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COMMENT: In our past dis­cus­sion of Eddie the Friend­ly Spook [Snowden]‘s activ­i­ties, we have not­ed that the indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions in the “drama­tis per­son­ae” track back to far right and explic­it­ly Nazi and fas­cist ele­ments. That includes Glenn Green­wald, Snow­den’s jour­nal­is­tic leak­er of choice.

(Our series on this is long, com­plex and mul­ti-lay­ered: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part XIV, Part XV, Part XVI, Part XVII, Part XVIII, Part XIX, Part XX. It is impos­si­ble to do jus­tice to this analy­sis with­in the scope of this post. Please digest the rest of the mate­r­i­al, in order to come to terms with what we are pre­sent­ing.)

Recent­ly there has been sig­nif­i­cant media cov­er­age of Craig Paul Cobb (with the mid­dle and first names some­times reversed in some sources) and his attempts at buy­ing a small, North Dako­ta town that he envis­ages as a Nazi/white suprema­cist com­mu­ni­ty. (See text excerpts below.)

Cob­b’s appar­ent role in the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the mur­der of the fam­i­ly of Judge Joan Lefkow has received less cov­er­age. (See text excerpts below.)

Also receiv­ing less cov­er­age is Glenn Green­wald’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of World Church of the Cre­ator head Matthew Hale in this case. (See text excerpts.)

(In past posts, we have not­ed Glenn Green­wald’s pro-bono rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Hale and the Nation­al Alliance, with which Cobb was also affil­i­at­ed.)

A num­ber of things come to mind as we pon­der Green­wald’s role in this:

•  Con­vict­ed of solic­i­ta­tion of the mur­der of Judge Joan Lefkow, whose hus­band and moth­er were mur­dered in her home a few weeks after Cobb exer­cised what Green­wald would char­ac­ter­ize of his right of free speech on the inter­net, Green­wald’s client Hale char­ac­ter­ized his orga­ni­za­tion as being at war with Judge Lefkow. (See text excerpts below.)
• Cobb post­ed Lefkow’s name and address on the inter­net. Her moth­er and hus­band were mur­dered a few weeks lat­er. Cobb was overt­ly, explic­it­ly pleased by that fact. ” . . . What was I feel­ing? Emo­tions are not yet ille­gal. I was just fine with it. I think it was well done.”[1] (See text excerpts below.) 
• Cob­b’s actions epit­o­mize the “lead­er­less resis­tance strat­e­gy,” for which Green­wald ran legal inter­fer­ence in his law prac­tice.
• Green­wald’s client Hale was taped by an under­cov­er FBI infor­mant who pro­vid­ed; ”  . . . . an email from Hale solic­it­ing Lefkow’s home address, and a tape record­ing of a dis­cus­sion between the two about Lefkow’s mur­der. On the tape, Evola said, “We going to exter­mi­nate the rat?” Hale replied, “Well, what­ev­er you want to do basi­cal­ly.” Evola said, “The Jew rat.” Hale then said: “You know, my posi­tion has always been that I, you know, I’m going to fight with­in the law… but that infor­ma­tion has been pro­vid­ed. [by Cobb]… If you wish to do any­thing your­self, you can.” Evola replied, “Con­sid­er it done,” and Hale respond­ed, “Good.” . . . . (See text excerpts below.)
• Green­wald’s com­ments on the case are very, very reveal­ing. “. . . . . Attor­ney Glenn Green­wald, rep­re­sent­ing Hale, says he believes the charge against Hale stems from what he calls a mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Hale’s state­ment that “we are in a state of war with Judge Lefkow.” Green­wald says: “They are prob­a­bly try­ing to take things he said along the lines of polit­i­cal advo­ca­cy and turn it into a crime. The FBI may have inter­pret­ed this pro­tect­ed speech as a threat against a fed­er­al judge, but it’s prob­a­bly noth­ing more than some heat­ed rhetoric.” Dur­ing Hale’s incar­cer­a­tion, spe­cial admin­is­tra­tive mea­sures will be imposed to reduce his abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate with his fol­low­ers. . . .” (See text excerpts below.)
• Green­wald alleges that an attempt by Hale’s moth­er to have Green­wald give a cod­ed mes­sage to one of Hale’s fol­low­ers was unsuc­cess­ful. (See text excerpts below.)
• Note that the U.S. Attor­ney in the case not­ed that free­dom of speech does not include solic­i­ta­tion of mur­der. Green­wald appears to have prob­lems with that inter­pre­ta­tion.
• WE NOTE AGAIN that peo­ple who do what Glenn Green­wald has done, can­not POSSIBLY be what they claim to be!

“New Neighbor’s Agen­da: White Pow­er Takeover” by John Eligon; The New York Times; 8/29/2013.

The beard­ed man with thin­ning, gray-and-bleach-blond hair flap­ping down his neck first appeared in this tiny agri­cul­tur­al town last year, qui­et­ly and incon­spic­u­ous­ly roam­ing the crack­ly dirt roads.

Net­tie Ket­ter­ling thought noth­ing of it when he came into her bar to charge his cell­phone in an out­let beneath the mount­ed head of a mule deer. To Ken­neth Zim­mer­man, the man was just anoth­er cus­tomer, bring­ing his blue Dodge Duran­go in for repairs. Bob­by Harp­er did not blink when the man appeared in front of his house and asked him if he had any land to sell. And the may­or, Ryan Schock, was sim­ply extend­ing a civic cour­tesy when he swung by the man’s house to intro­duce him­self.

Their new neigh­bor, they thought, was just anoth­er per­son look­ing to get clos­er to the lucra­tive oil fields in west­ern North Dako­ta known as the Bakken.

But all that changed last week.

The South­ern Pover­ty Law Cen­ter and The Bis­mar­ck Tri­bune revealed that the man, Paul Craig Cobb, 61, has been buy­ing up prop­er­ty in this town of 24 peo­ple in an effort to trans­form it into a colony for white suprema­cists.

In the past two years, Mr. Cobb, a long­time pros­e­ly­tiz­er for white suprema­cy who is want­ed in Cana­da on charges of pro­mot­ing hatred, has bought a dozen plots of land in Lei­th (pro­nounced Leeth) and has sold or trans­ferred own­er­ship of some of them to a cou­ple of like-mind­ed white nation­al­ists. . . .

“Craig Cobb”; Wikipedia

. . . . Cobb is report­ed to have grown up in a wealthy fam­i­ly and attend­ed a pri­vate school in Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts where he grad­u­at­ed in 1968.[6] Cobb says he grew up a Chris­t­ian, but has since renounced Chris­tian­i­ty, say­ing “I don’t under­stand Chris­tians. They have a need to be moral­ly supe­ri­or than the next guy...They are very threat­ened by any­thing with racial cohe­sion.” [7] After serv­ing in the armed forces he moved to Edmon­ton, Cana­da for five years then relo­cat­ed to Hawaii where he lived for anoth­er 25 years and earned a liv­ing as a taxi dri­ver. In 2003 he relo­cat­ed to Frost, West Vir­ginia where he opened a gro­cery store and sub­se­quent­ly reg­is­tered a busi­ness called “Gray’s Store, Aryan Auto­graphs and 14 Words, L.L.C.” Dur­ing this time he was involved in unso­licit­ed inter-state deliv­er­ies of a neo-Nazi news­pa­per pub­lished by Alex Linder,[8] dis­tri­b­u­tion of Project School­yard CDs to local children,[9] and attend­ed an invi­ta­tion-only lead­er­ship con­fer­ence of the Nation­al Alliance. . . .

. . . . Cobb uses the online pseu­do­nyms “No 1965 Chain Immi­grants” (on Storm­front) and “Chain” (on Pod­blanc), which ref­er­ences to the abo­li­tion of the Nation­al Ori­gins For­mu­la in the Immi­gra­tion and Nation­al­i­ty Act of 1965. While his inter­net activ­i­ties cen­ter upon “tire­less propaganda”[30] for Pod­blanc he is also active in far-right dis­cus­sion boards where, after the arrest of Matt Hale in 2003 for solic­it­ing the mur­der of U.S. Dis­trict Judge Joan Lefkow, Cobb post­ed the judge’s home address, fam­i­ly pho­tographs and a map to her house. Lefkow’s hus­band and moth­er were sub­se­quent­ly mur­dered. In reply to a reporter’s ques­tion “What were you feel­ing when the dou­ble mur­der hap­pened?” Cobb stat­ed “What was I feel­ing? Emo­tions are not yet ille­gal. I was just fine with it. I think it was well done.”[1]  [This is the very essence of the “Lead­er­less Resis­tance” strat­e­gy for which Green­wald ran legal interference–D.E.] . .

“Pro­file: Matthew Hale”; His­to­ry Commons.org

. . . . Avowed white suprema­cist Craig Cobb (see Octo­ber 31, 2005) moves to Esto­nia and founds Pod­blanc, an Inter­net-based videoshar­ing Web site. It is sim­i­lar to YouTube, but Cobb and his sup­port­ers refuse to use that facil­i­ty, call­ing it “Jew Tube” because its oper­a­tors cen­sor racist and anti-Semit­ic con­tent. Pod­blanc offers over 1,000 chan­nels of video con­tent, includ­ing com­bat hand­gun train­ing, bomb-mak­ing tuto­ri­als, a descrip­tion of secu­ri­ty mea­sures at three north­ern Cal­i­for­nia syn­a­gogues, and an audio record­ing of The Turn­er Diaries, the infa­mous race-war fan­ta­sy nov­el (see 1978). The most pop­u­lar video on the site shows Russ­ian neo-Nazis behead­ing and shoot­ing Asi­at­ic immi­grants; oth­er pop­u­lar videos show skin­heads attack­ing ran­dom Jew­ish and minor­i­ty vic­tims. Cobb was a mem­ber of the vio­lent World Church of the Cre­ator (WCOTC) until its col­lapse after its leader, Matthew Hale, was arrest­ed for solic­it­ing the mur­der of a judge (see Jan­u­ary 9, 2003 and 2004–2005). Cobb post­ed the name and home address of the judge on the inter­net, which may have led to the mur­der of her hus­band and moth­er (see Feb­ru­ary 28, 2005). Cobb has also attend­ed events spon­sored by the neo-Nazi Nation­al Alliance (see 1970–1974 . . . .

. . . . Matthew Hale, the leader of the World Church of the Cre­ator (WCOTC—see May 1996 and After), shows up for a con­tempt of court hear­ing in a Chica­go court­room based on his refusal to give up his group’s name after los­ing a trade­mark infringe­ment law­suit (see Novem­ber 2002). When Hale appears, he is arrest­ed for solic­it­ing the mur­der of the judge who presided over the law­suit, Fed­er­al Dis­trict Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow. Hale recent­ly claimed Lefkow was prej­u­diced against him because she is mar­ried to a Jew and has chil­dren who are bira­cial. Law enforce­ment offi­cials with Chicago’s Joint Ter­ror­ism Task Force say Hale asked anoth­er per­son to “forcibly assault and mur­der” Lefkow. FBI spokesman Thomas Kneir says: “Cer­tain­ly free­dom of speech and free­dom of reli­gion are impor­tant in our soci­ety here in Amer­i­ca. But the threat of phys­i­cal vio­lence will not be tol­er­at­ed.” US Attor­ney Patrick Fitzger­ald adds, “Free­dom of speech does not include the free­dom to solic­it mur­der.” Hale is accom­pa­nied in the court­room by about a dozen fol­low­ers, many of whom raise their fists in what they call a Roman salute but that is more wide­ly known as a Nazi salute. . . . .

. . . . . Matthew Hale, the leader of the World Church of the Cre­ator (WCOTC—see May 1996 and After), is con­vict­ed of one count of solic­i­ta­tion of mur­der and three counts of obstruc­tion of jus­tice in regards to his attempt to solic­it the mur­der of a judge (see Jan­u­ary 9, 2003). Hale nev­er tes­ti­fied on his own behalf. Defense coun­sel Thomas Antho­ny Durkin called no wit­ness­es, say­ing the prosecution’s evi­dence was the weak­est he had seen in a major case, argu­ing that Hale was set up by an FBI infor­mant. Durkin says he will appeal, and will prove that pros­e­cu­tors have been “out to get Hale” because of his sus­pect­ed involve­ment in a shoot­ing spree by WCOTC mem­ber Ben­jamin Smith five years ago (see July 2–4, 1999; the jury heard audio­tapes of Hale laugh­ing about Smith’s mur­ders and mock­ing the vic­tims). [The civ­il suit against Hale by Smith’s vic­tims was the first case in which Green­wald rep­re­sent­ed Hale pro bono.–D.E.] US Attor­ney Patrick Fitzger­ald, the lead pros­e­cu­tor in the case, says the trial’s out­come proves “that we will not wait for the trig­ger to be pulled” before tak­ing action. . . .

. . . . The press will lat­er learn that Hale solicit­ed the mur­der from FBI infor­mant Antho­ny Evola, a Chica­go area piz­za deliv­ery man who was asked by Hale to dis­trib­ute racist and anti-Semit­ic pam­phlets to school­child­ren. Evola instead called the Chica­go Pub­lic Schools to warn them about the racist mate­r­i­al, and was lat­er asked to become an FBI infor­mant. In the months that fol­lowed, Evola became chief of Hale’s “White Beret” secu­ri­ty squad and fre­quent­ly trav­eled with Hale. Evola pro­vid­ed FBI offi­cials with an email from Hale solic­it­ing Lefkow’s home address, and a tape record­ing of a dis­cus­sion between the two about Lefkow’s mur­der. On the tape, Evola said, “We going to exter­mi­nate the rat?” Hale replied, “Well, what­ev­er you want to do basi­cal­ly.” Evola said, “The Jew rat.” Hale then said: “You know, my posi­tion has always been that I, you know, I’m going to fight with­in the law… but that infor­ma­tion has been pro­vid­ed.… If you wish to do any­thing your­self, you can.” Evola replied, “Con­sid­er it done,” and Hale respond­ed, “Good.” . . . .

. . . . . Attor­ney Glenn Green­wald, rep­re­sent­ing Hale, says he believes the charge against Hale stems from what he calls a mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Hale’s state­ment that “we are in a state of war with Judge Lefkow.”Green­wald says: “They are prob­a­bly try­ing to take things he said along the lines of polit­i­cal advo­ca­cy and turn it into a crime. The FBI may have inter­pret­ed this pro­tect­ed speech as a threat against a fed­er­al judge, but it’s prob­a­bly noth­ing more than some heat­ed rhetoric.” Dur­ing Hale’s incar­cer­a­tion, spe­cial admin­is­tra­tive mea­sures will be imposed to reduce his abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate with his fol­low­ers. . . .

. . . . . . Hale’s attor­ney Glenn Green­wald reveals that six to eight weeks before the mur­ders, Hale’s moth­er asked him to pass what was clear­ly a cod­ed mes­sage from Hale to a WCOTC fol­low­er. [Green­wald claims he did not for­ward the message–D.E.] . . . .