Opinion ID: 2997404
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Heading: Initial Harassment by World Church Members

Text: Shortly after filing suit, the Foundation began receiving email and voicemail messages from World Church followers. A number of the communications were merely rude or offensive, but others took a more threatening tone (all grammar, usage, and spelling in original): ! “Perhaps I will drop by and pay you a visit. TOM METZGER”2 ! “Race Traitors, We will include you in the concentration camps next time around, so you can be with the jews you so love.” ! “if you are wise you will stop such a stupid action as a lawsuite, for your well-being.” ! “i and my racial comrades take a great offense in suing the real church of the creator . . . . you wander why Hitler took you Jewish scum out back then well i hope you realize this will piss my race off even more because of this there may be a rise in so called ‘Hate Crimes’ i am not saying i am going to but your sure to piss somebody off to the point of violence . . . HIEL HITLER, HIEL KLASSEN, HIEL ROCKWELL . . . WHITE POWER” ! “I’ll tell you what your going to do is piss off allot of my aryan brothers and sisters!” ! “You sick, filthy, degenerate assholes! Burn in Hell!” ! “YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO THE WORD CREATOR . . . . TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR RACIAL 2 One Tom Metzger is the director of the White Aryan Resistance, a militant white supremacist group, although it is unclear whether the sender of this email is the same person. 6 No. 03-4085 HERITAGE BEFORE YOUR CHILDREN ARE SMOTHERED BY MIXED MUTTS” ! “I’m a member of a white racel racial religion called creativity. Are church is called the world church of the creator. . . . What makes you think that we stould the name from you FUCKING KIKE?” The Foundation continued to receive messages of this sort throughout the initial stages of litigation in the district court. Eventually, the Foundation and the World Church filed cross-motions for summary judgment. On January 31, 2002, the district court granted summary judgment in the World Church’s favor. See TE-TA-MA Truth FoundationFamily of URI, Inc. v. World Church of the Creator, No. 00 C 2638, 2002 WL 126103, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1478 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 31, 2002). The Foundation appealed the judgment on February 12, 2002.