On the third weekend of April, Art Jones went to Washington.
It’s not easy being a bigot in the United States today. The Holocaust Museum opened to acclaim. Steven Spielberg won prestige and a sizable box office with Schindler’s List. On the 50th anniversary of D-Day, the triumph of American good over Nazi evil was retold in every medium.
Jones’s goal is political power by constitutional means. “The white race has got to do something, and fast,” he says, “because unfortunately we’re facing extinction if we sit back and do nothing.” If politics fails the white power movement, he hints that matters could get rough: “If we can’t get anywhere through the ballot box, we’ll have to resort to the cartridge box.”
Lots of companies do employ rabbis to ensure that their goods are produced according to Jewish law, says Rabbi Yosef Wikler, editor of Kashrus, a magazine on kosher practices published in Brooklyn. Wikler says manufacturers indulge in overkill. Food products such as catsup require rabbinical review, he says, but items like tinfoil, paper cups, and bottled water don’t; companies are simply tagging on the symbol “to give them one-upmanship over the other company in the marketplace.” Yet to employ a rabbi-inspector adds very little to the retail price. “You’re talking maybe one penny on a can of tuna,” says Wikler. “Is that highway robbery?”
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The Holocaust never took place, Jones has concluded, and it stuns him that the public seems to think it did. “I’m impressed by the bullshit gullible people will swallow,” he says. As proof he cites inconsistencies in accounts of the period. Take Elie Wiesel’s Night, his recollection of life at Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a child. “Now Wiesel writes that on one night in the dead of winter he ran 42 miles. That’s impossible! Yet Wiesel said he did it.” (In Night, Wiesel describes a forced march. The next morning a commandant announced the prisoners had covered 42 miles.) Jones concluded there were no gas chambers. As to where all those millions of Jews, political dissidents, gypsies, and homosexuals evaporated to, Jones says, “A lot of them just changed names. Other people migrated to Australia or they came to this country, and many died fighting in the Red army on the eastern front.”
The future for Jews, blacks, and gays will not be rosy once Art Jones rules the world. “With the Jews I would be merciful,” he says. “They’ve got their synagogues, their stars of David–it would be nothing to scoop them up and throw them out of the country. With blacks, realistically, you couldn’t do that because there are too many of them. You should give them part of the country and say, ‘It’s your turf, your territory–run it like you’d like.’ We could deal with sympathetic black leaders like Farrakhan and work out the whole thing. Homosexuals would be rounded up and isolated from the rest of the country, in camps or in some remote region of Alaska. They couldn’t be allowed to circulate.”
He edits the War Eagle, a quarterly newspaper with a circulation of 10,000. The publisher is John McLaughlin, a farmer from Champaign who is a little more temperate in his views than Jones. “I’m prowhite,” says McLaughlin, “but it remains to be seen if the white race is superior. You can pick out some real scummy white people.” Recently, McLaughlin made use of a mailing list that had belonged to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon and onetime candidate for governor of Louisiana, to distribute 50,000 copies of a newsletter edited by Jones. “And I’ve been talking to some skinheads in Missouri about putting together a special skinhead edition,” McLaughlin says.
