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Issue #19.03 :: 01/16/2007 - 01/22/2007
Neo-Nazi arrested for child porn

National Vanguard leader also allegedly obstructed justice

BY MEG MCEVOY

Until he got busted this month for possession of child pornography and witness tampering, few knew Kevin Alfred Strom was more than just our friendly neighborhood white supremacist. A resident of Earlysville, Strom would collaborate on racist, anti-Semitic “American Dissident Voices” radio broadcasts, post nationalist messages on www.cvillenews.com and was involved in a 2005 incident in which copies of “The Aryan Alternative” were distributed all over Charlottesville.


Racist organizations are decrying the arrest of Earlysville resident and white supremacist leader Kevin Strom as a conspiracy. Strom extolled the beauty of white women and girls on his website.
But apparently he is much bigger than that. An intelligence report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) (www.splcenter.org), which tracks hate groups, describes Strom as “a major American neo-Nazi leader for almost 20 years.” Strom’s organization, National Vanguard, is an offshoot of National Alliance (www.natall.com) and maintains a “news” website and chapters in at least a dozen states (www.nationalvanguard.com).

On January 4, Strom was arrested at his home in Earlysville by federal agents for possessing child pornography on his computer, and for witness tampering. Strom allegedly physically assaulted and threatened “Witness A” about the kiddie porn and other criminal activities not listed in the indictment.

Up until Strom’s second marriage, to Elisha Strom, his personal website, www.kevin-strom.com, had “a gallery of alluring photos of young girls, many of them scantily dressed, and running to shots of a teenage Brooke Shields atop a horse,” according to the SPLC. “The beauty of the women and girls of our race has inspired our greatest poets, artists, and writers throughout history,” Strom wrote. “…[I]f anything is sacred, our girls and women are, and they must be protected from the degradation and degeneracy that is inherent in multiracialism.”

A statement from National Vanguard says that Strom resigned from the organization in July 2006. National Vanguard alleges the porn arrest is part of a federal conspiracy plot to nail Strom for his differing views.

Strom’s trial date is set for March 15.
 
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