January 06, 2008

Hatewatch’s 1st Annual Smackdown Awards

It’s been a heck of a year in the world of hate. As usual, white supremacists and sundry others on the radical right have shot, bludgeoned and maimed their way into police blotters and newspapers across the land. They’ve cursed, defamed and insulted the usual laundry list of their enemies. But for Hatewatch aficionados, that’s all par for the course. After all, just about anyone can do something really ugly or violent if they set their mind to it. That’s why the Hatewatch 1st Annual Year-End Smackdown Awards Committee had such a very tough time. Sifting through huge piles of ne’er-do-well candidates, intrepid committee members sought to go beyond the merely quotidian and reach for the truly extraordinary. Here, with apologies to Keith Olbermann, is our Hatewatch countdown for the very worst of 2007:

10. Grossest Pervert Award

The hands-down winner here is Kevin Alfred Strom, the founder of the neo-Nazi National Vanguard group based in Virginia who saw charges of enticing a 10-year-old girl for sex dropped, only to have the judge announce to the world that there was “overwhelming evidence that [Strom] was sexually drawn to this child.” That, along with Strom’s wife’s testimony about finding her man naked and aroused in front of a computer screen peopled by young girls, isn’t a very hopeful prelude to Strom’s second trial, coming up in February, on possession of child porn charges. Top gross-out moment so far: The revelation that Strom had written a sonnet about marrying the 10-year-old, to be sung to the tune of “Here We Come A-Wassailing.”

The competition in this category, it should be pointed out, was fierce. Warren Jeffs, the polygamous leader of a racist Mormon offshoot sect, was convicted on two counts of rape as an accomplice for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. Tony Alamo, leader of an anti-Catholic and anti-gay cult, was accused of taking child brides. And David Lane, 69, a white supremacist movement icon in prison for his role in a 1984 assassination, had this to say about the blonde, 14-year-old Gaede girls who make up the neo-Nazi Prussian Blue singing duo: “When the girls were little, they were like daughters or something. Now that they are grown women, and being a natural male, it’s… well, you know what I’m trying to say.” Yes, sadly, we do.

9. Most Gullible Broadcaster Award

Who can forget Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” and his June 21 segment, “Violent Lesbian Gangs a Growing Problem”? In this piece of addled fiction, O’Reilly and “Fox News crime analyst” Rod Wheeler contended that “a national underground network” of lesbian gangs, armed with pink pistols, was “terrorizing America,” in part by raping middle school girls with sex toys purchased on the Internet. As it turned out, the report was entirely false, as the Intelligence Report revealed. The next day, Wheeler issued a statement saying that he had only “inadvertently stated” that the lesbians carried pink pistols, that he hadn’t meant to say there were 150 lesbian gangs in the Washington, D.C., area, that he hadn’t meant to say there was a “national epidemic” of lesbian gangs, and that he hadn’t meant to defame the Pink Pistols, a lesbian gun-rights group. Glad we got that straight!

8. Most Obnoxious Extremist Award

Although there was considerable support for the candidacy of Fred Phelps, the Godhatesfags.com website proprietor who likes to picket the funerals of soldiers, Virginia neo-Nazi Bill White won in a squeaker. The former left-wing anarchist and one-time correspondent for the Russian Communist Party’s Pravda newspaper spent the year issuing racist insults, not-so-veiled threats and attacks on reporters. He posted the home addresses of a long list of his enemies — from a Miami Herald columnist to journalists from his hometown newspaper to the editor of this blog — but also defamed large numbers of fellow racists. The rabid dog in White may have come out most clearly in his call to white supremacists to crash the wedding of the niece of a newspaper official to “annoy this Jew-loving piece of shit.”

7. Weirdest Political Alliance Award

The honors here go to Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the New York-based Middlebury Institute, dedicated to secessionism. Known for decades as a left-wing intellectual, Sale last year buddied up to the white supremacist League of the South (LOS) — a group that opposes racial intermarriage, defends segregation, and calls for a return to “European cultural hegemony” in the South — to the point of actually co-sponsoring the Oct. 3-4 Second North American Secessionist Convention in Tennessee with the LOS. Now, the left-right love affair promoted by Sale has turned positively torrid, with a “North-South Secession Summit” planned for January. Attending will be top officials of the Middlebury Institute, LOS, the Southern National Congress, and the Second Vermont Republic, to seek “the peaceful dissolution” of the United States.

6. Stupidest Conspiracy Theory Award

You know it can’t be good when the John Birch Society, the rabidly anti-Communist group that called President Eisenhower a commie, teams up with Jerome Corsi, the man who orchestrated the Swift-boating of John Kerry. Corsi and the JBS are the prime promoters of a nativist conspiracy theory that claims Mexico, Canada and the United States are secretly planning a merger that would result in something called the “North American Union” (NAU). They insist that a 2005 tri-national agreement called the Security and Prosperity Partnership — a series of working groups to study cooperation in transportation, energy, aviation and the environment — is the leading edge of the conspiracy that may, in Corsi’s words, end in “an executive branch coup d’etat.” This would be merely an exercise in the ridiculous were it not for the fact that public figures from CNN anchor Lou Dobbs to U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) to nativist leader Jim Gilchrist keep plugging it. Thanks to them and their ilk, the houses of representatives of 18 states have now passed resolutions opposing the much-feared NAU — an entity that does not exist and has never been planned.

5. Most Annoying Snot-Nosed College Kid Award

Kyle Bristow was irritating enough way back in 2006, when the soon-to-be leader of Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan State University posted his 13-point agenda, including elimination from student government of virtually every non-white, non-heterosexual and non-Christian group. He ratcheted it up with a “Straight Power” demonstration featuring “End Faggotry” and “Go Back in the Closet” signs. From there, Bristow and his MSU-YAF degenerated into “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day” contests, a “Koran Desecration” competition, and even, last September, an attack on a new Latino studies doctoral program under this headline: “MSU Offers Doctorate in Savagery.” Bristow went on to invite such speakers to MSU as Nick Griffin, head of the racist British National Party and a long-time Holocaust denier. All of this was bad enough on its own. Truly appalling, however, were the accolades Bristow received from mainstream politicians including Michigan GOP boss Saul Anuzis, who, shortly after the Southern Poverty Law Center named MSU-YAF a hate group, had this to say: “This [Bristow] is exactly the kind of young kid we want out there.”

4. Unlikeliest White Supremacist Award

Our old nemesis, H.K. Edgerton, was in our hometown of Montgomery, Ala., back in November, and it reminded all of us just how nutty he really is. Edgerton, faithful readers of the Intelligence Report will remember, is a lonely black man in the overwhelmingly white — and white supremacist — neo-Confederate movement. As he made clear in an interview with Hatewatch, H.K. hasn’t dropped any of his strange ideas about slavery, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan and related topics. A sampling: Before the slaves were freed, “Black folks and white folks were family. …White people and slaves saw each other on the streets and they tipped their hats to each other.” Slaves “were given a new pair of pants and a new pair of shoes every day” and “had the same medical facilities that the white man had.” The Klan was “just protecting the people — all the people, black and white.” If you really believe that, H.K., we suggest you skip straight down this list to award No. 1 and join up.

3. Weakest Relationship With Reality Award

The Southern Poverty Law Center last year engaged in a sort of epic battle with Lou Dobbs, the CNN host who has probably done more to defame immigrants than any other public figure in contemporary America. The struggle was epitomized by a debate over Dobbs’ claim that the United States had experienced a surge of 7,000 new cases of leprosy in a recent three-year period, due at least in part to immigrants. In a seemingly endless series of debates, interviews and on his own show, Dobbs stuck to his guns, despite crystal-clear government statistics that pegged the number of new cases for the years in question at 398. The whole sorry affair was dramatized best in a comment Dobbs made to Lesley Stahl of CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which first pointed out Dobbs’ error in a profile of the broadcaster that aired last May. Said Dobbs: “If we reported it, it’s a fact.” Stahl asked how Dobbs could guarantee that. “Because I’m the managing editor, and that’s how we do business.” Ah, NOW we understand.

2. Creepiest Psychotherapist Award

Richard Cohen won this one by acclamation, but it didn’t become official until we convinced our own CEO — Richard Cohen — that we weren’t talking about him. The Cohen in question describes himself as “ex-gay” and conducts controversial “healing touch” therapy that involves men striving to rid themselves of their homosexuality cradling and rocking other men in their arms. This technique was demonstrated by the licensed psychotherapist on Paula Zahn’s CNN show, an appearance that also included Cohen’s excited demonstration of “bioenergetics,” which involves beating on chairs with tennis rackets while shouting, “Mom, why did you do this to me?” The CNN appearance was almost universally described as a disaster, and Cohen’s name promptly disappeared from several “ex-gay” websites.

1. Most Surprising ‘Hate’ Group Award

For the better part of 142 years, the Ku Klux Klan has been the most infamous racist group in America, leading a campaign of terror that involved murders, lynchings, rapes, castrations, bombings, church arsons, and any number of other horrors. But now comes the Alabama Christian Klan, “The Voice of the New Civil Rights Era,” with a Web page that currently features an approving photo of Birmingham’s black mayor and a banner announcing an upcoming Klan rally in rather unusual (for the Klan) terms: “Birmingham At a Crossroads: Can We Come Together?” This is followed by the announcement of a “diligent campaign” to get other Klan groups to abandon their racism and shun any “acts of disrespect to any community.” The man behind the group, Trussville, Ala., resident Ken Mier, already has taken credit for the decision by another Klan group to cancel a rally last November, saying in an E-mail to Hatewatch that he considered this “a victory for the Christian residence [sic] of Alabama.” Way to go, Ken!

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wander if Strom is related to the BNP's Mark Collett?

Anonymous said...

Whilst i do appreciate reading what is going on across the pond, because when you think of it the nazi family is well link and incestuous.

How about our own awards? I note that Searchlight have posted theirs.

But as this site is for me the No 1 ***** for all anti racists it should not be difficult for us as a community to hold our own selection and award ceremony. Lets face it we have the majority of the biggest trolls, clowns and mental loonies who profess to support the nazis in this country.

Anonymous said...

Would that be Nick Griffins friend Kevin Strom, whom he shared a stage with?

It does seem to be a recurring theme amongst Griffins friends, doesn't it?

Anonymous said...

Nonce activity and far right politics go hand in hand.

Anonymous said...

I see the Bournemouth Nationalist, a dumbass mouthpiece of Nick Griffin, is bemoaning the fact that a Blackpool paedophilia trial will not be happening for a few months.

This is the trial of two Asian takeaway owners (held on remand) charged with the sex abuse and murder of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl who happened to be white, while virtually ignoring another Blackpool case involving bnp officials and fourteen-year-old Blackpool schoolgirls, showing the blatant hypocrisy of the racist griffinite neo-nazi regime.

Anonymous said...

SOMETHING ORWELLIAN GOING ON? BNP ERASES HISTORY!

Those of us who keep tabs on the Islamophobic blogosphere will no doubt be aware of the frenzy resulting from the imminent arrest of the virulently anti-Muslim blogger Lionheart on charges of inciting race-hate.

However one unusual feature of this story is the reporting and subsequent non-reporting by the BNP of this challenge to freedom of hate-speech.

If you Google 'Lionheart Ian Holden' you will see in about third place:

The British National Party | State Police flexing their muscles Here is a full copy of an e-mail sent by a Ian Holden of Bedfordshire Police to ‘Lionheart’, 0n Friday, 4th January, 2008: ...
www.bnp.org.uk/?p=422 - 20k - Cached - Similar pages


If you click on the link you will see a mostly blank page at http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=422 ... no mention of Lionheart or Ian Holden!

Now if you're quick and get it before it updates, you can still see the original article by clicking on the cache.

Since this will soon dissappeer when Google next scans the site I have preserved it for posterity (and analysis - why has the BNP pulled the story? Any ideas??)

HERE IS THE DELETED BNP POST:

State Police flexing their muscles
By Chris Brown ⋅ January 5, 2008 ⋅ Email this post ⋅ Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Beware! If you dare to write about the never ending appeasement of Islamic demands, or complain of violence and intimidation from Muslims that goes unpunished -Beware!!

For a British, Christian, Blog writer, Lionheart’, who has been doing just that, has been told that when he returns from America, he will be arrested for allegedly contravening the ‘Public Order Act 1986!

Here is a full copy of an e-mail sent by a Ian Holden of Bedfordshire Police to ‘Lionheart’, 0n Friday, 4th January, 2008:

“The offence that I need to arrest you for is “Stir up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

You will be arrested on SUSPICION of the offence. You would only be charged following a full investigation based on all the relevant facts and CPS consent.

Paul I will see you on the 19/02/08 when I will tell you everything that you need to know. Due to being out of the office for six weeks I will not have access to my email as of tomorrow 04/01/08.

Ian “

[ Note: according to a recent BBC report, Bedfordshire Police Force is the worst performing in the whole of England. It is also one of the most Politically Correct Police Force].

Never forget though that there is another victim in this sad tale. The attack on ‘Lionheart’, is also an attack on our Freedom - the right to speak out against what is being done to Our Country, and to Our way of life, and to question ,why those charged with our protection look the other way when Muslims are involved!

Yet this self same Police Force has done nothing, nothing at all, to give protection and support to ‘Lionheart’ who has been in fear of his life because of his condemnation of what is allowed to take place in his home town of Luton. Read what he says about events last year:

“I have had murdering Moslems from Luton wanting to kill me during the course of 2007 because I helped the police arrest and imprison one of them who was selling heroin and crack cocaine in my community and now I have this to look forward to in 2008.

I went to ground in 2007 and covered my tracks so that I have been untraceable by anyone.

I lodged a complaint through an ‘advocate’ against the police for their failure to investigate the threats against my life that I had received for helping them due to the fact that I could no longer use my i.d anymore because Moslems have infiltrated every part of British society, so I could not work and I could not claim benefits - help was the least the police could do considering all of the factors concerned.

These threats against my life were witnessed by people who knew the severity of the threats that were issued and Bedfordshire police did NOTHING!!! not even check to see whether it had happened.

You tell me if that should be the conduct of those who are employed to protect the public and uphold law and order?

What would you expect from the police if your life had just been threatened by Moslems from Luton?

I had to close my business, I lost my home, I had to bankrupt myself and I became a vagrant in my own country because of Moslems wanting to kill me and the British polices failure to help me even though I had just helped them.

And now the Police want to arrest him (Lionheart).

Something is terribly wrong somewhere!

You can catch up with more details from this story via this blog-site -

http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/

Do take a moment to have a look - for the information therereveals all too clearly just how perverted the so called protectors of the public have become!



If after reading the full details, on the ‘Lionheart’ blog-site you find yourself outraged, then the e-address of the Bedford shire Police is - [bimd@bedfordshire.police.uk]


The Chief Constable of Bedfordshire is Gillian Parker.

END OF DELETED POST

Why the retraction/deletion? I'm mystified!

- Baligha

Anonymous said...

P.S.

Although the BNP have erased it from their main site you can still read the censored article here:
http://swindonnationalists.blogspot.com/2008/01/state-police-flexing-their-muscles.html

Will this dissappear in due course? What's going on?

- Baligha

Anonymous said...

That is good news wat, keep Griffin, we keep the splits.

My biggest fear in this was some of the rebels developing a backbone and creating a "credible" nazi party, like some of the ones in Europe, but it looks like we're just going to have business as usual, scandal, split, scandal, split, poor results, scandal, split, scandal, split, poor results, etc., etc., etc. lol

Anonymous said...

perhaps Wat the troll should stick to his own nazi sites instead of trying to spread mis-info on this one.