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Aryan Nations Reportedly Regrouping in Idaho
A place for white supremacists to conduct meetings, cross burnings and more, they say
By Nicholas K. Geranios
The Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A disciple of former Aryan
Nations leader Richard Butler wants to build a new com-
pound in northern Idaho to act as a gathering place for white
supremacists, a development that troubles human rights
groups who spent decades battling Butler and his group.
Shaun Winkler, who unsuccessfully ran for sheriff of
Bonner County earlier this year, said a supporter is donat-
ing 8 acres near the town of Priest River, Idaho, that he
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hopes to develop into a place for white supremacists to con-
duct meetings, cross burnings and other activities.
``I’m just one guy that wants to bring people together to
continue the struggle for white survival,” Winkler, 33, told
The Associated Press this week.
Butler’s high-profile Aryan Nations activity tainted north-
ern Idaho’s image nationally, and local civil rights groups
were wary of a potential new hub for racist activity.
``Our work has to go on to promote equality and justice
and fairness,” said Tony Stewart, a leader of the Kootenai
County Task Force on Human Relations. Human rights
groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, at this
point are just raising awareness. There are no active efforts
to try to thwart Winkler.
The task force and the Southern Poverty Law Center com-
bined to push a civil lawsuit that bankrupted the Aryan
Nations in 2000, leading to the sale of the original com-
pound. Butler died in 2004.
Winkler declined to identify his benefactor, other than to
say he was a former Los Angeles police officer who had
supported Winkler’s bid for sheriff. Aryan Nations was
structured as a church of the white supremacist Christian
Identity religion, and Winkler said the new compound will
include a church hall for services and places for supporters
to live.
Winkler, who works as a logger, originally planned the
compound on 17 acres of nearby land he purchased last
year. But money woes have pushed that purchase toward
foreclosure.
Winkler described himself as an imperial wizard in the
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and said the compound
will operate under a flag of the KKK, rather than Aryan
Nations.
``This is an early step,” he said. ``It’s not going to happen
overnight.”
He considers himself a white separatist, who believes
people of different races should live segregated lives.
``We aren’t here to kill anybody. We aren’t here to cause
harm to anyone,” Winkler said. “We just don’t want nothing
to do with their society.”
Bonner County, like much of the rest of the region, has a
population that is overwhelmingly white _ about 96 percent
of the 40,000 residents.
Winkler studied the racist Christian Identity religion
under Butler. He has continued to live in the area, some-
times hosting cross burnings on his land and protesting the
Winkler has picketed Mexican
food carts in nearby Coeur
d’Alene, and protested the
annual Martin Luther King Jr.
events at North Idaho College
in January.
presence of Hispanics and other minorities. Winkler has
picketed Mexican food carts in nearby Coeur d’Alene, and
protested the annual Martin Luther King Jr. events at North
Idaho College in January.
Butler for nearly three decades operated out of a 20-acre
compound that became a gathering place for white
supremacists. He held annual meetings that drew hundreds
of supporters.
The land was auctioned off after he lost a lawsuit in 2000
brought by the SPLC on behalf of a woman and her son
who were terrorized by Butler’s security guards during one
of those annual meetings.
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