Foiling A Revolt: White racists are indicted

White racists are indicted

Their numbers were small, but their dreams had a malevolently delusive grandeur: they aimed to destroy the U.S. Government "and form a new Aryan nation by armed revolution." Moreover, they were well embarked on a round of robberies, bombings and assassination attempts.

Those were the central charges in indictments won last week by federal prosecutors against 15 white supremacists. Ten men were accused of sedition by a grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and...

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