- Alex Linder
Alex Linder (born 1966) is the owner and operator of the Vanguard News Network (VNN), an antisemitic, white supremacist website launched in 2000. VNN is one of the most active white supremacist sites on the Internet, according to the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Its motto is "NoJew s. Just Right." Linder echoes numerous Nazi sentiments, among them that "the thing to be done about [the Jews] is to "kill" them, exterminate them, get rid of them. You don't argue or reason with a cockroach; you step on it." [ [http://broadcasting.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/audio/RadioIstina20080812.mp3] , "Radio Istina," Vanguard News Network, August 12, 2008]Background
According to the ADL, Linder has said he was raised an "upper-middle-class suburban kid". The ADL reports that he graduated with a bachelor's degree from
Pomona College inClaremont, California , in 1988, then worked as a researcher forCNN on the "Evans & Novak" political show, and then at "The American Spectator ". [http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/alex_linder.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=linder Alex Linder/Vanguard News Network (VNN)] , Anti-Defamation League.]Linder claims that the experience of working in mainstream journalism opened his eyes to an institutional anti-white bias in the field, and led him to take-up pro-white activism.
Political life
Linder is an ex-member of the National Alliance, a
neo-Nazi , white-nationalist group. He left after deciding to allow criticism of the National Alliance to appear on the VNN forums.The ADL claims that in January 2005, Linder announced his intention to set up the White Freedom Party, stating it was "America's first political party advocating
Aryan interests and specifically naming the Jew as the agent of whitegenocide and greatest obstacle to our people's self-preservation as a distinct and protected people." It threatened to "WAGE NONSTOP WAR [sic] on the Jews, coloreds, and mainstream sellouts ..." [http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=124599, "Suspect fled to belly of beast: Area of Arkansas shootout heartland of KKK"] , Boston Herald Dead link|date=March 2008] . Lacking financial backing, the White Freedom Party is currently mothballed.On May 26, 2007 Linder organized what has been described as a "racially charged protest" linked to the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
murder case in Knoxville, Tennessee that attracted 30 supporters, around 60 counterprotesters, and 300 law enforcement officers. Linder fought with police and was the only arrest. [http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/DE324700DAC42EB0862572E90005BB41?OpenDocument Dead link|date=March 2008] [ [http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5557548,00.html "Police arrest organizer at 'rally against genocide'"] , "Knoxville News Sentinel", May 27, 2007] [ [http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=45634&provider=top "White supremacist arrested at Downtown rally"] , WBIR-TV, May 26, 2007] .Linder maintains the site [http://kirksvilletoday.com Kirksville Today] from his home in
Kirksville, Missouri .Notes
External links
* [http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/ Vanguard News Network]
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=212#19 Southern Poverty Law Center Profile]
* [http://www.globalpolitician.com/articleshow.asp?ID=3602&cid=1&sid=104 "Interview with Alex Linder of the Vanguard News Network: Jewish journalist interviews leading anti-Jewish activist"] , "Global Politician ", October 11, 2007
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