The Crying Shariah Game: Groups Protest Hotel Cancellations

Anti-Muslim activists are crying Shariah again – this time, over the separate decisions of hotels in two cities to cancel anti-Muslim conferences and a former Maryland state lawmaker’s call for the cancellation of a third.
Yesterday, former Maryland lawmaker Saqib Ali issued an open letter condemning an upcoming conference sponsored by Maryland Conservative Action (MDCAN). “Instead of inviting legitimate conservative speakers, MDCAN has instead chosen speakers who are well-known conspiracy theorists, McCarthyites, racists and anti-Muslim fanatics,” Ali wrote in a letter endorsed by Muslim, Latino and LGBT rights groups.
True enough. Among those slated to speak at the conference are Frank Gaffney , who has called Islam “communism with a God”; disgraced former FBI agent turned “counterterrorism expert” John Guandolo, who according to National Public Radio falsely suggested that a Jordanian-American professor had links to terrorists during an Ohio training; and racist columnist Robert Stacy McCain , once identified as a member of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South.
“This [letter from Ali] is standard operating procedure for CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups,” Gaffney told the conservative website Daily Caller . “They are trying to impose what are known as Shariah blasphemy laws, whereby anyone who says anything critical about Islam, no matter how true, is to be silenced. It is actually a capital offense.”
Arch-Islamophobe Pamela Geller said much the same thing last week after a Hyatt hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, cancelled her scheduled appearance after receiving phone calls about her history of anti-Muslim vitriol. “The Hyatt Place in Sugarland [sic] caved to Islamic pressure yesterday and agreed to enforce the blasphemy law under the sharia. Cowards. Dhimmis. Free speech, the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy,” she wrote. (The Sugar Land event was rescheduled for a different venue and went on as planned.)
On Monday, a collection of anti-Muslim organizations learned that their “Preserving Freedom Conference,” which was supposed to take place in Nashville on Nov. 11, had been cancelled by the Hutton Hotel. Among the scheduled speakers are the ever-present Geller and her SOIA co-founder Robert Spencer ; Frank Gaffney; Mathew Staver of the hard-line anti-gay Liberty Counsel (which, like many groups on the Christian Right , seems to be tacking anti-Muslim these days); and Tennessee Freedom Coalition founder Lou Ann Zelenik, who made a name for herself with her rabid opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in Murfreesboro during a failed 2010 congressional bid.
Sponsors include SIOA, Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, Joseph Farah’s far-right online publication World Net Daily (WND), and the ironically named Religious Freedom Coalition, which declares itself “dedicated to the equality of all mankind and the freedom of religious expression.” Among the co-sponsors are the Traditional Values Coalition (another relative newcomer to the anti-Shariah bandwagon that has long been listed by the SPLC as an anti-gay hate group); Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice, which has been active in pushing anti-Shariah legislation ; and Vision America , a network of “Patriot pastors and Patriot Partners” with a history of gay-bashing.
Stephen Eckley, a spokesman for Amerimar Enterprises, which owns the hotel, told The Tennessean that the hotel wouldn’t have booked the event “if this group had let us know what kind of program they were planning and who was involved.”
According to WND, Eckley cited “veiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence.”
In response to the cancellation, the enraged Tennessee Freedom Coalition issued a press release calling for a boycott and claiming the Nashville hotel was denying “U.S. Christians, Jews and citizens their rights under the U.S. Constitution.” Brigitte Gabriel’s anti-Muslim ACT! for America and Judson Phillips’ Tea Party Nation – one of the most extreme factions of the tea party movement – also joined calls for a boycott.
World Net Daily, whose relationship with reality is flexible at best, is making the most of this new “threat.”
“I don't know how to state this any more plainly: Americans are in danger of losing their precious free-speech rights guaranteed under the First Amendment due to pressure and intimidation by the Muslim Brotherhood,” WND founder Joseph Farah wrote Monday. “The ‘Muslim Mafia’ is winning – slowly, but surely, in imposing a kind of soft Shariah law on American society through fear and intimidation.”
The anti-Muslim groups’ talk of First Amendment violations – like most of what they say – is utter nonsense. There is no government censorship involved in a private hotel’s decision to not rent its space to someone.
“The first word of the First Amendment is Congress – ‘ Congress shall make no law,’ which is broadly interpreted as meaning the federal government,” UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh told Hatewatch. “Private entities aren’t governed by the First Amendment.”
Volokh, a self-described “center-right, moderate libertarian conservative” who co-writes a legal blog called The Volokh Conspiracy , said that a boycott is also an expression of the First Amendment, one that “has long been a part of American free speech activities.”
That’s not enough for Pam Geller. In addition to her call for a boycott, the siren of anti-Shariah hysteria (who describes Muslims as “thugs” and “savages” even as she calls SIOA “one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech”) is demanding that the Sugar Land Hyatt “apologize for its capitulation to the enemies of freedom, and to hold sensitivity training sessions for all its employees to teach them the value of the freedom of speech and the truth about the jihad threat facing the U.S. and the West.”
It just so happens, Geller’s press release notes, that SIOA runs “diversity” trainings itself, to “help” “understand the jihad threat in all its different manifestations, including Islamic supremacist cultural initiatives to assert Islamic law and practice in the American workplace.”

Summary: Anti-Muslim activists are crying Shariah again – this time, over the separate decisions of hotels in two cities to cancel anti-Muslim conferences and a former Maryland state lawmaker’s call for the cancellation of a third. Yesterday, former Maryland lawmaker Saqib Ali issued an open letter condemning an upcoming conference sponsored by Maryland Conservative Action (MDCAN). “Instead of inviting legitimate conservative speakers, MDCAN has instead chosen speakers who are well-known conspiracy…


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Anti-gay Propagandist Heads to Moldova to Speak Against Rights Bill

Paul Cameron , a virulently anti-gay and roundly discredited psychologist whose membership in the American Psychological Association (APA) was revoked in the early 1980s amid an investigation that he violated professional ethics , is on his way to Moldova next week to speak against proposed anti-discrimination legislation that would protect LGBT people.
The legislation will be voted on at the end of this month. It's the third time in the past three years that Cameron will visit the country. Angela Frolov, head of GenderDoc-M, Moldova's main LGBT rights group, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that Cameron addressed university students on his first two visits, in 2008 and 2009.
Cameron was invited this time by an organization called the Alliance to Save the Family in Moldova, which refers to him as a "U.S. sociologist." Cameron did try to be a sociologist after the APA banned him, but the American Sociological Association formally disassociated from him in 1986 in a resolution stating that he is not a sociologist and that the association "condemns his consistent misrepresentation of sociological research." The Nebraska Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association also adopted resolutions that disassociate themselves from Cameron's research and his claims about LGBT people and sexuality.
Nevertheless, the Moldovan organization that has invited him says he "will share the U.S. experience in implementing anti-discrimination legislation" and there will be a roundtable discussion with representatives from various parliamentary committees, ministries and "other institutions of the state."
The anti-discrimination law was proposed in February of this year, as part of Moldova's efforts to get an association agreement from the European Union. The country, one of the poorest in Europe, is mired in foreign debt and high unemployment. In spite of that, or perhaps because of it, Moldova is proving fertile ground for American anti-gay activists.
Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively , head of Abiding Truth Ministries , traveled there earlier this year to work against the anti-discrimination bill. According to Lively, anti-discrimination legislation is "the seed that contains the entire tree of the homosexual agenda, with all its poisonous fruit." Lively also traveled to Uganda in 2009 to speak to members of parliament there and hold seminars about the evils of homosexuality. After his visit, the so-called "kill the gays bill" was proposed, in which people could be executed for homosexuality under certain conditions.
Cameron, who founded the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, has been peddling dubious research and falsehoods about homosexuality for the last three decades. He has called for the criminalization of homosexuality, called AIDS a "godsend" and repeatedly linked homosexuality to pedophilia. He has also claimed that LGBT people don't live as long as straight people and that children raised by homosexuals experience sexual violence and emotional disturbances, all claims that continue to percolate throughout the anti-gay right in this country and now, apparently, are finding new audiences elsewhere.

Summary: Paul Cameron , a virulently anti-gay and roundly discredited psychologist whose membership in the American Psychological Association (APA) was revoked in the early 1980s amid an investigation that he violated professional ethics , is on his way to Moldova next week to speak against proposed anti-discrimination legislation that would protect LGBT people. The legislation will be voted on at the end of this month. It's the third time in the past three years that Cameron will visit the country.…


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Racist Skinhead Guilty in Savage Murders of Tampa Homeless Men

James Robertson, a member of the racist skinhead group Blood & Honour , was trying to finagle his way out of a lengthy prison term for bank robbery when he offered police details of two murders in Tampa. The murders had gone unsolved for years, and police had all but dismissed the case as cold. That was until they met their snitch.
Robertson was one of four men involved in the murders. His hubristic pitch for leniency ultimately was his undoing. On Tuesday, a federal jury convicted him in the 1998 beating deaths of Alfred Williams, 62, and Richard Arseneau, 44 — both homeless men in Tampa. He faces life in prison when sentenced.
“These men had no material goods, no wealth,” prosecutor Lee Bentley said in his closing statements, according to St. Petersburg Times . “They were struggling to survive. This defendant and three of his associates took the only thing these men had left — their lives.”
At the time of the murders, four members of Blood and Honour were on a violent binge on the streets of Tampa as part of a game they called “bum rolling.” Their brutality knew no bounds. Williams was beaten with fists, clubs and a tire iron so savagely that police would find his teeth scattered across the ground. Arseneau was repeatedly hit in the head with an ax. Police also said two others were attacked — one man who saved himself by jumping into a river and another who escaped when a gun pointed at his chest misfired.
Investigators found no evidence linking anyone to the crimes. But according to prosecutors, Robertson in 2003 provided information about his “principal role” in the deaths while trying to clear himself from any involvement. Of course, it didn’t help that three other members of Blood and Honour — Cory Hulse, Kenneth Hoover and Charles Marovskis — had pleaded guilty to charges related to the deaths and were cooperating with authorities.
At the time, the murders further marred the reputation of Blood and Honour, a shadowy international coalition of racist skinhead gangs based in the United Kingdom. According to a federal indictment of Marovskis, members of Blood and Honour in Tampa “considered homeless persons as an inferior class of persons regardless of race. ‘Bum rolling’ was a term used … to describe the activity of targeting and committing acts of violence against homeless persons.”
And how were they rewarded for the attack? One of the assailants, Hoover, told police the members received congratulatory spider web tattoos — a sign of honor in a dishonorable gang.

Summary: James Robertson, a member of the racist skinhead group Blood & Honour , was trying to finagle his way out of a lengthy prison term for bank robbery when he offered police details of two murders in Tampa. The murders had gone unsolved for years, and police had all but dismissed the case as cold. That was until they met their snitch. Robertson was one of four men involved in the murders. His hubristic pitch for leniency ultimately was his undoing. On Tuesday, a federal jury convicted him in the…


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Muslim Basher Robert Spencer Shows White Nationalist Colors

Proving yet again that nothing is beneath him, anti-Muslim propagandist Robert Spencer has put himself firmly in the camp of open white nationalists with an article published yesterday in Crisis magazine, a conservative Catholic publication. Replete with fawning references to the superior accomplishments of Western culture and the Catholic Church, the piece, titled “Is Multiculturalism Evil?,” proposes that Western civilization is superior to all others and that multiculturalists (aligned with “Islamic supremacists”) are colluding to bring it to its knees.
Spencer’s piece is punctuated with a recommended reading list that might have been taken from the bookshelf of John Tanton , the racist architect of the modern nativist movement. Of the five tracts he suggests, four were written and/or published by anti-immigration extremists. They include On the Immorality of Illegal Immigration by retired priest and longtime Tanton ally Patrick Bascio; The Immigration Mystique by Chilton Williamson, who is a frequent contributor to the white nationalist website VDARE ; Anthony M. Esolen’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization , which was published by the white nationalist Regnery Press ; and Jean Raspail’s 1973 Camp of the Saints , a racist fantasy about an invasion of France and the white Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees that was most recently republished by Tanton’s Social Contract Press.
(Interestingly, Crisis claims that Bascio’s book was put out by “Authorhouse,” of Bloomington, Ind. In fact, its first publisher was American Free Press, a hate group founded by Holocaust denier Willis Carto that also publishes an anti-Semitic and conspiracy-minded weekly .)
Given its recommended reading list, is should be no surprise that Spencer’s answer to the question “Is Multiculturalism Evil” is a resounding yes. Tipping his cap to his Catholic publisher, he denounces multiculturalism as a “heresy” intent on “[d]enigrating and ultimately destroying the Judeo-Christian West, not stamping out some putative racist devaluation of other cultures.”
“Today, no one questions the idea that one culture is as good as another,” he writes in shocked tones. “No one even whispers the possibility that the achievements of one group in a given area (for instance, medieval Christians) might actually surpass those of another group. No one even dares to think that there might be better indicators of the quality of an endeavor than the number of different ethnicities of the people involved.”
“Multiculturalism in reality is an anti-Christian, anti-Catholic, anti-Western exercise in moral and cultural Relativism. … A true multiculturalist hates all forms of Christianity and Judeo-Christian civilization, but retains particular contempt and bile for manifestations of Catholic piety and culture.”
In one particularly hypocritical section, Spencer complains that “European multiculturalists, working willingly in tandem with Islamic supremacists” are trying to enforce the Islamic prohibition against insulting Mohammad by extending anti-hate speech laws to Muslims, while ignoring insults to “the dominant Judeo-Christian culture.”
It is true, as Spencer says, that free speech is valued in the West – but unlike America, many European countries have laws against hate speech, and Spencer’s suggestion that they privilege Muslims is patently absurd. In 2005, for example, the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard drew a set of offensive caricatures of Mohammed whose publication in European periodicals led to a violent reaction among some hard-line Muslims, including two attempts on Westergaard’s life. The cartoonist wasn’t prosecuted for hate speech against Muslims. Rather, he was placed under permanent police protection. On the other hand, in the same year, authorities in Austria arrested British national David Irving for denying the Holocaust. He was convicted and jailed in early 2006.
Spencer further complains about supposed “double standards” in academia, which he claims is controlled by multiculturalists who hate the West. Inconveniently, Anthony Esolen – whose Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization is on Spencer’s recommended reading list – is currently employed as a professor at Providence College.
Despite his bile, it’s no surprise that Crisis should find Spencer appealing. While claiming that it “explores and articulates the subjects of politics, business, culture, faith, and family life from a Catholic perspective,” the magazine – like Patrick Buchanan , a famous Catholic who has recently written several articles for Crisis – obviously has no interest in the church’s pro-immigration stance. Its interim editor, John Zmirak, has contributed numerous articles to VDARE (which, oddly, has also published anti-Catholic screeds – including a recent attack on the church’s embrace of immigrants). Zmirak has also written for David Horowitz’s conservative and anti-Muslim FrontPageMagazine , to which his contributions include a highly positive review of “Gods and Generals,” a 2003 Civil War drama that minimized the role of slavery and was wildly popular in neo-Confederate circles.

Summary: Proving yet again that nothing is beneath him, anti-Muslim propagandist Robert Spencer has put himself firmly in the camp of open white nationalists with an article published yesterday in Crisis magazine, a conservative Catholic publication. Replete with fawning references to the superior accomplishments of Western culture and the Catholic Church, the piece, titled “Is Multiculturalism Evil?,” proposes that Western civilization is superior to all others and that multiculturalists (aligned with…


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Pacifica Forum Speaker Celebrates National Socialism

The speaker blamed “Jewish lies” for the Iraq War, praised the swastika as a symbol of white people, showed a neo-Nazi propaganda video, and led several audience members in an enthusiastic Nazi salute.
No, this wasn’t an assembly of America’s largest neo-Nazi organization, the National Socialist Movement (NSM). Rather, it was the weekly gathering of the Pacifica Forum , a formerly left-wing discussion group that has met for years at the University of Oregon. Although the forum has been hosting prominent Holocaust deniers and far-right extremists for more than two years, it ratcheted up the vitriol during its Dec. 11 meeting.
Titled  “The National Socialist Movement: An Inside View of America’s Far Right,” the event basically amounted to a recruitment pitch for National Socialism, complete with sieg-heiling. The event provoked an outcry from community members. “Friday night was really wretched,” said Michael Williams, who has monitored Pacifica Forum for six years. “It was a lot like attending a Nazi rally.”
After opening with an anti-Semitic read of Hebrew Bible passages, presenter Jimmy Marr invited everyone who wished to join him in giving the straight-armed Nazi salute. Five people did, including Valdas Anelauskas, a Lithuanian immigrant who delivered a series of anti-Jewish lectures to the Pacifica Forum in 2006 and since then has been the predominant speaker there. “Sieg heil!” they shouted. Then louder: “Sieg heil! SIEG HEIL!”
“I totally object,” interjected Billy Rojas, who founded the (anti-Nazi) Swastika Club of America and has lectured at Pacifica Forum.
But the presentation went on. Marr showed a video of an NSM protest against illegal immigration in Phoenix, Ariz., where NSM speakers shouted “Death to Jews.” That was followed by a slide show of a violent clash between NSM members and counter-demonstrators at another recent rally. The music accompanying the slide show was the track “You Asked for It” by the white supremacist band Prison Bound.
Marr — who once brought a desecrated menorah to a Pacifica Forum meeting and earlier this year had to give up his NO ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) vanity license plate — was especially eager to blame Jews for U.S. immigration policy, which he sees as diluting the white gene pool. “You’re goddamn right I object to Jews,” he exclaimed during the question-and-answer session. “They’re traitors!”
About 40 people attended the presentation, including a dozen regular Pacifica Forum attendees and their families, at least as many students (including student body officers there to observe), three observers from the Anti-Hate Task Force, a few university professors and staff, community members, and several people who appeared to be affiliated with NSM. Campus security officers were also present for the event.
Among those upset by the forum’s increasing radicalism are members of the local Anti-Hate Task Force, which has met to discuss its response to the meeting. The group is encouraging the university to take responsibility for events that occur on campus, said Williams, a task force member. In addition, some students stayed off campus the day of the Pacifica Forum meeting because they were afraid of possible encounters with neo-Nazis; one University of Oregon graduate and longtime employee was so upset after attending the beginning of the meeting that she sent an E-mail last week to university officials, urging them to stop letting the forum hold meetings on campus. (Pacifica Forum is not affiliated with the university; instead it meets in the student union under a policy that allows retired university professors — including Orval Etter, the group’s founder — to use campus space at no cost.)
Charles Martinez, the university’s Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity, told Hatewatch that even if the university were to rescind that policy, outside groups would still be able to rent space from the university, which does not attempt to screen them based on ideology. Martinez said he wants to see the campus community organize educational programs in response to the group, as it has done in the past. “It’s extremely difficult on a personal basis to observe when hate-mongering is basically couched as intellectual inquiry or free speech,” said Martinez, who attended the meeting.
A woman who answered the phone at Marr’s home in Springfield, Ore., said he does not participate in Pacifica Forum all the time. When told that Hatewatch wanted to speak with him about his Dec. 11 presentation, she said this reporter had reached the wrong number and hung up.

Summary: The speaker blamed “Jewish lies” for the Iraq War, praised the swastika as a symbol of white people, showed a neo-Nazi propaganda video, and led several audience members in an enthusiastic Nazi salute. No, this wasn’t an assembly of America’s largest neo-Nazi organization, the National Socialist Movement (NSM). Rather, it was the weekly gathering of the Pacifica Forum , a formerly left-wing discussion group that has met for years at the University of Oregon. Although the forum has been hosting…


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Haitian Catastrophe: For Racists, a Good Laugh

In Haiti, tens of thousands of earthquake victims are dead, with at least one official estimating the number could reach half a million when the full, horrifying effects of Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake in the island nation are finally known.
In Arkansas, Billy Roper figured that made for a pretty amusing joke. So the former high school teacher and current head of the neo-Nazi White Revolution group today announced a food drive he called “Nutrition for Neutering.” “Yes,” Roper’s White Revolution website said, “you can get started on the ground floor with this charitable effort to provide one can of nonperishable food to each and every Haitian citizen affected by the earthquake who agrees to be sterilized.”
Roper’s charming post, featuring a photo of castration shears, goes on to say that if those citizens then go for nine months without producing children, he will send them a can opener. “Physical evidence of the castration process should be mailed by the applying food aid recipients to Barack Obama,” he adds.
For most Americans, the sight of the catastrophe in Haiti provoked an outpouring of sympathy and support for the victims. Early reports suggest that most structures in the island’s capital city of Port-au-Prince were damaged or destroyed. Men, women and children are wandering the streets with horrific injuries, and the cries of trapped victims still are emanating from underneath tons of rubble.
But Billy Roper and those with similar ideas — characters like the sterling defenders of the white race who populate the loathsome Stormfront.org, the world’s largest white supremacist Web forum — are not like most Americans.
Just have a listen to some of the voices on Stormfront: •    “Money showered on simians is wasted.” — “Karl von Muller” •    “F*ck Haiti. …. I’m fed [up] to the core with hearing of Haiti and how we must help these ‘poor’ abominations to [sic] humankind.” — “Iberian88” •    “Negroes left to their own devices turn everything into a pest hole.” — “Herr Leutnant” •    “Nature left to its own devices will clear itself of the blight.” — “AngelEyez”
And on the web page of the Council of Conservative Citizens — a group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity” — a report on Haiti was illustrated with an engraving of a white man being hanged by blacks, presumably in Haiti.
Most of these comments are far beyond the pale of what most Americans, of any race, felt when they heard news of the Haitian tragedy. But it wasn’t only neo-Nazis who said ugly things. Some of the most astounding comments came from people in the ostensible mainstream — people like radio heavyweight Rush Limbaugh.
To Limbaugh, President Obama, in calling for Americans to open their hearts and their wallets to the plight of the Haitians, is interested in nothing but political gain. “This will play right into Obama’s hands,” Limbaugh said on his Wednesday radio show. “He’s humanitarian, compassionate. They’ll use this to burnish their, shall we say, ‘credibility’ with the black community – in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.” Anyway, Haiti “has been run by dictators and communists.” It produces “zilch, zero, nada.” And Obama is asking “people who have lost their jobs because of his policies to donate.”
“Besides,” the millionaire broadcaster added later in his show, “we’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.’
For his part, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson said on Wednesday’s “700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network that the Haitians had brought it all on themselves. “They were under the heel of the French… . And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ … [E]ver since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”
Robertson, who once blamed the 9/11 attacks on abortionists, feminists and others, didn’t mention how he knew this to be a “true story.”

Summary: In Haiti, tens of thousands of earthquake victims are dead, with at least one official estimating the number could reach half a million when the full, horrifying effects of Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake in the island nation are finally known. In Arkansas, Billy Roper figured that made for a pretty amusing joke. So the former high school teacher and current head of the neo-Nazi White Revolution group today announced a food drive he called “Nutrition for Neutering.” “Yes,” Roper’s White…


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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.


Movement to Boot Pacifica Forum Off Oregon Campus Gains Steam

For years, students at the University of Oregon generally avoided Pacifica Forum , the formerly left-wing discussion group that has increasingly embraced right-wing extremism. Many students weren’t even aware that the group meets on campus.
That all changed last Friday, when students packed the Walnut Room, where Pacifica Forum was holding its weekly meeting, to protest the group’s presence in the Erb Memorial Union, the university’s student union. As campus security officers stood guard, the protesters — including some faculty and staff — held signs saying “Hate Speech is not Free Speech” and “Pacifica Forum = Nazi Dupes.” In all, at least 75 people, most of whom were opposed to Pacifica Forum, attended the heated, at times emotional, meeting — a far cry from the 10-12 people who usually show up at forum programs.
Last week’s protest, which followed a Pacifica Forum meeting last month that one attendee likened to a Nazi rally , kicked off a student-led campaign to expel Pacifica Forum from the student union. (The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the forum as a hate group, a fact that has not made members happy .) As university officials grapple with how to address the community’s concerns, students are preparing for another protest at this Friday’s Pacifica Forum meeting. Students are mobilizing in part through a Facebook group — “UofO students and community members again the Pacifica Forum” — that has attracted more than 1,200 members since it was created last Friday.
“Since starting the Facebook group, awareness has risen exponentially,” said Devon Schlotterbeck, a University of Oregon sophomore who was inspired to launch the Facebook group after listening to hateful comments from Pacifica Forum participants last Friday. “People’s reactions are mostly of shock and of disgust and also a lot fear that this group is on our campus.”
Students are concerned that the group is allowed to meet for free in the student union — which is financed mostly by student fees — under a policy that allows retired professors, including Pacifica Forum’s founder, to book space there at no cost. “The university is subsidizing the most prolific outlet for white nationalist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi public presentations between Seattle and Sacramento,” said Michael Williams, a local resident who’s been monitoring Pacifica Forum for six years. “It’s not a question of censoring them or shutting them down; it’s a question of venue. Should they really be meeting in an academic setting for free?”
University officials are asking themselves similar questions. “There’s a very serious and direct review of policies and practices in terms of use of space [by outside groups],” said Charles Martinez, the university’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity. “I anticipate some movement on this in very short order.” The university is looking at scheduling priorities for outside groups, appropriate places for them to meet on campus, fees associated with their use of facilities, and the policy that allows retired professors to reserve campus rooms at no cost, Martinez said. However, the review will not result in a content-based test for organizations wanting to use campus facilities. “There will always be a way for outside groups to meet at what is a public university,” he said.
The protests were provoked by a Dec. 11 Pacifica Forum meeting during which longtime Pacifica Forum member Jimmy Marr lauded America’s largest neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Movement, and invited audience members to join him in giving the Nazi salute. (At least five people did.) Last Friday, Pacifica Forum’s program lived up to the promise of its title — “Everything You Wanted to Know About Pacifica Forum But Were Afraid to Ask” — with the group’s bigotry once again on prominent display. Marr went so far as to give the straight-armed Nazi salute in front of a local rabbi as the rabbi tried to ask a question. “[Marr] did this as a regular method of interrupting speakers from the floor,” Williams said. “He would sieg heil at them.”
Also at the meeting, a University of Oregon student cried as she told Valdas Anelauskas, an anti-Semite and  frequent Pacifica Forum presenter, that he was making her feel unsafe, according to local news accounts. She was reacting to Anelauskas’ assertion during a talk last summer that Andrea Dworkin — the late feminist who associated pornography with sexual violence — was too ugly to rape. Anelauskas told the student “you’re not ugly.” (In a subsequent letter to The (Eugene, Ore.) Register-Guard , Anelauskas said he condemns rape, but also suggested that the student’s reaction was staged.)
The Eugene Anti-Hate Task Force, a group of local activists that has been monitoring Pacifica Forum for several years, is scheduled to meet later this month with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere and other university officials to discuss how to deal with Pacifica Forum. “They seem convinced they have a serious problem and they need to do something about it,” Williams said.

Summary: For years, students at the University of Oregon generally avoided Pacifica Forum , the formerly left-wing discussion group that has increasingly embraced right-wing extremism. Many students weren’t even aware that the group meets on campus. That all changed last Friday, when students packed the Walnut Room, where Pacifica Forum was holding its weekly meeting, to protest the group’s presence in the Erb Memorial Union, the university’s student union. As campus security officers stood guard, the…


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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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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.


Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, Says 'Gen. Bert'

Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow. They run a nonprofit organization called Natural Solutions Foundation, which warns of the evils of vaccinations, pharmaceutical companies and genetically modified foods.
After President Obama declared a national emergency on Saturday to deal with the rapidly spreading illness, Stubblebine, a onetime intelligence officer, wasted no time e-mailing a dire warning to his members. The president’s declaration, he said, “is perhaps the most ominous domestic event I have ever encountered. We either take this hill, or we die on it.” He went on to state that Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia declared war on their own people. “Has the United States declared war on the American people today? Sadly, tragically, it would appear so. I do not wish to see the American population corralled, controlled and killed.”
H1N1, or swine flu, has never been a serious illness, Stubblebine says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a different take. The flu is spreading fast in at least 46 states, has caused the hospitalization of about 20,000 Americans and the deaths of more than 1,000 people, the agency says.
Obama’s action gives Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frightening authority to trample the rights of American patients, Stubblebine maintained. “None of this makes any sense UNLESS the intention is to replicate Hitler’s actions in Germany which used the all too willing medical system as a means to eliminate individuals, segments of the population and anyone who dared to speak out (or whisper) against the regime,” he wrote. Indeed, Stubblebine contends, the swine flu is a genetically engineered virus that is part of a World Health Organization-United Nations-United States scheme to sterilize untold numbers of people.
Not to be outdone, Stubblebine’s wife, Laibow, lent her name to a missive on the foundation’s website that says Sebelius now has the power “to send people to hospital-administered concentration camps.” She added that Obama’s declaration “puts the US on a par with Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia where the tyrants who declared war on their own people used the structures of the system to ‘justify’ and ‘legitimize’ their assault on the life, location and liberty of their citizens” and the government “now has its excuse to institute the corralling and culling of anyone it chooses.”
Fortunately, according to the husband and wife — who call themselves Gen. Bert and Dr. Rima — there is something ordinary citizens and future victims can do now: Send them money. They need financial backing for a “money bomb” to challenge the “entire vaccine approval travesty” and other projects.
Stubblebine and Laibow are veterans of the conspiracy-minded Patriot movement. Among other things, Stubblebine, whose interests include UFOs and parapsychology, insists that an airplane did not crash into the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He says he doesn’t know what did. They’ve appeared together at least twice on the Alex Jones Show, a forum for every government conspiracy theory ever hatched. Laiblow said in a July interview with Jones that the couple was “happy and privileged” to be on the show.
Stubblebine also supports or is a member of Oath Keepers, a conspiracy-minded organization composed primarily of active-duty and retired military and police officers that was founded this year.
Oath Keepers has a list of 10 orders it won’t obey. Its motto is, “Not on our watch!” Laibow cribs its language in creating her own “Health Care Worker’s Oath.” It concludes, “I am a health care professional, not an agent of State-mediated death and will conduct myself in accord with that identify. [sic] “I swear, to all future generations, ‘Never again' will the health care professions be used, as they were in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Empire, to murder and oppress any individual. Never Again! Never here! Never on my watch!”

Summary: Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow. They run a nonprofit organization called Natural Solutions Foundation, which warns of the evils of vaccinations, pharmaceutical companies and genetically modified foods. After President Obama declared a national emergency on Saturday to deal with the rapidly spreading illness,…


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A cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members are expected to descend on Washington D.C. Saturday, amidst President Trump’s refusal to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.


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Hatewatch Headlines 10/13/2017
October 13, 2017
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Values Voters an anti-constitutional gathering;
Turner Diaries
remains a force on the right; sheriff wants ‘good’ prisoners to stay where they’re useful; and more.


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“Boogaloo Boys” – individuals associated with an online community characterized by calls for civil strife and ownership of firearms and tactical gear – have advocated for an armed revolution online and at public rallies for months. On April 11, one self-proclaimed “Boogaloo Boy” allegedly used Facebook Live to show himself attempting to murder police.


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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.


'I Was With The Wrong Crowd,' Says Suspect in Immigrant's Slaying

Jose Pacheco is one of seven defendants charged with participating in the hate killing of Marcelo Lucero, and the only minority among the group. He and five others have been held in jail for nearly a year awaiting trial in the closely watched case. Read full article


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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.


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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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The Fascist Underpinnings of Pro-Trump Media: An Interview With Author Jason Stanley
August 27, 2020
Michael Edison Hayden
In his 2018 book
How Fascism Works
, Jason Stanley details how the propagandistic cult of personality surrounding President Trump is reminiscent of fascist movements from history.


‘Tea Parties Against Amnesty’ Planned in 50 Cities Tomorrow

In 1773, American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation under British rule. If they were around today, the colonists might be surprised by the array of perceived ills around which their modern-day counterparts have been rallying at symbolic “tea parties” across the country: the Wall Street bailout, the income tax, big government, President Barack Obama, and now, the possibility of citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Nativist leader William Gheen has joined the tea party frenzy by organizing “Tea Parties Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration,” scheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 14, in more than 50 towns and cities nationwide. Gheen, who heads Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, said in a news release that the event is just the prelude to more tea parties and other anti-amnesty campaigning in the spring. Also sponsoring tomorrow’s protests are the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps , a nativist extremist group, and RightMarch.com, according to the event website, AgainstAmnesty.com.
The local organizers of the anti-amnesty tea parties include some prominent nativists, according to AgainstAmnesty.com. In Chicago, Rosanna Pulido served as a regional field coordinator for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group in part because of its ties to white supremacists. She also formed the Chicago and Illinois chapters of the Minuteman Project and represented the FAIR-financed front group You Don’t Speak for Me! In Hazleton, Pa., Dan Smeriglio heads the Voice of the People , which organized an anti-illegal immigration in Shenandoah, Pa., six weeks after Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez was murdered there.
Often featuring nativist speakers and signs, tea parties have provided a forum for anti-immigrant sentiment since their inception early this year. This spring, Gheen E-mailed leaders of allied organizations asking them to join a coalition of anti-immigrant groups planning to attend tea parties. But tomorrow’s tea parties are different in that they’re solely targeting illegal immigration. In addition, while the tea party movement has attracted some blatantly racist groups, such as the Council of Conservative Citizens , Gheen states on AgainstAmnesty.com that the protests are open to those who “share our nonviolent and nonracist multiethnic and bipartisan support for secure borders and immigration enforcement.” He added: “Any groups, individuals or materials that are not appropriate will not be allowed in our permitted areas.”
Let’s hope that’s the case. Information about the rallies appears on the websites of former Klan boss David Duke and the racist National Policy Institute in Augusta, Ga. Posters on Stormfront, the leading white supremacist website, are also urging members to attend.  “This is great news!” wrote “ronatvan” on Tuesday. “All Stormfronters should join these huge Tea Parties! Prepare yourselves with big banners to spread our message.”

Summary: In 1773, American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation under British rule. If they were around today, the colonists might be surprised by the array of perceived ills around which their modern-day counterparts have been rallying at symbolic “tea parties” across the country: the Wall Street bailout, the income tax, big government, President Barack Obama, and now, the possibility of citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Nativist leader William…


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Hatewatch Headlines 8/1/2017
August 01, 2017
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Arpaio found guilty of criminal contempt by federal judge; ‘Unite the Right’ rally to test free-speech limits; Political speech affects anti-Muslim hate crimes; and more.


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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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Mar-a-Lago Pulls Plug on Anti-Muslim Hate Group’s Gala
October 07, 2019
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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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White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs
August 09, 2019
Michael Edison Hayden
Hatewatch has obtained images of Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who is involved in the white nationalist movement.


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Hatewatch Headlines 12/14/2018
December 14, 2018
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Dropping the ball on right-wing extremism; PewDiePie’s ties to bigots spells trouble; Alt-right recruiting from ranks of Trump-loving evangelicals; and more.


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A law firm associated with activists on the far-right fringe registered the Limited Liability Company (LLC) Stop the Steal in Montgomery, Alabama, in November, state records show . “Stop the Steal” is the name of a nationwide protest movement focused on overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election based upon unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.


American Renaissance Finds New Venue for D.C. Conference

After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held.
Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, told conference registrants yesterday that the group had booked the Capitol Skyline Hotel near downtown Washington. The conference was dropped by three other area hotels following a campaign by anti-racist activists. “We have found a venue with backbone and the conference will take place!” Taylor wrote. “Hotel management is prepared for the worst and will not back down!”
The Capitol Skyline was the venue for two events held by the American Free Press (AFP), a blatantly anti-Semitic newspaper. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio), who recently served a seven-year prison sentence for federal corruption, spoke at AFP’s Feb 13 conference at the hotel. And on Nov. 7, ex-Klan boss David Duke and anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs appeared together there at another AFP-sponsored gathering.
“They’ve made it somewhat of a haven for hate groups to come and hold their events here when no one else will have them,” said Jeffrey Imm, founder of the human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.).
Imm, who helped inform local hotels about the conference, said he has reached out to the hotel’s general manager, Jeff Ragonese, and to the Rubell family of Rubell Hotels, which owns the Capitol Skyline Hotel. The Rubells are prominent Miami art collectors whose business and charitable endeavors have been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Neither Ragonese nor Jason Rubell returned calls from Hatewatch this afternoon.
The unprecedented campaign against this year’s American Renaissance conference has provoked an outcry from white nationalists, who have made the jacket-and-tie affair a popular event. Traditionally held in the Washington. D.C.. area, the three-day conference features prominent far-right politicians, academic racists and other extremists from around the world.
Taylor said in a news release this week that more than 250 people had registered for the ninth biannual conference, scheduled to begin late Friday. Over the past several months, anti-racist activists had persuaded the Washington Dulles Marriott, the Westin Washington Dulles Hotel and the Four Points by Sheraton Manassas Battlefield to cancel their contracts with New Century Foundation, American Renaissance’s parent organization. Although the conference has attracted demonstrators in the past, Taylor said yesterday on Derek Black’s radio show that it’s the first time in the event’s 16-year history that a venue has rescinded its booking of American Renaissance.

Summary: After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held. Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, told conference registrants yesterday that the group had booked the Capitol Skyline Hotel near downtown Washington. The conference was dropped by three other area hotels following a campaign by…


IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists

This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, most of which involved individuals with extreme antigovernment views. One of the plots, if carried out, would have resulted in the deaths of some 30,000 people.
Stack’s actions come as the number of antigovernment “Patriot” and militia groups is rising fast, as revealed by the SPLC this past summer. In the 1990s, the combustible mix of rising antigovernment anger and the growth in militias was a recipe for disaster that ultimately resulted in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, who was motivated by antigovernment hatred.
"This attack comes amid the absolutely explosive growth of the right-wing militias and the larger antigovernment 'Patriot' movement, which includes thousands of so-called tax protesters who believe the federal income tax is illegal" said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. "There is a populist rage out there about what is seen as the coddling of rapacious elites, like the mortgage bankers who kept receiving multimillion dollar bonuses, even as working Americans seem to keep losing more and more."
The IRS has often been the target of those filled with hatred for the government. The SPLC has documented five domestic terrorist plots against the agency between 1995 and 2009. In a July 1995 plot, the target was an IRS building in Austin, Texas.
Here are the details of each anti-IRS plot documented by the SPLC:
July 28, 1995
Antigovernment extremist Charles Ray Polk is arrested after trying to purchase a machine gun from an undercover police officer, and is later indicted by federal grand jury for plotting to blow up the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. At the time of his arrest, Polk is trying to purchase plastic explosives to add to the already huge arsenal he’s amassed. Polk is sentenced to almost  75 years in federal prison.
December 18, 1995
An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee discovers a plastic drum packed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in a parking lot behind the IRS building in Reno, Nev. The device failed to explode a day earlier when a three-foot fuse went out prematurely. Ten days later, tax protester Joseph Martin Bailie is arrested. Bailie is eventually sentenced to 36 years in federal prison, with a release date of 2027. An accomplice, Ellis Edward Hurst, is released in 2004.
March 26, 1997
Militia activist Brendon Blasz is arrested in Kalamazoo, Mich., and charged with making pipe bombs and other illegal explosives. Prosecutors say Blasz plotted to bomb the federal building in Battle Creek, the IRS building in Portage, a Kalamazoo television station and federal armories. But they recommend leniency on his explosives conviction after Blasz, a member of the Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines, renounces his antigovernment beliefs and cooperates with them. He is sentenced to more than three years in federal prison and released in late 1999.
May 3, 1997
Antigovernment extremists set fire to the IRS office in Colorado Springs, Colo., causing $2.5 million in damage and injuring a firefighter. Federal agents later arrest five men in connection with the arson, which is conceived as a protest against the tax system. Ringleader James Cleaver, former national director of the antigovernment Sons of Liberty group, is accused of threatening a witness and eventually sentenced to 33 years in prison, with a release date of 2030. Accomplice Jack Dowell receives 30 years and is scheduled to be freed in 2027. Both are ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution. Dowell’s cousin is acquitted of all charges, while two other suspects, Ronald Sherman and Thomas Shafer, plead guilty to perjury charges in connection with the case.
March 19, 2006
U.S. Treasury agents in Utah arrest David J. D’Addabbo for allegedly threatening Internal Revenue Service employees with “death by firing squad” if they continued to try to collect taxes from him and his wife. D’Addabbo, who was reportedly carrying a Glock pistol, 40 rounds of ammunition and a switchblade knife when he was seized leaving a church service, allegedly wrote to the U.S.Tax Court that anyone attempting to collect taxes would be tried by a “jury of common people. You then could be found guilty of treason and immediately taken to a firing squad.” In August D’Addabbo pleads guilty to one charge of threatening a government agent in exchange for the dismissal of three other charges of threatening IRS agents. He is sentenced to time served and released the same year as his arrest.

Summary: This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, most of which involved individuals with extreme antigovernment views. One of the plots, if carried out, would have resulted in the deaths of some 30,000 people. Stack’s actions come as the number of…


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WCF Verona: Where the 'Wind of Change' Marked a Sea Change in Hate Group's Strategy
April 03, 2019
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Anti-LGBT hate group
World Congress of Families
(WCF) used its annual gathering to signal a strategy shift for gaining support for its anti-LGBTQ and anti pro-choice policies.


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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.


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Hatewatch Headlines 11/17/2016
November 17, 2016
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Twitter suspends alt-right accounts; Will Trump roll back the hate?; Bannon’s white-nationalist worldview explained; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 6/23/2017
June 23, 2017
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Domestic-terror data reveals the right-wing threat; KKK more ‘fractured’ but dangerous; Court lifts injunction blocking MS anti-LGBT law; and more.


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Frequency of Noose Hate Crime Incidents Surges
June 05, 2017
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As the Trump administration settles into its fifth month in the White House, hate-fueled acts of intimidation and harassment have increased in the public domain.


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A man who slashed the throats of two men and stabbed another in Portland yesterday holds extremist views. Two of the men are dead after they came to the aid of Muslim women who were being harassed on a Portland train by the alleged suspect, Jeremy Christian. Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson told The Oregonian that the man was using "hate speech or biased language," before turning on the women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. When fellow riders came to their aid, he slashed their throats.


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Hatewatch Headlines 5/22/2017
May 22, 2017
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Study finds right-wing terror a significant threat; New Orleans takes down its last Confederacy monument; Black congressman gets lynching threats; and more.


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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.


A Slick DVD Defends Racism

A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs.
Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn’t really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. Debut filmmaker Craig Bodeker — who appears in his documentary with a surfer-style blond ’do, collared shirt and jeans — is upfront about his project:
“I … can’t think of another issue that is more artificial, manufactured and manipulated than this whole construct called racism,” he says in a voice-over as the documentary begins.
Later, on camera, he continues: “This construct of racism is not an objective term. It has no concise definition. In fact, it’s used too often as a tool of intimidation, like a hammer, against Caucasian whites.”
Although we don’t believe that only whites can be racist, Bodeker’s efforts to refute the entire concept of racism are far from scientific. He interviews people he finds through a Craigslist ad (ambiguously titled “Ending Racism Now”) and on a street corner in Denver, Colo., where he lives. The interviewees, who represent a variety of races and ethnicities, earnestly answer Bodeker’s questions, clearly ignorant (at least initially) of his slant. When they say they see racism in their daily lives but fail to cite strong examples, the filmmaker feels justified in sticking a knife in racism. “All of these examples of this so-called racism that permeates our nation — none of them really amount to anything,” he says to the camera. Bodeker never says whether he believes that discrimination found by courts and government commissions also doesn’t “really amount to anything.”
As the documentary progresses, Bodeker asks his subjects whether black men are more skilled than white men at basketball. When some answer yes, but then refuse to say that whites score higher on standardized tests because they’re smarter, Bodeker has more ammunition. “I guess it’s OK to say that one race is better at something than another, as long as the one race is never white people,” he complains. He makes no effort to examine the scientific findings on intelligence and race, which have yet to produce convincing evidence that IQ differences are caused by genetics.
After trying to get interviewees to admit that blacks are more criminal than whites, he cites rape statistics in which black men were perpetrators and white women were victims. “If selecting people for discrimination based on their skin color is racism, and it’s a bad thing,” he says, “well, isn’t selecting people for rape because of their skin color also a bad thing? In fact, isn’t it a much worse thing?” What he neglects to mention is that it’s unclear how many, if any, of the black-on-white rapes were hate crimes — that is, motivated at least in part by racial bias. An offense isn’t a hate crime simply because the victim and perpetrator are of different races.
Moreover, Bodeker asserts that Latinos are deliberately taking away whites’ majority status. “If we object to the stated agenda of replacing whites as the racial majority in America with Hispanics, it’s us who get called the racists,” he says, “not the people who are openly and actively working to change the racial makeup of our country.”
Bodeker’s documentary has received most of its praise from hate publications and groups, including Vdare.com, The Occidental Quarterly , the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens’ Citizens Informer . (One so-called mainstream fan of the film is the controversial black scholar Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the National Council for the Humanities. In a blurb posted on the documentary's website, Swain calls the film "outstanding" and "meticulously done." "[I]t offers people of all races a rare opportunity to engage in cross-racial dialogue," she writes. "I highly recommend this film for social science courses dealing with race, class, and ethnicity.")
The South Carolina Council of Conservative Citizens — a white supremacist group whose national conference Bodeker attended in June in Mississippi — recently hosted a big-screen showing of the movie in three locations. Since the documentary’s release last year, Bodeker has given interviews to the Romanian National Vanguard News Agency (motto: “International News for People of European Descent”), Mark Dankof (a radio broadcaster who also contributes to the anti-Semitic American Free Press ), and The Political Cesspool, an overtly anti-Semitic, racist show whose guests have included former Klan boss David Duke, neo-Nazi April Gaede and Holocaust denier Mark Weber.
During these interviews, Bodeker manages to undermine his own argument, providing plenty of evidence that racism — the belief that one race is superior to another — really does exist.
On The Political Cesspool’s Jan. 31 show, for instance, one of the hosts asserts that “everything that is good about civilization — just about everything that is good, from literature to works of art to law is something that came from our [white people’s] minds.”
Bodeker’s response? “I have to agree.”

Summary: A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs. Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn’t really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. Debut filmmaker Craig Bodeker — who appears in his documentary with a surfer-style blond ’do, collared shirt and jeans — is upfront about his project: “I … can’t think of another…


Defiant Sheriff Launches Yet Another Anti-Immigrant Sweep

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is the only law-enforcement agency in the country to lose its authority to enforce federal immigration laws on the street under a revamped and controversial program that lets local and state agencies act as immigration officers. Read full article


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Hatewatch Headlines 12/12/2018
December 12, 2018
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Conspiracy theories still thriving on YouTube; Columbia student’s race rant goes viral; Trump’s ‘disease’ attack echoes Nazi propaganda; and more.


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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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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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President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around the time she joined the White House as an aide, based upon hundreds of private correspondences that were leaked to Hatewatch by a former colleague and friend.


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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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Hatewatch Headlines 5/16/2017
May 16, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
A look at the startling rise of sovereign citizens; Alt-righters get scoops from Trump operatives; Idaho town refutes Jones’ claims about refugees; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 5/12/2017
May 12, 2017
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Muslims taking step to blunt increase in arsons; Trump names Kobach to voter-fraud panel; IRS gives white nationalists a tax break; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 4/13/2017
April 13, 2017
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Immigration hardliners win key federal agency spots; Deportation force buildup in high gear; Shooter at UW Milo speech faces felony charges; and more.


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Florida Man Arrested for Racist Threats Once Attacked an African American Police Officer
June 28, 2019
Rachel Janik
A long string of felony charges and a tip-off from the Department of Homeland Security led to the arrest of a Florida man for racist and antisemitic threats posted to Gab and Bitchute.


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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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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.


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Two women who filmed themselves using anti-Muslim slurs and taking items from an Arizona mosque could wind up avoiding jail after the elected county attorney has gotten directly involved in ongoing plea deal negotiations.


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A sovereign citizen who recklessly drove his pickup in reverse through a Fourth of July crowd, killing one man and injuring eight other people, faces 12 years in prison following a June 19 sentencing hearing in Clinton, Tennessee.


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Hatewatch Headlines 5/1/2017
May 01, 2017
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Hate-crimes spike leads to talk of tougher penalties; Gorka out at White House over far-right ties; Trump considers giving Clarke a spot at DHS; and more.


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Evergreen State Protest By 'Patriot' Group Dwarfed By Angry Response
June 16, 2017
David Neiwert
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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Hatewatch Headlines 6/2/2017
June 02, 2017
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Hate is tearing America apart; Noose shows up at African American museum; American Guard is just another extremist front; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 5/26/2017
May 26, 2017
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ADF alums serving at all levels of government; Trump’s Muslim ban blocked due to his own words; Radio talker wants Muslims eradicated everywhere; and more.


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With DHS Position, Clarke Would Be the First ‘Patriot’ Leader to Hold a Federal Post
May 18, 2017
David Neiwert
Milwaukee sheriff's continuing links with extremist 'constitutionalists' raises concerns about his potential role as Trump's federal liaison to local law enforcement.


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Last weekend, a motley crew of far-right groups assembled at New Orleans’ Lee Circle to protest the city’s removal of Confederate monuments. Bearing all manner of insignias, from the Confederate Battle Flag, Klan logos, Civil War kepis, Norse runes, the flag of “Kekistan,” the Gadsden flag, to U.S. flags, all were prepared for a brawl.


Paleocon Starts New Extreme-Right Magazine

Hard to believe there’s a need for yet another far-right magazine or conference, but now there are both. Richard Spencer, who was editor at “Taki’s Magazine,” an online paleoconservative magazine, is now executive editor of a new online magazine called “Alternative Right.” He calls this venture “an online magazine of radical traditionalism” that hopes “to forge a new intellectual right-wing that is independent and outside the ‘conservative’ establishment.” It also is loaded with contributors who, like Spencer, have long lamented the white man’s decline.
Meanwhile, Joseph Farah, founder of the conspiracy-laden WorldNetDaily website, says he is organizing a conference to be held in September called “Taking America Back.” Farah says the conference is a response to what he describes as the shabby treatment accorded him by the director of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which was held last month. “This one is about the ultimate issues of God, the Constitution, the tea-party uprising, freedom and justice,” Farah wrote in a WorldNetDaily commentary.
At “Alternative Right,” Spencer’s senior contributing editors are Peter Brimelow and Paul Gottfried. Brimelow founded VDARE.com , an anti-immigrant website, and he has described “Alternative Right” as a project of the VDARE Foundation. Gottfried has been a contributor to “Taki’s Magazine” and has spoken at conferences of the white nationalist American Renaissance magazine, whose editor has written that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization. Gottfried gave a speech at the inaugural meeting of the H.L. Mencken Club in November 2008 titled, “The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right.” Brimelow was the keynote speaker at that event, and Spencer the master of ceremonies. Spencer and Gottfried also appeared together last October on “The Political Cesspool,” a racist and anti-Semitic radio program.
One of the bloggers at “Alternative Right” is Richard Hoste, who recently wrote that “low-IQ Mexican immigration is the greatest threat to America.” He also wrote: “Schools should stop wasting time trying to close achievement gaps. And not only do whites have nothing to feel guilty about, they are the best thing to ever happen to blacks. Even ignoring race, humanity will not move forward through equality or by raising up the really stupid to the level of just plain stupid.” Finally, Hoste had this pithy observation: “While there’s more miscegenation [interracial sex] than in the past … we should be heartened that white teenage girls aren’t passing themselves around in black neighborhoods.”
Joseph Farah, for his part, seems to be more concerned about President Obama’s birthplace than race. He’s miffed because he was a CPAC sponsor in 2009 and has addressed the group in the past. He says he notified CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale that he’d be interested in speaking to this year’s confab about matter of where Obama was born. Conspiracy theorists claim — without a shred of evidence — that the president may have been born in a foreign country and therefore is illegible to hold his office.
De Pasquale was quoted in The Los Angeles Times as saying that Farah’s eligibility lecture would have drawn a crowd, but added “so would a two-headed monkey.” That comment, plus the fact that a 2010 CPAC sponsor promotes same-sex marriage, led Farah to announce plans for his own conservative conference. The only details he’s provided so far are that “there will be free and open discussion of issues like the constitutional eligibility of the man occupying the White House.”

Summary: Hard to believe there’s a need for yet another far-right magazine or conference, but now there are both. Richard Spencer, who was editor at “Taki’s Magazine,” an online paleoconservative magazine, is now executive editor of a new online magazine called “Alternative Right.” He calls this venture “an online magazine of radical traditionalism” that hopes “to forge a new intellectual right-wing that is independent and outside the ‘conservative’ establishment.” It also is loaded with contributors…


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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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Thursday, April 27 will mark the launch of the " Congressional Israel Victory Caucus " (CIVC) to be chaired by Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH). Johnson and DeSantis are enlisting the help of anti-Muslim activist Daniel Pipes , a man who has spend the better part of three decades vilifying Muslims, and Palestinians in particular.


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Racist Flyers Use Photo, False Statement from Idaho Mayor
April 13, 2017
Bill Morlin
Neo-Nazi propagandists used a photo of the mayor of Sandpoint, Idaho, and a purported statement from him about multiculturalism in the latest batch of racist flyers to hit to city.


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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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White supremacists and other extremists have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars through a youth-targeted, video livestreaming service called DLive, according to a researcher of online, far-right communities.


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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.


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President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around the time she joined the White House as an aide, based upon hundreds of private correspondences that were leaked to Hatewatch by a former colleague and friend.


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Vicious Facebook Posts and the Man Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
April 10, 2019
Nick R. Martin
About three-and-a-half years ago, a man named Patrick Carlineo joined a brand-new Facebook group called “No Syrian refugees for NY.”


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Mitch Taebel is an aspiring actor, director and anti-government extremist who interprets the Constitution to mean that — if he feels his rights have been violated — he has the right to break the law and execute law enforcement officers.


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White nationalists kicked out of CPAC- but they’re already in the White House; domestic extremists kill immigrants and cops alike; while LGBT rights are under attack, study shows that marriage equality reduces teen suicide; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/18/2017
January 18, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
New project aims to document hate crimes; Right-wing media lashes out at Manning;  RT host exposed as neo-Nazi; and more.


Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Immigrants

Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants.
Problem is, it's almost certainly wrong .
In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will update this post when we hear from her.) However, the show cited as its source "FSM" which appears to be shorthand for Family Security Matters, a website that frequently publishes breathless “exclusives” such as the one about Latinos titled, “Illegal Aliens Bring A Taliban Culture to the United States."
As we reported in the fall 2008 Intelligence report , FSM promoted the 2,158 figure in a February 2007 article titled “Illegal Aliens Kill More Americans than Iraq War." The FSM article attributes its data to a story on the far-right WorldNetDaily website, which in turn cites Human Events contributor Mac 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 (16,272 in 2008) would mean that the undocumented, who number about 12 million people, or 4% of the U.S. population, are responsible for 11.1% to 15.4% of U.S. murders. In other words, Johnson is saying that undocumented immigrants murder U.S. citizens at a rate nearly three to four times that of the general population.
Fox apparently relied on that dubious research during its morning show, Fox & Friends . As host Gretchen Carlson interviewed a guest about the new Arizona law targeting undocumented immigrants, the words "2,158 killed by illegals every year" appeared repeatedly on the screen. The guest, 9/11 Families for a Secure America Board Member Ed Kowalski, also told Carlson on camera that undocumented immigrants murder an estimated 2,200 Americans annually.
Kowalski's niece, 17-year-old Elizabeth Butler, was murdered by an undocumented immigrant in 2005 — and we do not mean to diminish his grief or the problem of violent crime. However, his implication that the new Arizona law will make the state safer does not seem to be supported by the data. Even with relatively large numbers of undocumented immigrants, the rates of both violent crimes and property crimes in Arizona have been falling since 2002, according to the Immigration Policy Center. A 2008 report from the conservative Americas Majority Foundation found that, in recent years, crime declined the most in states with the biggest immigration growth, including Arizona.
At a news conference last week, Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris disputed the claim that the new law will help police do their jobs. "Proponents of this legislation have repeatedly said that the new law provides a tool for law enforcement," he said on April 30. "But I don't really believe that that’s true or accurate." He concluded:  "It takes officers away from doing what our main core mission of local law enforcement is, and that's to make our communities safe and enforce our criminal codes in that effort."

Summary: Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants. Problem is, it's almost certainly wrong . In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will update this post when we hear from her.) However, the show cited as its source "FSM" which appears to be shorthand for Family Security Matters, a website that frequently publishes breathless…


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The SPLC has collected 1,372 reported bias incidents between the day after the election and February 7. These incidents were either reported directly to the SPLC via our #ReportHate intake page or collected from news reports.


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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.


Target of Neo-Nazi Threatmaker Bill White Tells of Fear

ROANOKE, Va. — A Citibank employee told jurors this afternoon that she couldn’t concentrate at work but was too frightened to go home after receiving an E-mail with her personal information from white supremacist Bill White.
“I was very scared, not only for myself but for my family,” said Jennifer Petsche, who works in Citibank’s Kansas City, Missouri, office.
Petsche testified on behalf of the government, which began presenting evidence today in White’s trial. White, who created and led the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party until his arrest, is charged with threatening various people with whom he disagreed. White’s defense maintains that his communications were protected speech under the First Amendment.
The E-mail Petsche received in March 2007 contained her home address, phone number and prior addresses, including that of her parents. “I understand you think you’re very tough and you think that by dragging this process out you have created me a lot of misery; that is an incorrect assessment, but I must admit I have run out of patience with you and your smug attitude,” White wrote. “I hope the fact that I’ve obviously paid someone to find you conveys the seriousness with which I take your current attitude.”
The E-mail stemmed from a credit card dispute between White and Citibank; the dispute had already been resolved, but White wanted written notification that Citibank had asked credit bureaus to remove negative information from his credit report. On March 21, he called Citibank some 50 times in an attempt to reach Petsche, according to a Citibank investigator who testified today. However, Petsche had nothing to do with the settlement agreement between White and Citibank and in fact had never had any contact with White. White eventually left a message on Petsche’s work voice mail saying he wanted to talk to her. Petsche followed up with a colleague but was told that another office would handle the matter and that she shouldn’t respond. As she was cooking dinner at home on March 22, White left a message on Petsche’s answering machine saying he had sent her an E-mail. “I was astonished,” Petsche said. “I was so surprised. In my 14 years at Citibank, I had never had a card member call me at home.”
She was sufficiently alarmed to report the call to the night supervisor at Citibank. That night, she slept poorly and wondered what was in the E-mail. When she arrived at work around 7:30 the next morning, the E-mail from White was in her inbox. In addition to her personal information, the E-mail included a comparison between Petsche and Joan Lefkow, the Chicago judge whose husband and mother were murdered in 2005. “Lord knows that drawing too much publicity and making people upset is what did in Joan Lefkow,” he wrote.
Two co-workers testified that Petsche became extremely distressed. “She was very, very emotional,” said Rachel Dixon, her supervisor. “She cried. As her manager, that was very upsetting, because that’s just not the type of person Jennifer is."
Petsche, who’s married with an infant son, said she was nervous about testifying at White’s trial. “I have spent the last almost three years now in fear of repercussions from Mr. White and his followers,” she said.
Ray Ferris, one of White’s lawyers, suggested during cross-examination that White could have been referring in his E-mail to someone else whom he mistakenly thought was Petsche. He also characterized White’s first voice message for Petsche as a “polite” attempt to make contact.
The government will continue presenting its case tomorrow.

Summary: ROANOKE, Va. — A Citibank employee told jurors this afternoon that she couldn’t concentrate at work but was too frightened to go home after receiving an E-mail with her personal information from white supremacist Bill White. “I was very scared, not only for myself but for my family,” said Jennifer Petsche, who works in Citibank’s Kansas City, Missouri, office. Petsche testified on behalf of the government, which began presenting evidence today in White’s trial. White, who created and led the…


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Gorka's Dubious Past Includes Failing Hungary's National Security Test
March 24, 2017
David Neiwert
Trump's Islamophobic foreign-policy adviser had a history of far-right dalliances in Europe after the fall of Communism.


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What the Kek: Explaining the Alt-Right 'Deity' Behind Their 'Meme Magic'
May 08, 2017
David Neiwert
A satirical religion with a frog-headed god has become a favorite new way for white nationalists to troll liberals, while spreading their meme-driven strategy.


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One of the country’s leading white nationalist organizations – the National Policy Institute – has lost its non-profit status, apparently because its founder Richard B. Spencer forgot to fill out those little white boxes on government tax forms.


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Hatewatch Headlines 3/10/2017
March 10, 2017
Hatewatch Staff
Trump’s agenda worries experts in authoritarianism; DHS to finally join probe into attacks; Phoenix rally-goers call for a ‘liberal genocide’; and more.


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This post is part of a continuing Hatewatch series examining the Newslinks & Articles section of Stormfront.org. Until last summer, Stormfront was the most trafficked white supremacist website online.


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Hatewatch Headlines 1/17/2017
January 17, 2017
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"Alt-Right" eats its own as ‘Enoch’ quits; Study of police views on race is revealing; Trump’s attack on Lewis a racist smear; and more.


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Hatewatch Headlines 7/7/2017
July 07, 2017
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Trump skips visit to Warsaw Ghetto; Alt-Right factionalism; Alex Jones' newest conspiracy theory; and more.


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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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After just over 20 years as the premier online gathering place for white Supremacists, Stormfront.org lost its crown to the unruly, meme-fueled neo-Nazi propaganda shop, the Daily Stormer, in July of 2016.


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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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In unusual alliance, Infowars, Joey Gibson teaming up for ‘street army’ teams
August 31, 2018
Brett Barrouquere
Infowars and Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, with Gibson once calling the creator of the show, Alex Jones, “crazy.”


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Minuteman organizer: volunteers want to 'shoot the taco meat'
September 20, 2005
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On February 9, the San Francisco-based newspaper El Tecolote published an in-depth expose of Parker Anthony Wilson, a neo-Nazi with a long track record recently employed by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a well-established anti-immigrant group in the state.


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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joined Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council (FRC), twice in the past two weeks to promote SB6, the so-called “ Texas Privacy Act ,” a top legislative priority for Patrick during this session.


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Andrew Anglin , proprietor of the meme-fueled neo-Nazi cesspool the Daily Stormer, was an outspoken liberal and a vegan prone to violent tantrums as a teenager in Worthington, Ohio, according to a profile published by Columbus Alive last week.


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The Internet Research Agency: behind the shadowy network that meddled in the 2016 Elections
February 21, 2018
Alexander Reid Ross
Special counsel Robert Mueller, Jr.,
indicted
13 agents from the Saint Petersburg based Internet Research Agency last Friday, but the shadowy figures behind the organization remain obscure.


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Five arrested in raid at Aryan  Brotherhood chop-shop
February 06, 2018
Bill Morlin
Authorities in Texas made five arrests during a raid on a vehicle “chop-shop” they say was operated by the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas — one of the biggest racist crime syndicates in the country.


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Mitch Taebel is an aspiring actor, director and anti-government extremist who interprets the Constitution to mean that — if he feels his rights have been violated — he has the right to break the law and execute law enforcement officers.


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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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WCF Verona: Where the 'Wind of Change' Marked a Sea Change in Hate Group's Strategy
April 03, 2019
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Anti-LGBT hate group
World Congress of Families
(WCF) used its annual gathering to signal a strategy shift for gaining support for its anti-LGBTQ and anti pro-choice policies.


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ACTBAC NC Joins Neo-Confederates Rallying Around Lost Cause Icons
May 23, 2017
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May 20
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marked 156 years since the North Carolina state legislature voted to join other southern states in seceding from the United States.


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Hatewatch Headlines 6/8/2017
June 08, 2017
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Trump to address anti-LGBT leaders on day of march; Feds review militia role in Portland arrest; Alex Jones melts down after Kelly interview; and more.


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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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Activists linked to the white nationalist hate group VDARE sought resumes to fill out White House administration jobs days after media outlets declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2016 election, leaked emails show.