As news of a possible assassination plot against Sen. Barack Obama broke on Monday and Tuesday, white supremacists reacted overwhelmingly with suspicion that they were being set up by the federal government to take the fall.
Reports from Denver indicate that the three men arrested in the supposed plot on Sunday — Tharin Gartrell, Nathan D. Johnson and Shawn Adolf — may have been linked to a “white supremacy group,” possibly racist skinheads. One of the men was reportedly wearing a swastika ring when arrested, and one was said to be linked to a motorcycle gang called the Sons of Silence. The Southern Poverty Law Center has no evidence linking the gang or any of the three men to white supremacism.
“Seems more like an attempt by ZOG to assassinate us,” wrote “DAglaff Wolfing” on Stormfront.org, the most important white supremacist Web forum, referring to the “Zionist Occupation Government” — white supremacist lingo for the federal government. Added “Ravening Wolf” in the same thread: “It wouldn’t surprise me if these people are jews [sic], or dumb patsies, involved in yet another false-flag Mossad operation … in order to conjure up yet more anti-gun legislation.”
“I completely predicted that they would do this,” “AZDane” wrote on Stormfront. “If Obama IS assassinated, it will be the gov’t doing it and we’ll take the blame. Like always.”
Many of those posting derided those arrested because police also found quantities of methamphetamine. (“Besides,” wrote one, “real white men wouldn’t have been stopped from completing their mission, whatever it may be. These people were fools.”) But they kept coming back to the idea of a government plot.
“It sounds like concocted BS,” wrote “General1812.” “Seriously, plots that are this serious don’t come to the surface so easily. The government law enforcement [agencies] may be expecting Obama to win, and so are getting ready to conduct a preemptive strike against WNist [white nationalist] organizations.”
Or, as “Alida302” put it in the Stormfront thread: “Sound like a bunch of wannabe small timers to me. They need to make sure that [Obama’s] black ass is protected. His death would bring down a s**tstorm of hell upon all of us.”
Earlier, long before the Democratic convention opened in Denver, many white supremacists were arguing that an Obama victory could actually be good for their movement. They predicted that such a victory would shock white Americans, drive millions of them into white supremacist groups and, ultimately, lead to a race war that would finally result in the much hoped-for final Aryan victory.
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August 27, 2008
July 25, 2008
‘Springtime for Irving’: The Video
Here’s a fresh treat for readers of Hatewatch — a brand new video, made by journalist Max Blumenthal and videographer Thomas Shomaker and co-produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center, about convicted Holocaust denier David Irving. It’s an amazing, sardonic account of Irving’s visit this July 16 to a church in Manhattan, where Blumenthal presses him into a most remarkable interview.
Irving, of course, is the infamous British writer who penned numerous apologetics for Adolf Hitler and then sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt after she called him a Holocaust denier. Irving ultimately lost his epic court battle in London, with the judge in the case concluding that he was a “pro-Nazi” polemicist. The court also found that the author of some 30 books had “persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence” to promote his racist and anti-Semitic ideas.
We’ll save most of the good stuff for viewers of the video, but offer just a couple of teasers here. At one point, Irving tells his audience: “Adolf Hitler was being kept out of the loop and was probably not at all anti-Semitic… . He repeatedly held out his hand to stop things happening to the Jews.” Just as you’re digesting that incredible piece of neo-Nazi propaganda, the video recounts how journalist Christopher Hitchens, a former Trotskyist-turned-Iraq War cheerleader, has described Irving as “a great historian” and, in Irving’s words, remains “a good friend” to the man who once said that more people died in the back of Ted Kennedy’s car than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Although the video doesn’t make this point, Hitchens was named one of the world’s “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine of Britain in 2005, long after his paean to Irving’s swell talents as a “historian.”
Take a look at this remarkable video, which we offer here a day late as a birthday present from Hatewatch, which just completed its first year of existence. As the months unfold, we hope to bring you more along these lines.
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July 22, 2008
Insurance Service Quotes Anti-Gay Crackpot as Authority
“It’s a loaded subject, but let’s get right down to it: gay men, on average, die significantly younger than the rest of the population.” So begins [1] “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,” an article posted on insure.com, a publicly traded online insurance brokerage. The source for the article, written by one Joseph White of insure.com, is identified as none other than “Dr. Paul Cameron [see Anti-gay researcher speaks to racist BNP], the President of the Family Research Institute, [who] published a study in Psychological Reports that confirmed a 20-year life expectancy gap for actively gay men.”
The study in question in fact did nothing of the sort. Its author is a [2] notorious anti-gay propagandist who for more than 25 years has circulated bogus, homophobic “research findings” in pay-to-publish vanity magazines like Psychological Reports (which will publish most anybody willing to pay $27.50 a page). Cameron’s goal, as he says quite candidly, is to provide “ammunition for those who want laws adopted banning homosexual acts throughout the United States.” (In fact, such laws were struck down as unconstitutional by the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in [3] Lawrence v. Texas.) Cameron’s propaganda is so transparently false and aimed merely at defaming homosexuals that the Southern Poverty Law Center added his Family Research Institute to its list of hate groups in 2005.
One of Cameron’s most infamous works is his 1983 “gay obituary study,” for which he used obituaries published in gay newspapers at the height of the AIDS crisis to conclude that gay men die on average at 43. “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,” which was written by insure.com company blogger Joseph White, is obviously based on the gay obituary study, even though Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, thoroughly [4] debunked the study in 1997 in the online magazine Slate.
The average age of death for AIDS victims, Olson noted, was about 40. For Cameron’s figure of 43 years old to hold true, he pointed out, gay people who never contract AIDS must have a life expectancy of no more than 46 years — a truly absurd proposition. “Looked at another way,” Olson reported, “if even half the gay male population stays HIV-negative and lives to an average age of 75, an average overall life span of 43 implies that gay males with AIDS die at an implausibly early age (11, actually).”
Despite Cameron’s total lack of credibility and professional accreditation — he was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983 for ethical violations — his work is often cited favorably by anti-gay hate groups, and it still pops up regularly in conservative religious sermons.
But what’s it doing on insure.com?
Although insure.com is a regular sponsor of conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly’s radio show, by all appearances it’s an established mainstream business website. Insure.com, which [5] describes itself as “an online consumer insurance information service” that allows visitors to obtain insurance quotes from more than 200 leading insurers, regularly wins Web design and Web commerce awards, and Sam Belden, its director of consumer experience, is frequently interviewed by major newspapers and networks like CNN as an insurance expert. The site is not a public discussion forum. Its owners strictly control its content, and the vast majority of its articles — described as “a vast library of originally authored insurance articles … not available from any other source” —deal with topics like quarterly car insurance rate reports and tips for discussing rider policies with a homeowners insurance agent. It’s hardly a typical venue for promoting the work of a raving homophobe like Cameron, who once said: “Homosexuality is an infectious appetite. It is like the dog that gets a taste for blood after killing its first victim and desires to get more victims thereafter with a ravenous hunger.”
Last month, bloggers at boxturtlebulletin.com, which delivers “news analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric,” privately contacted insure.com CEO Robert Bland to make sure that Bland knew all about Cameron’s background, including his praise for Nazi Rudolph Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for how he “dealt with” gays. The bloggers [6] went public after Bland wrote back, informing them he had no intention of removing the article from the website. “It contains no factual errors and no editorial bias or slant whatsoever,” Bland wrote in a July 12 post to the boxturtlebulletin.com comments section.
Addressing the implications of Cameron’s findings for the life insurance industry, the insure.com article concludes that despite the gross disparity in life spans, “no life insurance companies charge elevated rates to gay men. Then again, perhaps the issue is still too sensitive for such realistic evaluation.”
Bland, in his correspondence with the boxturtlebulletin bloggers, [7] indicated his belief that such a “realistic evaluation” should be based at least in part on the work of Paul Cameron: “There’s a human interest story to be researched here on why all U.S. life insurers decline HIV-positive applicants (many of whom are healthy and have been for two decades) but will not even attempt to segregate gays who, according to a growing body of evidence, may have a much shorter lifespan than non-gays.”
[1] “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,”: http://www.insure.com/articles/lifeinsurance/gay-men-die-young.html
[2] notorious anti-gay propagandist: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=587
[3] Lawrence v. Texas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
[4] debunked: http://www.slate.com/id/2098/
[5] describes itself: http://www.insure.com/ir/CorporateProfile.html
[6] went public: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/11/2137
[7] indicated: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/11/2137#comment-13382
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The study in question in fact did nothing of the sort. Its author is a [2] notorious anti-gay propagandist who for more than 25 years has circulated bogus, homophobic “research findings” in pay-to-publish vanity magazines like Psychological Reports (which will publish most anybody willing to pay $27.50 a page). Cameron’s goal, as he says quite candidly, is to provide “ammunition for those who want laws adopted banning homosexual acts throughout the United States.” (In fact, such laws were struck down as unconstitutional by the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in [3] Lawrence v. Texas.) Cameron’s propaganda is so transparently false and aimed merely at defaming homosexuals that the Southern Poverty Law Center added his Family Research Institute to its list of hate groups in 2005.
One of Cameron’s most infamous works is his 1983 “gay obituary study,” for which he used obituaries published in gay newspapers at the height of the AIDS crisis to conclude that gay men die on average at 43. “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,” which was written by insure.com company blogger Joseph White, is obviously based on the gay obituary study, even though Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, thoroughly [4] debunked the study in 1997 in the online magazine Slate.
The average age of death for AIDS victims, Olson noted, was about 40. For Cameron’s figure of 43 years old to hold true, he pointed out, gay people who never contract AIDS must have a life expectancy of no more than 46 years — a truly absurd proposition. “Looked at another way,” Olson reported, “if even half the gay male population stays HIV-negative and lives to an average age of 75, an average overall life span of 43 implies that gay males with AIDS die at an implausibly early age (11, actually).”
Despite Cameron’s total lack of credibility and professional accreditation — he was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983 for ethical violations — his work is often cited favorably by anti-gay hate groups, and it still pops up regularly in conservative religious sermons.
But what’s it doing on insure.com?
Although insure.com is a regular sponsor of conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly’s radio show, by all appearances it’s an established mainstream business website. Insure.com, which [5] describes itself as “an online consumer insurance information service” that allows visitors to obtain insurance quotes from more than 200 leading insurers, regularly wins Web design and Web commerce awards, and Sam Belden, its director of consumer experience, is frequently interviewed by major newspapers and networks like CNN as an insurance expert. The site is not a public discussion forum. Its owners strictly control its content, and the vast majority of its articles — described as “a vast library of originally authored insurance articles … not available from any other source” —deal with topics like quarterly car insurance rate reports and tips for discussing rider policies with a homeowners insurance agent. It’s hardly a typical venue for promoting the work of a raving homophobe like Cameron, who once said: “Homosexuality is an infectious appetite. It is like the dog that gets a taste for blood after killing its first victim and desires to get more victims thereafter with a ravenous hunger.”
Last month, bloggers at boxturtlebulletin.com, which delivers “news analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric,” privately contacted insure.com CEO Robert Bland to make sure that Bland knew all about Cameron’s background, including his praise for Nazi Rudolph Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for how he “dealt with” gays. The bloggers [6] went public after Bland wrote back, informing them he had no intention of removing the article from the website. “It contains no factual errors and no editorial bias or slant whatsoever,” Bland wrote in a July 12 post to the boxturtlebulletin.com comments section.
Addressing the implications of Cameron’s findings for the life insurance industry, the insure.com article concludes that despite the gross disparity in life spans, “no life insurance companies charge elevated rates to gay men. Then again, perhaps the issue is still too sensitive for such realistic evaluation.”
Bland, in his correspondence with the boxturtlebulletin bloggers, [7] indicated his belief that such a “realistic evaluation” should be based at least in part on the work of Paul Cameron: “There’s a human interest story to be researched here on why all U.S. life insurers decline HIV-positive applicants (many of whom are healthy and have been for two decades) but will not even attempt to segregate gays who, according to a growing body of evidence, may have a much shorter lifespan than non-gays.”
[1] “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,”: http://www.insure.com/articles/lifeinsurance/gay-men-die-young.html
[2] notorious anti-gay propagandist: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=587
[3] Lawrence v. Texas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
[4] debunked: http://www.slate.com/id/2098/
[5] describes itself: http://www.insure.com/ir/CorporateProfile.html
[6] went public: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/11/2137
[7] indicated: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/11/2137#comment-13382
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January 30, 2008
Hatewatch for the week of January 30th 2008
Man Indicted On Federal Conspiracy Charges For Displaying Noose
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, and a juvenile member of the Ku Klux Klan allegedly conspired in criminal threats and harassment by attaching nooses to pick-up trucks and then repeatedly driving past civil rights marchers gathered at a bus depot last September...
Bombmaker Suspected Of Targeting Synagogues
A man with an arsenal of weapons in his apartment who was arrested for making pipe bombs confessed to scrawling swastikas on synagogues in his neighborhood, police said...
FBI Investigates Mormon Seminary Vandalism
The FBI considers anti-Mormon graffiti spray-painted outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary building to be a hate crime...
Accused Cross Burners Charged With Hate Crimes
Two white men who allegedly burned a cross on a black family's lawn last November were charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in addition to aggravated harassment and arson...
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Jeremiah Munsen, 18, and a juvenile member of the Ku Klux Klan allegedly conspired in criminal threats and harassment by attaching nooses to pick-up trucks and then repeatedly driving past civil rights marchers gathered at a bus depot last September...
Bombmaker Suspected Of Targeting Synagogues
A man with an arsenal of weapons in his apartment who was arrested for making pipe bombs confessed to scrawling swastikas on synagogues in his neighborhood, police said...
FBI Investigates Mormon Seminary Vandalism
The FBI considers anti-Mormon graffiti spray-painted outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary building to be a hate crime...
Accused Cross Burners Charged With Hate Crimes
Two white men who allegedly burned a cross on a black family's lawn last November were charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in addition to aggravated harassment and arson...
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January 14, 2008
For one man, ‘Highway to Holiness’ needed an exit ramp
Last year, Hatewatch brought you the story of James Stabile, a 19-year-old gay man who, in a segment aired on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club,” claimed to have been converted to heterosexuality during a church’s “purity siege” outside a Dallas gay bar. The bar was located near Interstate 35, a route that an evangelistic group of churches including Heartland World Ministries wanted to reclaim as a “highway to holiness” by eradicating all manner of sin in its environs.
It’s too bad “The 700 Club” never brought us Part II. On its November segment, Heartland Ministries’ Rev. Joe Oden described how his Las Colinas, Texas, ministry had “saved” Stabile from homosexuality. What Oden didn’t mention is that Stabile had a history of mental illness and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And what the hosts of “The 700 Club” didn’t tell their audience after the segment aired was what happened in the next four months of Stabile’s life — wherein the young man was shipped off to an unlicensed “ex-gay” live-in center in Kentucky, with barely a phone call to his parents allowed. Financed in part with $2,100 raised by the Rev. Oden’s church, Stabile lived at Pure Life Ministries, where he was told his homosexuality would be “cured,” in a room with 15 other men. Among the center’s many bans: no handshakes, no talking to other men, no exposed skin from the neck down (even while sleeping), and no radio or television.
Oh, and one other thing. No medication, according to Stabile, for bipolar disorder.
All measures failed to convert Stabile, who is now home in Dallas and once again openly gay. Indeed, upon returning and being stabilized, Stabile said, “I’m here to say to people that I want to help prevent other young gay guys from experiencing what I experienced, because I don’t want them to be hurt, and I was hurt really badly.” He went on to tell The Dallas Voice that he spent his days in Kentucky working at a uniform rental company to pay his $150 weekly rent, plus food, laundry and transportation expenses. For his part, Stabile’s father said that he completely accepts his son’s sexuality and believes that being gay “is neither a choice nor sin.” And that’s not because he’s some kind of venomous Christian-basher. Stabile’s father is the reverend who heads the oldest Methodist church in Dallas.
Sadly, Stabile’s story isn’t all that unusual. Last fall, the Intelligence Report revealed that there are over 200 “ex-gay” ministries in operation the U.S. alone. Techniques vary wildly, from weekly prayer and counseling to extreme forms of fasting and exorcism. But nearly all therapies and ministries teach that gays and lesbians are sick individuals.
Kind of like James Stabile, back when the “ex-gay” folks had him in their power.
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It’s too bad “The 700 Club” never brought us Part II. On its November segment, Heartland Ministries’ Rev. Joe Oden described how his Las Colinas, Texas, ministry had “saved” Stabile from homosexuality. What Oden didn’t mention is that Stabile had a history of mental illness and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And what the hosts of “The 700 Club” didn’t tell their audience after the segment aired was what happened in the next four months of Stabile’s life — wherein the young man was shipped off to an unlicensed “ex-gay” live-in center in Kentucky, with barely a phone call to his parents allowed. Financed in part with $2,100 raised by the Rev. Oden’s church, Stabile lived at Pure Life Ministries, where he was told his homosexuality would be “cured,” in a room with 15 other men. Among the center’s many bans: no handshakes, no talking to other men, no exposed skin from the neck down (even while sleeping), and no radio or television.
Oh, and one other thing. No medication, according to Stabile, for bipolar disorder.
All measures failed to convert Stabile, who is now home in Dallas and once again openly gay. Indeed, upon returning and being stabilized, Stabile said, “I’m here to say to people that I want to help prevent other young gay guys from experiencing what I experienced, because I don’t want them to be hurt, and I was hurt really badly.” He went on to tell The Dallas Voice that he spent his days in Kentucky working at a uniform rental company to pay his $150 weekly rent, plus food, laundry and transportation expenses. For his part, Stabile’s father said that he completely accepts his son’s sexuality and believes that being gay “is neither a choice nor sin.” And that’s not because he’s some kind of venomous Christian-basher. Stabile’s father is the reverend who heads the oldest Methodist church in Dallas.
Sadly, Stabile’s story isn’t all that unusual. Last fall, the Intelligence Report revealed that there are over 200 “ex-gay” ministries in operation the U.S. alone. Techniques vary wildly, from weekly prayer and counseling to extreme forms of fasting and exorcism. But nearly all therapies and ministries teach that gays and lesbians are sick individuals.
Kind of like James Stabile, back when the “ex-gay” folks had him in their power.
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July 18, 2007
Hatewatch for the week of July 18th 2007
White Supremacist Gang Members Convicted of Murder
Two members of Public Enemy Number One were found guilty of assassinating a founder of the white supremacist organization in retaliation for his giving away gang secrets in a television interview...
Aryan Warriors Members Indicted
Fourteen members of Aryan Warriors, a white supremacist gang based in the Nevada state prison system, were indicted on federal racketeering charges...
Ex-Klan Leader Acquitted of Child Sex Charges
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Gordon Creal Young was found not guilty of sexual abuse of a minor...
Neo-Nazi Fliers Single Out City Councilwoman
Fliers mailed and tossed onto lawns by a neo-Nazi group use racial slurs and display the photo, home address and phone number of a Fairdale City Councilwoman...
'Ex-gay' Movement Scouts Miami Recruits
Fort Lauderdale-based Worthy Creations purports to cure same-sex attraction...
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Two members of Public Enemy Number One were found guilty of assassinating a founder of the white supremacist organization in retaliation for his giving away gang secrets in a television interview...
Aryan Warriors Members Indicted
Fourteen members of Aryan Warriors, a white supremacist gang based in the Nevada state prison system, were indicted on federal racketeering charges...
Ex-Klan Leader Acquitted of Child Sex Charges
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Gordon Creal Young was found not guilty of sexual abuse of a minor...
Neo-Nazi Fliers Single Out City Councilwoman
Fliers mailed and tossed onto lawns by a neo-Nazi group use racial slurs and display the photo, home address and phone number of a Fairdale City Councilwoman...
'Ex-gay' Movement Scouts Miami Recruits
Fort Lauderdale-based Worthy Creations purports to cure same-sex attraction...
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July 05, 2007
Hatewatch for the week of July 5th 2007
Testimony Reveals Inner Workings of White Supremacist Gang
A motley crew of witnesses in a high-profile murder trial detailed the racist and violent netherworld of Public Enemy Number One...
Feds Target Aryan Brotherhood in New Mexico
Nineteen members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood were indicted on federal racketeering charges, including murder and kidnapping, related to the neo-Nazi prison gang's attempt to solidify its presence in New Mexico...
Hispanic Reports Razor Blade Attack
A 31-year-old Hispanic man told police that two men, one of them wearing a swastika T-shirt, broke into his home and slashed him with a razor blade...
Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Remain Widespread
A new study found that nearly four in 10 gay men in the United States have been the target of violence or property crime because of their sexual orientation...
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A motley crew of witnesses in a high-profile murder trial detailed the racist and violent netherworld of Public Enemy Number One...
Feds Target Aryan Brotherhood in New Mexico
Nineteen members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood were indicted on federal racketeering charges, including murder and kidnapping, related to the neo-Nazi prison gang's attempt to solidify its presence in New Mexico...
Hispanic Reports Razor Blade Attack
A 31-year-old Hispanic man told police that two men, one of them wearing a swastika T-shirt, broke into his home and slashed him with a razor blade...
Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Remain Widespread
A new study found that nearly four in 10 gay men in the United States have been the target of violence or property crime because of their sexual orientation...
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June 28, 2007
Hatewatch for the week of June 27th 2007
Neo-Nazi soldiers charged with equipment thefts
Two 82nd Airborne paratroopers allegedly sold morphine, body armor, and a Humvee, and planned to sell a 105 mm Howitzer, to an FBI undercover agent posing as a white supremacist group contact...
White supremacist prisoner kills Corrections Officer
Curtis Michael Allgier, 27, stole a gun from a corrections officer and shot him to death during a medical appointment at the University of Utah, then carjacked an SUV and led police on a high-speed chase...
FBI investigates death threats against columnist
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts received hundreds of racist threats after white supremacist websites published his address, directions to his house, and a satellite image of his neighborhood...
Klansman convicted in 1964 slayings
A federal jury convicted James Ford Seale, 71, of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of two black teenagers in Mississippi almost 43 years ago...
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Two 82nd Airborne paratroopers allegedly sold morphine, body armor, and a Humvee, and planned to sell a 105 mm Howitzer, to an FBI undercover agent posing as a white supremacist group contact...
White supremacist prisoner kills Corrections Officer
Curtis Michael Allgier, 27, stole a gun from a corrections officer and shot him to death during a medical appointment at the University of Utah, then carjacked an SUV and led police on a high-speed chase...
FBI investigates death threats against columnist
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts received hundreds of racist threats after white supremacist websites published his address, directions to his house, and a satellite image of his neighborhood...
Klansman convicted in 1964 slayings
A federal jury convicted James Ford Seale, 71, of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of two black teenagers in Mississippi almost 43 years ago...
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June 21, 2007
Hatewatch for the week of June 21st 2007
Tax Evaders' Property Ordered to be Sold
While their tense stand-off with authorities continues, a judge ordered Edward and Elaine Brown's property sold to satisfy a tax judgment against them.
Ex-Klansman Convicted in '64 Case
Klansman James Seale, 71, was found guilty by a federal jury of murdering two black teenagers 43 years ago in Mississippi.
White Supremacists Plan Another Knoxville Rally
Community leaders in Knoxville are bracing themselves for another round of white power demonstrations.
Alleged Neo-Nazi Pedophile Pleads Not Guilty Again
Neo-Nazi Kevin Strom maintains his innocence as evidence - and felony charges - of child pornography and sexual coercion of a child mount.
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While their tense stand-off with authorities continues, a judge ordered Edward and Elaine Brown's property sold to satisfy a tax judgment against them.
Ex-Klansman Convicted in '64 Case
Klansman James Seale, 71, was found guilty by a federal jury of murdering two black teenagers 43 years ago in Mississippi.
White Supremacists Plan Another Knoxville Rally
Community leaders in Knoxville are bracing themselves for another round of white power demonstrations.
Alleged Neo-Nazi Pedophile Pleads Not Guilty Again
Neo-Nazi Kevin Strom maintains his innocence as evidence - and felony charges - of child pornography and sexual coercion of a child mount.
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June 13, 2007
Hatewatch for the week of June 13th 2007
Lessons of Waco applied to New Hampshire standoff
U.S. marshals engaged in a standoff with convicted tax evaders in Plainfield appear to have learned from the mistakes of Waco and Ruby Ridge...
White Supremacist sentenced for cross-burning
Kevin William Ridenour, who told investigators he's a member of a racist gang based in Chico, California, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to burning a cross in front of the home of an African Catholic priest...
Murders, immigration controversy invigorate hate groups
White supremacist groups in Tennessee are rallying around immigration and the recent brutal slayings of a young white couple...
KKK Publication Distributed in Virginia
The United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed copies of "The Klansman's Voice" in two Charlottesville-area neighborhoods...
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U.S. marshals engaged in a standoff with convicted tax evaders in Plainfield appear to have learned from the mistakes of Waco and Ruby Ridge...
White Supremacist sentenced for cross-burning
Kevin William Ridenour, who told investigators he's a member of a racist gang based in Chico, California, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to burning a cross in front of the home of an African Catholic priest...
Murders, immigration controversy invigorate hate groups
White supremacist groups in Tennessee are rallying around immigration and the recent brutal slayings of a young white couple...
KKK Publication Distributed in Virginia
The United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed copies of "The Klansman's Voice" in two Charlottesville-area neighborhoods...
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May 16, 2007
Hatewatch - for the week of May 16th 2007
Black Supremacist Sect Leader Dies
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the self-professed "Black Messiah," who preached hatred of whites and drew followers into a murderous brotherhood, died of cancer at 71 after serving 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence...
'Aryans Club' Bomb Threat Shuts Down High School
The FBI is investigating a bomb threat and racist graffiti by members of a group calling itself the "Scotts Valley Aryan Club."
Gang Member Arrested for Hate Crime Shooting
A Latino gang member was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yelling a racial slur and firing a shot at a black man who was pumping gas...
U.S. Hate Groups Recruiting in Australia
The White Legion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Stormfront last month distributed recruiting materials targeting "Aboriginal crime" and "Jewish control of the media" in three Australian cities...
Southern Poverty Law Center
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the self-professed "Black Messiah," who preached hatred of whites and drew followers into a murderous brotherhood, died of cancer at 71 after serving 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence...
'Aryans Club' Bomb Threat Shuts Down High School
The FBI is investigating a bomb threat and racist graffiti by members of a group calling itself the "Scotts Valley Aryan Club."
Gang Member Arrested for Hate Crime Shooting
A Latino gang member was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yelling a racial slur and firing a shot at a black man who was pumping gas...
U.S. Hate Groups Recruiting in Australia
The White Legion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Stormfront last month distributed recruiting materials targeting "Aboriginal crime" and "Jewish control of the media" in three Australian cities...
Southern Poverty Law Center
Labels:
Aryan Club,
Australia,
Hatewatch,
Jewish,
Ku Klux Klan,
SPLC,
Stormfront
April 18, 2007
Hatewatch: for the week of April 18th 2007
White supremacist icon was secretly part black
Veteran neo-Nazi William "Wild Bill" Hoff, who died last December at 71, discovered in 1995 that his father's ancestors were black, a secret Hoff then carried to the grave...
Neo-Nazis announce plans for anti-immigration rally
John Taylor Bowles, the South Carolina head of the National Socialist Movement, said the NSM has scheduled a march and rally at the State House for April 21 as part of the neo-Nazi group's three-day national conference...
Klansman's aunt traces roots of his racist beliefs
Imperial Klans of America "grand titan" Jarred Hensley became a racist in high school after he was beaten by blacks and his girlfriend dumped him for a black man...
High school students suspended for anti-gay attack
Six Colorado youths were suspended from school and are under criminal investigation for shouting anti-gay insults and breaking the nose of a 15-year-old classmate as he walked home from school...
Southern Poverty Law Centre
Veteran neo-Nazi William "Wild Bill" Hoff, who died last December at 71, discovered in 1995 that his father's ancestors were black, a secret Hoff then carried to the grave...
Neo-Nazis announce plans for anti-immigration rally
John Taylor Bowles, the South Carolina head of the National Socialist Movement, said the NSM has scheduled a march and rally at the State House for April 21 as part of the neo-Nazi group's three-day national conference...
Klansman's aunt traces roots of his racist beliefs
Imperial Klans of America "grand titan" Jarred Hensley became a racist in high school after he was beaten by blacks and his girlfriend dumped him for a black man...
High school students suspended for anti-gay attack
Six Colorado youths were suspended from school and are under criminal investigation for shouting anti-gay insults and breaking the nose of a 15-year-old classmate as he walked home from school...
Southern Poverty Law Centre
March 29, 2007
Hatewatch: for the week of March 28th 2007
Gay man’s murder spurs campaign to update laws
Detroit Free Press
March 21, 2007
Prompted by the beating death of 72-year-old Andrew Athos, state and federal lawmakers introduced legislation to expand the definition of hate crimes to include attacks on gays and lesbians.
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Fort Bragg skinhead killer dies in prison
The Fayetteville Observer
March 22, 2007
James Burmeister, 31, one of two racist skinheads convicted in 1997 of randomly murdering a black couple while serving in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, died of natural causes in prison, ten years into a life sentence.
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National Vanguard organizes 'White Pride' rally
East Valley Tribune
March 21, 2007
Several members of the neo-Nazi group National Vanguard's Arizona chapter held "White Pride Worldwide" banners at a busy intersection in observance of a United Nations-designated "Harmony Day."
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White supremacists arrested for murder
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
March 24, 2007
Two members of the Riverside Skins allegedly shot to death a drug dealer they feared would become an informant.
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Neo-Nazi march cost city $32,000
Columbia Tribune
March 20, 2007
City agencies spent more than $32,000 on security for a 45-minute march by two-dozen members of the National Socialist Movement near the University of Missouri-Columbia on March 10.
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SPLC
Detroit Free Press
March 21, 2007
Prompted by the beating death of 72-year-old Andrew Athos, state and federal lawmakers introduced legislation to expand the definition of hate crimes to include attacks on gays and lesbians.
Read more
Fort Bragg skinhead killer dies in prison
The Fayetteville Observer
March 22, 2007
James Burmeister, 31, one of two racist skinheads convicted in 1997 of randomly murdering a black couple while serving in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, died of natural causes in prison, ten years into a life sentence.
Read more
National Vanguard organizes 'White Pride' rally
East Valley Tribune
March 21, 2007
Several members of the neo-Nazi group National Vanguard's Arizona chapter held "White Pride Worldwide" banners at a busy intersection in observance of a United Nations-designated "Harmony Day."
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White supremacists arrested for murder
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
March 24, 2007
Two members of the Riverside Skins allegedly shot to death a drug dealer they feared would become an informant.
Read more
Neo-Nazi march cost city $32,000
Columbia Tribune
March 20, 2007
City agencies spent more than $32,000 on security for a 45-minute march by two-dozen members of the National Socialist Movement near the University of Missouri-Columbia on March 10.
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SPLC
March 22, 2007
Hatewatch: for the week of March 21st 2007
Navy officer under investigation for extremist activities
Navy Times
March 19, 2007
Lt. Cmdr. John Sharpe Jr. was relieved of duty after an Intelligence Project investigation uncovered evidence of his writing anti-Semitic dispatches and attending white supremacist gatherings.
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Klan group rallies in support of racist parties
The Toronto Star
March 18, 2007
Two dozen members of The Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrated in support of Tarleton State students who held a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party where attendees ate fried chicken, drank malt liquor, and dressed as Aunt Jemima.
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Lawmakers: homeless need hate crime protection
Miami Herald
March 15, 2007
The Florida legislature is considering legislation to classify attacks on homeless people as hate crimes.
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Anti-Semitic acts up 86 percent in Illinois
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2007
While anti-Semitic incidents declined nationwide, in Illinois they leaped from 30 in 2005 to 56 last year, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League.
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SPLC
Navy Times
March 19, 2007
Lt. Cmdr. John Sharpe Jr. was relieved of duty after an Intelligence Project investigation uncovered evidence of his writing anti-Semitic dispatches and attending white supremacist gatherings.
Read more...
Klan group rallies in support of racist parties
The Toronto Star
March 18, 2007
Two dozen members of The Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrated in support of Tarleton State students who held a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party where attendees ate fried chicken, drank malt liquor, and dressed as Aunt Jemima.
Read more...
Lawmakers: homeless need hate crime protection
Miami Herald
March 15, 2007
The Florida legislature is considering legislation to classify attacks on homeless people as hate crimes.
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Anti-Semitic acts up 86 percent in Illinois
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2007
While anti-Semitic incidents declined nationwide, in Illinois they leaped from 30 in 2005 to 56 last year, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League.
Read more...
SPLC
Labels:
Anti-Defamation League,
anti-semitic,
extremist,
hate crimes,
Hatewatch,
KKK,
Navy
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