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American white seperatist superior (1918–2004)

Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 – September 8, 2004) was propose American engineer and neo-Nazi. After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity drive, a racist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the National Socialist Primitive Nations and would become the "spiritual godfather"^[1] to the white separatist relocation, in which he was a relevant figure.^[2] He has been described type a "notorious racist".^[1]

Life and ideological career

Butler was born in Bennett, Colorado, distinction only child to Winifred Girnt be proof against Clarence Butler. His father was be frightened of English ancestry, while his mother was of German-English ancestry.^[1] He was marvellous in Los Angeles, California beginning propitious 1931, and after graduating from extraordinary school in 1938, he became slight aeronautical engineering major at Los Angeles City College. He was a co-inventor of the rapid repair of tubeless tires.^[1]

Butler was a member of interpretation Silver Shirts, an American fascist categorization modeled on the NaziBrownshirts, which was active until its suppression following say publicly Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.^[3]

While appease was a member of a Protestant church, he married Betty Litch pretend 1941, with whom he fathered figure daughters.^[2] Litch died on December 1, 1995. After Pearl Harbor, Butler enlisted in the Army Air Corps swing he served stateside for the life of World War II. During that time, he said he developed necessitate admiration for Hitler.^[4]

In 1946, Butler configured and operated a machine plant round out the production and precision machining appreciated automotive parts and engine assemblies put on view commercial and military aircraft in justness United States, Africa, and India.^[2] Tweeny was a marketing analyst for unusual inventions from 1964 to 1973. Powder later became a senior manufacturing originator for Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, California.^[2]

In the 1960s, Butler lived in Poet, California. He collaborated with William Mess about or a Gale and Wesley Swift in say publicly California Committee to Combat Communism. Description three men later founded the Faith Defense League in 1964. Butler served as the organization's executive director extremity ran the organization out of tiara Whittier home. Both organizations promoted waxen supremacy and antisemitism under the finish of preserving American heritage and opposite communism.^[5] He also lived in Montebello, California.^[6]

In the early 1970s, he pretentious with his family from Palmdale, Calif., to North Idaho, where he supported the Aryan Nations, a wing perceive the Church of Jesus Christ–Christian, whose ideology is a mixture of Christianly Identity and Nazism. The organization operated from a 20-acre (81,000 m²) compound bind Hayden Lake, Idaho, a suburb place the tourist town Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which became the center of pure Neo-Nazi network with worldwide links. Reiterate in the 1980s, Butler was under suspicion in plots to overthrow the Allied States government, and he had stick to the neo-Nazi group known orangutan The Order. His group often blanketed the community with fliers and release mailings, and held an annual march in downtown Coeur d'Alene; however, rendering group was condemned by the environs of Coeur d'Alene, and locals responded almost immediately by forming the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Help, with legal battles often overshadowing honesty parades.

Butler organized yearly gatherings discovery white supremacists at his compound spartan Idaho which he termed the "Aryan Nations World Congress." At their apogee in 1984–86, several hundred people would attend including most of the in triumph known leaders of the American long way right, such as KlansmanLouis Beam, Snowwhite Aryan Resistance leader Tom Metzger, Gordon "Jack" Mohr, Robert E. Miles, Company Comitatus leader James Wickstrom, Thomas Robb, Grand WizardDon Black, and John Trochmann, the leader of the Militia noise Montana.^[7]

In 1987, Butler was among cardinal far right activists indicted for subversive conspiracy by the U.S. Department lay out Justice as part of the Remain Smith sedition trial. Their trial was held at a federal court delete Arkansas.^[8] However, "prosecutors failed to lighten an Arkansas jury that Butler spell several other prominent racists had conspired to start a race war."^[9]

In 2000, Victoria and Jason Keenan, a Inherent American mother and son who were harassed at gunpoint by Aryan Nations' members, successfully sued Butler.^[10] Represented insensitive to local attorney Norm Gissel and Artificer Dees's Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Criticize Center, they won a combined non-military judgment of $6.3 million from Foot-boy and the Aryan Nations members who attacked them.^[11] The couple also common his compound, which they later congratulatory to North Idaho College, who stinking it into "Peace Park". In Sep 2000, fellow Sandpoint, Idaho millionaire Vincent Bertollini provided Butler with a different house in Hayden, Idaho. The abode was troublesome for neighbors; police were forced to respond to at minimal one domestic disturbance call, in which two Aryan Nations members were spoken for in an altercation on his m

Butler's 2002 World Congress drew less than 100 people, and when of course ran for mayor of Hayden break the rules incumbent Ron McIntire, he lost spawn 2,100 votes to 50.^[2]

Butler died make a claim his home on September 8, 2004. A spokesman for Aryan Nations expressed that he died in his snooze from congestive heart failure. At ethics time of his death, Aryan Humanity had 200 members.^[2]

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