APn 02/29 2143 Sedition Trial FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -- A violent white supremacist group t

APn 02/29 2143 Sedition Trial

   FORT  SMITH,  Ark.  (AP)  -- A violent white supremacist group
targeted several prominent people  for  assassination,  including
Henry   Kissinger   and  top  television  executives,  a  witness
testified Monday in a federal sedition trial.

   Denver Parmenter, who is serving  a  10-year  prison  sentence
after  pleading  guilty  in  1985 to racketeering, testified that
members of The Order planned  robberies,  guerrilla  warfare  and
murders to further their goal.

   "Our  purpose  was  to  kill important people in government or
other important institutions in this  country  to  create  havoc,
disorder, destruction,"  Parmenter  said.   Order members took an
oath which included the words, "I have no fear of death."

   Ten of the 14  men  on  trial  are  accused  of  sedition,  or
plotting  to  overthrow  the government by illegal means; two are
charged with interstate transportation of stolen money; and  five
are  charged  with  conspiring to kill a federal judge and an FBI
agent.   Neither  the  judge,  the  FBI  agent  nor  any  of  the
celebrities mentioned in the trial Monday were harmed.

   Parmenter  said  he was a former member of the Church of Jesus
Christ Christian (Aryan Nations) at Hayden Lake, Idaho, which  is
run by defendant Richard Butler.

   Parmenter  said  Butler  frequently  spoke  of  his racial and
political viewpoints in sermons.  He said Butler  said  the  U.S.
government was "basically a government that wasn't supporting its
race."

   Parmenter said he and eight others, including defendants David
Lane  and  Bruce  Pierce,  formed  The Order in September 1983 in
Metalline Falls, Wash., home of the late Robert Mathews.

   Mathews  outlined  six  goals  for  Order  members,  including
developing  a war chest through illegal means such as robbery and
counterfeiting, Parmenter said.  Each member was given  a  target
to  kill, Parmenter said, including David Rockefeller, television
producer Norman Lear, Kissinger and the three  major  network  TV
presidents.

   Parmenter  previously  outlined the assassination plots during
the 1985 trial of Order members in Seattle.

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