agencies and initiatives. On January 7, 1991 he addressed the Commission on the Prevention of Hate Violence after being invited to do so by Leo T. McCarthy, the then lieutenant governor of California. In December 1993 he provided testimony to the Committee on Judiciary of the California State Senate about his time on the far-right and his reasons as to why young men were attracted to membership in such groups. Withrow also married a Mexican American woman named Maria Rodriguez in 1994. Film maker Elizabeth Thompson produced a documentary about Withrow entitled Blink. It focused on Withrow's conversion away from far-right activity and the alienation of young men that helped to drive them into groups such as those in which Withrow was involved. It was featured at the 2001 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in Boston, MA. The documentary subsequently won an Emmy Award. Return Withrow had settled in Butte County, where he picked up a string of arrests for minor offences including petty theft and vandalism, including a case where he was found mentally unfit to stand trial. Elizabeth Thompson also mentioned that she found Withrow to be a frightening personality, particularly after he reacted negatively to the way she had portrayed him in Blink. Mike Ramsey, the Butte County District Attorney, felt that it was around the time of the release of Blink that Withrow began to move back to white supremacy, largely because the documentary presented him in a stark manner and led to a tailing off in interest from media outlets. Finally in May 2000, Withrow wrote a paper entitled "The Truth Hurts" and he sent copies of it to McCarthy, Governor Gray Davis, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante and Attorney General Bill Lockyer. In the paper he claimed that the incident in which his former allies had "crucified" him had been a hoax and that his testimonies about it had been perjured. He followed this in August 2001 by filing a lawsuit seeking to abolish all of California's hate crime laws and demanding a $1 million payment to any White person who had been convicted under existing legislation. His lawsuit included 68 pages of statements further repudiating his earlier anti-racist work and denouncing it as a hoax. Withrow divorced Maria Rodriguez on May 6, 2000 after an altercation between the couple in which she attacked him with a baseball bat whilst he attacked her with