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Alex Curtis: 'Lone Wolf' of Hate Prowls the Internet
Early Years
Posted: January 1, 2000
Born in Point Loma, CA, on October 24, 1975, Alex Curtis moved to what he calls a "majority Black neighborhood" in Lemon Grove, CA, at the age of 2. "From my personal standpoint, integration wasn't harmful to me and I had a great childhood," Curtis wrote in an "Autobiography" he E-mailed to his supporters on June 28, 2000.
But I know what the consequences are for races that coexist over time: racial death. That is what I seek to stop."
At Lemon Grove Junior High, which he claims was "the first school in the U.S. to be forcibly integrated by the federal government," Curtis "quickly became a Mexican hater" and "started to read about the klan [sic] and other history related to race." By the age of 13, he was "a definite self-educated racist," and he first read Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf "at Helix High in La Mesa, CA, as a freshman." According to Curtis, "this grew into" his "one-man Lemon Grove KKK."
In 1993, when he was just 17 years old, Curtis founded the "Lemon Grove Ku Klux Klan," anointed himself "Exalted Cyclops" and twice burglarized his La Mesa, CA, high school.
When Curtis was 17 years old, he founded the "Lemon Grove Ku Klux Klan," and burglarized his high school. Authorities say he vandalized the building with swastikas and racist epithets and stole lists of student addresses to write racist letters to parents "alerting" them that their children were friends with non-white students.
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Authorities say he vandalized the building with swastikas and racist epithets and stole lists of student addresses to write racist letters to parents "alerting" them that their children were friends with non-white students. One month prior to his 18th birthday, police arrested him for the school burglaries and held him on suspicion of sending threatening letters to two local newspapers and making a death threat against a sheriff's officer. "I wrote letters to editors and committed some small-time terrorist acts," he recalls. He was found guilty of the burglaries but since he was considered a juvenile at the time of his arrest, he was given probation and ordered to perform community service.
Curtis sees the time following his conviction as his "waste-away rightwing years." "I went to every, and I mean every, rightwing meeting from [Lemon Grove] to Santa Barbara from 1995-97," he writes. "Not one thing was ever accomplished." Changing his tactics, Curtis dedicated himself to "flooding San Diego with swastika literature to see what would happen." In his opinion, this activity did have an impact: "the entire county became very conscious of the hate literature and the result was a marked increase in racist activism in general and a profound increase in the level of the reaction by ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government]." In August 1997, police arrested Curtis for distributing fliers that illegally featured a police insignia. The fliers were designed to appear like a police request asking citizens to "help fight non-white crime." Curtis pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years' probation and 100 hours of community service.
Following his second sentencing, Curtis took to the Internet with a vengeance, substantially increasing the reach of his propaganda. In January 1998, he created an E-mail mailing list that he now claims has more than 800 subscribers. To this list Curtis regularly sends his "Racial Reader's Forum" messages, which contain the text of selected messages correspondents have sent him. An archive of the messages sent via the list appears on his Nationalist Observer Web site, which has been growing steadily since it came online in 1996. Also on the Web site are the "Lead Editorials" from Curtis's magazine, transcripts of his weekly racist telephone hotline messages, an archive of white supremacist articles by various propagandists, and a catalog of racist audio and video tapes.
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