The White Patriot Party (WPP) was an American

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, homophobic,

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which was associated with Christian Identity and the

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. It was led by its founder,

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, through various organizational incarnations. In the mid-1970s, the organization was founded as the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It was involved in the 1979 Greensboro massacre, when a confrontation between Klansmen,

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and communists degenerated into a shootout and a mass shooting which left five people dead and twelve people wounded. The organization became the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1980s and it became the White Patriot Party in 1985. At a time when a poor farming economy existed in

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, the group acquired support by blaming economic problems on Jewish bankers. According to some estimates, its membership might have been as high as 3000."White Patriot Party (WPP)"
''Terrorism Knowledge Base'', Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, retrieved on April 8th, 2010 On April 6, 1987, the group

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against the federal government, which they called "

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" (ZOG). The WPP collapsed after Miller violated an injunction against

activity and was convicted of threatening the

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activist Morris Dees. He was imprisoned from 1987 to 1990. In a 1988

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trial in

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, Miller testified for the prosecution by stating that he had received $200,000 in stolen money from The Order and used it to finance the White Patriot Party's activities.

References

External links

Glenn Miller's website
with information on the White Patriot party. {{Authority control 1980 establishments in the United States 1987 disestablishments in the United States Anti-communist organizations in the United States Anti-Zionism in the United States Christian Identity Defunct far-right political parties in the United States Ku Klux Klan organizations Neo-Nazi political parties in the United States Political parties established in 1980 Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina