Shaun Walker

Shaun Walker (born Castro Valley, California in 1968) was the Chairman/CEO of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization from April 2005 to July 2006. Currently Walker is serving a 87 month prison sentence for Civil Rights violations.cite news | url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Walker&Middle=&FirstName=Shawn&Race=W&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0 | title=Locate a Federal Inmate: Shaun Walker| publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons |date= 2007 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-05-17]

History

Walker grew up in Hayward, California. He served in the US Marine Corps from 1986 to 1990 with 2/9 STA Platoon as both a recon Marine and a Scout/Sniper. He was honorably discharged at the rank of corporal. He worked as a plumber in Sacramento, California for 15 months before going to college. He attended school in UC San Diego at John Muir College and earned a BS in Molecular Biology, with a Minor in History in 1997.Fact|date=August 2007 He has had a life-time interest in genetics. His professional career in scientific research includes bone-marrow cancer research with trans-genic mice, experimental anergenic drug research for multiple sclerosis (MS) and work in Human Genomic Research for 7-years. During his Genomic Research he did a little work on the breast cancer related BRCA-2 gene, but mostly worked in genomic mapping trying to isolate a gene responsible for prostate cancer.

He became a neo-Nazi during his High School days in 1983. He has written articles for many White Nationalist publications starting with Tom Metzger's WAR newspaper in 1989. He also wrote many articles for Instauration magazine, the Bay Aryan, Liberty Bell, National Vanguard magazine, Resistance magazine and Free Speech newspaper.

In June 1998 Walker joined the National Alliance Internet Response Unit, which was lead by Billy Roper. He was appointed Unit Coordinator (UC) for the Salt Lake City Unit in April, 2000 by Pierce. In April 2002 Pierce agreed to hire Walker as a full-time staff member to be the Chief of Staff and the Membership Coordinator. Walker was scheduled to move to the office in West Virginia by November 2002, but Pierce's death in July due to cancer altered his plans. In September, 2002 shortly after the death of Pierce on July 23rd of 2002 he was appointed as the Western States Regional Coordinator by the new Chairman of the National Alliance Erich Gliebe. In June 2003 he moved to West Virginia, was appointed to the position of COO and worked full-time at the National Office in Hillsboro, WV for 3-years.

He appeared in a documentary film about "White Power Music" produced by Scottish TV, which aired in America on the Discovery Times channel in 2005, the documentary film "Protocols of Zion" produced by Blowback Productions as well as the John Walsh show in 2003. He has been interviewed on many radio programs as well as appearing on several TV interviews, almost always to discuss the topic of race in America. He last appeared on TV during an April, 2006 CNN interview. He has been interviewed by approximately 300 newspapers during the 3-years he was the official spokesman for the National Alliance. He has traveled to Europe to attend meetings by many different White Nationalist groups and has been a guest speaker for the NPD in Germany and Nordisk Freiheit in Sweden.

He was arrested on June 8th, 2006 in Marlinton, West Virginia, driving to work and charged with a Civil Rights violation. Walker resigned his position as CEO while in jail in June, 2006 a few days after being arrested. He resigned as Chairman on July 4th, 2006, after consulting with the Board of Directors (BoD) of the National Alliance, but is still a member of the BoD of the National Alliance. He was not asked or required to resign by the Federal Court, but under the conditions of his pre-trial release he was not allowed to have any contact with any past or present member of the National Alliance, which made it impossible for him to remain as the Chairman during his pre-trial probation. Shaun appointed Gliebe as the CEO and Patrick Martin as the COO while he was in jail. Gliebe the former Chairman of the National Alliance, from July 2002 to April 2005, resumed leadership of the National Alliance July, 2006.

Arrest and conviction

In June 2006 Walker was indicted by a federal grand jury for violating Civil Rights laws.cite news | url=http://saltlakecity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/indictment060906.htm | title=Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Three Men With Civil Rights Violations | publisher=United States Department of Justice | date=June 9, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2006-11-18] In the indictment he was charged, along with two others, with attacking a Mexican-American male and an individual of Native American heritage with the intent "to provoke and engage in arguments and fights with persons perceived to be "non-white" in order to make them afraid to appear in public, work and live in and around Salt Lake City" from December 2002 through March 2003.

Walker and two co-defendants were convicted April 20th by a federal jury in Salt Lake City of charges stemming from racially motivated beatings at two bars in 2002 and 2003. During the trial, prosecutors argued that the beatings were part of a plan to intimidate non-whites in Salt Lake City. Walker, Travis Massey, the former Utah spokesman for the NA, and a third man, Eric Egbert, were convicted of assaulting a Mexican-American man in 2002, and of conspiracy to interfere with the civil rights of individuals based on their race. On August 13, 2007 Walker was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his crimes. [cite news | url=http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6618162 | title=White-separatists get prison time for hate crimes | publisher=Salt Lake City Tribune |date= August 14, 2007 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-17]

References

External links

* [http://www.adl.org/PresRele/NeoSk_82/5028_82.htm ADL Welcomes Conviction Of Former Neo-Nazi Leader]
* [http://www.natall.com National Alliance homepage]