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Heidi Beirich
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Oslo Shooter A Frightening Reminder of Radical Right Terrorist Threat
06 months ago
The horrific events that took place in Norway this past Friday— a huge bombing in central Oslo closely followed by a bloody shooting rampage on nearby Utoya island that left 93 dead—are a sobering reminder of what extreme radical-right beliefs can drive some to do. And the threat is not confined to Norway or Europe. [...]
Longtime Militiaman Drew Rayner Facing Trial for Mail Fraud
06 months ago
by Heidi Beirich
in Militias
NOTE: HateWatch has learned that Drew Allen Rayner has prominent ties to the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement. In April 2010, Rayner was one several sovereign citizens who signed a letter sent to all 50 governors demanding they vacate their offices, or else. The Guardians for the free Republics (GFR), a group which included the vanguard of [...]
Racist Prof Latest to Join Group That Seeks White Rule in America
07 months ago
Racist activist Jamie Kelso announced this past Friday that long-time professor Virginia Abernethy has joined the board of the white nationalist American Third Position (ATP) political party. Established in 2009, the ATP was originally created by racist Southern California skinheads and is now led by a man who once sought to deport any American with [...]
Family Research Council Reposts Discredited Anti-Gay ‘Science’
07 months ago
For a while there, it seemed like the religious right group Family Research Council (FRC) was making some attempt to clean its website of bogus “research” that defamed gays. Material that peddled a series of falsehoods — in particular, the articles “Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse,” “The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality,” and “Homosexual Parenting: [...]
Your Black Muslim Bakery Leader Found Guilty of Murder
08 months ago
The longtime leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business at the center of a militant black Muslim network in the Oakland, Calif., area, was convicted yesterday of three counts of first-degree murder for ordering the 2007 slayings of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey and two other men.
Yusuf Bey IV, the group’s head, faces a [...]
California Latino Gang is Latest Accused of Targeting Blacks
08 months ago
The Latino Azusa 13 gang conspired to rid a Southern California community of its black residents, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. The indictment alleges that the gang engaged in a two-decades-long campaign involving intimidation, threats and violence to push black residents out of Azusa, a city of some 50,000 northeast of Los Angeles.
Authorities [...]
Hate Group Applauds Drudge Report Coverage of ‘Black Crime’
08 months ago
As Salon noted earlier this week, the Drudge Report has lately been rife with what the online publisher calls “scary black people” stories. Since President Obama’s election, the extremely popular conservative website has run headline after headline about crimes committed by African Americans. Salon describes the general theme as “blacks are rising up and attacking [...]
Council of Conservative Citizens Networking with Racist Skinheads
08 months ago
Seems the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) has some new allies these days. The group’s Tennessee chapter is co-hosting a June 18 barbeque with two notorious skinhead groups, Volksfront and Blood and Honour, according to postings on the chapter’s website and other racist forums. The event, whose contact is easttnskin83@yahoo.com, is being held for “networking [...]
GOP Members of Congress Push Amendment to ‘Nullify’ Federal Laws
09 months ago
Nullification — the idea that a state can simply refuse to follow federal laws when it doesn’t like them — has been popular of late. A traveling conference called “Nullify Now!” has been roving the country in the last year pushing this notion, with its events headlined by prominent figures in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement.
In addition, [...]
Geographical Analysis of Hate Groups Listed by SPLC Released
09 months ago
by Heidi Beirich
in Hate Groups
Today, The Atlantic magazine published an analysis of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups, which hit a high in 2010 of 1,002 groups. The analysis provides a “geography of hatred” in America and looks at what factors correlate with areas that are hotbeds for hate groups.
Written by Senior Editor Richard Florida, the [...]