CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER...

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
- Lewis Carroll

I just can't count the times that I have been absolutely perplexed by the behaviors of those whom I've run across on the racist right. This one really is strange...

Elisha Strom is the estranged wife of Kevin Alfred Strom. This is the woman who reportedly walked in on her husband who was masturbating while looking at pictures of very young female children. That whole case was really wierd. Elisha supposedly made Kevin sign a contract promising to get counseling and, although she knew of Kevin's penchant for children, never warned her friends - one of which was April Gaede the mother of the neo-Nazi singing duo, Prussian Blue.

Elisha later put an audio on the internet of one of her husbands counseling sessions for all of the doubting Thomases in the movement. Kevin plead guilty, did a little time and has since been released.

Well, some time back a friend of mine in the movement told me that Elisha was a very strange and, as he put it, "twisted" creature. I don't doubt that for a minute.

TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE

By Scott Leamon
WSLS10 Reporter
Published: July 28, 2009

A Bedford County woman who started a blog about an undercover police force is now behind bars.

Elisha Strom, 34, of Thaxton, is charged with one count of harassment of a police officer.

She’s currently in the Albermarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

A search warrant on file in Bedford County circuit court claims on July 3rd, Strom posted the home address of a Charlottesville police sergeant.

It also shows she posted a picture of the officer getting into his unmarked patrol car in front of his home.

The officer works for the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, or JADE.

A check of Strom’s blog reveals she has posted head shots of many, if not all, of the task force members.

There is also detailed accounts of the task force’s comings and goings.

Strom also posted pictures of several vehicles that could belong to JADE officers.

Other pictures include a state police investigator pumping gas and riding a motorcycle.

Police say, since most JADE officers do undercover work, posting their names, pictures, and possibly home addresses could put the officers in danger.

A state police investigator executed the search warrant at Strom’s Thaxton residence on July 16th, the same day as her arrest.

Court records indicate the officer confiscated her computers, notebooks, and cameras.

In fact, Strom’s last blog entry, dated July 16, simply reads “they’re here.“

On July 10th, Strom posted the following remarks about the state police investigation: “I’m not trying to harass any of the officers. [My blog] is, and has been, a means to exhibit some of the things I’ve experienced because of my curiosity about, and interest in, the JADE task force.“

Strom wrote on her blog all the information she compiled was readily available through public records searches and other means on the Internet.

Strom’s next court appearance is scheduled for September 17th.

Reader Reactions
Posted by ( Dashfield ) on July 30, 2009 at 11:11 am


Elisha Strom’s blog is really quite interesting.

The whole site with every article can be seen as one big page if you go to

http://iheartejade.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-07-17T19:12:00-04:00&max;-results=1000

Leaving aside the legal issues, it’s a testament to a totally obsessed woman. Celebrity stalkers and John Hinckley’s “thing” for Jodie Foster are nothing compared with Elisha Strom’s obsession with Brian O’Donnell and the JADE Task Force. Apparently Elisha once had a close relationship with O’Donnell that went bad: See her post

http://www.iheartejade.blogspot.com/2008/12/ghost-from-christmas-past.html

That relationship, whatever it was, started when Elisha Strom was a star witness in the politically-tinged trial of her husband, in which O’Donnell was the lead FBI - Joint Terrorism Task Force agent:

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/01/kevin-alfred-strom-address-to-the-court/

It’s not clear how the relationship went bad, but Elisha says O’Donnell’s actions inspired her anti-JADE blogging and stalking, as she makes clear on her very first post at ../coming-soon_25.html

She also had what appears to be a sexual relationship with another unnamed officer linked to the JADE Task Force (who she nicknamed “Boomslang”), and was using him to get confidential information about other officers and about JADE operations. See her post

http://www.iheartejade.blogspot.com/2009/04/put-camo-green-up-somewhere-anywhere_30.html

She also says O’Donnell (who she nicknames “Longhead” or “LH”) “bullied” her: See .../2008/11/longer-version-with-oodles-of_13.html

Right at the end of the above post, she implies that she’ll retaliate somehow if the FBI (probably meaning O’Donnell, who works with the FBI as well as the JADE and JTTF task forces) comes down on her.

It’s not clear what she means by retaliation, but revelations of inside information on agents - possibly including marital infidelity and law violations - seem the most likely: In other posts, she claims to have discovered a married agent’s mistress/girlfriend. She asserts she had close relationships herself with the possibly-married O’Donnell and “Boomslang.“ Maybe it’s a kind of blackmail, though money doesn’t seem to be a motive: “Leave me alone or I’ll tell all I know.“ Were there other demands we don’t know about?

It’s cosmically bizarre the lengths to which this woman went to stalk her prey: following agents into stores and gyms, finding out their pants sizes, tailing them within inches of their bumpers for miles into the country, going to the property rolls and then letting everyone know where their families live, where they do target shooting, what kind of cars they drive (even down to updates when something is added to or repaired on the vehicle), lying in wait for them at home, at work, at stakeouts, at court. When did she have time to work - or to raise the 12-year-old daughter she claims to have? Just the writing alone must have taken many many hours, to say nothing of the stalking.

Creepy People

“I deeply resent the way I’ve been characterized. I’m no more a white supremacist than the Dalai Lama is. I love my people just as he does.”(Kevin Alfred Strom, courtroom statement 1/14/08)

Kevin Alfred Strom was once the metaphorical backbone of the largest and most prolific hate group in America. Serving Dr. William Luther Pierce, and later taking his place as America’s Dissident Voice, Strom was considered one of the true intellectuals in the racist movement.

Revered by some and deeply criticized by others, Strom would later become the Director of National Vanguard, a splinter groups which never really got off the ground.

Considered by many to be “too effeminate,” Kevin Strom had another onus to bear. He wasn’t the homosexual that many on the extreme right suspected - he liked girls – very young girls.

For years, Kevin maintained a website with an odd collection of art mixed in with virulently racist rhetoric. At he beginning of the 21st Century, his cyber presence was rife with pictures of young females, usually scantily clad, and often belonging to parents active in the National Alliance. Many of those pictures were, reportedly, presented without parental knowledge.

Even though Strom was suspected of being “sexually twisted” by many individuals on the racist right, his radio programs and scholarly essays continued to be disseminated and praised by those who would otherwise have considered him unfit for white nationalist circles.

When Strom was arrested in January of 2008, on a series if child pornography and intimidate charges, some were shocked, some were disbelieving and still others were in complete denial.

Don Black, founder and operator of the oldest and largest white nationalist website, Stormfront, admitted that he was not surprised and that “they” had been worried that this was going to happen. Yet there were those, and still are, who refused to believe the charges. Many believed that his wife Elisha set him up even after evidence surfaced and eventually, by Kevin’s own admission, it became clear that he had, in fact, not only received and possessed child pornography, but had actually stalked a 10-year-old female.

While some charges were dropped, on January 14th, 2008, Strom pled guilty to child pornography and will be sentenced in April. Out of concern, the Judge asked Kevin if he had been coerced or, in any way, intimidated into making such an admission to which Strom replied, “They’re trying to kill me because of the press coverage,” he said. “I deeply resent the way I’ve been characterized. I’m no more a white supremacist than the Dalai Lama is. I love my people just as he does.”

For most people, living within the realm of sanity, the very idea of child pornography and pedophilia is repulsive and being legally charged with such crimes is unthinkable. Yet Strom is more concerned about the media coverage labeling him a “white supremacist,” which he is.

Additionally, we all know that in jail or prison any inmate who has committed crimes against children are not going to fare well and are much more likely to be attacked or killed. Why then the concern over being called a white supremacist? Could it be that Mr. Strom knows that not even the Aryan Brotherhood will be on his side?

For years Strom has railed against African-Americans, Jews, and other minority groups. To now be concerned about his extremely racist views seems almost ridiculous. However, being called a white supremacist doesn’t sit well with his wife either.

In an interview after the court appearance, Elisha Strom was quick to correct reporter Lisa Provence from “The Hook”telling her that she isn’t a white supremacist either, but a white separatist who wants a white homeland.

There is very little to laugh at in this seedy and repulsive case, but watching the two racists strive to somehow ameliorate their racism is pretty damned funny. As the National Alliance has had their stated goals listed for years, to suddenly attempt to cast a more positive light on themselves in the midst of something most of the sane world has difficulty stomaching, is beyond the point of ridiculous.

Here are three of their stated objectives…

"We will do whatever is necessary to achieve this White living space and to keep it White. We will not be deterred by the difficulty or temporary unpleasantness involved, because we realize that it is absolutely necessary for our racial survival."

"The fact is that we need a strong, centralized government spanning several continents to coordinate many important tasks during the first few decades of a White world: the racial cleansing of the land, the rooting out of racially destructive institutions, and the reorganization of society on a new basis."

"The central task of a new government will be to reverse the racially devolutionary course of the last few millennia and keep it reversed: a long-term eugenics program involving at least the entire populations of Europe and America. Such a task is necessarily intrusive, and it will require large-scale organization."

While Elisha Strom apparently assisted the prosecution and testified against her husband it is unclear whether she did so willingly or to save herself from being indicted on charges, as well. There are several questions regarding her involvement.

Throughout the last year, Elisha has attempted to rid herself of the cloud that still hangs over her head as far as her fellow racists are concerned. She has claimed that her relationship with Kevin has been a stormy one, especially since she caught him masturbating in front of the computer while viewing photos of the heads of the neo-Nazi singing duo of Prussian Blue, now 15, pasted on the naked bodies of younger female children.

During that time, Elisha claimed that she had made Kevin sign a contract to seek help for his problem and to continue in counseling until such time that he was “cured” from his pedophilia. She placed that notarized contract online as proof that she had taken some sort of action.

Later, an audio tape of Kevin speaking with his counselor surfaced. On the tape, he admitted to being attracted to children and to the fact that Elisha had caught him masturbating to images of “shockingly young girls.” Also on the tape, he chronicled how Elisha had set up what sounded to be an elaborate set of cameras in the house in order to catch him. This revelation only fed the hysteria of those who believed Elisha had been complicit in setting him up.

Elisha also spoke of an incident where he had walked the young child that he had been stalking to the car during a rain shower while leaving his own family behind without the benefit of an umbrella. Additionally, she recalled an incident where she, Kevin, and Prussian Blue were present at a David Duke event. She claimed that Keving wanted to take pictures of the young girls in their bathing suits while they were at the pool. According to Elisha, she headed him off and got someone else to take the pictures.

All of this, however, still begs the question, if she knew about Kevin’s penchant for children why didn’t she warn the parents of the children Kevin had access to? Additionally, why did she remain with Kevin throughout all of this?

We’ve all heard of the battered woman syndrome and how many women are afraid to leave or continue to return to the abusive relationship. But – this is different. This involved children who were being preyed upon and exploited – and she remained.

While all of this would, undoubtedly, make a really good movie for Lifetime, it really doesn’t play well to those of us who realize that the semantics of supremacist and separatist really doesn’t make a hill of beans or to those of us who, at the realization that our spouse was seriously twisted and deviant would have taken the high-road and left the bastard’s ass hanging out to dry while singing like a canary at the local precinct.

In fact, the only thing it does is solidify our belief that those involved in racist activities really are pretty creepy people.

THEY DON'T MAKE BROOMS BIG ENOUGH THESE DAYS

A few days ago, I wrote and article entitled “Psychosis Is What It’s Called,” and am finding the response among the White Nationalist crowd quite enlightening. It’s always interesting to see what, exactly, stirs the racist movement into action or into heated discussion. However, this seemed to have struck a nerve that maybe needed to be struck.

Shortly after posting the article on Citizens Against Hate and Nikki’s Nest, an unusual thing took place. Michael Blevins, better known to some as VonBluvens, made the following comment on the article:

“I have to say that most of your analysis (not all) is pretty dead on...this is one of the reasons for my early retirement--at least until I can figure out if there really ever was a movement to save or retire from.

”A big broom is required indeed”

I say this is unusual because rarely do racists and I ever agree on anything, and even more rarely do Blevins and I ever see eye-to-eye. However, in the preface I noted that with the recent rash of arrests on charges of pedophilia and child porn there is little wonder that a number of movement members are considering leaving the movement or engaging in a drastic clean-up – one that would definitely require a very large broom.

Word started being spread around the internet quickly that “Vonbluvens was taking sides with Nicole Nichols.” Amazing how people can take an incident and blow it completely out of proportion. The same thing happened a couple of weeks ago when I agreed with Bill White on a public forum about the NSM. Those on the racist right started pointing fingers and trying to further blacken White’s eye. In truth, there are occasions upon which agreement occurs – not all of us live in a vacuum and we do have opinions on things other than race relations.

At any rate, Michael Blevins took his opinion on my article, along with an excerpt to the VNN forum – maybe not the smartest thing for him to do, but it certainly generated some sparks.

Now, there have been many things thrown around over there on that thread and I intend to address just a few of them. As you can well imagine, Blevins took a beating over this and Bill White along with Alex Linder cut him no slack. Interestingly enough, the first thing out of Bill White was “Why are you even reading Citizens Against Hate.” This is particularly interesting because Bill White rarely has a day go by that he isn’t reading there or on my blog. As a matter of fact, he has made numerous posts on Nikki’s Nest. Of course, if you are Bill White, you think you can bamboozle the peons beneath you. Also, it wouldn’t do for him to admit that he frequents the place, especially since he is trying to curry favor with one Alex Linder. I sort of wondered how he would handle all of this since he is between Blevins and Linder who are really at each others throats.

Michael Burks, a klan guy, who has been sidling up to Daryle Lamont Jenkins for the last couple of years and playing two ends against the middle had to weigh in as he now is a member of Bill’s new group, ANSWP. His offering…

“Who cares what this ARA Nikki slut thinks? Look at ARA membership. Morris Dees, a fruit cake. Jenkins of OPP, cross dresser. Erica Hardwick, geez, enough said. Old Floyd, drugie and deadbeat dad. I mean, come on... they're losers.”

This is the typical juvenile racist way of handling things – name calling, character assassination, “you’re just as bad as we are,” – anything but addressing the issue. In fairness, these types of comebacks were not tolerated very well by a couple of people on the board not the least of which was none other than Elisha Strom, Kevin Strom’s wife who had this to say to Burks et. al.

“Y'all are just as sick and twisted as us seems like a rather weak argument, don't you think?”

This has to be one colossal moment! I agree with another racist! Good Lord – I’m beginning to worry about me. The person that Elisha had directed her comment to was Ron Doggett – and he was at the ready with an explanation:

“The issue is not a plague upon our cause. For every one person in our ranks guilty of these things there are a huge number of people who are not. Defending and wanting to save our race has nothing to do with these sexual issues, it should not be a shock to find every once and a while a freak amongst us. My point is for her to worry about our cause having these issues is a joke. She will promote anything which puts our side in a bad light. Her cause is every bit as plagued by these issues, if not more than ours.”
Of course I am going to report on the stuff that shows “their side” as what many of them really are. My job is to shine a bright light on those who are a threat within the racist movement. Citizens Against Hate focuses on organized hate groups and the individuals who inhabit them. Doggett’s claim of there being a “huge number” of people on their side who are not guilty of these things really doesn’t hold a lot of water considering the number of violent crimes committed by their members over the last few years.

True, not every member of a hate group is a sexual pervert or a criminal. However, the premise of the article written is that a disproportionate number of very disturbed individuals are attracted to the hate movement – a fact that has been lamented even among the racists themselves.

Alex Linder, the head hancho at VNN interjected this pearl of wisdom…

“And we who represent what is good in WN don't defend our perverts. The things running the country give their perverts national holidays.”

Naturally, I will take great objection to this statement. How can you say, Linder, that you do not defend your criminal element? Look at the number of people who have taken up for Kevin Alfred Strom – not because they don’t believe that it is true – but they have actually gone so far as to try to justify pedophilia and child pornography right there on your very own forum! Look at the number of murderers you consider prisoners of war and support! What an asinine statement even from you!

Additionally, the “national holidays” that he refers to includes Martin Luther King. I cannot think of anyone on the racist right who merits a national holiday or who could even begin to compare with Dr. King in the changes that he was able to bring about. Even considering him in the same breath with some of the low-life’s currently incarcerated from that side of the fence is sheer whimsical fantasy.

Linder further comments…

“Sure. But we're dealing with people. They aren't perfect. If they're criminals or perverts, we turn them in.”

I doubt that I could ever give a better rebuttal to this statement than Elisha Strom did when she said, “We sure do turn them in... to heroes and martyrs. Good plan. Are we winning yet?”

There are many active in the movement who see these problems and realize that no one in mainstream America is ever going to take them seriously and that they are pissing in the wind as long as they continue to draw the riff-raff into the rank and file. However, there isn’t much that can be done about it as long as the “leaders” continue to try to sweep the problem under the rug and who place value upon members simply because they pay their dues or contribute financially to the cause.

Feeble attempts are always being made to levy charges against the left and against those who fight against their insidious dogma. Those attempts, however, are generally without merit and much like the kid on the playground who tries to one-up everyone with “Your Mama.”

Citizens Against Hate and Eye On Hate seldom find the need to defend or justify our words or our actions. We shine a light on those who would rather be left alone in the dark, dank recesses of the hate movement to further their agenda. They don’t like that, and they don’t like me. That’s okay. I don’t want them to like me. Some oaf over there, calling himself King Cormac,with a handful of posts probably demonstrated just how much they don’t like me with this meager little nugget of sputum:

“Useful idiots like "Nikki" will be among the first to be lined up and shot in a firing squad by her own jUDEO-masters if we allow the total jUDEO-bolshevik takeover.
By total I mean the taking all of the guns..that's the last hope for our people... GUNS.

”But to sum it up I couldn't give two shitz what our enemies think.

"Let them rot in the bloody fields of Chaeronea"

”We'll dance over their dead bodies !”

He might not believe in hauntings and ghosts and things like that – but he will if he ever sets foot on my grave – because I will wreck his world.

I never thought that I would be defending Michael Blevins to anyone, but I guess I will have to do that. Within the first 24 hours there were over 100 posts in the thread that Michael Blevins started regarding some of the truths that I stated. He has been called an idiot by Alex Linder and has been maligned by many others – only because he agreed with some of what was stated. He has been accused of whining, and told he is not of value thereby furthering my belief that those on the racist right have no loyalty and they will eat their own without compassion or a passing thought. Neither has anyone come to his defense, although a few have also agreed with the basics within the article. Michael Blevins and Elisha Strom, however, outclassed the rest of the VNN bunch all to hell.

It is precisely because of the treatment that Blevins is receiving at the hands of what he has believed were his comrades and the refusal of others to remove the criminals and the mentally ill from the rank and file that so many are contemplating their own flight from the insanity. While there are those singing Hallelujah because of the recent influx of young men into the movement, they are not considering the numbers who are fleeing – as fast as they can.

This thing they call a “Movement” is rapidly becoming an Exodus with long-time adherents rejecting it and those who lead it. Those few stalwarts who remain are engaged in a battle that is not only uphill but, perhaps, insurmountable. With rag-tag publications warning of impending doom and blazoning racial epithets they are simply ill-equipped to handle the repudiation of decent, upstanding Americans who want no part of their reprehensible dogma. Thank God.