When Richard Barrett announced he was bringing a White Supremacist march to Morristown on the fourth of July, it was not exactly a shock that he was coming. Over the past year and a half, White Supremacists have been inching their way into the state even more forcefully than in the past, and this is just an example of those chickens coming home to roost. Barrett however has cultivated a particularly active and disturbing following in the state, and that following is not without its influence. This pamphlet will point out some of the individuals and groups that he has been associated with in the past and present, or have otherwise pushed a hate agenda in the state. The reader will see just why it is so many people are not ignoring the proposed July 4th march, and hopefully those readers will be encouraged to call those below to task on their garbage.

Richard Barrett is a native of East Orange who said his family escaped from the "influx of immigrants" in the City. He graduated from Rutgers University but in 1966 returned his diploma to protest Professor Eugene Genovese for his opposition to the Vietnam War. In 1987, while attempting to preserve the all-white status of Forsyth County, Georgia, he formed what would later become the Nationalist Movement. This organization has provided paramilitary training to Neo-Nazis, and has made its presence known in a number of issues defending the far right position. Barrett has been seen on talk shows like Donahue and the Morton Downey, Jr. Show (he took a swipe at Downey on that program). Barrett has staged a number of rallies and demonstrations, often by himself in support of white racialist positions, such as in defense of Byron de la Beckwith, convicted murderer of Medgar Evers, or the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles. He has also brought a rally once before to New Jersey in 1994 to defend racist radio talk show host Bob Grant, repudiated by Governor Whitman for his diatribes on the air. His routine is to cloud his rallies in ways that, while still offensive, are not so far right that they cannot be palatable. His Simi Valley march for the Rodney King cops was depicted as defending Americans against "illegal alien criminals". The Morristown march, which is a march to praise State Police Chief Carl Williams and racial profiling is promoted as a "Independence From Affirmative Action Day" (his rationale says Williams being fired made him a victim of affirmative action). Barrett likes to phrase his agenda as akin to the American Revolution, and will often make analogies to that and his fight (hence, the rally at "Washington's Headquarters"). Of course, this is yet another example of how Barrett can be lost on the facts. Indeed Barrett is known for not getting his facts straight in some of the most visible areas. In the recent issue of Morristown, he refers to "Negro Council President Timothy Jackson" although Jackson is not only white, but a direct descendent of Stonewall Jackson! He is suing the city of Morristown for not halting the demands for a million-dollar insurance bond and other expenses to be paid by him, even though other organizations are not exempt from the same stipulations. He doesn't sound too confident that he will win in court, as evidenced by a recent email. "I hear people talking about attending the parade, but they don't seem to realize that unless we win in court, there may not be a parade," he said.

Alfred Zaragoza is a recent convert to Barrett's group. He is a 19 year-old college student from Ridgefield, NJ. Studying pre-law and political science at Centenary College in Hackettstown, where he is also a member of the Church of the Covenant there, he says he wants to apply what he sees as "Biblical law" into today's society. According to his bio on Barrett's page, he feels his purpose in life is to eradicate policies that he feels are "destructive to the Western World and our gene pool". He has also cheered on the upcoming court date against Morristown. "It's times like these when I really believe flag-wavers must and shall prevail over flag-burners," he said. "When (Morris County Administrator James) Rosenberg sees the young people at the march, proudly waving American flags, he'll learn a lesson about who the future belongs to and what it means to be an American."


Jeremy Erickson, 22, is from Morristown and is also coming out to support Barrett. He attended the April 25 Town Council meeting when teacher Kevin Stansbery brought his students to speak out against the Nationalist march. "I personally was appalled at the ignorance that was brought forth in the council room, and thoroughly disgusted when those school children spoke." He said in an email recently. "It was quite obvious that they had been brainwashed by the Socialist school system and their Negro school teacher with a personal vendetta. They had no idea what this rally was really about." Jeremy did not speak at this meeting, saying that he was afraid to reveal his address (he lives with his parents) to those assembled. He describes himself as a "National Socialist through the applied teachings of Jungian psychology and Darwinian proclamation." For 6 years he was a "skinhead" (which means he was a bonehead masquerading as a skin), but says he grew out his hair and took off his boots to become more politically active and be taken more seriously.

On June 28, 2000, Erickson appeared before the County Freeholders to make a "speech". His ignorance was evident when he said:

"Our society has been formulated by the majority to function under majority rule. Any rights which proceed from our form of government do not reside in some government building or exist because of some official. And, certainly, they are not subject to be corrupted downward as privileges for the few, but rather uplifted in the interest of the majority and, thus, society, itself."

Considering that this country is a republic, not a democracy, his "majority rule" assertion was wrong. Then again when Barrett talks of the "majority American" he means whites. Even with that Erickson is still wrong. Barrett has tried to pretend that KKK and Neo-Nazis were not associated with him. We already knew otherwise but can safely say it now because Jeremy addresses the Freeholders wearing a Nazi SS ring. He even "sieg heiled" supporters of the One People's Rally as we left the building.

Harold C. "Hal" Turner ran for the Republican nomination for Congress this year in the 13th District in an attempt to unseat incumbent Bob Melendez. He was also the Campaign Chair for Murray Sabrin when he ran for NJ Governor in 1997. If Sabrin won his current bid for Senator, he said he wanted to pass the torch to Turner. In 1995 Turner organized a rally at the New Jersey State Capitol to defend racist talk-show host Bob Grant. Barrett also had a hand in putting this event together and noted on his webpage that as they spoke, Turner and another right wing hack named Richard Pezzulo were cheered by the assembled, which included those that waved Barrett's Crosstar battleflags. Turner also had a radio program where he had openly defended not only racial profiling but police brutality as well, saying that it is not done enough. If Turner won his bid for Congress, it would have been part of an agenda to help the South secede from the Union again. "The long-term objective, which troubles independent political observers, is to send enough party members to Congress to push for a separate Southern nation," he said on his June 25, 1999 radio program. "And I would say to all the people in the states that comprise the Old Confederacy: Save a spot for me! Because, baby, I will fight on your side to destabilize these evil Yankees. And I wanna live in the New South. The South will rise again and I'll be right there to live with ya." He has also made calls to other programs as "Hal from North Bergen", and in August 1998 Turner called into Sean Hannity's WABC show and said that if it weren't for the white man, that blacks "would still be swinging from the trees in Africa." This comment drew no rebuke from Hannity, himself a racial antagonist who even calls Turner at home and plugs his campaign, but rather Hannity continued to race-bait with Turner around a number of political issues. Turner has also threatened to incite people to "dispense revenge" on Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry and New Jersey NAACP officials and their attorneys after a fire in North Bergen claimed the lives of four people in 1998. Turner charged the NAACP with the deaths because they filed an anti-discrimination lawsuit against the local fire department. Barry was the judge who presided and imposed a hiring freeze on the department until the matter was resolved. After the fire, Turner, a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker with access to the names and addresses of virtually everyone who lives in the state, wrote a letter that appeared on deja.com that said that he was going to release the names and addresses of Barry, the NAACP officials, and their lawyers to the families of the fire victims. "It would be interesting to see how those families dispense revenge on those who are really responsible for the deaths of their loved ones, he wrote." Turner was only recently called on the threat by the Daily Targum, the Rutgers University student newspaper, and stood by the letter.

Turner fires back...and so do we.

Kenneth J. Schmidt, 32 of Pompton Lakes, was until recently the Secretary of the Nationalist Movement and a writer who can be found in a number of right wing/racist publications such as the Citizens' Observer and the Nationalist Times. He has sponsored writing essays against King Day celebrations. When the University of Mississippi banned the Confederate Flag from sports events citing "safety reasons", Schmidt thought he could call for banning Mexican immigrants citing the same concern, charging them with creating a Dengue Fever epidemic in Texas. Much of his writings focus on trying to build support for European racists. Schmidt is highly respected among a broad range of rightists. He has set up demonstrations in support of Serbian, Austrian and English Nationalists and is working on many more. He visits Austria to personally shore up anti-immigrant and patriotic sentiment, and was a major supporter of Jorge Haider, the Austrian leader stirring up controversy for his pro-Nazi leanings. Schmidt, however was particularly ticked at Haider, however. When he came to America in January, Haider visited with Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality during CORE'S King Day celebration (never mind the fact that Innis is about as right wing as Haider). Schmidt in disgust, canceled a welcoming celebration in Brooklyn for the Austrian racist. "I was disappointed, to say the least, that Governor Haider's first act upon reaching our shores was to attend a friendly meeting with the self-styled Congress on Racial Equality, a Negro outfit led by minority big-mouth, Roy Innis," Schmidt said. Schmidt currently is working to see Pat Buchanan become President.

Arne Mathingsdal is the lead singer of the band Red, White, and Blue. When this band started it was called Spirit of 88. The number 88 has always been associated with Nazis. The band said it refered to the year when Sunday Matinees at CBGB's were huge. They would deny whole heartedly that they were a racist band, even proclaiming on a flyer "Blacks & White, Punks & Skins For Everyone!" He even used to be friends with some of the organizers. That was in 1996. Four years, four bass players, and one name change later, Red White and Blue is very much regarded as a white power band. According to Barrett's webpage, Arne says he likes it being known that he is a full-blooded Norwegian (he sings some songs in Norwegian), but is quick to add "but I was born here in the States, make no mistake about that." Arne says his current bass player is here to stay, "not like our previous members who weren't into The Nationalist Movement."

Carl Williams, Barrett says is the reason he is coming to New Jersey."Those who truly want a future will be out there to show support for State Police Superintendent Carl Williams, who has been wrongfully silenced for telling the truth and who was terminated from his position for turning on a light," Jeremy Erickson said to the Freeholders on June 28. That "truth" was the admission that the New Jersey State Police racially profile motorists. Williams and the state police have came under fire over allegations that the agency practices racial profiling, targeting minorities for traffic stops. The issue was inflamed by the April 1998 shooting of three minority men during a stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. Troopers said they fired on the unarmed men in a van because the vehicle was backing up at them. In an interview with the Star-Ledger interview, Williams said he did not condone racial profiling, but said it is naive to think race is not an issue in drug crimes. “Two weeks ago, the president of the United States went to Mexico to talk to the president of Mexico about drugs. He didn’t go to Ireland. He didn’t go to England,” Williams said. “Today with this drug problem, the drug problem is cocaine or marijuana. It is most likely a minority group that’s involved with that,” said Williams. “They aren’t going to ask some Irishman to be a part of their [gang] because they don’t trust them.” Williams was fired for these remarks and replaced with Carson Dunbar, a Black man. Because of this, Barrett considers Williams a "victim" of racial profiling. The thing that makes Williams even more questionable is the fact that he has not denounced Barrett's march. In fact, Barrett's webpage notes his official response as "No comment." He thinks remainng silent on the issue is enough, but there are too many people asking him to give an account and his silence is looking more and more like he is supporting Barrett and the racial profiling he said he was against. That says to us that the right thing was done when he was ousted.

Roy Frankhouser former Grand Dragon of a Pensylvainia Klan outfit, and self-styled agent of the Klan Bureau of Investigation is connected to Barrett. Contrary to the assertions of Morristown Mayor John "Jay" DeLaney, no flyer or publication has ever said that Barrett was a Klan member. We have however said that there was a connection and that is important to note since Barrett tries to make public disassociations from himself and the Klan. Now that this lie is exposed, we need to see what kind of person this one is.

Frankhouser is a vet in White Supremacist politics. He is listed in the Encyclopedia of the Ku Klux Klan as an FBI informant, and has told other racists that he is indeed an infomant, but that he only supplies insignificant information. He says he then funnels the money the FBI gives him into his racist activities. Frankhouser was also identified recently in Newark, NJ when the People's Organization for Progress held a Confederate flag burning on June 17, 2000. Frankhouser and other associates reportedly were in a nearby parking lot taking pictures from a van as the rally was taking place. Pictures

John Kucek is also publicly supporting Barrett's march in Morristown. John Kucek is the former candidate for governor in NJ for the Populist Party. The tricky thing about Kucek is that, like Barrett, he hides behind a facade of benign patriotism. The truth about Kucek's real beliefs were exposed during the 1994 defection of members of the SS Action Group in NJ. Kucek and his associates donated over $200 to the Neo-Nazi organization. They also allowed the group to use their photocopiers at the American Opinion Bookstore (formerly in Bound Brook) to make literature in exchange for members of the SS Action Group dressing normally amd distributing Populist Party campaign literature.


New Jersey Right to Life is nicknamed Reich to Life for a reason. This anti-abortion rights group seems to be a front for far right/racist groups trying to sneak into the mainstream. At their April 8 conference in Somerset, they invited as a keynote speaker writer Joseph Sobran. Sobran is a staple in white supremacist circles, promoting and defending eugenics and the notion that the Holocaust did not happen. He does not consider his beliefs to be anti-Semitic, but rather "counter-Semitic," as if there is a difference. Another speaker was radio talk show host Steve Malzberg, who when five years ago, students protested Rutgers president Francis Lawrence by sitting on a basketball court during a televised game, suggested the next time police use their guns and hoses on them. That same evening Malzberg allowed a caller to leave contact information for the white supremacist National Alliance, founded by the author of the Turner Diaries. Reich to Life, which once rejected a platform of non-violence, has given their endorsement to insurance salesman, former Congressman Mike Pappas in his bid to reclaim his seat in Congress, as well as Senatorial candidate Murray Sabrin, who himself was brought to task over his attacks on Paul Robeson and his affiliations with 13th District congressional candidate Hal Turner.

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