NEXT ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: THE WHITE WOLVES

Connecticut just decimated one of their more antsier bonehead crews. A few years ago, we were introduced to the White Wolves, who thought it would be a good idea to burst into a New Haven pro-gay meeting and attack everyone there. After they got their asses handed to them over that, they decided to just pass out flyers and show up at rallies. But they got antsy again and wanted to do more. Now five of their members, including their leader Kenneth Zrallack, have been arrested for trafficking in weapons. Feds performed the smackdown on the crew last week, a few days before they also picked up members of the Hutaree Militia in Michigan. Now we don’t know if there are any connections between the two groups, but it is starting to be more and more apparent that, as Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Keith Olbermann tonight the infamous DHS report about right-wing extremists was spot-on. Now the next question we have is why were so many conservatives so ticked off about that report? Apparently someone is trying to find out before they show us. One quick point to note: White Wolves and the new crew Batallion 14 are closely entwined, but Batallion 14 is indeed a new group, not a new name for the White Wolves.  

Jewish Ledger

NEW HAVEN – Five New Haven area members of The Connecticut White Wolves, a Connecticut-grown white supremacist, neo-Nazi group have been indicted by a grand jury on weapons violations for allegedly trying to sell guns and grenades across state lines.

The Connecticut White Wolves – known now according to the indictment as Battalion 14 – began as a small collection of racist skinheads in Stratford, but has grown into the largest and most active extremist group in the state, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Indicted this week were Kenneth Zrallack, 29, of Ansonia, who according to the indictment is the leader of the Connecticut White Wolves or Battalion 14; two members of the group, Alexander DeFelice, 32, of Milford and William R. Bolton, 31, of Stratford; Edwin T. Westmoreland, 27, of Stratford, who “participated in some of the activities” of the group; and David Sutton, 46, of Milford, an associate of Alexander DeFelice.

According to the indictment, from around the Fall of 2008 to the present, members of the white supremacist group “in varying degrees assisted and derived benefit from, and attempted to assist and derive benefit from, the transfer and sale of firearms and explosive grenades intended for delivery to a white supremacist group located outside Connecticut.”

According to the Anti-Defamation League website, the Connecticut White Wolves describes itself as a ‘white nationalist skinhead organization’ and promotes an ideology espousing hatred of Jews and racial and ethnic minorities. Members, though typically young, have been involved in a number of criminal acts in Connecticut and have forged ties with nationally recognized hate groups, including the National Alliance, the Creativity Movement, White Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan.”

The Connecticut office of the ADL has for several years reported on the growth and activities of the Connecticut White Wolves, including a number of assaults and other crimes its members have committed.

“ADL applauds the arrest and indictment of members of the White Wolves/Battalion 14, a white nationalist skinhead organization that espouses hatred of Jews and racial and ethnic minorities. ADL takes seriously our mission to monitor and expose extremism, ensuring that law enforcement, government officials and the public are aware of extremism in our state and the groups and individuals whose ideologies and activities perpetuate hatred and extremism,” said Randi B. Pincus, Acting Regional Director of the Connecticut Office of the ADL. “We are extremely grateful to law enforcement in Connecticut for their hard work and dedication in making these arrests, and to their attention to the important issue of extremism in our state. While we appreciate and support the freedom of speech for even the most heinous white supremacist views, law enforcement and others must be ready to act when the line is crossed into illegal conduct, as they were in this case.”