Posted on 08/28/2005 8:06:41 PM PDT by quantim
HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) — The former headquarters of a white supremacist group is headed for the auction block because no one picked up the mortgage payments after the group's founder died in September.
Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler died of a heart attack at age 86, leaving an unpaid balance of $91,486 on the home.
Human-rights advocates say the looming sale is one of many signs the Aryan Nations is in decline.
"He was the glue of the Aryan Nations movement in the Northwest, if not the country," said FBI agent Norm Brown, supervisor of the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force. "As a result of his death, we've seen a marked decrease in Aryan Nations activity in the Inland Northwest."
Butler was an aeronautical engineer from California who moved to northern Idaho in the 1970s and built his Church of Jesus Christ Christian, also known as Aryan Nations, on a 20-acre rural site north of Hayden Lake.
After Butler was hit with a $6.3 million civil judgment in 2000 for an attack on two people by Aryan Nations' members, he filed for bankruptcy and lost the compound.
Millionaire Vincent Bertollini then moved Butler and the Aryan Nations operation into the house in Hayden, where the group continued largely through the Internet. Bertollini also hasn't paid on the mortgage on the house and authorities believe he has left the country.
The public auction was scheduled for Wednesday after the mortgage lender decided to foreclosure on the home.
Bush's fault.
It's easy to condemn blind hate.
What do you make of rational hatred?
(Not that he was rational, but hypothetically...)
The "Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force." ???????
Ummmmm doods, the problem is the airports and the borders.
Maybe Cindy Sheehan could use it as an anti-Semitic HQ.
Well I hate my senators. Completely rational and understandable :o)
Wanna buy it for you and the future hubby? It'll make the WAN guys really blow their tops.
Yeah.
Well let me tell you that these "Task Forces" go after individuals that have all really crossed the borders.
The worst is MS-13 and the Arabs that form the cells that
are ingrained due to their status as US Citizens. Like the
crew from up state New York.
The bad guys are in fly-over-country. Waiting!
bonfire anyone? Anyone? Cindy Moonbat?
LOL! :o)
Again, that is an easy moral question.
I had best drop the subject, or soon be accused "rational bigotry".
Surely George Soros could dip into his petty cash to help out his fellow enemies of civilization?
Too late.
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