According to the weekly Blue Mountain Eagle, the only newspaper in Grant County, Oregon, the Aryan Nations wants to establish a new "national compound" in the city of John Day, in a scenic area midway between Bend and Boise. A spokesman for the group, a guy named Paul R. Mullet, was recently in John Day looking for property for the group. According to the article:
Mullet, wearing a uniform shirt with a swastika patch on it, said the group's goal is to create a homeland for white people.
"That area is the Pacific Northwest," he said. "The blacks have Africa, the Jews have Israel ..."
Mullet claims the group is looking for property where they can provide barracks and other facilities for recruit training. Grant County is attractive, he claims, due to its proximity to the mountains for "survival training". Claiming that the people living in the area share common values with the Aryan Nations, he vowed to have members patrolling the streets of John Day "making it safer for the residents who live here".
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