A white supremacist leader whose Indiana home was raided Thursday in connection with the 2004 bombing of Scottsdale’s diversity offices told his followers not to worry about the raids or arrests of their fellow extremists because “there are more out there.”
Tom Metzger, who runs a fringe group called the White Aryan Resistance, left a 7-minute message on a group hotline just hours the raids. He told followers that three of his home computers were seized, along with notebooks and address books. The seizure knocked out his ability to access the group’s website or broadcast his regular Internet radio show, he said.
At about the same time Metzger’s house was being raided in Warsaw, Ind., federal authorities in Illinois were also arresting two brothers with ties to the group who are suspected of carrying out a race-motivated bombing in Scottsdale in 2004 that badly injured two city employees.
One of the brothers, Dennis Mahon, has extensive ties to racist groups and extremists, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Very little is known about the other brother, Daniel Mahon, though both of their names appear multiple times on Metzger’s website.
“If one or two or three of us get thrown in the clink, don’t worry about it,” Metzger said in the message. “There are more out there.”
Metzger’s website encourages followers to live a “lone wolf” type of lifestyle to avoid implicating other believers if arrested. It contains writings from Dennis Mahon, as well as numerous other white supremacists, and it declared June “James von Brunn Month” in honor of the neo-Nazi accused of recently killing a security guard inside the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Metzger was not arrested Thursday and authorities have not named him as a suspect in any crime. “Now why would anybody want to search my house?” he said on the recording. “I’m one of the most peaceful guys I know, man.”
He also told followers federal agents left his house “in surprisingly good shape” after they left. He pledged to regain access to his website within three to four hours.