Mark Potok
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Posts by Mark Potok
Apparent Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Building
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
September 1, 2010 - 12:52 pm
Posted in anti-immigrant | No comments
The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. Lee, 43, had been arrested in February 2008 at a rally he organized outside the [...]
SCV Plans to ‘Celebrate’ Racist Confederate Government
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
August 31, 2010 - 11:33 am
Posted in Neo-Confederate | No comments
The American Civil War was the costliest, most devastating conflict in the history of our country. At least 620,000 soldiers died, as did some 400,000 civilians who fell to disease, suicide, murder and similar causes. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered horrible wood-saw amputations and terrible wounds. In the four years the war lasted, it [...]
On Third Try, Prosecutors Convict Neo-Nazi Blogger of Threats
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
August 16, 2010 - 9:55 am
Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime | No comments
After two attempts to convict Hal Turner of threatening federal judges ended in mistrials, the government last Friday finally made it stick — despite the fact that the neo-Nazi blogger had served as an FBI informant for years. A sentencing date was not set, but Turner faces up to 10 years in prison and a [...]
New Intelligence Report Spotlights ‘Sovereign Citizens’
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
August 12, 2010 - 7:33 am
Posted in Conspiracies, Editor's Pick, Intelligence Report, Sovereign Citizens | No comments
Today, we’re releasing a major report on “sovereign citizens,” a radical-right movement that has grown to include as many as 300,000 adherents who believe that the government has no right to tax or impose laws on most Americans. Adherents can be incredibly dangerous, especially to police officers, and our new report is pegged to the [...]
Religious Right Reacts With Fury to Prop 8 Knockdown
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
August 5, 2010 - 10:19 am
Posted in Anti-Gay | No comments
In the hours since a federal judge struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, religious-right organizations have sent up an angry howl of protest, accusing the judge of doing everything from overruling the Constitution to laying the groundwork for a contemporary version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Tim Wildmon, leader of the American Family Association, called [...]
Religious Freedom at Stake in Ground Zero Controversy
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
August 4, 2010 - 8:39 am
Posted in Anti-Muslim | No comments
Nine days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, President George W. Bush addressed the nation to say, in part, that while the murder of nearly 3,000 people came at the hands of radical Muslims, Islam was not to blame.
“We respect your faith,” Bush told Muslims. “It’s practiced freely by many [...]
Shirley Sherrod and the Right: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 21, 2010 - 10:00 am
Posted in Media Extremism | No comments
The entire Shirley Sherrod affair is so disgusting, such a stomach-churning episode of right-wing lies, propagandists posing as “journalists,” and craven political cowardice and gullibility, that it’s hard to know who to be most enraged at.
Andrew Breitbart, a particularly vile propagandist of the American right who presented a severely edited videotape of a speech by [...]
MCDC Founder Simcox Reported on the Run
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
June 14, 2010 - 9:49 am
Posted in anti-immigrant | No comments
Chris Simcox always wanted to be famous. Now, in a manner of speaking, he is.
Late last week, Fugitive Recovery Services of Arizona (FRS) released a “Wanted” poster asking for information about the location of Simcox, who it says readers should consider “ARMED & DANGEROUS.” The bounty hunters are seeking Simcox, co-founder of the anti-immigration Minuteman [...]
Idaho ‘Attorney for the Damned’ Arrested in Plot to Murder Wife
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
June 14, 2010 - 7:56 am
Posted in Anti-Semitic, Editor's Pick, Extremist Crime | No comments
Many people thought Edgar Steele went off the deep end in 2002, when, after unsuccessfully defending the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and its late leader in a lawsuit, he wrote the coming-out essay, “It’s the Jews, Stupid!” After all, the man had spent most of his life up to that point as an obscure corporate accountant [...]
IFI’s Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again
originally posted by Mark Potok for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
June 7, 2010 - 8:39 am
Posted in Anti-Gay, Christian Right | No comments
So you thought McDonald’s was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food?
Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is “hell bent on using its resources [...]