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End Apathy 'Skinhead' Band: Wade Michael Page Hardcore Group Allegedly Professed Racism
Posted: 08/06/2012 12:23 pm Updated: 08/06/2012 1:04 pm
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Wade Michael Page was a member of End Apathy, a hardcore band that the Southern Poverty Law Center said espouses white power views.
Wade Michael Page, the man suspected of killing six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Wisconsin, was a member of a racist skinhead band, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Soon after Page was identified as the suspect Monday morning, the SPLC reported that he founded the band End Apathy, which the organization described as a "racist white power" trio.
A MySpace page for the band describes them as an “old school” band with “punk and metal” influences.
“The music is a sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress,” reads a description of the band on the MySpace page.
Page was interviewed in April 2010 by the music website Label 56 -- which the SPLC describes as a "white supremacist website." In the interview, Page said he started the band because he wanted to “figure out how to end people's apathetic ways” and that it would "be the start towards moving forward."
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The band's songs, Page said, were based on a variety of topics including, “sociological issues, religion, and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subjugated to.”
Page said he was born in Colorado and had been playing music since he was 13.
According to police, Page enlisted in the U.S. Army in April 1992 and was serving in the psychological operations unit out of Fort Bragg, N.C. He was discharged in October 1998, though the specific circumstances of his discharge are not immediately clear.
Page does not mention his military career in the Label 56 interview, but he does refer to his life since leaving the Army.
“Back in 2000 I set out to get involved [in music] and wanted to basically start over,” he said. “So, I sold everything I owned except for my motorcycle and what I could fit into a backpack and went on cross country trip visiting friends and attending festivals and shows.”
According to Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center 's intelligence project, the group has been tracking Page since 2000, when he allegedly attempted to purchase goods from the neo-Nazi National Alliance. The National Alliance, according to the law center, was once considered “America’s most important hate group.”
There has been no recent activity on End Apathy’s MySpace page and some online reports suggest the band broke up last year.
According to police, Page, 40, lived in an apartment building in Cudahy, Wisc. Authorities searched the building Sunday. The landlord there told authorities Page held a night job making welding supplies. Neighbors said they believe his girlfriend recently broke up with him.
Police say Page, whom they initially described as a heavy set Caucasian man with a shaved head and numerous tattoos, stormed the Sikh temple Sunday morning. He allegedly shot six people to death and wounded three others. Wade was killed outside the temple in a shootout with police officers.
Relatives of Satwant Kaleka, the president of the temple, told WGHP-TV that he was killed fighting the attacker.
Authorities have said they are treating the attack as an act of domestic terrorism, though no motive has been established in the case. |
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Sikh Temple Shooting: White Supremacists Hoped Shooter Was Not One Of Them
The Huffington Post | By Gene Demby Posted: 08/06/2012 1:16 pm Updated: 08/06/2012 1:16 pm
Posters on a white nationalist message board hoped that the shooter in the Wisconsin Sikh temple massacre was not among their ranks.
The posts, first surfaced by the blogger Chauncey DeVega at the site We Are Respectable Negroes, show nationalists worried that Sunday's mass killing, in which a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple a Milwaukee suburb would reflect poorly on white supremacists. A thread on Stormfront, the popular white supremacist message board, called "Here We Go Again: Mass Shooting at Sikh Temple In Oak Creek, Wisconsin," is filled with anxious racists, who also worried that the massacre will result in a government crackdown on white power groups.
Said one poster named Unlearn:
The hits keep coming. White males of America, I know you're frustrated, but channel that anger into productive, positive ways of helping your people. People say it's poor black males that need role models. WE need role models. We've forgotten how to act when stress goes through the roof.
Said another poster named glord:
This guy is a grade A scumbag, I pray to god he was not a member on here....can you imagine the media? Please anybody, do not sympathise with what this man did, it just makes us all look really bad and puts many people off coming around to our views, and the truth.
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The man is scum and the exact opposite type of people we should be aligning ourselves with. If he turns out to be a white nationalist, it will hurt us so, so much. This is not the answer.
Added a poster named Hyperborean Warrior:
Disgusting. I hope he gets arrested.
Said another poster named Bellatrix:
These are the people I hate most. They are too stupid to realize the harm they are doing to us. We must absolutely shun anyone on this site who so much as hints at causing injury to other races. They are poison.
Their fears turned out to be justified: the shooter has been identified as Wade Michael Page, a neo-Nazi who made white nationalist music with a band called End Apathy. "End Apathy began in 2005 and the concept was based on trying to figure out what it would take to actually accomplish positive results in society and what is holding us back," Page said in a 2010 interview with Label 56, a white supremacist music label. "A lot of what I realized at the time was that if we could figure out how to end peoples [sic] apathetic ways it would be the start towards moving forward."
Wade, a 40-year-old army veteran, was killed by a police officer at the scene of the shootings.
But other posters were sympathetic to Page's rampage:
finally a man whos got some nerve, hows this non violent crap been working for all u guys who are slamming this guy, spread all the propaganda u want, the message isnt getting out, this is how points are made
Jim Berger, a national security expert who focuses on homegrown extremism, tweeted that white power sites are already putting distance between themselves and Page.
J.M. Berger@intelwire
White supremacist sites are starting to clear off content related to Page as they identify it.
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