Reply #24: Racist Gun Nut Church On Its Last Legs

[MrBenchley]

And good riddance to it too....

"Matt Hale, the group's ‘‘Pontifex Maxiumus'' or supreme leader, was arrested in January 2003 for allegedly soliciting the murder of a federal judge who ruled against the group in a trademark infringement case. He was denied bail and is awaiting an April 6 trial in a Chicago jail cell.
A federal grand jury is also investigating if Hale encouraged or ordered church member Benjamin Smith to go on a shooting spree of minorities in Chicago in 1999, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports. Smith killed two people and injured eight others before taking his own life.
And Deardorff, who won't say how many group members remain, said he's ‘‘doing all the work'' to keep the group alive. From his decrepit trailer near Superior, he sends out newsletters several times a year.
Deardorff, sitting on his thin bed in a stained white T-shirt and picking dirt from his toenails, doesn't look like he can steadily hold the gun he constantly wears on his hip."

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/03/29/top/a01032904_01.txt