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decade — took over and launched a
attacks on three Sacramento syna-
new recruitment effort.
• • gues. World Church fliers were left at
He now claims that the group has
ne of the three torched sites prior to
7,000 members, although the ADL
the attacks, according to the ADL.
estimates the figure at closer to 2,000.
The group's predecessor, the
The Center for New Community says
hurch of the Creator, was also
that Hale has taken the group "from the
inked to the 1991 murder of a black
brink of extinction to prominence within
ailor in Florida returning from the
the racist movement," increasing the num-
ersian Gulf War and to foiled plots
ber of chapters nationwide from eight in
inate
black
and
Jewish
leaders
o assas s
1995 to 31 today.
nd to bomb black and Jewish agen-
Smith's two-state rampage occurred
synagogues and churches.
one day after Hale was denied a law
In the last year, three members of
license for the second time. Hale said
he group have been accused of pistol-
this week that Smith's rampage might
hipping and robbing a Jewish video
have come in response to that action
tore owner in Florida, purportedly to
and
"to what he saw as an incredible
aise money for "the revolution."
injustice."
Smith, meanwhile, already had
Hale, who works out of an office in
one to the attention of students and
his parents' home in East Peoria, Ill.,
dministrators at both the University of
where an Israeli flag serves as a doormat
linois at Urbana-Champaign, which
and swastikas adorn the walls, insisted
e attended from 1997 w 1998, and
in an interview with the Associated
ndiana University at Bloomington,
Press this week that members of his
here he was currently enrolled.
church
follow the law.
At both schools, police say, he dis-
"I've always encouraged our mem-
ributed hate literature, and at Indiana
bers to be legal. I've
e formed a group
Opposite page: Matt Hale, leader of certainly never
e called the White
ationalist Party of a white supremacist group called the encouraged vio-
World Church of the Creator, is
lence," he said.
diana University.
shown
in this Feb. 6 photo taken in "People have their
It was while he
his East Peoria, Ill., office. Alleged
own free will. They
as a student there
racist
killer
Benjamin
Nathaniel
do what they please."
hat he joined Hale's
Smith belonged to the church and
Blaming the
orld Church of
was profiled in January as "Creator church for Smith's
le Creator, accord-
of the Year" for his efforts to distrib- shootings, Hale
ng to the Center
ute racist literature.
added, is the same
or New
as people accusing
Community, an
the pope of being behind all those
ganization that works to counter hate
abortion clinic bombings."
„zbup activity.
Harlan Loeb, Midwest civil rights
The organization says that Smith
counsel for the Anti-Defamation
ecame a "rising star" in the church
League, said Hale's assertion that he
.nd in January 1999 was named
bears no responsibility for the attacks
Creator of the Year," its highest honor.
defies common sense, "as if holding a
The June 1999 issue of the
match next to a gasoline tank has no
the church's newsletter,
connection to the ensuing fire."
lnnounced that Smith had relocated
On Monday, the ADL called on
central Illinois "to assist" Hale at
the
Justice Department to launch an
world headquarters," according to
immediate full-scale investigation into
rie Center for New Community.
the World Church of the Creator.
Though now the leader of the
Asked if the ADL regretted issuing
(i.orld Church of the Creator, Hale,
a statement earlier this year on the
+7, was not its founder. Ben Klassen,
denial of Hale's law license, Loeb said,
one-time state legislator from
"As an agency that is a strong support-
lorida, formed the organization in
er
of the First Amendment, we stand
973, according to the ADL.
by
our commitment that viewpoint
Hale discovered the racist organiza-
discrimination
is murky territory"
ion while he was attending Bradley
But now that "we've made our
,university in Peoria, Ill., where he had
statement on the free speech and free
lready organized a campus group called
expression issue," he said, his group
le American White Supremacist Party
"will devote all of our energy to expos-
The suicide of Klassen in 1993 left
111g Matt Hale for what he is." E
leadership vacuum.
The group foundered until 1995,
— Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
hen Hale — who had been active in
of the "Chicago Jewish. News"
arious white supremacist and neo-
contributed to this report.
Jazi organizations for close to a

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