Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club

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Sadistic Souls MC
AbbreviationANSSMC
Founded2010 (2010)
Founded atWood River, Illinois
Type Outlaw Motorcycle Club, Hate Group
Region
Midwestern United States, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom
President
Dennis McGiffen
Website www.sadisticsoulsmc.org

The Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, also known as Sadistic Souls MC, is a white-supremacist outlaw motorcycle club founded in 2010. Since 2014, they have been listed as an active neo-Nazi group in annual reports conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [1]

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According to the club's website, the group states that it is "the militant arm" of the Aryan Nations. [2]

Formation

After serving a seven-year prison sentence for federal weapons charges, ex-Ku Klux Klan member Dennis Michael McGiffen started the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club in 2010 with the intention of having the group act as the militant arm of Aryan Nations. McGiffen has been the leader of SSMC since its founding. The club's colors are black & silver. [3]

In July 2012, the Sadistic Souls MC formally merged with the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations. They are currently known as Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC. [4]

The motorcycle club has chapters in Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Ohio, Tennessee, Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. [5] [6]

Ideology

The Sadistic Souls claim to accept any white nationalist regardless of religious belief. [3]

On its official website, the club claims that forced integration is "deliberate and malicious genocide, particularly for a people like the white race, who are now a small minority in the world."

Their club's motto, "The Black & Silver Solution"', is the phrase given to represent a coalition of several racist organizations. More specifically, it refers to the group's alliance with the United Klans of America and The Creativity Movement. [7]

Imagery

Like many other white supremacist and racist skinhead groups, the Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC uses various Wehrmacht insignia, including the Totenkopf , the Reichsadler , the doppelte Siegrune and the Nationalflagge . [8]

Since the club's merger with Aryan Nations, many of the Sadistic Souls members can be seen wearing a patch of the Aryan Nations logo, which consists of a Wolfsangel symbol with a sword replacing the crossbar. [9]

See also

Footnotes

  1. "Active Neo-Nazi Groups". Archived from the original on 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  2. "About". Archived from the original on 2017-02-06. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  3. 1 2 Keenan, Catlyn K. (2014). Behind the Doors of White Supremacy (PhD). The University of Denver.
  4. "Squabbling Aryan Nations Factions Descend Into Vicious Name-Calling". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  5. "Here Are All the Active Hate Groups Where You Live". 2017-08-17. Archived from the original on 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  6. "Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC New Zealand". 2016-02-18. Archived from the original on 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  7. "Ahead of the Black & Silver Solution Fall Conference, Questions Linger About Leadership". Archived from the original on 2017-02-25. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  8. "Photos". Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  9. "Sadistic Souls". Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2018-10-23.

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