Supremacist Case Unites Improbable Contingent

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Supremacist Case Unites Improbable Contingent

By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page C01

When police visited his southeast Baltimore rowhouse this summer, Lovell A. Wheeler noticed that one of the officers was wearing a German American lapel pin. Wheeler complimented him on "being a good white officer," according to court documents.

"The war is going to start in the city, and I am ready and need more troops to help in the fight," said Wheeler, a white supremacist whose wife, Elizabeth, is a member of the National Alliance, a West Virginia-based neo-Nazi group.

Two days later, Lovell Wheeler was arrested. A tactical team stormed his house in the Highlandtown neighborhood and seized 62 pounds of gunpowder, 16,000 rounds of ammunition, 22 guns, body armor and thousands of weapons parts, according to court documents.

Nearly four months later, Wheeler, 61, remains in a Baltimore jail, held without bail and isolated from other inmates. He awaits a Nov. 7 trial on three misdemeanor charges.

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kick

So the U.S. authorities are anticipating a white supremacist incursion. Well, it would be dumb to ignore the rhetoric. Like ignoring the buzz they heard before 9/11.

I'd like to see all the evidence before I make a determination on whether the detention is justified.