Tom Metzger

thumb|alt=Black and white closeup photo of Metzger|Metzger in 1980 Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and Klansman. He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-Nazi organization, in 1983. He was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Quotes Undated Jews are supreme masters of manipulation and deceit. They run and distort our foreign policy because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable as grifters. Commentary on his website, quoted by SPLC Each WAR associate serves the idea that what’s good for the White European Race is the highest virtue. Whatever is bad for the White European Race is the ultimate Evil. Commentary on his website, quoted by SPLC 1980s I'm just pro-white. The Klan is like a lodge, with passwords, secret signs and robes. It's a bit inhibiting if you're looking to reach mass appeal, which I am. WAR doesn't have ceremonies where we swear on blood, but we're dead serious about our convictions. Interview with Christine Cafarella, 1987. Cafarella, Christine (November 1987). "WAR in Orange County". Orange Coast. Vol. 13, no. 11. Irvine. pp. 106–111. We all have a philosophy we'd like to see flower and become part of this country's politics. And anyone who gets in our way is an enemy and it doesn't matter what color he is. Interview with Christine Cafarella, 1987. You have reached WAR Hotline. White Aryan Resistance. You ask: What is WAR? We are an openly white-racist movement. Skinheads, we welcome you into our ranks; the federal government is the number one enemy of our race. When was the last time you heard a politician speaking out in favor of white people? ... You say the government is too big; we can't organize. Well, by God, the SS did it in Germany, and if they did it in Germany in the thirties, we can do it right here in the streets of America. We need to cleanse this nation of all nonwhite mud-races for the survival of our own people and the generations of our children. 1988 hotline for WAR, quoted in Atkins 2011, p. 55 The right wing is dead. The Marxists are dead. It's a white revolution. 1989 speech at the white power concert, "Aryan Woodstock", quoted by SPLC I'm white, strong and broke and I ain't no damn conservative. The old ways are over. It's open season on niggers, kikes, cops and capitalists—kill 'em all and let the devil sort them out. in WAR editorial, quoted in Cafarella piece and Millennium Rage by Philip Lamy 1990s We will put blood on the streets like you’ve never seen. And advocate more violence than both world wars put together. 1990 WAR telephone message, quoted by SPLC I spend a lot of time talking with reporters. The one question they always ask is if some black or some Jewish kid years ago beat me up. That is not how I became the way I am today.  1996, quoted in Elinor Langer, A Hundred Little Hitlers, p. 99 Separatism is a state of mind, whose time has come. The super-state is the enemy of racial and cultural self-determination. It is also the extreme enemy of man’s environment. That is enough reason for us. "What We Believe As White Racists", included in the Encyclopedia of White Power, p. 538 2000s They call me a right-winger, which is an insult. I'm simply a racist and a separatist. Quoted by "Helpful Hints for Hate Haters", June 2001, Wired My total concern is with the survival of the white European people in North America. 2002 MSNBC interview, quoted by SPLC I think I'm more serious than most of the Nazis I've met. I'm a pan-Aryanist, I believe in white people all over the world sticking together. Interview with Louis Theroux, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 No, I hate the people that cause me to hate. They kill my friends, they imprison them for life. They give them many more years than they do the common black negro. They rape and torture our people. Interview with Louis Theroux, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 METZGER: I want them all out of here. I don't want to hang one at a time. Are you kidding? That's too slow. We want them all out, is what-THEROUX: Do you really?METZGER: Of course. We don't need them. They're a pain. They drag us down. Interview with Louis Theroux, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 I’ve always said I wouldn’t leave California because this is going to be the start of the second American Civil War, right here in California. Speech at a skinhead rally, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 A lot of the public doesn’t mean a damn to us. Do you realize we’re not trying to recruit the general public? What would we do with them if we had them? They sit on their ass watching television 20 hours a day. They’re feeding their mouth full of crap. All they want to do is go out and buy, buy, buy. What good would they be to us? We’re talking about revolutionary activity. We want the leaders out there in the public, but not the public. We’re trying to reach those people out there that really know what’s cooking. Interview with Louis Theroux, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 Worse is better, to bring it to a head. Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. One of the two ways is the only thing that's going to solve this problem. Quoted in "White Racist Endorses Bustamante in California Recall", CNSNews, September 8, 2003 The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about. Speaking on Cruz Bustamante, quoted in "White Racist Endorses Bustamante in California Recall", CNSNews, September 8, 2003 We have to infiltrate! Infiltrate the military! Infiltrate your local governments! Infiltrate your school board! Infiltrate law enforcement! 2004 speech to skinheads at a hate-rock festival, quoted by SPLC If I died tomorrow, I'd be pretty well satisfied. I knew I wasn't going to be the super leader to lead the white race out of oppression. The idea of revolution is that you toss gas all over the ground and somebody comes along, chucks a cigarette and—boom—revolution. I tossed a lot of gas. "Tom Metzger Sings Karaoke" by Didier Diels, November 3, 2004, San Diego CityBeat 2020s WORSE IS BETTER FOR NOW. Twitter, June 6, 2020 If voting would change things the ruling class would make it illegal!!!! Twitter, August 16, 2020 You deserve whatever you permit. Twitter, August 18, 2020 Attributed Nothing changes without blood flowing. Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384 Judaism is a conspiracy against all races. Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384 I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger. Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384 We care little about what the average citizen thinks. Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384 As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that’s wrong with our present masters. Attributed to him in American Villains, Volume 2, 2008, p. 384 Quotes about Metzger For many years, Tom Metzger has positioned himself as the lowest common denominator of American racism. Jeffrey Kaplan, the Encyclopedia of White Power, p. 203 I could only assume that for Tom, karaoke sometimes took precedence over racism. Louis Theroux, Louis and the Nazis, 2003 External links Category:1938 births Category:2020 deaths Category:Conspiracy theorists Category:Neo-Nazis Category:White supremacists