NCJ Number
207277
Journal
Intelligence Report Issue: 114 Dated: Summer 2004 Pages: 18-21
Date Published
2004
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article reviews the history and activities of the Aryan Nations Youth Action Corps (ANYAC), a group committed to recruiting youth to a neo-Nazi ideology of hatred of Jews and non-Whites.
Abstract
In January 2004, 15-year-old Logan Brown organized a Southern California chapter of ANYAC that currently consists of six members. Brown has created two ANYAC Web sites to attract youth from other States. Logan has been raised in a predominantly White, middle-class milieu, and he and his ANYAC cohorts attend a predominantly White high school. The ANYAC has started a campus group called the Council of Concerned Students, which conducts nonviolent campaigns such as calling for the banning of gay pride T-shirts and the banning of the display of Jewish symbols at the school. Logan says he will remain nonviolent unless violent methods are required to create a White homeland. ANYAC's most recent effort has been a fund-raising concert in honor of Hitler's birthday, along with the celebration of the release from prison of former Klan leader David Duke. Logan's efforts have helped inspire a new ANYAC chapter in Illinois, and he also claims to have recruited members in Arkansas, Maryland, and several other States. He is also designing a plan to restore the adult-oriented Aryan Nations to its former prominence among neo-Nazi groups. Logan's educational and occupational plans are to obtain a Ph.D. in history, attend law school, and become a district attorney. With these credentials, he then plans to go to Idaho and work with the Aryan Nations.