James K. Warner
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James K. Warner (born 1939[1]) was an early recruit to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP) as part of the core of the party and national secretary. He later became involved with the National States' Rights Party (NSRP). After moving to Los Angeles, he was converted to Christian Identity by Wesley Swift and started the New Christian Crusade Church. Warner succeeded Richard Girndt Butler as leader of the Christian Defense League. He eventually moved both the New Christian Crusade Church and the Christian Defense League to Louisiana. Warner later became the Louisiana Grand Dragon of David Duke's Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[2]
American Nazi Party
[edit]James K. Warner was an early recruit to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP) and was one of the men who formed the core of the party.[3] He eventually became the national secretary.[4]
Waner made an unsuccessful attempt to integrate Odinism into the ANP as the religious dimension of the movement, after which he reportedly gave all of his Norse material to Else Christensen.[2] In 1963, Warner was sentenced to 180 days in prison and fined $100 on trespassing charges trying to picket negotiations at the University of Alabama.[5]
Following the August 25, 1967, assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, Warner attempted a takeover of the American Nazi Party in an attempt to unseat Matthias Koehl from party leadership.[6] This attempt primarily involved members of the California branch of the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP).[7]
In 1979, Warner donated portions of his library to the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming.[8]
National States' Rights Party
[edit]Warner left the ANP to become involved with the National States' Rights Party to help edit its publications.[9] He eventually became associate editor of the NSRP's monthly publication, Thunderbolt.[10]
It was in the NSRP where Warner became acquainted with J. B. Stoner, who would later act as counsel when Warner testified before a Senate subcommittee.[citation needed]
Christian Identity
[edit]After moving to Los Angeles in 1966, Warner continued to associate with neo-Nazis. He was later converted to Christian Identity by Wesley Swift.[11] In 1971, Warner founded the New Christian Crusade Church, a Christian Identity church.[12] Warner considered himself the spiritual heir to Wesley Swift.[13]
After the publication of Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, Identity ministers like Warner used it as support that the Jews were not God's chosen people, with no claim to the land in Palestine.[14]
Following the death of Swift, Identity minister Richard Girnt Butler assumed control of Swift's church and moved it to Idaho, leaving control of the Christian Defense League to Warner. Eventually, Warner moved the Christian Defense League and the New Christian Crusade Church to Louisiana.[15]
Warner used the New Christian Crusade Church to speak of ZOG, that with "a hidden hand... secretly controls the flow of events in Mainstream America."[16] Proclaiming that since America was ruled by Jews, Warner claimed that the Jews used this power to perpetuate racial genocide.[17]
Works
[edit]- The Law of Odin
- Aryans and Jews: A Study in Racial Differences
- The White Racial Basis of American Civilization
- Secrets of the Synagogue of Satan
- The Real Hate Mongers
References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ US Senate 1967.
- ^ a b Gardell 2003, p. 167.
- ^ Simonelli 1995, pp. 562–563.
- ^ Simonelli 1999, p. 27.
- ^ Kellman 1964.
- ^ California State Senate 1970.
- ^ Kaplan 2000, pp. 1–3, 558–562.
- ^ "James K. Warner collection - Archives West". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Kellman 1964, p. 69.
- ^ Kellman 1963, p. 137.
- ^ Barkun 1997, p. 68.
- ^ Barkun 1997, p. 209.
- ^ Barkun 1997, p. 62.
- ^ Barkun 1997, p. 145.
- ^ Barkun 1997, pp. 69–70.
- ^ Barkun 1990, p. 127.
- ^ Barkun 1990, p. 130.
Sources
[edit]- Barkun, Michael (1990). "Racist Apocalypse: Millennialism on the Far Right". American Studies. 31 (2): 121–140. ISSN 0026-3079. JSTOR 40642392 – via JSTOR.
- Barkun, Michael (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: the Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2328-7.
- Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822330714.
- Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California. California State Printing Office. 1970.
- Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-0340-3.
- Kellman, George (1963). "Anti-Jewish Agitation". The American Jewish Year Book. 64: 135–144. ISSN 0065-8987. JSTOR 23603682 – via JSTOR.
- Kellman, George (1964). "Anti-Jewish Agitation". The American Jewish Year Book. 65: 67–74. ISSN 0065-8987. JSTOR 23602976 – via JSTOR.
- Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate ... U.S. Government Printing Office. 1967.
- Simonelli, Frederick James (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02285-2.
- Simonelli, Frederick J. (Spring 1995). "The American Nazi Party, 1958-1967". The Historian. 57 (3): 553–566. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1995.tb02019.x. JSTOR 24451464 – via JSTOR.