"New technical tools are attractive to haters," says Gale Ganz, director of fact finding for the ADL. "In terms of how hate groups build strength and communicate with one another, the net is a very useful tool, and we have to be extremely alert."

While the ability to disseminate information widely at little cost has made the Internet attractive to hate groups, Goldman says its anonymity is also critical.

To combat that anonymity, Goldman says, Hatewatch live-links to active hate sites.

"I always tell people, 'Don't believe what I have to say. Go see it.' I let the people speak for themselves. They do much better job hanging themselves than I ever could," he says. "These are not subtle folk."

The Many Faces of Hate

Cataloging about 150 live-links, Gold- man's page is a bistro of hate. Users choosing to view hate by category are presented with nine categories: white supremacy, neo-Nazism, black racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay, anti-Christian, anti-Arab, Christian identity and Holocaust denial.

Pages run from the simplistic to the sophisticated. Dripping blood graces Neal Horsley's Creator's Rights Party page and several Ku Klux Klan sites come complete with accompanying Celtic music.

The variety of formats mirrors diversity of content.

Even in Hatewatch's smallest category--anti-Christian-the two groups represented there fail to take the same line.

Altar of the Unholy Blasphemy urges readers to "sodomize Jesus Christ for Christ would love to sodomize you....Sodomize the priest--Avenge the little boys of the world."

The Christian Holocaust site instead urges genocide.

"The greater concerned and anonymous warriors of the Christian Holocaust, all humans concerned for liberation and justice for all humans, all spirits wishing to be free in a world undestroyed by weakness declare nihilistic total hate ware upon Christianity," it reads.

But the word "hate" is absent on many pages in the other categories. The Aryan Nations Web site presents white racialism as a message of love.

"We believe that there is a battle being fought this day between the children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children o flight (Yahweh, The Everliving God), the Aryan Race, the true Israel of the Bible," the site says.

But not all pages focus on a single issue.

Horsley treats a variety of topics. According to the page, his political party is "committed to arresting faggots of all types." In an unrelated move, he takes an anti-abortion stance and advocates secession by means of nuclear weapons.