Kevin Alfred Strom
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Kevin Alfred Strom (born 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska) is the Managing Director of National Vanguard, an organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is regarded by some as being racist, white separatist, homophobic and a Neo-Nazi hate group. [1] [2] Mr. Strom and the organization dispute this characterization, however, saying that it is completely legitimate for men and women of European descent to organize to promote their interests as a people. National Vanguard states on its website that the USA would be improved "if it becomes a proud White nation again". [1] Its membership rules stipulate that "Persons of Jewish descent, homosexuals or bisexuals, criminals, persons with a non-White spouse or sexual partner, or persons with more than an undetectable trace of non-White ancestry are specifically barred from membership." [2]
Strom was also briefly the managing editor of The Truth at Last newspaper during 2005. Several sources have described this tabloid as anti-Semitic and racist. [3] [4] Strom's boss at The Truth at Last, Edward R. Fields, is a former Grand Dragon of the New Order Knights of the KKK. [5]
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[edit] Biography
Kevin Alfred Strom was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1956.
Strom's marriage to his first wife, Kirsten Helene Kaiser, produced three children. [6] Since their marriage ended, Kaiser has spoken out about her life with Strom in several interviews. [7] [8] She has also written a book on her experiences with Strom and the National Alliance entitled The Bondage of Self (ISBN 0-9720705-5-9). Kaiser claimed that Strom was an extremely controlling husband who forced her to abstain from meat, forbade her to wear blue jeans, and predetermined her favorite music, Mozart. [9] She has since disavowed the racist beliefs she held while married to Strom and has summarized their years together: "Hundreds of women like me have gotten hooked up with some man from a racist group who controls their lives. I want them to know that if I can escape and regain my soul, they can too." [10] Strom disputes Kaiser's claims and the parents now amicably share custody of their children.
Kevin Alfred Strom is now married to Elisha Strom, his second wife.
[edit] Activist History
In 1982, Kevin Alfred Strom became a member of the National Alliance, a group that has been described as anti-Semitic,[11][12] racist,[13][14][15], and neo-Nazi.[16][17][18][19] In 1991, he founded and frequently delivered the American Dissident Voices shortwave and Internet radio broadcasts. In 1995, he founded and edited Free Speech magazine, published by the Alliance as an adjunct to the radio program. In early 2002, a few months before his death from cancer on July 23, the Alliance's founder, William Luther Pierce, named Strom editor of National Vanguard magazine and Media Director for the Alliance. Pierce also named Strom editor of the Alliance's monthly Bulletin.
During the weekend of April 16-17, 2005, Strom and several others were expelled from the National Alliance because of a dispute with the Alliance leadership. [20] The expelled former Alliance members, led by Strom, promptly formed their own organization which they called National Vanguard. Strom fills several roles with the fledgling National Vanguard group, including Managing Director, Media Director, and Editor-in-Chief of the NationalVanguard.org website (also known as V-News.org).
As he previously did for the National Alliance, Strom delivered weekly Internet radio broadcasts which he calls American Dissident Voices for National Vanguard.
[edit] Associations
Strom was a close associate of University of Illinois Classics professor and racial-nationalist writer Revilo P. Oliver, who has been described as "one of America's most notorious fascists" and, according to B'nai Brith Canada, was "a long time proponent of antisemitism". [21] Strom was chosen by the Oliver estate to be archivist and publisher of Oliver's papers when Oliver died in 1994. In 2002, Strom published the book The Jewish Strategy by Oliver.
[edit] Ideology
Strom is the author of what he calls the Maxim of Self-Determination: "Each people which considers itself to be a people should, to the maximum extent possible, live under its own government." Though unapparent in this quotation, Strom's notion of "a people" carries with it a crucial assumption about racial categories--namely, that races are different and should not intermix with other races.
As Strom writes, his Maxim of Self-Determination "means no Pakistani MPs. No Middle Eastern Mosques in London. No Jewish Lords. No Caribbean Blacks taking over whole city wards.", "no Chinese takeover of British Columbia and no Jewish control of the legal system.", "no Africans flooding into Rome anymore, and no more Gypsy gangs preying on White people." [22]
[edit] Other
Strom is a former broadcast engineer and is of Norwegian descent.
He scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT college-entrance exam.[23]
[edit] External links
[edit] Official
[edit] Related
- National Vanguard Website
- Kevin Strom's Art of the West Gallery
- Archive of recent broadcasts and essays
[edit] Critical
- Charleston Gazette interview with Strom's ex-wife, Kirsten Helene Kaiser, about life with Strom
- Southern Poverty Law Center profile of Kevin Strom
- SPLC article about life with Strom
- Critical Exposé
[edit] References
- ^ National Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report: Avtive Hate Groups in 2005
- ^ Leadership Shakeup at Neo-Nazi National Alliance Leads to Formation Of New Group Anti-Defamation League. Press release, May 3, 2005
