- "The most politically incorrect video game ever
made. Run through the ghetto blasting away various blacks and spics in
an attempt to gain entrance to the subway system...where the jews have
hidden to avoid the carnage. Then if your [sic] lucky you can blow away
jews as they scream 'Oy Vey', on your way to their command center."
-- Advertisement for "Ethnic Cleansing: The Game"
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- The next time your kids are playing video games, check
out the action. They may be buying into the new video game racism that
William Pierce is peddling.
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- Pierce heads up the National Alliance, one of the premier
neo-nazi hate groups in the country. His infamous book, "The Turner
Diaries," stands as a primer for the militia crowd and for
white-supremacist
wannabes. It was reportedly one of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's
favorite reads.
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- When it comes to the battle for the hearts, minds,
dollars
and the recruitment of America's youth, right wing hate groups have started
to put together a powerful one-two punch of hate music and racist video
games.
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- Recently, Resistance Records, the biggest name in hate
music stepped into the video game market big-time. And it chose Martin
Luther King Day to unveil its new advertising campaign for its new video,
"Ethnic Cleansing."
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- "Hate groups are manipulating available technology
to create violently racist and anti-Semitic versions of popular video
games,"
says a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The object of
this CD-ROM-based computer game, which sells for $14.98, "is to kill
'sub-humans' -- i.e. blacks and Latinos -- and their 'masters,' the Jews,
who are portrayed as the personification of evil."
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- The ADL report, "Racist Groups Using Computer Gaming
to Promote Violence Against Blacks, Latinos and Jews," claims that
"Ethnic Cleansing" is "patterned after popular mainstream
video games such as 'Quake and Doom' [and] turns racially motivated
violence
in[to] 'entertainment.'"
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- Action-packed hate
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- The "premise of 'Ethnic Cleansing' is that a city
-- clearly New York -- has been destroyed by gangs of 'sub-humans'
controlled
by Jews who are lead by the 'end boss' lurking in the subterranean 'Lair
of the Beast,'" the report states. "Plans for world domination
are seen in the subway, along with a map of 'problem' areas in the United
States and a sign reading 'Diversity, It's Good for Jews.'"
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- "The player (who can choose to dress in KKK robes
or as a Skinhead) roams the streets and subways murdering 'predatory
sub-humans'
and their Jewish 'masters' thereby 'saving' the white world. During the
game monkey and ape sounds are heard when blacks are killed, poncho-wearing
Latinos say 'I'll take a siesta now!' or 'Ay carumba!' while 'Oy vey!'
rings out when Jewish characters are killed."
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- The game uses a "high level of background
detail"
to display National Alliance signs and posters which "appear
throughout
while racist rock blares on the soundtrack."
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- "At the end, the player confronts the 'end boss,'
a rocket launcher-wielding Ariel Sharon, who hurls insults such as: 'Oy
vey! Can you shoot no better than that?'; 'We have destroyed your
culture!';
and 'We silenced Henry Ford.' When Sharon dies, he coughs out 'Filthy White
dog, you have destroyed thousands of years of planning.'"
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- William Pierce is featured in a video clip in the game
talking about the upcoming white revolution: "From the very beginning
we have been a multimedia organization, interested in using communication,
using every medium that we can to reach the public effectively," said
Pierce. Since its debut, several thousand copies of the game have been
sold. Somehow Pierce knows that 90 percent of the buyers were white teenage
boys.
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- Resistance Records says that "Ethnic Cleansing"
will be the first in a series of company-produced video games. Next up
is a game based on Pierce's infamous novel called, "Turner Diaries:
The Game."
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- There are numerous other racist games available on the
Internet. Wired.com reported that Matt Hale, the head of the white
supremacist
World Church of the Creator, acknowledged that his group offers several
free racist games on its website including, "Aryan 3,"
"Shoot
the Blacks," "NSDoom" (NS is short for National Socialist),
and "WPDoom" (WP stands for White Power), which are all
downloadable.
Hale said, "The younger the better. We mean to utilize whatever means
we can to achieve our goals and bring new faces to our church."
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- Neo-nazi Gary (Gerhard) Lauck, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
(a.k.a. the "Farmbelt Fuehrer"), also offers free video games
at his website. Under the heading of "Nazi Computer-Spiele" or
"Nazi Computer Games" Lauck promotes "SA Mann," a
spin-off
of PacMan, and "concentration camp rat hunt" where the player
shoots Jewish "rats" inside the Auschwitz death camp. Lauck told
Wired that the games were downloaded over 12,000 times in January.
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- Resistance reigns supreme
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- Resistance Records, the white-supremacist music
distribution
giant is leading the way in the video game market. Founded in 1993 by
George
Burdi, a 23-year-old neo-Nazi skinhead, the company, which labored in the
neo-nazi underground subculture for a few years, grew into the largest
distributor of skinhead music in the United States. After a series of
business
setbacks, Willis A. Carto, the well-known anti-Semitic leader of Liberty
Lobby and publisher of "The Spotlight," a weekly right-wing
newspaper,
and his partner, Todd Blodgett came on the scene in 1998 and they revived
the company's fortunes.
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- The Carto/Blodgett partnership, however, didn't last
long. William Pierce, a longtime Carto rival, moved in on the action in
1999 and took control of the company. According to the ADL's report
"Deafening
Hate: The Revival of Resistance Records," Pierce himself is not a
devotee of hate rock, but he saw a terrific organizing opportunity and
seized it. Seized it is the operand phrase here. After a mid-Summer
disagreement
with Blodgett, Pierce took "control of Resistance and relocated
operations
to his National Alliance headquarters outside Hillsboro, West
Virginia."
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- Blodgett eventually settled with Pierce and moved on
while Pierce set about reviving the company's hegemony over the hate music
industry. By late 1999, Resistance Records purchased a Swedish competitor,
Nordland Records, which doubled its inventory to include an estimated 250
different titles and nearly 80,000 CDs, and "making Resistance the
only North American company currently carrying certain CD
titles."
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- Resistance Records publishes the quarterly
"Resistance"
magazine; has a catalogue of books including Adolph Hitler's "Mein
Kampf," Homer's "The Odyssey" and "The Illiad,"
and "Blood Ritual: Investigation into Jewish Ritual Murder
Cases";
distributes music and Nazi military videos; carries a line of clothing,
jewelry, and pins; and sells bumper stickers. You can also hear William
Pierce's (http://www.natall.com/radio
) broadcasts.
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- Although the company's financial future is unclear, the
ADL report acknowledges that Resistance Records "appears to be
performing
modestly well, relative to the dozens of small, independent music labels
operating in the United States." Do the math: CDs listed on the
Resistance
Records Web site sell for $14.88-$15.88. The company, like other record
companies, "spends only a few dollars each to produce and ship the
CDs, plus a small fraction in band royalties."
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- Wacko, marginalized white supremacist? Wacko and savvy
businessman? Whatever your vision of William Pierce may be, consider this:
Resistance Record's new video line could be another pot of gold helping
his organizations spread the word.
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