Dennis Mahon

Dennis Mahon (* 1950 or 1951 ) is an American right-wing extremist and terrorist who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR), among others . He is currently serving a 40-year sentence for a letter bomb attack on an Arizona city ​​government office .

Life

Dennis Mahon joined David Duke's Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and remained a long-time member. He was also a member of the William Pierces National Alliance for a while . He had the rank of "Imperial Dragon". In 1988 he broke away from David Duke and founded the Oklahoma White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He led sound troops in Oklahoma , Kansas and Missouri until the 1990s . He also accompanied negotiations between the Klan and the Aryan Nation . In the early 1990s he supported Carsten Szczepanskias well as other groups in their efforts to build a German Ku Klux Klan. He provided Szczepanski with propaganda material, including the clerical magazines “The White Beret” and “The Oklahoma Excalibur”, which he published, and appeared as a speaker at a cross-burn in Halbe , where a team from RTL plus was present. In the mid-1990s he broke away from the Klan and joined Tom Metzger's organization White Aryan Resistance. He also had connections to a Christian identity enclave in Elohim City .

In the wake of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , he appeared as a supporter of the terrorist Timothy McVeigh and claimed to be familiar with him. Mahon himself was the target of the investigation, but nothing could be proven.

From the year 2000 he restricted his activities as far as possible and disappeared from the public eye. However, he continued to work as a journalist and appeared at various events on the US neo-Nazi scene. He is a representative of White Supremacy and advocates terrorist actions. He mainly represents the standpoint of the so-called "Lone Wolf" movement, that is, small, militant actions by individuals or small groups. In his ideology he represents radical anti-Semitism , racism and separatism

Letter bomb attack

On 26 February 2004 exploded a letter bomb in the office of Don Logan, the Equal Opportunities Officer of Scottsdale in Arizona , injuring the man hard. Both Dennis Mahon and his identical twin brother Daniel were suspected of having planted the bomb. Dennis Mahon had previously threatened the official by telephone. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) smuggled a female informant into the ranks of the two brothers. Before this, Dennis Mahon bragged about various bomb attacks. For example, he alleged that he had carried out attacks on a variety of facilities, including Jewish meetinghouses, offices of the United States Tax Service ( IRS), and abortion clinics , since the 1980s . He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2012 for this act, which the judge ruled as hate crime . His brother was acquitted.

Private life

Dennis Mahone's identical twin brother Daniel Mahone is also right-wing extremist and followed his brother into various organizations. He is the quieter of the two, who is far less conspicuous in the scene on the right. In 1999 he was fired from his job at American Airlines when it emerged that he was acting racist and agitating there.

Web link

• The Mahon brothers on the Anti-Defamation League website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dennis Mahon: Overview. (No longer available online.) ADL.org , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Nina Juliane Rink: Instructions for "racial hatred" . In: The Right Edge . No. 159 , 2016, p. 18/19 .
3. ^ Dennis Mahon: Ties to White Supremacist Groups. (No longer available online.) ADL.org , archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Dennis Mahon: Ideology. (No longer available online.) ADL.org , archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Nick R. Martin: How The Feds Brought Down Arizona's Suspected White Supremacist 'Serial' Bombing Brothers. Talkinpointsmemo.com, January 10, 2012, accessed April 28, 2016 . 
6. ^ White supremacist Dennis Mahon gets 40 years for Az. Bombing. CBS News , May 22, 2012, accessed April 28, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Dennis Mahon: Daniel Mahon, Twin Brother. (No longer available online.) ADL.org , archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.