The anonymous buyer bought a total of 13 properties in Leith, all abandoned houses with owners who live elsewhere. Then a stranger quietly moved into one of them; a man in his sixties with long flowing hair. The rumor mill said he had bought the property sight unseen for $5000 and had moved in in the dead of night. The house had no running water, no flush toilet, but the stranger lived there for a year without requesting service. He kept to himself for the most part, working at a road construction job, and people let him be. They considered him odd, but they never suspected him of being the enemy within. It was Muriel Ulrich, the county tax assessor, who began to uncover the true identity of the old man in the dilapidated house. His name was Craig Cobb, (right) an avowed white supremacist, wanted in Canada for “willful promotion of hatred”, and he had come to the attention of Muriel Ulrich only when he began reselling the houses he had bought – without making a profit. Tom Metzger, who leads a group known as the White Aryan Resistance, bought a house from Craig Cobb for one dollar. So did Alex Linder, who runs the VNN neo-Nazi Website. Cobb gave the graveyard adjoining his property to Jeff Schoep, leader of the National Socialist Movement. Cobb also convinced April Gaede and her husband Mark Harrington, pioneers of the concept of a “Little Europe” community for “racially conscious” whites, to buy property in Leith. The news swept through Leith like a dust storm. They were appalled. They wanted no part of him or the Aryan groups he wanted to bring to Leith. But Craig Cobb had his foot in the door, and he was not about to leave quietly.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:40:13 +0000
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