NEXT ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: APRIL GAEDE AND MARK HARRINGTON

You know it’s funny. White Supremacists seem to get locked up at the same rate they complain about black people getting locked up. It has gotten to a point that if you don’t like a Nazi just wait. They are either going to get hacked to pieces or beaten to death (See Eugene Terre’Blanche and Richard Barrett) or the cuffs will be slapped on them eventually. Sadly April Gaede (pictured), whom you might remember was the mother pimping out her twins a few years ago as the “singing” duo Prussian Blue, and her husband, teacher Mark Harrington, aren’t going to do hard time for what they did, but it still brings the funny. Ever since the no-so-dynamic duo started to infest Kalispell, MT a few years ago, they have been doing their damndest to make their newly adopted town a whites-only homeland whether the locals like it or not. They formed a group called Kalispell Pioneer Little Europe, along with Aryan Nations’ Karl Gharst, who himself got in some legal trouble of his own when he allegedly threatened and harassed an employee of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services by saying among other things, “(A) group was forming in Kalispell to come in and gather up all the lesbians and mongrels and evil people.” Well because April was pissed that her daughters were shown Schindler’s List in school, she and Gharst started a monthly film showing at the Flathead County Library, and the community, after their March 29 showing of The Holocaust Debate, wasn’t too keen on this month’s feature: a movie that praises the Waffen SS. There were calls to come out and make hay about this event, a call that about 200 people answered. That didn’t sit too well with Mark and April who promptly got into an altercation with someone taking their picture (WE SO WANT THOSE PICS!), and ended up making the point moot as now Flathead County took them downtown to take pictures of their own – mugshots, but still. If you are in the Flathead County area on May 7, head on over to the courthouse. The Gaedes would looooove to see you! We were originally going to put this on the site regarding the showing, so we need to note that Gharst has another one scheduled for May 29, the movie being The Truth Behind the Gates of Auschwitz. Something tells us that ain’t happening.

Daily Interlake

Two members of a white separatist group were arrested during a protest over a pro-Nazi film shown at the Flathead County Library on Thursday night.

Married couple Mark Harrington, 42, and April Gaede, 44, of Kalispell, who helped organize the film’s screening, were arrested by Kalispell Police on charges of simple assault and criminal mischief for their involvement in a scuffle that knocked the camera out of a protester’s hand and broke its flash.

Protesters had been urged to turn out at the library at 6 p.m. with protest signs and cameras.

“If everyone brings their camera and actively takes pictures of the bad guys going in and out, it will be immensely effective in running them back under their rock,” an e-mail about the protest urged.

An estimated 200 people had crowded around the library to protest “Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS,” which apparently takes an admiring view of the combat arm of the Nazis during World War II. The film was screened by a white separatist group called Kalispell Pioneer Little Europe.

Pioneer Little Europe members Harrington and Gaede moved to Kalispell from Bakersfield, Calif., in 2006 because of what they called the area’s racial tensions and since then have been active members in the white separatist movement.

Along with a small group, Harrington and Gaede had been making their way inside a little before 7 p.m. Thursday when a woman with a camera apparently got too close. When they attempted to push the camera and her out of the way, a scuffle ensued, according to police reports.

Harrington and Gaede were hauled off in handcuffs. Harrington was taken to the Kalispell Police Department and Gaede was taken to the Flathead County Detention Center.

Kalispell Police Patrol Lt. Wade Rademacher said usually when multiple people are arrested in the same incident, they are taken to separate facilities.

Harrington and Gaede have until May 7 to appear in Kalispell Municipal Court.

Thursday night, residents held signs reading “No Neo-Nazis” and “No Hate in My Backyard” to protest the second film shown at the library by Karl Gharst, a Flathead Valley resident with former ties to a white supremacist group in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

If anyone has pics from the rally, particularly that of the Nazis that ventured inside, feel free to send them to [email protected].