Aryan Nations

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Aryan Nations was a nutjob Christian Identity group in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

During the 1980s they were a major center of radical right activity in the United States and held "Aryan Nations World Congress" gatherings at their compound, bringing together a variety of members of other groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Posse Comitatus, and neo-Nazi skinheads. Aryan Nations advocated an all-white "homeland" in the northwestern United States and encouraged white supremacists to move there. A terrorist spin-off started by Aryan Nations members was "The Order", which robbed armored cars in California and assassinated Alan Berg, a talk radio host in Denver. Federal sedition charges against Aryan Nations' founder and 13 other radical right leaders resulted from the activities of "The Order", but failed to bring convictions. The surviving members of "The Order", however, were successfully prosecuted. Another terrorist act by a former Aryan Nations member was the shooting at the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center in 1999. Aryan Nations finally went bankrupt after they were successfully sued in 2000 by a family who was violently harassed and fired on by Aryan Nations guards while driving past their compound. A few splinter groups continue to use the name and each claim to be the "real" Aryan Nations.