Opinion ID: 2997404
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Harassment Following the Disposition of the

Text: Foundation’s Appeal In July 2002, we reversed the judgment of the district court and remanded with instructions that judgment be entered in the Foundation’s favor. Foundation I, 279 F.3d at 662. Undeterred by this setback, the World Church issued another hotline message on its website within days of our decision. In essence, the hotline made it clear that the World Church intended to ignore any “federal decision” and proclaimed that “[t]here is no power, there is no authority that can tell us, as a Church, that we must use a certain name to celebrate our beloved White People. . . . Our teachings will not be changed or altered to meet the prejudices of a Federal Judge.” The hotline also called for World Church members to continue using the infringing name wherever possible. On August 1, 2002, Hale sent a mass email to World Church members in which he proclaimed: “We have called upon [sic] protests before against these vermin [the Foundation and its attorneys] and these protests have at least had the result of rattling them.” Hale noted the apparent success of these efforts, which resulted in “the Jew lead attorney James Amend call[ing] [the World Church’s] attorney whining . . . about his phone line being jammed with angry Creators.” Apparently not content with their accomplishments to date, Hale stressed to World Church members that the harassment campaign “must now become deafening as a means to make clear the resolve of our Church and its adherents.” Hale again provided phone numbers and addresses for the Foundation itself and its attorneys, and he asked that members “ask to speak to any of these scoundrels and spend as much time as you desire taking them away from their mission of destroying our identity and religious liberty.” No. 03-4085 9 Responding to Hale’s call, a large number of World Church members or sympathizers sent a barrage of new email and voicemail messages to both the Foundation and its attorneys. As before, some messages were merely offensive or rude, but others were of a more threatening nature (again, all grammar, usage, and spelling in original): ! “The World Church of the creator has members in your area and who are on their way to talk to you about the lawsuit.” ! “do us, the people concerned about the preservation of natures finest, a favor. I’m sure we could supply you with the gun.” ! “The only thing you will be successful in doing is EARNING THE WRATH OF THOUSANDS OF CRE- ATORS!” ! “The World Church of the Creator has had our name for many years more than you. . . . you will make a lot of people very angry.” ! “My name is Michael and I am a member of the WCOTC in East Peoria. I think it is absurd that a organization such as yourself . . . would battle for a name instead of allowing us to have the name our founder gave us.” ! “You must STOP you FASCIST ATTACK on our Church!! Protests and Boycotts are all you will get from us!!!!” ! “keep praying to your pathetic jew god that does not exist that you and all your ‘brothers of humanity’ will not suffer the same fate that you are destined to face” ! “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 10 No. 03-4085 ! (voicemail) “Yes, my name is John Pierce. I’m a member of the COTC, the Church of the Creator, the real Church of the Creator. Personally, I think you’re a shyster, the ambulance chaser of the worse kind. How dare you persecute the Church of the Creator?” ! (voicemail) “Yeah, I’m a member . . . of the WCOTC, the real COTC, and I must say that I find your actions extremely offensive . . . . we don’t care what that three judge court of clowns say, we have the right to our religion . . . . We will not abide by any of the unconstitutional proclamations of your kangaroo court. To hell with you.” ! “You can pay all the judges you want, hire all the expensive lawyers you want, pass all the crooked laws you want prohibiting us from using our name but none of it will work we will keep the name that our founder Ben Klassen gave us in 1972. No matter what!!!!” ! (voicemail) “We will not abide by your distortions, your perversion of the Constitution.”