Paul Fromm
Paul Fromm claims to be the director of a group called
"Canadian
Association of Free Expression". While the name sounds innocuous, the
truth is darker.
According to investigative journalist Russ Bellant, Fromm helped found
the Canadian neo-Nazi organization
Western Guard. In a 1983 interview
with a Toronto Star reporter, Fromm was caught dissembling.
He said he "never
had any connection" with the Western Guard, but the Star account
revealed that Fromm himself had had a letter published in the Star in
February 1973 that stated "... in May, 1972, many members, myself
included, left the Western Guard...". Asked to explain the
discrepancy, Fromm said in a Star interview that it was
"a matter of semantics".
In Julian Sher's 1983 account of the
Ku Klux Klan, Fromm is reported as
saying that belief of a supreme race "is a good idea." Remarks like
this caused him to be kicked out of the federal Progressive
Conservative Party.
In September 1991, the Star reported that Fromm was ejected from a
Toronto meeting on race relations after he blurted out, "Scalp them,"
while a native Canadian was speaking.
In April 1992, the Star reported on Fromm's 1990 speech before the
Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi organization advocating white supremacy.
According to the Star, Fromm told the neo-Nazi group, "We're all on the
same side." Fromm later claimed in a Star article that he hadn't known
about the Heritage Front's neo-Nazi views. But Bernie Farber of the
Canadian Jewish Congress disputes this. "He had to know," Farber
said. "There was a Nazi flag with swastikas, about 10 feet long and 5
feet tall, just to his right. Furthermore, just a few months after the
Star article came out, Fromm spoke again before the same group."
The
original plaintext version
of this file is available via
ftp.
[
Index ]
© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2005