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NEWS- 'I am not a pedophile': Strom gets 23 months


Published April 24, 2008 in issue 0717 of the Hook
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Kevin Strom hoped his guilty plea would have him out of prison with his nearly 16 months time served.
The white separatist who pleaded guilty to one count of child pornography possession January 17 was sentenced to 23 months in prison April 21 in U.S. District Court. Although Kevin Alfred Strom, 51, has been jailed since early January 2007, Judge Norman Moon rejected his request that he be sentenced to time served– and his claim that he "unwillingly" possessed the kiddie porn found on his computer.

Throughout Strom's trial last year for enticement of a minor and witness intimidation-- Moon threw those charges out-- the prolific writer, radio broadcaster, and founder of the white-rights group called the National Vanguard was silent, speaking only in January to denounce his portrayal in the media as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist.

"I've been in solitary confinement for 16 months," Strom said April 21. "I ask the court to grant me one minute [to read a statement] for every month I've been in prison."

During his statement, Strom said he's been a good father to his three children, ages 15, 13, and 11, especially his severely autistic 13-year-old son, and that his predicament resulted from "false accusations" by his wife, Elisha Strom.

"I am not a pedophile," Strom said. "I am the furthest thing from a sexual pervert." He shared his disgust of pedophiles and child pornographers with the court, noting that he regarded sex as "holy," and said that in high school he was an "absolute straight arrow" and was even called a "prude."

Strom mentioned his love of art, adding, "I believe when the human body is portrayed, it should be with nobility and respect." Before his marriage to Elisha Strom, his personal website included many photos of the human form in the form of young girls, including a horseback-riding teen Brooke Shields.

"I do not like pornography," said Strom. "When I've sought out the erotic, it's never been pornography."

He explained that the child porn photos found on his computer were fewer than 10 out of more than 100,000 images, and that they came from an online forum he'd visited that had been "flooded with spam," including "sleazy, tragic" pictures of children that he deleted. "I possessed them unwillingly," he told Moon, "but I did possess them."

"Mr. Strom, this is an unusual case," the Judge acknowledged. "But Mr. Strom, you pled guilty to charges that now you're saying you're innocent. I prefer people plead not guilty than put it on me."

Moon said he was struck by the fact that Strom never inappropriately touched the 10-year-old girl who was a friend of his stepdaughter and whom he was charged with attempting to entice.

Nonetheless, calling the child porn guilty plea "extremely serious," Moon sentenced Strom to 23 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release. He did not prohibit Strom from associating with his minor children.

Afterward, Elisha Strom, who had contacted authorities and is the witness Kevin Strom was accused of intimidating, called the almost two-year sentence "a joke."

During his October trial, she had testified against her husband, saying that she'd returned home to find him naked and aroused in front of the images of two young, white nationalist-movement singers whose heads had been superimposed onto two nude bodies. Moon ruled that was not illegal, and despite Elisha's claims that Kevin had choked her to keep her quiet, he dismissed the witness intimidation charge.

Kevin Strom finally had his day in court to respond to Elisha. He accused her of selling or burning his possessions, including his art, "[w]hen I left my home to protect myself from my wife's violence," he said.

"At her hands, I've suffered innumerable bruises, cuts, and lacerations and went to the hospital," he added. And when he refused to give in to his wife's demands, he alleged, "She followed through on her threat to make these false accusations and ruin me."

In court last fall, Elisha admitted bashing Strom in the head with a telephone and said that she had the worse temper of the two.

He further claimed that Elisha did not think he was a pedophile because on October 18, 2005, the day after she found him looking at more little-girl pix, she allowed her daughter to go with him on a four-day trip to pick up his autistic son.

Elisha Strom did not respond to her husband's charges, saying only, "I did my best to prevent him from accessing children."

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Leicester4/27/2008 4:05:13 PM

STROM SENTENCING POINTS UP ACCOUNTABILITY

Richard Barrett

The sentencing of Kevin Strom to two years for child-pornography

points up the issue of accountability. At his sentencing, Strom asked for

"one minute for every month already spent in jail." However, he should

have received one year for every pornographic picture he possessed. He

admitted to having downloaded one-hundred-thousand to his computer,

but excused it on the grounds that only a fraction depicted sex with kiddies.

"Accountability, however," refers to individual, as well as group, responsibility.

Accomplices are just as culpable as the culprit.

Strom followed the pattern of David Duke in pleading guilty, but, then,

claiming that he was not guilty. Duke, who had defrauded his contributors,

compounded by mail-fraud and tax-evasion, pleaded guilty, but, upon

arrival at the "big house," claimed that he really had not been guilty, at all,

despite seizure of his records, detailing his corruption and cover-up.

Strom did not wait so long. He told the judge that he was not guilty and

had been framed, but the judge noted that, since Strom had pleaded guilty

and not withdrawn his plea, the court was bound to treat him as guilty.

The telling point was the backing, which both Duke and Strom received.

Upon Duke's release from prison, Strom journeyed to New Orleans

to sign a document, compiled by Duke, pledging never to criticize Duke

or anyone else imprisoned for any sort of crimes. It was a bizarre but

revealing document, the import of which echoed the old adage that "the

king can do no wrong" by claiming that "anyone 'white' can do no wrong."

One thing lacking in both Strom and Duke was contrition. There never

was any "I am sorry," "I apologize" or "Please forgive me."

A website, supporting both Strom and Duke, immediately criticized those

who backed the convictions, calling them "FBI-informants," "bad-mouthers,"

"liars," "Jews," "weird" and "homosexuals." It was even asserted that

Nationalists who "attacked" Strom and Duke were "hurting the movement."

During prosecution, it had been revealed that Duke had spent his loot for

gambling and whore-mongering and Strom had been stalking a ten-year-old

girl. For calling both Duke and Strom out, this writer was called "a joke"

and "non-white" by the convicts' partisans.

Strom and Duke shared one other deviant trait. They both had gleefully

heaped calumny upon those who leveled criticism at their criminality.

Strom published an appeal over his now-defunct website insisting that

this writer be assassinated. He was joined by April Gaede, the mother

of the teenage singing-duo, who Strom had managed and whose heads

Strom had pasted onto pornographic images. Duke, also, had launched a

tirade, by way of surrogates, against his critics, terming them "skunks,"

who "deserve not to draw another breath on this earth."

Duke has moved to a foreign country, where he received a mail-order-style

"doctor's degree." He refers to himself as "Doctor Duke" in Internet

posts. His once well-oiled political-machine has collapsed. His Duke

Campaign, NAAWP and "No Fear" organizations, which had been taken

up by disciples, are defunct. Strom, who had aspired to perpetuate the late

William L. Pierce, whose book had been the blueprint for the Oklahoma-City

bombing, has been banned from the Internet. He has been allowed access

to his retarded son, during his fifteen-year probation.

http://www.skinheadz.com/news/articles/2008/042701.html

© 2008 Skinheadz

Thurston4/28/2008 11:42:11 AM

He should serve at least a year for wearing that sweater!... What a dirtball....

Jahan5/1/2008 4:04:28 AM

This article seems to be making its claims rather carelessly.

For example, the foreign country in question was Russia, and Duke lived there several years ago - but apparently does not do so now.

Why not be specific, and why not be accurate (unless the writer is ignorant of these facts)?

Strom's son is apparently autistic (which is not necessarily the same thing as being "retarded").

So there is some lack of caution here, in applying names to things, and describing people's activities.

... which makes me less inclined to just agree with everything in it.

Terry Wagar7/20/2009 7:22:33 PM

The authority's frame people as pedophiles all the time, they call it "pedofied" and they do it because they can get away with murder by pedofying someone they want dead.

I am a witness as well as a victim of these tactics and I have them admitting to it on a audio file.

It's the easiest thing in the world for authority's to frame someone as a pedophile.

They can hack your computer and upload you know what on your computer and the next day the sheriff's are kicking down your door and charging you as a pedo, and it's your word against there's.

It's there faverite way to kill people because they die as the bad guy's and the authority's that framed them look like the good guy's.

If someone in authority has it out for you they will give you a criminal record without you ever being charged or going to court.

They will put something like "under investigation for child porn" on your record.

Good luck getting a job now, and a prospective employer will not tell you that's on your record, they simply wont hire you.

If you find out about it and complain to authority they will simply pretend error.

If they want you dead, then they will "investigate" you by going to your neighborhood and go door to door giving your description but not your name claiming there looking for a pedophile in the neighborhood.

They do this KNOWING it will give you a reputation, the kind of reputation that will get you shot.

Sometimes they pedofy people already behind prison walls by simply telling other prisoners behind your back that your a pedophile.

Don't you think the prisoners will kill someone which they believe is a pedophile?

Don't you think the accusation by a prison guard behind your back is good enough for someone in the shower to stab you?

The authority's don't have to formally charge you as a pedophile to frame you as one, the accusation alone is good enough in this country to get you killed and authority's hands are clean.

I already have authority's on an audio file admitting they pedofy people they want dead for the purpose of getting away with murder.

They don't even care if I tell any one about it because when it comes down to it, who's going to arrest them?

No one.

Think about it, how easy it is to turn hundreds or thousands of people against someone with just that acusation.

That's why the authority's privatly call it pedofied.

They will never admit to it because it is premeditated murder and they KNOW it, they KNOW it gets people killed.


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