Star-Telegram | 07/31/2005 | White-supremacist firm has local ties

In a small industrial park west of Keller, near sprawling neighborhoods and new schools, a storage facility routinely receives shipments of merchandise geared toward a certain clientele -- white supremacists and anti-Semites. An FBI joint task force knows about the place and the people who operate it. So do the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department and a national watchdog group that monitors hate groups nationwide. Aryan Wear, an online clothing, music and book outlet that opposes Jews and promotes white supremacy, keeps much of its merchandise in the northeast Tarrant County storage stall. Incorporated by a licensed pilot who lives in far north Fort Worth, Aryan Wear is one of 10 hate and racially intolerant operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., and tracks extremist groups. (...) Joe Roy, chief researcher for the law center's magazine, the Intelligence Report, called Aryan Wear a "hate-for-profit" business, a kind of one-stop shopping for the fashion needs of white supremacists." The Web site's merchandise includes a T-shirt that declares, "Deport Pedro," another with a picture of Adolf Hitler and the inscription "I was right," and a third with a design similar to a Tide detergent logo but altered to say, "Pride ... For a Whiter, Brighter Future!" Aryan Wear's signature product, however, is a high-laced boot with swastikas carved in the sole, allowing its wearer to leave an impression of the Nazi symbol on soft ground.