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Nineteen-year-old Kyle Anderson wants the world to know that he鈥檚 out to change the image of white supremacists like himself. 鈥淧eople used to think of a guy with a beer belly spitting out tobacco and missing a few teeth,鈥� Anderson the Billings [Montana] Gazette earlier this week. 鈥淣ow we think of people who are determined, energetic leaders, educated and idealistic, we鈥檙e the best creators. We鈥檙e the elite.鈥�

Well, sort of. Anderson, a former associate of racist skinhead gangs, is now a member of the Montana Creators Assembly 鈥� one of several splinter groups that emerged from the of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator (WCOTC). And the history of that group (whose name was changed in 2002, after a non-racist Oregon church sued over copyright infringement) does not suggest that 鈥淐reators,鈥� in the past or today, are the 鈥渆lite,鈥� let alone 鈥渆ducated and idealistic.鈥�

Started as the Church of the Creator in 1973 by Ben Klassen, a former Florida state lawmaker who was state chairman of segregationist George Wallace鈥檚 1968 run for president, WCOTC specialized in popularizing particularly guttural language, with Klassen ranting incessantly about 鈥渘------,鈥� 鈥渢he goddamned mud races鈥� and, in a cry that became a slogan, 鈥淩acial Holy War.鈥� In 1991, a Creator 鈥渞everend鈥� murdered a black Persian Gulf War veteran in Florida. Around the same time, a man who had served prison time for selling millions of pounds of tainted meat to schools was briefly named Klassen鈥檚 successor. Another man who led the group briefly was convicted of planting a bomb on a police officer鈥檚 porch. In 1993, after Klassen committed suicide, eight people with links to COTC were charged with plotting to bomb a Los Angeles church and assassinate Rodney King. The Washington state director of the group bombed an NAACP office the same year. And time didn鈥檛 soften the group鈥檚 taste for criminal thuggery. In 1999, a member went on a , murdering two people and injuring at least nine. In 2005, its then-leader, , was sentenced to 40 years for soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Throughout, various Creators were arrested regularly for street violence, drug use and even shoplifting.

But Anderson, buttoned down in a burgundy dress shirt and clutching preparatory notes for his interview with the Gazette, complained that his group鈥檚 hopes 鈥� for a bloody national race war against blacks and Jews followed by the creation of an all-white country 鈥� are misunderstood. 鈥淎 lot of people against us have never read, never looked into our program,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e been brainwashed.鈥� Kind of like Kyle Anderson.