Neo Nazi Teaching Local Kids Martial Arts
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Does anyone remember this story? Is this guy supposed to be teaching kids?
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...lAFriend=1

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Neo-Nazi group based in Phoenix
Recently distributed fliers call for white pride, deny Holocaust

April 3, 2009



By Anita Burke
Mail Tribune
A Rogue Valley man recently released from prison after being convicted in a string of racially motivated assaults in 2003 now leads a statewide neo-Nazi group based in Phoenix.

Andrew Lee Patterson identifies himself as the state leader of the National Socialist Movement, Oregon Unit, and said he has been a "storm trooper, first class" with the movement for about six months. Other unit leaders from around the state selected him as leader based on his active involvement, he said.


The 29-year-old with a shaved head said he and his staff in Phoenix coordinate activity around the state, while a local unit focuses on recruiting and Southern Oregon issues — especially illegal immigration and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Patterson would not disclose membership numbers, either locally or statewide.

In recent weeks they have distributed fliers across the Rogue Valley and Klamath Falls calling for white pride and unity, denying the Holocaust happened and demanding that illegal immigrants return to Mexico so the white race doesn't become extinct.

Police across Southern Oregon have been watching the group for several months and have seen an uptick in activity in the past two to three weeks, Medford police Lt. Tim Doney said.

"We aren't out to interfere with anyone's political views, but we have some concerns because these people aren't strangers to police," he said. "The ones we have had contact with have a history of violent crimes, including assault and sex offenses."

While Patterson describes his group as a political party focused on education, the group is not on the Oregon Secretary of State's list of registered political parties.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based civil-rights organization whose Intelligence Project tracks hate groups, identifies the National Socialist Movement as the largest neo-Nazi organization in the country. The project's recent publication of "The Year in Hate" noted that in the past year the National Socialist Movement continued to favor handing out pamphlets, burning books, lighting swastikas, and hosting an annual "Hated and Proud" rock festival, but also increased "illegal invasion" protests targeting Latino immigrants.

The national immigration debate, the worsening recession, and Barack Obama's presidency all fueled growth in the number of hate groups in America, the center reported.

Just this month, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning that right-wing extremist groups, including white supremacists, have boosted recruiting and mobilizing efforts, fueled by those factors.

"In times of strain, we see groups like this gain a stronger following," said Stanislav Vysotsky, a sociologist at Willamette University who studies supremacist groups and community responses to them. "We are definitely seeing a resurgence of hate."

Patterson describes his group as "normal people with a legitimate cause — surviving as a race."

"People call me a hatemonger, but I care about my community, my culture and my race," he said.

He said he has been a part of what he calls the "white racialist movement" for 14 years.

"I started as a teen for the shock value, like a satanist or a punk," he said.

The fear and anger he provoked pushed him further toward hate, ultimately landing him in prison, he said.

In January 2003 Patterson and two fellow Oregon Army National Guard soldiers attacked two homeless men, calling them a "disgrace to the white race," and an East Indian motel owner in what police called hate crimes. Patterson said the motel owner was targeted because he had thrown one of Patterson's friends out of the hotel, not solely because of his race.

Patterson, who had been sent home early from a past peacekeeping mission in the Sinai for discipline problems, was discharged from the Guard after he was convicted of second- and third-degree assault in that case. His friend Chadwick James Ritchie committed suicide after the crime spree and the third soldier was convicted of intimidation and assault and dismissed from the Guard, too.

"I was ignorant and hateful when I started," Patterson acknowledged.

He said that years of reading in prison led him to the National Socialist Movement as a way to promote his race in a positive way.

Patterson is on post-prison supervision (Note: This sentence has been corrected; the original story incorrectly described the type of supervision Patterson faces since his release) until November 2011, and the parole board recommended that his parole officer consider imposing a condition that he have no contact with gang members or activity and be barred from possession of gang-related paraphernalia that advocates hate or violence toward others. Although the state released the general and recommended conditions of his supervision, Jackson County Community Justice declined to comment on the specifics.

Although Patterson said the National Socialist Movement rejects violence and criminality, self-proclaimed neo-Nazis attracted police attention in January. Two men — one with a red swastika armband and one with an SS tattoo on his neck — hit a man with a telescoping baton and shouted "Heil Hitler!" after the man asked them if they were drunk, a Medford police report said. Christopher Allen Ellis, 29, of Phoenix, was convicted of the assault and sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Patterson said Ellis and the other man weren't regular members of his group and the local movement distanced itself from them after the assault and a records check showed they weren't on the party rolls.

However, Bret Leon Murphy, who also uses the last name Court and is a deputy leader of the movement in was with Ellis and others that night. The 33-year-old Murphy, who sports a swastika tattoo on the back of his hand, claims to have been involved in the movement since childhood and has convictions for car theft, identity theft and driving under the influence.

Murphy, the party's office manager Eric Wayne Harlan, 25, and Levi Dale Lucas, 21, were stopped by police on Monday as they distributed fliers in the parking lot of Red Robin in honor of Hilter's birthday. The three weren't violating any laws, but authorities worried about the possibility of violence, Doney said. Lucas has convictions for first-degree sexual abuses, failure to register as a sex offender and criminal mischief. Harlan has convictions for second-degree burglary, menacing and telephonic harassment.

Patterson said they distributed about 2,700 white pride fliers at parking lots "from Eagle Point to south Medford."

The group got a special event permit for a downtown rally April 5, but canceled it because members had other obligations, Patterson said. They had a barbecue at Cantrall-Buckley Park on Easter with swastika banners flying, but drew no complaints, and some members attended the April 15 anti-tax tea parties in uniform.

About a month ago, the group was asked to stop distributing literature at Home Depot in Phoenix, where a city ordinance bars distributing handbills without the permission of property owners except during special events, such as parades, Phoenix Police Chief Derek Bowker said. Store management complained and the group left without incident.

Patterson said a group was detained by Klamath Falls police for about an hour earlier this month after distributing fliers at parking lots, but no charges were filed.

Vysotsky noted that the lawful distribution of hateful recruiting messages leaves communities who want to oppose hate groups in a complex position.

"You want to prevent them from growing, but there is no catch-all prescription for the community," he said.

His research has found success in rallies or concerts planned to promote messages of unity and diversity and in direct confrontation to drive out bigoted or racist ideas.

The Medford Multicultural Commission and the Community Response Team connected with the Human Rights Coalition are both set to meet this week and weren't prepared to comment.

Doney suggested anyone who is offended should refuse the handouts the group offers and property owners can ask them to leave.

"Otherwise, just throw it away," he said of the messages.
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#2
He did 5.5 years for these crimes.

August 14, 2003

By Sarah Lemon
An Oregon National Guardsman will spend nearly six years in prison for attacking two homeless men earlier this year.

Andrew Lee Patterson, 24, of Eagle Point, was sentenced Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court to five years and 10 months in prison under Measure 11, the state's tough-on-crime law. He pleaded guilty to charges of second- and third-degree assault last month.

Also charged in the case, 26-year-old Aaron Andrew St. James, of Medford, was released on July 29 after serving more than 100 days in jail. A National Guard member, he pleaded guilty to charges of assault and intimidation.

The National Guard is discharging the two men, according to Kay Fristad, a spokeswoman for the Guard in Salem. Felony convictions make the men ineligible for military service, she said.
— Patterson and his best friend, 21-year-old fellow Guard member Chadwick James Ritchie, targeted homeless men and an East Indian motel owner in a series of January attacks that police labeled hate crimes.

There's been a lot of talk about whether these defendants were racist or not, said prosecutor Beth Heckert. (Patterson) and Mr. Ritchie went looking for people who weren't worthy of being in Jackson County.

Ritchie and Patterson twice assaulted a homeless man, whom they called a disgrace to the white race investigators said. The duo on Jan. 14 dragged the man across Biddle Road and down an embankment where they beat him with a wooden bat, Heckert said.

The victim spent several days at Rogue Valley Medical Center, where he was treated for skull fractures and deep cuts, Heckert said. White ordered Patterson to pay the hospital nearly &

36;19,000 in restitution because Hawkins had no insurance.

Patterson, Ritchie and St. James attacked another homeless man on Jan. 30 on Jackson Street. The trio then drove to Sis-Q Motel on Riverside Avenue, where Ritchie assaulted the owner, whom the trio mistook for an Arab, police said. A hotel resident called police and the three fled. Ritchie shot and killed himself soon after in a restaurant parking lot.

Investigators and attorneys characterized Ritchie as the ring-leader. However, the court was bound to hold Patterson and St. James accountable for aiding and abetting their friend, White said.

A National Guard member for six years, Patterson has served in Japan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He and Ritchie were sent home in August 2002 from a peace-keeping mission in the Sinai after they set fire to a barracks, Guard officials said.
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#3
Sounds like the libs will lump him in with Arpeggio , this fellow should be on the border with the minutemen instead of teaching kids. He should be a point man against some of those cartel murderers. You herd the latest of 49 more chopped up bodies on the border ?
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#4
ValleySoldiers? Wait, let me spell it right: VALLEYSOLDIERS??
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(05-18-2012, 10:21 PM)Tiamat Wrote: ValleySoldiers? Wait, let me spell it right: VALLEYSOLDIERS??

He opened a Martial Arts studio in Gold Hill, and he has at least 40 kids in his dojo, not counting teenagers and grown men.
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(05-18-2012, 10:21 PM)Tiamat Wrote: ValleySoldiers? Wait, let me spell it right: VALLEYSOLDIERS??

for sure, for sure.
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(05-18-2012, 10:21 PM)Tiamat Wrote: ValleySoldiers? Wait, let me spell it right: VALLEYSOLDIERS??

Is that what they are known by? I need information.

On June 2nd he is going to march in the Gold Dust Day parade with a retinue of local kids in their little white suits.
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#8
With hoods ?
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(05-18-2012, 10:37 PM)Yeshuah Hamashiach Wrote: With hoods ?

I'm am seriously going to do something if this guy is allowed to march down the main street of town with all the towns' kids behind him like the Pied Piper.
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#10
Your right if anyone should be playing the Pipes it is me. Anyway ..... this sounds like your going to get yourself in trouble. Not that that is a bad thing , it just sounds like your kind of fight . So .... what is the plan ? Here is an unpleasant thought , what if this nut joins the RVF ?
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(05-18-2012, 10:43 PM)Yeshuah Hamashiach Wrote: Your right if anyone should be playing the Pipes it is me. Anyway ..... this sounds like your going to get yourself in trouble. Not that that is a bad thing , it just sounds like your kind of fight . So .... what is the plan ? Here is an unpleasant thought , what if this nut joins the RVF ?
I was thinking of hiring a mime to just go in the parade alongside him and do Nazi mime and give out flyers.
We don't have 100 people to hold up anti-nazi posters like Phoenix, I might want to rent them.
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#12
Dunno, forum members are required to post links to articles.
I realize you feel we should take your word for it, but there are explicit rules regarding providing a link to a story.
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#13
(05-18-2012, 10:46 PM)Clone Wrote: Dunno, forum members are required to post links to articles.
I realize you feel we should take your word for it, but there are explicit rules regarding providing a link to a story.
Hmmmm...I don't seem to be able to do that since I installed Chrome...
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(05-18-2012, 10:46 PM)Clone Wrote: Dunno, forum members are required to post links to articles.
I realize you feel we should take your word for it, but there are explicit rules regarding providing a link to a story.
Could you do it for me?
It is in the MMT archives under Andrew Patterson..
Thanks
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(05-18-2012, 10:48 PM)DUNNO Wrote:
(05-18-2012, 10:46 PM)Clone Wrote: Dunno, forum members are required to post links to articles.
I realize you feel we should take your word for it, but there are explicit rules regarding providing a link to a story.
Hmmmm...I don't seem to be able to do that since I installed Chrome...

Out of respect for the TOS, perhaps you should figure it out?
There are many Chrome users here who could help you, I'm sure.

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#16
http://bethheckertforda.com/index.php?op...Itemid=131
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(05-18-2012, 10:51 PM)Clone Wrote:
(05-18-2012, 10:48 PM)DUNNO Wrote:
(05-18-2012, 10:46 PM)Clone Wrote: Dunno, forum members are required to post links to articles.
I realize you feel we should take your word for it, but there are explicit rules regarding providing a link to a story.
Hmmmm...I don't seem to be able to do that since I installed Chrome...

Out of respect for the TOS, perhaps you should figure it out?
There are many Chrome users here who could help you, I'm sure.

Well, you could just tell on me then.

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#18
Well looky here.........


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#19
I'll go find these guys, I am sure Rabbi Zaslow knows how to get in touch with them.


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#20
Terms of Service . When you post a story you post a link and not the whole story . Clone could have done what most of us usually do and that is google the link and do it for the person.
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