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WMR: Arlington National Cemetery ceremonies provide a front for arms dealing and white supremacists

publication date: Jun 21, 2011

Arlington National Cemetery ceremonies provide a front for arms dealing

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2011 -- Every year, on the Sunday after the June 3rd birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, there is a commemorative celebration of the Confederacy at Arlington National Cemetery.

In recent years, the ceremony has been supported by the world's largest small arms dealer and several other organizations whose memberships includes a variety of white supremacists.

Recently, the Confederate Memorial Committee of the District of Columbia, one of the groups sponsoring the event, had Thomas G, Moore as their principal speaker.

Moore took over the leadership of FNH-USA, the United States division of Fabrique Nationale, the Belgium-based small arms manufacturer that supplies most of the small arms in the world. Moore's U.S. manufacturing plant is FN Manufacturing in South Carolina.

Crates of FN assault rifles were recently shown on Russian television being unpacked by firearms instructors who were describing their proper use to Libyan rebels.

Moore replaced the former leader of the FNH-USA when it was disclosed that his predecessor, Louis Dillais, was the French special forces leader who had bombed the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship that was opposing nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Herbert Harmon, a lawyer who has worked for the Confederate Memorial Committee, was listed on the corporate filings of Wrightmon Consulting, which is led by Harmon's wife, Diane.

In the 1980s, Diane was paid $15,000 per month by the apartheid South African secret service to devise ways to get around the Congressional ban on South African uranium imports from the white supremacist government.

John Edward Hurley, who ran the century-old Confederate Memorial Hall museum and library in Washington until it was sold in 1997, said that the sale of the museum was necessary to prevent this same group from taking it over.

He said that he had previously been jailed by D.C. Superior Court Judge John Bayly after he had objected to a fraudulent legal bill submitted by Herbert Harmon.

The legal bill was traced to the Confederate Memorial Committee. Hurley was subsequently released and Harmon was forced to pay Hurley over $20,000.

The current chairman of the Confederate Memorial Committee is Robert Wilkie, former assistant secretary of defense and the National Security Council senior policy advisor to Condoleezza Rice when she was advocating for more war with Iraq.

The Confederate Arlington National Cemetery events are videotaped by the group's publicist, Robert Hoy. Hoy was the host for the First Annual Conference on Racial Separatism at the National Press Club, which is available on the white racist Stormfront website.

Virginia corporation filings show Richard T. Hines as president of the Confederate Memorial Committee, Hines is a lobbyist who has represented Gambia, Nigeria and Cambodia, and has also represented another arms manufacturer, Ashbury International of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ashbury International engaged Michael J. Garcia as a witness in a civil suit in Nelson County, Virginia. Garcia was the U.S. attorney that originally indicted Viktor Bout as a alleged Russian arms dealer.

For further information, contact:

J.E. Hurley

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source: Wayne Madsen Reports