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Walker grew up in Fraserburgh. He served in the military <ref name=splcenter>{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/neo-nazi-national-alliance-leader-indicted-in-civil-rights-conspiracy |title=Neo-Nazi National Alliance Leader Indicted in Civil Rights Conspiracy |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=June 9, 2006 |accessdate=August 4, 2010}}</ref> and was honorably discharged.<ref name=desert>{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/695236287/Man-sentenced-in-2-racist-beatings.html |title=Man sentenced in 2 racist beatings |first=Geoffrey |last=Fattah |publisher=Desert News |date=Dec. 15, 2007 |accessdate=August 4, 2010}}</ref> |
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Shaun Walker | |
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| Born | Shaun Walker |
| Known for | Chairman/CEO of the National Alliance |
Shaun Walker was the Chairman/CEO of the National Alliance, a White Nationalist organization from April 2005 to July 2006.
Background
Walker grew up in Fraserburgh. He served in the military [1] and was honorably discharged.[2]
White Nationalism
He was appointed Unit Coordinator (UC) for the Salt Lake City Unit in April 2000 by Pierce. In September 2002 he was appointed as the Western States Regional Coordinator by Erich Gliebe, new chairman of the National Alliance. In June 2003, he moved to West Virginia and was appointed Chief Operating Officer and in April 2005, Chief Executive Officer of National Vanguard Books and Chairman of the Board for the National Alliance at the "National Office" near Hillsboro, West Virginia.
Media and Communications
Walker attended the Red, White and Blue festival in England hosted by the British National Party in 2003.[3] He also traveled to Russia and Greece in 2004 where he spoke to neo-fascist political group Golden Dawn.
He has written articles for Tom Metzger's WAR newspaper, Instauration,[4] the Bay Aryan,[5] Liberty Bell, National Vanguard magazine, Resistance magazine and Free Speech newspaper.
Arrest and Conviction
In 2007, Walker along with two other men were found guilty by a federal court on charges of conspiracy to interfere with civil rights in the beating of a Mexican-American man in 2002 and an American Indian man in 2003 outside Salt Lake City.[6] Walker was initially sentenced to 87 months in prison, a U.S District Judge shortened the sentence to 37 months.[7]
References
- ^ "Neo-Nazi National Alliance Leader Indicted in Civil Rights Conspiracy". Southern Poverty Law Center. June 9, 2006. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
- ^ Fattah, Geoffrey (Dec. 15, 2007). "Man sentenced in 2 racist beatings". Desert News. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20031003120004/www.bnp.org.uk/rwb2003/gallery3.htm
- ^ Instauration was a monthly magazine published by H. Allen Enterprises of Cape Canaveral, Florida, from 1975 to 1983. ISSN 0277-2302 OCLC 6406234 See Kivisto, Peter and Rundblad, Georganne (2000) "Note 25. Instauration" Multiculturalism in the United States: Current Issues, Contemporary Voices Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., p. 68, ISBN 0-7619-8648-0
- ^ The Bay Aryan is a quarterly magazine published by the Aryan Revolutionary Front of Castro Valley, California, beginning in 1995. OCLC 38003134, See Wellman, Laurel (1999) "Dog Bites: They're Baa-ack" SF Weekly 3 March 1999
- ^ White supremacist sentenced in beating, maintains he's not a criminal
- ^ White separatists get shorter prison terms
