[Vision2020] Three Ticketed Over Racist Flyers

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (August 11, 2009) Spokesman Review.

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Three ticketed over racist fliers
Aryan Nations materials dropped in CdA yards

Three men were cited for misdemeanors over the weekend after Coeur d’Alene
residents found racists fliers in their yards.

Paul R. Mullet, 36, and Kevin B. McGurre, 27, were ticketed for littering
Saturday after police say they admitted to distributing fliers advertising
the Aryan Nations along Mullan Street in Coeur d’Alene.

Their driver, Todd N. Weston, 32, was ticketed for aiding a misdemeanor.

Mullet, who lives in Athol with Weston and has a history of white
nationalist activism in Minnesota, said Monday that he’s responsible and
vowed to fight any legal action against him.

“We’re going to recruit and we’re going to recruit hard,” Mullet said.

Coeur d’Alene has seen a resurgence in Aryan Nations literature appearing
in yards since about April. Racist literature and advertisements have
increased nationally since President Barack Obama’s election, according to
national organizations that study hate groups.

Residents have complained to police about Aryan Nations fliers in Coeur
d’Alene at least twice in the past few months, but Saturday was the first
time police could tie anyone to the distribution, said Coeur d’Alene
police Sgt. Christie Wood.

A man called police about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and said men in a small blue
truck yelling “white power” had tossed bags of Aryan Nations literature at
children playing in a yard in the 1500 block of East Mullan Avenue,
according to a police report.

Police stopped the truck a couple of blocks away and searched it after
Weston said he was “exercising his freedom of speech rights” by helping
McGurre and Mullet distribute the fliers, according to the report.

Two residents told police they wanted to pursue charges; officers cited
the men for the misdemeanors and released them.

If Mullet fights the littering charge, it won’t be his first legal battle.
The Minnesota attorney general sued Mullet in 2000 after he wrote
threatening letters to Jewish business leaders.

Then a member of the National Socialist Party of America, Mullet reached
an agreement that allowed him to distribute literature but prohibited him
from contacting Jewish people or groups, according to the Associated
Press.

Mullet said in an interview Monday that he moved to North Idaho to help
Jerald O’Brien, a follower of the late Richard Butler, who had established
an Aryan Nations compound in Hayden.

Mullet said he’s since broken ties with O’Brien and moved the Aryan
Nations headquarters to Athol.

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Yep.  It appears that the racist scum has returned to North Idaho.

Seeya at Palouse Pride, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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