KANSAS CITY, MO — Never shy about bantering with reporters, former Kansas City area Ku Klux Klan leader Dennis Mahon always seemed to be on the public relations side of the white supremacy movement — a virulent talker, but not a violent doer.

That changed Friday when federal prosecutors in Arizona announced that Mahon, 58, and his twin brother, Daniel, had been indicted in the 2004 mail bombing of a Scottsdale city office that promoted racial and cultural diversity. “There are few criminal acts as cowardly as a parcel bomb,” said Christopher White of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Phoenix.

The Mahons’ arrests Thursday in Illinois coincided with unrelated charges being announced against Robert Joos, a Powell, Mo., man whom Dennis Mahon allegedly called the morning the bomb arrived in Scottsdale. Authorities charged Joos, 56, with being a felon in possession of firearms. According to court records, Mahon allegedly sent an undercover federal informant to Joos, who taught him how to make napalm.

Also Thursday, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched the Warsaw, Ind., home of Tom Metzger, director of the White Aryan Resistance and an associate of the Mahons.

In a Warsaw newspaper interview Friday, Metzger, said the search was related to the charges against the Mahons. He said that agents took a computer and address books.

Robert M. Fagan, an attorney representing Dennis Mahon, said that the bombing accusations still must be proven. “He’s a veteran and a contributing member of society,” Fagan said. Attorney Dennis Ryan, who represents Daniel Mahon, said his client believed he was innocent. “He’s denied any knowledge or participation in this,” Ryan said. “He believes this is more about his views and his persona. He’s at a loss of how he could have gotten to this point.”

An attorney for Joos could not be reached for comment. Dennis Mahon is a former Northmoor resident and imperial dragon of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1989, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Northmoor Board of Aldermen, vowing to keep the community “white.” He also was involved in a skirmish over a public access channel of a Kansas City cable TV company. After a long battle, which included a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the Klan, his group produced one TV program that aired in 1990.

According to court records, the Mahons long have been suspects in the Feb. 26, 2004, Scottsdale bombing. Prosecutors accused Dennis Mahon of using his brother’s phone to call the Scottsdale office on Sept, 26, 2003, and leave a voice message stating that “the White Aryan Resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There’s a few white people who are standing up.” Authorities began investigating Joos in 2005, after they noticed that a string of calls was made from Dennis Mahon’s phone on the morning of the bombing, the first to Joos’s cell phone, according to court records. The Mahons grew up as Illinois farmboys, said Leonard Zeskind, a Kansas City expert on hate groups. In the 1970s, they joined David Duke’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he said.

They stayed with that group until 1988, when Dennis Mahon created his Missouri White Knights in Kansas City. When he moved to Tulsa, Okla., he tried to make a living selling Klan paraphernalia at gun shows, Zeskind said. He later set up camp in Arizona among a group of skinheads. “Mahon had long associated himself with the most violent aspects of white nationalist ideology,” Zeskind said, “and his arrest may signal a new turn towards tougher law enforcement policies in the wake of recent high-profile murders by racists and anti-Semites.” Prosecutors alleged that Dennis Mahon helped construct the Scottsdale bomb five days before delivery. The blast injured three people. Investigators allege other connections between Joos and the Mahons.

According to federal court records, the Mahons met with an undercover federal agent in February 2005 at an Oklahoma gun show. The Mahons purportedly told the agent about a 200-acre Missouri “retreat” Joos operated where “movement” members received survival training. Mahon allegedly described Joos as “a longtime, white supremacist associate and an expert on weapons, explosives, bomb-making and general survival skills.”

Undercover agents visited and allegedly saw Joos with many firearms, which he could not legally possess because of felony convictions. Joos gained notoriety in Missouri in the mid-1990s when an alleged associate, Timothy Thomas Coombs, purportedly shot a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper who earlier had arrested Joos. Domestic terrorism experts said they have seen a recent spike in extremist rhetoric and violence, and attribute some of it to the election of President Barack Obama. Heidi Beirich, director of research for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said some anti-government groups that aren’t necessarily racist — such as sovereign-citizen activists and tax protesters — now are finding common cause with white supremacists. “These two things have dovetailed due to the election of the first black president,” said Beirich. “The anti-government movement is more racialized.” The economic crisis also has played a role, said Mark Pitcavage, a research director for the Anti-Defamation League. Occasionally, people in desperate financial shape look for scapegoats and take extreme actions, he said.

Dennis Mahon never strayed far from the movement.

After moving to Tulsa, he became the Midwestern consultant for the White Aryan Resistance and operated a Dial-a-Racist hot line. In 1991, he made headlines for going to Germany to recruit. He said his audiences included racist skinheads. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, he told The Kansas City Star that he had never met bomber Timothy McVeigh but often had visited Elohim City, a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma that McVeigh called about two weeks before the bombing. Mahon also told The Star he sent McVeigh a supportive message in 1996, but also told him, “You should’ve done it at 2 in the morning. You don’t kill innocent people. That’s not the way to run a revolution.” In 1997, McVeigh’s attorney filed court documents naming Mahon as a possible suspect in the bombing. Mahon denied involvement. But later that year, he was mentioned by witnesses testifying before an Oklahoma grand jury investigating allegations of a wider conspiracy. A former federal informant who testified had said in previous interviews that Mahon had discussed blowing up federal buildings in the past and had cased the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the months before the bombing.

Mahon appeared before the grand jury, but he said he pled the Fifth Amendment on everything. Mahon ran for mayor of Tulsa on a platform that included: “Do all I can legally to close down any baby-killing factory (abortion clinic) in Tulsa,” and “Do all I can legally to close down homosexual/lesbian taverns/bars for public health reasons.”

In 1999, Daniel Mahon was fired from his job as an avionics mechanic at American Airlines in Tulsa for conduct detrimental to the company and employees and for violating policies against threatening or intimidating co-workers. He and others attending a company diversity fair allegedly passed out a pamphlet that company officials said contained racist rhetoric. At a later meeting with managers, Daniel Mahon wore a T-shirt depicting the cover of the “Turner Diaries,” a racist novel said to have been used by McVeigh as a blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing.

In an interview with The Star in May 2000, Dennis Mahon predicted more violence similar to the Oklahoma City bombing.

“I can tell you right now, before this year is over, there will be several Tim McVeigh instances of major buildings being bombed,” he said. “I think white men are finally realizing there’s no other solution but violence,” he said. In a 2005 interview, Mahon said many supremacist groups had turned into “wimps.” “After the bomb went off in Oklahoma City, the White Knights completely collapsed,” Mahon said. “They shut down the post-office box, they shut down the hot line. They were scared to death. They just went down the hidey-hole.” The militia movement did the same, he said. It was time, he said, for a new strategy. “There’ll be a time when we can go ahead and go with leadership movements,” he said. “But right now … , I think it’s just we all want to overthrow the government and get a state of our own. There’s many ways to do that. It’s called small cells and lone wolfism.”

(http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/70920.html)

COLUMBIA, S.C. – After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post, but was silent on whether he would resign. "I've been unfaithful to my wife," he said in a news conference in which the 49-year-old governor ruminated on God's law, moral absolutes and following one's heart. He said he spent the last five days "crying in Argentina." Sanford, who in recent months had been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2012, said he would resign as head of the Republican Governors Association. By leaving the country without formally transferring power, critics said he neglected his gubernatorial authority and put the state at risk. It wasn't clear how his staff could reach him in an emergency.

At least one state lawmaker called for his resignation. As a congressman, Sanford voted in favor of three of four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, citing the need for "moral legitimacy." The affair is now over, Sanford said, describing the woman who lives in Argentina as a "dear, dear friend" whom he has known for about eight years and been romantically involved with for about a year. He said he has seen her three times since the affair began, and his wife found out about it five months ago. A newspaper published steamy e-mails between Sanford and the woman. He did not identify her.

"What I did was wrong. Period," he said. His family did not attend the news conference, and his wife Jenny Sanford said she asked the governor to leave and stop speaking to her two weeks ago. The governor said he wants to reconcile, and his wife's statement said her husband has earned a chance to resurrect their marriage. "This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage," she said. Sanford denied instructing his staff to cover up his affair, but acknowledged that he told them he thought he would be hiking on the Appalachian Trail and never corrected that impression after leaving for South America. "I let them down by creating a fiction with regard to where I was going," Sanford said. "I said that was the original possibility. Again, this is my fault in ... shrouding this larger trip."

Questions about Sanford's whereabouts arose early this week. For two days after reporters started asking questions, his office had said he had gone hiking on the trail.

Cornered at the Atlanta airport by a reporter from The State newspaper, Sanford revealed Wednesday morning that he had gone to Argentina for a seven-day trip.

When news first broke about his mysterious disappearance, Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press she did not know where her husband and father of their four sons had gone for the Father's Day weekend. She said he needed time away to write.

Sanford emerged Wednesday afternoon at a news conference, where he mused openly of his love of hiking and how he used to guide trips along the Appalachian Trail, and eventually tearfully apologized to his wife, his staff and his friends — but without yet saying what he was apologizing for. "I hurt a lot of different folks," he said, occasionally choking up throughout the news conference that lasted about 20 minutes.

With those watching still wondering what he was admitting, Sanford said: "The odyssey that we're all on in life is with regard to heart." Excerpts of e-mail exchanges between the governor and his mistress were published online Wednesday by The State. The governor's office wouldn't discuss the e-mails with The Associated Press, but told The State it wouldn't dispute the authenticity of the messages.

One from the governor read: "I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light — but hey, that would be going into sexual details."

Several residents said they were disappointed in Sanford. "He shouldn't have lied to us. He should have been up straight," said college student Gerald Walker, 19, in downtown Columbia. "It's very embarrassing for someone in a leadership role that we are supposed to respect, especially me being a young guy." Glenn Mitchell, of Columbia, said he felt Sanford's absence showed a lack of concern for the state. "He left the state unattended," said Mitchell, 54, out of work recuperating from surgery. "He just hasn't been there for us."

But Warren "Cubby" Culbertson, a longtime friend who said he has been counseling Sanford, said the governor was accepting responsibility for his actions.

"Any man can fall. But it takes a real man to get up and honestly, from his heart, confess that he was wrong," Culbertson said. "And he's going to try to change."

Others were less forgiving. State Rep. Todd Rutherford, D-Columbia, called for Sanford's resignation. "There is nothing left to save," Rutherford said. "There is no reason for him to remain as governor." Sanford, a former three-term congressman, was elected governor in 2002. He has more than a year remaining in his second term and is barred by state law from running again. Sanford was elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association this year after he helped raise a record $10.6 million at the group's 2008 annual dinner to help elect GOP governors. The association said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour would assume the duties as chairman.

The libertarian-leaning Republican was seldom a firebrand. But he was known for salting tales of family life into policy discussions. He criticized the $787 billion federal stimulus law and efforts by legislators to claim a share of it by saying in tough times a family would sit around the table and find ways to cut spending. His vocal battle against the Obama administration over the stimulus money won praise from conservative pundits, but ultimately, a state court order required him to take the money.

Jenny Sanford, a millionaire whose family fortune comes from the Skil Corp. power tool company, has been central to Sanford's political career. She ran his congressional campaigns and his first race for governor. She was an almost daily fixture at senior staff meetings, and often could be seen driving a minivan away from the Statehouse in the mornings. The two met when Sanford, who has an MBA, was trying his hand on Wall Street. She was working at a brokerage house when he entered a training program. As governor, Sanford has had seemingly endless run-ins with the GOP-dominated Legislature, once bringing pigs to the House chamber to protest pork barrel spending. He also put a "spending clock" outside his office to show how quickly a proposed budget would spend state money. Sanford's announcement came a day after another prominent Republican, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, apologized to his GOP Senate colleagues after revealing last week that he had an affair with a campaign staffer and was resigning from the GOP leadership."

(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sc_governor_where)

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A new BBC series will see fathers dressing up as nannies and going undercover to find out what their children are really like. The premise to the series is similar to the 1993 film Mrs Doubtfire in which Robin Williams dressed up as a nanny in order to spend more time with his children. The fathers featured in Undercover Dads will be sent to 'nanny boot camp' where they will learn to walk, talk and act like a lady. They will then spend a further five hours in make-up and prosthetics in a bid to fool their children that they are a TV expert called Mega Nanny.The undercover fathers will then set their children a series of challenges to win prizes for the family - if the children work out their father's identity, the game is over. Clive Tullosh, head of entertainment at Tiger Aspect - who co-created the series - said: "This is a series that not only entertains children but also helps them understand how tough it can sometimes be for their parents to keep everything going.

"Equally it shows parents how sometimes quality time spent with children is more appreciated than what the parents feel they are supposed to strive for."

Undercover Dads starts on CBBC next month.

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It isn’t the “Christian ethic” that “denies the sexual experiences and fulfillment to single people that married people enjoy.” It is reality. The Bible and the Christian ethic are based on physiological and psychological fact. Single people engaging in sex can’t possibly experience the same things that married people are capable of experiencing, either in terms of personal pleasure or fulfillment. What they experience is different and destructive, and the Bible rightfully warns of its destructiveness.

The Scriptures make it clear that sexual intimacy is not something to be entered into lightly. (See the ATQ: Why shouldn’t sex be casual and “just for fun”?) Because the natural design of sexual intimacy is to mold two individual people in their physical, emotional, and spiritual entirety into “one flesh,” the uncommitted sexual intimacy of two single people can never be like the sexual experience and fulfillment married people are capable of enjoying. Seeking sexual intimacy outside of its appropriate context of a long-term, committed relationship is like an unscrupulous athlete trying to substitute performance-enhancing drugs for discipline and training. Uncommitted sexual experiences only distort the real meaning of sexual fulfillment. One-bodiedness (genuine sexual intimacy—see Genesis 2:24 ) can only occur in the context of lifelong love. Contemporary cultural circumstances have confused the purpose of sex. Contraception has separated sex from its natural purpose in conception, childbearing, parenting, and family bonding. The identification of sexual “liberation” with pornography and promiscuity along with a cultural relativism that assumes the equality of all sexual behavior have contributed to unprecedented rates of divorce, family instability, and social problems. Regardless of the cultural circumstances, Scripture declares that sexual love symbolizes God’s love for us (Ephesians 5:25-33 ). Our fallen nature has resulted in our misusing sex for selfish purposes (lust, power, etc.). Sexuality is linked to a long-term—even eternal—purpose, and requires commitment to that purpose.

It does not matter what the two people . . . have in mind. . . . The reality of the act, unfelt and unnoticed by them, is this: It unites them—body and soul—to each other. It unites them in that strange, impossible to pinpoint sense of “one flesh.” There is no such thing as casual sex, no matter how casual people are about it. The Christian assaults reality in his night out at the brothel. He uses a woman and puts her back in a closet where she can be forgotten; but the reality is that he has put away a person with whom he has done something that was meant to inseparably join them. This is what is at stake for Paul in the question of sexual intercourse between unmarried people.

And now we can see clearly why Paul thought sexual intercourse by unmarried people was wrong. It is wrong because it violates the inner reality of the act; it is wrong because unmarried people thereby engage in a life-uniting act without a life-uniting intent. Whenever two people copulate without a commitment to life-union, they commit fornication.* (Lewis Smedes, Sex for Christians, rev. ed. [Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994], pp. 109-10.)

*Fornication is a strong, scriptural word. But the intent of the word is not merely to condemn, but to warn. (Back To Article)