20 Facts About James Wickstrom

James Paul Wickstrom was an American white supremacist, far-right activist, and Christian Identity minister.

James Wickstrom was a founding member of the Posse Comitatus, an antisemitic, anti-government and anti-tax group associated with the broader militia movement.

James Wickstrom was strongly anti-communist, and he frequently advocated the genocide of Jews, non-European Americans, "race traitors," homosexuals, and drug addicts.

In March 2018, it was reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center that James Wickstrom had died; the report was attributed to unnamed "sources within the white supremacist movement".

In 1980, James Wickstrom ran unsuccessfully in Wisconsin as a Constitution Party of Wisconsin candidate for United States Senator, coming in third with 16,156 votes; and he was a Wisconsin representative on the American Independent Party's national committee.

James Wickstrom was the party's nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 1982, coming in fourth with 7,721 votes; and he remained on the national committee.

James Wickstrom subsequently adopted the title of "national director of counter-insurgency" for Posse Comitatus.

James Wickstrom was affiliated with Aryan Nations, and visited their Hayden, Idaho compound several times.

Periodically, James Wickstrom wrote racially-inspired articles, and he operated as a pastor in Christian Identity organizations.

James Wickstrom later hosted a daily Internet radio show called Yahweh's Truth, where he promoted Identity ideology and conducted interviews.

James Wickstrom derived his beliefs from his interpretation of the Christian Bible.

James Wickstrom preached what he referred to as Two Seedline Racial Covenant Identity, an ideology which among other things, postulates the belief that the Caucasian race is made in the image of God.

James Wickstrom categorically rejected the Jewish religious doctrine which states that the Jews are "God's chosen people" by stating that members of the "white western, European" race are the actual Israelites who are referred to in the Christian Bible.

In January 1982, James Wickstrom lost an election for the chairman of the town of Fairbanks, Wisconsin.

James Wickstrom decided to set up his own municipality, a Posse enclave on the banks of the Embarras River within the boundaries of Fairbanks.

James Wickstrom put public notice of the creation of the "Constitutional Township of Tigerton Dells" and a meeting to elect officers of the township in a local paper.

Since none of these activities were lawful under the relevant Wisconsin statutes, in 1983, James Wickstrom was arrested for "assuming to act as [a] public officer".

James Wickstrom was found guilty, and served over thirteen months in jail.

James Wickstrom moved to Pennsylvania, and was later arrested for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon and planning to distribute $100,000 in counterfeit US currency to white supremacists who were attending the 1988 Aryan World Congress.

In 1990, James Wickstrom was found guilty and sentenced to 38 months in prison.