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11/09/05, [Newton TAB, MA]

Racist paper lands on lawns
By Don Seiffert/ Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Residents who found a copy of a white-supremacist, anti-Semitic newspaper on their front lawns this week can expect more where that came from in coming months.
The head of distribution for the Aryan Alternative Newspaper, based in Kirksville, Mo., which was delivered last week to about 500 households in a handful of communities in eastern Massachusetts, said there are plans to deliver the newspaper to more homes more often.
Glenn Miller, the distribution manager of the paper and a contributing writer, described the publication as a "pro-white" alternative to the "anti-white bias" in the mainstream press. The newspaper comes out quarterly, and 44,000 copies of the most recent issue were printed and delivered nationwide.


But he said that there are plans to make it a monthly, and to increase the circulation in the Newton area from 500. He explained that the paper has about 20 individuals who distribute it to a few communities in eastern Massachusetts, including Newton and Stoughton. It's up to those individuals how many copies they choose to order and deliver, said Miller.
Miller said none of the local distributors would likely be willing to speak to the newspaper.
Asked why he thought Newton was among the few chosen communities in Eastern Massachusetts, he said, "simply because white people are there."
Miller said that for every 500 newspapers that are delivered, three or four residents typically call the local police to complain. "That tells me a lot of people agree with it," he said.
Bruce Apotheker, spokesman for the Newton Police, confirmed that after last week's delivery, "two or three" complaints came in. Apotheker said that while police show up to homes to respond to the complaints, officers do not search for the newspaper, nor pick it up off residents' lawns, although some residents themselves apparently collect and dispose of them from neighboring lawns.
Apotheker said the delivery of the paper can only be considered a crime if the paper appears to target a minority, such as if it's delivered to just one home on a street which happens to be inhabited by a minority. He also said that under some circumstances, the delivery of the paper could violate littering laws.

Rebecca Leiter, a Newton Highlands resident, said she called the police after the paper appeared on her front lawn last Monday, Oct. 31. She said a number of residents on the street had all received it, and her initial reaction "was to ignore it."
However, she decided to call the police, and then call the Newton TAB, because "if everyone ignored it, the people who [publish the newspaper] would be able to persuade more people to their cause."
Miller said that anyone who receives the newspaper but doesn't want it can call him at the phone number on page two (417-463-7703) to stop delivery.
In the course of speaking to the TAB, Miller complained that the Aryan Alternative Newspaper (www.govnn.com) is often wrongly stereotyped along with other, similar publications.
"All pro-white newspapers are lumped together, no matter how moderate ... That's bigotry. That's absurd," he said.

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