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.

Oakland: Hammerskins Beaten Back After Raiding Queer Bar

from SCISSION:

I know you don't know her, but I thought I would pass this along.

A friend of mine, Ryan Towne, who is a very hard core Marxist Leninist and a lesbian suffered severe injuries last night when hammerskin skinheads crashed a gay bar she frequents in the Bay Area. She lives in Oakland but I don't yet know exactly where this occured. She works out constantly, does survival training and is damn tough and she took out several of the attackers herself.

Ryan had surgery this morning to repair her broken left orbital bone.

She also suffered a broken right hand, broken left ankle, three broken ribs and a collapsed left lung.
I have been unable to find out anything beyond what I will print below from her and her sister who flew in from London to be with her.
She is 22 and a white woman from Zimbabwe. Her mom who was a woman's activist and a Marxist of the Rosa Luxemburg school (more like me) was jailed often by the white regime and was no friend of the current one either. She disappeared after leaving her office and has never been heard from again.

The family presumes she was killed by Mugabe thugs.

 Ryan lives in Oakland, works framing houses, and goes to school.

While Ryan and I have some strong ideological differences (me being the autonomist Marxist and her being, as I said hard core Marxist Leninist) we have agreed to disagree and get along well. I know she is my sister and comrade and I know what side she is on. She is passionate and dedicated to her beliefs.

Anyway here is the report I have from late last night. This if from Ryan who, being Ryan, did not go to the hospital until she collapsed at a friend's place. The second is from her sister as was the above information on her injuries.
From Ryan:

"Let's make a long story short. Some local Hammerskins crashed a gay bar I frequent. One was a big fuck, 6'7' at least. I made short work of the women and two of the men when the big guy hit me hard with a overhand right in the eye (loaded hand at least a roll of quarters), I didn't drop, but it opened me up to plenty of body blows.

"In the end I am pretty sure at least three knuckles on my right hand are broken . I think I have at least two cracked if not broken ribs. Fuck it. Let them know REDS are not easy to be pushed around and will stand up for our gay community."

UPDATE: The injuries Ryan suffered include a broken left orbital bone, a broken right hand, broken left ankle, three broken ribs and a collapsed left lung. Ryan remains hospitalized in not such great condition.

UPDATE 1/26/12 Ryan was forced to undergo emergency surgery a few nights ago on her injured lung. She is currently in a medically induced coma in order to allow her to better heal.

Solidarity and quick healing to the injured comrade. Folks in Denver, keep an eye out for similar attacks.

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!

Introducing Arvada's Neo-Nazi Power Couple!

Antifa square off against B&H last Sept.

This newest post comes to us from our comrades in Westminster and Boulder...

After a confrontation last September (more about that later), we have been keeping tabs on several Nazis, particularly Blood & Honour Colorado members... Oh wait, ex-Blood & Honour Colorado members. We heard the group disbanded months ago, among a slew of other problems, because they just couldn't come to consensus about whether or not women should be allowed to become full-fledged members or remain in "supporter" roles. The evils of patriarchy do some good for once, apparently.

Rob Clement (center) at Chatfield, September 2010, rocking that "always-timeless" West Coast Choppers greaser look

Janette probably surfing Stormfront

A pair that really grossed us out are Rob and Janette Clement, or as we've fondly nicknamed them "Robnette, the Arvada Neo-Nazi Power Couple." According to some of Rob's posts on Stormfront, a popular web forum for white supremacists and other pieces of shit, the couple have "two beautiful white daughters" and live in Arvada, a suburb outside Denver. Area antifascists report encountering the two at a White Nationalist Coalition recruitment BBQ-turned-antifa-disruption last September at Chatfield Lake, before the official inception of RMAF.

Oompa Loompa + Hubby HHing

Rob stuck out that day for reportedly wielding brass knuckles as the two sides faced off before the cops broke things up. Janette was pretty easy to remember as well, mostly because the chauvinistic Nazis paraded "their" women around as "trophies" as the two sides, mediated by cops at this point, taunted each other from afar.

Since then, we've seen Rob and Janette out on the town quite a bit! It's hard not to spot a dude pushing six feet tall with Nazi face tattoos; and since his wife is easily one of the most spray-tanned orange people outside of the Jersey Shore, all you have to do to find her is follow the moth horde that keeps flying into her splendid radiance.

They drive a lovely late model bluish-gray Volkswagon (no shit!? who knew!?) Jetta with Wyoming license plates. Did you want the plate number? Sure! 26981. Would you like some pictures? How about two?

A recent photo of Rob and Janette's Jetta, courtasy of Westminster Antifa's clandestine SuperSpy Division

Photo taken by Antifa during the Chatfield confrontation

These people had children. Seriously.

Rob and Janette (aka "ProudWhiteGirlCO" on Stormfront) also run DRP Industries or "Defenders of Racial Purity", a neo-nazi merchandise distributor. Send strongly worded letters of condemnation here:



Blood and Honour USA
PO Box 746094
Arvada, CO 80006
Bhusaco8318@gmail.com

The lovely couple, typically sporting B&H shirts when we see them (we have reason to believe Rob has one for every day of the week), lives in an apartment complex right across the street from Arvada West High School. I wonder if Rob picked the place for recruiting reasons! If you'd like to send Rob and Janette a tasteful antifascist Christmas card or perhaps a gallon of gorilla shit, here is their home address (as of 6/8/11):

 Rob and Janette Clement
11626 West 62nd Place Unit #62
Arvada, CO 80004

We'd like to add that their supercute little Jetta sits in a covered and locked row of parking units, in case anyone was thinking of leaving a bouquet of flowers or a nice note for the happy couple. We'll bet that shit-for-brains racist Rob is checking how much time is left on his lease right now! Change those Wyoming plates, fuck-o, you're in Colorado now!

Also interesting is the proximity of their house to a string of neo-nazi graffiti other comrades reported they covered up. It's only about a quarter-mile! Coincidence? Probably fucking not, efforts at removing stickers and other fascist propoganda in the neighborhood indicate it leads right back to DRP Industries, Rob and Janette's chickenshit nazi "distribution company."

For all of our fascist readers, and we know you're here: We will find you and expose you. Your neighbors will know. Your workplaces will know. Antifa everywhere will know. Try and organize in public and we will be right there to confront you. We know who plenty of you are and we know where plenty of you live. If any of you are feeling jealous about all the tabloid time we gave Robnette, don't worry, you'll be next soon.

We are everywhere. We sure as fuck aren't pacifists. We will not give you our neighborhoods or our streets. Expect us.