White Supremacists in the Flathead Valley
Another Prominent White Nationalist Screens Film at Montana Library
Films denying the Holocaust and glorifying Nazis shown in the basement of a library in Kalispell prompt protests, vigils.By Dan Testa, Flathead Beacon, Guest Writer, 10-18-10
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| Rev. Darryl Kistler, center, makes comments during a candlelight vigil held in response to a Holocaust denial film being shown in the basement of the Flathead County Library in Kalispell. Photo by Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon | |
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“Here we are again,” Darryl Kistler said to the small crowd gathered around him, holding candles on the sidewalk across from the Kalispell, MT, library last week. They were part of a candlelight vigil held as a response to the Holocaust denial film being shown in the library’s basement by Craig Cobb, who moved to Kalispell from Vancouver this summer after he was investigated by a Canadian hate crimes unit.
“This is our third time that we have gathered in this space, to stand up, to speak out and to stand in solidarity,” Kistler, pastor of the United Church of Christ in Kalispell, said. “It is important that we are so inspired that we can lift up ourselves and lift up each other in a spirit of community.”
Across the street, Karl Gharst stood watching the vigil and smoking. In April and May, Gharst prompted large protests by showing films questioning whether the Holocaust occurred and glorifying Nazis. He planned to screen another film Oct. 19. But Gharst made no moves to descend to the basement to watch Cobb’s film, since Cobb had earlier that week filed a restraining order against Gharst, forcing the two men to leave each other alone.
Visibly angry, Gharst accused Cobb of being an “agent provocateur” sent to the Flathead Valley by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League to stop Gharst from showing his films.
“He’s a pretend Nazi and everywhere he goes he just stinks up the place,” Gharst said. “He’s a crash test dummy for the ADL.”
Gharst went on to question the authenticity of the beliefs held by other members of the loose group that has been attempting to draw white nationalists to the Flathead Valley through the “Pioneer Little Europe” project: “They’re just awash with ADL scumbags.”
When asked about Gharst’s accusations, Cobb replied, “I’m not in the ADL. My reputation precedes me.”
Cobb is known for launching “Podblanc,” a video sharing website similar to Youtube, but geared for white supremacists. According to a report by the Montana Human Rights Network, the site featured videos of Russian neo-Nazis beheading and shooting Asian immigrants, as well as videos of skinheads in Europe and Russia attacking orthodox Jews.
Cobb identifies as part of the Creativity Movement, which prizes the white race above any others and has had small chapters spring up in different parts of Montana over the last two years. The Creativity Movement’s leader, Matt Hale, is currently in prison for plotting to kill federal Judge Joan Lefkow in Chicago. According to the Montana Human Rights Network and Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2003 Cobb posted Lefkow’s home address to the white nationalist website Stormfront.org. In 2005, Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered, though the killer was not connected to racist groups.
In 2005, Cobb moved to Estonia but was eventually jailed and banned from the country. According to Cobb’s blog, he made his way by foot from British Columbia to the Flathead, staying at the Samaritan House in Kalispell and then the Rosebrier Inn, where Gharst also resides.
“He’s taken advantage of my charity and my kindness,” Gharst said.
The disagreement between the two men indicates that the small, but apparently slowly growing community of white supremacists in the Flathead Valley is far from a cohesive, unified group. Gharst describes himself as practicing Christian Identity, a religion of the Aryan Nations group, of which he participated in Idaho. According to Cobb’s blog, he and Gharst’s argument stemmed from disagreements over their religious beliefs.
“The Christian Identity people need to wake up,” Cobb said to the four men in the library basement gathered to watch the film he was showing, a documentary made by David Cole, a Jewish man who gained some fame on talk shows like Phil Donahue’s in the 1990s for denying that the Holocaust occurred. In the movie Cole confronts officials at the Auschwitz concentration camp museum, questioning whether more than a million Jews, along with other ethnic minorities, were killed there by Nazis during World War II. Cole later denounced his own film, and previous views, but many white supremacists believe he was coerced into making those statements.
Across the street, those in the vigil engaged in a call-and-response with Kistler, joined by other religious leaders, including Rabbi Allen Secher of the Bet Harim Jewish community. The repeated refrain was, “Love lives here in the Flathead Valley.”
“We are not here to stifle free speech,” Kistler said. “Anytime someone uses speech and propaganda and media to dehumanize and devalue someone, we will stand up.”
On the sidewalk outside the library’s south door, Cobb handed out a packet with quotations ascribed to Alex Linder, who started an anti-Semitic, white supremacist website called the Vanguard News Network. Cobb noted on the handout it is his religious right to distribute such “teaching information,” which contained lines like, “Nothing will change until the jews are killed.”
When asked about the small turnout for his event, Cobb said he was pleased.
“I’m glad that they’re all young people, because that’s who we want to reach,” he said.
This article originally appeared in the Flathead Beacon, a weekly newspaper and website covering news and culture in the Flathead Valley.
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So I get this call saying “this is Craig Cobb, I’m staying in a homeless shelter…I heard you on the Hal Turner Radio show a few years ago and I hitch hiked down here to meet you.” The guy says he’s white and been a long time patriot – so I pick him up and feed him and find him a place to stay. Though his afro and moronic ramblings suggested I do otherwise, I took Cobb at his word and brought him on a painting job (where he excelled in the task of creeping people out). Within two weeks Craig Cobb had a $1000 in his pocket, a job, a place to live, a new laptop, signed up to collect SSI, $348 a month in Obongo stamps and friends he could never make on his own. I tried to take Craig Cobb to a doctor for his dislocated hip, cooked meals for him and cleaned up after him, apologized to others on his behalf for all the stupid crap that would come from his mouth and gave him a bicycle for the times I couldn’t run him around town myself–all because he saying he’s a brother and the lawful are their brother’s keeper.
Three weeks after meeting Cobb I ran across some of his “literature” on the internet. It was some of the most Christ-hating Talmudic babble I think I’d ever read. That evening I calmly explained to him that “there is a book calling itself “The Word of God” already in existence” and “for you to be a successful atheist you must prove that this book is in error!” I told him we are the only people on the Earth who have had a perfect man of our Race (which is why we are so hated) who promises us the preservation we so desperately need. The only people who have taken up this ideology called Christianity and we have made for ourselves wonderful lawful societies with these ideas - and there has never been a successful atheist society in our past and all of our pagan societies are an embarrassment to us. Like water off a duck’s back Cobb ignored any of my words (I always try to be easy on non-believers – forced conversions only work ‘til the whip is put away). Cobb preferred only try to lump the beliefs of Adolf Hitler, Pastor Butler and myself with Benny Hinn, Jimmy Swaggert and the Rev Al Sharpton. (Jews do this – when you want to control someone or something you give it a name.) A few days later Cobb agreed to help me get an email address on his new computer - I had asked for when I first met him. After several hours and two full pages of passwords, web addresses and encryption codes in which I could only access my account through his account I realized “the last thing this man will ever help me do is get an email address!” (A friend helped me a few days ago- it took about 10 minutes). I had the Cobbinator figured out. The pink “Barbie” cell phone always dangling around his scaly neck (Cobb was filming us), the meth-tard he brought over trying to get me to buy him some weed, his many uninvited conversations about “killing Jews, queers and others.” Cobb was an agent for the ADL.
The next day I asked Cobb to help me remove some asbestos from a ceiling and replace it with fiberglass insulation. After much deliberation Cobb finally agreed (making a Jew work is worse than killing them if the story of the Holocaust is of any value). On the third day of the job, just as the last of the fiberglass was being put into place I called to Cobb “c’mere a minute.” Krusty the Cobb slowly ambled over the ceiling joists on his knees and poked his mug thru the access in the ceiling – a wad of yellow fiberglass insulation entangled in his Jew fro- and weakly asked “What is it!” “I know it was you who wrote that anonymous feature on the SPLC and Montana human rights website about the politician’s son who is part of our movement.” I replied. Cobb looked stunned; his trade-mark smirk was replaced by an even scarier gaping hole in his head! The only motion in the ceiling came from the sweat dripping off his greasy hippie face. “That means adios, Pedro,” I said. Cobb slowly clambered out of the ceiling until he was halfway down then jumped from the ladder heading for the door as if the room was on fire. I stepped in front of him and said “I knew you were a turd-eating Hindu (not from the years you told me you spent in India, but) from your idiot religious sophistry!” Cobb looked in the faces of the other two CI skinheads in the room and realized anything but a quick exit would land him in the hospital or the cemetery and backed to the other exit of the room and ran for his life.
Cobb filed a restraining order on me – and it wasn’t because I always carry a razor sharp knife in my pocket or that I am never more than half a sentence away from a firearm or my rifle range scores in the Marine Corps (I’ve since improved). No, the reason Cobb filed a restraining order against me was he had done and was doing the things most men get their jaw broken over.
At the hearing Cobb’s wide-eyed ramblings brought snickers from the bailiffs and the judge (including his trademark “I gave Obama a ride in my cab and I am on Wikipedia”). The only thing he said that was true was “Karl doesn’t have a driver’s license!” Cobb kept repeating this and finally the judge stopped him and said “we are well aware of the status of Mr. Gharst’ driver’s license.” (I had only a few months previous told this same judge in a packed courtroom “When the last illegal alien crosses our border headed home I’ll be the first one in line to get a driver’s license.) That brought Cobb to a halt and let me enter the conversation. I pointed out the Cobb was the intellectual author of the murders of Chicago judge Leftkow’s family and was the one who arranged the phone call from Benjamin Smith that set Matt Hale up for forty years in prison. Cobb blurted out “I never testified at Matt Hale’s trial, I was in Missouri!” Well, no one ever said he did testify at Hale’s trial. (Cobb had bragged to me during different conversations that he had known and talked to both of these men.) The ADL stooge who had bought the bogus meth from the mother and son team of gypsies (off of Butler’s property) never testified at Pastor Butler’s civil trial, either. Like Cobb, he was conveniently in another state. (Cobb had a few conversations more recently with Kevin Harpham just before he placed a bomb at the 2011 MLK commie parade in Spokane.) I told Judge Ortley that Cobb was an agent provocateur for the ADL and “he would publish your address and engineer a crime against your family, just like he did Leftkow’s.” The judge dismissed the restraining order.
A few days later someone told me Cobb was hanging around the apt bldg. with a gun saying he was going to shoot me if he saw me! Well, I’ve been just about as kind to my neighbors as I once was with Cobb and it wasn’t long before he showed his .45 to one of my friends who quickly called the cops and had the Cobbinator swat teamed out of the bldg., minus one brand new .45 cal. pistol. Cobb would spend Nov to April living in a hole in the ground covered by a tarp in one of the worst Montana winters in many years. God remembered what Cobb had said about him.
Cobb was the 6th ADL pus-bag to appear in my life, uninvited, in the three years I have been showing documentary films defending our good cause at the local library. I learned long ago that the first mission of the ADL scumbag is to entrap us in a crime (our Africanized gulags are full of white patriots who have never done anything wrong to anyone), second, the stooges try to drive all your friends awy from you, get you fired from your job and encourage their fellow criminals to victimize you. When this fails they go around rubbing all the stink in the world on you and in every direction on the compass hoping something will stick. This is what you read about me and other genuine when you google our names on the internet.
The Cobbster never caused me an ounce of worry! I felt sorry for him when I first met him and still do. All during his stay numerous semi-toothed drugged out women would come up to me and say “…please keep that flake away from me…he’s so creepy!” His only friends were imaginary Sadhus who would pat his back and spar with him on meaningless issues during acid flashbacks. Giving White People a bad name and driving a few cowardly people from our movement was his only accomplishment in Kalispell.
Idiots like Cobb believe “I will go to work for the sons of hell and I will become a millionaire!” Jewish Organized Crime only pays for the real stuff and as little as they can get away with. And when the stooge is told to do something and he doesn’t do it – he goes to jail or gets whacked! A couple of good case studies min this matter would be April Gaede and Edgar Steele. April was fired from her $10 an hr. job – not for being an outspoken racist – but for stealing office suiplies and Edgar Steele was set up by his ADL handler.
We always do well when we promote men who demonstrate courage and follow those men who bring us victories! Telling lies about these good men, calling them names or otherwise defaming them is what the ADL is all about! With all the lies they have told and with all the crimes Edom Jewry has committed against our race and the other peoples of the world – I would question the integrity of any so-called patriot who wasn’t sending his divisions thru these great gaps in our enemies lines. One thing we can always count on; if we don’t assume the role of leadership among our own people-the rabbis will!
If there is a moral to this story: never expect anyone with an afro to do anything good for our race!