Alleged Wisconsin Sikh Massacre Perpetrator Had White Supremacist, Colorado Ties

Wade Michael Page

The Denver Post is reporting that 40 year old Wade Michael Page, accused of shooting multiple people at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee this weekend, was born in Colorado and lived here for some years. Page played in two racist skinhead bands End Apathy and Definite Hate and was active on Stormfront, a massive web forum for white nationalists.

Page was heavily tattooed in typical Nazi and fascist fashion and appears to have typically shaved his head. He first came onto the radar of the Southern Poverty Law Center when he attempted to buy unknown materials from the National Alliance, a hate group led by William Pierce. Pierce authored "The Turner Diaries", a work of fiction describing how a small number of determined fascists could begin a race war. The book went on to inspire Timothy McVeigh.

The absolutely reprehensible massacre at the Sikh temple comes at a time where that has been a rise in organized racist terrorism. In March 2010, anti-racist activist Luke Querner was ambushed and shot in Portland, OR in what is heavily suspected as an attack by fascists. April 6th of the same year, an ARA and SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) member's house was bombed in what is also suspected as an attack by neo-Nazis. A member of the National Alliance was convicted of attempting to set off a bomb during the MLK Parade in Spokane, WA in 2011. 10 neo-Nazis of the "American Front" training for a "race war" were arrested this year in Florida, not to mention the promises of patrols in Sanford from the National Socialist Movement in response to unrest stemming from the Trayvon Martin murder. It's hard not to forget JT Ready, another prominent figure in the white nationalist movement, who killed several members of his family including small children before killing himself in Arizona just a few months ago. It goes without saying that in several other countries, street-level fascist terrorism and lone wolf attacks are also on the rise.

It's against this backdrop of rising violence, Rocky Mountain Antifascists stands behind people like the Tinley Park 5 (accused of assaulting and trashing a white nationalist gathering outside of Chicago), the antifa in Arizona that made the NSM march a few years back a living hell for both the fascists in the police department and those in the streets. The countless comrades every year that face the danger of bringing the fight against fascism to the jaws and ribcages of those who perpetuate it attack to stop incidents like the Sikh temple massacre at its source: the ideological echo chambers of white nationalist scenes, protest actions and the blinding propaganda factories of their literature and music.

Denver Friday August 17th: Benefit Show for Anti-Fascist Prisoners at Old Curtis

The Denver Anarchist Back Cross and Terror Down Prisons are holding a benefit show for antifascist prisoners on August 17th at the Old Curtis Street Bar in Denver. Proceeds will be going to cases like the Tinley Park 5 and other antifascist legal cases. Anarchist, antifascist and prison abolition literature will be available at the show. Grab your crews and tell your friends! Never give the fascists the streets!

Imperial Grand Wizard of KKK: Membership on Rise in Colorado

From the Denver Post:

DURANGO, Colo.—The Ku Klux Klan says membership is booming in Colorado because of the growth of the radical right. 


Imperial Grand Wizard Cole Thornton says the United Northern and Southern Knights of the KKK is active and successful recruiting in Colorado, but no membership numbers were available.

Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman Mark Potok tells the Durango Herald (http://bit.ly/AneXPp) the radical right in the U.S. has grown enormously in the last 10 years, particularly since President Barack Obama's election in 2008.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization, 12 white supremacist groups are currently active in Colorado.

Neo-Nazi Previously Convicted of Hate Crime Shot Dead By Englewood Police

Fascist on Fascist Crime: "Yesterday, a member of the Englewood Police Department shot and killed a man outside a Walgreens store. And the dead man was notorious long before he breathed his last.

Jeremiah Barnum was at the center of what former Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher once described as "Denver's most famous hate-crime case."

According to the EPD, an officer spotted a stolen car near South Washington Street and East Bates Avenue at about 4:33 p.m. yesterday afternoon. This information was shared with plain-clothes detectives, who put the vehicle under surveillance.

Oumar Dia

The detectives watched as several subjects climbed into the car and drove to a Walgreens at 3080 South Broadway. There, the individuals in question were rounded up by patrol officers and taken to the police station.

Story over? Not quite. A pair of Englewood officers remained on the scene, and as one was finishing up impound-related paperwork, he eyeballed what's described as "a known associate of the earlier arrestees" sitting in a car parked in the Walgreens lot. The cops then approached the vehicle, at which point the driver -- Barnum -- reached for a weapon in his waistband while backing the car out so quickly that he nearly hit one of them.

That officer responded by opening fire, the department reveals -- and Barnum was struck in the process. After his car came to a halt, the cops removed him and rendered first aid, as did members of the Englewood Fire Department who responded shortly thereafter. But Barnum was later pronounced dead at Swedish Medical Center.

What was Barnum's previous claim to infamy? His name came up in our 2009 feature article about the hit-and-run death of Lilian Verdonkschot. Nadine Montoya was accused of having not only caused Verdonkschot's death but also committing a hate crime. That led to the following passage:

Critics say that hate-crime legislation is redundant, since laws already exist to prosecute the actual crime regardless of motive.... In Denver's most famous hate-crime case, the 1997 slaying of African immigrant Oumar Dia at a downtown bus stop, self-proclaimed white supremacist Nathan Thill called Dia a "nigger" and asked if he was ready to die. But even without a hate-crime charge, Thill would have been sentenced to life in prison. The law did effect Thill's buddy, Jeremiah Barnum. Though he didn't pull the trigger, Barnum was convicted of ethnic intimidation and first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1999 before a judge, citing tainted testimony, ordered a new trial. (Denver appealed that decision for several years, but in 2002 agreed to a plea deal that sent Barnum away for twelve years.)

As noted by the Denver Post, we don't yet know how long Barnum has been a free man. But his latest step into the spotlight won't lead to any sequels.

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 Barnum was a known associate of local white supremacist gang the 211 Crew. At the Westword, where this story originated, numerous members of that group sprang to his defense using handles including Nazi numerology ("88", "1488") and touting the 211 Crew name.

Antifa Take Credit for Taking Down NSM Road Signs in 2010

A communiqe from Colorado Indymedia:

"In 2010 a group of Nazis or Neo-Nazis in the Denver area created the Denver chapter of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), proudly displaying their group on their website, including a contact form for membership requests. The white-supremacist, white-separatist, nationalist, and thoroughly fascist group took pictures of their members, announced events, and even managed to successfully receive an "adopt a highway" sign from the Colorado Department of Transportation. In response, area anti-fascists removed all of the signs from highway 85, outside of downtown Brighton. They even sent a communique to the media, but the story was not picked up. No other communication of the action was made, on the internet for example, for fear that any site that hosted it would be associated with certain people or groups that might be targets for retaliation. Later, the Department of Transportation replaced the signs. So again anti-fascists took them down again. However, with the launching of rockymountain antifa, we feel that the cat is already out of the bag, and that any retaliation is already risked, so there is no harm in publishing our actions. Since the replacement of the signs by CDT, and their subsequent removal, the CDT has not replaced the signs again, effectively denying the NSM their message of hate."

Carol and Aaron Vigil - Carpenters Just Like Jesus

Aaron and Carol Vigil

This is the second pair of scum we've been able to expose since the Chatfield Lake Nazi-Antifa confrontation last September. Aaron and Carol Vigil, another married couple living in the Denver Metro region, are two neo-Nazis also affiliated with the local Blood & Honour chapter. After analyzing intelligence, we learned Aaron and Carol run a construction company out of their home called Crosscut Construction.

You can call Aaron at 720-810-8824 or drop him a line (or perhaps some elephant dung) at home:

2717 West Harvard Avenue

Denver, CO 80211

If the internet is the way you communicate, check out Crosscut Construction's Facebook or befriend Carol on her personal Facebook account. Aaron also drives a late-model blue Dodge Ram with a Crosscut Construction magnet on his doors. The license plate number is 434-KMS and is registered in Colorado. Aaron can also be seen on the far left in this picture, walking behind outed and now-exiled neo-Nazi Rob Clement at the Chatfield Lake confrontation, and him and Carol can be seen in the center of this picture, also taken at Chatfield. Here's the truck:

Just for fun, let's give Aaron some constructive criticism of his handiwork as a contractor, as these are some samples he posted to his business's facebook page:



This is a site-built staircase and rail set-up Aaron did last May. Personally, I think the wood finish is a tad splotchy and before sample pictures are taken, one should always remove the painter's tape from the project. Helpful home improvement tips from your friendly antifascist crew!



Here's a bathroom update posted last May. I hate the cabinet paint color, it looks like Beetlejuice's house. Also, once again, please clean up the job site before taking sample pictures and stop stealing backsplash palette designs from the skins of fish in Finding Nemo.



Here's a small addition Aaron just framed. Personally, I like looking at completely unfinished job sites that give me no indication of how durable the construction will stand up or when a project is going to be completed, but most of my friends tell me I'm a bit kooky.

I wonder, in this economy, if Carol and Aaron only work exclusively for white people? Can discriminating businesses even survive in this climate? I doubt it. Maybe Crosscut Construction's customers should get clued in to what their contractor is hiding behind the fake smile of a businessman.

Robnette/Blood & Honour Draaaama

Shortly after we celebrated unmasking (ex? Are they still a chapter? What's going on B&H from everything we hear your shit is so fuuuuucked) Blood & Honour members Robert Clement and Janette Steedley-Clement in Arvada, we noticed their putrid Nazi merchandise company DRP Industries folded up shop! Obviously, it made us feel awfully gooey inside to think that a lil' ol' internet post might've done the trick, but as more intel came in we got a whole different side of the story! We found this on a pro-B&H website (grammar is unchanged):

"STATEMENT FROM BLOOD & HONOUR USA/C18 REGARDING RECENT EVENTS
Regarding events in Denver Colorado which have transpired over the last few days,we have been able to determine through seeing first hand copies of texts and other materials relating to these events.Rob Clement and Janette Clement of DRP Industries had misled B&H USA as to the origin and nature of charges which had been filed against Brett Butz,the previous head of B&H Colorado.I personally spoke to the Department of Corrections Officer for his case and THERE WERE NO DRUG CHARGES OR ALLIGATIONS FILED AGAINST BRETT BUTZ.ZERO.We were also told that he had been dealing drugs and that the police found drugs taped under a childs desk as well as nonsense about Lina Butz his wife (saga) being a federal informant and that they had letters between the two in their possession.These letters or any other evidence failed to materialize as promised and there were suspicions about the possible drug use of Rob and Jannette but due to the distance between NC and CO. it was impossible to immediately verify these claims,and we gave them the benefit of the doubt.We were wrong,and Blood & Honour USA owes Brett Butz an apology.So here it is.Brett did 6 months over being in possession of Blood & Honour USA shirts and other items which violated the terms of his parole.No drugs,No hot UA test,just good old white power propaganda.DRP Industries is shutdown as an outlet for Blood & Honour USA merchandise.Period.They will be shut down completely within the week....ALSO,Brett Butz is hereby reinstated in good standing within Blood & Honour USA/C18, his titles of State Rep.is restored to him;and we look forward to many years of being able to work with such a man.Again,to Brett,my brother;I am truly sorry we failed to check into things better than we did.Past is past and now we can once again start slogging forward to victory.
Death to dope dealers!/Death to drug users!Death to those that tolerate either!
Regards,Blood & Honour USA/Combat 18
"No One Mentioned, No One Forgotten""

Not sure which fall-down-drunk wrote that one, but it certainly is a revealing amount of information to post on the internet. Nazi Janette and Rob, proud parents of two immaculate children without a hint of melanin to be found between them, doing drugs? How unsavory! Two upstanding people like that... You know it really makes you think.

More news coming soon! Stay tuned sports fans!