Frazier Glenn Cross, better known as F. Glenn Miller, the accused Overland Park Jewish Community Center murderer, has?a long and sordid history of racist and criminal behavior. He has also made multiple runs for political office, although unsurprisingly he has never done very well as a political candidate.
Prosecutors are seeking to charge Miller under federal hate crime statutes. He is also facing state charges for pre-meditated first degree murder as well. Based on Miller’s personal history, the case for charging him with hate crimes should be an easy argument to make.?Frazier Glenn Miller was founder and former head of both the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, two hate groups that operated as paramilitary organizations in the 1980s. He was also a member of the Neo-Nazi group that?murdered five anti-racist marchers and wounded nine others in the infamous Greensboro massacre in 1979.
Miller served multiple stints in prison for a variety of criminal charges. He was involved with The Order, the White Nationalist group that murdered liberal Jewish Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg in 1984. Miller received an illegal cash payment of 200,000 dollars from the leader of The Order. The 200,000 was part of 3.8 million that The Order had stolen in an armored car robbery. Miller penned a declaration of war in 1987 that exhorted followers to murder minorities by awarding points for killing Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, and gays. The ultimate assassination, however was Southern Poverty Law Center’s Morris Dees, whose murder was worth 888 points.
In addition to being an anti-racist advocate, Dees was an attorney who helped prosecute Miller for charges related to procuring weapons and explosives, including?armor piercing anti-tank rockets, to train a white Supremacist paramilitary group. In 1987, the FBI arrested Miller in Missouri?for conspiracy to acquire stolen military weapons, and for planning robberies and plotting the assassination of Dees. As part of a plea deal, Miller pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and to sending a threat through the mail. He also agreed to testify against 14 other white supremacists in a federal sedition trial. He was convicted and served three years in prison on those charges.
in 2008, Miller’s son, Jesse Miller, was shot and killed by a Marionville, Missouri police officer after Miller gunned down a Good Samaritan?who had stopped to assist him after an automobile accident. Miller wounded the police officer in the confrontation.
Miller has run for political office on multiple occasions as a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent, in North Carolina and Missouri, but has been soundly rejected by voters every time he has sought office. His best election showing was an abysmal 3.18 percent (6,662 votes) in the 1986 North Carolina U.S. Republican Senate primary. In 2010, as a write-in candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri he received a grand total of 7 votes statewide despite running radio ads for his campaign. The ads were very racist and inflammatory, but apparently, he was unable to gain any traction for his campaign.
F. Glenn Miller is the embodiment of racist, anti-Semitic white rage. While his views are well outside the mainstream of American political discourse, there is a dangerous undercurrent of xenophobic, white supremacist thought poisoning the minds of a handful of Americans. As in the 1990s, when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, this strain of thought can produce lethal killers. Miller unleashed his hatred with a volley of bullets yesterday, killing three innocent people and wounding two others. His racist, anti-Semitic madness however has been readily apparent for over three decades now, and he is not alone. Homegrown domestic terrorism remains a legitimate threat to the peace and federal and state law enforcement must do whatever it can legally to monitor hate groups, and to prosecute their members for crimes as swiftly and vigorously as possible.
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