Plot to Murder SPLC Founder Disclosed

A new book details a formerly undisclosed 1999 plot to assassinate Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and possibly also to blow up the center. Written by FBI agent Tym Burkey and informant Dave Hall, Into the Devil’s Den describes how Hall, after penetrating the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations group in Ohio and Idaho, uncovered the plot shortly before the assassin was to head south to SPLC headquarters in Montgomery, Ala. The assassin was arrested on April 14, 1999, and had timed his attack to roughly coincide with the April 19-20 anniversaries of the fiery end of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and the birthday of Adolf Hitler. The plot was apparently concocted by several men upset that Dees and the SPLC that year sued the Aryan Nations in an action that ultimately resulted in the sale of the group’s Idaho compound.
Remarkably, the book also identifies Ron Edwards , national leader of the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America (IKA), as a possible (but uncharged) conspirator. The SPLC is now preparing for a November trial against Edwards and IKA on behalf of a boy who was beaten by two of the group’s members. This February, when Dees went to Kentucky to take Edwards’ deposition, the Klan leader (above, right) showed up with a fresh tattoo on the side of his newly shaven head that read, “FUCK S.P.L.C.”
The 1999 plot, which was averted thanks to the work of Hall and Burkey, was only the latest attempt by extremists to assassinate Dees or attack the SPLC. More than 30 people have been sent to federal prison in connection with similar plots.
For more on this case, read an account of the plot here .

Summary: A new book details a formerly undisclosed 1999 plot to assassinate Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and possibly also to blow up the center. Written by FBI agent Tym Burkey and informant Dave Hall, Into the Devil’s Den describes how Hall, after penetrating the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations group in Ohio and Idaho, uncovered the plot shortly before the assassin was to head south to SPLC headquarters in Montgomery, Ala. The assassin was arrested on April 14, 1999, and…


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Save Our State Member Accused Of Harassment For 'Deport Them All' Sign
July 15, 2008
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Save Our State activist Davi Rodriguez regularly cruises past day labor pick-up points towing a sign that reads, "Build the wall, deport them all," mounted on a trailer.
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American Legion Immigration Report Replete with Falsehoods

Since its founding nearly 90 years ago, the American Legion has been a fixture of community life. It has hosted Memorial Day parades to remember those who died in America’s wars. It has held bingo nights and dances at its 14,000-plus posts worldwide. It has supported thousands of Boy Scout groups, sponsored a baseball program that’s produced numerous professional players, and helped children living in poverty or with special needs. From World War II to the war in Iraq, the legion has fought to improve benefits for veterans and their families.
Now, America’s largest veterans organization has launched another campaign — a hard-line attack on undocumented immigrants that’s at odds with the legion’s mainstream image. As part of this effort, the legion, which purports to speak for 2.7 million members, recently issued a booklet that regurgitates discredited and often completely false information about how “illegals” are bringing crime, disease, and terrorism to this country, even as they wreck the economy for natives.
The legion’s 34-page booklet, A Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration in the United States , asserts that “poverty, political instability, disease and war” are “on our back doorstep” because of porous borders and the failure of the government to stringently enforce immigration laws. But in making its case, the legion repeatedly cites dubious sources, ignores well-known facts and makes baseless claims — such as the false assertion that the undocumented infected more than 7,000 people in America with leprosy during a recent three-year period.
“They’re sort of trotting out old tropes to do with immigration,” said Richard Wright, a Dartmouth College geography professor who specializes in immigration. “These are hackneyed stereotypes that have no place in a policy document.”
That’s not all. On April 28, when it released its booklet — which was actually a repackaged version of a May 2007 legion “white paper” — the group announced that its campaign would include letters to the editor, news releases from posts around the country, and six 60-second radio spots. These spots revisit some of the nastiest claims in the report, portraying undocumented immigrants as sex offenders, gang members, terrorists and murderers. Remarkably, they are delivered by Richard Fatherly, Kansas City chapter media adviser for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps — a group whose members President Bush once denounced as “vigilantes.”
The Intelligence Report sought comment from the American Legion and was directed to Robert Caudell, assistant director of its Americanism and Children & Youth Division. Caudell requested a detailed list of false or misleading claims, but then declined to address those claims once he had received it. Instead, he E-mailed a general statement pointing to the legion’s recommendations to the government and arguing that the Intelligence Report was simply interpreting the same facts and statistics differently than the legion. “It’s quite the same when two individuals witness an identical incident,” Caudell wrote. “Each has his perspective, his personal assumptions, and often a disparate ability to describe the event.”
That’s not the way Hispanic veterans organizations see it. Felix Vargas, a retired Army colonel and the director of government relations for the largest such group, American GI Forum, told the Intelligence Report that the booklet was misleading and untruthful and called it a slap in the face to Hispanic legionnaires. “We didn’t need this distraction,” said Vargas, who served as an Army Ranger and Special Forces commander in Vietnam. “The legion crusade is a disservice to both the veteran community and the nation.” Added Eric Rojo, the president of Hispanic War Veterans of America and another retired colonel: “Their position is absurd and ignorant. Someone didn’t sit down and check the facts.” And John Amaya, a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, noted that 11% of the first 4,000 American casualties in Iraq have been Latinos — and many of them are the children of undocumented residents of the United States.
The American Legion actually has been engaged with nativist groups for some time. In 2004, its national convention in Nashville, Tenn., featured Dan Stein, leader of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a strident nativist group that opposes both legal and illegal immigration. In March 2007, it held a forum on illegal immigration spotlighting nativist heavyweights like the leaders of NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies. It has allowed its posts to be used for gatherings of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. And this spring, it gave its “ National Commander’s Public Relations Award” to CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who has himself regularly presented false data about immigrants.
At times in its history, the legion has made other forays into nativist politics. In 1937, the legion published A Review of Alien Isms, Revolutionary Communism and their Active Sympathizers in the United States , which linked immigrants to what was seen as the ultimate evil “ism”: communism. The book claimed that immigrant children accounted for most of those attending communist summer camps and that other supposedly subversive groups were also heavily populated by immigrants. It demanded enhanced border patrols, immediate deportation of the undocumented and slashing of all immigration quotas by 90%. After World War I, when anti-Asian sentiment was sweeping the country, the legion on the West Coast championed policies that discriminated against Japanese-Americans. This attitude also affected the national legion, whose committee to investigate Asiatic immigration included a Seattle attorney who had served as president of his city’s Anti-Japanese League, according to Tom Heuterman’s book The Burning Horse .
What follows is a sampling of the kind of claims that the American Legion is making with regard to undocumented immigrants, along with the actual situation, as revealed by statistics and interviews with non-partisan experts.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: American prisons “are crowded or full because of the illegals convicted of committing crimes against the people of the United States.” Non-citizens make up fully 30% of the American prison population. THE TRUTH: As with many of its claims, the legion offers no source for this figure other than to claim that it has been “widely reported.” A 2005 report by the nonpartisan General Accounting Office says that immigrants — both documented and undocumented — constitute 27% of federal prisoners. But fewer than 13% of incarcerated people in America are in federal prisons, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. When both federal and state prisoners are counted, about 6% are non-citizens ; that is actually less than expected, because documented and undocumented immigrants make up roughly 8% of adults residing in the U.S.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM : Based on the same General Accounting Office (GAO) report, the legion states that 49% of all incarcerated illegal immigrants had prior felony convictions. THE TRUTH: The GAO report contains no such information, despite the fact that the American Legion report specifically cites it. What it does say is that of the offenses for which undocumented immigrants were arrested, just 12% were violent crimes.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program aimed at catching child predators arrested more than 6,000 “illegal aliens” in its first two years. The legion also asserts that 240,000 undocumented immigrants are sex offenders. THE TRUTH: While it’s true that Operation Predator made 6,000-plus arrests in its first two years, those arrested consisted of both documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as American citizens, according to ICE . About 85% of those arrested were foreign nationals (many of them documented), but this was no surprise, given that the operation specifically targeted foreign-born predators whose status made them deportable, along with U.S. citizens who engage in child sex tourism abroad. With regard to the total figure of undocumented sex offenders, the legion cites a self-published article from independent criminal profiler Deborah Schurman-Kauflin stating that 240,000 undocumented immigrants are sex offenders. Schurman-Kauflin based that figure on the assumption — for which she provided no specific source — that sex offenders account for 2% of all undocumented immigrants. She didn’t respond to an E-mail from the Intelligence Report seeking clarification.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: Thousands of immigrants from countries with terrorist connections have been caught trying to enter the United States illegally. This claim is immediately followed by several paragraphs about illegal crossing of the Mexican border, suggesting that those “from countries with known terrorist connections” are entering the U.S. via Mexico. THE TRUTH: A 2006 report by the Nixon Center, which appeared in the peer-reviewed Terrorism and Political Violence journal, found that the suggestion that terrorists were entering the U.S. through Mexico, while frightening, was entirely untrue: “Despite media alarms about terrorists concealed in the illegal traffic crossing the Mexican border, not a single subject entered from Mexico.”
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: “More Americans are killed by illegal aliens than die in the Iraq War.” THE TRUTH: The legion cites no source for this allegation. Its claim appears to come from a February 2007 article by the editors of Family Security Matters, which frequently publishes breathless  “exclusives” such as the one about Latinos titled, “Illegal Aliens Bring a Taliban Culture to the United States.” The February 2007 article attributes its data to an article on the far-right WorldNetDaily website, which in turn cites blogger Matt Johnson. In 2005, Johnson claimed — based, absurdly, on murder rates in immigrants’ home countries — that undocumented immigrants kill 1,806 to 2,510 people every year. Applying that claim to the FBI’s most recent murder total (15,854 murders in 2006) would mean that the undocumented, who number about 12 million people or 4% of the U.S. population, are responsible for 11.4% to 16.1% of U.S. murders. In plain English, that means the legion is claiming that undocumented immigrants murder U.S. citizens at a rate of three to four times that of the general population. In fact, nonpartisan studies have shown that immigrants of all kinds are significantly less criminal than their native-born American counterparts. THE LEGION’S CLAIM: The legion quotes a 2005 article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons saying that many illegal immigrants “harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue and Chagas disease. The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences.” The legion also claims that drug-resistant tuberculosis cases have risen 25% recently. THE TRUTH: The “journal” the legion cites is a pseudo-scientific publication known for articles like the recent piece attempting to refute the well-established fact that the HIV virus causes AIDS. And the 2005 journal article’s author, the late Madeleine Cosman, was a lawyer and medievalist with no medical expertise at all. She was also a rabid migrant hater, as evidenced by this 2005 comment about all Mexican male immigrants to the U.S.: “Most of these bastards molest girls under age 12, some as young as age 5, others age 3. Although, of course, some specialize in boys, some specialize in nuns, [and] some are exceedingly versatile and rape little girls age 11 and women up to age 79.” It is true that certain diseases like Chagas disease, are more prevalent among immigration populations. But the legion’s claims are wildly overstated, suggesting real and widespread threats to the health of the general public. As an example, in the case of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Centers for Disease Control reports that there were only 116 cases in 2006, the most recent year for which statistics are available. Overall, tuberculosis cases in the United States are at an all-time low since national reporting began in 1953.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: “Between 2000 and 2003, leprosy infected over 7,000 people in the U.S., brought to this country by illegal immigrants from India, Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean.” That compared to 900 cases in the prior 40 years. THE TRUTH: The legion’s claim is based on a misreading of a New York Times article cited by Cosman in her journal article. In fact, just 453 cases were diagnosed in those years, according to the National Hansen’s Disease [leprosy] Program. As program director James Krahenbuhl told the Times : “It’s not a public health problem. That’s the bottom line.” The legion’s claim has been popularized nationally by CNN host Lou Dobbs, who refused to retract his assertion even after it had been debunked by “60 Minutes” and many others.
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: “Illegals cost Americans jobs.” THE TRUTH: A 2006 Pew Hispanic Center study found that, overall, large increases in states’ immigrant populations did not correspond with more unemployment for their native-born workers. While some scholars have said that undocumented workers depress wages for native-born high school dropouts, most have failed to establish a link between immigration and job loss, said Richard Wright, the Dartmouth College professor. In fact, many experts have argued that immigration can lead to a net gain of jobs. Said Wright: “The actual effect on the economy is at worst minor, at best beneficial.”
THE LEGION’S CLAIM: “Illegal immigration  … causes an enormous drain on public services.” Citing the partisan Center for Immigration Studies, which favors restricting immigration, the legion says undocumented immigrants don’t pay nearly enough in taxes to compensate for the burden they place on public resources. THE TRUTH: Undocumented immigrants are barred from receiving most forms of public assistance, other than public school education and emergency medical care. But they do pay taxes, including sales taxes, and often, through phony Social Security cards, payroll taxes. In 2005, The New York Times reported that undocumented immigrants contribute some $7 billion a year to the Social Security system that they will never be able to claim. Local and state governments, however, do not receive any benefit from that money and may, as a result, spend more on services to the undocumented than they get back in local taxes from them.

Summary: Since its founding nearly 90 years ago, the American Legion has been a fixture of community life. It has hosted Memorial Day parades to remember those who died in America’s wars. It has held bingo nights and dances at its 14,000-plus posts worldwide. It has supported thousands of Boy Scout groups, sponsored a baseball program that’s produced numerous professional players, and helped children living in poverty or with special needs. From World War II to the war in Iraq, the legion has fought to…


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CAPS Board Member Responds Angrily to Request for Comment

I thought our readers might be interested in the email I received from CAPS board member Stuart Hurlbert after I wrote to him, CAPS President Diana Hull , and CAPS board member Ben Zuckerman , seeking comment for my blog post " Lou Dobbs Citing Extremists, Again ." I asked them about the Pioneer Fund grant they received and about CAPS' relationship with Wayne Lutton , the white supremacist mentioned in my blog post.
Here's what I received back from Hurlbert:
Diana,
My recommendation is that you not reply to Beirich. Her organization is not interested in any rational or civil discussion of population stabilization, immigration, or environmental issues.
The SPLC is basically a fascistic, hate-mongering organization with an open borders agenda. Its main strategy is use smear tactics, innuendo and charges of "hate" against any individual or group that has become effective in stymying the open borders agenda of SPCL and other organizations of the radical left and radical right.
It functions much like Hamas, or Hezbollah, or drug lords who provide gyms and soccer fields to rural Mexican villages. It does a few good things (like go after the KKK, neoNazis, etc.) in order to drum up donations to fund a lot of bad things.
Below is a good example of how even very liberal institutions increasingly recognize SPLC's lack of credibility. The news director of our local PBS radio station, based at SDSU, used SPLC "information" to write a smear piece on our local Minuteman group.
I called him on the smear, in a letter (below) that was copied to the KPBS and SDSU administration. Three months later there was a KPBS news story (url below) about how he was leaving his job. No administrator has admitted to me that he was fired, but they also have not denied that he was. If he's managed to find a new job, we can be sure he now takes all pontifications from the SPLC cum grano magno salis, as most of the public does.
It is heartwarming, of course, to have finally gotten the attention of SPLC, as it is at least an index of our effectiveness.
It has seemed eminently unfair to me that many of our allies such as FAIR, The Social Contract Press, etc. got listed as "hate groups" before we did. Talk about invidious discrimination and social injustice!
And as one who has been in this business for more than 20 years, it is irresponsible to the point of criminality that SPLC does not yet have a mini bio on me up on their website, in their pantheon of "haters", when they have so many wet-behind-the-ears newcomers up there!
Again, my recommendation is that we waste no time responding to fascist groups with hidden agendas.
Stuart
KPBS News Director Signing Off http://www.sdsuniverse.info/people_content.asp?id=60321
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:51:17 -0700 To: news@kpbs.org From: "Stuart H. Hurlbert" < shurlbert@sunstroke.sdsu.edu > Subject: KPBS: biased treatment of immigration issues
Dear Michael Marcotte [and the SDSU and KPBS administration],
re: Watchdog Group Claims Minutemen Linked to White Supremacists http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=9235
This is a shameful piece of yellow dog, muckraking journalism. Maybe the biased treatment of immigration issues by KPBS is now beyond remedy, and it's time for heads to roll in the news department as well? This is a disgrace to KPBS and the SDSU community. Many SDSU employees and thousands of SDSU alumni are Minutemen or Minutemen supporters. If you believe that use of smear language and innuendo are appropriate to a news organization then at least have the courage to do it on your own, without relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center as a crutch.
The extreme left, open-borders agenda of the SPLC (just one of many such organizations hiding behind the label of "civil rights") and its propensity for smear tactics have long been known. Anyone working in a news organization surely must be aware of that.
Over the last twenty years, tremendous numbers of SDSU students, staff and faculty, for example, have been active supporters of Prop. 187 (denial of state benefits to illegal aliens), Prop. 209 (ending racial preferences),  Prop. 54  (prohibiting governmental racial categorization of individuals), and halting the recent amnesty legislation in Congress.
In every case, these individuals and the organizations they worked with with have been smeared as "hate groups", "racists", "white supremacists", "nativists", etc. by the SPLC. Got that?! We're talking about tens of thousands of folks in the SDSU community! You are being successful in drawing a line in the sand with KPBS and SPLC on one side and ourselves on the other.
And, certainly on most of these issues, the majority of the citizenry, in San Diego and elsewhere, has been more with the Minutemen and allied groups than they have been with KPBS or SPLC. Damage to SDSU's reputation with the general public via slanted reporting on this issue by its guest, KPBS, is something for the SDSU administration to assess.
If you want to do a piece on white supremacy organizations, by all means do it. But don't waste your time with the MM. For a couple of years I've participated in occasional MM operations from the beautiful border in Campo to the center of the Mexica movement in Maywood, and I've yet to meet a racist - at least not on the MM side of the street. Get off your butt and into the street, and you'll discover why being a white supremacist would be rather dangerous for a MM. Often 20-30 percent of the MM at one of our events are blacks and hispanics. Personally, when I show up at one I sometimes get more hugs and kisses from cute hispanic grandmothers than I can handle. KPBS, like other local news organizations, of course has never reported on the racist signs often held up by supporters of open borders, or talked about the racist taunts routinely slung at MM at every big demonstration. Just as it will never consider doing any investigative reporting of the many organizations (ACLU, CRALF, Catholic Church, International Socialist Organization, MEChA, etc., etc., etc.) in San Diego County actively supporting illegal immigration and illegal aliens, and usually breaking federal law in doing so. Where are the stories about the weekly drug shipments across the border in Campo or Jacumba? About weekly violence against Border Patrol agents out there and elsewhere? About the number of persons killed by illegal aliens in the county the last few years? How about a story on how many lives would have been saved if over the last 20 years local law enforcement had aided the feds in identifying and apprehending illegal aliens, as they have had the option of doing under existing federal law? Where was KPBS when the Senate passed a bill a year ago (S.2611) that would have tripled legal immigration rates and doubled the rate of U.S. population growth from about 1%/year to 2%/year? Did it report those aspects? Is the KPBS staff incapable of analyzing the social, economic, and environmental consequences of such a growth rate for California or the San Diego Region? Perhaps KPBS did not want to give positive credit to Republicans in the House for killing that bill? At least on the issues relating to immigration and MM, KPBS's new coverage is biased, superficial, and focused on the trivial. If you think the general public is fooled, you're wrong, and it is hurting SDSU. Sincerely, Stuart Hurlbert
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Summary: I thought our readers might be interested in the email I received from CAPS board member Stuart Hurlbert after I wrote to him, CAPS President Diana Hull , and CAPS board member Ben Zuckerman , seeking comment for my blog post " Lou Dobbs Citing Extremists, Again ." I asked them about the Pioneer Fund grant they received and about CAPS' relationship with Wayne Lutton , the white supremacist mentioned in my blog post. Here's what I received back from Hurlbert: Diana, My recommendation is that…


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Religious Right Lies About Hate Bill

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Appellate Court Upholds Ramos And Compean Verdict

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FOX News Channel's 'Free Speech Activist' is Infamous Racist Activist

On Aug. 4, FOX News aired a segment about the Canadian prosecution of conservative author Mark Steyn for alleged anti-Muslim human rights violations. Steyn, the author of the No. 1 Canadian bestseller, America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It , has had three complaints lodged against him for human rights violations by the Canadian Islamic Congress. Two cases have been dismissed, but the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia is still investigating a charge that Steyn’s work amounts to hate speech against Muslims.
Steyn’s book, which was serialized in the well-known Canadian newsmagazine Macleans , contends that Western democracies, particularly in Europe, may become fertile ground for Islamic extremists because of rapidly growing Muslim populations.
While there are many individuals and groups that think the prosecution of Steyn harms free speech in Canada — including PEN Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists — Fox News correspondent Steve Brown chose to interview a decidedly odd source: Paul Fromm, who was very sparingly identified on the broadcast as a “Free Speech Activist.” That’s a pretty weak, not to say completely misleading, description of Paul Fromm. As anyone who lives in Canada or who has access to Google should know, Fromm is Canada’s most notorious extremist, whose views form a trifecta of hate: he’s a white supremacist, a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. And he’s got a history of extremism a mile long.
“What we are seeing is an effort by minority groups, including in this case radical Muslims, to shut down criticism and that’s what it is,” Fromm, who habitually mocks Muslims, once calling a Muslim woman “a hag in a bag” while participating in a conference put on by former Klansman David Duke, told FOX about the Steyn investigations. At a 2007 meeting of racists and Holocaust deniers in Atlanta, Fromm pulled the Muslim hate card again, labeling Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama “a crypto-Moslem of mixed parentage."
Fromm’s been a source to news reporters before — but not the type who most American news operations would want to brag about. In 2005, Fromm told the Iranian Mehr News Agency that Hollywood is “controlled by Zionists,” discussed “the story of the ‘Holocaust’ ... [that] has allowed the Jews to acquire many billions of dollars,” and described the Nazi genocide as “a religion created by the Jews for non-Jews.”
Fromm, whose Canadian teaching certificate was yanked in 2007 because of his racist views and activities, is a stalwart of the American white supremacist and anti-Semitic scene. He has attended dozens of white supremacist events, including one held to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s death.
Besides running his own extremist group in Canada — the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee — Fromm is a national director of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens , a group that believes in “racial integrity” and views blacks as a “retrograde species of humanity.” Fromm is also a signatory to a 2004 hate group protocol calling for an alliance between various racist and anti-Semitic groups, including David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization and the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

Summary: On Aug. 4, FOX News aired a segment about the Canadian prosecution of conservative author Mark Steyn for alleged anti-Muslim human rights violations. Steyn, the author of the No. 1 Canadian bestseller, America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It , has had three complaints lodged against him for human rights violations by the Canadian Islamic Congress. Two cases have been dismissed, but the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia is still investigating a charge that Steyn’s work amounts…


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Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ sort of; Are media normalizing racist beliefs?; Identity pastor wants crackdown on Jews; and more.


Hit And Run Investigated As Hate Crime

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Hit And Run Investigated As Hate Crime
April 01, 2008
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A day laborer who was the victim of a hit and run that police are investigating as a possible hate crime was released from a hospital Monday.
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Despite Bans, U.S. Anti-LGBT Pastor Continues Pushing Into Africa
January 05, 2017
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Despite being kicked out of Africa for his rhetoric, anti-LGBT pastor Steven Anderson is returning to the continent. And this time, he has help.


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Mar-a-Lago Pulls Plug on Anti-Muslim Hate Group’s Gala
October 07, 2019
Hatewatch Staff
The Trump Organization says the anti-Muslim hate group
ACT for America
’s Nov. 7 gala is no longer welcome at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.


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KrisAnne Hall, a self-described “constitutional attorney” who thinks states have the right to secede, recently addressed a neo-Confederate hate group whose goal is to create what the Civil War did not: a separate Southern nation.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/16/2016
November 16, 2016
Hatewatch Staff
What Bannon in the White House means; We really know little about hate crimes; Church keeps its ‘Heil Trump’ graffiti; and more.


Racism of Raided FLDS Cult Ignored

Three days after the raid of a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, the media is still atwitter about the arrest and search warrants served at the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) ranch, which was occupied by 400 followers of Warren Jeffs (right), the incarcerated “prophet” of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints.
But so far none of the dozens of stories and broadcast segments about Texas authorities taking 219 children and women from the YFZ compound into protective custody have even mentioned the fact that along with advocating child brides and plural marriage, FLDS doctrine is venomous with anti-black racism.
As described in a major feature on the FLDS published in the Spring 2005 issue of the Intelligence Report , Jeffs preaches to his estimated 10,000 followers that all blacks are the descendants of Cain, “cursed with a black skin,” and selected by God to be the “servants of servants." It was on the basis of that unvarnished racism, preached as official FLDS doctrine, that the Southern Poverty Law Center began listing FLDS as a hate group in 2005.
Jeffs describes as a victory for the devil the day in 1978 that leaders of the legitimate Church of Latter Day Saints — known to much of the world as the Mormon Church —decided to allow blacks to become priests. FLDS  had first split from the main church in 1890 after Mormon officials renounced polygamy under pressure from the government.
“The black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth,” Jeffs preached in one recorded sermon obtained by Hatewatch.
"And why did [the Negro race] pass through the flood?” the FLDS prophet asked. ”Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."
To download an MP3 file of Jeffs sermonizing on “Negroes” and the biblical story of the flood, click here .
To read more of his comments on blacks, as well as on homosexuality, violence, the role of women and the end of the world, click here .

Summary: Three days after the raid of a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, the media is still atwitter about the arrest and search warrants served at the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) ranch, which was occupied by 400 followers of Warren Jeffs (right), the incarcerated “prophet” of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints. But so far none of the dozens of stories and broadcast segments about Texas authorities taking 219 children and women from the YFZ compound into protective custody have even…


Immigration Report Being Released Today Linked to White Supremacists

Last Friday, a highly conservative publication called Investor’s Business Daily ( IBD ) published an editorial on its website called “The Real Cost of Immigration” that previewed a report to be released today at the National Press Club — an analysis, as IBD noted, by one Edwin S. Rubenstein that is being published by The Social Contract journal. What IBD didn’t bother to tell its readers was the troubling truth about Rubenstein’s politics and those of his Michigan publisher.
According to IBD , Rubenstein’s report, “The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies,” concludes that every immigrant to the United States costs taxpayers more than $9,000. That’s vastly more than other analyses have concluded , and no mention whatsoever is made of what most economists agree on —that immigrants, legal and otherwise, help grow the economy in ways that actually increase jobs for native Americans. But that’s no surprise, given where Rubenstein and his publisher are coming from.
The truth is that Rubenstein is a man who has written for years for a racist anti-immigration website called VDARE — short for Virginia Dare, said to be the first white child born in the New World. He also writes for the white supremacist National Policy Institute . Last spring, the institute released a report, prepared with Rubenstein’s help, that paints “a statistical and narrative portrait of the war on white America,” in the website’s words. Nicholas Stix’s introduction to the article describes the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling outlawing school segregation as “arguably the worse decision in the Court’s 216 year history.” He claims later civil rights legislation was unconstitutional. “[I]ntegration and the civil rights movement led directly to the destruction of great cities,” he concludes.
Rubenstein’s publisher has its own sordid story. Although you’d never know it from the IBD editorial, The Social Contract Press (which publishes The Social Contract , the journal where the new report appears) is well known for its racist publications. The press was started by nativist ideologue John Tanton and is run by his editor, Wayne Lutton , who has been on the board of advisors of the Council of Conservative Citizens , a hate group that describes blacks as “a retrograde species of humanity.” In 1994, Tanton republished an infamous racist novel, The Camp of the Saints , along with his wholehearted endorsement and a special afterword from its author saying “the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, to extinction.” The novel describes the “swarthy hordes” of Indian immigrants who take over France, send white women to “a whorehouse for Hindus,” and engage in a grotesque orgy of men, women and children. The immigrants are described as “monsters,” “grotesque little beggars from the streets of Calcutta,” and worse. Unconcerned, Tanton said he was “honored” to republish what he described as an important and “prescient” text.
None of this has stopped other websites from picking up on the IBD editorial. On Monday, it went up on the Money page of CNN’s website . It has been republished by the far-right Eagle Forum, on several nativist blogs, and the GOPUSA website. GOPUSA is a right-wing website that reportedly owns Talon News, the shady organization that credentialed Jeff Gannon (real name: Jeff Guckert) as a reporter who regularly attended White House news conferences. That ended in 2005, after Gannon's links to gay escort service websites (where he was known as "Bulldog") were exposed by liberal bloggers. Gannon had no real journalism background and, according to many reporters who attended White House briefings, seemed to be there simply to boost the Bush Administration and bash Democrats.
The editor of this blog contacted IBD Monday with some of these facts but no reply had been received as of today. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. After all, IBD since 2005 has been home to cartoonist Michael Ramirez , whose far-right views ended in his resignation from the L.A. Times despite his winning of the Pulitzer Prize. Among other things, Ramirez was known for a 1993 speech to the Council of Conservative Citizens , America’s largest hate group.

Summary: Last Friday, a highly conservative publication called Investor’s Business Daily ( IBD ) published an editorial on its website called “The Real Cost of Immigration” that previewed a report to be released today at the National Press Club — an analysis, as IBD noted, by one Edwin S. Rubenstein that is being published by The Social Contract journal. What IBD didn’t bother to tell its readers was the troubling truth about Rubenstein’s politics and those of his Michigan publisher. According to IBD ,…


Judge Rules In Favor Of English-Only Law

A district court judge ruled in favor of U.S. Rep. Steve King, who sued Iowa officials for allegedly violating the state’s English-only law by offering Spanish-language voter registration forms online. Read full article


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Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions , one of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest advisers during his campaign and his selection for U.S. attorney general, has longstanding and extensive ties to both anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim extremist groups.


Minuteman Offshoot Deploys Border Cameras

The founder of TechnoPatriots, a Minuteman Civil Defense Corps splinter faction, claims that remote monitoring of the group's long range and thermal cameras on the border has resulted in 116 arrests since last November. Read full article


Minutemen Protest Second Graders Reciting Pledge In Spanish

A Minuteman Civil Defense Corps member launched an Internet protest campaign against his son’s second grade teacher’s practice of having her students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish and American Sign Language every morning after first reciting it in English.
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South Carolina Minutemen: Jesus Would Deport Illegal Immigrants

Members of the South Carolina chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, who distribute literature claiming "hundreds of our children are raped by illegal invaders every year,” argued that Jesus would stand with them against illegal immigration. Read full article


Nativists Leap on Wrong Bandwagon — Again

The story from Athens, Texas, read like it was custom-tailored for anti-immigration propaganda: A 13-year-old white girl at Athens Middle School attacked and threatened with rape and murder by a gang of 21 Latino students, only because she completed a class assignment to “create a protest sign” of her choice by making a placard that read, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.” The student displayed bruises and scratches to support her account, and her parents demanded a federal investigation.
You might think that nativist bloggers and leaders would be just a little gun shy after the embarrassing case of Angela D. Wilburn , the wife of the Ozarks Minutemen founder.  Wilburn fabricated a story last December about being raped and shot by Mexican intruders after she accidentally shot herself.
But, true to form, as soon after the Athens story broke last Tuesday, the “deport-’em-all” Internet posse whipped out their rhetorical six-shooters and commenced blasting.
“I won’t be happy until all these kids are out of the country along with their illegal parents,” wrote “Mammaw” in a typical comment on FireSociety.org. “This just goes to show you the mentality of these third world people.”
William Gheen , founder of the influential political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC), described how the 13-year-old victim was “surrounded by a mob of Latino students that either were illegal aliens, in illegal alien families, or supportive of  illegal immigration, and attacked.” ALI-PAC’s website called upon members and supporters to blitz the media, local police and school administrators and regional Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials with E-mails, letters and phone calls.
But their protest campaign careened off the rails less than 48 hours later when the alleged victim admitted her story was a hoax. The truth, it turns out, is that while three Latino students ripped the poster from her hands — and those students have since been suspended — a school security camera captured the supposed victim punching and scratching herself to forge evidence. She now faces disciplinary action at the school and is expected to be charged with filing a false police report. She and her parents have issued a formal apology to the school and law enforcement investigators.
Still, some ALIPAC members refuse to let it go. “I am not convinced that Melanie did lie about the attack. She was probably intimidated into recanting by some Latino scumbag,” opines “Reno_Raider.”
Over at Liberty Post, another popular repository of nativist extremist screeds, “IItzlzha” wrote, “My point, if the girl faked it, there are still 3 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT scum allowed in that school… grab their Family and toss them OUT of the country!”
And just how does “IItzlzha” know that the three students who grabbed the poster are “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT scum?”
Because they’re Latino, presumably.
Just to make sure, Hatewatch contacted Athens school superintendent Fred Hayes, who doubtless has faced more than his fair share of tiresome queries this month. Hayes was a bit terse, but gracious enough to respond: “There is no indication that these students are not citizens of the United States of America.”

Summary: The story from Athens, Texas, read like it was custom-tailored for anti-immigration propaganda: A 13-year-old white girl at Athens Middle School attacked and threatened with rape and murder by a gang of 21 Latino students, only because she completed a class assignment to “create a protest sign” of her choice by making a placard that read, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.” The student displayed bruises and scratches to support her account, and her parents demanded a federal…


New York Times Slams Notorious Arizona Sheriff

A New York Times editorial called for congressional hearings into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's media stunt immigrant round-ups and his volunteer "posse" of armed private citizens. Read full article


Phoenix Mayor Calls For FBI Investigation Of Rogue Sheriff's Office

Phoenix, Ariz. Mayor Phil Gordon is calling on the Justice Department's civil-rights division and the FBI to investigate what Gordon calls a "pattern and practice of conduct that includes discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches and arrests" in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's controversial immigration crackdown. Read full article


Skinhead Charged With Hate Crime For Targeting Mexicans

Neo-Nazi skinhead Paul J. Paletti, 35, was charged with felony battery as a hate crime for allegedly giving a fascist salute then beating a 19-year-old Mexican man after determining the victim's ethnicity. Read full article


Vodka Ad Feeds Conspiracy Theory Frenzy

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Vodka Ad Feeds Conspiracy Theory Frenzy
April 15, 2008
Hatewatch Staff
A vodka advertisement showing a map of 19th century North America, when much of what is now the United States was part of Mexico, ignited a firestorm among paranoid nativists.
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Emails Confirm Miller’s Twin Obsessions: Immigrants and Crime
November 25, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Stephen Miller
linked immigration to violence in emails to Breitbart News – writing of crimes committed by nonwhites that “each one [is] more disturbing than the next.”


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Hatewatch Headlines 9/8/2017
September 08, 2017
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Trump sends up flares to white supremacists; Carlson defends Perkins’ hate group; Right-wing extremists stalk their enemies online; and more.


MSU-YAF Takes on the Jews, Temporarily

For the most part, members of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom are equal opportunity haters, spewing bigotry in the direction of anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual and Christian with more or less equal zeal — except for the Jews. Although MSU-YAF dabbled in anti-Semitism last fall by hosting British National Party chairman and Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, the student hate group has never blatantly targeted Jews.
Until now.
Last week, MSU student Kyle Bristow (right), who resigned his post as chairman of MSU-YAF earlier this year, posted a poll to MSU-YAF’s blog, the Spartan Spectator, that posed the question, “Which is Worse?” It offered respondents two options: “Judeo-Bolshevism” and “Islamofascism.”
“Keep the following in mind when you vote,” Bristow wrote. “Judeo-Bolsheviks contributed two-thirds to three-quarters of the money for civil rights groups during the 1960s. … Despite representing only 2.5 percent of the population, Judeo-Bolsheviks provided over half of the funding of the Democratic party, and in the 2000 election, 80 percent of American Jews being Judeo-Bolsheviks voted for Al Gore.”
Bristow wrote that perhaps MSU-YAF “should start a Judeo-Bolshevism Awareness Month,” and encouraged readers to click through a link to a video of a lecture by California State University-Long Beach professor of psychology Kevin MacDonald . MacDonald, who argues that Jews are impelled by genetic factors to undermine the majority populations of societies in which they live, is a favorite academic of neo-Nazis and anti-Semitic white nationalists. “Jews do not act in the best interest of society,” MacDonald is quoted as saying in journalist Jon Entine’s new book, Abraham’s Children . “We need to systematically put in place some controls, call it discrimination if you will, to restore parity with other groups.”
Perhaps realizing the political danger of adding Jews to their lengthening list of enemies, the leaders of MSU-YAF scrubbed the “Judeo-Bolsheviks” post less than 48 hours after it appeared, but not before it was spotted by the the intrepid watchdog journalists at YAF Watch, who linked to a cached version of the Spartan Spectator post under the spot-on headline, “YAF Scrubs Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory Post.”

Summary: For the most part, members of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom are equal opportunity haters, spewing bigotry in the direction of anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual and Christian with more or less equal zeal — except for the Jews. Although MSU-YAF dabbled in anti-Semitism last fall by hosting British National Party chairman and Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, the student hate group has never blatantly targeted Jews. Until now. Last week, MSU student Kyle…


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Fire Coalition Teams With Minuteman Project For Consulate Protest
May 06, 2008
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About 20 members of the Minuteman Project and the Fire Coalition, many of them clad in red, white and blue, gathered outside a Mexican Consulate to protest illegal immigration.
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Alt-Right Event in Seattle Devolves Into Chaos and Violence Outside, Truth-Twisting Inside
January 23, 2017
David Neiwert
Antifascist protester shot by Trump supporter amid mass counterprotest on UW campus, but Yiannopoulos spins a tale of martyrdom to his audience at end of speaking tour.


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The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing “accelerationist” bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.


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The acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) became the latest Trump administration official to speak at an event organized by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies.


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Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.


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Manassas Enacts 'Immigration Enforcement General Order'
November 04, 2008
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Help Save Manassas leader Greg Letiecq applauded the news that starting January 1, Manassas police will check the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained in the city.
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White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
June 26, 2019
Cassie Miller
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.


Hate Groups Claim Obama Win is Sparking Recruitment Surge

Even as they rail against the election of the nation’s first black president, some white supremacist leaders are claiming that people have flocked to their organizations since Barack Obama’s victory.
“The League of the South is reporting a surge in new members within hours of the results from yesterday’s elections,” proclaimed an E-mail that the neo-Confederate group sent to supporters the day after the election. “League president, Dr. Michael Hill, stated that it is from an awakening of many Southerners that the constitutional Republic is now dead and has been replaced with a national socialist empire.”
Don Black, who runs the leading white supremacist hate site Stormfront.org , boasted in an online post Wednesday afternoon that his website was seeing six times its usual traffic. “There are a lot of angry White people out there looking for answers,” he wrote. “Let’s show them. We will not be defeated.”
Hate groups are notorious for inflating their numbers — and it’s likely that their claims of heightened support after Obama’s win are exaggerated. Nonetheless, the fact that they are making those claims suggests that many white supremacists believe an Obama presidency will help them recruit new members.
Thomas Robb, leader of an Arkansas-based Ku Klux Klan group, announced on his blog that Obama had become America’s first “mulatto” president, then invited readers to click on a link for an application to join The Knights Party. “If you want to do something to help provide a future for you [sic] children then you need to become part of a movement working for our people. We are not asking you to hate anyone! We are not asking you to commit an illegal act. We are not asking you to hurt anyone. We just want you to love your people and do that which your grandfathers did — give your children a bright future.”
The pitches of other white supremacists were more subtle but no less urgent. “We as European Americans have got to rally for our own heritage, our own freedom, our own survival as a people,” exhorted former Ku Klux Klan boss David Duke. “And if we don’t do that — and if we don’t begin now to build a real movement, a dedicated movement for our rights and our heritage — we’re going to lose everything that’s important to us and vital to us.” (In an essay he wrote this summer, Duke predicted that an Obama win would make whites see that their country was in dire straits.)
Billy Roper, chairman of the neo-Nazi group White Revolution, predicted that “more and more white Americans [would be] waking up” and instructed followers to be prepared. “[W]e are on the crest of [the storm’s] wave. People will be coming forward, shaking the cobwebs from their numbed minds, and they will need us to lead them.”

Summary: Even as they rail against the election of the nation’s first black president, some white supremacist leaders are claiming that people have flocked to their organizations since Barack Obama’s victory. “The League of the South is reporting a surge in new members within hours of the results from yesterday’s elections,” proclaimed an E-mail that the neo-Confederate group sent to supporters the day after the election. “League president, Dr. Michael Hill, stated that it is from an awakening of many…


After the Election

After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, America has elected a black president. It was a day that many thought would never come.
In all the euphoria after the election of Barack Obama, it is tempting to see the era of overt racism in the United States as past, a dead letter that has no relevance in a country that has finally overcome its ugly history. But sadly, that would be a mistake. Obama’s election reflects the fact that the country has made enormous progress in the area of race relations and is likely to propel it to even greater heights. But progress is never a straight line. There is always the danger of a backlash.
Even before the campaign was over, racial rage, clearly driven by fear of a black man in the White House, began to break out around the country. Effigies of Obama appeared hanging from nooses on university campuses. Angry supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin shouted “Kill him!” at a campaign rally and even screamed “n ----- ” at a black cameraman, telling him, “Sit down, boy!” The head of the Hillsborough County, Fla., Republican Party sent an E-mail warning members of “the threat” of “carloads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes.” A reporter who has covered every presidential election since 1980 told me he had never seen such fury. Similar scenes were reported nationwide.
Naturally, the rage also engulfed the radical right. Thom Robb, an Arkansas Klan leader, described for a reporter the “race war” he sees developing “between our people, who I see as the rightful owners and leaders of this great country, and their people, the blacks.” In Tennessee, two neo-Nazi skinheads went further, allegedly planning to murder black schoolchildren, shoot and behead other African Americans, and assassinate Obama. They were arrested two weeks before the election.
A healthy majority of Americans did vote to send Obama to the Oval Office. But, clearly, there are people — perhaps millions of them — who are deeply upset over his victory for reasons that are fundamentally racial. And their anger is likely to intensify as the economy, especially unemployment, continues to worsen.
“Historically, when times get tough in our nation, that’s how movements like ours gain a foothold,” Jeff Schoep, the leader of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group with 73 chapters in 34 states, told USA Today . “When the economy suffers, people are looking for answers. … We are the answer for white people.”
Unfortunately, Schoep is right. And the economic meltdown set in motion by the subprime crisis is not the only reason. Indeed, there seems to be a kind of perfect storm brewing of factors favoring the growth of hate and hate groups.
Non-white immigration has been successfully exploited by white supremacist groups in recent years, to the point where the number of such groups has spiraled from 602 in 2000 to 888 last year — a 48% increase. (“This immigrant thing in the past couple of years has been the greatest boon to us,” Schoep said.) And nativist fears have not been limited to extremist groups; politicians and pundits routinely vilify Latino immigrants in public forums. That is likely to continue or worsen as the economy raises new fears among Americans of job loss and wage depression.
At the same time, the U.S. Census Bureau has predicted that whites will lose their national majority by shortly after 2040, leading many to fear that they are somehow losing the country that their forefathers built to both Latino immigration and the comparatively high fertility of our native Latino populations.
And now, a black man has been chosen as America’s president.
David Duke, the former Klan leader and convicted felon who is the closest thing the radical right has to an intellectual leader these days, believes this could all work to his benefit. In an essay this summer, the neo-Nazi ideologue argued that an Obama victory would serve as a “visual aid” to white Americans, provoking a backlash that Duke believes will “result in a dramatic increase in our ranks.”
Even as we embark on a new national adventure, the signs are worrying. It may be that the hatemongers are wrong, that Americans’ better angels will prevail and the changes that are sweeping America will not result in a growing rage on the right. But experience tells us that while we hope for the best, we also must prepare for what could be a dangerous, racially motivated backlash of hate.

Summary: After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, America has elected a black president. It was a day that many thought would never come. In all the euphoria after the election of Barack Obama, it is tempting to see the era of overt racism in the United States as past, a dead letter that has no relevance in a country that has finally overcome its ugly history. But sadly, that would be a mistake.…


Klan Trial to Begin Tomorrow in Kentucky

Brandenburg, Ky. — Trial is scheduled to start tomorrow in the case of a teenager who was beaten by Klansmen at a county fair in rural Kentucky.
The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the head of one of the nation’s largest Klan groups, the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), alleging that members of the group assaulted and severely injured 16-year-old Jordan Gruver during a 2006 recruiting drive at the Meade County Fairgrounds. The civil lawsuit contends that Gruver, a U.S.-born citizen of Panamanian descent, was targeted because the Klansmen thought he was “an illegal s---.”
The case aims to hold IKA leader Ron Edwards accountable for the attack that was perpetrated by members of his group. The SPLC hopes to win a verdict large enough to shut down the organization, which has 16 chapters in eight states. Also named as a defendant is Jarred R. Hensley, one of two Klansmen convicted of assault in criminal court for his attack on Gruver.
We will post daily dispatches as the trial unfolds this week in Meade Circuit Court.

Summary: Brandenburg, Ky. — Trial is scheduled to start tomorrow in the case of a teenager who was beaten by Klansmen at a county fair in rural Kentucky. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the head of one of the nation’s largest Klan groups, the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), alleging that members of the group assaulted and severely injured 16-year-old Jordan Gruver during a 2006 recruiting drive at the Meade County Fairgrounds. The civil lawsuit contends that Gruver, a U.S.-born citizen of…


Details Emerge On Accused Louisiana Klan Killer's History

Raymond “Chuck” Foster (right), the Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested yesterday for killing a woman following a backwoods Klan initiation ritual, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001.
Foster, 44, was the founding Imperial Wizard, or national leader, of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Klan faction that formed on January 1, 2001, in Watson, La.
During the next three years, the group developed chapters in three other states while maintaining a low profile with the exception of a single incident in 2003 when a White Knights official in Ohio, Jeremy Parker, drew attention by posting instructions for making a pipe bomb on the Internet in response to a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration. "Sure would hate to see anything happen," he wrote.
In 2004, the Southern White Knights had active chapters in Savannah, Ga., Homosassa Springs, Fla., and Marion, Ohio, as well as the founding chapter, which by that time had relocated to Denham Springs, La.
The Southern White Knights disbanded in early 2005. Most of its members–not including Foster—resurfaced later that year as the Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a relatively large Klan group that currently has nine active chapters in eight states, none of them in Louisiana.
The woman Foster allegedly murdered, identifed by police as 43-year-old Cynthia C. Lynch, was apparently recruited over the Internet to join Foster’s latest Klan group. Today’s media accounts of this rapidly developing story have variously identified that group as the Dixie Brotherhood and/or the Sons of Dixie.
Hatewatch is unaware of any Klan group by either of those names operating anywhere in the country.
However, last year a new Klan group calling itself the Dixie Rangers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed in Walker, La., about 80 miles from the rural scene of the alleged murder.
It’s unclear at this point if the Dixie Rangers and the Dixie Brotherhood/Sons of Dixie are one and the same.
Law enforcement officials said that Lynch took a bus from her home near Tulsa. Okla., to Slidell, La., where two members of the “Dixie” Klan group picked her up last Friday and transported her to a campground near the Pearl River. At least eight members of the Klan group were present, including Foster.
After a series of rites including the shaving of her head, the Klan members took Lynch to a camp on a sandbar that was accessible only by boat. There the initiation continued. St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain told the Times-Picayune the rituals on the sandbar consisted of lighting torches and “running around in the woods.”
By Sunday night, Lynch had reportedly changed her mind about joining the Klan and wanted to leave the camp. This sparked an argument with Foster, who allegedly pushed her down and killed her with a single shot from a .40 caliber handgun.
According to Strain, Foster tried to dig the bullet out of Lynch's body with a knife before ordering his followers to set fire to her belongings and get rid of her body.
The next morning, Foster’s son, Shane Foster, 20, and another member of the Klan group, Frank Stafford, 21, asked a convenience store clerk in nearby Bogalusa if he knew how to remove bloodstains from clothes. The clerk, who recognized the men, alerted to local sheriff’s office.
Following a rapid investigation, St. Tammany Parish deputies raided the campsite, arresting five Klan members who had fled into the woods. The elder Foster, who initially escaped, turned himself in later that day.
At the campsite, investigators found weapons, Confederate battle flags, KKK banners, five rank-and-file white Klan robes, and one black Imperial Wizard robe. They found Lynch's corpse in a weedy ditch about a half-mile from the sandbar.
Chuck Foster has been charged with second-degree murder. His son, along with Stafford and five other Klan members—Random Hines, 27; Danielle Jones, 23; Alicia Watkins, 23; Timothy Michael Watkins, 30; and Andrew Yates, 20—were charged with obstruction of justice.
Although the alleged murder of the Oklahoma woman is the first reported murder of a prospective Klan member during an initiation ceremony, it’s not the first reported shooting or other serious injury. Klansmen, flames, guns and alcohol is a volatile mixture.
For example , on Nov. 23, 2004, a member of America’s Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was accidentally shot in the head during an initiation ritual that involved a prospective member being strung from a tree with a noose around his neck, standing on his tiptoes, while Klansmen shot him with paintball guns. The accidental shooting occurred when one of them decided to scare the initiate (who survived) by firing a real gun in his direction, and a wayward paintball altered the shooter’s aim.

Summary: Raymond “Chuck” Foster (right), the Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested yesterday for killing a woman following a backwoods Klan initiation ritual, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001. Foster, 44, was the founding Imperial Wizard, or national leader, of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Klan faction that formed on January 1, 2001, in Watson, La. During the next three years, the group developed chapters in three other states while maintaining a…


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Attorney With Ties to Anti-LGBT Groups Hired for Key Government Agency
September 20, 2019
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Right-wing attorney, writer and legal analyst Ken Klukowski has landed a position in the Trump administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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The incessant power struggles that plague militia groups prompted defections in the Three Percent Security Force, robbed its leader of control and delivered the well-known antigovernment militia to the man who defied his commander.


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Kentucky’s governor has appointed an attorney who worked closely with an anti-LGBT hate group to the Board of Trustees for the University of Kentucky, a school that previously received a top national ranking for being LGBTQ-friendly.


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Swastika, Racist Tag Found on Black Family’s Burning Home
May 16, 2017
Bill Morlin
An arsonist with an apparent racist’s agenda is blamed for a nighttime fire at a rural home in upstate New York where a couple and their five children narrowly escaped.


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John Tanton, the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement, has left behind a legacy that spawned more than a dozen nativist organizations, driven an anti-immigrant agenda for four decades, and found friends in the White House.


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Minuteman Project Endorses Urban Racial Profiling By U.S. Border Patrol
March 10, 2009
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Minuteman Project spokesman Raymond Herrera voiced the organization's support for U.S. Border Patrol agents engaged in racial profiling in cities well north from the border.
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Hatewatch Headlines 11/28/2016
November 28, 2016
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Derek Black reflects on white nationalism; Trump making Nazis ‘go away,’ pundit says; Five myths about the alt-right; and more.


Neo-Nazi, Hard-Core Nativists Hold Pro-Arpaio Counter-Demo

Veteran neo-Nazi activist Elton Hall joined 100 to 200 members and supporters of the nativist extremist organization United for a Sovereign America for a counter-demonstration in support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio while 3,000 to 4,000 civil rights marchers protested Arpaio's racial profiling and immigration sweeps. Read full article


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A national survey of 1,500 adults fielded by the Intelligence Project and Tulchin Research revealed that Americans understand white supremacy and other forms of racism as a threat to our society, but still struggle to connect those issues to systemic and structural racism.


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“Breitbart is a company staffed almost entirely by Jews,” said Milo Yiannopolous last November when asked about accusations of anti-Semitism made against his former boss, Stephen Bannon. “I am a gay Jew, and he made me into a star.”


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A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.


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Last June, six months after paying a visit to the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State Representative Matt Shea organized a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT For America in Spokane, Washington.


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Ann Coulter , an infamous far-right attack dog who has spent years attacking the left, was at the Christmas party of a racist anti-immigration group earlier this month — the second such event she has attended since September.


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This is the fourth update in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s effort to collect reports of bias-related harassment and intimidation around the country following the election. This update spans the period from November 9 to December 12.


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Hatewatch Headlines 2/16/2017
February 16, 2017
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Trump deflects anti-Semitism question; ‘Religious freedom’ a front for bigotry; Flynn’s hiring was scandalous, too; and more.


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“Alexander Slavros,” a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March , no longer appears online under that alias – but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is spreading.


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Justice Department Launches Arpaio Investigation

The U.S. Justice Department has begun an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department after months of complaints that  Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies are routinely committing civil rights violations during immigration enforcement sweeps. Read full article


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Winston Shrout, One of America's Most High-Profile 'Sovereign Citizens,' is a Fugitive
April 23, 2019
Brett Barrouquere
Winston Shrout spent years defying the federal government as one of the country’s most high-profile sovereign citizens and tax dodgers.


Chicago Minutemen Demonstrate In Support Of Immigration Raids

About 30 members of the Chicago Minutemen Project demonstrated outside a church where Cardinal Francis George called on the Obama administration to halt immigration raids across the country. Read full article


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White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
June 26, 2019
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Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.


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Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally
July 26, 2019
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Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/23/2016
November 23, 2016
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Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ sort of; Are media normalizing racist beliefs?; Identity pastor wants crackdown on Jews; and more.


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Antigovernment Fugitive  Arrested on Wisconsin Farm
April 14, 2017
Bill Morlin
Antigovernment fugitive
Joseph Jakubowski
was arrested early today without incident when a team of 125- state and federal law enforcement officers surrounded him sleeping in a makeshift tent on a rural Wisconsin farm.


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Evergreen State Protest By 'Patriot' Group Dwarfed By Angry Response
June 16, 2017
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Small gathering of 'free speech' protesters exploiting racial turmoil on campus encounters massive crowd in opposition; organizer hit with pepper spray when he walks into crowd of antifascists.


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The acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) became the latest Trump administration official to speak at an event organized by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies.


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Kentucky’s governor has appointed an attorney who worked closely with an anti-LGBT hate group to the Board of Trustees for the University of Kentucky, a school that previously received a top national ranking for being LGBTQ-friendly.


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President Donald Trump’s new acting national security adviser once served on the board of directors for the Center for Security Policy , a group that started as a hawkish think tank and morphed into a leading anti-Muslim organization.


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Attorney With Ties to Anti-LGBT Groups Hired for Key Government Agency
September 20, 2019
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Right-wing attorney, writer and legal analyst Ken Klukowski has landed a position in the Trump administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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Neo-Nazi Vinlander Member Convicted in Murder-for-Hire
August 31, 2017
Bill Morlin
A man claiming to be a founding member of the violent neo-Nazi Vinlanders Social Club has been convicted in Florida in a case that grew out of an unsolved crossbow murder in New Mexico in 2015.


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A national survey of 1,500 adults fielded by the Intelligence Project and Tulchin Research revealed that Americans understand white supremacy and other forms of racism as a threat to our society, but still struggle to connect those issues to systemic and structural racism.


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Between Wednesday, November 9, the day after the presidential election, and the morning of Monday, November 14, the Southern Poverty Law Center collected 437 reports of hateful intimidation and harassment.


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Roundup of anti-LGBT events and activities 7/20/2018
July 20, 2018
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The following is a list of activities and events of anti-LGBT organizations. Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an asterisk.


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Federal Investigators To Audit Controversial Sheriff's Office Program

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced that ICE will conduct an audit of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to determine whether it's violating the terms of an agreement that gives MCSO the authority to enforce federal immigration laws. Read full article


Judge Rules Against Immigrant Rental Ban

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop the city of Farmers Branch, Tex. from implementing an ordinance designed to prevent illegal immigrants from renting apartments and houses. Read full article


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Sheriff Apologies For 'Inappropriate' Remarks About Mexican Immigrants
September 16, 2008
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Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell issued a public apology for saying "Mexicans are trashy" and criticizing Mexican immigrants in his jurisdiction for "breeding like rabbits."
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FAIR Leaders Have 20-Year Track Record of Denigrating Immigrants

Principals of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), including FAIR founder John Tanton and FAIR President Dan Stein, have been attacking immigrants for 20 years. The quotations below of statements made by FAIR officials reveal their anti-immigrant views.
"We're building in a deadly disunity. All great empires disintegrate, we want stability." — John Tanton, 1986, FAIR founder and now board of directors member
"Gobernar es poblar translates 'to govern is to populate'... In this society where the majority rules, does this hold? Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile?" — John Tanton, 1986
"Is apartheid in Southern California's future? The demographic picture in South Africa now is startlingly similar to what we'll see in California in 2030. In Southern Africa, a White minority owns the property, has the best jobs and education, has the political power, and speaks one language. A non-White majority has poor education, jobs and income, owns little property, is on its way to political power and speaks a different language." — John Tanton, 1986
"The new immigration will not work the same as the old. For some reason, Mexican immigrants are not succeeding as well as other groups." — Roger Conner, 1986, then FAIR executive director
"Will Latin American migrants bring with them the tradition of the mordida [bribe], the lack of involvement in public affairs, etc.? What in fact are the characteristics of Latin American culture, versus that of the United States?" — John Tanton, 1986
"Can homo contraceptivus compete with homo progenitiva if borders aren't controlled? Or is advice to limit one's family simply advice to move over and let someone else with greater reproductive powers occupy the space?" — John Tanton, 1986
"Not everyone thinks that replacing strawberry fields with dim-sum restaurants and noodle houses is necessarily an enhancement in their quality of life." — Dan Stein, 1989, then FAIR spokesman, now FAIR president
"I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires an European-American majority, and a clear one at that." — John Tanton, 1993 letter to Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecologist
"I think [Pioneer Fund officials] support our work because the[ir] trustees agree with what we're doing. But we pitched the funding proposal to them. They give us money because we asked for it." — Dan Stein, 1994, on donations to FAIR from the racist Pioneer Fund
"I have no doubt that individual minority persons can assimilate to the culture necessary to run an advanced society, but if through mass migration, the culture of the homeland is transplanted from Latin American to California, then my guess is we will see the same degree of success with governmental and social institutions that we have seen in Latin America." — John Tanton, 1996 letter to NumbersUSA head, Roy Beck
"Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids? And more troublesome, what about the less intelligent, who logically should have less? Who is going to break the bad news [to less intelligent individuals], and how will it be implemented?" — John Tanton, 1996 letter to California multimillionaire Robert K. Graham, a eugenicist who started a sperm bank to collect the semen of Nobel Prize-winning scientists
"The situation then is that the people who have been the carriers of Western Civilization are well on the way toward resigning their commission to carry the culture into the future. When this decline in numbers is coupled with an aging of the core population...it begins to look as if the chances of Western Civilization passing into the history books are very good indeed." — John Tanton, 1997 letter to Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, a fellow immigration critic.
"[Millions of immigrants coming to America will be] defecating and creating garbage and looking for jobs." — John Tanton, 1997
"In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies." — John Tanton, 1997, comparing immigrants to bacteria
"How many computer whiz kids cancel out one Sirhan Sirhan, a Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman or ... a Charles Ponzi?" — John Tanton, 1997, criticizing visas for immigrants with high-tech skills
"Should we be subsidizing people with low IQs to have as many children as possible, and not subsidizing those with high ones?" — Dan Stein, 1997
"Immigrants don't come all church-loving, freedom-loving, God-fearing. Some of them firmly believe in socialist or redistributist [sic] ideas. Many of them hate America, hate everything the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans." — Dan Stein, 1997
"I'm sure [anti-Semitic Professor Kevin MacDonald's article] will give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life, which explains a large part of the Jewish opposition to immigration reform."— John Tanton, 1998 letter to Cordelia May Scaife, an heiress who financially backed Tanton's work
"I have a secret plan to destroy America. ... We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. ... I would then invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. ... Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws." — Richard Lamm, 2000, speech at FAIR conference, now FAIR board of advisers co-chair
"American secessions have rarely been viewed with alarm [but] in the 1990s ... we are more inclined to consider them a serious threat to national unity, especially since that unity is being stretched to the breaking point by ethnic revanchiste movements fueled by Third World immigration. ... In any major city, the peace is disturbed by Latino, black, and Asian nationalist gangs, which in some cases are only the shock troops of ethnic movements seeking the racial dismemberment of the United States. In refusing to control immigration, the Federal Government is writing a script for ethnic civil war. Why?" — FAIR website, 2002, quoting paleoconservative author Thomas Fleming, a member of the neo-Confederate hate group, League of the South
"[Muslims] are not coming here to become Americans. ... [They are] promoting colonization of their own religion, of their own culture in towns and taking them over." — Susan Tully, 2004, FAIR national field director
"New cultures ... [in the U.S. are] diluting what we are and who we are." — Richard Lamm, 2004
"I am sick and tired of all the white bashing that goes on through the use of political correctness as an indoctrinating tool." — Joe Turner, 2005, then FAIR western field representative
"I am sick and tired of multiculturalism, meaning, let's celebrate every culture as long as it isn't a European/white culture. ... [J]ust because one believes in white separatism that does not make them a racist." — Joe Turner, 2005
"It is clear that there is a 'fifth column' movement in the United States that professes greater allegiance to a greater Mexico or a breakaway, separatist movement based on a Latino homeland, despite the efforts of Latino politicians to dismiss it as a quixotic idea of rambunctious Latino youth, largely on university campuses." — FAIR website, 2005
"The large influx of immigrants from Mexico ... differs in important ways from the traditional immigration model... . [T]he United States has no historic precedent of large numbers of people coming to this country who could argue that they were returning to a country that was once theirs. ... Further complicating the picture is the fact that due to many social factors — particularly low educational achievement — this unprecedented group of immigrants is entering American society at the very bottom of the socio-economic ladder... . This reality breeds the kind of resentment and alienation that makes them susceptible to the siren songs of radical activists." — FAIR website, 2005
"The hierarchy from the Pope down has from time to time acknowledged the right of sovereign states to control their borders. But the numerous conditions the churchmen have invoked would seriously vitiate this right. ... [Catholic bishops apparently] would like to condition this sovereign prerogative of states right out of existence." — FAIR website, 2006
"Far from being the agenda of a kooky fringe element, the idea of reconquest of the American Southwest and the creation of an Aztlan nation, was prominently displayed by millions of illegal aliens all across the United States as they marched earlier this year to demand amnesty." — FAIR's website, 2006
"Last week, President Bush met with Mexican President Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Harper ... to hone their plan for a North American Union that would merge the U.S. with Canada and Mexico. ... FAIR has been exposing the short-sighted Bush plan to eventually erase the border between the U.S. and Mexico ... and American sovereignty since 2000." — FAIR E-mail to supporters, 2007
"The SPLC's characterization of the Pioneer Fund is fraudulent. The Fund's mission statement clearly states that it supports equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race, religion, national origin or ethnicity." — Dan Stein, 2007 press release

Summary: Principals of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), including FAIR founder John Tanton and FAIR President Dan Stein, have been attacking immigrants for 20 years. The quotations below of statements made by FAIR officials reveal their anti-immigrant views. "We're building in a deadly disunity. All great empires disintegrate, we want stability." — John Tanton, 1986, FAIR founder and now board of directors member "Gobernar es poblar translates 'to govern is to populate'... In this…


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A 121-year-old Confederate monument in front of the University of Louisville campus was removed over last weekend, culminating years of debate whether the landmark was historically significant or a reminder of slavery and racial division.


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Militias Capitalizing on GOP Rhetoric Heading Into Election Season
July 31, 2019
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A militia network’s enthusiasm to lend paramilitary support to Oregon’s Republican senators last month could be a bellwether for the 2020 campaign season.


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Hatewatch Headlines 9/8/2017
September 08, 2017
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Trump sends up flares to white supremacists; Carlson defends Perkins’ hate group; Right-wing extremists stalk their enemies online; and more.


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The incessant power struggles that plague militia groups prompted defections in the Three Percent Security Force, robbed its leader of control and delivered the well-known antigovernment militia to the man who defied his commander.


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A network of anti-LGBT churches used its “Make America Straight Again” conference to move beyond its stock fallacies and hate-filled rhetoric and call for the government to begin rounding up and executing homosexuals.


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A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.


Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN's 'Black in America' Series

As part of its ongoing "Black in America" project, CNN posted a story to its website earlier this week titled “Could an Obama presidency hurt black Americans?” Credited to CNN correspondent John Blake, the piece quotes the wit and wisdom of Steve Sailer, identified only as “a columnist for The American Conservative magazine.”
Specifically, the CNN story quotes a column by Sailer first published last year in which he opined that Obama offers voters “White guilt repellent.”
"So many whites want to be able to say, 'I'm not one of them, those bad whites. ... Hey, I voted for a black guy for president,'" Sailer wrote.
What the CNN article fails to note is that in addition to writing columns and movie reviews for The American Conservative , Sailer is the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, a neo-eugenics online discussion forum where right-wing journalists and race scientists have promoted selective breeding of the human species. He also writes frequently for the anti-immigrant hate site Vdare.com , named for the first white child born in America, and runs a website, isteve.com.
Sailer's website is rife with primitive stereotypes. On it, Sailer mocks professional golfer Annika Sorenstam for having well-developed muscles and claims that Asian men have a hard time finding dates because they look “less masculine” than other men.
Last January, on the hate site vdare.com, Sailer labeled Obama a “wigger.”
“He's a remarkably exotic variety of the faux African-American, but a wigger nonetheless,” Sailer wrote. “Even genetically, Obama, whose East African descent is apparent in his unusual features, has only a distant relationship to the West Africans who are the ancestors of almost all African-Americans.” To illustrate his point, Sailer used photos of Obama side-by-side with Jesse Jackson and the rapper Ludacris, “both of whom have conventional West African features.”
Assessing the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, Sailer wrote , “The plain fact is that they [black Americans] tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.”
This isn’t the only time in recent history that CNN has turned to an unabashed bigot for commentary on controversial issues in America while cloaking the source’s full identity.
In October 2006, CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on a study by J. Phillpe Rushton that purported to show that men, on average, are more intelligent than women. Gupta identified Rushton only as a professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario. Since 2002, Rushton has been the head of the Pioneer Fund , a pro-eugenics foundation that funds the research of academic racists like Jared Taylor and Rushton, who himself has received over $1 million in Pioneer grants. Among Rushton’s findings are that on average blacks have larger genitals, breasts and buttocks, characteristics that, according to Rushton’s "research," have an inverse relationship to brain size and, thus, intelligence.
Then last April, CNN host Paula Zahn invited white supremacist James Edwards to participate in a live on-air panel discussion of “self-segregation” in America. Edwards, a self-proclaimed crusader for the white race, is the co-founder of the Political Cesspool , a Memphis, Tenn.-based AM radio show whose guest lineup is a rogue’s gallery of prominent figures on the radical right, including former Klan leader David Duke , anti-Semitic attorney Edgar Steele and the neo-Nazi teen singing duo Prussian Blue .
On that occasion, CNN identified Edwards rather sparingly as a “talk radio show host.”

Summary: As part of its ongoing "Black in America" project, CNN posted a story to its website earlier this week titled “Could an Obama presidency hurt black Americans?” Credited to CNN correspondent John Blake, the piece quotes the wit and wisdom of Steve Sailer, identified only as “a columnist for The American Conservative magazine.” Specifically, the CNN story quotes a column by Sailer first published last year in which he opined that Obama offers voters “White guilt repellent.” "So many whites want…


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Hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67% during 2015, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Sunday. The rise, far higher than in any other major category of hate crimes, came during a year marked by news of atrocities by the Islamic State and Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.


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Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally
July 26, 2019
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Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.


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Brick by brick, anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has worked to erect barriers to LGBT equality for over two decades, under the claim that a “homosexual agenda” will destroy Christianity and society.


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Gab Waited Days to Remove a User Arrested for Inciting Violence
June 19, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
A man who authorities say wanted to start a race war stayed on the social network Gab for days after he was arrested for allegedly inciting violence on it, according to a Hatewatch review.


Immigrant's Murder Reverberates Nationwide

Outrage over the alleged random hate crime killing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero in Long Island, N.Y. has revealed tensions in communities across the country that have seen a recent influx of undocumented workers. Read full article


'Pandering To Nativists Costly For GOP'

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'Pandering To Nativists Costly For GOP'
November 25, 2008
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The Republican Party's anti-immigrant saber rattling amounted to political and demographic suicide at the polls.
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Hatewatch Headlines 11/16/2016
November 16, 2016
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What Bannon in the White House means; We really know little about hate crimes; Church keeps its ‘Heil Trump’ graffiti; and more.


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Another Anti-Latino Hate Crime Reported In Patchogue

Police are looking for eight white young adults who shouted ethnic slurs at a group of Latino men then shoved one of them in Patchogue, N.Y., where tensions are still running high after the Nov. 8 random hate crime murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant. Read full article