2010-01-08 Omaha: FBI Claim Meth Dealer Skin Scum is Creator

[StephenMasten (Prison)]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100108/NEWS01/701089917


Friday January 8, 2010

Meth group busted; 'Skin' got greedy
By Juan Perez Jr.
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Call me "Skin," Jason Hawthorne said as he introduced himself in 2006 to an undercover agent at a Ralston sports bar.

Friends knew him by no other name.

He boasted about white power, showed off his white supremacist-themed tattoos and told the federal agent about his membership in what he called the Church of the Creator, a loose-knit, white-separatist organization.

As the agent discovered over the next three years, the 36-year-old Hawthorne, who had a shaved head and a hulking frame, hoped to create havoc. He wanted to make money running guns and meth, and he wanted the help of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' agent.

New details, culled from court documents and authorities, provide a deeper look into what feds called Operation Red Swastika — an undercover operation that authorities say disrupted a local methamphetamine and marijuana ring, led to the seizures of weapons and drugs and ended with federal indictments against Hawthorne and six cohorts from Omaha and Council Bluffs.

Some experts say the drug ring is part of a growing and disturbing trend: increased activity from small groups of white supremacists who thrive on criminal enterprise.

On Thursday, Hawthorne sat before a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Omaha and pleaded guilty to seven drug, conspiracy and weapons charges. It had been 11 months since federal agents and police SWAT teams arrested him outside a La Vista storage facility.

Hawthorne was the central figure in the investigation and the second defendant to plead guilty. Prosecutors said two more people are expected to plead guilty today. The remaining suspect is scheduled to face trial in 11 days.

Experts say such white supremacist groups forge bonds in prison, where inmates spread race-based ideologies and link with like-minded peers. When inmate members are released, they get involved in the drug and weapons trades, thefts and robberies.

"Ultimately, they are criminals," said a national investigator for the Anti-Defamation League, who requested anonymity to protect his ability to examine extremist activity.

Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's branch that investigates hate groups, said white supremacist criminals have been associated with identity theft, counterfeiting and violent crime.

"But methamphetamine production has come to be almost entirely dominated by white supremacists and their fellow travelers, which is a remarkable thing," Potok said. "It's very clear that very many ideologically driven white supremacists are, in fact, engaged in criminal enterprises."

Potok called supremacists' politics an "overlay" of their moneymaking motives.

"When it comes to business, they're happy to deal with minorities if they feel like that's going to make them money."

One large, well-organized white supremacist ring — the Aryan Circle — got its start in the Texas prison system during the 1980s. It claims more than 1,000 members spread throughout other states' prisons and ties to organized crime in the outside world.

Hawthorne's group "is an embryonic form" compared with the Aryan Circle, the Anti-Defamation League investigator said, but it shared a similar path from prison to the streets.

Local and national authorities say they've seen an uptick in criminal enterprises with links to white supremacist groups.

"I think the past year has been a record year," said Alan Potash, the director of the Anti-Defamation League's Plains States region.

[Rev.WillWilliams]

Who authorized this thug's "membership" in the so-called "Church of the Creator?" TA-TA-DA?

A poisonous "story"written by Juan Perez from Jewish sources, the ADL and SPLC. Lovely! This scumbag Hawthorne attaches himself, somehow, "allegedly," to the "Church of the Creator" through his Skinhead/prison connections: "White supremacists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, Aryan Nation members or any organization to which Hawthorne allegedly was linked."

All the more reason for the Creativity Alliance to break all ties with criminal "Skinhead" organizations and prisoners, except in exceptional cases. Send them all to "the Creativity Movement" where they belong.

How could anyone with connections with Aryan Nations, which is merely the prison outreach of the late Pastor Butler's Church of Jesus Christ Christian, claim to be a Creator? A meth dealer, no less.

Perhaps a CA statement repudiating any claimed connection to Creativity from this Hawthorne character would be in order?

[Lupul Daciei]

What a scumbag impostor.

[Albert]

I notice an increasing Jewish trend to defame and slander White Racial Loyalist groups. We need to reaffirm that we are the people that have standards, that believe in Law and order, civilised and White values. There is a big element of the jew game of "accuse the accuser here too". Like the Jew always squeals in pain as he hits you. Jews have always been and will always be the brains behind organised crime, the mafia, terrorism, drug dealing, people trafficking and gun smuggling.

These things will only end with either an Islamised criminal slave world or a Jew free world as envisioned by the Creativity Religion.

[Maritz]

"But methamphetamine production has come to be almost entirely dominated by white supremacists and their fellow travelers, which is a remarkable thing," Potok said.

What a lot of BS - methamphetamine production is dominated by the nigerian muds ... if it was dominated by white supremacists they would have ruled the world by now

"The number of hate crimes reported in the United States reached a seven-year high in 2008, according to FBI statistics."

The reason for this is that races are forced into a "One World Mentality", whereas Nature decrees that each race keeps to itself. The so-called "hate crimes" will increase as we move closer and closer to the "One World", eventually leading to all-out race war, which I believe will errupt in Europe