Anti-Semitic Film Prompts Review of Metzger Probation

SAN DIEGO — County authorities are trying to determine whether white supremacist Tom Metzger violated the terms of his Los Angeles probation as the result of the airing of an anti-Semitic documentary on a public access cable TV channel.

Culled from the archives of Nazi propaganda films, the documentary aired shortly after midnight last Saturday on Cox Cable San Diego, which serves more than 300,000 subscribers in San Diego County.

Cox official Sandy Murphy said Thursday she was uncertain whether the elder Metzger was involved in producing or directing the program, which equates Jews to rats and talks of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy that “must be resisted.”

But Tom Metzger admitted Thursday he produced the program, which has as its centerpiece a Nazi propaganda film titled “The Eternal Jew.” He said he continues to produce such programs for public access channels in 40 cities.

In response to authorities reviewing the program to determine whether it constitutes a violation, Metzger said: “That’s really a laugh. If they want to put me back in jail for 40 days, let them do it. That’s all I’ve got left on the (six-month) sentence anyway. Geez . . . that’s really stretching it.”

San Diego County officials said any involvement by the elder Metzger may have violated the terms of a court-ordered probation that followed his conviction of a hate crime in 1991 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.