CA winemaker behind neo-Nazi website flees to Canada to escape FBI

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/16/ca-winemaker-behind-neo-nazi-website-flees-to-canada-to-escape-fbi/
The California owner of an anti-Semitic website registered in the United States, but written in Hungary, fled to Canada after the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a warrant for his arrest this week.

Béla Varga, owner of the kuruc.info domain, is charged with having threatened the life of lawyers who subpoenaed him regarding the hate site. The name of the domain, “kuruc,” has nativist roots, referring to a patriotic nationalist Hungarian movement that opposed the foreign reign of the Hapsburg Dynasty. Its English-language “About Us” page describes it as “a patriotic Hungarian conservative, right-wing nationalist, fact-finding news site.”

A Budapest organization that monitors European extremism characterized kuruc.info as “the most active hate group operating in Hungary,” adding that it regularly publishes information about Jewish people that “qualifies as hate speech and [glorifies] fascist ideas.”


It regularly targets those it refers to as Zionists, Israelis, Gypsies, and criminal immigrant elements, and frequently complains about the “so-called Hungarian Holocaust Museum, which was involved in massive embezzlement of millions of Hungarian taxpayers’ dollars.” The site also publishes material in which the gas chambers used to murder thousands of Jews are claimed to be “air defense shelters.”

Varga has never denied his connection to the site, choosing instead to qualify it. He told Patch.com that “I helped them out in 2008 when the government closed them down,” but denied any further involvement. According to Patch.com, “Varga said he came to the U.S. in 1988, picking Healdsburg as home because he wanted to establish himself as a winemaker.”

However, The Jerusalem Post discovered that $340 of the $450 of reward money for information about protestors outside of the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal was provided by Varga.

More at link.

[merrily]

1. Right wing? Who could have guessed?

According to the RW, Nazis were leftists. The denial is strong.

[MisterP]

2. link time!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuruc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged_Idea