The poster asserts that nonwhites are the product of sexual relations between Eve and Satan, who begat Cain, ``a hybrid, mongrel, bastard and soul-less child.''

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White Supremacists Get Cash Boost

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) - Two former California businessmen are pouring dollars into the often cash-strapped white supremacist movement, allowing it to reach out to thousands of households in northern Idaho. Vincent Bertollini and Carl Story, who grew wealthy in California's computer industry, financed the mailing of racist and anti-Semitic posters and videos to some 3,000 homes this fall. Human-rights activists are alarmed at the infusion of money into the movement and say they are scrambling to counter the mailings.

Bertollini and Story have adamantly refused interviews.

``Our message speaks for itself,'' Bertollini wrote in an e-mail response to an interview request. ``We do not grant interviews.''

Their message is a stew of quasi-biblical prose that attacks Jews and contends that ``Jesus said they were murderers and liars from the beginning.''

Calling themselves The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, the two men paid to create and mail the glossy, 6-foot-long by 3-foot-wide poster with colorful artwork that purports to show ``The Adamic Race Pure Blood Seedline.''

The poster asserts that nonwhites are the product of sexual relations between Eve and Satan, who begat Cain, ``a hybrid, mongrel, bastard and soul-less child.''

It is the posters' quality as much as their message that alarms human rights groups. According to Bertollini, the posters cost $9.45 each to print and mail. By comparison, Kinko's in Spokane charges 80 cents a piece for 3,000 copies of a four-page color brochure.

``The difference is they've got money,'' said Bill Wassmuth, director of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment. ``That enables them to extend their message on a broader range.''

The Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Ala., which monitors hate groups across the country, expressed surprise at the quality and sophistication of the mailings. The center had never heard of the two men, said researcher Mark Potok.

``The problem of the white supremacist movement for decades has been financing,'' Potok said. It took Timothy McVeigh half a year to raise the $10,000 to buy the materials for the Oklahoma City bomb, he said.

The emergence of Bertollini and Story, and their money, is ``terribly important,'' Potok said.

The Remnant Messenger also paid for the recent production of a video mailed to Sandpoint homes showing Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations, explaining his views.

Additionally, Aryan Nations handed out copies of Remnant Messenger's poster at its parade through downtown Coeur d'Alene last summer and sent thousands more copies to people on its mailing list.

Northern Idaho has long been hospitable to white supremacist groups, with Aryan Nations headquartered in Hayden and the anti-government Militia of Montana based in Noxon, Mont., just across the border from Sandpoint. It counts several active congregations of Christian Identity, a white supremacist religion that considers white people the true Israelites and superior to Jews and nonwhites.

The region was also home to Randy Weaver, the white separatist whose wife and 14-year-old son were killed in an 11-day standoff with the FBI at Weaver's remote cabin in Ruby Ridge in 1992.

Bertollini, 59, and Story, 65, friends for 30 years, moved to Sandpoint in 1995. Despite their reluctance to speak with reporters, the two men have hardly kept low profiles in this lakeside tourist town of 5,200 people. They live in large homes in posh neighborhoods and are known to dine out often, frequently leaving $100 tips for waitresses.

Public records show Bertollini has performed at least one wedding in Bonner County as a lay minister for the Remnant Messenger.

The Spokesman-Review newspaper of Spokane, which has reported extensively on the two men's activities, says they used engineering and marketing skills to help build two California computer chip companies - I.I. Industries of Cupertino, since absorbed by other firms, and Silicon Valley Group -into multimillion-dollar concerns. They formed The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger in 1990.

Gretchen Albrecht-Hellar, leader of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force, said she was alarmed by the recent poster mailing and worried that the concentration of white supremacists in Idaho was serving as a magnet for others of like minds.

The task force charges just $1 for lifetime dues and cannot compete with the money behind Remnant Messenger, she said.

The Rev. Paul Graves, a Sandpoint city councilman, is organizing a January protest by area ministers.

``They're a flat-out distortion of scriptural record,'' Graves said of the posters. ``They totally distort Christianity.''

Bertollini was a surprise visitor at a recent meeting rally called by Sandpoint residents disturbed by the mailings. The only person in the crowd wearing a suit and tie, Bertollini arrived in the company of Richard Butler.

A Spokesman-Review reporter was covering the meeting and recorded the exchange with the press-shy Bertollini.

``Is there anything in our literature that says anything about hate?'' Bertollini asked the crowd. ``No. It just says we white people are different.

``Our intent is to bring truth to a world that believes a lie. It's a burden, a burden on my heart, and it's Carl Story's burden, too.''

Nonwhites ``have a special place on this planet,'' but white people ``are caretakers of the world,'' he told the reporter. ``Don't you see that? Isn't that simple? Isn't it obvious?'' 

-- Philip Henika (zowie@telis.org), January 02, 1999

Answers

Let us consider the beginning.

Imagine endless empty space that goes on into infinity non-existence no awareness EVIL.

If we consider the old saying life finds away. GOD came into being by his own will to be, the awareness. Born out of the non-existence the EVIL. Imagine an awareness hovering in endless space or Darkness as HE would see it. After a time his thoughts become collective and he begins to think. He is aware of himself and begins to wonder if there were another. After searching for countless billions of years, the loneliness consumes him into obsession with finding another. But there is no other but him. He splits into two separate entities (schizoid only for real) that are equal and opposite in nature. Light - that which creates (Life - the future). Darkness (SHE : Spirit that inhabits the Darkness- The past) - Destroys makes desolate. Each has the same goal to end the loneliness only they have diametrically opposite positions on how to go about it. Chaos vs. Order, Light vs. Darkness, Life vs. Death, Existence vs. non-existence or Good vs. Evil. GOD is the awareness of being before the Darkness. We stand between the Darkness and the Light. Our true purpose is to Be. For that is the will of GOD - to be because HE is. Ja' El they said. When GOD comes again if he comes into Darkness the Earth will be cleansed with the fire of GOD (His true form). If GOD comes into the Light he will make the Earth a new with the Tree and the River of Life. All things are possible if we believe. The power of the Holy Spirit is promised to us by Jesus Christ.

That is why no one has seen GOD because he became separate from himself. The two have to be united into their new form. They want to come and live us, their children and the Angles of Light and Darkness. We are the key to setting them Free from the loneliness forever. Revelation chap 17 Behold the Beast that was (EVIL or non-existence reined in the beginning there was no awareness) and is not (Evil- the tendency towards non-existence cannot exist in pure form) and yet is (If we lose our sense of awareness the EVIL will return and nothing will exist)

The River of Life is man's final salvation. The fruit of Tree of Life is for the Fallen Angles Consummation, Turn from Darkness back to the awareness of GOD. The Leaves are for the Healing of the Nations. The sword of Power blocks our way to it and blinds us from The one who was (The True GOD, the past) The one who is (Man the children of GOD, the present) The one who will be (Christ - the son of man, the future). We will become like the others and they will become like us. The evolution.

The way is through Awareness - GOD's will to be. Understanding is Knowing the Truth Understanding is Accepting the Truth The Truth leads to Understanding which leads to Awareness which strengthens our will to Be. The Truth is put before us but, they do everything they can to keep us from Understanding it.

We have to show them that we are not children anymore. That we have learned to Understand the Truth. And the Truth shall set us all Free. They are counting on us and we can't let them down. But it is ultimately up to them to change - Free will.

Mystery? Who are you? Man who stands between the Darkness and the Light. What do you want? Freedom Why are you here? To bring order to chaos. Where are you going? The Future

The End of Time - The New Beginning

-- Darian Borne (shadows@vmbc.net), December 01, 2000.


Friends,

If you wish to converse with Mr. Borne, please go to the thread he started (and to which I responded). It is called, "I'm looking for intelligent opinions not blind lashings Thank you." He posted the same message to start that thread. Please do not respond to him here.

SN

-- (free@long.last), December 02, 2000.


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