Editing Resistance Records (section)

==History==
The label was founded in [[Windsor, Ontario]] in December 1993 by white supremacist [[George Burdi]].<ref name=adl>[http://www.adl.org/resistance_records/introduction.asp Deafening Hate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620073603/http://adl.org/resistance_records/introduction.asp |date=June 20, 2010 }}. [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Accessed May 12, 2007.</ref><ref name=natall>{{Cite web|last= Walker|first = Shaun|author-link= Shaun Walker (white supremacist)|title=The Growth of White Power Music|work= Natall.com|publisher= [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]]|accessdate =May 12, 2007|date =March 6, 2006|url = http://www.natall.com/adv/2006/03-04-06.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515123536/http://www.natall.com/adv/2006/03-04-06.html|archive-date=May 15, 2011|url-status     =dead}}</ref> George Burdi went by the name "George Eric Hawthorne" at that time. In January 1994, this music label was also incorporated in Detroit, Michigan.<ref name=adl/><ref name=natall/> With the launch of a new music label came the new magazine ''Resistance''. The magazine boasted a circulation of over 13,000 in 1995.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2D61030F930A25750C0A963958260&sec=technology&spon=&pagewanted=1 Hate Groups Use Tools of the Electronic Trade]. ''[[New York Times]]'', March 13, 1995. Accessed May 15, 2007.</ref> This magazine is still published and distributed by the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]].<ref>[http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/legal-privacy/8176.html Record Company Takes Extremist Message to the Masses] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029033943/http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/legal-privacy/8176.html |date=October 29, 2007 }}. DMNews, May 8, 2000. Accessed May 12, 2007.</ref> 
Among the acts signed to Resistance was Burdi's own [[RAHOWA (band)|RAHOWA]] (short for "''Racial Holy War''"), which disbanded after Burdi renounced [[neo-Nazism]].

Burdi was involved in a white supremacist street march in May 1993, during which he kicked a female anti-racist <nowiki>protester</nowiki> in the face.<ref name=cjn>"Burdi Sentenced to One Year in Jail." ''[[The Canadian Jewish News]]'', May 18, 1995.</ref> Burdi was charged for assault causing bodily harm in 1995, and given a 12-month sentence.<ref name=cjn/> He was arrested after losing appeals and served time for the assault in 1997.<ref>[http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/b/ftp.py?people/b/burdi.george/press/detroit-news.970411 White Supremacist Record Company in Oakland (Michigan) Raided in Tax-Fraud Probe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195225/http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/b/ftp.py?people%2Fb%2Fburdi.george%2Fpress%2Fdetroit-news.970411 |date=March 4, 2016 }}. ''[[The Detroit News]]'', April 11, 1997. Mirror at Shofar FTP Archives. Accessed May 15, 2007.</ref> Burdi's Canadian business partners, Jason Snow and Joe Talic, had taken control and ownership of Resistance in 1996. American manager Mark Wilson was later replaced by Eric Davidson, former editor of the North American edition of the UK network [[Blood & Honour]], who had relocated from California to Michigan in January 1997.

In April 1997, Resistance Records was temporarily put out of business by a tax dispute and a prosecution for distributing materials that promoted hatred in Canada.<ref name=splc>[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=452 Resisting Arrest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227085051/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=452 |date=February 27, 2009 }}. [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], Winter 1998. Accessed May 12, 2007.</ref> The inventory was in the United States at that time, at a rented house in [[Milford, Michigan]] where the operations were run. The Federal Marshals, under the direction of the [[Internal Revenue Service]], seized the company records and the entire inventory. Eventually a small fine was paid for failure to properly pay state sales tax, and the business records and inventory was returned.<ref name=splc/> The label never again operated in Canada because of violations of Canadian hate speech laws. After his 1997 sentence, George Burdi renounced racism and formed an ethnically diverse band, [[Novacosm]].

In 1998, Resistance Records was sold by its Canadian owners to [[Willis Carto]] and was incorporated in Washington, D.C., with Carto's agent [[Todd Blodgett]] in charge of operations. Eric Davidson gave notice after the sale and would later relocate to Minnesota to help found [[Panzerfaust Records]].<ref name=adl/> For a brief time, Resistance Records operated from California. Blodgett and [[William Luther Pierce]], head of the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]] had bought partial ownership. In 1999, Carto and Blodgett later sold their shares of the company to Pierce.<ref name=adl/> Pierce fired Blodgett and moved the entire operation to his {{convert|400|acre|km2|adj=on}} property in [[Hillsboro, West Virginia]]. Also in 1999, Resistance Records bought Swedish white power label Nordland Records, doubling its roster.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011107145717/http://www.time.com/time/musicgoesglobal/na/mnoise.html All You Need Is Hate]. ''[[Time Magazine]]'', 2001. Accessed May 12, 2007.</ref> 
In 2000, it was made into an LLC in West Virginia.