European-American Unity and Rights Organization

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The European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) is a [[white civil rights^[1]]] organization in the United States. Led by former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, it was founded in 2000. Duke reformed the KKK organization, promoting nonviolence and legality, and, for the first time in the Klan's history, women were accepted as equal members and Catholics were encouraged to apply for membership. Duke declared that the Klan was "not anti-black", but rather "pro-white" and "pro-Christian." In 1980, Duke left the Klan and formed the National Association for the Advancement of White People.
Initially, it was to be called the National Organization for European-American Rights (or NO FEAR), until the use of the name was legally challenged by No Fear Inc. The group was one of the original signatories of the 2004 New Orleans Protocol, a mostly US-based alliance of white nationalist and white supremacist groups.
As of 2015 it is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[2]

Contents

• 1 Ideology
• 2 Activities
• 3 2014 controversy
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Ideology

The statement of principles sets out eight main goals for the organization, which are as follows:

• Equal rights for White Americans, particularly through an end to affirmative action.
• An end to desegregation busing, which they blame for declining educational standards, increased racial tension, and the wasting of public money.
• Welfare reform that would see welfare recipients made to work for their money, and the encouragement of family planning.
• Tougher sentencing for violent crime, alongside the repealing of hate crime legislation.
• Very strict limitations on immigration.
• An end to media portrayal of whites as oppressors.
• The preservation of white heritage.
• A demand for excellence in all things.^[3]

The main areas of activity for EURO are Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi, with other groups active in the south.^[4]
Its website, www.whitecivilrights.com (defunct as of 2014), included a number of investigative articles, including the suggestion that Israel was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center.^[5]
In an October 2007 website article the author wrote (commenting on what he called Hitler's "workers paradise") "The beautiful Germany of the 1930s with blonde children happily running through every village has been replaced with a multi-racial cesspool. Out of work Africans can be seen shuffling along the same streets, which used to be clean and safe in the days of the National Socialists. One day, people in Germany will grow tired of the politically correct police state that is destroying their lives. They will recover their national pride and start speaking the truth about their past regardless of what the militant lesbians or thought police tell them. Once that happens, Germany may finally be a great nation again -free of foreign control."^[6]

Activities

In 2006 the group's ex-leader in Idaho Stan Hess courted controversy when he ran unsuccessfully for election to the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. His campaign focused on what he described as "the European American human rights movement", with Hess advocating the establishment of a European American Studies programme and the designation of a "European American Heritage Month" in October.^[7] According to an article in the Spokesman Review "he said he severed ties with the group about a year ago. Started by Ku Klux Klansman David Duke, Hess said the group’s ties to the KKK concerned him and that he found it difficult to work within a large organization. He served as president of the organization’s California chapter prior to moving to North Idaho in 2003.".^[7]

2014 controversy

The group gained wider coverage in December 2014 when Steve Scalise, the Republican Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, acknowledged that in 2002, whilst a member of the Louisiana State Legislature, he had addressed a EURO meeting.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

See also

• List of white nationalist organizations

References

1. http://davidduke.com/
2. "Active White Nationalist Groups". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
3. European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) Statement of Principles
4. Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2006 from Southern Poverty Law Center
5. Buchanan, James. "Low Jewish Casualties in 911 Attack at WTC". EURO. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
6. Mosley, Ian. "Germans Still Remember their Historical Greatness". October 30, 2007. EURO. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
7. Cuniff, Meghann (August 24, 2006). "Advocate for whites runs for NIC post: Hess wants more European studies.". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
8. "House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
9. Eric Bradner and Athena Jones, CNN (29 December 2014). "Scalise doesn't deny speech to white supremacist group - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
10. "GOP leader Steve Scalise may have addressed supremacist conference". MSNBC. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
11. "House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Spoke At White Supremacist Conference In 2002". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
12. "House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Was Reportedly an Honored Guest at 2002 International White Supremacist Convention". Retrieved 29 December 2014.

External links

• Official website^{[dead link]}
• David Duke's website