Canadian has white-power link
Accused in shootings appears to have been influenced by group
A former Ontario school teacher is an active member of an American “white nationalist” group that appears to have had an influence on the young man accused in the shooting deaths of nine black people in a South Carolina church.
Paul Fromm, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in Mississauga, Ont., last fall and had his teaching licence revoked because of his participation in racist events and for railing against non-white immigration, serves as international director of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
The council believes that the American people “should remain European in their composition and character” and opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind,” according to its principles.
At one event in Maryland last December, he told a group that diversity was a code word for “white genocide.” On his Facebook page, Fromm calls the creation of police hatecrime units an “abomination,” denounces those who malign the Confederate flag, and labelled a clothing company’s diversity-centred branding as “mind rape.”
Earlier this month, Edmonton police Const. Daniel Woodall, a member of the force’s hate- crimes unit, was shot and killed while serving an arrest warrant at Norm Raddatz’s home.
An online manifesto, believed to have been written by Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of murdering nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, S.C., last Wednesday, credits the Council of Conservative Citizens website for drawing attention to “black on white crime.”
Jared Taylor, a council spokesman, said the council does not condone or advocate violence. And Fromm said the murders were “absolutely wrong.”
Both Fromm and Taylor cited projections that visible minorities will outpace whites in the coming decades in North America. By 2031, three out of five people in Toronto and Vancouver are expected to belong to a visible minority group, according to Statistics Canada.
Canada is on the path to becoming a “Third-World country,” Fromm said, with white people being excluded from jobs in favour of “unqualified minorities.”
Asked if he counts any visible minorities among his friends, he replied: “Among my acquaintances, yeah.” He said he will patronize businesses run by visible minorities.
Fromm says he is now working on a book about the “plight of whites in South Africa.”