Alex Linder
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| Born | June 30, 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Pomona College |
| Website | Vanguard News Network |
Alex Ruedy Linder[1] (born June 30, 1966) is the owner and operator of the Vanguard News Network (VNN), an antisemitic, white supremacist website[2][3] which he launched in 2000. VNN is one of the most active white supremacist sites on the Internet, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Its motto is "No Jews. Just Right." Linder espouses numerous Nazi sentiments, among them that "the thing to be done about [the Jews] is to kill them, exterminate them, get rid of them. You don't argue or reason with a cockroach; you step on it."[4]
Background
According to the ADL, Linder has said he was raised an "upper-middle-class suburban kid." The ADL reports that he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 1988, then worked as a researcher for CNN on the Evans & Novak political show, and then at The American Spectator.[2]
Criminal history
On May 26, 2007, Linder organized a racist protest, sugar-coated as a "racially charged protest," linked to the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder case in Knoxville, Tennessee, that attracted 30 supporters, around 60 counterprotesters, and 300 law enforcement officers. Linder fought with police and was the only arrest. He apparently did not like jail either, as he was forced to sleep on the floor of his cell that he shared with African-Americans, who tormented him day and night (for good reason).[5][6] He was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, vandalism, and assault on a police officer. He was placed on six months probation and ordered to pay restitution to the police officer he assaulted.[7]
Political life
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Linder is an ex-member of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi, white-nationalist group.[8][9][10][11] He left after deciding to allow criticism of the National Alliance to appear on the VNN forums.[2]
The ADL claims that in January 2005, Linder announced his intention to set up the White Freedom Party, stating it was "America's first political party advocating Aryan interests and specifically naming the Jew as the agent of white genocide and greatest obstacle to our people's self-preservation as a distinct and protected people." It threatened to "WAGE NONSTOP WAR [sic] on the Jews, coloreds, and mainstream sellouts ...".[2] Lacking financial backing, the "White Freedom Party" is currently dormant.
The Aryan Alternative
In 2004, Linder began publishing a tabloid newspaper called The Aryan Alternative. Four issues were published as of July 2010—the first issue was published in mid-2004. The most recent issue, July 2010 (#4), was published in mid-2009. The newspaper is distributed for free, but donations for it are solicited online.[12] In articles he has written for the The Aryan Alternative newspaper, Alex Linder claims that the Jews have been and are consciously engaged in a conspiracy that is implementing a systematic program of genocide to totally eradicate and exterminate the Aryan race.[13]
References
- ^ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KTH3-X8P
- ^ a b c d Alex Linder/Vanguard News Network (VNN), Anti-Defamation League. Template:WebCite
- ^ "Vanguard News Network". Counter Racism. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Police arrest organizer at 'rally against genocide'", Knoxville News Sentinel, May 27, 2007 Template:Wayback
- ^ "White supremacist arrested at Downtown rally", WBIR-TV, May 26, 2007 Template:WebCite
- ^ [2]
- ^ Hilliard, Robert L.; Michael C. Keith. Waves of Rancor: Tuning into the Radical Right. M. E. Sharpe. p. 165. ISBN 978-0765601315.
- ^ Quarles, Chester A. (1999). The Ku Klux Klan and Related American Racialist and Antisemitic Organizations: A History and Analysis. McFarland. p. 146. ISBN 978-0786406470.
- ^ Richie, Warren (December 20, 2011). "Failed Martin Luther King Day parade bomber gets 32-year sentence". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
- ^ "Bomb suspect tied to supremacist group". Boston Globe. March 10, 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
- ^ Web page from which to download PDFs of the published issues of the newspaper The Aryan Alternative: Template:WebCite
- ^ ADL Report on Alex Linder: Template:WebCite
External links
- Southern Poverty Law Center Profile
- "Interview with Alex Linder of the Vanguard News Network: Jewish journalist interviews leading anti-Jewish activist", Nicholas Stix, Global Politician, October 11, 2007
