White Supremacist Praises NOM Spokesman David Tyree for Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

A white supremacist named James Edwards is praising former New York Giant David Tyree for speaking out against same-sex marriage, reports Alvin McEwen at Pam's House Blend:
Says Edwards:

Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. While I might not agree with David Tyree on anything else, on this single issue, he is absolutely right.

The Southern Poverty Law Center writes, about Edwards:

Edwards, 27, is the host of "The Political Cesspool," a shamelessly white nationalist radio talk show that's broadcast for two hours every weeknight from a studio near Memphis, Tenn., where Edwards grew up and still lives.

"The Political Cesspool" in the past two years has become the primary radio nexus of hate in America. Its sponsors include the CCC and the Institute for Historical Review, a leading Holocaust denial organization. Its guest roster for 2007 reads like a "Who's Who" of the radical racist right. CCC leader Gordon Lee Baum, Holocaust denier Mark Weber, Canadian white supremacist Paul Fromm, American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor, neo-Nazi activist April Gaede, anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald, Stormfront webmaster Jamie Kelso and League of the South president Michael Hill have all been favorably interviewed on the "Political Cesspool" this year, along with former Klan leader and neo-Nazi David Duke, the show's most frequent celebrity racist guest, who has logged three appearances.

NOM's Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown should be so proud of the support they've rounded up.

After David Tyree Segment, Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tweets Gay Marriage Support

On Top Magazine - ‎Jun 24, 2011‎

By On Top Magazine Staff The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck insists she supports gay marriage after coming to the aid of former New York Giants wide receiver David Tyree, who has been criticized for saying that passage of a gay marriage bill in New ...

David Tyree Tries To Expand On His Gay Stance, Just Says More Negative Things

PerezHilton.com - ‎Jun 23, 2011‎

Football star David Tyree has been getting some attention for his very precise and vocal stance on the issue of gay marriage, and homosexuality in general. Now, he was invited on another show to expand upon his thoughts and perhaps clarify what he's ...

David Tyree: I Don't Want My Kids To Think Homosexuals Are Normal

The New Civil Rights Movement - David Badash - ‎Jun 23, 2011‎

Former NFL Giant David Tyree, who lives in New Jersey but feels he has a “voice” in New York's marriage equality debate, says in this video so many things that negate so many things he's already said, it's ludicrous. ...

Chris Brown Slammed By Human Rights Group For Homophobic Remark

Singersroom News - ‎Jun 23, 2011‎

A human rights group is upset with Chris Brown after the R&B singer was videotaped making homophobic remarks. Brown, who was trying to avoid a citation after being alerted that his car was about to get a parking ticket, called the paps “Gay” and ...

White Supremacist, Elisabeth Hasselbeck Defend David 'Superbowl For No Gay ...

Unicorn Booty (blog) - Kevin Farrell - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎

Tyree is responding to claims that he is a bigot by assuring us that he's not one, even though he absolutely is. Just look at the definition: I'm going to go ahead and say that citing his own personal religious beliefs as evidence that millions of ...

Whoopi Goldberg Spars With Elisabeth Hasselbeck About David Tyree's Gay ...

Huffington Post - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎

The co-hosts of "The View" argued about footballer David Tyree's controversial comments about gay rights on Tuesday. Tyree drew attention for saying he'd give up his Super Bowl championship to stop gay marriage, and that gay people should not be ...

PLEASE SHUT UP

Queerty - ‎Jun 21, 2011‎

The only reason David Tyree is famous is because he helped the New England Patriots win Super Bowl XLII by catching a stupid football in his helmet. But you know what? He would trade that moment if it meant that it would stop two loving, ...

Blacks: Having the Most Homophobic Month Ever

The Root - Clay Cane - ‎Jun 20, 2011‎

From athlete David Tyree's anti-marriage-equality stance to rapper Tyler, the Creator's slurs to Tracy Morgan's rant, June has been full of anti-gay outbursts. This time of the year should be celebratory for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...

Purported Conn. white supremacist faces sentencing

Newsday (subscription) - ‎Jun 19, 2011‎

By AP (AP) -- A purported white supremacist from Connecticut faces sentencing for what authorities describe as a plan to sell a rifle to the Ku Klux Klan. William Bolton of Milford is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Bridgeport ...

A Ku Klux Klan candidate in Montana

Politico (blog) - ‎Jun 1, 2011‎

A member of the Ku Klux Klan motivated by President Obama's election is running for Montana's open House seat as a Republican. According to the Associated Press, 41-year-old John Abarr is running on a platform of legalizing marijuana, ...

Mont. candidate with KKK ties running for Congress

Newsday (subscription) - Matt Gouras - ‎Jun 1, 2011‎

(AP) -- A former organizer for the Ku Klux Klan said Wednesday he is running as a Republican for Montana's US House seat because he believes people will back him as part of a backlash to the nation's first black ...

Cinder Block With Racist Threat Thrown Through Window

WTVC - John Madewell - ‎Jun 16, 2011‎

The top of a cinder block, with a racist message and threat taped to it, smashed through Ellis and Jennifer Weatherspoon's window. The interracial couple wasn't at home when NewsChannel 9 went to the Turtletown address, but neighbors were stunned. ...

East Tennessee interracial couple say they're target of vandalism, death threats

Kingsport Times News - ‎Jun 16, 2011‎

By AP TURTLETOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Polk County authorities are investigating what an incident report describes as vandalism. The couple who live in the mobile home where a cinder block crashed through a window say a note taped to it contained a racial slur ...

Couple say lives were threatened in vandalism act

San Antonio Express - ‎Jun 16, 2011‎

TURTLETOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Before a racially derogatory death threat taped to a piece of cinder block smashed through his mobile home window, Ellis Weatherspoon largely ignored efforts to intimidate him. As a black man living with a white woman and ...

Polk County Sheriff investigating vandalism act that included racial slur ...

Daily Journal - ‎Jun 16, 2011‎

AP TURTLETOWN, Tenn. — Before a racially derogatory death threat taped to a piece of cinder block smashed through his mobile home window, Ellis Weatherspoon largely ignored efforts to intimidate him. As a black man living with a white woman and their ...

Montana Republican is Racist, Homophobic, Republican

Queerty - ‎Jun 2, 2011‎

John Abarr is awful! Simply dreadful! The worst! Totally racist and homophobic! In other words, a Republican. Okay, okay, we'll admit that some Republicans are actually very nice people, some of them are not racists and not homophobic, ...

John Abarr, Former KKK Member, Seeks Congress Seat

Gather.com - Jennifer Neff - ‎Jun 2, 2011‎

John Abarr, a Republican, is running for Montana's house seat. What you might not know is that he had strong ties with the KKK in the past. Is he someone you'd want serving in congress? John Abarr is a Republican from Montana. ...

Death of notorious white supremacist gang leader 'a mystery' say police

Daily Mail - ‎Jun 6, 2011‎

By Daily Mail Reporter Mystery: Frank E Roch, Jr's death continues to baffle Houston Police. He was found dying, slumped in a pickup truck after a crash Police are baffled as to who or what may have killed a notorious white supremacist gang leader. ...

A Ku Klux Klan candidate in Montana

Politico (blog) - ‎Jun 1, 2011‎

Abarr, who has previously backed the notion of "deporting non-whites back to their homeland," said he no longer organizes for the KKK but is still on its mailing list. He wants a flat income tax and said he chose to run as a Republican because of the ...

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Lawsuit, arrest leaves Klan group in turmoil

kypost.com - Brett Barrouquere - ‎May 31, 2011‎

Those problems have moved other white supremacist groups to disassociate with the Dawson Springs-based Klan, which has publicly banished multiple members, and putting the future of what was once considered one of the largest KKK organizations in 

FBI says terrorism cases on upswing

The Seattle Times - Hal Bernton, Mike Carter - ‎20 hours ago‎

This year, Kevin William Harpham, a former soldier from Stevens County who reportedly had links to neo-Nazi groups in the past, was accused of planting a bomb laced with rat poison along the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane. ...

Anti-KKK message was stronger

TriCities.com - ‎Jun 20, 2011‎

I went to the KKK rally last Saturday to protest the white supremacist group, afraid of them and thinking of their violent history. But, arriving early, I found something entirely different. A gathering of more than 100 counter protesters stood their ...

Matt Drudge has cool new white supremacist fans!

Salon - Alex Pareene - ‎Jun 9, 2011‎

(Heads up: link goes to neo-confederate white supremacist site!) "The extremely popular news aggregate Drudge Report appears to be the only major news outlet bringing up the astronomical amount of black crime taking place." And then there is the link ...

Anti-Islam, KKK, White Supremacist Pride, Hate, And Pat Robertson

The New Civil Rights Movement - David Badash - ‎May 31, 2011‎

Here's one result of his decades of bigotry, as evidenced in this video by filmmaker Eric Allen Bell: White Supremacist Pride, KKK, anti-​Islam nationalism, radical religious extremism, and the Tea Party. You name it, it's in here. ...

Authorities Looking For Felon With White Supremacist Ties

KPTV Portland - ‎Jun 14, 2011‎

Authorities also say he has multiple tattoos, is known to associate with white supremacist gangs and was last known to be living in the east Portland/Gresham area. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to contact local law enforcement ...

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Constitutional Court bans neo-Nazi group

B92 - ‎Jun 3, 2011‎

BELGRADE -- The Constitutional Court of Serbia has determined that Nacionalni stroj is a secret association whose work is banned in accordance with the Constitution. The organization is not allowed to work, promote and spread its ideas and goals. ...

Serbia bans neo-Nazi group The Voice of Russia

 

Modern-Day Nazis in Disarray Over Crossword Puzzle

The Atlantic - Max Fisher - ‎Jun 16, 2011‎

In the 66 years since Adolf Hitler's death, Germany has undergone an astonishing, and astonishingly successful, regimen of national reconciliation. Nearly every German citizen has absorbed the awful lessons of the Nazi Party's rise and ...

Hackers expose neo-Nazi party supporters

CRN Australia - Darren Pauli - ‎Jun 15, 2011‎

A left-wing hacker group has stolen up to 400 names and home addresses of supporters of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NDP) and published them on Google Maps. ...

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Hate groups in Oregon

KDRV - Steven Sandberg - ‎Jun 23, 2011‎

They included in their findings what they call an active neo-Nazi group outside Medford. That group, however, may no longer be active in Southern Oregon. Their last major demonstration was a rally in phoenix in April 2009, and even then, ...

Lawsuit, arrest leaves Klan group in turmoil

The South Florida Times - Brett Barrouquere - ‎Jun 1, 2011‎

(AP) _ A $2.5 million civil judgment and the prison sentence of its founder has left a western Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan group with an uncertain future. The Imperial Klans of America, based in Dawson Springs, has publicly banished members and scaled ...

White supremacist sentenced to life for role in 2007 Nacogdoches double homicide

KYTX - Cathryn Khalil - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎

NACOGDOCHES (KYTX) -- A 29-year-old member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2007 double homicide. Charles Cameron Frazier, aka "Mojo," pleaded guilty on Jan. ...

East Texas man gets life sentence in gang killings Houston Chronicle

Hacked data reveals US Marines contract killers, hunting migrants on the border

The NarcoSphere - Brenda Norrell - ‎Jun 24, 2011‎

Jeffery Harbin, a member of the white supremacist National Socialist Movement, was allegedly building homemade grenades and pipe bombs at home. One area heavily patrolled by anti-immigration and other hate groups, and a site of their camps, ...

Hacked data reveals US Marines contract killers, hunting migrants on the border Infoshop News

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Ex-local Aryan convicted in racist beating

The Spokesman Review (blog) - ‎Jun 10, 2011‎

A white supremacist who ran for the Hayden City Council in 2003 has been convicted of a racially motivated attack on a black man in southwestern Washington. Zachary Loren Beck, 32, (pictured in 2003) was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to violate ...

Glenn Beck Uses Auschwitz To Promote His New Media Venture

Media Matters for America - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎

[Media Matters, 10/14/10] Beck Pushed Book From "Nationally Known White Supremacist And Anti-Semite" Eustace Mullins. On his Fox News show, Beck cited Eustace Mullins' book Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Mullins was a 9-11 truther who has been ...

Coulter’s ‘Demonic’ STIRRING UP THE SHIT!

And then I went off to read the GOOGLE-NEWS and came across this prime example of STIRRING UP THE SHIT!

Coulter’s ‘Demonic’ Guaranteed to Outrage the Left

Conservative iconoclast Ann Coulter will rile the left with her latest book, “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America,” according to DailyCaller.com, which compiled 10 ideas from the book it says will blow liberals’ minds.

“The Democrats’ playbook doesn’t involve heads on pikes — as yet — but uses a more insidious means to incite the mob,” she writes in Ann Coulterthe first chapter, published exclusively at DailyCaller.com. “The twisting of truth, stirring of passions, demonizing of opponents, and relying on propagandistic images in lieu of ideas — these are the earmarks of a mob leader.”

This is EXACTLY what she is doing -- a preemptive strike, DEMONIZING democrats with a book titled DEMONIC, as the perfect picture of conserva-nazi leader.

USING VIOLENT RHETORIC to whip up the Coulter-Mob...

In an incredibly bold move sure to court loads of controversy, Coulter challenges the leftist take on the Kent State University killings of four students by the Ohio Army National Guard in 1970. She points to new research that shows “the guardsmen were fired upon first.” She continues: “A mob cannot be calmly reasoned with: It can only be smashed. When faced with a move, civilized society’s motto should be: Overreact!”

An oft-repeated ReTHUGlican LIE!

Coulter also insists that Republicans historically have championed civil rights, while Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan’s original purpose was “to terrorize Republicans, but later switch[ed] to terrorize blacks,” Coulter contends. “It was Democratic juries that acquitted Klansman after Klansman. It was Democratic politicians who supported segregation, Democratic governors who called out the National Guard to stop desegregation, Democratic commissioners of public safety who turned police dogs and water hoses on civil rights protesters.”

The original KKK was patterned on the "Know-Nothing Party", a secret society which answered every question about itself with the phrase "I know nothing". It was losing badly in the East and South and was disappearing when the Civil War began. The Democrats were big in the South so they became the rebel confederate party, while the Slave-freer-guy Lincoln was a northerner-yankee Republican. After the war the KKK formed on the Know-Nothing pattern and infiltrated the Democratic confederate rebel party. The Southern KKK-Democrats were nothing like today's democrats but were like the Tea-Klux-Klan of today.

Northerner TOM SCOTT, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad saw an opportunity to expand his empire in the south by building rail lines and connecting short lines together into a grand network empire. The local southerners required financial tribute unless given exclusive work contracts to build these lines would use terrorist tactics developed during the war to destroy railroads. Yankee Tom Scott, plutocrat, Republican, funded the KKK through these contracts.

Scott lost his own war with Exxon-founder John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately lost his empire to Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Standard Oil was never adverse funding terrorists, and continued the first KKK so long as it was useful. Ultimately the contracts were finished and the support fizzled for the old KKK. The second KKK was also funded by the plutocrats: Northern Yankee Republicans, in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s. It was not a southern thing. The largest membership of any state KKK was in Henry Ford's Michigan. KKK rallies were held on (Republican) Coors Brewery property in Colorado and recruitment of Silvershirts was open in Henry Ford factories. You could not buy a Ford car without an Anti-Jew hate propaganda piece included with every sale, an example of genocidal hate hand in hand with Hitler's takeover of Germany. Ford made 35% of all the German army cars and trucks for the Blitzkreig, GM made 40%. Hitler kept a full-sized portrait of Henry Ford over his desk in his office. The American-Axis turned away a ship of German Jew Refugees back to the ovens, thanks to the plutocrats and their KKK.



The Republican Party became owned in the northern states by the plutocracy of the super-rich robber barons. Teddy Roosevelt fought Standard Oil and lost his presidency -- he tried to run on the Bull Moose Party because the Repugs threw him out for his anti-trust laws against the Rockefellers-Exxon empire. Increasingly the Repugs saw manipulation of the masses through "public relations" brainwashing.

Beginning in 1904 Rockefeller began heavy funding of Eugenics, in America, and in Germany. Rockefeller was funding German racial purity (KKK trademarked race hate) when Adolph Hitler was a little boy in the first grade. The American Eugenics (race hate, poor hate) movement was filled with rich republicans who sponsored the rise of the SECOND KKK movement. This movement continued democrat in the south out of laziness but lost the democratic party when civil rights and Martin Luther King became public issues. Yes democrats hosed the blacks at first, but ultimately a southerner Texas Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, pushed his Great Society agenda and cleaved the democratic party from the KKK once and for all.

Racists moved to the Republican party and for the first time since the Civil War, repugs began winning elections in the south.

The SOUTHERN STRATEGY is now NATIONWDE...

Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[2] but merely popularized it.[3] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[4]

The Repugs use blatantly racist, race-hating, race-baiting methods to get out the angry white vote nationwide. And don't be surprised that the tobacco organized crime mafia is behind the scenes too... after all they are the original slave plantation fortunes that helped create the KKK both times for their own benefit and profit.

THEY ARE STIRRING UP SHIT.



Yes, it takes more words to explain Couter's mob-stirring hatefest rousing a murderous instinct to SMASH the democrats, but ultimately we will win and punish her to the maximum.



LINK to this: http://goo.gl/SHn0T

Reply to Ann Coulter posted: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43915&s=rcme

Officer Shoots White Supremacist Gang Suspect

Man out on bond for armed robbery

Updated: Thursday, 14 Apr 2011, 7:02 AM MDT

MESA, Ariz. - A Mesa police officer shot and wounded a suspect with known ties to a white supremacist gang while attempting to take him into custody.  The shooting occurred Wednesday night at a motel near Sossaman and Main Street. The Mesa gang task force was acting on information that an armed robbery suspect who had skipped out on a $25,000 bond was staying at the Broadview Motel.

Police said they talked to the 20-year-old suspect through the door and window, and he became angry, yelling he wasn't going back to jail. Officers said the suspect came outside and confronted officers and encouraged them to shoot him. When the suspect made a threatening move, an officer fired. Police said the man is expected to survive his injuries.

Another person inside the motel also had a warrant for their arrest, but that person was not injured. No officers were injured.

White Supremacist yesterday's FBI raids pleads not guilty in federal court

Suspect in yesterday's FBI raids pleads not guilty in federal court

WHITMAN COUNTY, Wash. -- A man with ties to white supremacy groups was arrested Wednesday while FBI agents raided two of his properties near Pullman, Wash. Jeremiah Hop pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday morning to gun possession charges.

Agents raided a trailer in Pullman and a barn in Colton. People watched the arrest of Jeremiah Hop in the parking lot of a Pullman restaurant.

Hop was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is also a convicted child rapist and linked to white supremacist groups. He wrote on a Neo-Nazi website called Stormfront using the screen name White Phoenix. He references targeting Coeur d'Alene taco shops which police have been investigating for months.

Pullman police are also connecting Hop to a string of burglaries in that area.

"When we came in earlier with them we saw that they believe to be several pieces of possible stolen property from different burglaries from the last three months to three years," said Pullman Detective Sergeant Dan Hargraves.

Agents took a computer and two rifles from a barn in Colton. Pullman police seized more than 20 items from the trailer. Hop is expected to be in a Spokane federal courtroom Thursday morning.

Agents say the case is on-going but is not related to the Downtown Spokane MLK parade bombing attempt.

FBI: WA man with racist ties arrested on gun count

The FBI says a Washington man with racist ties has been arrested on a federal gun charge. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, FBI office supervisor Don Robinson said Jeremiah Daniel Hop was arrested Wednesday. A grand jury indicted the man on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Pullman Man Enters Plea On Fed Weapons Charge

While additional federal charges might be on the horizon, Hop could be facing charges from the Pullman Police. Following the federal search of his properties, the Pullman Police Department executed two additional search warrants on his trailer and barn.

Pullman police had accompanied federal agents on the initial search of the property and observed what they thought was stolen property. Once the federal agents were done with their search, Pullman police secured additional warrants for a search to seize stolen property.Pullman Police Sergeant Dan Hargraves said Thursday morning that officers recovered more than 20 stolen items, mostly tools and electronics, that totaled more than $5,000 in value. Sergeant Hargraves said the stolen goods came from a residential burglary in January and a commercial burglary a year and a half ago.Hargraves said the police department would be requesting felony charges against Hop regarding the stolen property.

The threat of America's nativist far right

While Peter King holds hearings on homegrown jihadists, the growing menace of white supremacist terror goes unremarked

Nineteen of those killed were aged under five in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which before 9/11 was the deadliest terrorist attack in US history. Photograph: Porter/Keystone USA/Rex Features

As emerging reports would have it, Kevin William Harpham, 36, who is accused of setting a bomb to go off at the Martin Luther King Jr Day parade in Spokane, Washington, was yet another "lone wolf" terrorist, acting at his own behest and on his own behalf. Even groups on the racist, radical far right that so clearly inspired him are rushing to disown and denounce the indicted man. Regardless of whether he was a "member" of an organised group, there can yet be no doubt that Harpham saw himself as part of a movement – one that has an especially broad reach in the age of Obama, and roots as deep as American culture itself.

The vision of a black president has given the racist far right one of its biggest boosts since the civil rights era of the 1960s. Figures toted up by the Southern Poverty Law Centre suggest a dramatic rise in the numbers of organized groups: their numbers grew by 40% from 2008 to 2009, and an additional 22% from 2009 to 2010, bringing the total to 2,145 groups. It's difficult to know precisely what these numbers mean, since these groups are constantly changing names, dissolving, reforming or springing up, and few of them maintain public membership rolls. What is nonetheless clear is that a strong far right movement has re-emerged, and what unites it is the age-old American doctrine of nativism, born out of fear of some dark outsider sneaking in to steal the white man's homeland and his hegemony.

Nativist thinkers are spread all over the map, but the strongest current comes in the form of the Sovereign Citizen movement, or what used to be called the Posse Comitatus and before the posse, the Silver Shirts. For the old Posse adherents and their contemporary progeny, the white Aryan man is the only true "sovereign" over his land and his life. White women serve beneath him; black and brown "mud people" are menials worthy only of disdain; and Jews (who do not qualify as white) are usually behind it all, running the economic and financial systems through a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. They do not admit to being subject to the laws and dicates of the US government; they eschew social security, cars and drivers' licences, and won't pay taxes.

For the true sovereign, the sheriff is the highest legitimate law enforcement official in the land, and a jury of his (white male) peers the only legitimate government body. These beliefs are underpinned by the religion of Christian Identity, which claim white sovereigns are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, who on their long trek out of the Middle East made their way up through Scotland and Ireland over to the United States.

Different facets of the nativist movement have enjoyed periodic heydeys in 20th-century America – first in the 1910s and 20s, when anti-immigrant sentiments were rife and membership in the Ku Klux Klan reached more than 2m. In the 1930s and 1940s, they penetrated the edges of the political mainstream through figures like Father Charles Coughlin, who was the Glenn Beck of his day. A Catholic priest and radio personality, Coughlin was at once enormously popular and virulently antisemitic and anti-New Deal. His ally Gerald LK Smith, leader of the Share Our Wealth campaign, was evocative of some of today's more extreme Tea Party candidates.

The Klans and related groups had another resurgence in response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In the 1980s, groups like the Posse, which drew together white supremacy and Christian Identity with anti-government "patriot" sentiments, found particularly fertile ground for recruitment among dispossessed Midwestern farmers. While figures like David Duke ran for political office, others, like the violent group The Order, carried out bombings, bank robberies and murders, and engaged in blazing shootouts with federal agents, all in service of their plan to build a white homeland.

After the Oklahoma City bombing, with its perpetrators' ties to the militia movement (and, most likely, to other far right groups as well), the movement tended to dig in further underground. Just as Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were deemed to be acting alone, the periodic bursts of far right violence – whether they be an attempted bombing, the murder of an abortion doctor, attacks on undocumented immigrants or on Muslims, or the shooting of a congresswoman – are attributed to "lone wolves" rather than to organised plots by any particular group. Yet the distinction belies the reality of a movement that has long encouraged its adherents to act in "leaderless resistance" cells or carry out one-man guerrilla attacks (and become celebrated as "Phineas Priests", named for the Bible story of a man who executed an interracial couple).

The alleged MLK Day parade bomber, Kevin William Harpham, may or may not have consider himself a lone wolf if, as he is accused, he put together a backpack bomb laden with shrapnel dipped in rat poison to induce bleeding and placed it on the route of the parade. But there can be little doubt as to where his inspiration came from. Bill Morlin, formerly a reporter for the Spokane Spokesman-Review and now an independent investigator, traced Harpham's background in a comprehensive report for the publication Hatewatch. In the military, Harpham was stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington, home base for 320 far right wingers. He was once a member of the racist far right National Alliance, and had left various postings on extremist websites suggesting he had had enough of the "international Jewish conspiracy", which, among other things, he held responsible for 9/11.

Leonard Zeskind, a leading expert on the radical far right and author, says that today, "the main tendency of organisations is mainstreaming … The movement imperative is towards the Tea Parties, running for office, anti-immigrant mongering – not roadside bombs." None of this, of course, prevents people from being "recruited" to their ideas and choosing to act on them. One far right leader said much the same in an interview following the attempted bombing in Spokane. "There are many aspects to the white supremacist movement," Shaun Winkler, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK in Idaho, told a local television station. "There are those of us that are on the political side, and there are those of us that are revolutionary. It sounds as if this individual was on the revolutionary end rather than the political. And there are a lot of lone wolves out there. People that are sympathetic to us, but people that we don't know."

Historically, federal law enforcement has given little credence to the power of the nativist current in American society, and has paid relatively little attention to the activities of nativist groups. That has perhaps changed since the election of Barack Obama, whose presidency has so focused and emboldened the racist far right. Yet, despite their obvious threat, there are no competitors to Peter King, holding congressional hearings on the recruitment of homegrown jihadist terrorists.

O'Reilly's Amnesia on Right-Wing Terror

Oh, we thought Fascists were Prescott Bush's Liberal friends...

by Steve Rendall for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

Published orginally on the F.A.I.R. website on Friday, 11 March 2011

O'Reilly and his colleagues just don't care about right-wing domestic terrorism...

While defending Rep. Peter King's (R.-N.Y.) congressional hearings on domestic Muslim extremism, Bill O'Reilly (3/9/11) scoffed at the notion that the biggest domestic terror threats in the U.S. come from the "radical right" and not from homegrown Muslims. After playing a clip of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok making that argument, O'Reilly responded:

Are you kidding me? The radical right? The last terror act assigned to them was the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

In reality, acts of political violence connected to the far right are a regular occurrence. To make his claim, O'Reilly even had to overlook at least two domestic terror acts apparently inspired by his Fox News colleague Glenn Beck.

In July 2010 Beck devotee Byron Williams shot two California Highway Patrol officers when they stopped him on his way, as he later told police, to kill people at the Oakland California offices of the progressive Tides Foundation and the ACLU. Byron cited Beck, who journalist John Hamilton pointed out had aired anti-Tides commentaries on 29 separate editions of his Fox News show, as an inspiration.

Furthermore, the ADL reported that Pittsburgh's Richard Poplawski--who was arrested after a shootout with police that left three officers dead--was so inspired by Beck's anti-government conspiracy theories he posted to a neo-Nazi website tape of Beck suggesting the government was building concentration camps for dissidents.

And how could O'Reilly forget Jim Adkisson, who shot and killed two people at a progressive Tennessee church in 2008? In his "manifesto," Adkisson wrote that he "wanted to kill...every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book." (These days, Adkisson inspiration Bernard Goldberg is best known for his regular appearances on the O'Reilly Factor.)

But there's more. What about anti-abortion terrorist Eric Rudolph, who killed two and injured scores in bombings carried out between 1996 and 1998, including attacks at women's health clinics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?

And far-right racist and anti-Semite James von Brunn, who took a rifle to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. in June 2009, shooting to death a security guard before he was stopped by police?

Perhaps O'Reilly doesn't consider Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion activist who murdered women's health provider Dr. George Tiller, a terrorist. After all, before his May 2009 murder, O'Reilly and his guests had demonized Tiller in 27 separate editions of his show, with the host dubbing Tiller a "killer" and accusing him of "Nazi stuff."

On January 17, city workers in Spokane, Washington, found a sophisticated bomb set to go off along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day march. Of course, there's a chance O'Reilly hasn't heard about this; the single mention O'Reilly's network has made of the crime was in a 100-word rip-and-read (Special Report, 1/18/11) the day after the march.

Then there's also the possibility that O'Reilly and his colleagues just don't care about right-wing domestic terrorism--especially when the news might undermine Muslim-bashing congressional hearings they do care about. On Wednesday, the day before King's congressional witch hunt began, federal officials arrested white supremacist Kevin William Harpham for attempting to use a "weapon of mass destruction" in the Spokane terror crime. To this point, the arrest has not been mentioned on Fox News.

A Whole Lot of Lone Nuts

01/12/2011 by Jim Naureckas

Right-wing pundits have come out vociferously against the idea that they, their colleagues and the political movement they identify with have anything to answer for in the wake of the Tucson massacre.

David Brooks (New York Times, 1/11/11) asserted that "the evidence before us suggests that [shooting suspect Jared] Loughner was locked in a world far removed from politics as we normally understand it," rejecting as "vicious charges" the notion that the gunman "unleashed his rampage because he was incited by the violent rhetoric of the Tea Party, the anti-immigrant movement and Sarah Palin." George Will (Washington Post, 1/11/11) bitterly denounced the "political opportunism" of "charlatans" who subscribe to the "superstition that all behavior can be traced to some diagnosable frame of mind that is a product of promptings from the social environment." Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post, 1/12/11) insisted that "there is no evidence that he was responding to anything, political or otherwise, outside of his own head," marveling that those who suggest otherwise would make a charge "so reckless, so scurrilous and so unsupported by evidence."

It's comforting to think that evil-doers exist in a vacuum, and the evil that they do has no relation to anyone else. Dismissing Loughner as a lone nut, however, is much more difficult when one considers the startling number of incidents of political violence in the last few years. From a lengthy list of violent events and reckless rhetoric compiled by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, I've excerpted the cases that involved gunfire or other overtly deadly acts; the complete timeline includes numerous other episodes in which police disrupted violent plans before they were carried out:

July 27, 2008--Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it "a symbolic killing" because he really "wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book," but was unable to gain access to them....

April 4, 2009--Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on its way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.” Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna stand by what his forefathers told him to do."...

April 25, 2009--Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia groups and weapons training."...

May 31, 2009--Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka, Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate. Police found a military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car....

June 10, 2009--James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a “hardcore Neo-Nazi,” walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and shoots and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western civilization was going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI GOVERNMENT” that would “confiscate private weapons” in order to accomplish its goals....

July 13, 2009--Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County, Texas, with an assault rifle. Police were responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at utility workers in the area. Police searching Ortez's mobile home after a 10-hour standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi drawings and extremist literature; and several additional firearms....

December 23, 2009--Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns, including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that includes convictions for lewd and lascivious behavior with a 13-year-old and attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government taking over the right to bear arms."...

February 18, 2010--Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing one and wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with the federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer."...

March 4, 2010--John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels to Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the entrance to the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic firearms and "many [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers before he is killed by return fire. Reports reveal Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the U.S. government had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963 coup. In an Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control."...

March 23, 2010--After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop by," someone deliberately cuts a propane gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is targeted by the Tea Party activists because of his vote in favor of health care reform. Perriello's brother and his wife have four children under the age of eight....

April 7, 2010--Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker over for a traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun and escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American citizen." ...

May 20, 2010--Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally shoot two Arkansas police officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed during an exchange of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90 minutes later. Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for driving with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance scams....

July 18, 2010--California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams, 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired. Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that he was on his way to San Francisco to "start a revolution" by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says her son was angry at "Left-wing politicians" and upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."...

July 30, 2010--Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64, is charged with robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle. Investigators follow Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms: Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen from the range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also arrested and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the purpose of overthrowing the federal government."...

August 17, 2010--Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to ignite gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his truck. Sharp is armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an exchange of gunfire with police arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate, Eric McClellan describes him as "a great guy" and states, "We're Texans. We have a right to bear arms."...

September 1, 2010--James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with two starter pistols and four improvised explosive devices. After pointing a gun at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical environmental activist, had previously issued 11 demands through a webpage that Discovery was to meet "immediately." The demands involved the content of programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"...

October 22, 2010--Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for a missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He told us to get off the property or he would kill us all." Later that afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search warrant and an armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens fire on the vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot and kill him. Police find guns and "many rounds of ammunition" in Granger's house. They also find the body of Clements, buried in a shallow grave on Granger's property....

January 8, 2011--Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal Judge John Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the head. Loughner has an extensive history of mental illness and substance abuse, yet is able to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity ammunition magazine legally at Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video posted in December 2010, Loughner states, "You don’t have to accept the federalist laws.... Nonetheless, read the United States of America's Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws."

These individuals no doubt have a range of relationships to reality, and their ideologies may likewise vary from Tea Party orthodoxy to idiosyncratic conspiracy mania. (One person on the list appears to be a genuine ecoterrorist.) But it's hard to deny that this seems like a remarkable amount of political violence in a little more than two-and-a-half years. (This impression is bolstered statistically by reports that the Secret Service has had to deal with a 400 percent increase in threats against the president, that U.S. Marshals are facing double the number of threats against judges and prosecutors, and that Capitol Police found that threats against congressmembers tripled in the first quarter of 2010.)

Even more strikingly, this violence corresponds to a period that has seen a major change in the boundaries of political rhetoric from both pundits and politicians. A major media figures like Glenn Beck (Fox News, 2/20/09) can now fantasize about "citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the U.S. government"--and he could declare that government officials bent on forcibly vaccinating his children are going to "meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson." People with regular slots on major networks didn't use to talk this way. Nor did major-party Senate candidates declare that "people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies." (See the Coalition's complete list for many other examples of media and political figures evoking violence in explicit, non-metaphorical statements.)

People who insist that the Tucson massacre has nothing to do with any of this are engaged in a desperate and dangerous denial.

Tags: Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, George Will, Glenn Beck, Jared Loughner, Tucson

Lone Wolves: A Recent History of Violent Right-Wing Extremism

March 11, 2011 9:46 am ET by David Holthouse

Yesterday, as conservative media hyped the commencement of Rep. Peter King's contentious hearings on Muslim radicalization in America, details continued to emerge about Kevin William Hardham, the 36-year-old Army field artillery veteran accused of planting a "weapon of mass destruction," along the route of a Martin Luther King Day unity parade route in Spokane, Washington earlier this year.

The backpack bomb Hardham allegedly planted contained shrapnel dipped in rat poison. It was discovered just minutes before hundreds of MLK Day marchers arrived. Hardham appears to have a long track record of fantasizing about politically and racially motivated violence in various online extremist forums.

The attempted MLK Day bombing in Spokane was hardly an isolated incident. Right-wing domestic terrorist plots and extremist violence are on the rise in America. Earlier this year the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) released a report analyzing domestic terrorism statistics reported by the FBI and other crime agencies since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The MPAC report shows that since 9/11, right-wing extremists including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have been involved in 63 domestic terror plots, while radical Muslims have been involved in 45.

Meanwhile, the number of hate groups tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) topped 1,000 this year for the first time since the SPLC began counting such groups in the mid 1980s, and the resurgent antigovernment militia movement is exploding, with more than 300 new groups forming in the last year alone.

SPLC Intelligence Project director Mark Potok attributes this dramatic increase in right-wing extremist activity to three factors: "Resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the government's handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and other demonizing propaganda aimed at various minorities."

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Below is a list of some of the right-wing extremist terror plots and violence from recent years.

July 27, 2008

Unemployed truck driver Jim David Adkisson opens fire on the congregation of a Unitarian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing two people and seriously wounding six. Adkisson tells police he targeted the congregation because its members included gay men and mixed-race couples. A suicide note that Adkisson left in his car outside the church describes the attack as a "hate crime," "a political protest," and "a symbolic killing."

"I'd like to encourage other like-minded people to do what I've done," Adkisson wrote. "If life ain't worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. Do something for your country. Go kill liberals."

Adkisson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

October 22, 2008

Two white power skinheads are arrested for allegedly plotting a multi-state robbery and murder spree that would have culminated in an attempt to assassinate then-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, were later charged with conspiracy, possessing a sawed-off shotgun and threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm upon a major presidential candidate. Both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 14 years and 10 years, respectively.

The skinheads told police they formulated their plot in Bells, Arkansas, after shooting out the windows of a black church. According to a written statement they provided to investigators, the skinheads planned to rob gun stores and kill 88 non-whites, beheading 14 of their victims.

Those numbers are significant in the white supremacist movement. Eighty-eight stands for "Heil Hitler," as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. The number 14 refers to the number of words in the white supremacist catchphrase coined by domestic terrorist David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

"The final thing we had discussed was dressing in white tuxs [tuxedos] with a top hat and trying to assassinate Obama. We did not plan on living past that day," Cowart wrote in his statement. "One day, while riding in my car, Paul told me that he wanted to go to a predominately [predominantly] black school and kill as many as he could."

A Secret Service agent testified at Cowart's sentencing hearing that in dozens of chat messages found on his computer he discussed wanting to kill African-Americans and start a race war.

December 9, 2008

Law enforcement investigators find radioactive materials and other components for making a "dirty bomb" in the home of Belfast, Maine neo-Nazi James Cummings after Cummings is shot to death by his wife, who told police she killed her husband after years of physical and mental abuse.

According to an FBI field intelligence report from the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center, investigators found containers of uranium, thorium, lithium metal, thermite, aluminum powder, beryllium, boron, black iron oxide and magnesium ribbon, along with neo-Nazi materials, including a completed application to join the National Socialist Movement, a major neo-Nazi group.

A local painter who worked inside the Cummings residence earlier in 2008 told police that Cummings expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and showed off the swastika flag hanging in the house.

Amber Cummings reportedly told police that her husband was "very upset" over the election of President Obama, was in contact with white supremacist groups, and had been mixing chemicals in their kitchen sink.

January 21, 2009

Brockton, Massachussets neo-Nazi Keith Luke is arrested after shooting three immigrants from Cape Verde, killing two of them. Luke tells police that he is "fighting for a dying race," and that the shootings were just the first stage of his plan for a killing spree. A police report states that he had planned to go to an Orthodox synagogue to "kill as many Jews as possible during bingo night." Luke is being held without bail, awaiting trial for murder, attempted murder, armed kidnapping, and gun charges.

January 22, 2009

Police in Mobile, Alabama discover a "cache of explosives" in the home of white power skinhead Thomas Hayward Lewis during a search conducted after Lewis was arrested for spray-painting swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans on a Messianic Jewish place of worship. The graffiti included "Hitler was right," "Juden raus (German for "Jews get out)," and references to Combat 18, a violent neofascist group based in the United Kingdom that promotes "lone wolf" terrorism. Lewis pleaded guilty to damaging religious property and illegal possession of an explosives device. He was sentenced earlier this year to one year in prison.


April 4, 2009

Richard Poplawski, a 23-year-old neo-Nazi with an Iron Eagle tattooed on his chest, murders three police officers in Pittsburgh. The Iron Eagle was a symbol of the Nazi Party under Hitler. According to police, Poplawski, wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an AK-47, ambushed three officers responding to a domestic disturbance call. Friends and relatives said Poplawski, who posted frequently to the white supremacist website Stormfront, was convinced that Jews controlled the media and that President Obama was going to seize his arsenal of firearms.

"The federal government, mainstream media, and banking system in these United States are strongly under the influence of- if not completely controlled by- Zionist interests," Poplawski wrote on Stormfront. "An economic collapse of the financial system is inevitable, bringing with it some degree of civil unrest if not outright balkanization of the continental US, civil/revolutionary/racial war, etc. Let comfort and convenience be damned, and I will welcome the hardship and embrace the pain secure in the knowledge that our people will rise above and overcome our darkest days."

Poplawski is scheduled to stand trial next month.

May 23, 2009

Anti-government militiaman Joshua Cartwright kills two sheriff's deputies in Okaloosa County, Florida, after they attempt to arrest him on domestic violence charges at a local gun club. After killing the two deputies, Cartwright fled the scene. His vehicle crashed and flipped during a high-speed chase. When Cartwright began firing out the rear window of his wrecked truck, sheriff's deputes returned fire, killing him. According to a police report, Cartwright's wife said he ""believed that the US Government was conspiring against him. She said he had been severely disturbed that Barack Obama had been elected President."

May 30, 2009

Shawna Forde, the leader of Minuteman American Defense, a nativist border vigilante group, leads the home invasion robbery of a man that Forde and her two accomplices, MAD Operations Director Jason Bush and MAD member Albert Gaxiola, believe to be a drug trafficker.

During the robbery, Arivaca, Arizona resident Raul Flores is shot to death in cold blood along with his nine-year-old daughter, Brisenia. Flores' wife is also shot but survived by playing dead.

Forde's half-brother, Merill Metzger, later tells the Arizona Daily Star that shortly before the murders Forde started talking about forming an "underground militia" that would be funded by robbing drug dealers. "She was talking about starting a revolution against the United States government," he said.

Bush has longstanding ties to the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations, and told police that he and Forde discussed recruiting Aryan Nations members for their militia.

Forde was convicted of orchestrating the premeditated murders and sentenced to death last month.

May 31, 2009

Scott Roeder guns down George Tiller as the Wichita, Kansas doctor serves as an usher at his church. Tiller was the director of Women's Health Care Services, a clinic that performed abortions among providing other health services.

Roeder had a long history of involvement with right wing extremist groups, including the Christian anti-government group the Freeman militia as well as the anti-abortion group Army of God, which advocates the use of violence as an anti-abortion tactic. Previously, Roeder had planned to bomb an abortion clinic.

Scott Roeder was convicted of first degree murder on January 29th, 2010. He received a life sentence.

June 10, 2009

Longtime white supremacist James von Brunn opens fire with a rifle just inside the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard. Prior to the Holocaust museum shooting, von Brunn was best known for attempting to takeover the Federal Reserve building in 1981 armed with a sawed-off shotgun. Brunn, who died in jail last year while awaiting trial, was friends with the late white supremacist leader Ben Klassen, who founded the virulently racist Church of the Creator. Brunn referred to Klassen as an "Aryan genius."


March 28 to March 30, 2010

Nine members of the Hutaree Militia, a "Christian Patriot" group, are arrested in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. According to a federal indictment, the militia members engaged in paramilitary training in perpetration for an apocalyptic battle with the forces of the Antichrist, who they believed would include local, state and federal law enforcement officers. The indictment charged the militia members with plotting to kill a randomly selected police officer in Michigan, and then detonate improvised explosive devices at the officer's funeral. Searches of Hutaree Militia residences turned up weapons, explosives, a Hitler tract and an audio version of The Turner Diaries, the race war novel written by William Pierce, founder of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance, that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh cited as inspiration.

A federal judge has set the trial date for September 13th.

May 20, 2010

Two police officers in West Memphis, Ark. are shot to death after pulling over a minivan driven by self-declared "Sovereign Citizen" Jerry Kane, with his son in the passenger seat. (Sovereign Citizen adherents deny the legitimacy of the federal government and subscribe to a bizarre alchemy of conspiracy theories popular among right-wing extremists. Notorious advocates of sovereign citizens ideology include Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and the now defunct Montana Freemen, a violent militia outfit.)

As the officers puzzled over a stack of handmade identification documents Jerry Kane provided, 16-year-old Joseph Kane burst from the minivan firing an AK-47. Both officers were killed. Jerry and Joseph Kane died about 90 minutes later during a gun battle in a Wal-Mart parking lot in which two other officers were wounded.

A subsequent investigation revealed the father-and-son team had been traveling the country, delivering seminars on Sovereign Citizen ideology. "I don't want to have to kill anybody," Jerry Kane said at seminar not long before the West Memphis shootings. "But if they keep messing with me that's what it's going to have to come down to."

July 18, 2010

According to a police investigation, Byron Williams opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers who had stopped him on an Oakland freeway for driving erratically. For 12 frantic minutes, Williams traded shots with the police, employing three firearms and a small arsenal of ammunition, including armor-piercing rounds fired from a .308-caliber rifle. In an affidavit, an Oakland police investigator reported that during an interview at the hospital, Williams "stated that his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU."

March 9, 2011

Kevin William Harpham is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an improvised explosive device in relation to the attempted bombing of an Martin Luther King Day parade. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Harpham was previously a member of the National Alliance, an infamous neo-Nazi organization although it's unclear whether he's still a card-carrying member.

An individual identifying himself Kevin Harpham made several posting on the anti-Semitic website Vanguard News Network, including a March 2008 post to a VNN discussion titled, "Violent Revolution Against ZOG." [ZOG stands for "Zionist Occupied Government.]

"Niggers will provide the chaos that consumes the state and federal resources to the point that it can't police all of it. Hopefully by then there will be more of us and we will be able to take some form of action to gain control of the pockets we will have been pushed back into," Harpham wrote. "Just make sure you clean that pocket up real good. Arrest a few every day starting with the former police, political leaders and pastors and then bury them during the night."