Neo-Nazi leader arrested on child porn charges

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Kevin Alfred Strom, a major American neo-Nazi leader for almost 20 years, was arrested by federal agents in Virginia Thursday night and charged with possession of child pornography and witness tampering.

Court records indicate federal agents found pornographic pictures had been on Strom's computer hard drive between October 2005 and last August. Strom was also charged with trying to intimidate an unnamed witness against him.

Strom, founder of the National Vanguard white supremacist group, took a "leave of absence" from his post as leader of that group last July 18, citing "health and family matters." In a statement at the time, Strom said he had "made mistakes, sometimes serious ones," during his life, but he gave no further hint of trouble.

Born in 1956, Strom had already joined the extreme-right John Birch Society before he finished high school. In the late 1970s, he became a follower of William Pierce, founder of the notorious National Alliance neo-Nazi group. In that role, he started a radio show, and became known as the group's second "intellectual," after Pierce, though he was attacked for an allegedly effeminate voice and manner. When Pierce died in 2002, Strom remained with the Alliance for a time, but broke away to form National Vanguard after a 2005 dispute with other Alliance leaders.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=230

[Burma Jones]

1. chalk up another RW hypocrite scalp.......

I guess there's a lot of pressure being the "intellectual" I sincerely wish him a pleasant time in the Correctional Facility, I am sure there will be more than a few folks ready to correct him......

[YDogg]

2. from your topic i thought we were about to pick up ...

another senate seat or house seat

:-)

[pretzel4gore]

3. he'll be able to attack liberal toleration from the inside!

using his own self, Strom will be able to prove how awful the liberal, live and let live philosophy is...and no 2nd chances for losers highlighted by someone who's now rape bait in jail! a brave stance held through thick and thicker by a true believer in heartless treatment for theose suspected of deviation! And on a pitiless charge like child poorn too! wow....pass the popcorn....

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. I am *depressed*. If you can't trust neo-Nazis anymore....

... who CAN you trust ?

[Judi Lynn]

5. How unbearably odd! You don't tend to see a lot of John Birch members in high school, do you?

He must have been such an odd child. He looks very little more than a tall, creepy child in the present.



It appears his voice hasn't matured, either. His obsession, whatever it really is, is somehow repellent! From the article:

Strom's interest in young girls was well known. While living at the Alliance's West Virginia compound in the 1990s, and later, living with his then-wife Kirsten Kaiser in Minnesota, he hosted a website with a huge section devoted to "feminine beauty." In practical terms, that meant he posted dozens of photographs of attractive, very young, white girls, many in bikinis. He was particularly fond of the then-child actress Brooke Shields, who he ran several photographs of astride a horse.

"The beauty of the women and girls of our race has inspired our greatest poets, artists, and writers throughout our history," Strom wrote on his site at the time. "{I}f anything is sacred, our girls and women are, and they must be protected from the degradation and degeneracy that is inherent in multiculturalism."

"The website had some National Socialist stuff, but it also had all these pictures of girls who were about 12," Kaiser, 44, told the Intelligence Report after learning of the arrest of Strom, whom she divorced in 1999 after having three children by him. "He used to talk about Vivaldi, too, saying the reason he was able to write such wonderful music was that he worked at an all-girls school {in Venice}Kevin also used to say that the only sport he was interested in was nymphet baseball, whatever that means. And he had all these paintings all over the house of water nymphs. He really liked that stuff."
(snip)

Somehow, I think he's a man Henry Hyde would like, shown here with his own puppet, during his years of youthful indescretion.



One of Strom's brilliant illustrations, taken from his website:



http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/08/105557.shtml

[Warpy]

6. Born with a major screw loose

and decided super patriotism would be something to hide behind so that he would never have to try to tighten it.

These guys always sexualize children because children can never challenge them. Women are scary and must be placed on a pedestal, away from the corruption of sex.

One would think that early identification of these badly damaged people followed by therapy might help them cope in the real world, but probably not.

[Taxloss]

7. Most Nazi organisations consider possession of child porn punishable by death.

I wonder if he'll make a principled stand to have that sentence applied.