Craig Cobb Says He鈥檚 Found Another North Dakota Town He Wants to Turn All-White
White supremacist Craig Cobb just won鈥檛 give up on his idea of creating an all-white city in a remote corner of North Dakota.
First, it was the tiny community of , and then it was . Now, Cobb says he has set his sights on Antler, N.D., about 180 miles north of Leith and very close to the Canadian border.
In a Facebook posting this week, Cobb 鈥� who never seems to shy away from publicity 鈥� claimed he has 8,500 signatures on a petition supporting his plan to build a 鈥淧ioneer Little Europe鈥� community in Antler. For some years now, white supremacists have fruitlessly attempted to create so-called PLEs, pictured as all-white enclaves lodged within a multicultural society.
鈥淚 think it's about time we listen to the people and make this PLE in Antler,鈥� Cobb wrote. 鈥淚f you think we're bad people you don't have to visit. Drive right by Antler, no harm no foul. I just want to live in peace.鈥�
But then Cobb doesn鈥檛 always seem to stand by what he says. After he was for parading around with guns and terrorizing townsfolk in Leith, he told The Associated Press: 鈥淚鈥檒l be glad to get out of the state, and I鈥檒l never come back to North Dakota.鈥�.
And , Cobb said he planned to 鈥渞etire from white nationalism鈥� and ask the court for permission to move to Missouri to care for his ailing mother.
鈥淚 regret my actions. I know I was wrong and I accept responsibility for my actions. It was an unfortunate confluence of circumstances and bad decisions on my part,鈥� Cobb told the court.
It seems as though he never lived up to that pledge and indeed never left the ranks of white supremacists.
Cobb told the Grand Forks Herald that he hopes to use an online funding site to raise about $70,000 for his initial property purchases in Antler, but that 鈥渃rowdfunding鈥� campaign hasn鈥檛 launched. So is all this hooplah just another Cobb publicity stunt?
鈥淲e'll just try, and hopefully we'll have some success,鈥� Cobb told the Grand Forks newspaper, claiming he鈥檚 working as an agent for interested buyers he didn鈥檛 identify.
The mayor of Antler, Bruce Hanson, told the newspaper he hadn't yet heard of Cobb's intentions to buy property in the tiny community.
鈥淚t's all news to me," the mayor said. 鈥淚 know there's property for sale in town here, but I hadn't heard about any property changing hands.鈥�
In another Facebook posting, Cobb said his new effort to establish a PLE in Antler is 鈥渘ot about hate.鈥� 鈥淚 don't hate anyone, I'm being truthful,鈥� he claimed. 鈥淚 don't hate the 鈥楥hildren of Diversity,鈥� and I don't even hate the Marxists or the Zionists.
鈥淲e 鈥榬ayciss bigots鈥� want to live with each other, we don't want to bother anyone,鈥� Cobb wrote. 鈥淭hat's what we wanted to do in Leith, and there was no problem until you guys came along.鈥�
