Extremists turning to bigamy, expanding ranks
SPOKANF. Wash. (AP) — Family ond
friends were stunned when Angie Murray
told them she was going to enter a polyg
amist marriage with a neo-Nazi skinhead
"She didn't Iwt an eyelash when she told
me about it," said Kelly Meyer, manager
of the sandvvit h shop where, until re< ent
ly. Angie Murray worked "She said. Tin
his s«s ond wife and we’re moving to Okla
homa The only thing I regret is that I
yvent into this not loving him
With that, Del and Mary Ann Murray of
suburban Mead lost a set ond daughter to
the Christian Identity Movement, which
combines Old Testament and yslnte
supremat ist beliefs Angie's sister, Susan
Murray Settle, joined six years ago.
We re just devastated, bei ause now
we've lost our youngest daughter, too ."
Mrs Murray said in an article published
last week in Thr Sj>ok<‘stn<m ltr\ tm neyss
paper
The youngest of six Murray children.
Angie i ailed her mother n few days after
attending the Aryan World ( (ingress near
Hayden lake, Idaho. July H
"She told me that she hod married tins
man who already had one wife who is
pregnant and expecting next month," Mrs
Murray said "That's the way they believe "
The Murrays filed n missing person
report with the Spokane County Sheriffs
Office and a higamv complaint with the
Kootenai County Sheriff's Department
But they concede there is little law
enforcement can do. Bigamy is rarely pros
ecuted, and Angie Murray turned 1H a
week ago
The Murrays' situation is not much dif
ferent than that of other parents whose
children have embraced white supremo
i ist groups, said Tony Stewart of the
Kootenai Countv Task Fort e on Human
Relations
"There is n lot of difference between
believing in something and ai ling on
something," Stewart said from hisffoeur
d'Alene. Idaho, offii e
"An important |x»mt is that when voting
people, or whole families, become deeply
involved in extremism, there's just a long
trail of tragedies that take plai <■ he said
'll could bo she's involved and has real
ly followed though and wants to follow
the Aryan Nations," raid Bill Wassmuth
of the Northwest Coalition Against Mali
cious Harassment m Seattle "It's also pos
sible she's infatuated with the [>erson she's
teamed up with it's also possible, what
ever the reason, if that changes, she’ll come
out of it."
It is not surprising that some Christian
Identity devotees would turn to bigamy as
a was of expanding their ranks, Wassmuth
said
"Sometimes people come up with these
rationalizations for behavior they want to
pursue," he said, noting that the late Knliert
Mathews, who in the late 1‘tHOs founder!
a violent neo-Nazi organization r ailed The
Order, had "spouted that sort of thing for
validating hav ing a child with a woman
other than his wife.”
Susan Murray Settle, the first of the Mur
rays daughters to embrace white separatist
beliefs, confirmed that her younger sis
ter had joined the Christian Identity move
ment and bad gone to live with the 28*
year-old neo-Nari skinhead.
"She got married to one of our best
friends." said lake Settle. Susan's husband.
"(His) only reason for doing this is not sex,
but to firing more of God's real children
into the world
The man and his wife have one child,
who is almost two years old.
Del Murray said he is angry with the
Aryan Nations and the movement's "total
ly ridiculous beliefs They stand for every
thing I'm against."
The Murrays said they remain close to
their four other grown children and would
like to re-establish ties to Angie and Susan.
The Murrays wrote to Richard Butler,
self-proclaimed pastor of the Aryan Church
of Jesus Christ Christian, who was away
from the sect's compound last week and
unavailable for comment.
"You are the person dins tlv responsi
ble for so much pain in our lives This is
our second daughter that has been swept
away in the blink of an eye by your group."
the Murrays wrote. "Whatever you think
you are. it is definitely not Christian.”
Support floods in
after office bombing
TACOMA (AP) I -ii from scaring people away, a bombing
at the local NAACP office has resulted in new members and
an outpouring of support for the i ivii rights organization.
“Some have said. Tut sorry it took this iru ident for me to
join the NAACIV ' said iai omn branch President Os< ar Mor
ris “Many i ommont on what a reprehensible at t it was
The |ulv 20 explosion shattered some glass and punched a
Sew holes m a wall anti desk No one was injured.
Two white supremacists were arrested and charged with stag
ing the bombing, wins ii authorities say was part of what was
intended to he a racist terror campaign in the Northwest
A third man also was arrested after three pipe bombs were
found in the car of one of the alleged bombers
While the bombers' aim mny have been to promote fear,
the reaction instead has I asm lor |xH>ple to unite under the ban
ner of the National Association for the Advancement of (ad
ored People.
Organizations and people from across the slate have called
and written the branch to express support or to join the civil
rights group. Morris said
One day last week, Morris said, he arrived at the office to
find a woman waiting to sign up as a lifetime member.
Meanwhile, rnemliers are redoubling efforts to increase the
group’s meitiliership. which stood at 500 before the bombing.
Morris and other members planned to speak to local church
congregations about the local NAACP's efforts to investigate
discrimination ond fight hate crime
“We'll make them aware." he said, “that they should come
home to the NAACP."
Pro-pot woman elected to board
SAN RAI'AKI.. Calif. (AM) Is I vnnette Slims
an impostor or a visionary f
Ihe 49-year-old Marin County musit ian < launs
she’s living proof that marijuana heals The leafy
green plant has i tired tier own chronic depression
and friends who smoke it have weaned themselves
from all oliiil or quelled the pain of All IS or cam er.
she s,n s
Homed by tins and "thousands of years of med
ical in format ion" on the drug's benign qualities.
Shaw sought an unlikely forum a seat on the
count\ s Advisory Board on Ah ohol and Other
Problems
faist week she won. hut not without controv ersy
The truth has prevailed.'' she said after coun
ty supervisors voted 4 1 to reaffirm her seat on the
17-membcr advisory board I won through trial by
fire '
Two Weeks ago, Shaw ’s seat Was sent into lim
bo after the advisory panel urged supervisors to
re< onsider the appointment, handed dow n about a
month earlier
Shaw's fixe, (rilled her a marijuana crusader unde
serving of a role on the (itizens' panel, which at ts
as the county's liaison to Ux-ai drug prevention ser
vice providers.
Included on the hoard's roster are law enfort e
ment offn nils, therapists, attorneys and recovering
addicts, none of whom express vocal support of
reforming drug laws, member Patricia Honelli said.
"The board has some concerns relative to Ms
Shaw's motivation," Honelli said during a July 19
emergency meeting to discuss Shaw, "This seat is
not my platform for personal political persuasion,
nor is it the charge of this fxxirti, nor is it our focus
Honelli said the community, and particularly dnig
addicts, might read Shaw's appointment as an
endorsement of pot smoking. And, she said, it < ould
haze battle lines in the local war on drugs
"The message here is print iple lie fore personal
ities Our primary principle is recovery, which is
defined bv abstinence." Honelli said
Others grilled Shaw about her affiliation with the
Hemp Kenaissam e Couni il ol Marin, the Califor
nia Hemp Coalition and the National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana I.aws
Shaw assured them "liven though I think pot
is lienign, I don't want to see kids smoking.”
San Auselmo i’oli< e Chief Bernard Del Santo,
in voting to oust her, said he and Shaw "philo
sophii ally think of drugs from .1 different aspec t."
He reportedly threatened to resign from the hoard
over the furor.
But Slum yvon the ba< king of AIDS sufferers, drug
law reformists, and "Broyvnie Mary." a Marin Coun
ty resident who makes marijuana brownies for the
chronically ill Most lauded both Shaw and the heal
ing properties of marijuana and said any citizens'
panel needs a diversity of vieyvs.
"Here we have someone who is yvilling to serve.
If yse throw this person out, it almost sounds like u
witch hunt here," said Brian Friedland, one board
member who supported Shaw
Supervisors also sided yvith Shaw and her insis
tence that she's no drug pusher or "some wild drug
legalization mama out to embarrass" the Ixuird. She
was sworn in and said she was planning tours of
local health service providers who work with sub
stance abuse problems.
"There are hundreds of people counting on me
to tell the truth," Shaw said "I believe 1 can help
save people's lives "
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