem as well as a jail
Several Aryan Nations associates have also acted on their aggression. During the early 1980s, for example, Butler followers joined with members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance and Ku Klux Klan groups to form The Silent Brotherhood, known more widely as The Order, which planned to overthrow the United States government in hopes of establishing an Aryan homeland in the Pacific Northwest. In order to raise funds for this revolution, members of the group went on a crime spree in 1983-1984 that included bank robberies, counterfeiting, bombings, armored car holdups and murder. The counterfeiting operation was based at the Aryan Nations compound. However, The order's activities came to an end in December 1984, when Robert Mathews, died in a fire during a shootout with federal agents on Whidbey Island, Washington, and many of its members were caught and sent to prison/Jail. Now The Aryan nations target youth across the Internet, inspiring a new generation of would-be white revolutionaries and further reinforcing the Aryan Nations "brand
On August 10, 1998, the group received negative publicity when a 37-year-old Aryan Nations guard named Buford Furrow shot and wounded three young boys, a teenage girl and a receptionist at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. Furrow had mental problem as well as a jail