The White Patriot Party was an American

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 anti-Semitic

Anti-Semitism

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  white supremacist

White supremacy

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 paramilitary

Paramilitary

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 political party

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 associated with Christian Identity

Christian Identity

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 and the Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

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. Using paramilitary

Paramilitary

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 tactics, the group developed from the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan chapter; it was founded in 1980 by Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. , commonly known as Glenn Miller, is the former leader of the defunct North Carolina-based White Patriot Party . Convicted of criminal charges related to weapons and violation of an injunction against paramilitary activity, he is a perennial candidate for public office...

  At a time of a poor farming economy in North Carolina

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, the group built support by blaming economic problems on Jewish bankers. Estimates were that its numbers might have been as high as 3000. On April 6, 1987, the group declared war

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 against the federal government, which they called "Zionist Occupation Government

Zionist Occupation Government

Zionist Occupation Government or Zionist Occupied Government is an antisemitic conspiracy theory which holds that Jews secretly control a given country, while the formal government is a puppet regime....

" (ZOG).

The WPP collapsed after Miller violated an injunction against paramilitary

Paramilitary

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 activity and was convicted of threatening the civil rights

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 activist Morris Dees

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. He was imprisoned from 1987-1990. In a 1988 sedition

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 trial in Arkansas, Miller testified for the prosecution that he had received $200,000 in stolen money from The Order

The Order (group)

The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was an organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984...

to finance operations of the White Patriot Party. The Order was also called the Brüder Schweigen, or Silent Brotherhood.