Larry Darby

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Larry Darby (1957 - )

Darby, who was born in Conecuh County, Alabama, is an attorney in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and holds a law degree from Faulkner University's Jones School of Law and an MBA from Auburn University.

In the 2006 Democratic Party Primary, he was runner-up candidate for Alabama Attorney General.

Darby was president of the now-dissolved Atheist Law Center. During an Alabama Ten Commandments dispute, Darby attacked the placement of the The Commandments in government buildings as an attempt to send the message that "Jewish Supremacism is the law" despite multiple influential Jewish organizations coming out against the placement of the commandments. Darby discussed this in "A Brief History of the Atheist Law Center," which was made part of the public record (filed at court) 6 July 2006.

In an interview with the Associated Press (12 May 2006), Darby claimed that typhus, not the Holocaust, killed Jews:

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the “Holocaust industry.”

Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group’s Internet site.

“It’s time to stop pushing down the white man. We’ve been discriminated against too long,” Darby said in the interview.

[Mobile County District Attorney John] Tyson said he does not consider Darby to be a serious candidate.

“I am astonished as anyone has ever been that anyone is running for public office in Alabama on that platform,” he said.

He was the runner-up candidate for Alabama Attorney-General in the 2006 Democratic Primary. Darby garnered 43% of the vote, carrying 33 of 67 Alabama counties.

According to the Associated Press and other news reports, the Darby campaign generated controversy when Darby questioned the number of Jews who died during the Third Reich, placing the number around 140,000 suggesting that many of those succumbed to typhus. The Associated Press quoted him as saying, "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," and "there was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all." Darby attributed the claims of millions of deaths in the Holocaust to the "Holocaust industry." Darby also spoke positively of Holocaust denier David Irving and attended a meeting of neo-nazi group National Vanguard. Darby also expressed anti-immigration views, declaring that the United States was undergoing a "Mexican invasion" and compared the current immigration to the 1960s civil rights movement, seeing them both as events which have hurt the South.