Volksfront - American Racist Skinhead Organization headed by Randal Lee Krager
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Volksfront - Leadership
Volksfront's leader, Randal Lee Krager, founded the group in 1994, along
with three other inmates in an Oregon prison. Although Krager claimed he
resigned as head of Volksfront in 2004, he continues to be the main
influence behind the group. Krager and Volksfront's other leaders are based
in Portland, Oregon.
Randal Lee Krager
Like many leaders in the white supremacist movement, Randal Lee Krager
earned the respect of his peers by committing hate crimes and serving prison
time, including two years for his 1992 assault on an African-American father
of four who was left paralyzed. Shortly after establishing Volksfront and
being released from prison in 1994, Krager pleaded guilty to three counts of
first-degree intimidation for phoning three Jewish people and threatening to
slit their throats and burn their homes. He was sentenced to 14 months in
state prison and 24 months probation.
Krager, who has Nazi "SS" bolts tattooed on the underside of his forearm,
cultivates a blue-collar image to gain credibility in the racist skinhead
culture, which is rooted in the working-class. In addition to Aryan Fest and
other large events, Krager also throws smaller parties to help forge
alliances with other racist groups - a strategy that seems to be working.
After Aryan Fest 2004, a weekend-long white power rock concert organized by
Volksfront and held in Phoenix, several messages posted on Volksfront's Web
site reflected the degree to which Krager's leadership is appreciated by
other hate groups. A representative of the neo-Nazi National Socialist
Movement noted the way Krager "delegated his authority.the whole
organization walked in the trail blazed by Randy." A post by a member of
Women for Aryan Unity described how Krager "can take on a leadership role
and do with with [sic] class, fairness, but be stern!" A representative of
the fledgling neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Skinhead Front, added
that "Randy is very focused and has taken VF with fullforce [sic] to become
the honorable organization it is today."
Though Krager announced his resignation as Volksfront's president in
December 2004 and appointed Richard Arden to take his place, his activity
and influence in the organization appear undiminished. Krager organized
Aryan Fest 2005 in Portland; led a contingent of Volksfront members to
Hammerfest in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2005; and organized the
Volksfront 11-year anniversary party.
Richard Arden
Late in 2004, Randal Krager announced that he would step down as president
of Volksfront and that Richard "Rick" Arden, vice-president at the time,
would succeed him. Arden, tattooed with the white supremacist symbols "14"
and "88" on respective forearms as well as the crossed-hammers crest of the
Hammerskins, accepted the position in an Internet post on the Volksfront
forum, and relocated from southern California to be near the group's
headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Krager, however, still appears to be in
charge of the group. Arden plays bass for the Volksfront-sponsored white
power rock band, Intimidation One, known today as Criminal Culture. Arden
also plays in the band Jew Slaughter.
Abbie Chelf
After relocating to Portland to live with Randal Krager, Abbie Chelf, a
Christian Identity group adherent, seems to have risen to a role of
leadership among the few women in Volksfront circles. She also maintains her
involvement with the Florida-based Christian Guard. After a March 2006
fundraiser held by Christian Guard at a Hammerskin event, Chelf wrote
online, "On behalf of the Christian Guard, I would like to thank everyone
who bought items from us and donated to our fundraiser."
Chelf has taken to giving advice to members of the group and the white
supremacist movement at-large in the Volksfront online forum, and at her
online social networking profile. After the 2006 arrest for probation
violations of Kyle Brewster, a Portland-area racist skinhead who was
involved in the 1988 killing of an Ethiopian immigrant, Chelf suggested in
light of Brewster's activity on the Internet, "I think we all need to keep
our profiles as "low-profile" as possible....let's not give the pigs [Chelf's
term for law enforcement] more ammo against us than they allready [sic]
have."
When asked on an Internet forum what her hobbies were, Chelf wrote, "God and
Christian Identity, reading and educating myself-especially History, real
History, not the Jewish lies...i love white power music."
Dylan Wheeler
In 2005, Volksfront Webmaster Dylan Wheeler, a one-time member of the white
power rock band Intimidation One, created a Web site, Folkcom.com, modeled
after mainstream social networking sites on the Internet. Within a few
months of its launch, Folkcom, short for Folk Community, hosted the profiles
of over 2,000 white supremacists nationwide and beyond. Folkcom membership
was initially made up of only racist skinheads, but its popularity grew to
include Klansmen, Christian Identity adherents, Holocaust deniers, and
neo-Nazis. Because many of these right-wing extremists are separated from
each other by great distances, Folkcom helped them overcome this obstacle
and let them share details about their lives, events and ideologies in an
unprecedented fashion - including photographs, music and video files.
In September 2005, Wheeler shut down Folkcom after rumors circulated
claiming that Volksfront leaders were spying on Folkcom members' private
messages. Many Folkcom users have since relocated to other online social
networking sites.
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Volksfront YouTube Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5a-RtqHDSk
Volksfront in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksfront