With so much time devoted to attacking other religious faiths, it is hardly a revelation that Creativity would provide little in the way of a creed of its own. What passes for a COC credal statement is contained in the Sixteen Commandments of Creativity and a number of "credos" which do little more than recycle the aphorisms which abound in Klassen's writings. So important are these Commandments- the COC asks little more of ministers than an adherence to these basic doctrines- that a comprehensive listingis included below:

The Sixteen Commandments

1. It is the avowed duty and the holy responsibility of each generation to assure and secure for all time the existence of the White Race upon the face of this planet
. 2. Be fruitful and multiply. Do your part in helping to populate the world with your own kind. It is our sacred goal to populate the lands of this earth with White people exclusively.
3. Remember that the inferior colored races are our deadly enemies, and the most dangerous of all is the Jewish race. It is our immediate objective to relentlessly expand the White race, and keep shrinking our enemies.
4. The guiding principle of all your actions shall be: What is best for the White Race?
5. You shall keep your race pure. Pollution of the White Race is a heinous crime against Nature and against your own race.
6. Your first loyalty belongs to the White Race.
7. Show your preferential treatment in business dealings to members ofyour own race. Phase out all dealings with Jews as soon as possible.
Do not employ niggers or other coloreds. Have social contact only with members of your own racial family.
8. Destroy and banish all Jewish thought and influence from society. Work hard to bring about a White world as soon as possible.
9. Work and creativity are our genius. We regard work as a noble pursuit and our willingness to work a blessing to our race.
10. Decide in early youth that during your lifetime you will make at least one major lasting contribution to the White Race.
11. Uphold the honor of your race at all times.
12. It is our duty and privilege to further Nature's plan by striving towards the advancement and improvement of our future generations.
13. You shall honor, protect and venerate the sanctity of the family unit, and hold it sacred. It is the present link in the long golden chain of our White Race.
14. Throughout your life you shall faithfully uphold our pivotal creed of Blood, Soil and Honor. Practice it diligently, for it is the heart of our faith.
15. Be a proud member of the White Race, think and act positively. Becourageous, confident and aggressive. Utilize constructively your creative ability.
16. We, the Racial Comrades of the White Race, are determined to regain complete and unconditional control of our own destiny.[1] The fate of the Church of the Creator in the post- Klassen era remains, at this writing, uncertain. Klassen's apparent suicide in 1993 capped a chaotic period in the existence of Creativity. Formed in 1973 as either the fruition of a burst of religious illumination or a tax dodge, the Church of the Creator came to appeal to an audience made up increasingly of skinheads and prisoners. The COC by the late 1980s enjoyed considerable growth while in the process gathering more than its share of enemies in the competing camps of the 'right wing synthesis'. By 1992, however, the COC began to falter. Klassen's advanced age and failing health- and at the end perhaps the death of his wife of many years- necessitated a search for a new Pontifex Maximus. In rapid succession, Rudy Stanko, Charles Altvatar, Mark Wilson and Dr. Rick McCarty were named as Klassen's successor. Attacks on Klassen mounted, with National Socialist figure Harold Covington following long- standing precedent in far right wing circles and publicly accusing Klassen of being a homosexual and a Jew. Finally, on 6 August 1994, Klassen took a number of boxes of documents to a local recycling center, returned to his home and ingested the contents of four bottles of sleeping pills.He reportedly left behind a suicide note which referred to a passage in The White Man's Bible which asserted suicide to be an honorable way to end a life which was no longer worth living.[2]

To paraphrase an American aphorism, for some men survivalism comes naturally, for others, it is thrust upon them. The latter describes the case of Randy Weaver, a young Christian Identity adherent loosely tied to Richard Butler's Aryan Nations, who, as a result of government conduct which would ultimately be found to be beyond the pale in an American courtroom, would be forced to live for over two years the subsistence existence of the survivalist. The Weaver case, however, would be substantially different from other post- Order instances of violent conflict involving agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case of Randy Weaver became national news, and for once the White supremacist beliefs of the suspect were considered to be less important than either the force utilized by government agents in the effort to apprehend him or the fanciful explanations offered for government conduct at the ensuing trial.

Weaver's story is straightforward enough. An Identity believer of noparticular distinction, Weaver was entrapped into selling undercover agents a sawed- off shotgun with a barrel slightly under the legal length. Offered an opportunity to avoid prosecution by becoming an informer, Weaver refused and a trial date was set. At this point the tale becomes murky. What appears to have happened is that Weaver was given the wrong trial date- not an unusual occurrence in the chaotic American court system- and when he failed to appear at the correct time, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Fearing that a ZOG plot was afoot, Weaver fled with his family to a cabin in the Idaho hills where federal agents soon materialized and placed the site under surveillance. For 20 months! Finally, in August 1993, the Weaver's dog rushed at one of the agents who panicked and shot it. Weaver's 14 year old son, Samuel, was shot in the back and killed at this point, as was Federal Marshall William Degan, and what had been a low- level surveillance was transformed into a siege. For eleven days the Weavers and a family friend, Kevin Harris, held out. Finally, either a federal agent using a high powered rifle or an automated robot equipped with such a weapon fired a bullet which penetrated the cabin's wall and entered the skull of Vicki Weaver as she sat at the kitchen table holding their 10- month old baby. She was killed instantly.

At last, Populist Party candidate Bo Gritz negotiated Weaver's surrender. Weaver and Harris were charged with murder in the killing of William Degan, and Weaver was further charged with the original weapons violation and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. And there it should haveended, had precedent held true. This time, however, popular indignation spread beyond the insular world of the radical right. Part of this may be explained by the way in which Vicki Weaver died while cradling her baby in her arms, part of it with the killing of a fourteen year old boy whose primary sin seems to have been in investigating the death of his dog and firing back when shot at by men concealed in dense underbrush and firing high powered weapons. Part of it too had to do with timing. Weaver's trial coincided with the Branch Davidian siege at Waco, and the similarity of the two events was lost on no one. In any case, Gary Spence, a flamboyant defense attorney from Wyoming took the Weaver case on a pro bono basis and proceeded to put the government on trial for its actions. In a classic defense which would be imitated with nearly as much success by the attorneys representing the Branch Davidians, the government's often contradictory explanations for theevents surrounding the Weaver case were held up to ridicule. More seriously, Spence's warnings that what the government did to Randy Weaver it could easily one day do to any other citizen was suddenly credible to a white, middle class American jury with the cataclysmic denouement of the Waco siege fresh in mind. Ultimately, to the surprise of one and all, the jury voted to acquit both Weaver and Harris of all charges against them.[3] Single Issue Constituencies

Given the applicability of the theory of the cultic milieu, the true single issue constituency is a rarity in the world of the radical right. It appears that for most adherents there exists an interlocking composite of beliefs which allow the seeker to subscribe to a number of ideological appeals either serially or simultaneously. The primary cases of single issue zealotry in the world of the radical right are significant for their intellectual rigor. The tax protest movement for example has provided a frequently used port of entry for the neophyte right wing extremist. It has held the attentions, however fleeting, of such stalwarts of the violent fringe of the radical right as Identity minister and Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale and Robert Mathews. Few however, remain exclusively in the tax movement.

For most of these initial enthusiasts, tax protests hold little lasting appeal. The reasons for this fleeting attraction are not difficult to discern. First, the literature of the tax protest movement is arcane, laden with questions of constitutionality, conspiritorialism (with the Federal Reserve system as prime suspect), law, and the incomprehensible body of the tax code itself. Unraveling these mysteries is a task for which few in this milieu are intellectually or temperamentally equipped. Second, like peeling the layers of an onion, the newly initiated tax protester will find that the pursuit of "truth" behind the federal government$s taxation policies will lead to other, more interesting revelations. Who in this view stands behind the bankers who profit from the "illegal" Federal Reserve system? Naturally, it can only be those masters of financial chicanery, the Jews.

Having made this deduction, the theorist is then faced with a conspiracy of considerably greater antiquity than the paltry eighty years since the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913 or the mere two hundred years of American statehood. More, should he or she have the stamina to persevere, the radical right wing provides a banquet of conspiratorial scenarios from which to choose. Finally, there is a more immediate disincentive to lasting affiliation with the tax movement: the aggressiveness of the Internal Revenue Service in combating anything which smacks of tax resistance. Robert Mathews' experience is perhaps exaggerated, but it is not terribly atypical of the experiences which tax resistance survivors have related during the course of this research. In a letter which was widely republished in movement journals, Mathews describes a pattern of harassment by IRS agents which drove him ever deeper into the milieu of the radical right:

                     This campaign of harassment and intimidation began because of my involvement in 	the Tax Rebellion Movement from the time I was fifteen to twenty years old.  The 	government was on me so much in Arizona that during one incident when I was eighteen, 	IRS agents shot at me for nothing more than a misdemeanor tax violation.

                I left Arizona and the Tax Rebellion when I was twenty.  I left not out of fear of the 	IRS or because of submission to their tyranny, but because I was thoroughly disgusted with 	the American people...our people have devolved into some of the most cowardly, sheepish 	degenerates that ever littered the face of the planet.[4]

While the tax protest movement has been of considerable concern to the U. S. government, the activities of a small but dedicated band of holocaust revisionists have been a far greater source of concern to the organized Jewish community in the United States and Canada. Holocaust revisionism, like tax protest, requires a cadre of single minded specialists willing and able to comb the vast literature emanating from the Second World War for evidence to disprove the allegation that the Nazi regime systematically exterminated six million Jews. In their view, this was a lie perpetrated by Zionist Jews and their elite western coconspirators in their quest to make the dream of a Jewish homeland a reality, to extort financial support for that homeland, and to discredit German National Socialism.

Both the United States and Canada have produced a core of high profile holocaust revisionists. There is considerable contact between these sets of pseudo- scholars, although there are distinct differences in their organization and approaches. In the United States, the epicenter of holocaust revisionism may be found in Newport Beach, California, at the Institute for Historical Review and in the pages of that organization's glossy periodical, The Journal of Historical Review. The activities of the IHR consciously mirror those of the academic think tank, producing studies with all of the trappings of rigorous scholarship, holding annual conferences, placing archives of revisionist documents in the public domain through easily accessed computer archives known as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, and serving as a resource for such independents as Bradley Smith. Despite the IHR's tireless efforts to bring holocaust revisionism to the center of American public discourse, it is arguably Smith's tactic of placing advertisements in college newspapers throughout the U. S. which has brought revisionism the greatest media exposure. Whether the advertisement is published or censored, the ensuing debate provides publicity of which the IHR could only dream.[6]

Canada's more draconian approach to the challenge to public amity posed by right wing extremists is less conducive to the formation of holocaust revisionist organizations. For this reason, the best known figures associated with the revisionist movement in Canada tend to do so as loosely associated individuals; men such as Ernst Zundel, Malcolm Ross and James Keegstra. All have had legal proceedings brought against them, and Zundel$s legal tribulations in particular have made headlines on both sides of the border. Zundel$s legal problems began with the efforts of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association to have his postal privileges revoked to stop the dissemination of his publications, The West, War and Islam and Backlash in 1981. When this effort failed, the same Jewish organization- despite a considerable split in the ranks of organized Jewry in Canada over the advisability of the CHRA's tactics- managed to have Zundel indicted under a little known1920s era law prohibiting the publication of false news. The tracts at issue this time were the same The West, War and Islam and Did Six Million Really Die? Zundel was convicted of these charges in 1985 in regard to the latter tract, but this verdict was ultimately overturned by the Canadian Court of Appeals.[7] Indeed, convictions against Keegstra and Ross for similar offenses were eventually overturned as well.

It is hardly a revelation that it is primarily anti- Semitism packaged as more fashionable anti- Zionism which motivates most holocaust revisionists. Despite the scholarly accouterments of revisionism, holocaust revisionists make little secret of their methodology; that is, an obsessive search for random, often $long suppressed$ facts which will collectively work to undermine what they see as the weakest link of the Jewish claim to the conscience of the world. This weakness centers on the mantra like number of six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime which revisionists see as impossible to substantiate. If the actual number of victims could be shown to be fewer than six million, would that not plant a seed of doubt that perhaps other holocaust claims are specious as well? If only respectable historians could be convinced that claims of Nazi genocide directed at Jews were exaggerated, or inmovement terms, if they could be freed to speak a truth which they currently dare not utter "for fear of the Jews," then and only then would the "seamless garment" of Jewish claims unravel and the public would at last see the Jew as does the revisionist; a master conspirator engaged in an age old manichaean battle with the beleaguered forces of righteousness. At a stroke, perceived Jewish control of the United States government would be sundered. More, then and only then could a primary target of revisionist activity, the state of Israel, be shown to be illegitimate, built as it was in this view on world sympathy for the Jews arising from fabricated revelations of the activities of the Nazi concentration camps.

Holocaust revisionism is, in short, an ambitious and intellectually demanding undertaking. Revisionist claims, remarkably enough, have found some fertile ground in North America where the historical memory of the World War II generation has begun to fade and where such ill considered efforts to revive these memories as the fiasco that was the deportation and trial in Israel of John Damjanjuck on false charges of being a notorious concentration camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" have given new credibility to those casting doubt on all Jewish claims.Indeed, it may well have been the inroads made by revisionist activities which motivated Stephen Spielberg to take the considerable financial gamble which ultimately produced the effective film "Schindler's List" in an effort to present the holocaust to a generation of viewers far removed from the memory of Hitler or of Nuremberg.

Hope Seeking a Means to Fulfillment (or knuckle draggers galore?)

West Coast Bomb And Assassination Plots Spearheaded by Racist Skinheads: Young White
Supremacists Eager to Act on Violent Race War Fantasies of the Movement's Elders
[Klanwatch Intelligence Report headline] [8]

The headline encapsulated the fears of observers that groups of young, neo- Nazi skinheads would place themselves under the command of veteran racist leaders in a terrorist campaign aimed at bringing to life Charles Manson's fondest dream: igniting a race war in America. The plot allegedly centered on a planned bombing of a Los Angeles church whose parishioners included such well known Black celebrities as Arsenio Hall contending that "skins can't be organized." They in fact did more to lose the case than the plaintiffs did to win it.

The trial graphically demonstrated the interconnections between skinheads and racialist leaders when Dees played a videotape of Metzger in Tequila, Oklahoma, talking to a group of skins and suggesting that they "kick a little ass." Dees then played a tape of Metzger's telephone bulletin board which justified the killings after the fact, claiming that these "beautiful Blacks" (the victims) were "high on crack" and that the killers were doing "a civic duty." Another tape claimed that "One young fighter, Ken Mieske, received life" and that the victims should "get their Ethiopian ass (sic) out of this country." The success of the action, temporarily closed down Metzger's operation, as well as making him technically homeless and garnishing 40% of any future moneys he may manage to earn.[9]

Beyond the very real instances of skinhead violence in North America, it is difficult to assess with any accuracy precisely how great a threat the skinhead movement represents. No accurate estimate of skinhead numbers exists, and even the rather dubious numbers which are offered are unable to account for the relative numbers of non- racist and anti-racist as opposed to racist skinheads. The most comprehensive publicly disseminated estimate is provided by the ADL, and while this research has received a number of indications that the ADL's figures are exaggerated, they are worth some consideration both for their indications of the skinhead movement's scant appeal on these shores and for the movement's clearly static growth curve.

Date[10]  		Members 		States
February 1988     	1000 to 1500    	  12
October 1988    	2000    		  21
June 1989       	3000    		  31
June 1990       	3000    		  34
June 1993       	3300- 3500      	  40