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The last time Hatewatch caught up with , the veteran and creator of the white nationalist website Podblanc, he was about to be kicked out of his adopted home country of Estonia. That happened. Now, it turns out that Estonia鈥檚 loss is Montana鈥檚 pain.

Cobb has surfaced in Big Sky Country, where he and fellow white supremacist Zachariah Harp are scheduled to show a film at the Kalispell Public Library on Sept. 9. A room there was reserved in the name of the 鈥淐reativity Religion.鈥�

Cobb and Harp are followers of , a self-styled racist and anti-Semitic religious organization that worships no deity, but proclaims that 鈥渨hat is good for the white race is the highest virtue, and what is bad for the white race is the ultimate sin.鈥� (The Creativity Movement is the new name for what was once known as the World Church of the Creator. Its 1990s leader, , is now serving a 40-year prison sentence for .)

Cobb, 58, founded Podblanc in 2007 after he moved from the United States to Estonia. Modeled after YouTube, the site featured videos with content that included combat handgun training and instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails and other explosive devices, and extolled 鈥渓one wolf鈥� terrorism, including hate-crime murders of non-whites and Jews. One popular and deeply disturbing video on Podblanc, which is currently inactive, showed Russian neo-Nazis beheading and shooting Asiatic immigrants. Another featured a log-wielding skinhead bashing in the head of an African immigrant.

One of Podblanc鈥檚 avid viewers was , a mentally disturbed young man in Brockton, Mass. Luke is now awaiting trial on charges of shooting to death two West African immigrants the day after President Obama鈥檚 inauguration in January 2009, and attempting to kill a third after raping her. During a videotaped interview with detectives, Luke he spent most of his free time on racist websites, especially Podblanc, which he said 鈥渟poke the truth about the demise of the white race.鈥� At his first court hearing, Luke appeared with a bloody swastika freshly cut into his forehead with a prison razor.

After Estonian officials 鈥� because he was seen as a threat to public safety and morals, Cobb said 鈥� he showed up in Finland. He was soon deported back to Estonia, where he was jailed, then released and banned from the country for 10 years. From there, Cobb apparently went to Vancouver, had trouble with Canadian authorities because of his white supremacist activities, and moved to Montana.

Harp is a Kalispell native and the son of a former Montana state legislator. He has 鈥渂een a central player in the Flathead Valley鈥檚 white supremacist movement for some time,鈥� said Travis McAdam, executive director of the anti-racist . The Flathead Valley is in the northwest corner of the state, near Glacier National Park. 鈥淭here鈥檚 been a tremendous upswing in white supremacist activity in the Flathead area over the past two years and adding somebody like Craig Cobb to the mix is not a good sign,鈥� McAdam said.

Cobb is only the latest white supremacist to reserve a room at the Kalispell library to show Holocaust denial films. In the past few months, Karl Gharst has done the same thing under the name of the 鈥淜alispell Christian Alliance.鈥� Gharst鈥檚 group also has booked a library room for another film next Tuesday.

Gharst has his own unpleasant history. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his threatening a social worker who he called a 鈥済reasy, turd-colored mongrel鈥� and a 鈥渨ild savage from the Flathead Indian Reservation,鈥� according to the Daily Interlake newspaper. He also was one of two members of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations to in Hayden, Idaho, in 2003. Both men lost, with Gharst getting a mere 42 votes. Aryan Nations founder 鈥� whom Gharst was living with at the time 鈥� ran for mayor in the same election and was similarly trounced, getting less than 2% of the votes cast. Butler died the following year.

Members of another white separatist group, Kalispell Pioneer Little Europe, worked with Gharst in organizing the previous film showings. One of them, , was arrested along with her husband on misdemeanor charges stemming from a scuffle with somebody outside the library at one of the showings. Gaede, who lives in Kalispell, enjoyed a brief moment of national infamy several years ago as the , Prussian Blue. More recently, she has tried her hand at being a .

So many neo-Nazis reserving rooms at the Kalispell library has caused some grief for Kim Crowley, director of the Flathead County Library System. 鈥淲e do get calls from people who are upset. There is some confusion that we are sponsoring the programs.鈥� Now the library requires groups reserving library rooms to give the sponsor鈥檚 name and state on their flyers that the library isn鈥檛 sponsoring their event. But the groups have been allowed to continue their activities. Crowley says the library is the equivalent of a town square, where people of varying viewpoints can exercise their First Amendment right to speak their minds. 鈥淚t鈥檚 my duty to allow the room to be used for almost anything people want to use it for,鈥� she says.

If Karl Gharst鈥檚 experience is a good barometer, Craig Cobb will see far more protesters than sympathizers when he stages his event 鈥� thanks in large part to the work of McAdams鈥� group. The three previous Nazi revisionist films drew perhaps six to 15 people each time, Crowley says. Sign-carrying protesters turned out at all three of them, with more than 250 showing up most recently, Crowley says.