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Strom had previously taken a leave of absence from National Vanguard stating that he has "made mistakes, sometimes serious ones."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2774119&page=1 | title = White Supremacist Busted on Child-Porn Charge | author = Marcus Baram | publisher = ABC News | date = ] | accessdate = 2007-01-06 }}</ref> Strom had previously taken a leave of absence from National Vanguard stating that he has "made mistakes, sometimes serious ones."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2774119&page=1 | title = White Supremacist Busted on Child-Porn Charge | author = Marcus Baram | publisher = ABC News | date = ] | accessdate = 2007-01-06 }}</ref>Strom also signed a notarized document] agreeing to ongoing counseling sessions regarding "concerns relating to pedophilia."


==Biography== ==Biography==

Revision as of 20:24, 17 July 2007

Kevin Alfred Strom

Kevin Alfred Strom (born 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska) is the former Managing Director of National Vanguard, a Charlottesville, Virginia based organization that has been described as racist, white separatist, homophobic, pedophile and a Neo-Nazi hate group. Strom resigned from National Vanguard in July, 2006. National Vanguard reportedly disbanded on March 14, 2007, and its website has been dormant since that time.

Strom currently faces charges of possessing child pornography and of seeking to coerce a 10-year-old sexually.

Criminal charges

On January 4, 2007, Strom was arrested in Greene County, Virginia on charges of possession of child pornography and witness tampering. The Grand Jury later added the charges of receving child pornography and of seeking to coerce a 10-year-old sexually. On June 12 2007 Strom pleaded not guilty to the new charges.

Strom had previously taken a leave of absence from National Vanguard stating that he has "made mistakes, sometimes serious ones."Strom also signed a notarized documentFile:Contract 0081.jpg agreeing to ongoing counseling sessions regarding "concerns relating to pedophilia."

Biography

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Elisha Strom

Kevin Alfred Strom was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1956.

Strom's marriage to his first wife, Kirsten Helene Kaiser, produced three children. Since their marriage ended, Kaiser has spoken out about her life with Strom in several interviews. She has also written a book on her experiences with Strom and the National Alliance entitled The Bondage of Self (ISBN 0-9720705-5-9). Kaiser claimed that Strom was an extremely controlling husband who forced her to abstain from meat, forbade her to wear blue jeans, and predetermined her favorite music, Mozart. She has since disavowed the racist beliefs she held while married to Strom and has summarized their years together: "Hundreds of women like me have gotten hooked up with some man from a racist group who controls their lives. I want them to know that if I can escape and regain my soul, they can too."

Strom left his second wife, Elisha Strom, last year, after she tried to prevent him from acting on his pedophiliac urges.

Activist History

In 1982, Kevin Alfred Strom became a member of the National Alliance, a group that has been described as anti-Semitic, racist, and neo-Nazi. In 1991, he founded and frequently delivered the American Dissident Voices shortwave and Internet radio broadcasts. In 1995, he founded and edited Free Speech magazine, published by the Alliance as an adjunct to the radio program. In early 2002, a few months before his death from cancer on July 23, the Alliance's founder, William Luther Pierce, named Strom editor of National Vanguard magazine and Media Director for the Alliance. Pierce also named Strom editor of the Alliance's monthly Bulletin.

During the weekend of April 16-17, 2005, Strom and several others were expelled from the National Alliance because of a dispute with the Alliance leadership. The expelled former Alliance members, led by Strom, promptly formed their own organization which they called National Vanguard. As he previously had done for the National Alliance, Strom again delivered weekly Internet radio broadcasts which he also called American Dissident Voices for National Vanguard, but they were often 1-3 weeks late. These broadcasts effectively ceased with his departure.

Strom was also briefly the managing editor of The Truth at Last newspaper during 2005. Several sources have described this tabloid as anti-Semitic and racist. Strom's boss at The Truth at Last, Edward R. Fields, is a former Grand Dragon of the New Order Knights of the KKK.

Associations

Strom was a close associate of University of Illinois Classics professor and racial-nationalist writer Revilo P. Oliver, who has been described as "one of America's most notorious fascists" and, according to B'nai Brith Canada, was "a long time proponent of antisemitism". Strom was chosen by the Oliver estate to be archivist and publisher of Oliver's papers when Oliver died in 1994. In 2002, Strom published the book The Jewish Strategy by Oliver.

Ideology

Strom is the author of what he calls the Maxim of Self-Determination: "Each people which considers itself to be a people should, to the maximum extent possible, live under its own government." As Strom writes, his Maxim of Self-Determination "means no Pakistani MPs. No Middle Eastern Mosques in London. No Jewish Lords. No Caribbean Blacks taking over whole city wards.", "no Chinese takeover of British Columbia and no Jewish control of the legal system.", "no Africans flooding into Rome anymore, and no more Gypsy gangs preying on White people."

Other

Strom is a former broadcast engineer and is of Norwegian descent.

He holds Amateur radio license WB4AIO.

It has been stated that Strom scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT college-entrance exam, though the date in which he attained that feat is uncertain; however, he has never attended a university and also has no college degree.

Between 1983 and 1991, a pirate radio station named "Voice of Tomorrow" operated on both shortwave and mediumwave frequencies. , broadcasting openly racist and Neo-Nazi material, presumably from the Lynchburg, Virginia area . According to Strom's ex-wife, Kirsten Kaiser, "Voice of Tomorrow" was operated by Strom himself.

References

  1. National Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report: Active Hate Groups in 2005
  2. Leadership Shakeup at Neo-Nazi National Alliance Leads to Formation Of New Group Anti-Defamation League. Press release, May 3, 2005
  3. National Vanguard Statement on Kevin Alfred Strom
  4. ABC News Article on Strom's Child Pornography Charges
  5. ^ "Supremacist pleads not guilty to felony counts". Charlottesville Daily Progress. 2007-06-17. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. Graff, Henry (2007-01-05). "Man Facing Pornography Charges". NBC 29. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. Marcus Baram (2007-01-04). "White Supremacist Busted on Child-Porn Charge". ABC News. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Finn, Scott (2003-05-07). "I feel these people raped my soul". The Charleston Gazette. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Inside the Alliance". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Winter 1999. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  10. "The Real 'Feminazi'". 40 to Watch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Fall 2003. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  11. Shelly, Jared (2006-01-26). "Anti-Semitic Material Pops Up in City, Suburbs". The Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Leadership Shakeup at Neo-Nazi National Alliance Leads to Formation Of New Group". Anti-Defamation League. 2005-05-03. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. Eskenazi, Joe (2003-04-18). "Free speech clashes with anti-Semitism in Santa Rosa". Jewish News Weekly. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. "Into the lists". Daily Telegraph. 2006-03-19. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. "Factsheet on The National Alliance". The Prejudice Institute. 2005-07-13. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Marketing Extremism". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Winter 2005. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  17. "2000 annual report: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". Stephen Roth Institute. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  18. Will, Michael (2000-11-18). "Racist newspaper condemns Kahn for Judaism, compares Barr to Jesus". Creative Loafing. Retrieved 2007-06-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. "Edward Fields". Extremism in America. Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  20. Hougan, Jim (Fall 1990). "The covert spectrum - pirate and secret broadcasting". Whole Earth Review. Retrieved 2007-06-24.

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