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Matthew "Matt" F. Hale (born July 27, 1971) is a white supremacist leader and convicted felon. Hale was the founder of the neo-Nazi group formerly known as the World Church of the Creator and now known as The Creativity Movement. In 1996 he declared himself the third Pontifex Maximus (Latin for "highest priest") of the Creativity religion. The organization's headquarters were based in East Peoria, Illinois. In 1998, Hale was barred from practicing law in Illinois by the state panel that evaluates the character and fitness of prospective lawyers. The panel stated that Hale's incitement of racial hatred for the ultimate purpose of depriving selected groups of their legal rights was blatantly immoral and rendered him unfit to be a lawyer. On April 6, 2005, Hale was sentenced to a 40-year prison term for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill federal judge Joan Lefkow.〔 He is currently incarcerated in the Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, Colorado, with the inmate number 15177-424 and a projected release date in 2037. ==Early life== Hale was raised in East Peoria, Illinois, a city on the Illinois River. By the age of 12, he was reading books about National Socialism such as Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' and had formed a group at his school. In August 1989, Hale entered Bradley University, studying political science. At the age of 19, Hale burned an Israeli flag at a demonstration and was found guilty of violating an East Peoria ordinance against open burning. The next year, he passed out racist pamphlets to patrons at a shopping mall and was fined for littering. In May 1991, Hale and his brother allegedly threatened three African-Americans with a gun and he was arrested for mob action. Because he refused to tell police where his brother was, Hale was also charged with felony obstruction of justice; he was convicted of obstruction, but won a reversal on appeal. In 1992, Hale attacked a security guard at a mall and was charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest, aggravated battery and carrying a concealed weapon. For this attack, Hale was sentenced to 30 months probation and six months house arrest. In 1993, Hale graduated from Bradley University and received a degree in political science. In 1996, Hale founded the New Church of the Creator, a revival of Ben Klassen's religious group, which believes that the white race are the creators of all worthwhile civilization. The church believes that a "racial holy war" is necessary to attain a "white world" without Jews and non-whites and to this end it encourages its members to "populate the lands of this earth with white people exclusively".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A History | Southern Poverty Law Center )〕 After Hale appointed himself "Pontifex Maximus", he changed the name of the organization to the World Church of the Creator. The name was again changed to the Creativity Movement when a religious group in Oregon (the Church of the Creator) sued Hale's group for trademark infringement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew F. Hale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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