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Stormfront
URL	http://www.stormfront.org
Type of site	Forum
Available language(s)	English
Owner	Don Black
Created by	Don Black
Launched	March 1995

For other uses, see Stormfront

The Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a white nationalist^[1][2][3] Internet forum. Many organizations describe it as a neo-Nazi organization and accuse it of promoting racism, hate speech, and violence.^[4][5][6] It has been listed as a hate site, and a number of Internet content filters prevent access to it.^[7][8] In Germany, access to Stormfront is blocked by some ISPs in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.^[9][10]

Stormfront is owned by Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was a member of the American Nazi Party in the 1970s.^[2][1]In 1981, Black was arrested as he prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade Dominica in what he and his accomplices dubbed Operation Red Dog. Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion. He created the website after receiving his first computer training in prison.^[3]

Views

Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival".^[11] Stormfront hosts an online copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf and describes Hitler as a man who "refused to surrender".^[12]

Don Black and Stormfront have advocated the use of violence.^[13][5][14] Black and others on Stormfront often discuss the possibility of a future race war, such as the one depicted in the novel The Turner Diaries. In 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a discussion on Stormfront which encouraged white nationalists to join the military, in order to learn the skills necessary for winning such a race war.^[15][16] In a 1998 interview for the newspaper New Times, Black said, "We want to take America back. We know a multicultural Yugoslav nation can't hold up for too long. Whites won't have any choice but to take military action. It's our children whose interests we have to defend."^[1]

Stormfront in the news

In May 2003, Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly reported on a segregated prom being held in Georgia and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own kids to one. A link to the poll was posted on Stormfront and messages subsequently posted there implied that a mass of readers had duly voted in order to skew the poll in favor of segregation. O'Reilly reported this the following week and refused to read the final results due to this, citing Stormfront as the culprit by name and referring to it as a "Neo-Nazi organization."^[5][17]

In August 2005, a candidate for city council of Charlotte, North Carolina dropped out of the race after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Republican Doug Hanks had posted more than 4,000 times over the previous three years using the name "Snarkie". In one comment he called African Americans "rabid beasts". Hanks, a writer and actor from Connecticut, said that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel. "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."^[18]

In December 2007 it was revealed that Stormfront founder Don Black dontated $500 to Republican election candidate Ron Paul's campaign fund. Ron Paul explained that he was comfortable keeping the money as it would be used to further his own his own campaign goals rather than the far right ideals of Don Black ^{[19] [20]}.

Footnotes

External links

• Stormfront home page
• Don Black: White Pride World Wide- Statement by the Anti-Defamation League