A racist pagan organization that idolizes terrorist members of The Order and its slain leader has moved its headquarters to the Spokane area. The White Order of Thule, headed by Nathan Pett, operates two Web sites and publishes a newsletter and journal -- all advocating white superiority. One of the newsletter's contributors is a convicted cocaine dealer from Maine who is a suspect in the killing of a "race traitor" in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, authorities say.
"The White Order of Thule is a brotherhood -- a loose alignment of Aryan minds, hearts and souls," the organization's literature says.
"We're concerned about this new group because it appears to be reconstituting the violent views of Bob Mathews and The Order," said Brian Goldberg, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.
The Order, founded by Mathews in Metaline Falls, Wash., carried out racist murders, robberies, bombings and counterfeiting to fund its race war in 1983 and 1984.
Pett is frequently seen at the new Bullet Proof Tattoo at 14401 E. Sprague in the Spokane Valley.
Jason E. "Swany" Swanson, who has ties with the Aryan Nations, works as a tattoo artist at another Bullet Proof shop at 2309 N. Division. Law enforcement officials who track racist groups confirm that Swanson and Pett, both 26, and other skinheads work at or frequently visit the two tattoo stores.
Members must advance through "degrees of membership," studying the works of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and others. A book about Mathews is on the White Order's suggested reading list. While the Aryan Nations wraps its racism around a religion known as Christian Identity -- which contends that white people are the true children of God -- the White Order of Thule is tied to Greek and Norse mythology, and white superiority. Various types of the racist mythology exist. "Throughout the prisons of this country, we've noticed a marked increase in racist Odinism, paganism and asatru," said Joe Roy, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group watchdog.
"Even Aryan Brotherhood members in the prisons are afraid of these guys," Roy said. "They are some really serious people."
Pett, in a brief interview, denied involvement with the group. But documents show his ties to the White Order of Thule and its publications, Fenris Wolf Press and Crossing the Abyss.
Law enforcement officials also link Pett to the White Order and its publications. They say he is known to have used the names Nathan Zorn and Nathan Zorn Pett.
This is another Gardnerian concept known as the 'Law of Polarites'. Everything is either Male or Female and the only way to work Magick is by combining both energies. This obviously stems from Gardner's sexual preferences (he also states in his 'Law' that if a High Priestess is too old, she should retire and give the title to a younger High Priestess - yet he (Gardner) does not mention the same regarding High Priests!!) and naturally excludes Gay men and Lesbians. In fact, many Modern Wiccans actively exclude Gay men and Women from their Covens/Groups due to this ludicrous 'Law'. Gardner claims that much of the Wiccan Tradition is based on 'Celtic' Religions- but the Celts had no 'Law of Polarites' ...
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