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CREATIVITY: A HISTORY
0 AC (1973 CE): Bernhardt "Ben" Klassen, a former Florida state legislator and state chairman of George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign, announces the formation of a religion he calls Creativity and a church called the Church of the Creator, in Lighthouse Point, Florida.
Klassen becomes the first Pontifex Maximus or High Priest of Creativity. The tenets of P.M. Klassen's race-based religion, called "Creativity," are detailed in his book Nature's Eternal Religion. Among its 16 Commandments: "It is our sacred goal to populate the lands of this earth with White people exclusively."
8 AC (1981 CE): P.M. Klassen publishes his second book, The White Man's Bible, which he markets as "A program for the Survival, Expansion, and Advancement of the White Race."
9 AC (1982 CE): In March, P.M. Klassen moves Church headquarters from Florida to 22 acres of land he purchased in Otto, N.C., building a personal residence, a three-story church, a small warehouse and the "School For Gifted Boys."
Later in the year, the Church of the Creator is granted an exemption from state taxes based on its status as a church.
10 AC (1983 CE): P.M. Klassen begins publishing a monthly newsletter, Racial Loyalty, in June.
13 AC (1986 CE): Creativity has its first known brush with the duality of criminal law in June, when in defence of church property, security chief Reverend Carl Messick, fires 19 shots at the car of a Georgia couple willfully trespassing on church grounds. Although nobody is killed or wounded, Reverend Messick is later sentenced to seven years in prison.
15 AC (1988 CE): Klassen, now 70, travels to California to ask John Metzger, son of White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger, about taking over Creativity. Metzger, politely declines.
16 AC (1989 CE): A review by Macon County tax officials concludes that The Church's North Carolina property does not qualify for religious tax exemptions.
In May of the same year, two Milwaukee Church members are arrested while defending themselves against brawling anti-racist thugs.
17 AC (1990 CE): Declaring that Church leadership would change "at the top of every decade, on the decade," P.M. Klassen announces that Reverend Rudy "Butch" Stanko will take over.
On September 17, eighteen year old Brother Brian Kozel - White Beret (Church Security), is murdered by Mexicans while destributing Church material in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
18 AC (1991 CE): In May, Reverend George Loeb, and his wife Barbara drive into a supermarket parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, to buy groceries. As they enter the parking lot a car driven by Harold Mansfield Jr., a black Gulf War veteran almost strikes their car. The two drivers exchange angry insults, with the Mansfield calling Reverend Loeb a "cracker" and a "honkie." Mansfield drives off, and the Loebs continue their shopping. They bought their groceries, were back in their car, and were ready to go home when Mansfield returned - this time with another Black male and a brick. Mansfield gets out of his car and advanced toward the Loebs' vehicle with the brick in his hand. He announces loudly to Reverend Loeb, "I'm gonna smash your motherfucking head in."
As Mansfield approaches, Reverend Loeb responds by frantically tearing open the glove compartment of his car, and seizing a 0.25 mm pistol his wife keeps there for her protection, fires two shots at Mansfield, killing him. Reverend Loeb is then arrested and charged with murder. At the trial both the defense witnesses and the prosecution witnesses recounted nearly the same sequence of events. The prosecution witnesses - the Mansfield's friend and a White woman who had been in the parking lot - both admit that Mansfield had threatened to smash Reverend Loeb's head with the brick he carried. Reverend Loeb, whom P.M. Klassen had earlier honored as "Creator of the Month," is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of twenty-five years. Barbara Loeb is sentenced to one year in prison on weapons possession charges.
In November, two noble South African Creators, Johannes Jurgens Grobbelaar and Jurgen Matthews White, are killed in a gun battle with South African police, while they were allegedly attempting to smuggle weapons and explosives into an survivalist compound in Namibia. The two Creators were stopped by police suspicious that their vehicle had been stolen. According to the report, while being escorted to a nearby police station, the two detonated a smoke bomb and attempted to escape. After coming across their abandoned vehicle five miles away, police came under fire from the two suspects, who lay in ambush. Two officers were shot, one fatally, before law enforcement agents returned fire. The two Comrades died valiantly in the ensuing gun battle.
Also in November, Macon County, N.C., officials revoke The Church's tax-exempt status.
19 AC (1992 CE): P.M. Klassen's wife Henrietta Dies of cancer in January. Two months later, P.M. Klassen cancels Reverend Stanko's scheduled inauguration as The Church's Pontifex Maximus, possibly because of Reverend Stanko's plans to move Church headquarters, and names Baltimore leader, Reverend Charles Altvater as leader of Creativity instead.
In June, P.M. Klassen again changes his mind, naming Milwaukee Church chief Reverend Mark Wilson, 25, as the next leader of Creativity.
The next month, (correctly) anticipating a malicious civil lawsuit in connection with the Mansfield death, P.M. Klassen sells most of his Otto compound to Doctor William Pierce of the National Alliance.
In December, shortly after publishing his final, autobiographical book, P.M. Klassen names still another successor: Doctor Richard "Rick" McCarty.
20 AC (1993 CE): In one of his first acts as the group's leader, Doctor McCarty moves Church headquarters back to Florida in January.
On August 7, seventy-five year old Pontifext Maximus Benhardt Klassen Emeritus, in great pain and dying from cancer, takes his own life by swallowing four bottles of sleeping pills.
Later that year, Toronto Church leader and Rahowa band leader George Burdi helps form Resistance Records, based in Detroit, to record and market racial rock music.
21 AC (1994 CE): Representing the family of black Harold Mansfield, the Southern Poverty Law Center files suit against The Church in March, alleging the group is responsible for his death. The family is wrongfully awarded a $1 million default judgment when Doctor McCarty fails to contest the case.
(Later, the Southern Poverty Law Center will sue Doctor Pierce for participating in P.M. Klassen's efforts to keep Church property free from malicious lawsuit. Ultimately, SPLC wins a judgment for $85,000 — the profit Pierce realized after selling Church property.)
22 AC (1995 CE): Opting to head a "religious" rather than a political group, twenty year old Matthew Hale dissolves his National Socialist White Americans Party in July and resuscitates the Church of the Creator as the "New" Church of the Creator in East Peoria, Illinois, where he lives with his father. Reverend Hale soon proves himself to be the "Great Promoter" whom P.M. Klassen had searched so hard for.
Reverend Hale enters law school that fall. In December, he renames the group the "World" Church of the Creator.
23 AC (1996 CE): After meeting with two old Church stalwarts, Reverends Matt Hayhow and Guy Lombardi, Reverend Hale convenes a May gathering at the Montana ranch of Church leader Reverend Slim Deardorff.
Reverend Hale is elected Pontifex Maximus and Reverend Jonathan Viktor, a Klassen devotee educated at his School For Gifted Boys, is chosen Hastus Primus (Spearhead), or secretary, of the reconstituted group.
24 AC (1997 CE): Reverend Viktor presides over the May wedding of P.M. Hale and Sister Terra Herron. The couple divorce three months later.
Later in the year, The Church begins a Web site run by Reverend Jules Fettu and Brother Thomas Darwin in Florida. In August, Reverend Fettu and Brothers Donald Hansard and Raymond Leone are charged with assaulting a black man and his son who had attacked them trying to prevent the distribution of Church literature after a concert in Sunrise, Florida. (Brothers Hansard and Leone later plead guilty to aggravated assault charges, and Reverend Fettu, the Florida state leader, is convicted of battery in a trial.)
25 AC (1998 CE): Reverend Guy Lombardi, now The Church's southeast regional director and commander of The Church's security, the White Berets, tries to convince a witness to the Sunrise incident to tell the truth and is charged with intimidating the witness. P.M. Hale ejects Reverend Lombardi soon after for insubordination, assuring Church supporters the dismissal has nothing to do with Reverend Lombardi's arrest, which P.M. Hale calls "A badge of honor."
Late in the year, law student Brother Benjamin August Smith is honored as Creator of the Month.
In May, P.M. Hale graduates from law school, passing the bar exam that summer. Later in the year, a state official rejects P.M. Hale's application to practice law because of his "character and fitness."
26 AC (1999 CE): In January P.M. Hale honors Brother Smith as Creator of the Year.
At an April hearing, Illinois State Bar Association officials hear P.M. Hale's appeal on the rejected law license. Among others, fellow law student, Brother Smith testifies on behalf of P.M. Hale, whom Brother Smith claims has kept him from committing any acts of violence.
At the end of April, Brother Smith discontinues his law studies and quits The Church.
On July 2, headlines announce that bar officials have again turned P.M. Hale down. Within hours, Brother Smith begins a three-day shooting rampage, killing two people and wounding nine. (Police later declare that Brother Smith committed suicide rather than be taken alive. Information suppressed from the public shows that Brother Smith died of a leg wound.)
27 AC (2000 CE): Although P.M. Klassen's Church of the Creator and its successors are not related to Oregon based Christian group,`TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation' (often mocked by Creators as as the "TEA-POT-GANG"), TE-TA-MA adopt's the name Church of the Creator for itself in the 1980's and registers a trademark for it in the 1990's. In 27 AC, TE-TA-MA files a lawsuit against The World Church of the Creator for breach of trademark.
29 AC (2002 CE): U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow rules in favor of the World Church of the Creator against TE-TA-MA.
Reverend Tony Menear (convert to Creativity whilst in prison) is denied parole as punishment for his refusal to disavow Creativity to the parole board. Reverend Menear then serves another six months before his eventual release.
After an initial loss, Judge Lefkow's decision is appealed by TE-TA-MA, and in November 29 AC, in a reversal of the previous ruling, a panel of three judges in the appeals court overturn the previous decision. On November 19, Judge Lefkow enforces the appeals court injunction in favor of TE-TA-MA. The Church is given thirty days to "deliver up for destruction (or, where feasible, removal or obliteration of any infringing mark from) all" printed and other materials bearing the infringing marks, thereby barring the use of the name "Church of the Creator" by adherents of Creativity and forcing another name change. Judge Lefkow also denies The Church's request to stay enforcement of the court's order pending appeal.
In December, The Church moves its headquarters to Riverton, Wyoming - Residence of Hasta Primus Reverend Thomas Kroenke.
30 AC (2003 CE): January 8: While entering a Chicago court house to answer for refusing to change The Church's name, P.M. Hale is arrested by the FBI on bogus charges of conspiracy to murder Judge Lefkow. H.P. Reverend Kroenke takes control of The Church.
As his first directive, Reverend Kroenke officially changes The Church's name from the World Church of the Creator to The Creativity Movement.
Later in the year Reverend Kroenke resigns from his position as Hasta Primas and leaves The Church forming the first of many small independent groups known as the (Wyoming) Church of Creativity. Leaderless, The Church's formal structure disolves and at Reverend Kroenke's insistance, many members also go their own way forming their own local churches, social clubs and (White Man's) Bible Reading Groups, adapting Creativity to their own particular needs and thereby revolutionizing Creativity from a centralized and heavily structured organization to an open and ever evolving religion that belongs not to a single group or entity, but to the entire White Race.
31 AC (2004 CE): On April 26, P.M. Hale is found guilty of four of five counts: One count of solicitation of murder and three counts of obstruction of justice.
32 AC (2005 CE): In April, P.M. Hale is sentenced to forty years in a Federal penitentiary.
34 AC (2007 CE): In January, Reverend Doctor Thomas Darwin founds the Creativity Alliance as an information resource and focal point for individual Creators and groups throughout the world.
"The Time Has Come ..."
RaHoWa!
Direct any questions or comments to:
Reverend Doctor Thomas Darwin, B.S. Ph.D.
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