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ADL Releases Backgrounder On White Supremacist Kansas Jewish Community
Shooter Frazier Glenn Miller
NEW YORK, April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The shooter
arrested in the killing of three individuals outside the Jewish
institutions in Overland Park, Kansas is a white supremacist with a
long history of promoting anti-Semitism and racism, according to a
backgrounder released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The suspect, identified by police as Frazier Cross, but who is also
known as Frazier Glenn Miller (or simply Glenn Miller), is a white
supremacist from southwest Missouri with a career in hatred and white
supremacy that has spanned more than three decades. In the early
1980s, Glenn Miller was one of the more notorious white supremacists
in the U.S., but he eventually ran afoul of both the federal
government and members of his own movement and has spent the last
decade at the periphery of the white supremacist movement.
"The shooting at the Kansas Jewish community centers is a sad and
tragic event which reminds us where the spread of anti-Semitism and
racism can lead," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "We
recently issued a report which indicated that the number of
anti-Semitic incidents in the United States had fallen precipitously
over the past few years. So the statistics are good, and then you
wake up in the morning and three people are dead because someone
believed them to be Jews."
ADL has reissued a security bulletin to synagogues and Jewish communal
institutions across the United States urging them to review their
security plans for the Passover holiday, which begins at sundown
tonight.
Backgrounder: Frazier Glenn Miller
Originally from North Carolina, Frazier Glenn Miller began his career
as a neo-Nazi in the mid-1970s, but soon switched to the Ku Klux
Klan. He was present at an infamous shooting of left-wing activists
by white supremacists in Greensboro in 1979 that left five dead, but
was never charged with a crime.
By 1980, Miller had formed his own Klan group, the Carolina Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan (later changed to the White Patriot Party), a large
regional Klan group that drew notoriety for its paramilitary training
exercises. Members of the group committed several hate crimes against
African-Americans during the decade, while its second-in-command was
convicted of a plot to purchase stolen weapons, ostensibly to target a
civil rights organization. During this period, Miller was one of the
more notorious white supremacists in the U.S.
The activities of Miller and his group eventually led to a federal
court order prohibiting its paramilitary training. Rather than obey
the order, Miller went underground with several followers in 1987
after issuing a "Declaration of War" that called for the "blood of our
enemies [to] flood the streets." Federal agents soon arrested Miller
hiding out in the Ozarks in Missouri on charges related to his
"Declaration" and explosives violations.
Miller eventually pleaded guilty to possession of a hand grenade and
received a five-year sentence. He also agreed to testify against other
prominent white supremacists in a sedition trial in Arkansas in
1988-this latter decision earned him the enmity of the majority of the
white supremacist movement, which now considered him a traitor to the
movement.
After getting out of prison in 1990, Miller moved to Iowa (later to
Missouri) and became a truck driver. Largely ostracized by white
supremacists, he laid low until the end of the decade, when he
self-published his autobiography (A White Man Speaks Out). This
marked a return to activism; by the early 2000s, Miller began
purchasing advertising space in local newspapers in Missouri for
racist and anti-Semitic screeds, followed by his own attempts to
publish a "white-friendly" newspaper called The European-American.
In 2004, Miller allied with fellow Missouri white supremacist Alex
Linder to produce a more grandiose white supremacist newspaper that
they dubbed The Aryan Alternative. Only a couple of issues were
published, but they were printed in large numbers, which were
distributed by various white supremacists for years. Miller also
tried running for office, receiving only two votes in his 2010 attempt
at a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.
Throughout the 2000s, Miller actively promoted his racist and
anti-Semitic views online, but remained hampered by the hostility with
which most of the white supremacist movement continued to view him.
In the years prior to the Overland Park attacks, Miller was a
perennial but peripheral figure within the world of white supremacy.
EDITORS NOTE: ADL experts on white supremacy and extremism in America
are available for interviews upon request. Contact ADL Media
Relations at (212) 885-7755 or adlmedia@adl.org . After
hours/weekend: (917) 544-2342.
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