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1981, he hosted the first of
what has become an annual
gathering of racist kindred
from around the country and
Canada. These so-called World
Aryan Congresses — replete
with Ku Klux Klan-officiated
cross burnings, paramilitary
training and grandiose
rhetoric about the wave of
things to come — became na-
tional media events.
The conferences have at-
tracted between 200 and 300
participants and scores of
reporters and cameras, all
fueling Butler's claim to
leadership status in a far-
flung, loosely-affiliated
supremacist movement. At
the same time, they fostered
an image of Butler's adopted
home state and his proclaim-
ed Aryan multistate republic
as a hotbed of neo-Nazism.
That stigma, like the
mythology Butler has so
skillfully weaved about
himself, has proven persistent.
Even now, when
the Aryan Nations has been
soundly rejected by Idahoans,
many of its former adherents
criminally prosecuted and
Butler's regular congrega-
tion reduced to 30 or fewer
persons, the self-styled
reverend continues to com-
mand headlines and engineer
controversy.
"Sometimes you get the im-
pression from people around
the country that there's a
large group of Aryan Nations
people here. That's just not
true," says Ibny Stewart, presi-
dent of the Northwest Coali-
tion Against Malicious
Harassment. "They never
have been successful
recruiting locally."
A powerful, pro-human
rights backlash against the
Aryan Nations has demon-
strated "the people in nor-
thern Idaho were not racist as
everybody assumed," says
Norm Gissel, head of the
Kootenai County Task Force
on Human Relations.
"I just feel that because of
Butler's size (of following),
there's no sense of proportion,"
Gissel says of media
portrayals.
"Butler's got 20 to 30
thoroughly alienated people
going to his church. Their
long-range design is to make
the Northwest a whites-only
territory, and they have a pro-
pensity for committing violent
crimes. But that's the end of
the story."
Gissel and human rights ac-
tivists say they receive
generally fair media treat-
ment, but contend the nature
of the story gives the villains
an inherent advantage "They
have all the drama," says
Gissel. And Stewart adds,
"The burning of a cross is a

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sensational thing. It tends to
stick in the mind of the
viewer."
"This is a sensational issue
and it has been sensational-
ized inappropriately," says
Marvin Stern, regional direc-
tor for the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith. Such
treatment "gives the impres-
sion the problem is more
serious and hate groups more
numerous than they are. It
also provides an attraction to
other people who are search-
ing for a similar kind of in-
volvement."
The Northwest Coalition
recently released its first an-
nual audit of racist crimes in
the five-state region, which
showed 60 reported incidents,
14 of them attributed to
skinheads in Portland, Ore.
While the ADL says
membership in older,
established hate organizations
has been on the decline in re-
cent years, the movement of
shaven-headed neo-Nazi youth
has grown rapidly nationwide.
In the Northwest, Portland
has been identified as a
regional "migrating point" for
skinheads, says Stern.
Human rights leaders say it
appears the Aryan Nations is
attempting to forge a union
with the young, expanding
movement. Butler planned to
host hundreds of skinheads at
an April conference in Hayden
Lake, over strong community
protests. Heavy publicity and
recent arrests led to cancella-
tion of the conference.
"We don't want these people
to believe they're welcome
here," says Gissel. "Why they
don't know that already, I
don't know."
Idahoans acknowledge they
were silent for too long in the
early days of the Aryan Na-
tions, writing them off as a
small, tough-talking, but
essentially harmless group of
crackpots. But their mistake
now serves as an example to
other communities in the
region.
The reaction in Utah, for ex-
ample, was swift and loud
when Butler announced plans
to open a branch office there.
The governor, state
legislature, religious leaders
and numerous civic and ad
hoc groups made it clear,
without waiting to find out if
it was just another publicity
ploy, that the white
supremacists were not wanted
and acts of racial terrorism
would not be tolerated.
Butler, in characteristic
style, discounted the opposi-
tion as coming from
unrepresentative "groups in-
fluenced by the Marxist-
Zionist coalition . . . I still
think there are a lot of good
whites there."

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