The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger was an American antisemitic Christian Identity organization established in Sandpoint, Idaho, by wealthy retired entrepreneurs Vincent Bertollini and Carl E. Story. The sect was located in proximity to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations compound and cooperated with a number of Aryan Nations members. Bertollini and Story had ultimately selected the city of Sandpoint on account that roughly 98% of the area's residents were non-Jewish Caucasian Americans.[1]
Members of the group believed that non-Jewish white Europeans are the Israelites (the chosen people) described in the Bible, while people who are ethnically Jewish are descendants of Eve and Satan. Furthermore, the sect's adherents proclaimed that non-whites were "soulless". They went on to print large, elaborate, expensive posters depicting their own "tree of heredity" for major ethnic groups and mailed it to a number of persons living in the area.[2][3][4]
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- ^ "Vincent Bertollini". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ^ "Computer Millionaires Fund Hate: Carl Story, Vincent Bertollini and the 11th Hour Remnant Messenger". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ^ Gerianos, Nicholas K. (20 December 1998). "Wealthy Backers of White Supremacists Raise Concerns in Idaho". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 May 2017.