Kevin Strom

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Kevin Alfred Strom (b. 17 August 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a longtime member of the National Alliance and the founder of their radio--now Internet radio--program American Dissident Voices. A friend of the eminent American classicist and writer Dr. Revilo P. Oliver and a close colleague of physicist and philosopher Dr. William Pierce, Kevin Strom has been long considered one of the most significant thinkers among Western racial-nationalists. His political activism dates from his early student days in 1968. As a former broadcast engineer, he held amateur radio license WB4AIO. Between 1983 and 1991, a pirate radio station named Voice of Tomorrow operated on shortwave and mediumwave frequencies, and broadcast patriotic and National Socialist material. Strom was briefly the managing editor of The Truth at Last newspaper during 2005.

Life

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Born in 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska, the son of third-generation Norwegian-American parents, Kevin Alfred Strom moved to northern Virginia as a child. His high school government teacher in Fairfax pointed him to the John Birch Society. He then attended George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia but did not take a degree, describing his education as “mainly the product of my own reading and interaction with several of the finest friends, teachers, and mentors a man could ever want this side of ancient Athens.”

His interest in politics and ideas began when he was only 12 years old. He worked with William L. Pierce, Richard Cotten, and Revilo Oliver beginning in the early 1980s, producing hundreds of radio, audio and video programs, thousands of essays, and numerous articles, books, periodicals and anthologies.

A radio amateur since 1972 and a broadcast engineer since 1976, his first foray into electronic publishing was as the operator of a C64-based dial up Bulletin Board System in the Washington, DC area in the mid-1980s. In 1991, he began producing radio programs heard on more than two dozen AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations. In 1994, he began Internet distribution of those programs as well as written material, and in 1995 he began what eventually became the Revilo Pendleton Oliver Web site.

Dedicated to exposing alien influence, corruption and criminality in government and the media, Kevin Strom has made powerful enemies and, despite his gentle and law-abiding nature, has found himself falsely charged with crime and wrongdoing on several occasions.

In the 1990s he was falsely charged with assaulting a corrupt federal intelligence officer at a demonstration against violent Communist/ANC terrorist Nelson Mandela. He was acquitted because, unknown at the time to the intelligence officer, another police unit had videotaped the entire affair — and the tape showed that the officer (6’2″, 250 lbs., heavily armed) attacked Strom (5’9″, 155 lbs., unarmed) in a completely unprovoked manner, not the other way around.

A few years later, utterly preposterous allegations of “terrorism” were used to severely, and heartbreakingly, restrict his parenting time with his three young children. In 2004, after speaking at David Duke's EURO conference, he was directly threatened with malicious prosecution by Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) agent Joe Thompson.

In 2007, he was again falsely charged, this time with sexual crimes involving children, after a direct threat from his disturbed and angry second wife that she would “ruin” him with false allegations of pedophilia so he would “never work again” in his chosen field, accusations which she threatened would also cause him to lose custody of his daughter and two sons. She demanded money and forced him under duress from these threats to put his signature on a quitclaim deed and other documents to further her aims. When he stopped acceding to her demands, she followed through on her threats and began working with the JTTF, in the meantime selling or destroying almost all of Mr. Strom’s property, including the papers and library of Revilo P. Oliver, in which crime she was assisted by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Kevin Strom found himself — utterly, totally, and outrageously falsely — accused by the JTTF (not the agency usually involved in such matters) of crimes which could have put him in prison for more than 50 years: multiple counts of possession of child pornography, “receiving” child pornography, sexual enticement of a child, and witness tampering. Because of concerns about negative publicity from a very hostile press polluting the jury pool, and because of absurdly draconian laws operative in such cases restricting bond, and because of the hostility engendered by the press’s false depictions of him as a “hater” and “supremacist,” he was locked in solitary confinement, 24 hours a day, in a filthy room smaller than some closets, for a year and a half. While in solitary, he was not even allowed to receive visits from his children.

He made history in Federal Court in October 2007, defeating the claims of “witness tampering” and “enticement,” which the judge found so baseless that, for the first time in that district, the charges were thrown out without the defense having to utter a single word of its case — though the corporate media reported it as if Kevin had been convicted, not acquitted, and twisted the judge’s words as he summarized the prosecution’s case to make it sound as if said summary was the opinion of the court. Kevin Strom was also completely cleared of any improper behavior toward children by the local social services agency which investigated the allegations, and by investigative interviews with the individual young people involved who truthfully said he had never done anything inappropriate. He was also declared completely free of pedophilia by a licensed psychological counselor. Nevertheless, the government was determined to continue the prosecution, no matter how weak their case.

While he was incarcerated and effectively silenced, his estranged wife published altered documents and edited recordings in an attempt to further harm Kevin’s reputation. She even distributed fliers in his parents’ and children’s neighborhoods attacking him and claiming that he’d been convicted of the charges of which he’d actually been acquitted.

In 2008, though innocent of any interest or trafficking in child pornography, he faced a difficult choice: the Federal prosecutor and the JTTF said in effect that he could plead guilty to one count and be guaranteed to be home with his children in a few months; or take a chance against emotionally-charged perjured testimony in a trial involving six counts for one alleged crime (conviction on any count of which could result in ten years in Federal prison) and possibly not see his children for a decade or more — or perhaps never again. Deciding that he could not gamble on never seeing his children or being a father again, and knowing that the JTTF would suborn perjury from their star witness and others as they had before, and knowing that juries like to convict in such cases, he pled guilty to one count — and only to inadvertent possession of fewer than ten files placed and/or modified on his computer by his estranged wife, or deleted unseen from a Usenet forum. He was released on 3 September 2008 and immediately resumed life with his children in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“I’m rebuilding my life with my family now,” he said just days later. “Soon I’m going to try and get some redress in the local courts for all my possessions and my children’s possessions — and the precious and irreplaceable historical papers from Pierce, Oliver and many others — that were stolen or destroyed.

“And I will earnestly work to restore my stolen and sullied reputation,” he stated. “Soon I’ll publish my Address to the Court with supporting documentation, which will go a long way in that direction.

“I am the farthest thing — the precise opposite, in fact — of the way I have been portrayed by the media and the government. I believe that those who would ‘mainstream’ pedophilia and the sexual use of children are monsters. As I’ve said in dozens of my published works, time and time again, sex is sacred and has as its purpose the bringing of new souls into the universe, of ensuring the immortality of the race and the upward evolution of consciousness. Therefore those who pursue or are interested in same-sex or child-sex relationships are perverts — they quite literally pervert the healthy sex drive, turning it into unnatural channels — who can cause tremendous harm. I do not in any way approve of such acts, and I certainly have never engaged or wanted to engage in them.

“A lot of people have been harmed in this affair besides me,” he added. “For example, lives were blighted when my estranged wife made the utterly fictitious claim I’d pasted pictures of two teenage singers’ heads on porn pictures. Completely ridiculous claim, not a drop of truth in it, but it really hurt those kids and that family. My [then-]wife gave the JTTF the layered PSD file of a picture montage I made for an H. Millard story I published, which showed the girls’ faces peeking out through some tulips, and they showed up in court with it and claimed it was ‘evidence.’ No nude bodies, no porn, no anything except two smiling faces and flowers, which was totally appropriate to the story which can still be read — and the resultant picture seen — at web.archive.org.

“I’ve always treated those girls and their fine family with the utmost respect and propriety, and I always tried to do my best by them in their unselfish efforts to make this a better world. My estranged wife had some kind of twisted and totally unjustified jealousy about them, as she did about many other females of my acquaintance young and old, and tried again and again to stop me from promoting or even mentioning them on the news site I directed. It was the day after I attended an event where the duo performed in October 2005 that she physically attacked me, sending me to the hospital for eight stitches after I denied her insane allegations of inappropriate conduct.

“I hope the girls and their family learn the truth, and I hope it is healing for them.” When asked about future plans, he said “I’m a writer. I’m a publisher. I intend to continue that work. I have a responsibility to tell others what I have learned. Initially, I’ll re-establish my own presence on the ‘Net, get the latest persecution behind me as best I can, and create new publications and new media so that the ideals of self-determination and human evolutionary progress can gain an ever-wider audience.[1]

Family

Elisha Strom

Strom was married and has three children (one daughter, Vita, as well as two sons, Oliver and Alfred) with his first wife.

  • I ∞ 1990 Kirsten Kaiser (o¦o 1999)
    • Kirsten was the ex-wife of Joseph McLaughlin and a member of the National Alliance. She met Strom for the first time on 7 November 1987 when he came to their house in Arlington, Virginia. She left McLaughlin on 15 March 1988 having fallen deeply in love with Strom.
  • II ∞ 2000 Elisha Rachel Hawkes (o¦o)

Quotes

  • "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" (1993)
  • "The greatest and most beautiful things of this Earth have been made by White people. We should love ourselves. We should love the Life Force that moves in us, and has made us what we are — a unique life stream like no other, and with a destiny that is ours alone. [...] Love Your Race. Everything depends on it. And nothing else matters." (2015)
  • "The words 'ANTI-SEMITISM' and 'anti-Semite' are the way Jews call White people 'niggers'. These attack words are meant to shame those who have noticed and spoken out about the parasitic or other bad behaviors of Jews." (It’s All Biological, part 3, 20 August 2016)

Writings (selection)

External links

References

  1. ↑ About Kevin Alfred Strom
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