When Peter Gaughenbaugh stopped by for a routine visit with his probation officer, David Kinard, during the summer of 2004, Kinard noticed a tattoo of a German flag and swastika on the left side of the 23-year-old Alachua County man's head.
There were other symbols on Gaughenbaugh's body that Kinard couldn't see. A Viking rune, another symbol popular among neo-Nazis, was etched onto his left leg. Inscribed on his abdomen was the term "14 words," an apparent reference to an utterance by imprisoned right-wing extremist David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our peo