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September 19, 2003/Elul 22 5763, Vol. 55, No. 56
Neo-Nazi group targets Moon Valley
BARRY COHEN
Editor
Moon Valley residents awoke last weekend to find a flyer with a title "missing," with a picture of a young girl, on their driveways next to their morning newspapers. But what was missing was "a future for white children."
The National Alliance, a White supremacist Nazi group, used the literature as a recruiting campaign, in conjunction with the anniversary of Sept. 11.
"The National Alliance is the biggest hate group in America," said Bill Straus, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. "It is the most organized and the most evil."
The group, based in Hillsboro, W.Va., has distributed fliers in the Valley in the past, said Straus. "But it is a sad comment and alarming" that the latest effort, part of a nationwide letter drop, was connected with Sept. 11, he added. "To them, this was a patriotic effort."
The flyer blamed "corrupt politicians and minority special-interest groups" of threatening the future of the nation's white youth. It added, "Let us take back our country and make it great, clean, decent, and beautiful once again. ... The men and women of the National Alliance want you to join in this great, patriotic effort."
Straus noted that the threat of the fliers is that "they are upsetting people," but the greater threat is "the people behind the fliers."
The motivation and ideology of the National Alliance represent a "culture of hate," he said. Their members are anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and anti-people of color, he added.
"The organization is of great concern," said Cathy Wolf, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix. "It is important to be aware that these organizations exist and say they are not wanted here."
The National Alliance's latest flier included Web sites and contact numbers. The local number included a recording by William Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, who died July 23, 2002.
The recording included the words, "We are concerned about the Jewish monopoly control of our mass media, of news and entertainment and the way in which this control is being used to shape public opinion and governmental policy in directions not in accord with the long-term interests of our people."
A message left with the local contact number was not returned.
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