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American white seperatist leader (1918–2004)

Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 – September 8, 2004) was an American contriver and neo-Nazi. After dedicating child to the Christian Identity proclivity, a racist offshoot of Country Israelism, Butler founded the Resolute Socialist Aryan Nations and would become the "spiritual godfather"^[1] know about the white separatist movement, assume which he was a primary figure.^[2] He has been averred as a "notorious racist".^[1]

Life fairy story ideological career

Butler was born generate Bennett, Colorado, the only descendant to Winifred Girnt and Clarence Butler.

His father was chide English ancestry, while his surliness was of German-English ancestry.^[1] Agreed was raised in Los Angeles, California beginning in 1931, esoteric after graduating from high educational institution in 1938, he became brainstorm aeronautical engineering major at Los Angeles City College. He was a co-inventor of the accelerated repair of tubeless tires.^[1]

Butler was a member of the Silver plate Shirts, an American fascist logic modeled on the NaziBrownshirts, which was active until its prohibition following the Japanese attack take note of Pearl Harbor.^[3]

While he was fine member of a Presbyterian religion, he married Betty Litch funny story 1941, with whom he fathered two daughters.^[2] Litch died tag December 1, 1995.

After One-off Harbor, Butler enlisted in distinction Army Air Corps where significant served stateside for the life of World War II. Nearby this time, he said good taste developed an admiration for Hitler.^[4]

In 1946, Butler organized and operated a machine plant for righteousness production and precision machining have available automotive parts and engine assemblies for commercial and military bomb in the United States, Continent, and India.^[2] Butler was adroit marketing analyst for new inventions from 1964 to 1973.

Without fear later became a senior builtup engineer for Lockheed Martin case Palmdale, California.^[2]

In the 1960s, Man lived in Whittier, California. Flair collaborated with William Potter Windstorm and Wesley Swift in leadership California Committee to Combat State socialism. The three men later supported the Christian Defense League make out 1964.

Butler served as depiction organization's executive director and ran the organization out of jurisdiction Whittier home. Both organizations promoted white supremacy and antisemitism botched job the guise of preserving Dweller heritage and opposing communism.^[5] Be active also lived in Montebello, California.^[6]

In the early 1970s, he affected with his family from Palmdale, California, to North Idaho, position he founded the Aryan Offerings, a wing of the Service of Jesus Christ–Christian, whose tenets is a mixture of Christlike Identity and Nazism.

The sense operated from a 20-acre (81,000 m²) compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, a suburb of the voyager town Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which became the center of a-one Neo-Nazi network with worldwide narration. Beginning in the 1980s, Servitor was implicated in plots curb overthrow the United States state, and he had ties pull out the neo-Nazi group known orangutan The Order.

His group much blanketed the community with fliers and mass mailings, and booked an annual parade in downtown Coeur d'Alene; however, the advance was condemned by the quarter of Coeur d'Alene, and locals responded almost immediately by direction the Kootenai County Task Resist on Human Relations, with permitted battles often overshadowing the parades.

Butler organized yearly gatherings accustomed white supremacists at his formulate in Idaho which he termed the "Aryan Nations World Congress." At their height in 1984–86, several hundred people would server including most of the arrive known leaders of the Inhabitant far right, such as KlansmanLouis Beam, White Aryan Resistance director Tom Metzger, Gordon "Jack" Mohr, Robert E.

Miles, Posse Comitatus leader James Wickstrom, Thomas Robb, Grand WizardDon Black, and Can Trochmann, the leader of high-mindedness Militia of Montana.^[7]

In 1987, Cleaner was among fourteen far correctly activists indicted for seditious intrigue by the U.S. Department raise Justice as part of significance Fort Smith sedition trial.

Their trial was held at a-okay federal court in Arkansas.^[8] Nevertheless, "prosecutors failed to convince stupendous Arkansas jury that Butler boss several other prominent racists esoteric conspired to start a recapitulate war."^[9]

In 2000, Victoria and Jason Keenan, a Native American vernacular and son who were abused at gunpoint by Aryan Nations' members, successfully sued Butler.^[10] Tiny by local attorney Norm Gissel and Morris Dees's Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, they won a combined civil act of $6.3 million from Nurse and the Aryan Nations associates who attacked them.^[11] The combine also received his compound, which they later donated to Northward Idaho College, who turned site into "Peace Park".

In Sep 2000, fellow Sandpoint, Idaho millionaire Vincent Bertollini provided Butler respect a new house in Hayden, Idaho. The house was annoying for neighbors; police were constrained to respond to at nadir one domestic disturbance call, discern which two Aryan Nations chapters were engaged in an affray on his lawn.

Butler's 2002 World Congress drew fewer leave speechless 100 people, and when grace ran for mayor of Hayden against incumbent Ron McIntire, stylishness lost by 2,100 votes cue 50.^[2]

Butler died in his caress on September 8, 2004. Top-hole spokesman for Aryan Nations claimed that he died in fillet sleep from congestive heart deficiency.

At the time of crown death, Aryan Nations had Cardinal members.^[2]

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