2021-06-21 N. Carolina: How Creativity Influenced Modern Extremism

[Rev.Cambeul]

The following is a badly researched load of typical garbage labelled as journalism these days. It doesn't only get our church's founder, Bernhardt Klassen's name wrong, but it relies on rumour mongering and insinuation about older and current Creators, and is an insult to the good people of Otto, North Carolina.

All photos published on the original article were taken from this website: CreativityAlliance.com

Note: Nobody was murdered or otherwise died on the Church's NC property. It was Ben Klassen himself that was forced to call the local police on violent anti-White trespassers drive-by shootings and plans to blow up church buildings killing everybody. However, Creators do believe that the local police were in league with violent anti-White student activists of those times, and generally intolerant, hateful Christians driven by rumour and their love of the Jew and the Nigger. The proof of that is in the amount of times the local sheriff and attorney general took an active legal stance against the church, when they should have acted to protect the people, property and the rights of church members. It was they that set the tone for today's Creators understanding that we are outlaws without legal protection in a land that wishes us dead. Therefore we Creators are our own Police, Judge and Jury - and if need be, Executioner. Cross us and you will meet Creator Justice. ~ @Cailen.

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Hate in The Hills: How Benjamin Klassen and the Church of The Creator Influenced Modern Extremism (Pt. 1)

William T Ross (Anti-White POS) | 21 June 2021

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Otto, North Carolina has welcomed travelers seeking a rural escape into the Smokey mountains for generations. Produce stands and shops for homemade crafts dot the side of Highway 441 (23) during the summer as it snakes through the unincorporated community and north towards Rocky Top, Tennessee.

Primarily agricultural, Otto also depends partly on the seasonal economy of vacationers and outdoor-enthusiasts coming north from Atlanta, Greenville or Charlotte.

Each year, thousands pass through while en route to the Smokies, the large casinos of the nearby Eastern Cherokee Reservation, or the amusements of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. These destinations represent quintessential getaways for the modern, Southern family hoping to escape the summer heat and reconnect with the mountains.

While locals are generally welcoming and hospitable to passersby, those who linger too long in Otto may find themselves suspect, and for good reason; Not all visitors have come in peace. Stories of high-profile extremists and fugitives escaping along 441 and stopping to hide in the area, such as the 1996 "Olympic Bomber" Eric Rudolph, are still fresh in the minds of local residents.

Least notorious, but by far the most dangerous of these intruders, white-supremacist Benjamin Klassen and his following, known as the Church of The Creator (COTC), came to Otto in 1982 and stayed until 1993. In the group's own newsletter Racial Loyalty, Klassen described the large parcel of land bought in Otto as a new home for the church.

"We've built a personal residence," read the 1982 newsletter, "a three-story church, a small warehouse and school for gifted boys."

Previously a Florida state legislator, state chairman of the George Wallace 1968 Campaign, and the patent-holder to several home appliances, Klassen was a known racist who published hateful texts throughout the 1970's. These texts laid the foundations for his newfound group and for many organizations, both contemporary and modern, built upon anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity, and race wars.

Within slightly over a decade, the group would go on to terrorize their new neighbors with violence, aggression and threatening behavior which still haunts those who lived through it. Worse still, the impact of the COTC would spread much further than Appalachia.

Among many others, Klassen's publications of The White Man's Bible and RAHOWA — Nature's Eternal Religion became the core tenets of what is now called the Creativity Movement, as well as many other right-wing, white supremacist organizations.

Most of the texts list specific calls to action for the beginning of a "racial holy war" or "Rahowa". This is similar to the call seen in modern groups such as the Atomwaffen neo-nazi organization or some sections of the "Booglaoo" movement for accelerationist actions. Comparable to the disgusting influence of William Pierce's The Turner Diaries, Klassen's books spewed hatred in a way that has ignited many to commit acts of violence against marginalized communities from their publication to today.

According to Appalachian State University professor and veteran extremism researcher Dr. Nancy Love P.hd, Klassen's time in Otto was extremely influential upon other extremist organizations and the current trajectory of white supremacy in the US due to the writings he published while there.

"The concept of Ra-Ho-Wa, is short for "racial-holy-war", she said. "If you want to think about the continuing legacy of the COTC up into the present day, it was one of the rhetorical sucesses of Klassen's teachings. It became a battle cry for other white nationalist movements."

Much of Klassen's ideas formed in his longer works were later boiled down into what was called The Little White Book. Dr. Love says that it includes mantras and sets of rules for "creators" in the form of Klassen's fundamental beliefs.

"His fundamental beliefs are in the Little White Book." Dr. Love said. "There's a little red book with the sayings of Chairman Mao, there was a little green book with the sayings of Muammar Gaddafi, and Klassen had this little white book which believers were expected to carry as devotions said daily."

Hate in The Hills: How Benjamin Klassen and the Church of The Creator Influenced Modern Extremism (Pt. 2)

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In 1982, the residents of rural Otto, North Carolina were greeted with strange and threatening new neighbors: Benjamin Klassen and the Church of The Creator (COTC). What did they do about it?

Purchasing a roughly 30 acre plot off Swiss Village Rd including several buildings and pasture for livestock, Klassen and his following quickly built a reputation for odd, disturbing behavior.

John, "Puddin" Grassley is the rancher whose family farm borders the Klassen land to the south. Now retired, he remembers strange happenings on the property at the time.

"They'd shoot off machine guns late at night" Grassley said. "All kinds of automatic fire and sometimes explosions. They'd do some kind of pagan shit — dancing around fires with masks and feathers."

Though Grassley (who refused to be recorded) shared memories of these events with a slight smile, most of the neighbors surrounding the former Klassen compound declined when asked to share about what happened there in the 1980s.

One elderly Otto resident, who did not provide his name, reflected the general sentiment of those who still live in the vicinity of Klassen's past compound.

"You mean them devil-worshippers?" the neighbor asked. "I remember them."

Politely going back inside and refusing to be interviewed after this initial greeting, this gentleman reflected the general attitude of those with personal history and experience with Klassen and the Creators.

Known for violence and aggressive behavior, a visit from a current "Creator" or Klassen sympathizer over speaking to the press is a very real fear. Most nearby residents, including the current owner of what used to be the COTC compound, refused to comment. One neighbor who spoke with me, but wished to be kept anonymous due to fears of possible retribution, described a threatening presence from the group years ago.

"About a year after they moved on to the place," the property's owner said. "We started catching some of the younger ones sneaking around the house at night, coming up to the windows and peering in. From then on it only got worse till' they left."

Things did get worse. Throughout the 1980s, the Macon Co. Sheriff's Department was called out to the property on numerous occasions for violent occurrences. Beyond commonly showing offensive, obnoxious behavior and displays towards their neighbors, numerous people were attacked and some even allegedly killed on the property by the so-called "Creators."

After nearly a decade of these kinds of aggressions and tensions between Ottonians and the COTC, Klassen decided to leave Otto. Embroiled in a legal battle over a religious tax exemption and facing the loss of his assets in court to several lawsuits filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, he sold almost all of his property in North Carolina to fellow white supremacist and head of the National Socialist Alliance, William Pierce. In August of 1993, Klassen committed suicide by taking large amounts of sleeping pills. Though the COTC would unfortunately continue on under new leadership in Illinois after Klassen's death, the group's history in Otto largely came to an end.

Despite these crimes and allegations, how Klassen and the compound remained fairly unmolested by law enforcement or vigilantes for years on end remains a mystery. As is common with Appalachian history, local gossip and off-the-record recollections far outweigh police reports and investigative articles. Beyond threats of retribution from the COTC, why did locals not report more to the police?

Reverend Jonathan Stepp, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in nearby Franklin, N.C., explains how unique factors of Appalachian culture and history, such as an innate reverence of privacy and independence, may have inadvertently aided Klassen and the COTC.

"I think one of the prevalent cultural attitudes in the southern Appalachian mountains," said Stepp, "is one of 'I'll mind my business if you mind your business — I'll take care of me and mine and you take care of you and yours.'"

"Think back to the works of Horace Kephart— Our Southern Highlanders, written 100 years ago. He describes people living up in their holler — they don't even know the people on the other side of the mountain from them. Instead, they're just zeroed in on their family, their immediate relatives, the people in that space. I just see that as something that's very much built into the culture here."

The former COTC compound has long been repurposed as an outdoor rehabilitation center under unrelated ownership, but Klassen's body remains buried in Otto within the small section of the original parcel owned by his family. Dozens of people associated with the current Creativity Movement, National Socialist Movement as well as unaffiliated white supremacists travel to Otto each year to pay homage to Klassen and stir up controversy. Occasional volunteers attempt upkeep on the gravesite and post about it proudly on extremist message boards, but it typically appears overgrown and abandoned.

The remaining neighbors seem to want to forget that the dark chapter of history involved here, but their insights could be incredibly valuable. Many small towns similar to Otto are facing an equally problematic situation with unwelcome newcomers and could take lessons from the history of this community. When they are ready to share, many could surely find value in their stories.

Watch the full interview of Rev. Stepp of All Saints for more information on the cultural history of the region and how the COTC impacted Macon County.

Warning: Video Contains a Load of Nigger Lovin' Tripe

[Rev.FrankSmith]

Hail our leader.  We will denounce the scum fearlessly as he did.