Aryan Nations:
A Timeline
April 1973: Richard Butler moves to
Hayden Lake, Idaho.
middle fingers extended than the organized racism once practiced by Butler.
The last self-proclaimed leader of the
Aryan Nations, Morris L. Gulett, who
briefly was aligned with the Sadistic
Souls and its leader, Dennis McGiffen,
suddenly closed up shop in November
at his “headquarters” in Converse, La.
That likely was a surprise to the world
of white supremacists. Only six months
earlier, Gulett was boldly and publicly praising accused mass murderer
Dylann Storm Roof, whose racist mindset apparently led to the June massacre
of nine people at Emanuel AME Church
in Charleston, S.C.
Now, suddenly — without capitulating, apologizing or retreating from his
racist views — Gulett bluntly says he is
retiring from the front lines. The Aryan
Nations “no longer exists with the veracity t