FUTURE-DRIVEN HAECKER ACCOSTED COMMUNISTS
He shunned the spotlight. Yet, he was a giant reflector of the
glistening rays of a shining cause. Paul Haecker, who succumbed to
heart-ailment at seventy-one, had been like a comet, with a
fiery-tail, illuminating the political-right. Yet, the "comet" had no
name, in that Haecker preferred largely to be anonymous. His meteoric
rise, from carpenter to social-reformer, encompassed the speaker's
platform in Forsyth County, Georgia, from which he fired-up sentiment
for segregation, to the Adams County Courthouse in Mississippi, where
he trounced the entire constabulary. In his final interview, Haecker
enunciated the case against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan,
defending the honor of his country, slashed by the occupiers. He
wanted his country back.
Haecker spent much of his early life on the run. He would move, from
place to place, and send notes to authorities, taunting them to
locate him. He had a lifelong contempt for bureaucrats that he
regarded as oppressive or illegitimate, but exuded an abiding love
for his nation and people. Joe McNamee recalled first encountering
Haecker at a protest, in which Haecker was passing out pamphlets, but
standing off to the side. "I thought that he might be on the other
side. He did not come up into the main area," said McNamee. However,
Haecker eventually joined McNamee in the pioneering lawsuit, which
opened up public-buildings to Nationalists and catapulted rightists
from cow-pastures to courthouses. Haecker was known for his trademark
leather bomber-jacket.
Haecker would often be interviewed on television as the proverbial
"man on the street." A fierce opponent of George W. Bush, he worked
tirelessly to bring down the Republican Administration, which he had
condemned for its "war-criminality," and had been preparing to
broadcast to oust the Obama Administration. He had placed himself on
the line, when he signed affidavits to have Negroes arrested for
boycotting Americans, and was always ready to appear in court, on the
streets or in print. His unsigned editorials appeared in various
newspapers, although he had been banned by "Gannett" for endorsing
segregation. Haecker was a robust man, who would accost Communists,
Negroes and homosexuals, yet he would urge using the law and peaceful
tactics.
McNamee recalled how, after winning a lawsuit against Natchez,
lifting the ban on a Nationalist parade, Haecker seemed reluctant to
talk to swarming reporters. Haecker explained that he had been
standing in front of a sign for the Natchez jail, which he didn't
want showing up in the shoot. Half-smiling, half-snarling, Haecker
would tick off the names of those who had ever wronged him and detail
how they had met their ends. However, he was just as avidly loyal to
his friends. He would quickly defend embattled Bill Allain,
Mississippi's last, Democratic-segregationist Governor, who had
blocked his extradition on a kidnaping charge. Haecker had been
active in the historic Confederate-flag campaign, but underscored
that "I am a Nationalist, not a sectionalist."
Haecker would often use "Americans-for-Justice" to publish names and
home-addresses of "enemies-of-the-people." Chip Derrington observed
that, although Haecker lacked formal education, "he would expound as
if he had a doctor's degree. He was the most-absorbing person you
could ever sit and listen to." Nationalists secured the dropping of
all charges against Haecker, whereupon Haecker built a small
woodland-house, tending his award-winning garden. He built the
headquarters of The Nationalist Movement, virtually single-handedly.
When the Clinton Race Board convened in Mississippi, Haecker staged a
protest outside the hall. When ordered by police to leave, he flopped
to the floor and declared that "you'll have to drag me out." He
stayed put.
Haecker had never been adept at computers, but had been trying to
cross the electronic-frontier. He had served as a "sounding-board,"
during the writing of "The Commission," the Nationalist textbook, and
his sons, Tim and Frank, were instrumental in the editing. Frank was
depicted in the work, participating in a protest against the Black
Caucus at Jackson City Hall. Haecker venerated his Viking heritage
and displayed various figures from Norse-lore around his home, which
had become a treasure-trove of rightist books and literature. When
stricken with heart-problems, Haecker would call Nationalists to take
him to the hospital, explaining that "others are too busy to care."
He enjoyed setting up ceremonies for youth, exclaiming that "they're
the future."
7/23/2009
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