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were behind the IRS and the
judicial system, getting rich
by taking tax money and be-
ing in a grand conspiracy
against them.
"The hate groups fear the
Jews," he says. "Blacks and
Hispanics are seen as more a
nuisance than a threat, but
Jews are considered clever
and intelligent enough to
arouse fear."
Quiet subversion and
recruitment are the major ac-
tivities of the non-violent
Identity groups. Emphasis is
laid on the recruitment of im-
pressionable youth and on
the. indoctrination of their
own children. Membership
consists mostly of middle
American, blue collar
workers, but there are one or
two wealthy and successful
members who quickly move
into positions of power within
the organization, Shriner
says.
We are the blue collar
workers. We know what it's
like to watch the
neighborhoods we grew up in
taken over by blacks and
turned into shins," says a
member of the SS Action
Group, most of whose
members are not motivated
by religious convictions but
by their experience of urban
and suburban decline, which
they attribute to forced racial
integration.
The group was formed
about ten years ago and cur-
rently has about 55 members,
predominantly young and
"definitely anti-
establishment." It is affiliated
with two offshoot organiza-
tions, a "small unit" in In-
diana and the S.S. Action
Group of Chicago, with whom
they sometimes join forces for
the demonstrations which are
their main activity. To remain
visible and focus public atten-
tion on their beliefs is a ma-
jor aim, and demonstrations,
they say, are the only means
they have of achieving it. "We
are not terrorists," says one.
"We have no wish for
violence, although if we're at-
tacked we will retaliate. We
have to stay legal. We do the
movement no good by sitting
in gaol." Nevertheless, their
demonstrations over the
years have frequently led to
arrests and invariably involv-
ed heated exchanges of ver-
bal, if not physical abuse,
which some members frank-
ly admit they enjoy.
In 1985, the group applied
for permission to hold a rally
on Belle Isle to celebrate the
96th anniversary of Adolf
Hitler's birth. Permission was
denied, but the episode
generated a fair amount of
publicity, as did the
demonstration timed to coin-
cide with the Israel In-
dependence Day Celebration
in 1981, when in spite of the
attempts by Southfield
authorities to confine the
Nazi demonstration to a
limited area, "a minor scuffle
broke out, which was
magnified out of proportion
by the media, who quite ig-
nored the overall success of
the event," says Shelly
Jackier, who chaired the
Celebration that year and
who regrets the subsequent
committee decision to confine
The federal government
— Zionist Occupational
Government — is the
enemy, "violating" the
white power movement's
rights to free speech and
religion.
the event to private property
at the Jewish Community
Center.
SS Action activities have
been sporadic, often timed to
coincide with other events.
Recently the group
demonstrated at Ann Arbor,
already in the throes of racial
controversy at the University
of Michigan. In April, they
held demonstrations in Birm-
ingham and Royal Oak before
joining a meeting of national
white separatists at Cohoctah
to express support for Robert
Miles following his
indictment.
Like Miles, the group
declares that they are
separatists, believing that
racial segregation is natural
and that "racial mixing
always breeds chaos." Citing
Japan as an example of the
economic success which can
result from racial purity, they
regard segregation as the
cure for this country's
economic and social ills.
"Violence has come with
racial mixture. A uniracial
country is easier to keep
stable," says one of several
group members who agreed to
a recent interview. Racial in-
tegration, they believe, can
never work since "blacks are
bred in violence." Their own
violence, they insist, is pure-
ly self-defense and their
abusive language retaliatory
and metaphorical. "When we
say 'It's your turn for the rope
or the ovens' we don't mean it
literally. It's just an expres-
sion," one member explained.
Recently the group has
been joined by several local
"skinheads," who have also
formed their own organiza-
tion and are soliciting
recruits in area schools, par-
ticularly in Southfield. At-