ATF raids Tom Metzger's home.

[Starr]

WARSAW, Ind. (WANE) - NewsChannel 15 has confirmed that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms raided the Warsaw home of Tom Metzger on Thursday. Metzger founded the White Aryan Resistance, an organization considered to be a neo-nazi hate group.

The ATF has not released details of what agents were looking for, but it's known that Metzger was allowed to leave his home while the search was underway. He has not been arrested.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, Metzger has been a Grand Dragon of the KKK and a member of the John Birch Society. In 1990, an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million judgment against Metzger and his son for inciting the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant by neo-Nazi skinheads.

Metzger's web site currently has a link to the text of James von Brunn's book "Kill the Best Gentiles", which was written in an attempt to refute the existence of the Holocaust. On June 10, von Brunn opened fire inside the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. and killed a security guard.

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local_w...e_200906251619

[Azimuth]

This is an outrage.

[elbwgreez]

Of all people, Tom Metzger seems like a man who would be prepared for such a raid. He talks about it all the time on his radio show.

I wonder why the ATF? He claims to only have a couple guns.

Edit:

More information here:

It looks like this is connected to Dennis Mahon.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/140984

Federal authorities conducting raids in at least three states have arrested twin brothers with ties to white supremacist groups Thursday in connection with a mail bomb that injured three employees of the Scottsdale Office of Diversity and Dialogue in 2004.

Read the indictment (279K PDF)

'04 bombing linked to others in US

Dennis Mahon and Daniel Mahon were arrested in David Junction, Ill., and appeared in court in Rockford, according to court documents. The three-count indictment alleges that Dennis Mahon built the bomb on Feb. 21, 2004, and it sent it to Don Logan, former Scottsdale diversity director, who opened the package Feb. 26, 2004, injuring him, Renita Linyard and Jacque Bell.

Logan caught the brunt of the bomb and had to undergo extensive surgery to repair damage to his hands and arms.

Logan, who now works in a similar job for Glendale, was instructed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona not give interviews, but he did release a written statement.

“We’ve waited five years to hear the news announced (Thursday) regarding the arrest of two individuals alleged to have been responsible for the February 2004 mail bombing in Scottsdale. (The) announcement was met with much enthusiasm and appreciation,” Logan said.

The Mahon brothers are charged with conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosive, malicious damage of building by means of explosive and distribution of information related to explosives.

“The object of the conspiracy was to promote racial discord on behalf of the ‘White Aryan Resistance’ (WAR) by damaging and destroying buildings, facilities and real property of both government and businesses whose activities defendants believed conflicted with their goals,” the indictment states.

Also on Tuesday, authorities served a search warrant on the home of Tom Metzger, founder of WAR, in Warsaw, Ind.

Metzger’s Web site describes him as “converted from minister to Free Thinker, reborn from right-winger to racist.”

Authorities hinted last year that the Scottsdale bombing had “commonalities” with other bombings throughout the United States and Canada.

Authorities also arrested Robert Joos, 56, in Missouri Thursday in connection with “a federal investigation” into the Scottsdale bombing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri.

A search warrant affidavit for Joos’ home says undercover ATF agents from Arizona, with the help of a confidential informant, have been investigating the Mahon brothers since January 2005.

The agents were led to Joos’ remote, 200-acre compound by a telephone call Dennis Mahon made to Joos on the morning of the Scottsdale bombing, the affidavit states.

The arrests come a year after U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms announced it had made significant strides in the bombing case with the help of new technology able to extract tiny amounts of DNA from bomb debris.

[Delos]

All someone has to do is claim they saw something illegal in there for a warrant. Once they are in there that can find something incriminating to charge him with.

[bardamu]

This is Obama and Raum Emanuel.

[Azimuth]

Mishko and Mike should try to get Metzger back on VOR again to discuss this.

[Jett]

Metzger is a big promoter of the "Lone Wolf" strategy. This is to be expected as blowback from the von Brunn episode.

[Jake Featherston]

Sounds like routine police harassment, with that mailbombing case as a useful pretext.

[Thorvald Eriksson]

This and the assumed Plant for the ADL, Hal Turner both in hot water, I hope Alex Linder and his ruddy gang are next, but he's too goddamn gutless to do anything besides correct punctuation and send people into his ego corral where he can prove his manhood.

[Starr]

Others being next is what I am very concerned about here. It doesn't sound like they are even pretending to have had a halfway good reason for this particular raid.