Mark Potok's "expert" anti-racist hat. "Wade Michael Page may have been one heckuva lot smarter than Potok gave him credit for."

“I think in some ways Christian Identity is designed for pantywaists who are afraid to declare themselves true Nazis,” Vanderboegh jibed. “These are the folks who have to tell their mommas or their wives, “It’s OK that we hate blacks and Jews, dear, because God and Jesus told us it’s OK. Whereas the Nazis don’t worry about that kind of thing. They’re sort of beyond excuses.

“You know, when you’ve got Adolf Hitler as your standard-bearer, what else have you got to be embarrassed about?” Vanderboegh said.

“They each come to their pus-filled beliefs by different roads, but they agree on the destination.” -- “Christian Identity is for pantywaists” by Jeff Stein, Salon, 11 Aug 1999.

Thirteen years ago this month, Buford O. Furrow shot up a building full of innocents -- in his case a Jewish day care. Now we have Wade Michael Page who shot up a building full of innocents -- in his case a Sikh temple.

Wade Michael Page, murdering racial collectivist.

Mark Potok, the Montgomery castrato and SPLC's lying-for-money weasel, said on Piers Morgan's show that Page was a moron who didn't know who he was killing: "My best guess is that he mistook Sikhs for Muslims."

Now I will admit that the neo-Nazis I've run into over the past two decades have not been the brightest bulbs in the illumination array, but I'm not so sure. For a neo-Nazi, the target is not necessarily the people he kills, but the effect it has on achieving the racial collectivist's goals, which has been, at least since the Turner Diaries was published, an American civil war over gun confiscation. It is a civil war in which the neoNazis expect to be the last murderers standing at the end, or so the Turner Diaries promise.

At the time of the day care shooting, J.D. Cash and I were interviewed by Jeff Stein of Salon:

Neo-Nazis are hoping attacks like Buford O. Furrow’s push the nation toward stricter gun control, say conservative students of right-wing hate movements, because they believe such restrictions will touch off anti-government warfare.

“They really believe ‘The Turner Diaries’ is the road map to their success,” says J.D. Cash, an Oklahoma reporter with long associations among right-wing activists who broke stories about Timothy McVeigh’s links to white-supremacist groups like Christian Identity.

“The Turner Diaries,” an apocalyptic novel embraced by McVeigh and other Christian extremists, portrays a “patriot” who foments a right-wing backlash against the government’s effort to crack down on guns by setting off bombs.

Police found Christian Identity literature in the van of Furrow, a 37-year-old Washington state man who turned himself into Las Vegas police after allegedly wounding three children, a teenager and an adult with bursts of automatic weapons fire at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, Tuesday. Furrow is also suspected of the murder of a postal worker an hour after the community center shooting.

The discovery of Christian Identity material led some commentators to link Furrow to notorious abortion bombing suspect Eric Rudolph, who disappeared into North Carolina’s Smokey Mountains after police connected him to the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., in January 1998. The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which tracks hate groups and has a file on Furrow, believes he followed the beliefs of the so-called Phineas Priesthood, a branch of Christian Identity. That loose-knit group also has been linked to 1996 bombings and bank robberies in the Spokane, Wash., area.

But the Christian Identity links to Furrow are less apparent than the movement’s links to Rudolph, right wing experts told Salon News. Furrow is close to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nation in Washington state, while Rudolph had no known neo-Nazi associations.

“We’re talking about two different regions here, two different sets of friends, two different sets of beliefs,” said Mike Vanderboegh, a leader of the Alabama militia movement, in a telephone interview. Vanderboegh has made a hobby out of ridiculing Christian Identity followers and excludes them from his organization. “Rudolph is more Identity, this guy is more Nazi, is my read on it,” he said.

“Rudolph, to the extent that we know about his associates and his friends, hung around with Nord Davis’ Christian Identity folks” in North Carolina, “while this guy was hanging around Bob Mathews’ widow and the Aryan Nations,” Vanderboegh said. Furrow lived with Debbie Mathews, whose husband, Robert J. Mathews, founded the neo-Nazi group the Order, a violent offshoot of the Aryan Nations. . .

Vanderboegh agreed with J.D. Cash that the neo-Nazis hope to incite and gain control of pro-gun sentiment by attacks like the one on the Jewish Community Center.

“It definitely makes sense from their point of view,” Vanderboegh said. Their “long-term goal is to climb up the resistance tree” of anti-gun control forces in “a civil war that will be provoked by the complete confiscation of guns.”

“Trust me, conflict will break out,” Vanderboegh said. “It doesn’t take the neo-Nazis to start it, but they’re more than happy to benefit from it.”

That was thirteen years ago. The point is still valid. To shoot up a building full of innocents in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting in Colorado makes perfect sense from a neo-Nazi "lone wolf's" point of view. Wade Michael Page may have been one heckuva lot smarter than Potok gave him credit for.