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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 15, eighteen year old Reverend 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 shoots and kills in self defense a Black man that had attempted to smash Reverend Loeb's head with a house brick he had deliberately picked up for the purpose. 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. His wife Barbara Loeb is sentenced to one year in prison on weapons possession charges. Reverend Loeb's conviction ultimately leads to the demise of the premier Church of the Creator.
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, 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 places most of the Otto property on the market. The price already lowered to a minimum and with no interested buyers, P.M. Klassen agrees to sell the property to Doctor William Pierce of the National Alliance. Reverend Will White Williams, former Hasta Primus for P.M. Klassen and then current assistant to to Doctor Pierce agrees to act as a go-between for the transaction. A meeting is arranged and ....********
In December, shortly after publishing his final, autobiographical book, P.M. Klassen names his successor: Doctor Richard "Rick" McCarty.
20 AC (1993 CE): In one of his first acts as Pontifex Maximus, Doctor McCarty moves Church headquarters back to Florida in January.
On August 7, seventy-five year old Benhardt Klassen, Pontifext Maximus 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 lead singer George Burdi helps form Resistance Records, based in Detroit, to record and market racial rock music.
21 AC (1994 CE): Representing the family of the 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 judgement 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 judgement for $85,000 — the profit Doctor 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. Although not a direct follow-on from Klassen's Church of the Creator, Reverend Hale soon declares 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, a May gathering is arranged 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 Reverend Hale and Sister Terra Herron. The couple divorce three months later.
Later in the year, the church begins a Web site maintained by Reverend Jules Fettu and Brother Thomas "Billy" Jackley 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 in an attempt 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. Reverend Fettu is deported to Canada after his release from prison.
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. Reverend Hale ejects Reverend Lombardi soon after for insubordination, assuring Church supporters the dismissal has nothing to do with Reverend Lombardi's arrest, which Reverend 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, Reverend Hale graduates from law school, passing the bar exam that summer. Later in the year, a state official rejects Reverend Hale's application to practice law because of his "character and fitness."
26 AC (1999 CE): In January Reverend Hale honors Brother Smith as Creator of the Year.
At an April hearing, Illinois State Bar Association officials hear Reverend Hale's appeal on the rejected law license. Among others, fellow law student, Brother Smith testifies on behalf of Reverend 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 Reverend 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, Reverend 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, which Reverend Hale had attempted to trademark some months before.
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, Reverend 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, Reverend Hale is sentenced to forty years in a Federal penitentiary.
34 AC (2007 CE): In January, Reverend Doctor Thomas "Billy" Jackley founds the Creativity Alliance as an information resource and focal point for individual Creators and groups throughout the world.
36 AC (2009 CE): On February 21, the Creativity Alliance is restructured as an organization with officers representing the many local Churches of Creativity. A reconstituted Guardians of the Faith Committee elect Reverend Cailen Cambeul of South Australia as the new Pontifex Maximus.
"The Time Has Come ..."
RaHoWa!
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