Nazi group adds point person in Billings

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/local/30-nazi-group.txt

Efforts by a white supremacist group to ramp up activism in Montana, including in Billings, have become successful enough to grab the attention of the Montana Human Rights Network.

The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, has established contact points in three Montana cities -- Billings, Butte and Libby -- and its Butte point person is running for state Legislature.

"We are very concerned," said Travis McAdam, research director for the Montana Human Rights Network in Helena. "All of a sudden it's starting to feel a little like the late '80s and early '90s. There's quite a bit of energy out there."

White supremacists gained attention across the nation in the 1980s and 1990s. In Montana, neo-Nazi activity culminated in Billings in 1993 when a brick was thrown through the window of a Jewish family's home.

Libby, Montana is famous for being thoroughly contaminated with tremolite asbestos from WR Grace's vermiculite mining operation. Even the children in Libby are developing fibrosis of the lungs.

Unfortunately for Libby's local neonazi, the premier hospital for lung conditions is called National Jewish...