Escape Hate
Sometimes when you are alone in life a group can become family, and if they are into hate, the hate gets into you. That’s how Jonathan Strayn recalls getting into the skinheads and the Aryan Brotherhood. “I didn’t have a strong family connection. [The skinheads] were there all the time. They’d answer the phone and...
“Yeah, any drug put in front of me I’d use,” Jonathan Strayn, of the skinheads and Aryan Brotherhood, recalls. His story is not uncommon among violent extremists who not only got into hate but drugs as well. Hate turned outwards is a way to channel mixed up emotions, deep feelings of insecurity, shame and emotional...
Klayton Bindon of New Zealand was in prison when he decided to get Aryan Nations tattooed across his face. He recalls, “I got tired of getting beaten up and having no food, and I ended up joining on with the gang to stop it. I was looking for a family. I sort of just went...