TOWN HALL MEETING IN BILLINGS, MONTANA TO ADDRESS HATE ACTIVITY

Oh, look who’s back! The Creativity Movement, which used to be called World Church of the Creator when Matt Hale was running things. Apparently there has been a bit of vandalism in Billings, Montana that targets minority-owned businesses and it is leading back some kids who started up a chapter of the Creativity Movement called the “Montana Creators Assembly” whose main face is a 19-year-old named Kyle Anderson. Little Creatards. It’s just like old times. Too bad they can’t have Hale come to a public meeting in a library since he now conducts his little RAHOWA in a cell somewhere in the Supermax prison in Florence, CO for a stint of about 40 years. Now according to their website, the Montana Creativity Movement has two email contacts, one in Billings and another in Kalispell. Ah, Kalispell. That would suggest April Gaede, mother of the Prussian Blue twins, would have some hand in that. In any case, the locals are pissed off and they held a community meeting about what to do about them. They will, just like they have in the past. Sure hope Kyle Anderson gives this crap up before its too late.

Billings Gazette

Recent white supremacist activity in Billings is nothing new, and community response over time will determine its prevalence in town, a Montana Human Rights Network spokesman said Thursday night.

Travis McAdam, the network’s research director, spoke to about two dozen people about the Montana Creators Assembly, a white-supremacist group highlighted in a Jan. 8 Gazette article about one of its members, and a string of vandalisms directed at minority-owned businesses last year.

He said the group appears to be made up of a small number of young local members, but may have an older mentor and be rooted in white-supremacist groups. It has similarities to the Creativity Movement, a group that reached national prominence in the 1990s.

“What they’ve done up to this point is pretty standard operating procedure,” McAdam said. Literature read and quoted by both groups is the same and, although Kyle Anderson was quoted in The Gazette article as saying the MCA does not advocate violence, the books do, he said. Race-related vandalism and fliers featuring Creators’ ideas have been appearing around town for about a year. McAdam said those actions are the group’s way of testing the community.

“Is the community going to go, ‘Eh, ignore it and it’ll go away?” he asked. “Or are they going to push back?”

McAdam and Eran Thompson, of Not In Our Town Billings, urged those in attendance to respond to the recent activities and encourage others to do the same.

“The longer they go unchallenged, the more they’re able to frame themselves,” McAdam said.

Thompson said community education is the biggest challenge. Efforts to prevent a “reactive stance” instead of a proactive one should include citizens, city administration and law enforcement.

The Montana Human Rights Network is an organization that works to educate the public on and prevent hate groups. For information, visit the Web site at www.mhrn.org.