Squabbling Aryan Nations Factions Descend Into Vicious Name-Calling
Before becoming a so-called outlaw biker, McGiffen was a grand dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. He left the Klan, calling it “wimpy,” to form a racist-based group, The New Order, in the mid-1990s; it was named after The Order, an infamous white supremacist domestic terrorist group that was destroyed by law enforcement in 1984. But before McGiffen’s group could carry out its plans — to blow up buildings, poison the water supply of major cities, murder a federal judge and other people, and rob banks and armored cars — he was arrested on federal weapons charges and sent to prison for eight years. Investigators found a New Order hit list that included filmmaker Steven Spielberg, then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees.
Gulett’s rap sheet is just as serious. He was arrested in 2005 and went to prison for six years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to rob a bank. Court documents say his earlier crimes included shoplifting, aggravated assault, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of drugs, receiving stolen property and homicide.
With their common criminal histories and shared racist views, Gulett and McGiffen sounded like a logical tag-team when they hooked up in 2012. And at first, they indeed seemed to make a match.
Almost immediately, Gulett posted pictures of McGiffen and his beer-guzzling bikers on his Aryan Nations website, appointed McGiffen a “general” on the Aryan Nations National Advisory Council, and described him as one of the great racist leaders of the day.
Now, things have turned downright nasty between the two.
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