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december 8, 2018
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin
David Cross: “At least 25% of America has always been ignorant, racist, xenophobic and backwards, people prone to demagoguery. That’s not a surprise,” he says. “The surprise is that there’s this loud, brash, arrogant narcissist giving these people a voice and making them feel proud.”
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Mark Twain: “How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ‘American’ before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? It is really too easy a disguise for our shortcomings to dress them up as a form of patriotism!”
white trash's america
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
...white Americans have lived in a country where the celerity with which they mask their racism matters as much as the color of their skin. One might look forward, unhappily, to white conservatives disassociating themselves from this massacre by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white trash"—meaning, in effect, that they've profited enough from their racism that they can afford to dress it up better; or look forward to white liberals disassociating themselves by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white conservative" hypocrites—meaning, in effect, that they've profited enough from their racism that they can afford to dress it up better still; or to white leftists disassociating themselves by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white liberal" hypocrites.
Why Are White Racists Always Called “White Trash"?
By Frank Guan
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Headlines: ignorance, racism, and stupidity america's trinity
of the bottom 70%
the people who make-up the shithole
(sources: raw story, politicus usa, daily kos)
*‘Crying Nazi’ threatens more violence after conviction of Heather Heyer’s killer: An ‘army of fanatics willing to die’
Christopher Cantwell, who was also charged for his role in the Charlottesville alt-right gathering, lashed out at the “left” following the conviction of Heather Heyer's killer.
*Trump-loving conspiracy nuts are convinced the president will conduct mass arrest of foes at Bush funeral Believers in QAnon are very excited by some of the developments they’re seeing at former President George H.W. Bush’s funeral. As the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reports, many QAnon believers have ma
*‘I’ll drown you’: White teen brutally attacks and ‘waterboards’ Syrian refugee classmate
*Huntington Beach man busted with ‘arsenal’ and Nazi gear after threatening customer: report
A man in Huntington Beach, California, was busted with an “arsenal” of 50 weapons and a trove of Nazi memorabilia.
*‘Lynch them all’: Shockingly racist video emerges of NC teens ranting about food stamps and rap music
*Bill O’Reilly says CNN is like ‘totalitarian’ regime after network slams Trump over teargassing of migrant family Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly accused CNN of being like a “totalitarian” regime because the network aired a photo of a migrant family fleeing from teargas.
*South African white nationalist who marched in Charlottesville tells CNN that Trump is his ‘ray of hope’
Simon Roche, a white nationalist from South Africa who demonstrated with neo-Nazis at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017, tells CNN that President Donald Trump is his “ray of hope” for the future.
*Fox News guest rails against ‘criminalizing private emails’ after Ivanka is busted using personal account
*Megachurch pastor faces aggravated harassment charges for blackmailing model with explicit videos
*Two men arrested for robbing fire station battling catastrophic California blaze
Firefighters continue to battle the catastrophic “Camp Fire” blaze in northern California that has claimed at least 77 lives and destroyed over 11,900 residences. Meanwhile, these men are doing their part to make things even worse.
Megachurch volunteer caught on film molesting a toddler at church may have hurt 13 other kids — in the last 3 months
Noor Al-Sibai- raw story
03 DEC 2018 AT 21:31 ET
A volunteer at a megachurch in South Carolina has been accused of abusing at least 13 other children in a three-month timespan — and was caught on camera molesting a three-year-old inside the church.
The Christian Post reported that officials at Charleston, SC’s NewSpring Church were “gutted” to learn about the sexual abuse allegations against 28-year-old volunteer chaperone and daycare worker Jacop Hazlett.
“We want our NewSpring family to know that as the leaders of this church we are gutted by these events,” a statement provided by NewSpring communications director Suzanne Swift said. “We know this happened on our watch, and though we have taken great measures over the years to protect our children, evil found a way to breach our best efforts.”
The report noted that during his Sunday sermon, Teaching Pastor Brad Cooper referenced Satan when discussing the Hazlett allegations.
“We will not let the enemy cause us to back up, to cower, to insulate ourselves,” he said the Sunday after the allegations came to light.
Joshua Slavin, the lawyer who represents the family of the three-year-old Hazlett was reportedly filmed abusing, said there may be more victims than they’re aware of.
“There could be countless victims out there,” he said. “We only know of 14 from the last 90 days.”
When the news was first reported, Charleston’s Post-Courier newspaper reported that news of Hazlett’s alleged abuse came soon after NewSpring associate Caleb Lide Jordan was charged with soliciting sex with a minor.
The Christian Post reported that officials at Charleston, SC’s NewSpring Church were “gutted” to learn about the sexual abuse allegations against 28-year-old volunteer chaperone and daycare worker Jacop Hazlett.
“We want our NewSpring family to know that as the leaders of this church we are gutted by these events,” a statement provided by NewSpring communications director Suzanne Swift said. “We know this happened on our watch, and though we have taken great measures over the years to protect our children, evil found a way to breach our best efforts.”
The report noted that during his Sunday sermon, Teaching Pastor Brad Cooper referenced Satan when discussing the Hazlett allegations.
“We will not let the enemy cause us to back up, to cower, to insulate ourselves,” he said the Sunday after the allegations came to light.
Joshua Slavin, the lawyer who represents the family of the three-year-old Hazlett was reportedly filmed abusing, said there may be more victims than they’re aware of.
“There could be countless victims out there,” he said. “We only know of 14 from the last 90 days.”
When the news was first reported, Charleston’s Post-Courier newspaper reported that news of Hazlett’s alleged abuse came soon after NewSpring associate Caleb Lide Jordan was charged with soliciting sex with a minor.
‘Damn straight I support white pride’: Far-right organizer Haley Adams embraces white nationalism in exclusive interview
Arun Gupta - raw story
20 NOV 2018 AT 05:24 ET
During the latest gathering of far-right extremists in Portland, Oregon, Haley Adams, a member of the violence-prone Patriot Prayer, revealed her white-nationalist leanings in an interview.
Adams organized the “#HimToo” rally on November 17 in downtown Portland that drew a few dozen supporters and more than 300 anti-fascist counter-protesters. She announced the event in the wake of nomination hearings for Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Adams says the Him Too movement started because “There’s a war on men” who are being “falsely accused, slandered, attacked and harassed at their homes.”
Adams says she is a “civil rights activist.” At the rally, she rejected gender equality. She told the gathering, “Men and women are different. We have different roles.”
After the rally, Adams was asked about comments she’s made on social media in support of “white pride.” She embraced it, saying, “Damn straight I support white pride. I support my race.” When she was described as a supporter of white nationalism, Adams didn’t dispute it, saying, “Everyone should be supportive of their own race.”
Adams was interviewed while walking through Portland with a small contingent of Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. The FBI considers the Proud Boys to be “an extremist group with ties to white nationalism,” according to newly revealed documents.
The far-right groups are intertwined in the Pacific Northwest. They overlap with andattract neo-Nazi, white supremacist and neo-Confederate groups — some responsible for deadly political violence. Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys use violence to recruit members. They’ve staged more than a dozen rallies in Portland since 2017, many ending in massive brawls with anti-fascists.
Violence was minimal this time, beyond a few bottles and smoke bombs hurled from the anti-fascist side. Portland police and Mayor Ted Wheeler have been slammed for failing to arrest far-right brawlers despite them openly vowing, committing, and bragging of violence.
The protest came days after Wheeler and the police brass backed a city ordinance to limit protests that was rejected by the City Council. A heavy police deployment separated the competing rallies, but fragmented once they began a cat-and-mouse game in the streets. Anti-fascists came face-to-face with the far-right groups repeatedly, mostly limiting themselves to chants such as “Nazis go home.” Six people were arrested.
Adams’s method of claiming universal values while spouting bigotry is lifted from Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson. He says the group can’t be racist because he is half-Japanese. Gibson frequently references Martin Luther King, Jr., to mainstream the group’s extremism.
Participants, when asked why they were there, said they were supporting “free speech.” The rally was not billed as a free-speech event, however. It’s aim was to highlight how men are supposedly victimized. More than 80 percent of attendees were men.
One older army veteran with a cane stood on the fringes. He said the #MeToo movement was “really touchy” for him because “There’s a lot of things that happen to men that shouldn’t happen. And there’s a lot of things that men do that shouldn’t happen.” He said, “I have complex PTSD. I had it in the army. I had it when I was growing up. People in my family were very abusive, mentally, physically.” Unable to continue talking, he apologized and walked away.
#MeToo is premised on men understanding the nature of sexual assault and harassment and taking responsibility for ending it. It includes prominent male celebrities such as Terry Crews who speak out against toxic masculinity and have told of being sexually abused themselves, and the ensuing humiliation and lack of accountability by perpetrators.
However, #HimToo was mostly about belittling #MeToo, women and sexual minorities. One speaker said, “The Me Too movement doesn’t represent us men. They force victimhood on women and castrate men who speak out against them.”
Participants decried, “The culture that’s being taught in universities about the toxic masculinity and trying to take the patriarchy down.” They favored “men as the head of the household, the way it’s been traditionally” and government regulating women’s bodies “if it would prevent abortion.”
Billy Sessions, who attended the deadly Unite the Right rally last year in Charlottesville along with his neo-Confederate group, the Hiwaymen, was invited from Arkansas to speak at #HimToo. He opposes same-sex couples because of his “Christian values. I believe in the Bible.” When asked what his opinion would be if a majority of voters in Oklahoma approved the killing of homosexuals according to biblical values, Sessions said, “Well, state’s rights, tenth amendment, if the people of the state of Oklahoma vote for it, it’s theirs.”
Gibson’s right-hand man, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a street fighter who has been filmed repeatedly assaulting counter-protesters in Portland but walks the streets there untouched, sneered at the LGBTQ community. He said, “You do whatever the hell you want to do, just don’t try to force me to respect that B.S., okay?”
The bigotry flowed in the park behind metal barriers guarded by scores of DHS and local police in riot gear and equipped with less-lethal weapons. Out in the streets, the far-right extremists were unnerved. They marched around confused whether to choose fight or flight as anti-fascists taunted them. Pointing at counter-protesters, Gibson screamed at them eight times, “You raped me.”
After a glass bottle smashed near the far-right group, Tiny yelled at police, “What do you want us to do?”
The police said, “Go home.”
Adams organized the “#HimToo” rally on November 17 in downtown Portland that drew a few dozen supporters and more than 300 anti-fascist counter-protesters. She announced the event in the wake of nomination hearings for Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Adams says the Him Too movement started because “There’s a war on men” who are being “falsely accused, slandered, attacked and harassed at their homes.”
Adams says she is a “civil rights activist.” At the rally, she rejected gender equality. She told the gathering, “Men and women are different. We have different roles.”
After the rally, Adams was asked about comments she’s made on social media in support of “white pride.” She embraced it, saying, “Damn straight I support white pride. I support my race.” When she was described as a supporter of white nationalism, Adams didn’t dispute it, saying, “Everyone should be supportive of their own race.”
Adams was interviewed while walking through Portland with a small contingent of Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. The FBI considers the Proud Boys to be “an extremist group with ties to white nationalism,” according to newly revealed documents.
The far-right groups are intertwined in the Pacific Northwest. They overlap with andattract neo-Nazi, white supremacist and neo-Confederate groups — some responsible for deadly political violence. Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys use violence to recruit members. They’ve staged more than a dozen rallies in Portland since 2017, many ending in massive brawls with anti-fascists.
Violence was minimal this time, beyond a few bottles and smoke bombs hurled from the anti-fascist side. Portland police and Mayor Ted Wheeler have been slammed for failing to arrest far-right brawlers despite them openly vowing, committing, and bragging of violence.
The protest came days after Wheeler and the police brass backed a city ordinance to limit protests that was rejected by the City Council. A heavy police deployment separated the competing rallies, but fragmented once they began a cat-and-mouse game in the streets. Anti-fascists came face-to-face with the far-right groups repeatedly, mostly limiting themselves to chants such as “Nazis go home.” Six people were arrested.
Adams’s method of claiming universal values while spouting bigotry is lifted from Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson. He says the group can’t be racist because he is half-Japanese. Gibson frequently references Martin Luther King, Jr., to mainstream the group’s extremism.
Participants, when asked why they were there, said they were supporting “free speech.” The rally was not billed as a free-speech event, however. It’s aim was to highlight how men are supposedly victimized. More than 80 percent of attendees were men.
One older army veteran with a cane stood on the fringes. He said the #MeToo movement was “really touchy” for him because “There’s a lot of things that happen to men that shouldn’t happen. And there’s a lot of things that men do that shouldn’t happen.” He said, “I have complex PTSD. I had it in the army. I had it when I was growing up. People in my family were very abusive, mentally, physically.” Unable to continue talking, he apologized and walked away.
#MeToo is premised on men understanding the nature of sexual assault and harassment and taking responsibility for ending it. It includes prominent male celebrities such as Terry Crews who speak out against toxic masculinity and have told of being sexually abused themselves, and the ensuing humiliation and lack of accountability by perpetrators.
However, #HimToo was mostly about belittling #MeToo, women and sexual minorities. One speaker said, “The Me Too movement doesn’t represent us men. They force victimhood on women and castrate men who speak out against them.”
Participants decried, “The culture that’s being taught in universities about the toxic masculinity and trying to take the patriarchy down.” They favored “men as the head of the household, the way it’s been traditionally” and government regulating women’s bodies “if it would prevent abortion.”
Billy Sessions, who attended the deadly Unite the Right rally last year in Charlottesville along with his neo-Confederate group, the Hiwaymen, was invited from Arkansas to speak at #HimToo. He opposes same-sex couples because of his “Christian values. I believe in the Bible.” When asked what his opinion would be if a majority of voters in Oklahoma approved the killing of homosexuals according to biblical values, Sessions said, “Well, state’s rights, tenth amendment, if the people of the state of Oklahoma vote for it, it’s theirs.”
Gibson’s right-hand man, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a street fighter who has been filmed repeatedly assaulting counter-protesters in Portland but walks the streets there untouched, sneered at the LGBTQ community. He said, “You do whatever the hell you want to do, just don’t try to force me to respect that B.S., okay?”
The bigotry flowed in the park behind metal barriers guarded by scores of DHS and local police in riot gear and equipped with less-lethal weapons. Out in the streets, the far-right extremists were unnerved. They marched around confused whether to choose fight or flight as anti-fascists taunted them. Pointing at counter-protesters, Gibson screamed at them eight times, “You raped me.”
After a glass bottle smashed near the far-right group, Tiny yelled at police, “What do you want us to do?”
The police said, “Go home.”
Cops evacuate neighborhood after finding ‘clandestine laboratory’ at home of Wisconsin neo-Nazi arrested for domestic violence
Noor Al-Sibai - thinkprogress
16 NOV 2018 AT 16:51 ET
A Wisconsin man arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and owning hazardous chemicals is known to police for his white supremacist leanings
stemming from a 2012 disorderly conduct charge.
Green Bay’s WSAW reported that a woman was found “hiding” in the home of 38-year-old Michael Tracy Anderson after he was arrested following a domestic disturbance call.
Police began following a car at the house Anderson lives in, the report noted, and saw a woman run out of the car and back into the house.
According to Green Bay Police Capt. Jeremy Muraski, the woman was “scantily clad” and not dressed for the state’s snowy conditions. Officers followed her into the house to do a wellness check and then found liquid and powder chemicals that are legal to possess on their own but could be used to make either explosives or meth.
The street Anderson lived on was closed off and evacuated for much of the day as the Green Bay Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team, the Brown/Outagamie County Bomb Squad and a SWAT team investigated to see if any bombs were at the residence. Authorities did not find any explosives during their search, the report noted.
Police photos from 2012 show Anderson with a number of white supremacist tattoos, including swastikas.
The report noted that a Facebook account believed to belong to the suspect contained “anti-Semitic content.” During a search, Raw Story found a profile under the name of a “Michael Anderson” who lives in Green Bay that resembles the suspect.
It contained a number of anti-Jewish and white supremacists posts, including an image resembling a swastika shaped into the letter “G” that said “Goyim Lives Matter,” a reference to the Yiddish term “goyim,” the plural of the word “goy” that means a non-Jewish person.
stemming from a 2012 disorderly conduct charge.
Green Bay’s WSAW reported that a woman was found “hiding” in the home of 38-year-old Michael Tracy Anderson after he was arrested following a domestic disturbance call.
Police began following a car at the house Anderson lives in, the report noted, and saw a woman run out of the car and back into the house.
According to Green Bay Police Capt. Jeremy Muraski, the woman was “scantily clad” and not dressed for the state’s snowy conditions. Officers followed her into the house to do a wellness check and then found liquid and powder chemicals that are legal to possess on their own but could be used to make either explosives or meth.
The street Anderson lived on was closed off and evacuated for much of the day as the Green Bay Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team, the Brown/Outagamie County Bomb Squad and a SWAT team investigated to see if any bombs were at the residence. Authorities did not find any explosives during their search, the report noted.
Police photos from 2012 show Anderson with a number of white supremacist tattoos, including swastikas.
The report noted that a Facebook account believed to belong to the suspect contained “anti-Semitic content.” During a search, Raw Story found a profile under the name of a “Michael Anderson” who lives in Green Bay that resembles the suspect.
It contained a number of anti-Jewish and white supremacists posts, including an image resembling a swastika shaped into the letter “G” that said “Goyim Lives Matter,” a reference to the Yiddish term “goyim,” the plural of the word “goy” that means a non-Jewish person.
‘Crying Nazi’ releases video game where users play Richard Spencer and kill reporters and LGBT people in Pulse-like club
Noor Al-Sibai - raw story
12 NOV 2018 AT 21:59 ET
An Angry Goy II mission where a soldier kills gays in a nightclub (left) and a still from a Christopher Cantwell video (right). Images via screengrab.
Infamous “Crying Nazi” Christopher Cantwell’s podcast has released a sequel to its 2017 white supremacist video game Angry Goy where users shoved Jews into ovens.
As noted by the Angry White Men blog, Angry Goy II allows users to play as Cantwell’s fellow Charlottesville white nationalist Richard Spencer, who is seen in the trailer burning leftist protesters with a lit Tiki torch.
“Angry Goy II is the season’s hit game for White males who have had it with Jewish bullshit,” Cantwell wrote on the “free speech” social network Gab. The site is now back online after its old host dropped it when it was revealed that the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter posted on it just before opening fire on the Tree of Life temple.
“Instead of taking out your frustrations on actual human beings, you can fight the mongrels and degenerates on your computer!” the Radical Agenda podcast creator wrote. “Use guns, knives, pepper spray, and more! Lay waste to wave after wave of shitdicks, shitskins, shitstains, and the kikes they serve.”
AWM noted that in one mission, players “break into a gay club, called the ‘LGBTQ+ Agenda HQ,’ and slaughter everyone inside.” The level is “eerily reminiscent” of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the report noted, and the “art” outside the virtual gay club include pro-pedophilia posters that reference the defunct NAMBLA group.
Another mission sees players shooting journalists at the “Fake News Network.”
“If a player fails to ‘save the West,’ they are treated to one of several “game over” sequences, including footage from the 2017 torture of a developmentally disabled white teen by several black assailants,” AWM noted. “One sequence shows a woman identified as a ‘Jewess’ claiming that ‘Europe has not yet learned to be multicultural.’ Another shows a small, transgender child talking about how they are ‘normal, just like everybody else.'”
The trailer for the first Angry Goy was so offensive, AWM noted, that YouTube pulled the video and issued a statement condemning hate speech.
As of press time, however, the trailer for Angry Goy II, released by “Wheel Maker Studios,” is still online.
As noted by the Angry White Men blog, Angry Goy II allows users to play as Cantwell’s fellow Charlottesville white nationalist Richard Spencer, who is seen in the trailer burning leftist protesters with a lit Tiki torch.
“Angry Goy II is the season’s hit game for White males who have had it with Jewish bullshit,” Cantwell wrote on the “free speech” social network Gab. The site is now back online after its old host dropped it when it was revealed that the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter posted on it just before opening fire on the Tree of Life temple.
“Instead of taking out your frustrations on actual human beings, you can fight the mongrels and degenerates on your computer!” the Radical Agenda podcast creator wrote. “Use guns, knives, pepper spray, and more! Lay waste to wave after wave of shitdicks, shitskins, shitstains, and the kikes they serve.”
AWM noted that in one mission, players “break into a gay club, called the ‘LGBTQ+ Agenda HQ,’ and slaughter everyone inside.” The level is “eerily reminiscent” of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the report noted, and the “art” outside the virtual gay club include pro-pedophilia posters that reference the defunct NAMBLA group.
Another mission sees players shooting journalists at the “Fake News Network.”
“If a player fails to ‘save the West,’ they are treated to one of several “game over” sequences, including footage from the 2017 torture of a developmentally disabled white teen by several black assailants,” AWM noted. “One sequence shows a woman identified as a ‘Jewess’ claiming that ‘Europe has not yet learned to be multicultural.’ Another shows a small, transgender child talking about how they are ‘normal, just like everybody else.'”
The trailer for the first Angry Goy was so offensive, AWM noted, that YouTube pulled the video and issued a statement condemning hate speech.
As of press time, however, the trailer for Angry Goy II, released by “Wheel Maker Studios,” is still online.
remember, he was reelected!!!
Steve King calls Mexican migrants ‘dirt,’ then caught in blatant lie denying the slur
Republicans' resident white supremacist dared the Weekly Standard to release the audio of his racist remarks. They did and King lied.
FRANK DALE - thinkprogress
NOV 11, 2018, 9:55 AM
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a white supremacist who also happens to be a member of Congress, survived the toughest re-election challenge of his 15-year career in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
You may have missed it while voting, but the Iowa Republican recently referred to immigrants as “dirt” during a campaign event.
The Weekly Standard reported on Tuesday that King, while talking to a dozen supporters about a recent pheasant hunt, veered into racist innuendo Monday regarding “dirt from Mexico.”
King: “I made a big ol’ batch of my patented pheasant noodle soup for everybody. It took us two days to eat it all, but everybody loved it. When I get it all put together then I put about a half a dozen jalapeno peppers, just whole, drop them floating around in there. It scares off some of the people so there’s a little more for the rest of us to eat. I raised a bunch this year, and they don’t have enough bite. I guess I’m going to have to go and get some dirt from Mexico to grow the next batch.”
[Laughs]
Audience member: “Trust me, it’s already on its way.”
King: “Well, yeah, there’s plenty of dirt, it’s coming from the West Coast, too. And a lot of other places, besides. This is the most dirt we’ve ever seen.”
Adam Rubenstein noted that “Iowa does have a topsoil depletion problem, but it’s hard to imagine that the audience and King were discussing the shipment of soil from out of country or from California.”
The infamous Iowa Republican has an extremely long history of extremely racist behavior.
However, King’s staff insisted that their white supremacist boss was not being racist this time.
Jeff King, King’s campaign manager who also happens to be the congressman’s son, alleged “If you spent anytime with Congressman King throughout the district over this past week you would know that he has been referencing all the ‘dirt’ the dishonest, leftist media have been using to attack him.”
This attempted explanation made no sense in the context of King’s latest racist remarks, but the Iowa congressman — undaunted and emboldened by his re-election and the apparent unwillingness of Republican leadership to do anything about having a white supremacist in its caucus — accused the Weekly Standard of lying, and dared the conservative outlet to release the audio of his remarks.
Well, the Weekly Standard called King’s bluff on Saturday evening and posted the audio. In it, the Iowa congressman can be heard comparing immigrants to “dirt,” as previously reported.
The criticism of King by the right-wing Weekly Standard, which complained about ThinkProgress in its “official” role as a Facebook fact-checker after failing to understand the definition of the word “said” in September, is another sign that the white supremacist’s longtime conservative support could be eroding.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) defended King in recent weeks after the Iowa Republican faced renewed scrutiny for promoting conspiracy theories similar to the ones that reportedly inspired Cesar Sayoc, who allegedlysent explosive devices to around a dozen prominent Democrats who are frequent targets of Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, and Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last month.
However, there has been increasing displeasure in the GOP about having a white supremacist in its House caucus. National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) denounced King and said “We must stand up against white supremacy” last month.
With Democrats taking back control of the House in Tuesday’s midterms, there is a push to expel King from Congress, which would require support from two-thirds of the House, or 290 representatives. The Democratic majority, which will be seated on January 3, is projected to number around 240 seats.
King had not responded to being called out on his lies by the Weekly Standard at the time this was published, but the Iowa Republican’s busy Saturday on Twitter also included defending his ridiculous assertion that pregnancy from incest or statutory rape is an example of “Leftists lies.”
King also made time to fear-monger about an undocumented immigrant.
Steve King✔
@SteveKingIA
Another sickening and 100% preventable crime:-((
FOX & friends✔
@foxandfriends
ICE slams a sanctuary county in New Jersey for releasing an illegal immigrant who is now charged with a triple homicide in Missouri
You may have missed it while voting, but the Iowa Republican recently referred to immigrants as “dirt” during a campaign event.
The Weekly Standard reported on Tuesday that King, while talking to a dozen supporters about a recent pheasant hunt, veered into racist innuendo Monday regarding “dirt from Mexico.”
King: “I made a big ol’ batch of my patented pheasant noodle soup for everybody. It took us two days to eat it all, but everybody loved it. When I get it all put together then I put about a half a dozen jalapeno peppers, just whole, drop them floating around in there. It scares off some of the people so there’s a little more for the rest of us to eat. I raised a bunch this year, and they don’t have enough bite. I guess I’m going to have to go and get some dirt from Mexico to grow the next batch.”
[Laughs]
Audience member: “Trust me, it’s already on its way.”
King: “Well, yeah, there’s plenty of dirt, it’s coming from the West Coast, too. And a lot of other places, besides. This is the most dirt we’ve ever seen.”
Adam Rubenstein noted that “Iowa does have a topsoil depletion problem, but it’s hard to imagine that the audience and King were discussing the shipment of soil from out of country or from California.”
The infamous Iowa Republican has an extremely long history of extremely racist behavior.
However, King’s staff insisted that their white supremacist boss was not being racist this time.
Jeff King, King’s campaign manager who also happens to be the congressman’s son, alleged “If you spent anytime with Congressman King throughout the district over this past week you would know that he has been referencing all the ‘dirt’ the dishonest, leftist media have been using to attack him.”
This attempted explanation made no sense in the context of King’s latest racist remarks, but the Iowa congressman — undaunted and emboldened by his re-election and the apparent unwillingness of Republican leadership to do anything about having a white supremacist in its caucus — accused the Weekly Standard of lying, and dared the conservative outlet to release the audio of his remarks.
Well, the Weekly Standard called King’s bluff on Saturday evening and posted the audio. In it, the Iowa congressman can be heard comparing immigrants to “dirt,” as previously reported.
The criticism of King by the right-wing Weekly Standard, which complained about ThinkProgress in its “official” role as a Facebook fact-checker after failing to understand the definition of the word “said” in September, is another sign that the white supremacist’s longtime conservative support could be eroding.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) defended King in recent weeks after the Iowa Republican faced renewed scrutiny for promoting conspiracy theories similar to the ones that reportedly inspired Cesar Sayoc, who allegedlysent explosive devices to around a dozen prominent Democrats who are frequent targets of Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, and Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last month.
However, there has been increasing displeasure in the GOP about having a white supremacist in its House caucus. National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) denounced King and said “We must stand up against white supremacy” last month.
With Democrats taking back control of the House in Tuesday’s midterms, there is a push to expel King from Congress, which would require support from two-thirds of the House, or 290 representatives. The Democratic majority, which will be seated on January 3, is projected to number around 240 seats.
King had not responded to being called out on his lies by the Weekly Standard at the time this was published, but the Iowa Republican’s busy Saturday on Twitter also included defending his ridiculous assertion that pregnancy from incest or statutory rape is an example of “Leftists lies.”
King also made time to fear-monger about an undocumented immigrant.
Steve King✔
@SteveKingIA
Another sickening and 100% preventable crime:-((
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Part-time Texas firefighter busted for Facebook post urging shooting of immigrants — and then got fired from all three of his jobs
Tom Boggioni - raw story
10 NOV 2018 AT 11:27 ET
A part-time Texas firefighter has lost multiple jobs as a civil servant after proposing setting up feeders at the border and allowing hunters to shoot and kill desperate immigrants.
According to ABC7, Westfield Fire Department firefighter Chris Bush wrote on Facebook: “We should buy deer feeders fill them with pinto beans put them on the border and make a new hunting season. I wonder how many Texans will buy that hunting licenses and how many tags we would be allowed…”
After the post went viral, his employers got wind of it and took immediate action by firing him.
According to Bush’s Facebook page, he was employed by the Westfield Fire Department, Bellaire Fire department and Harris County EMS.
The report states Bush lost his job at all three places of his employment.
In a statement, the city of Bellaire said: “Wednesday morning we became aware of an inappropriate and offensive social media post by a part-time firefighter. Upon learning of that post, we took immediate and appropriate action, and the individual is no longer employed with the City of Bellaire.”
According to ABC7, Westfield Fire Department firefighter Chris Bush wrote on Facebook: “We should buy deer feeders fill them with pinto beans put them on the border and make a new hunting season. I wonder how many Texans will buy that hunting licenses and how many tags we would be allowed…”
After the post went viral, his employers got wind of it and took immediate action by firing him.
According to Bush’s Facebook page, he was employed by the Westfield Fire Department, Bellaire Fire department and Harris County EMS.
The report states Bush lost his job at all three places of his employment.
In a statement, the city of Bellaire said: “Wednesday morning we became aware of an inappropriate and offensive social media post by a part-time firefighter. Upon learning of that post, we took immediate and appropriate action, and the individual is no longer employed with the City of Bellaire.”
Nazi Christmas ornaments and KKK robes sold openly at Kentucky gun show
Martin Cizmar - raw story
31 OCT 2018 AT 09:13 ET
The Nazi Christmas ornaments for sale and State Fair Board Chairman Dr. Mark Lynn/Screenshots
A gun show in Kentucky has come under fire after allowing the sale of Nazi memorabilia and a Klansman’s robe, reports WAVE 3.
The event happened at National Gun Day which was held at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville.
Among the vendors was Florida’s Walter Kanzler Guns and Militaria, which features a Nazi hat with a swastika on its homepage.
Among Walter Kanzler’s offerings were World War II Christmas ornaments that featured swastikas, which were for sale on the same day that an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
The Klansman’s robe was for sale not far from the Louisville-area Kroger where two black shoppers were killed in what appears to be a racist attack.
The Courier Journal showed the Kentucky State Fair Board photos of the memorabilia, which is now eyeing a ban on Nazi memorabilia.
“The most upsetting part is what the meaning of these symbols have and to allow those to be sold on Kentucky Venues property when I’m chairman of the board, I really find that offensive to myself as well, it’s just not right,” said the board’s chairman Dr. Mark Lynn said.
Reached for comment, Walter Kanzler said there’s “no political agenda” and that it represented an “interest in history.”
The event happened at National Gun Day which was held at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville.
Among the vendors was Florida’s Walter Kanzler Guns and Militaria, which features a Nazi hat with a swastika on its homepage.
Among Walter Kanzler’s offerings were World War II Christmas ornaments that featured swastikas, which were for sale on the same day that an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
The Klansman’s robe was for sale not far from the Louisville-area Kroger where two black shoppers were killed in what appears to be a racist attack.
The Courier Journal showed the Kentucky State Fair Board photos of the memorabilia, which is now eyeing a ban on Nazi memorabilia.
“The most upsetting part is what the meaning of these symbols have and to allow those to be sold on Kentucky Venues property when I’m chairman of the board, I really find that offensive to myself as well, it’s just not right,” said the board’s chairman Dr. Mark Lynn said.
Reached for comment, Walter Kanzler said there’s “no political agenda” and that it represented an “interest in history.”
New Jersey councilman says appointing black woman to lead police is a ‘slap in the face’ to ‘the men in blue’
Travis Gettys - raw story
30 OCT 2018 AT 09:05 ET
A New Jersey city councilman slurred the first black woman picked to oversee Trenton police as unqualified — and an insult to “the men in blue.”
George Muschal, a South Ward councilman and retired police officer, accused Mayor Reed Gusciora of making the appointment for “political gain,” but declined to say how he would benefit, reported The Trentonian.
Carol Russell retired as a sergeant after 25 years from the police department in 2010, and the city ordinance requires police directors to have at least five years experience “in a responsible capacity in public administration and policing.”
“He’s the mayor. He can choose who he wants,” Muschal told the newspaper. “But the bottom line is the men in blue look at him for leadership. Putting somebody in that position who wasn’t [a leader] in the police department is a slap in the face to everybody in rank-and-file.”
Gusciora announced the nomination last week during his first State of the City address, which Muschal refused to attend, saying he chose Russell specifically to break through a glass ceiling he said was artificially imposed by the city ordinance.
“We’ll never have a person of color or a woman as police director under those circumstances,” Gusciora said. “I think it’s the mentality that it’s the way it’s always been done, that somebody should rise through the ranks, becoming a lieutenant or captain. In that case, the system would never change.”
The mayor said Russell had experience in a supervisory role for a nonprofit organization, but the newspaper had not seen a copy of her resume to verify.
Muschal accused the mayor of “lowering the standards” for overseeing the police department, but he insisted his objection to Russell had nothing to do with race.
“Anything I say, I’m a racist,” Muschal said. “If they want to call me racist, they can call me what they want. It wouldn’t be the first time. It wouldn’t be the second time. It’s not war. It’s about doing the right thing for the right person. The mayor has his options to pick who he wants. If he wants to turn around and pick someone who has low qualifications over people who have higher qualifications, you always ask him why.”
George Muschal, a South Ward councilman and retired police officer, accused Mayor Reed Gusciora of making the appointment for “political gain,” but declined to say how he would benefit, reported The Trentonian.
Carol Russell retired as a sergeant after 25 years from the police department in 2010, and the city ordinance requires police directors to have at least five years experience “in a responsible capacity in public administration and policing.”
“He’s the mayor. He can choose who he wants,” Muschal told the newspaper. “But the bottom line is the men in blue look at him for leadership. Putting somebody in that position who wasn’t [a leader] in the police department is a slap in the face to everybody in rank-and-file.”
Gusciora announced the nomination last week during his first State of the City address, which Muschal refused to attend, saying he chose Russell specifically to break through a glass ceiling he said was artificially imposed by the city ordinance.
“We’ll never have a person of color or a woman as police director under those circumstances,” Gusciora said. “I think it’s the mentality that it’s the way it’s always been done, that somebody should rise through the ranks, becoming a lieutenant or captain. In that case, the system would never change.”
The mayor said Russell had experience in a supervisory role for a nonprofit organization, but the newspaper had not seen a copy of her resume to verify.
Muschal accused the mayor of “lowering the standards” for overseeing the police department, but he insisted his objection to Russell had nothing to do with race.
“Anything I say, I’m a racist,” Muschal said. “If they want to call me racist, they can call me what they want. It wouldn’t be the first time. It wouldn’t be the second time. It’s not war. It’s about doing the right thing for the right person. The mayor has his options to pick who he wants. If he wants to turn around and pick someone who has low qualifications over people who have higher qualifications, you always ask him why.”
ACCUSED BOMBER CESAR SAYOC WAS A FERVENT TRUMP SUPPORTER
Trevor Aaronson - the intercept
October 26 2018, 1:39 p.m.
An undated photo released by the Broward County Sheriff’s office of Cesar Sayoc’s booking photo in Miami.
CESAR SAYOC WAS a broke and marginalized man until President Donald Trump gave him a purpose, court records and online archives suggest.
The FBI arrested Sayoc in Florida today and charged him with five counts for his alleged role in mailing pipe bombs to an array of Democratic Party politicians and Trump critics, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Attorney General Eric Holder, among others. Pipe bombs addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were addressed to CNN’s headquarters in New York.
The FBI also impounded Sayoc’s white van, whose windows were covered with pro-Trump stickers and others that labeled CNN “dishonest media,” and showed target symbols over the faces of filmmaker Michael Moore and Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic Party opponent in the 2016 election. The counts against Sayoc include the interstate transportation of explosives, making threats against former presidents, and the illegal mailing of explosives.
Sayoc’s online activity suggests that he was a fervent Trump supporter, who in recent weeks was unafraid to taunt and even threaten Trump’s critics on social media. In what appears to be Sayoc’s Twitter account, the alleged bomber tweeted pictures of alligators that had eaten humans to Biden and movie director Ron Howard.
How and why Sayoc went from online troll — he has posted dozens of tweets per day for months — to the accused serial bomber who grabbed the world’s attention are still unknown. But if his bombs, none of which detonated, were sent because he was inspired by Trump’s violent rhetoric at campaign rallies, Sayoc would not be the first domestic terrorist inspired by conspiracy theories associated with Trump.
Three men in August 2017 bombed a mosque in Minnesota. Their de facto leader, Michael Hari, believed that Trump was engaged in a secret war with the deep state. In July of this year, a Nevada man named Matthew P. Wright, an unemployed Marine veteran, blocked traffic on the Hoover Dam using an armored vehicle. Armed with an AR-15 rifle, handgun, and a flash-bang device, Wright had sent letters to Trump and other elected officials, in which he referred to “QAnon,” a conspiracy theory that suggests that Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller are secretly working together to expose a sex trafficking ring operated by Democrats and Hollywood celebrities.
For his part, Sayoc has lived an unremarkable, largely marginalized life before his arrest today, public records suggest. Born in New York in 1962, Sayoc had aspired to be a wrestler in the 1990s and, according to an Ohio event promoter, had worked as a stripper. In the early 1990s, Sayoc was living in South Florida, where he exhibited potentially violent behavior.
In 1994, his grandmother Viola Altieri accused Sayoc of domestic violence. Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, Sayoc was charged with various petty crimes, mostly involving theft.
In 2002, after making threats to the public utility company Florida Power and Light, Sayoc was charged with threatening to throw a bomb. Adjudication was withheld in the case, and Sayoc received a sentence of one year of probation.
Sayoc had registered several companies in Florida, including Native American Catering & Vending and Ver Tech AG. But for at least the last decade, Sayoc has struggled financially, according to records. A bank foreclosed on Sayoc’s home in Florida in early 2009, during the height of the housing crisis, which hit particularly hard in South Florida. Sayoc had a $165,500 mortgage, according to records.
Three years later, Sayoc filed for bankruptcy. The only asset he listed was $50 worth of clothing. “Debtor lives with mother, owns no furniture,” the filing says. In 2015, Sayoc was arrested for trying to steal a briefcase and garment bag from a Walmart in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A registered Republican voter in Florida, Sayoc appears to have been active on Twitter since March 7. He primarily shared right-wing memes about Hillary Clinton, George Soros, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and other favorite targets of the far right.
On Wednesday, just as the pipe bombs were being discovered, Sayoc was writing on Twitter about Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, who is facing Republican Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally. Sayoc’s commentary included memes that suggested Gillum was a puppet of Soros, the wealthy financier of progressive political causes. Soros was the first to receive a pipe bomb.
The FBI arrested Sayoc in Florida today and charged him with five counts for his alleged role in mailing pipe bombs to an array of Democratic Party politicians and Trump critics, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Attorney General Eric Holder, among others. Pipe bombs addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were addressed to CNN’s headquarters in New York.
The FBI also impounded Sayoc’s white van, whose windows were covered with pro-Trump stickers and others that labeled CNN “dishonest media,” and showed target symbols over the faces of filmmaker Michael Moore and Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic Party opponent in the 2016 election. The counts against Sayoc include the interstate transportation of explosives, making threats against former presidents, and the illegal mailing of explosives.
Sayoc’s online activity suggests that he was a fervent Trump supporter, who in recent weeks was unafraid to taunt and even threaten Trump’s critics on social media. In what appears to be Sayoc’s Twitter account, the alleged bomber tweeted pictures of alligators that had eaten humans to Biden and movie director Ron Howard.
How and why Sayoc went from online troll — he has posted dozens of tweets per day for months — to the accused serial bomber who grabbed the world’s attention are still unknown. But if his bombs, none of which detonated, were sent because he was inspired by Trump’s violent rhetoric at campaign rallies, Sayoc would not be the first domestic terrorist inspired by conspiracy theories associated with Trump.
Three men in August 2017 bombed a mosque in Minnesota. Their de facto leader, Michael Hari, believed that Trump was engaged in a secret war with the deep state. In July of this year, a Nevada man named Matthew P. Wright, an unemployed Marine veteran, blocked traffic on the Hoover Dam using an armored vehicle. Armed with an AR-15 rifle, handgun, and a flash-bang device, Wright had sent letters to Trump and other elected officials, in which he referred to “QAnon,” a conspiracy theory that suggests that Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller are secretly working together to expose a sex trafficking ring operated by Democrats and Hollywood celebrities.
For his part, Sayoc has lived an unremarkable, largely marginalized life before his arrest today, public records suggest. Born in New York in 1962, Sayoc had aspired to be a wrestler in the 1990s and, according to an Ohio event promoter, had worked as a stripper. In the early 1990s, Sayoc was living in South Florida, where he exhibited potentially violent behavior.
In 1994, his grandmother Viola Altieri accused Sayoc of domestic violence. Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, Sayoc was charged with various petty crimes, mostly involving theft.
In 2002, after making threats to the public utility company Florida Power and Light, Sayoc was charged with threatening to throw a bomb. Adjudication was withheld in the case, and Sayoc received a sentence of one year of probation.
Sayoc had registered several companies in Florida, including Native American Catering & Vending and Ver Tech AG. But for at least the last decade, Sayoc has struggled financially, according to records. A bank foreclosed on Sayoc’s home in Florida in early 2009, during the height of the housing crisis, which hit particularly hard in South Florida. Sayoc had a $165,500 mortgage, according to records.
Three years later, Sayoc filed for bankruptcy. The only asset he listed was $50 worth of clothing. “Debtor lives with mother, owns no furniture,” the filing says. In 2015, Sayoc was arrested for trying to steal a briefcase and garment bag from a Walmart in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A registered Republican voter in Florida, Sayoc appears to have been active on Twitter since March 7. He primarily shared right-wing memes about Hillary Clinton, George Soros, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and other favorite targets of the far right.
On Wednesday, just as the pipe bombs were being discovered, Sayoc was writing on Twitter about Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, who is facing Republican Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally. Sayoc’s commentary included memes that suggested Gillum was a puppet of Soros, the wealthy financier of progressive political causes. Soros was the first to receive a pipe bomb.
The Future New York Times Profile of Today's Bomber
by the rude pundit
10/24/18
For about an hour, Jesse MAGA Dogspit held forth about why he officially changed his middle name to the abbreviation for Donald Trump's campaign slogan. "I wanted everyone to know whenever I filled out a form or picked up my disability check that I am a Trump man through and through," he said over a pile of PVC pipe, nails, wires, and fireworks powder, the ingredients for his bespoke bombs that he has gifted to Democrats as a show of dissent from what he sees as political correctness gone amok.
Mr. Dogspit, who allowed us to say that his location is "somewhere real Americans live," walked to his Ford pickup truck dressed in gray Dickies coveralls, a red Make America Great Again hat "that never leaves my head, even when I'm lovin' up my wife," and Caterpillar steel-toe boots. He took a bag of timers he purchased at a local hardware store out of the front seat. "Earl down at the Ace, he knows what I'm doing," he explained. "He gave me a discount because of it."
Born in southwestern Pennsylvania and moving frequently, Mr. Dogspit has been a constant presence on Reddit and 4Chan message boards for the last three years. Under the username "LibtardSkullfucker," he has spun out some of the most incendiary, and, for many, insightful commentary of the age of Trump. In an email, TrumpIsGod8814, a moderator on the subreddit r/The_Donald_Is_Mein_Fuhrer, told the Times, "LibtardSkullfucker is the man. He can tell you how Hillary Clinton's stinky pussy is a toxic waste dump that would have poisoned America and you'll think, 'Damn, that makes sense.'" He signed the email, "Send nudes."
Some of Mr. Dogspit's most popular posts include "George Soros Is Gonna Get Bombed," "Hillary Clinton Is Gonna Get Bombed," "CNN Is Gonna Get Bombed," and "Barack Obama and Eric Holder Are Gonna Get Bombed." One anonymous 4Chan user said, "I like his posts because he says who he wants to bomb."
Mr. Dogspit will be the first to tell you that his beliefs aren't for everyone, but he refuses to be labeled by "those damn liberal traitors." He explained, "I'm not racist because I don't hate niggers for being black or spics for being Mexican. I hate 'em 'cause they're lazy. That's not racist. That's common sense. If you show me a nigger or spic who's hard-working, I say let 'em clean our floors or mow our lawns." This audacious approach to what some might call extreme conservative positions makes Mr. Dogspit seem like a younger and more foul-mouthed President Trump than a dangerous mad bomber. "What am I saying that Mr. President Trump, sent by the Lord to save America the Beautiful, isn't saying?" he said several times during the interview. "Besides, Democrats want socialism and open borders, so they're the real racists."
In the evening, Mr. Dogspit spends most of his time on chatrooms and message boards. In addition to r/The_Donald_Is_Mein_Fuhrer, he is a regular and popular figure on subreddits like r/HillaryIsALizardPerson and r/Trump_Prophesies, and 4Chan boards like JewOvens and LynchTheObamas. "I know what I say isn't for everyone, but my people understand where I'm coming from," he smirked, pointing at the number of upvotes his latest post "I'm a nationalist, too!" He gave us an innocuous "OK" gesture.
Leaving for the evening, Mr. Dogspit said he had some errands to run and he wouldn't be back until morning. His wife, Mary Ivanka Dogspit, came out of their antique mobile home and said, "Aw, he's just gotta go make some meth. Bomb parts don't pay for themselves." She pointed as the bruises on her arms and said, "Aw, he just gets excited when we're makin' love. He wants me to talk like President Trump, and when I can't, he hits me. I'll just have to practice more." She stared after where he had driven away. "He plays the guitar. He tell you that? Sings like an angel."
Mr. Dogspit, who allowed us to say that his location is "somewhere real Americans live," walked to his Ford pickup truck dressed in gray Dickies coveralls, a red Make America Great Again hat "that never leaves my head, even when I'm lovin' up my wife," and Caterpillar steel-toe boots. He took a bag of timers he purchased at a local hardware store out of the front seat. "Earl down at the Ace, he knows what I'm doing," he explained. "He gave me a discount because of it."
Born in southwestern Pennsylvania and moving frequently, Mr. Dogspit has been a constant presence on Reddit and 4Chan message boards for the last three years. Under the username "LibtardSkullfucker," he has spun out some of the most incendiary, and, for many, insightful commentary of the age of Trump. In an email, TrumpIsGod8814, a moderator on the subreddit r/The_Donald_Is_Mein_Fuhrer, told the Times, "LibtardSkullfucker is the man. He can tell you how Hillary Clinton's stinky pussy is a toxic waste dump that would have poisoned America and you'll think, 'Damn, that makes sense.'" He signed the email, "Send nudes."
Some of Mr. Dogspit's most popular posts include "George Soros Is Gonna Get Bombed," "Hillary Clinton Is Gonna Get Bombed," "CNN Is Gonna Get Bombed," and "Barack Obama and Eric Holder Are Gonna Get Bombed." One anonymous 4Chan user said, "I like his posts because he says who he wants to bomb."
Mr. Dogspit will be the first to tell you that his beliefs aren't for everyone, but he refuses to be labeled by "those damn liberal traitors." He explained, "I'm not racist because I don't hate niggers for being black or spics for being Mexican. I hate 'em 'cause they're lazy. That's not racist. That's common sense. If you show me a nigger or spic who's hard-working, I say let 'em clean our floors or mow our lawns." This audacious approach to what some might call extreme conservative positions makes Mr. Dogspit seem like a younger and more foul-mouthed President Trump than a dangerous mad bomber. "What am I saying that Mr. President Trump, sent by the Lord to save America the Beautiful, isn't saying?" he said several times during the interview. "Besides, Democrats want socialism and open borders, so they're the real racists."
In the evening, Mr. Dogspit spends most of his time on chatrooms and message boards. In addition to r/The_Donald_Is_Mein_Fuhrer, he is a regular and popular figure on subreddits like r/HillaryIsALizardPerson and r/Trump_Prophesies, and 4Chan boards like JewOvens and LynchTheObamas. "I know what I say isn't for everyone, but my people understand where I'm coming from," he smirked, pointing at the number of upvotes his latest post "I'm a nationalist, too!" He gave us an innocuous "OK" gesture.
Leaving for the evening, Mr. Dogspit said he had some errands to run and he wouldn't be back until morning. His wife, Mary Ivanka Dogspit, came out of their antique mobile home and said, "Aw, he's just gotta go make some meth. Bomb parts don't pay for themselves." She pointed as the bruises on her arms and said, "Aw, he just gets excited when we're makin' love. He wants me to talk like President Trump, and when I can't, he hits me. I'll just have to practice more." She stared after where he had driven away. "He plays the guitar. He tell you that? Sings like an angel."
uncle tom threatened!!!
North Carolina men threaten black campaign worker with a gun in racist assault at early voting location
Tana Ganeva - raw story
25 OCT 2018 AT 10:02 ET
Two North Carolina men threatened a black GOP campaign worker Wednesday at an early voting station, reports WBTV.
The man told police that three men started taking his picture and hurling racist abuse at him. One shouted the n-word repeatedly as Derek Partee tried to give out fliers, according to reports.
After threatening to assault the poll worker, one of the men lifted his shirt to reveal a holstered gun.
After being called to the scene, police were able to identity the three people involved in the attack and detain them. A BB gun was found on one of the men.
The North Carolina Republican Party condemned the attack in statement. “The NCGOP condemns all forms of political violence and voter intimidation, no matter the source,” the Executive Director of the NCGOP said.
According to WUNC North Carolina has seen a surge in early voting, among Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters.
The man told police that three men started taking his picture and hurling racist abuse at him. One shouted the n-word repeatedly as Derek Partee tried to give out fliers, according to reports.
After threatening to assault the poll worker, one of the men lifted his shirt to reveal a holstered gun.
After being called to the scene, police were able to identity the three people involved in the attack and detain them. A BB gun was found on one of the men.
The North Carolina Republican Party condemned the attack in statement. “The NCGOP condemns all forms of political violence and voter intimidation, no matter the source,” the Executive Director of the NCGOP said.
According to WUNC North Carolina has seen a surge in early voting, among Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters.
Woman demands to see passports of Spanish-speaking family at Virginia restaurant
BY MICHAEL BURKE - the hill
10/22/18 09:19 PM EDT
A white woman confronted a Spanish-speaking family last week at a Virginia restaurant and demanded that they "show me your passports" in video that has since gone viral.
The woman can be heard in the video screaming at a Guatemalan woman and her family, telling them to "go back to your fucking country." She also tells the family not to "freeload on America" and repeatedly asks for their passports.
Later in the video, the woman is seen continuing her tirade outside the restaurant, saying, "I'm tired of this shit."
The woman who was berated recorded the video and shared it with Telemundo 44 in Washington, D.C.
The confrontation occurred at Andy's, a restaurant in Lovettsville, Va. The restaurant denounced the woman in a Facebook post, calling her "a vile and loathsome individual."
"Thank you — and we mean this with all the aforementioned respect that you rightfully deserve—for never returning to Andy’s. You are not welcome," the restaurant wrote.
The confrontation is the latest video to go viral showing a white person berating Spanish-speaking people in public. In May, a man threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on customers and employees at a restaurant in New York for speaking Spanish.
The man, an attorney named Aaron Schlossberg, was later kicked out of his office space.
The woman can be heard in the video screaming at a Guatemalan woman and her family, telling them to "go back to your fucking country." She also tells the family not to "freeload on America" and repeatedly asks for their passports.
Later in the video, the woman is seen continuing her tirade outside the restaurant, saying, "I'm tired of this shit."
The woman who was berated recorded the video and shared it with Telemundo 44 in Washington, D.C.
The confrontation occurred at Andy's, a restaurant in Lovettsville, Va. The restaurant denounced the woman in a Facebook post, calling her "a vile and loathsome individual."
"Thank you — and we mean this with all the aforementioned respect that you rightfully deserve—for never returning to Andy’s. You are not welcome," the restaurant wrote.
The confrontation is the latest video to go viral showing a white person berating Spanish-speaking people in public. In May, a man threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on customers and employees at a restaurant in New York for speaking Spanish.
The man, an attorney named Aaron Schlossberg, was later kicked out of his office space.
Tech bro threatens to kill Middle Eastern Uber driver because he ‘hates all brown people’
Noor Al-Sibai - raw story
22 OCT 2018 AT 17:13 ET
A Bitcoin entrepreneur threatened to kill a Middle Eastern Uber driver because he claims to “hate all brown people.”
The Denver Post reported that the “belligerent” 29-year-old Sean Scappaticci was riding in an Uber around 4 AM last Friday when he began threatening the driver, who Colorado Springs Police identified as a 20-year-old man of Middle Eastern descent.
“Fearing for his life,” the driver pulled over and began running — and the passenger began chasing him.
Scappaticci, the co-founder of a company that created Bitcoin ATMs, allegedly tried to fight the police officers who arrived on the scene and broke the back window of a police cruiser.
According to the report, the alleged assailant also told the driver that he was a former Army Ranger and had killed many of the driver’s relatives while overseas.
Scappaticci was held by the CSPD “on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes against a person, obstruction, property damage, assault, menacing and attempt to escape,” the report noted.
The Denver Post reported that the “belligerent” 29-year-old Sean Scappaticci was riding in an Uber around 4 AM last Friday when he began threatening the driver, who Colorado Springs Police identified as a 20-year-old man of Middle Eastern descent.
“Fearing for his life,” the driver pulled over and began running — and the passenger began chasing him.
Scappaticci, the co-founder of a company that created Bitcoin ATMs, allegedly tried to fight the police officers who arrived on the scene and broke the back window of a police cruiser.
According to the report, the alleged assailant also told the driver that he was a former Army Ranger and had killed many of the driver’s relatives while overseas.
Scappaticci was held by the CSPD “on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes against a person, obstruction, property damage, assault, menacing and attempt to escape,” the report noted.
he is Just like trump!!!
Trump-loving media figure accused of making sexual comments to teen girls encourages Trump to shoot migrants
Brad Reed - raw story
22 OCT 2018 AT 10:31 ET
Michael Moates, a Trump-loving conservative media figure who has been accused by multiple underage girls of making inappropriate sexual comments, encouraged President Donald Trump on Monday to shoot any migrants approaching the United States border.
Responding to a President Trump tweet about the caravan of Central American migrants constituting a “National Emergy” (sic), Moates wrote a three-word reply that simply said, “Shoot on site.”
Moates’ recommendation to shoot the immigrants “on site” is actually a malapropism, as the correct term for shooting someone when you first see them is “on sight.”
Moates subsequently deleted the tweet — but not, he says, because he realized that it’s wrong to advocate gunning down women and children seeking asylum in the United States.
“Let me clarify that his tweet was in the context of Donald Trump addressing illegal aliens coming into this country without permission and I also want to go as far as to say the only reason the tweet was deleted was because I was afraid Twitter would ban me,” he wrote in a followup tweet.
Earlier this month, a report from Right Wing Watch documented how multiple pro-life Christian teens have accused the 23-year-old Moates of making sexual comments to them and sending them “inappropriate” photos despite knowing that they were underage.
Moates has responded to the accusations by saying, “The fact that you can’t call a woman beautiful without offending them anymore is a problem.”
Responding to a President Trump tweet about the caravan of Central American migrants constituting a “National Emergy” (sic), Moates wrote a three-word reply that simply said, “Shoot on site.”
Moates’ recommendation to shoot the immigrants “on site” is actually a malapropism, as the correct term for shooting someone when you first see them is “on sight.”
Moates subsequently deleted the tweet — but not, he says, because he realized that it’s wrong to advocate gunning down women and children seeking asylum in the United States.
“Let me clarify that his tweet was in the context of Donald Trump addressing illegal aliens coming into this country without permission and I also want to go as far as to say the only reason the tweet was deleted was because I was afraid Twitter would ban me,” he wrote in a followup tweet.
Earlier this month, a report from Right Wing Watch documented how multiple pro-life Christian teens have accused the 23-year-old Moates of making sexual comments to them and sending them “inappropriate” photos despite knowing that they were underage.
Moates has responded to the accusations by saying, “The fact that you can’t call a woman beautiful without offending them anymore is a problem.”
After almost a week, Proud Boys members finally arrested for brutal attack on protestors in NYC
Marissa Higgins
Daily Kos Staff
Sunday October 21, 2018 · 12:15 PM PDT
Members of Proud Boys, a far-right men’s group that the Southern Poverty Law Center qualifies as a hate group, were recorded on video brutally attacking protestors on October 12, after an event where the group’s founder, Gavin McInnes, spoke at the Metropolitan Republican Club. The video, captured by Shay Horse, a photojournalist from Brooklyn, went viral on social media.
Almost immediately, arrests were made. Shocking many, those arrested were not part of the Proud Boys group.
Instead, the New York Police Department arrested protestors. Now, the NYPD has finally arrested two Proud Boys members. The first to be arrested was Geoffrey Young, who was charged with rioting and attempted assault on Thursday.
The second arrest came Friday morning. John Kinsman was charged with attempted gang assault, attempted assault, riot, and criminal possession of a weapon.
The New York Post reports that at an arraignment on Friday night, prosecutors referred to Kinsman as the "single most vicious" Proud Boys member.
In an episode of his podcast, Get Off My Lawn, McInnes gloated about his alleged law enforcement connections. He basically defended the assault on protesters, saying they created a “climate of fear.”
Disturbingly, he went on to claim that he has “a lot of support in the NYPD.”
In response, the NYPD tweeted this:
@NYPDDCPI
False. This individual does not speak for @NYPDnews. We are a diverse org dedicated to keeping safe all 8.5M NY'ers & millions of visitors. Violence & disorder is unacceptable & will not be tolerated in NYC. We are aggressively investigating all leads, and will make arrests.
7:16 AM - Oct 16, 2018
The NYPD is still seeking seven Proud Boys members in connection to the attack. They told the New York Times they have opened a “regular criminal investigation” into the organization.
In spite of what McInnes himself has said, the Metropolitan Republican Club gave a statement to BuzzFeed News, which ultimately defended their decision to host the event:
”Gavin's talk on Friday night, while at times was politically incorrect and a bit edgy was certainly not inciting violence.”
“Once you unleash hate and division and you demonize differences, you lose control of it. You can’t target it,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo, who publicly critiqued the club for inviting the group to begin with, and puts some responsibility on President Trump. “It’s lighting a match in a field of dry grass. The wind takes it and it just takes off.”
Cuomo begged the obvious, asking, “Why would the Republican Party, at their main club, invite the Proud Boys, who are known to be a hate group, who are known to promote violence?”
“Why would they invite them to attend a rally just 20-something days before a midterm election?”
Sadly, the answer feels a little too on the nose.
Almost immediately, arrests were made. Shocking many, those arrested were not part of the Proud Boys group.
Instead, the New York Police Department arrested protestors. Now, the NYPD has finally arrested two Proud Boys members. The first to be arrested was Geoffrey Young, who was charged with rioting and attempted assault on Thursday.
The second arrest came Friday morning. John Kinsman was charged with attempted gang assault, attempted assault, riot, and criminal possession of a weapon.
The New York Post reports that at an arraignment on Friday night, prosecutors referred to Kinsman as the "single most vicious" Proud Boys member.
In an episode of his podcast, Get Off My Lawn, McInnes gloated about his alleged law enforcement connections. He basically defended the assault on protesters, saying they created a “climate of fear.”
Disturbingly, he went on to claim that he has “a lot of support in the NYPD.”
In response, the NYPD tweeted this:
@NYPDDCPI
False. This individual does not speak for @NYPDnews. We are a diverse org dedicated to keeping safe all 8.5M NY'ers & millions of visitors. Violence & disorder is unacceptable & will not be tolerated in NYC. We are aggressively investigating all leads, and will make arrests.
7:16 AM - Oct 16, 2018
The NYPD is still seeking seven Proud Boys members in connection to the attack. They told the New York Times they have opened a “regular criminal investigation” into the organization.
In spite of what McInnes himself has said, the Metropolitan Republican Club gave a statement to BuzzFeed News, which ultimately defended their decision to host the event:
”Gavin's talk on Friday night, while at times was politically incorrect and a bit edgy was certainly not inciting violence.”
“Once you unleash hate and division and you demonize differences, you lose control of it. You can’t target it,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo, who publicly critiqued the club for inviting the group to begin with, and puts some responsibility on President Trump. “It’s lighting a match in a field of dry grass. The wind takes it and it just takes off.”
Cuomo begged the obvious, asking, “Why would the Republican Party, at their main club, invite the Proud Boys, who are known to be a hate group, who are known to promote violence?”
“Why would they invite them to attend a rally just 20-something days before a midterm election?”
Sadly, the answer feels a little too on the nose.
Men and Christians experience higher amounts of discrimination than other groups, Trump voters claim
...more than women, LGBTQ people, Muslims, or non-white people.
ZACK FORD - thinkprogress
OCT 18, 2018, 2:12 PM
A new survey from YouGov and The Economist suggests that people who voted for President Donald Trump are living in a very different United States than those who voted for Hillary Clinton.
In a series of questions about the discrimination they perceive different groups to be experiencing, the respondents were far more concerned with the plight of men and Christians than with just about any other group.
The poll surveyed 1,500 U.S. adults this past Sunday through Tuesday, 28 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
Participants were asked to share what they felt were the levels of discrimination against a variety of groups, including various ethnic groups (Arab, Asian, African, and Mexican Americans), religious groups (Christians, Jewish, and Muslim), LGBTQ people, immigrants, and men and women. And while Trump voters certainly acknowledged that various groups experienced some degree of discrimination, they expressed the most concern about men and Christians.
For example, nearly half of Trump voters (49 percent) claimed that men are experiencing “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination right now, compared to only 11 percent of people who voted for Clinton. The trend was similar for participants who identified as conservative (43 percent) compared to those who identified as liberal (14 percent).
In contrast, Trump voters were not nearly as concerned about women. Only 30 percent of Trump voters believe women are facing “a great deal” or “a fair amount of discrimination, compared to 88 percent of Clinton voters.
These numbers seem to reflect the contrasting narratives that followed the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in recent months. Trump, himself, repeatedly insisted that it’s a “very scary time for young men,” while women across the country were protested Kavanaugh given the multiple allegations of sexual assault against him.
When asked about religion, Trump voters seemed to show far more concern for Christians than for other religions. In fact, 38 percent of Trump voters responded that people who aren’t Christian have it easier in this country than Christians, while only 10 percent agreed Christians have it easier. In comparison, 53 percent of Clinton voters said Christians have it easier, and only 5 percent said other groups do, while the rest believed there was no difference.
The difference Trump voters saw shined through when asked separately about Christian, Jewish, and Muslim people. The poll found that 64 percent of Trump voters believed Christians face “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination, compared to 48 percent who felt the same for Jews, and 60 percent for Muslims. In a separate question, Trump voters also described anti-Semitism as a far less serious problem in the United States.
Only 17 percent of Clinton voters felt Christians face high levels of discrimination, compared to 58 percent for Jews and 95 percent for Muslims.
Trump-voter apathy for other vulnerable groups followed a similar pattern. For LGBTQ people, only 41 percent of Trump voters considered discrimination a big problem, compared to 92 percent of Clinton voters. Likewise, only 46 percent of Trump voters were concerned with discrimination against immigrants compared to 92 percent of Clinton voters.
The juxtaposition between their responses for LGBTQ people and Christians seems to reflect years of conservatives claiming that expanding LGBTQ equality infringes on the “religious freedom” of Christians to discriminate against LGBTQ rights. This was particularly evident in the recent Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case, in which a Christian baker claimed he should be allowed to refuse to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples.
The poll did not ask respondents to comment directly on how much discrimination they perceive white people as experiencing, but they were asked whether white people or black people have it easier. Only 17 percent of Trump voters said white people have it easier, while 65 percent believed there was no difference. Meanwhile, 79 percent of Clinton voters believe white people have it easier.
When asked about various non-white groups, Trump voters consistently expressed less concern about discrimination than Clinton voters, including for Arab Americans (53 percent vs. 91 percent), Asian Americans (27 percent vs. 64 percent), African Americans (38 percent vs. 90 percent), and Mexican Americans (42 percent vs. 90 percent). For each of those groups, except for Asian Americans, Clinton voters were also far more likely to respond that there’s “a great deal” of discrimination, while Trump voters were more likely to state there was only “a fair amount.”
Compared to Clinton voters, Trump voters were notably less concerned with issues like gay rights, health care, Medicare, education, the environment, and gun control and more concerned about taxes, the budget deficit, terrorism, and immigration.
In a series of questions about the discrimination they perceive different groups to be experiencing, the respondents were far more concerned with the plight of men and Christians than with just about any other group.
The poll surveyed 1,500 U.S. adults this past Sunday through Tuesday, 28 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
Participants were asked to share what they felt were the levels of discrimination against a variety of groups, including various ethnic groups (Arab, Asian, African, and Mexican Americans), religious groups (Christians, Jewish, and Muslim), LGBTQ people, immigrants, and men and women. And while Trump voters certainly acknowledged that various groups experienced some degree of discrimination, they expressed the most concern about men and Christians.
For example, nearly half of Trump voters (49 percent) claimed that men are experiencing “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination right now, compared to only 11 percent of people who voted for Clinton. The trend was similar for participants who identified as conservative (43 percent) compared to those who identified as liberal (14 percent).
In contrast, Trump voters were not nearly as concerned about women. Only 30 percent of Trump voters believe women are facing “a great deal” or “a fair amount of discrimination, compared to 88 percent of Clinton voters.
These numbers seem to reflect the contrasting narratives that followed the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in recent months. Trump, himself, repeatedly insisted that it’s a “very scary time for young men,” while women across the country were protested Kavanaugh given the multiple allegations of sexual assault against him.
When asked about religion, Trump voters seemed to show far more concern for Christians than for other religions. In fact, 38 percent of Trump voters responded that people who aren’t Christian have it easier in this country than Christians, while only 10 percent agreed Christians have it easier. In comparison, 53 percent of Clinton voters said Christians have it easier, and only 5 percent said other groups do, while the rest believed there was no difference.
The difference Trump voters saw shined through when asked separately about Christian, Jewish, and Muslim people. The poll found that 64 percent of Trump voters believed Christians face “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination, compared to 48 percent who felt the same for Jews, and 60 percent for Muslims. In a separate question, Trump voters also described anti-Semitism as a far less serious problem in the United States.
Only 17 percent of Clinton voters felt Christians face high levels of discrimination, compared to 58 percent for Jews and 95 percent for Muslims.
Trump-voter apathy for other vulnerable groups followed a similar pattern. For LGBTQ people, only 41 percent of Trump voters considered discrimination a big problem, compared to 92 percent of Clinton voters. Likewise, only 46 percent of Trump voters were concerned with discrimination against immigrants compared to 92 percent of Clinton voters.
The juxtaposition between their responses for LGBTQ people and Christians seems to reflect years of conservatives claiming that expanding LGBTQ equality infringes on the “religious freedom” of Christians to discriminate against LGBTQ rights. This was particularly evident in the recent Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case, in which a Christian baker claimed he should be allowed to refuse to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples.
The poll did not ask respondents to comment directly on how much discrimination they perceive white people as experiencing, but they were asked whether white people or black people have it easier. Only 17 percent of Trump voters said white people have it easier, while 65 percent believed there was no difference. Meanwhile, 79 percent of Clinton voters believe white people have it easier.
When asked about various non-white groups, Trump voters consistently expressed less concern about discrimination than Clinton voters, including for Arab Americans (53 percent vs. 91 percent), Asian Americans (27 percent vs. 64 percent), African Americans (38 percent vs. 90 percent), and Mexican Americans (42 percent vs. 90 percent). For each of those groups, except for Asian Americans, Clinton voters were also far more likely to respond that there’s “a great deal” of discrimination, while Trump voters were more likely to state there was only “a fair amount.”
Compared to Clinton voters, Trump voters were notably less concerned with issues like gay rights, health care, Medicare, education, the environment, and gun control and more concerned about taxes, the budget deficit, terrorism, and immigration.
THOMAS JEFFERSON CALLED THEM "RUBBISH" PEOPLE
BEN FRANKLIN CALLED THEM "WASTE" PEOPLE
TRUMP CALLS THEM his "base"
These idiots are the people who lack the intelligence and morality to understand they are just FOOLS.
Georgia mayor goes on racist rant after county stops Black Voters Matter from helping elderly vote
The mayor works in Jefferson County, where administrators stopped the group from bringing seniors to the polls.
KIRA LERNER - thinkprogress
OCT 17, 2018, 3:10 PM
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA — The mayor of a Georgia town in the same county where administrators blocked Black Voters Matter from bringing elderly black voters to the polls said on Facebook Wednesday that the group’s work is “utterly reprehensible.”
Barstow, Georgia Mayor Robert Morris, whose Facebook includes a number of racist posts, shared a status on Facebook two days after the county decided to prevent Black Voters Matter from bringing seniors to the polls.
“It is utterly reprehensible that your group maintains that all black voters should vote for a black candidate just because they are the same color as you,” he wrote.
“A man named Jim Jones once ran an organization like that. Better check that Koolaid you are serving up.”
Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown responded to the comment on the group’s Facebook page without knowing Morris’ role in Jefferson County.
“[I]f you knew our work you would know we have supported and continue to support both white and Black candidates,” she wrote. “We support the best candidate for us. Your message makes an assumption based on your own racial bias.”
Morris is the mayor of Bartow, a small town of just 286 people located 10 miles south of Louisville, where Black Voters Matter organized an event at a county-run senior center. Jefferson County is roughly 53 percent black, according to Census data. A historical plaque marking where a slave market once operated stands just down the street from the senior center.
Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter’s other co-founder, told ThinkProgress that Morris’ views are shared by an alarming number of people.
“It is really a reflection of how as soon as we say ‘Black voters matter,’ all people like that hear is we only want to vote for black people because they’re black versus because of what the issues are,” Albright said.
“It’s a reflection of their own biases because they know it’s how they operate, and they assume that the way we see power is the same as the way they see power. In reality, right now we’re supporting several white candidates.”
Albright noted that most people first learned about their organization last year, when they helped Doug Jones, a white candidate, win his seat in the Senate in Alabama.
On his Facebook page, Morris also shared racist and Islamophobic memes, including one on Wednesday asking: “If a fox came to your home, would you put him in your chicken coop hoping he would integrate? Didn’t think so. Stop the invasion of Islam into the free world.”
He also shared on Wednesday Jefferson County’s official statement about Black Voters Matter’s activity at the senior center.
Morris did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Morris isn’t the only Jefferson County official to express his political beliefs on Facebook. Adam Brett, the county administrator who made the decision to have the seniors removed from the bus, wrote on Facebook in 2016 asking his Democratic friends to name one thing the government does well. “I don’t think my belief in limited government will change any time soon.”
On Wednesday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams rallied in Louisville at an event attended by Black Voters Matter and the seniors who were removed from their bus.
“Even if there are obstacles, we have to recognize that those obstacles are only permanent if we don’t fight them,” Abrams said about the voter intimidation. “We want to make certain that the folks of Louisville in Jefferson County understand that we are standing with them as they cast their votes.”
Barstow, Georgia Mayor Robert Morris, whose Facebook includes a number of racist posts, shared a status on Facebook two days after the county decided to prevent Black Voters Matter from bringing seniors to the polls.
“It is utterly reprehensible that your group maintains that all black voters should vote for a black candidate just because they are the same color as you,” he wrote.
“A man named Jim Jones once ran an organization like that. Better check that Koolaid you are serving up.”
Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown responded to the comment on the group’s Facebook page without knowing Morris’ role in Jefferson County.
“[I]f you knew our work you would know we have supported and continue to support both white and Black candidates,” she wrote. “We support the best candidate for us. Your message makes an assumption based on your own racial bias.”
Morris is the mayor of Bartow, a small town of just 286 people located 10 miles south of Louisville, where Black Voters Matter organized an event at a county-run senior center. Jefferson County is roughly 53 percent black, according to Census data. A historical plaque marking where a slave market once operated stands just down the street from the senior center.
Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter’s other co-founder, told ThinkProgress that Morris’ views are shared by an alarming number of people.
“It is really a reflection of how as soon as we say ‘Black voters matter,’ all people like that hear is we only want to vote for black people because they’re black versus because of what the issues are,” Albright said.
“It’s a reflection of their own biases because they know it’s how they operate, and they assume that the way we see power is the same as the way they see power. In reality, right now we’re supporting several white candidates.”
Albright noted that most people first learned about their organization last year, when they helped Doug Jones, a white candidate, win his seat in the Senate in Alabama.
On his Facebook page, Morris also shared racist and Islamophobic memes, including one on Wednesday asking: “If a fox came to your home, would you put him in your chicken coop hoping he would integrate? Didn’t think so. Stop the invasion of Islam into the free world.”
He also shared on Wednesday Jefferson County’s official statement about Black Voters Matter’s activity at the senior center.
Morris did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Morris isn’t the only Jefferson County official to express his political beliefs on Facebook. Adam Brett, the county administrator who made the decision to have the seniors removed from the bus, wrote on Facebook in 2016 asking his Democratic friends to name one thing the government does well. “I don’t think my belief in limited government will change any time soon.”
On Wednesday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams rallied in Louisville at an event attended by Black Voters Matter and the seniors who were removed from their bus.
“Even if there are obstacles, we have to recognize that those obstacles are only permanent if we don’t fight them,” Abrams said about the voter intimidation. “We want to make certain that the folks of Louisville in Jefferson County understand that we are standing with them as they cast their votes.”
Georgia Woman Says She’d ‘Be Up All Night’ If She Didn’t Report Black Man She Spotted Babysitting White Children
By Tanasia Kenney - atlanta black star
October 16, 2018
Days after a Georgia man says a woman reported him to police after spotting him with two white children, authorities have released the 911 call the stranger made revealing her flimsy justification for dialing the cops.
Corey Lewis, who is Black, said he first noticed the woman as he was leaving a Walmart in metro Atlanta with a 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy he was babysitting that day. Lewis, 27, said the woman approached them in the parking lot and asked if the children were OK.
“Why wouldn’t they be OK?” Lewis replied before the woman drove off.
Moments later, the woman returned and asked to speak to the children to prove they were in safe hands. When Lewis refused, he says the woman followed them from the Walmart parking lot, to the gas station all the way to Lewis’ home where he was met by a Cobb County police officer.
“I’m being followed and harassed,” he tells the officer in video from the incident. “She followed me all the way home. She won’t pull up though … Got these little kids scared.”
Local station WSB-TV on Sunday obtained the call the unidentified woman made explaining why she called police in the first place.
“I see this Black gentleman with these two little white kids, so I just had a funny feeling,” the woman told emergency dispatchers. It was this same “feeling” she said prompted her to approach the children in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Ga.
She continued: “I rode around again and I said, ‘Let me see the little girl,’ and he goes, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘Well, let me just see the little girl and just see that she knows you.'”
Despite advice from the dispatcher discouraging the woman from following Lewis, she does so anyway.
“He just got gas and now he’s pulling away. Should I follow him?” she asks the dispatcher.
“No, ma’am. I recommend not following him,” the dispatcher replies.
Once Lewis and the children arrive at his house, a Cobb County officer arrives. The matter was eventually resolved after the officer questioned the siblings, Nicholas and Addison, and determined they were indeed OK. He then called in to check in with their parents, Dana Mango and David Parker.
The unnamed caller knew it was possible her suspicions might be unfounded, but said she’d feel guilty if she stood by and did nothing.
“If I’m wrong, that’s great, I’m thrilled,” the woman told the dispatcher. “But if I’m not, you know, then these kids are OK … it could be nothing, but I’m not sure and I figured, let me call up. And again, if I didn’t do this, I’d be up all night.”
Lewis, who run his own youth mentoring program, said the incident left him feeling as if his character was being “assassinated.”
Corey Lewis, who is Black, said he first noticed the woman as he was leaving a Walmart in metro Atlanta with a 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy he was babysitting that day. Lewis, 27, said the woman approached them in the parking lot and asked if the children were OK.
“Why wouldn’t they be OK?” Lewis replied before the woman drove off.
Moments later, the woman returned and asked to speak to the children to prove they were in safe hands. When Lewis refused, he says the woman followed them from the Walmart parking lot, to the gas station all the way to Lewis’ home where he was met by a Cobb County police officer.
“I’m being followed and harassed,” he tells the officer in video from the incident. “She followed me all the way home. She won’t pull up though … Got these little kids scared.”
Local station WSB-TV on Sunday obtained the call the unidentified woman made explaining why she called police in the first place.
“I see this Black gentleman with these two little white kids, so I just had a funny feeling,” the woman told emergency dispatchers. It was this same “feeling” she said prompted her to approach the children in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Ga.
She continued: “I rode around again and I said, ‘Let me see the little girl,’ and he goes, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘Well, let me just see the little girl and just see that she knows you.'”
Despite advice from the dispatcher discouraging the woman from following Lewis, she does so anyway.
“He just got gas and now he’s pulling away. Should I follow him?” she asks the dispatcher.
“No, ma’am. I recommend not following him,” the dispatcher replies.
Once Lewis and the children arrive at his house, a Cobb County officer arrives. The matter was eventually resolved after the officer questioned the siblings, Nicholas and Addison, and determined they were indeed OK. He then called in to check in with their parents, Dana Mango and David Parker.
The unnamed caller knew it was possible her suspicions might be unfounded, but said she’d feel guilty if she stood by and did nothing.
“If I’m wrong, that’s great, I’m thrilled,” the woman told the dispatcher. “But if I’m not, you know, then these kids are OK … it could be nothing, but I’m not sure and I figured, let me call up. And again, if I didn’t do this, I’d be up all night.”
Lewis, who run his own youth mentoring program, said the incident left him feeling as if his character was being “assassinated.”
they are just stupid!!!
American fascists explain how ‘ironic racism’ acted as a gateway to extremist hate
Tana Ganeva - raw story
12 OCT 2018 AT 12:20 ET
Red-pilling, a reference to the 1990s film “The Matrix,” has been co-opted by fascist groups to describe the process of “awakening” to white nationalist beliefs.
The blog Bellingcat collected a series of stories from seventy-five people who hold fascist beliefs.
Many chalk up their conversion to fascism to the election of Donald Trump, Bellingcat notes.
Interestingly, the forums are so heavily dominated by men that some users wonder if women can even be “red-pilled.”
“The vast majority of fascist activists are male,” Bellingcat points out.
“Some of these men even doubt that women can be red-pilled. The few users who identify themselves as female tend to be quite extreme in their beliefs.”
Many were converted online.
“Thirty-nine of the 75 fascist activists we studied credit the Internet with their red-pilling,” Bellingcat notes.
Many came to embrace fascist beliefs after initially only absorbing “ironic” anti-Semitism, sexism or racism.
Importantly, Bellingcat observes that the process is complex and can’t be boiled down to any individual factors.
“Human beings are not simple creatures, and so no person’s journey to such an extremist belief system can be boiled down to just “YouTube did it” or “4chan did it.” Millions of people have been exposed to ironic racism and /pol/ without going on to don a swastika armband,” they note.
“Radicalization is a process, and the goal of this study is to reveal several of the factors that can act to prime and nudge a young mind from laughing at Holocaust jokes to truly believing that Hitler did nothing wrong.”
The blog Bellingcat collected a series of stories from seventy-five people who hold fascist beliefs.
Many chalk up their conversion to fascism to the election of Donald Trump, Bellingcat notes.
Interestingly, the forums are so heavily dominated by men that some users wonder if women can even be “red-pilled.”
“The vast majority of fascist activists are male,” Bellingcat points out.
“Some of these men even doubt that women can be red-pilled. The few users who identify themselves as female tend to be quite extreme in their beliefs.”
Many were converted online.
“Thirty-nine of the 75 fascist activists we studied credit the Internet with their red-pilling,” Bellingcat notes.
Many came to embrace fascist beliefs after initially only absorbing “ironic” anti-Semitism, sexism or racism.
Importantly, Bellingcat observes that the process is complex and can’t be boiled down to any individual factors.
“Human beings are not simple creatures, and so no person’s journey to such an extremist belief system can be boiled down to just “YouTube did it” or “4chan did it.” Millions of people have been exposed to ironic racism and /pol/ without going on to don a swastika armband,” they note.
“Radicalization is a process, and the goal of this study is to reveal several of the factors that can act to prime and nudge a young mind from laughing at Holocaust jokes to truly believing that Hitler did nothing wrong.”
Racist man flies into berserk rage after seeing black Denny’s worker — then things get really ugly
Travis Gettys - raw story
11 OCT 2018 AT 13:40 ET
Rory French (KIRO)
A Washington man attacked a black kitchen worker on sight at a Denny’s restaurant — and then fought with police officers trying to arrest him.
The black cook said he went to a corner of the restaurant to take his break, and a customer — later identified as Rory French — immediately began using racial slurs against him, reported The News Tribune.
The employee went back to the kitchen to get away from the angry man, who continued taunting the cook.
“You are going down, I am going to kill you,” French allegedly said — punctuating each threat with a racial slur.
Another customer stepped up to stop the 41-year-old French, who punched the man three times before other customers wrangled him by the straps on his overalls, the newspaper reported.
Customers held French by his overalls until Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrived, and the good Samaritan returned to his chicken-fried steak breakfast.
A deputy tried to distract French so he would turn around to be handcuffed.
“Hey, what’s that?” the deputy said, pointing out a window behind French.
“That’s a nigger,” French said, without turning around.
Deputies moved to arrest French, who then raised his fist.
“He still wasn’t cooperative and assaulted one of our officers — and the fight was on,” said detective Ed Troyer.
Deputies took the Graham man to the ground, but French continued to resist their efforts to put him in neck hold.
The struggle continued until a deputy kneed French in the shoulder, and they were able to place him in handcuffs.
French, who has prior convictions for assault, was charged with a hate crime, malicious harassment, assault and resisting arrest.
“He was actually going after somebody because of their race,” Troyer said, “but then it became a fight with anybody and anything.”
The black cook said he went to a corner of the restaurant to take his break, and a customer — later identified as Rory French — immediately began using racial slurs against him, reported The News Tribune.
The employee went back to the kitchen to get away from the angry man, who continued taunting the cook.
“You are going down, I am going to kill you,” French allegedly said — punctuating each threat with a racial slur.
Another customer stepped up to stop the 41-year-old French, who punched the man three times before other customers wrangled him by the straps on his overalls, the newspaper reported.
Customers held French by his overalls until Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrived, and the good Samaritan returned to his chicken-fried steak breakfast.
A deputy tried to distract French so he would turn around to be handcuffed.
“Hey, what’s that?” the deputy said, pointing out a window behind French.
“That’s a nigger,” French said, without turning around.
Deputies moved to arrest French, who then raised his fist.
“He still wasn’t cooperative and assaulted one of our officers — and the fight was on,” said detective Ed Troyer.
Deputies took the Graham man to the ground, but French continued to resist their efforts to put him in neck hold.
The struggle continued until a deputy kneed French in the shoulder, and they were able to place him in handcuffs.
French, who has prior convictions for assault, was charged with a hate crime, malicious harassment, assault and resisting arrest.
“He was actually going after somebody because of their race,” Troyer said, “but then it became a fight with anybody and anything.”
Shotgun-wielding white man opens fire on black teen for asking for directions
Martin Cizmar - raw story
10 OCT 2018 AT 12:26 ET
A white man in suburban Detroit is on trial for allegedly shooting at a black teen who came to his porch for directions, reports Fox 2 Detroit.
Homeowner Jeffrey Zeigler is on trial for shooting at Brennan Walker on the porch of his Rochester Hills’ home.
On Tuesday, prosecutors showed surveillance video of Zeigler, a retired fireman, firing on the teen after he walked onto the porch and tried to knock on the door. The teen then runs away as Ziegler runs into frame and fires.
On the stand Tuesday a police officer testified that he asked Zeigler why he fired on the teen and got a chilling answer.
“I said sir, can you point out to me where he charged your door, at what point was he a threat?” said the officer said. “Mr. Ziegler at this point is just sitting there and I said you took aim at him. You know sir, can you respect what I do and just admit that you aimed your weapon at this young man. He took a big drink of water, he looked at me and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim.'”
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Homeowner Jeffrey Zeigler is on trial for shooting at Brennan Walker on the porch of his Rochester Hills’ home.
On Tuesday, prosecutors showed surveillance video of Zeigler, a retired fireman, firing on the teen after he walked onto the porch and tried to knock on the door. The teen then runs away as Ziegler runs into frame and fires.
On the stand Tuesday a police officer testified that he asked Zeigler why he fired on the teen and got a chilling answer.
“I said sir, can you point out to me where he charged your door, at what point was he a threat?” said the officer said. “Mr. Ziegler at this point is just sitting there and I said you took aim at him. You know sir, can you respect what I do and just admit that you aimed your weapon at this young man. He took a big drink of water, he looked at me and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim.'”
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White woman calls the cops on black Georgia man for babysitting two white kids
Brad Reed - raw story
09 OCT 2018 AT 13:31 ET
Georgia resident Corey Lewis is crying foul after a white woman first stalked him and then called the police on him because she feared for the safety of the two white children he happened to be babysitting.
Local news station CBS 46 reports that Lewis was in the parking lot of a local Walmart going on an errand with the two children he was babysitting when a white woman approached him and started questioning him about the children’s safety.
The woman then asked Lewis if she could talk to the children to make sure they were okay — and he refused, as he didn’t see why he should let a complete stranger talk to the children whose safety he was supposed to be guarding.
The woman then followed Lewis in her car all the way to the street where he lived before calling the police to report him.
An officer showed up on the scene and talked to the two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, who confirmed that Lewis had not kidnapped them. The police then called the children’s parents, who expressed disbelief that someone had told the cops to investigate their babysitter.
The mother of the two children, Dana Mango, told CBS 46 that she is stunned that anyone would call the police on Lewis.
“I said are you saying that because there’s an African American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned and he said I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,” Mango said.
Local news station CBS 46 reports that Lewis was in the parking lot of a local Walmart going on an errand with the two children he was babysitting when a white woman approached him and started questioning him about the children’s safety.
The woman then asked Lewis if she could talk to the children to make sure they were okay — and he refused, as he didn’t see why he should let a complete stranger talk to the children whose safety he was supposed to be guarding.
The woman then followed Lewis in her car all the way to the street where he lived before calling the police to report him.
An officer showed up on the scene and talked to the two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, who confirmed that Lewis had not kidnapped them. The police then called the children’s parents, who expressed disbelief that someone had told the cops to investigate their babysitter.
The mother of the two children, Dana Mango, told CBS 46 that she is stunned that anyone would call the police on Lewis.
“I said are you saying that because there’s an African American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned and he said I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,” Mango said.
Neo-Nazi Couple Accused of Killing Man to Claim Squatter's Rights to His Home
Jeremy and Lorena Shaw are accused of a bizarre plot to murder a retiree and take over the man’s house so no one would notice.
Kelly Weill
daily beast
10.05.18 4:55 AM ET
A couple accused of murdering a man to take over his home were arrested wearing the victim’s distinctive clothing, after police caught them draining his bank account into their neo-Nazi roofing company’s PayPal account.
Jeremy Shaw, 39, allegedly scouted local homes in the hopes of killing the occupants and claiming squatter’s rights. Prosecutors say he found his target with Steven Morphis, a recently retired 67-year-old who lived alone. After he allegedly murdered Morphis with a flashlight, Shaw and his wife conspired to take over Morphis’ life, transferring the deed from his house and even wearing his clothes, authorities allege.
Shaw and his wife, Lorena, 37, had been planning the assault all month, according to a probable cause statement from authorities. The couple had researched “adverse possession,” a process by which, if a person lives on a property long enough, they can become the legitimate owners.
The couple allegedly drove around rural Washington looking for the perfect house: hidden from the street on a large plot of land, with a paid-off mortgage and, most important, only one occupant.“After doing research over the preceding months, Jeremy had selected Morphis’ property as the most attractive option, even taking Lorena on multiple ‘scouting’ drives past the residence,” according to the probable cause statement. On Sept. 6, the couple drew up a warranty deed that would transfer the property from Morphis’ name to theirs.
Breaking and entering wasn’t a problem for Shaw. Over a long criminal history, he’d previously been convicted of burglary, vehicle theft, various counts of robbery, forgery, and firearm violations.
Morphis was a Star Trek memorabilia collector. He had recently retired from a career at Boeing, and was settling into a quiet life in his rural home, his sister told investigators. One of his few regular visitors was a contractor who did yard work on the property.
“Morphis lived alone and not particularly active socially, such that the arrival of the contractor was usually occasion for a warm greeting and conversation,” the probable cause document reads.
But when the contractor visited the house on Sept. 20, he found it silent. Then he found the empty, grave-shaped pit dug in the backyard. His search for Morphis led him to a shed, where he found Morphis’ body wrapped in a tarp and bound with zip-ties.
“His head had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and his throat was slashed,” an autopsy found. “Each of these impacts caused many fractures of Morphis’ skull. Each one of these blows, independently, would have been fatal.”
But Morphis’ belongings took on a life of their own. The following day, police found his car more than 30 miles away, completely destroyed with fire and gasoline. His bank account continued to make transactions the day after he was discovered dead. On Sept. 21, someone used card reader to move $4,000 from his bank account to a PayPal account for “Aryan Enterprises.”
Aryan Enterprises is Shaw’s inexplicably Nazi-referencing roofing company, according to the probable cause statement. The business unofficially went by “Experienced Roofers,” according to Washington Department of Revenue records. Shaw lists the more polite business name on his Facebook profile, where he also describes himself as “Aryan.”
Morphis’ phone also disappeared from his home after the murder. Police traced the device to Shaw’s home on September 21, where they found Shaw wearing Morphis’ Boeing jacket. Morphis’ Star Trek collectibles and wallet were also inside the Shaw home, alongside Shaw’s own Nazi paraphernalia, meth, credit card readers, and fake ID printers, authorities allege.
Lorena told police that two days earlier, Shaw had knocked on Morphis’ door. When the senior citizen answered, Shaw “pepper-sprayed him and ‘bashed’ him over the head,” according to the probable cause document.
The couple has been charged with burglary, arson, theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, while Shaw faces an additional murder count and Lorena faces a rendering criminal assistance count.
On Monday, prosecutors moved to increase his bail from $1 million to $2.5 million.
“The requested amount takes into account the chillingly cold-blooded manner in which the brutal murder of Steven Morphis, a complete stranger to Jeremy Shaw, was methodically planned for weeks and then carried out, for simple greed,” prosecutors wrote.
Jeremy Shaw, 39, allegedly scouted local homes in the hopes of killing the occupants and claiming squatter’s rights. Prosecutors say he found his target with Steven Morphis, a recently retired 67-year-old who lived alone. After he allegedly murdered Morphis with a flashlight, Shaw and his wife conspired to take over Morphis’ life, transferring the deed from his house and even wearing his clothes, authorities allege.
Shaw and his wife, Lorena, 37, had been planning the assault all month, according to a probable cause statement from authorities. The couple had researched “adverse possession,” a process by which, if a person lives on a property long enough, they can become the legitimate owners.
The couple allegedly drove around rural Washington looking for the perfect house: hidden from the street on a large plot of land, with a paid-off mortgage and, most important, only one occupant.“After doing research over the preceding months, Jeremy had selected Morphis’ property as the most attractive option, even taking Lorena on multiple ‘scouting’ drives past the residence,” according to the probable cause statement. On Sept. 6, the couple drew up a warranty deed that would transfer the property from Morphis’ name to theirs.
Breaking and entering wasn’t a problem for Shaw. Over a long criminal history, he’d previously been convicted of burglary, vehicle theft, various counts of robbery, forgery, and firearm violations.
Morphis was a Star Trek memorabilia collector. He had recently retired from a career at Boeing, and was settling into a quiet life in his rural home, his sister told investigators. One of his few regular visitors was a contractor who did yard work on the property.
“Morphis lived alone and not particularly active socially, such that the arrival of the contractor was usually occasion for a warm greeting and conversation,” the probable cause document reads.
But when the contractor visited the house on Sept. 20, he found it silent. Then he found the empty, grave-shaped pit dug in the backyard. His search for Morphis led him to a shed, where he found Morphis’ body wrapped in a tarp and bound with zip-ties.
“His head had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and his throat was slashed,” an autopsy found. “Each of these impacts caused many fractures of Morphis’ skull. Each one of these blows, independently, would have been fatal.”
But Morphis’ belongings took on a life of their own. The following day, police found his car more than 30 miles away, completely destroyed with fire and gasoline. His bank account continued to make transactions the day after he was discovered dead. On Sept. 21, someone used card reader to move $4,000 from his bank account to a PayPal account for “Aryan Enterprises.”
Aryan Enterprises is Shaw’s inexplicably Nazi-referencing roofing company, according to the probable cause statement. The business unofficially went by “Experienced Roofers,” according to Washington Department of Revenue records. Shaw lists the more polite business name on his Facebook profile, where he also describes himself as “Aryan.”
Morphis’ phone also disappeared from his home after the murder. Police traced the device to Shaw’s home on September 21, where they found Shaw wearing Morphis’ Boeing jacket. Morphis’ Star Trek collectibles and wallet were also inside the Shaw home, alongside Shaw’s own Nazi paraphernalia, meth, credit card readers, and fake ID printers, authorities allege.
Lorena told police that two days earlier, Shaw had knocked on Morphis’ door. When the senior citizen answered, Shaw “pepper-sprayed him and ‘bashed’ him over the head,” according to the probable cause document.
The couple has been charged with burglary, arson, theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, while Shaw faces an additional murder count and Lorena faces a rendering criminal assistance count.
On Monday, prosecutors moved to increase his bail from $1 million to $2.5 million.
“The requested amount takes into account the chillingly cold-blooded manner in which the brutal murder of Steven Morphis, a complete stranger to Jeremy Shaw, was methodically planned for weeks and then carried out, for simple greed,” prosecutors wrote.
Neo-Nazi activist behind racist robocalls linked to threats of Idaho newspaper
Sandpoint Reader is target of new calls describing publisher as ‘cancer’ that ‘needs to be burned out’
Jason Wilson in Portland, Oregon
the guardian
Fri 28 Sep 2018 06.00 EDT
Scott D Rhodes, left, being questioned by Sandpoint police. Photograph: Sandpoint Police department
A neo-Nazi activist who sent out hostile and abusive robocalls aimed at top politicians and others has been linked to threats to the publisher of a small local newspaper that first exposed his activities.
Scott Rhodes, who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, was first identified by the Sandpoint Reader and linked with a campaign that targeted high-profile political races across the US and even murder victims with racist and antisemitic robocalls.
In recent days threatening robocalls and letters have been sent to the publishers of the Reader, an alternative newspaper, people linked to it and residents in the small rural town.
The robocall described journalist Ben Olson, the publisher of the Reader, as “a cancer on wholesome north Idaho”, adding that “cancer needs to be burned out”.
When Rhodes was asked about the call by the Guardian via email, he sent a link to a YouTube video that reproduced the robocall audio, and featured video of a large stack of copies of the Sandpoint Reader being set on fire.
That video has since been removed by YouTube. The hundreds of newspapers burned in the video represent a significant slice of the Reader’s print run, which Olson says is 5,000 a week.
The robocall was also embedded in an email sent to many residents, which read “Attached is a 56-second audio mp3 file of a public service alert”, and contained photographs of Olson.
One of those who received the call, retired journalist Jay Shelledy, said “it was very close to being, if not in fact, a physical threat”.
Olson said he received dozens of text messages and calls in the hours following the robocall from people who had received it on Thursday night. He also said the community had rallied around the newspaper, and he had received a spike in donations to help keep it running.
On Monday this week, Olson’s business partner Chris Bessler also received a letter containing more threats.
The unsigned letter’s content resembled the robocall. It said that Olson and Bessler would each be “named publicly” and “privately to the right people”, and threatened to contact advertisers if Olson was not dismissed as editor.
Then on Tuesday night, yet another robocall to Sandpoint residents called the newspaper “hate mail” and “mind poison”, and advised recipients that “when you see The Reader, take a stack and throw it in the trash”.
The Reader unmasked Rhodes last December, after the neo-Nazi activist left racist propaganda at local high schools. They also revealed that he had carried out similar activities in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rhodes makes a virulently racist video podcast called The Road to Power. He has been associated with similar robocalls in Idaho and at least five other states.
In May, Rhodes’s robocalls in California targeted Senator Dianne Feinstein, referring to her as a “traitorous Jew”, and urging listeners to relocate to north Idaho “where very white is very right”. August robocalls in Iowa targeted at the Hispanic community featured an impersonation of murdered woman Mollie Tibbetts. Another in Florida in September featured a racist impersonation of gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum. In 2017, Rhodes’s robocalls targeted elected officials in Virginia.
Rhodes has also been associated with robocalls closer to his base in north Idaho. Calls in June defended an official in Spokane, Washington, who was accused of making racist remarks on Facebook. And in 2015, antisemitic robocalls attacked Sandpoint mayor, Shelby Rognstad, who was also later targeted in hateful print propaganda that Rhodes distributed. These calls came not long after Rhodes moved to Sandpoint.
Early last month, another robocall to Sandpoint residents promoted a visit by neo-Nazi and former California GOP senate candidate, Patrick Little. Little became notorious for openly antisemitic messaging in his campaign, and claims to have launched a blimp featuring the slogan “Jews Rape Kids” over San Francisco Bay.
In the August robocall, Little said: “I’ll be arriving shortly to make Sandpoint one of my new regional capitals throughout the country.”
On the social network Gab, which is favored by the far right for its self-described “free speech” stance, Little has been promoting a national tour, in which he claims to have stopped in Sandpoint. Little’s antisemitic posts led Microsoft to threaten to kick Gab off its hosting service in August.
The voice on Thursday’s Sandpoint robocall resembles Little’s, and was identified as such by Olson.
Little did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email, Rhodes said that while “your assumption that by emailing to this address you are doing so to a specific person is incorrect … emails from this address can be accepted as representing the video podcast” – a podcast which only he has ever appeared on.In reference to the robocalls, Rhodes did not directly claim responsibility, but accused Olson of using the paper to “threaten and coerce”, adding that “clearly people felt it was time for him to be called out for it and that his advertisers now be held accountable for financing his terrorism”.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper recently estimated that Rhodes may have made up to 10,000 robocalls nationally. Citing Rhodes’s campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center described robocalls as a “new method of delivering hate”.
Scott Rhodes, who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, was first identified by the Sandpoint Reader and linked with a campaign that targeted high-profile political races across the US and even murder victims with racist and antisemitic robocalls.
In recent days threatening robocalls and letters have been sent to the publishers of the Reader, an alternative newspaper, people linked to it and residents in the small rural town.
The robocall described journalist Ben Olson, the publisher of the Reader, as “a cancer on wholesome north Idaho”, adding that “cancer needs to be burned out”.
When Rhodes was asked about the call by the Guardian via email, he sent a link to a YouTube video that reproduced the robocall audio, and featured video of a large stack of copies of the Sandpoint Reader being set on fire.
That video has since been removed by YouTube. The hundreds of newspapers burned in the video represent a significant slice of the Reader’s print run, which Olson says is 5,000 a week.
The robocall was also embedded in an email sent to many residents, which read “Attached is a 56-second audio mp3 file of a public service alert”, and contained photographs of Olson.
One of those who received the call, retired journalist Jay Shelledy, said “it was very close to being, if not in fact, a physical threat”.
Olson said he received dozens of text messages and calls in the hours following the robocall from people who had received it on Thursday night. He also said the community had rallied around the newspaper, and he had received a spike in donations to help keep it running.
On Monday this week, Olson’s business partner Chris Bessler also received a letter containing more threats.
The unsigned letter’s content resembled the robocall. It said that Olson and Bessler would each be “named publicly” and “privately to the right people”, and threatened to contact advertisers if Olson was not dismissed as editor.
Then on Tuesday night, yet another robocall to Sandpoint residents called the newspaper “hate mail” and “mind poison”, and advised recipients that “when you see The Reader, take a stack and throw it in the trash”.
The Reader unmasked Rhodes last December, after the neo-Nazi activist left racist propaganda at local high schools. They also revealed that he had carried out similar activities in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rhodes makes a virulently racist video podcast called The Road to Power. He has been associated with similar robocalls in Idaho and at least five other states.
In May, Rhodes’s robocalls in California targeted Senator Dianne Feinstein, referring to her as a “traitorous Jew”, and urging listeners to relocate to north Idaho “where very white is very right”. August robocalls in Iowa targeted at the Hispanic community featured an impersonation of murdered woman Mollie Tibbetts. Another in Florida in September featured a racist impersonation of gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum. In 2017, Rhodes’s robocalls targeted elected officials in Virginia.
Rhodes has also been associated with robocalls closer to his base in north Idaho. Calls in June defended an official in Spokane, Washington, who was accused of making racist remarks on Facebook. And in 2015, antisemitic robocalls attacked Sandpoint mayor, Shelby Rognstad, who was also later targeted in hateful print propaganda that Rhodes distributed. These calls came not long after Rhodes moved to Sandpoint.
Early last month, another robocall to Sandpoint residents promoted a visit by neo-Nazi and former California GOP senate candidate, Patrick Little. Little became notorious for openly antisemitic messaging in his campaign, and claims to have launched a blimp featuring the slogan “Jews Rape Kids” over San Francisco Bay.
In the August robocall, Little said: “I’ll be arriving shortly to make Sandpoint one of my new regional capitals throughout the country.”
On the social network Gab, which is favored by the far right for its self-described “free speech” stance, Little has been promoting a national tour, in which he claims to have stopped in Sandpoint. Little’s antisemitic posts led Microsoft to threaten to kick Gab off its hosting service in August.
The voice on Thursday’s Sandpoint robocall resembles Little’s, and was identified as such by Olson.
Little did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email, Rhodes said that while “your assumption that by emailing to this address you are doing so to a specific person is incorrect … emails from this address can be accepted as representing the video podcast” – a podcast which only he has ever appeared on.In reference to the robocalls, Rhodes did not directly claim responsibility, but accused Olson of using the paper to “threaten and coerce”, adding that “clearly people felt it was time for him to be called out for it and that his advertisers now be held accountable for financing his terrorism”.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper recently estimated that Rhodes may have made up to 10,000 robocalls nationally. Citing Rhodes’s campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center described robocalls as a “new method of delivering hate”.
Texas Lawmaker Who Says Same-Sex Marriage Leads to Pedophilia Accused of Sending Unsolicited Photo of His Penis to a Grad Student
Schwertner is running for re-election this year.
By David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement - alternet
September 26, 2018, 7:04 AM GMT
Texas Republican State Senator Charles Schwertner is being accused of sending a graphic text message to a University of Texas grad student. That text included, allegedly, a photograph of his genitals and a message saying, "I just really want to fuck you."
Senator Schwertner, who is married and has three children, denies the allegation. University officials say they are considering banning him if the allegation proves to be true, the American-Statesman reports.
The conservative Republican met the student at a university on-campus event. She told him she was interested in working in the legislature. They exchanged messaged via LinkedIn before moving to text messaging.
But all of a sudden, "Schwertner abruptly wrote, 'I just really want to f—- you,' and sent her an image that appeared to be a picture of his genitals that was taken in the shower, according to a UT official who has seen the exchange and the photo. The image does not include his face, the official said."
The senator's office issued a statement saying he "categorically denies any knowledge of the accusations leveled against him and only became aware of this allegation when contacted by the media."
Schwertner is running for re-election this year. Voters will choose between him and Democrat Meg Walsh.
In 2014 Sen. Schwertner signed on to an amicus brief supporting the false claim that legal "recognition of same-sex marriage ‘could lead to the recognition of bigamy, incest, pedophilia, and group marriage,'” as HuffPost reported. Other signatories included Ken Paxton, now the state's Attorney General, and Dan Patrick, now the state's Lt. Governor. Patrick, a very powerful far right wing conservative, has endorsed Schwertner for re-election.
Senator Schwertner, who is married and has three children, denies the allegation. University officials say they are considering banning him if the allegation proves to be true, the American-Statesman reports.
The conservative Republican met the student at a university on-campus event. She told him she was interested in working in the legislature. They exchanged messaged via LinkedIn before moving to text messaging.
But all of a sudden, "Schwertner abruptly wrote, 'I just really want to f—- you,' and sent her an image that appeared to be a picture of his genitals that was taken in the shower, according to a UT official who has seen the exchange and the photo. The image does not include his face, the official said."
The senator's office issued a statement saying he "categorically denies any knowledge of the accusations leveled against him and only became aware of this allegation when contacted by the media."
Schwertner is running for re-election this year. Voters will choose between him and Democrat Meg Walsh.
In 2014 Sen. Schwertner signed on to an amicus brief supporting the false claim that legal "recognition of same-sex marriage ‘could lead to the recognition of bigamy, incest, pedophilia, and group marriage,'” as HuffPost reported. Other signatories included Ken Paxton, now the state's Attorney General, and Dan Patrick, now the state's Lt. Governor. Patrick, a very powerful far right wing conservative, has endorsed Schwertner for re-election.
White Man Tries To Thwart Black Women’s Photo Shoot by Claiming Sidewalk Is His Property
By Tanasia Kenney - atlanta black star
September 25, 2018
Forget BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and Pool Patrol Paul. There’s a new provocateur in town.
A man earned himself the nickname “Permit Model” this weekend after interrupting a group of Black women working on a photo shoot in Dallas.
Video of the incident, shared by Twitter user “Brother Tyrone X,” shows a white antagonist arguing with the women as they snap photos of their model. The man poses behind the women, making sure he’ll be featured in their glam shots. It’s unclear where the Twitter user obtained the video.
It’s unclear what transpired before the confrontation, but the man seemed eager to have the women stop photographing at the location, which appeared to be near a sidewalk in front of an ornate iron gate. He refused to leave them alone, despite the women’s threats to dial police.
“Guys, this is Permit Model,” the woman behind the camera says. “He’s blocking our model while we’re trying to shoot.”
At one point, the man claims the ladies are on his property.
“Can you go get your paperwork, sir? We don’t believe you,” says the camerawoman.
“I don’t care whether — you’re trespassing,” he responds.
Another woman off-camera chimes in, “This is my property, so I’m asking you to leave.”
Rather than leaving them to their business, “Permit Model” tells the ladies he’s “just going to be in your pictures,” to which one of the women responds, “That’s fine, it can be a group shot.”
The man smiles smugly as he poses behind the model, leaning against a tree.
Their confrontation heats up when the camerawoman mentions the case of Botham Jean, the Dallas man shot and killed by a white female police officer in his own apartment earlier this month after the officer claimed she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own.
“As you saying that just because I’m white,” the man asks, seemingly offended.
“I’m saying that just because you’re getting goofy,” the camerawoman replies before moving her photo shoot into the street.
The bizarre video garnered plenty of reactions from users who wanted to see “Permit Model” face consequences for the unnecessary harassment.
“It’s not this dude’s responsibility to be telling people where they can and can’t take pictures,” one man wrote. “You don’t need permission to photograph on private property that’s open to the public. That’s why people are allowed to take selfies in restaurants, ballparks, etc.”
“This is what you call white privilege,” another person wrote.
One critic said he couldn’t wait to hear the man’s apology, writing, “I’m pretty sure [it] is going to go something like anger get the best of me thought they were really trespassing just wanted to be in the photo bull**** he’s a racist and we know it.”
A man earned himself the nickname “Permit Model” this weekend after interrupting a group of Black women working on a photo shoot in Dallas.
Video of the incident, shared by Twitter user “Brother Tyrone X,” shows a white antagonist arguing with the women as they snap photos of their model. The man poses behind the women, making sure he’ll be featured in their glam shots. It’s unclear where the Twitter user obtained the video.
It’s unclear what transpired before the confrontation, but the man seemed eager to have the women stop photographing at the location, which appeared to be near a sidewalk in front of an ornate iron gate. He refused to leave them alone, despite the women’s threats to dial police.
“Guys, this is Permit Model,” the woman behind the camera says. “He’s blocking our model while we’re trying to shoot.”
At one point, the man claims the ladies are on his property.
“Can you go get your paperwork, sir? We don’t believe you,” says the camerawoman.
“I don’t care whether — you’re trespassing,” he responds.
Another woman off-camera chimes in, “This is my property, so I’m asking you to leave.”
Rather than leaving them to their business, “Permit Model” tells the ladies he’s “just going to be in your pictures,” to which one of the women responds, “That’s fine, it can be a group shot.”
The man smiles smugly as he poses behind the model, leaning against a tree.
Their confrontation heats up when the camerawoman mentions the case of Botham Jean, the Dallas man shot and killed by a white female police officer in his own apartment earlier this month after the officer claimed she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own.
“As you saying that just because I’m white,” the man asks, seemingly offended.
“I’m saying that just because you’re getting goofy,” the camerawoman replies before moving her photo shoot into the street.
The bizarre video garnered plenty of reactions from users who wanted to see “Permit Model” face consequences for the unnecessary harassment.
“It’s not this dude’s responsibility to be telling people where they can and can’t take pictures,” one man wrote. “You don’t need permission to photograph on private property that’s open to the public. That’s why people are allowed to take selfies in restaurants, ballparks, etc.”
“This is what you call white privilege,” another person wrote.
One critic said he couldn’t wait to hear the man’s apology, writing, “I’m pretty sure [it] is going to go something like anger get the best of me thought they were really trespassing just wanted to be in the photo bull**** he’s a racist and we know it.”
Matthew Heimbach Got a New Neo-Nazi Job
By Jared Holt | right wing watch
September 24, 2018 12:30 pm
Matthew Heimbach got a new job at a neo-Nazi organization with whom his now-defunct Traditionalist Worker Party organization shared an alliance before his group’s disintegration.
Heimbach was once the leader of one of America’s most high-profile neo-Nazi organizations, Traditionalist Worker Party, before a love triangle affair caused the organization to implode. Heimbach was arrested in March and recently took a plea deal after he violently attacked his spokesperson and father-in-law David “Matt” Parrott, who had confronted Heimbach about the affair Heimbach was having with Parott’s wife. After Parrott’s departure and Heimbach’s public humiliation, the Traditionalist Worker Party was absolutely devastated. Many within the white nationalist movement ridiculed Heimbach relentlessly, making him the subject of memes and even writing a fascist parody songabout his quandary.
After a summer in jail for disorderly conduct at a Trump rally in 2016, Heimbach reportedly resurfacedin Southeastern Tennessee, looking to re-engage with the white nationalist political scene in the area. After meeting with members of the local Democratic Party and reportedly telling officials that he wanted to “retake Southern Tennessee for traditional Democratic values,” Heimbach has returned to his roots within the white nationalist movement at the unabashed neo-Nazi organization National Socialist Movement.
National Socialist Movement and Traditionalist Worker Party previously acted in concert with the handful of neo-Confederate and white supremacist groups in the Aryan Nationalist Alliance (later rebranded as the Nationalist Front). In a press release circulated online yesterday by members of National Socialist Movement’s media team, Detroit National Socialist Movement commander Jeff Schoep announced that Heimbach had joined the organization as director of community outreach. This was further confirmed by announcements on the radio program produced by the National Socialist Movement, during which Heimbach appeared for an interview. From Schoep’s statement:
Uniting the best and brightest minds together under the NSM banner will bring about victory instead of disarray and infighting. Now is the time to show the enemies of our people the strength of a united front.
A new era of National Socialism has been unleashed upon the United States.
These are desperate times for our nation. It is time for all good men and women to come together to face off against the evil which has consumed our land.
Heimbach also penned a lengthy explanation regarding his decision to join National Socialist Movement that circulated alongside news of his new gig. In that essay, Heimbach wrote that “instead of dividing the movement with another faction” by creating a new white nationalist organization after the collapse of Traditionalist Worker Party, he felt “it makes far more sense to come together with my brothers and sisters to work to strengthen and improve an existing organization.” Heimbach said that he hopes to work with other members of the group to make the National Socialist Movement “the best White Nationalist organization in America.”
On a National Socialist Movement radio show yesterday, Heimbach expressed his excitement about working with the organization. One host joked that he felt “kind of Jewish” for working with Heimbach. Another host said he was happy to see Heimbach return to the movement.
In November, the National Socialist Movement plans to rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, to protest an alleged white “genocide” in South Africa—a myth debunked by numerous reputable sources—and stated in a press release that the group hopes to raise attention about the supposed “systematic murder of tens of thousands of White South African men, women, and children.” The release also says NSM will plead to Americans to “avoid our children facing the horrific reality of being a hated and despised minority that is steadily pushed towards extinction.”
Heimbach was once the leader of one of America’s most high-profile neo-Nazi organizations, Traditionalist Worker Party, before a love triangle affair caused the organization to implode. Heimbach was arrested in March and recently took a plea deal after he violently attacked his spokesperson and father-in-law David “Matt” Parrott, who had confronted Heimbach about the affair Heimbach was having with Parott’s wife. After Parrott’s departure and Heimbach’s public humiliation, the Traditionalist Worker Party was absolutely devastated. Many within the white nationalist movement ridiculed Heimbach relentlessly, making him the subject of memes and even writing a fascist parody songabout his quandary.
After a summer in jail for disorderly conduct at a Trump rally in 2016, Heimbach reportedly resurfacedin Southeastern Tennessee, looking to re-engage with the white nationalist political scene in the area. After meeting with members of the local Democratic Party and reportedly telling officials that he wanted to “retake Southern Tennessee for traditional Democratic values,” Heimbach has returned to his roots within the white nationalist movement at the unabashed neo-Nazi organization National Socialist Movement.
National Socialist Movement and Traditionalist Worker Party previously acted in concert with the handful of neo-Confederate and white supremacist groups in the Aryan Nationalist Alliance (later rebranded as the Nationalist Front). In a press release circulated online yesterday by members of National Socialist Movement’s media team, Detroit National Socialist Movement commander Jeff Schoep announced that Heimbach had joined the organization as director of community outreach. This was further confirmed by announcements on the radio program produced by the National Socialist Movement, during which Heimbach appeared for an interview. From Schoep’s statement:
Uniting the best and brightest minds together under the NSM banner will bring about victory instead of disarray and infighting. Now is the time to show the enemies of our people the strength of a united front.
A new era of National Socialism has been unleashed upon the United States.
These are desperate times for our nation. It is time for all good men and women to come together to face off against the evil which has consumed our land.
Heimbach also penned a lengthy explanation regarding his decision to join National Socialist Movement that circulated alongside news of his new gig. In that essay, Heimbach wrote that “instead of dividing the movement with another faction” by creating a new white nationalist organization after the collapse of Traditionalist Worker Party, he felt “it makes far more sense to come together with my brothers and sisters to work to strengthen and improve an existing organization.” Heimbach said that he hopes to work with other members of the group to make the National Socialist Movement “the best White Nationalist organization in America.”
On a National Socialist Movement radio show yesterday, Heimbach expressed his excitement about working with the organization. One host joked that he felt “kind of Jewish” for working with Heimbach. Another host said he was happy to see Heimbach return to the movement.
In November, the National Socialist Movement plans to rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, to protest an alleged white “genocide” in South Africa—a myth debunked by numerous reputable sources—and stated in a press release that the group hopes to raise attention about the supposed “systematic murder of tens of thousands of White South African men, women, and children.” The release also says NSM will plead to Americans to “avoid our children facing the horrific reality of being a hated and despised minority that is steadily pushed towards extinction.”
Here’s how a Texas militia planned to assault Islamic convention participants in Houston
"Those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence."
CASEY MICHEL - thinkprogress
SEP 23, 2018, 2:05 PM
Earlier this month, a group of a few dozen armed members of the Texas Patriot Network — an extreme right organization supposedly fighting for the “true heart of Texas” — decided to protest the Islamic Society of North America’s conference in downtown Houston.
The scraggly, unkempt group found themselves significantly outnumbered by counterprotesters, and spent most of the day calling for convention-goers to either leave Texas or convert to Christianity. While they were largely peaceful, one Texas Patriot Network, as the Houston Chronicle reported, sprinted past a police barrier to punch a counterprotester.
However, new leaked chat logs show just how much violence the Texas Patriot Network was preparing for — and whom they planned on targeting.
The logs, unearthed by left-wing blog It’s Going Down, reveal that Texas Patriot Network members — who were protesting alongside members of the Soldiers of Odin, a group founded by white supremacists — had planned to isolate and attack counter-protesters.
Communicating via Zello, one of the Texas Patriot Network members said that “those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence.”
The Texas Patriot Network members also discussed how to assault counter-protesters where police couldn’t see them. (Said one, “I’m just gonna have to play this out and see if I get lucky. It depends on where the police are gonna be.”) For good measure, the Texas Patriot Network members also laced their back-and-forths with plenty of bigotry along the way, describing the day’s festivities at the conference as full of “stupid little goatfucking music.”
“These leaked conversations, if authenticated, clearly indicate a coordinated plot by armed members of white supremacist and Islamophobic groups to harm innocent civilians,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “This potentially deadly plot must be investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the perpetrators brought to justice.”
As it is, the protest appeared largely a bust for the Texas Patriot Network, which was also joined by members of the so-called “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys group. Not only did counter-protesters significantly outnumber the Texas Patriot Network front, but no one from the convention even appeared that interested in the Texas Patriot Network in the first place.
The protest came about two years after Russian operatives convinced a handful of armed white supremacists in Houston to organize a similar rally. Ironically, the Texas Patriot Network page even featured a post from one of the fake Russian pages, called the “Heart of Texas.”
The Texas Patriot Network group hasn’t gained much state-wide or national attention, and appears to be a knock-off of better-known Texas-based far-right organizations — such as the This is Texas Freedom Force organization behind a massive armed rally in Houston last year.
Like other similar organizations, and despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, the Texas Patriot Network claims they are not white supremacists: “We ARE NOT racists We ARE NOT bigots We ARE NOT a hate group We ARE NOT militia We ARE NOT the silent majority any longer [sic]!”
In a video from the convention, the Texas Patriot Network’s Doc Greene said they were simply there to spread the Christian faith, and to discuss the “power” of the American Constitution. “We’re gonna be down here today sharing the love of our lord, Jesus Christ…and talking about why the Constitution is wonderful and very near to the Holy Scriptures in power,” Greene said. (Greene would later complain about the meager turnout, saying that the “only thing that we’re a little unhappy about right now is we only have about 15 patriots down here.”)
Still, the leaked chats reveal a far darker component of the Texas Patriot Network’s aims — as does a quick glimpse through its Facebook page, which is full of posts from far-right conspiracy sites, posts from Texas secessionists, and claims that Houston is “becoming the slums full of radicals.”
The page also reveals just how sidelined the group appears to be, even within far-right militia circles in Texas. One post earlier this month complained about “trash-talking” the group has received from the more prominent This is Texas Freedom Force. They referred to the head of This is Texas Freedom Force as a “Narcissistic Coward and Bullshit Artist.” It remains to be seen what kind of terms they may have used in other chats that haven’t yet been leaked.
The scraggly, unkempt group found themselves significantly outnumbered by counterprotesters, and spent most of the day calling for convention-goers to either leave Texas or convert to Christianity. While they were largely peaceful, one Texas Patriot Network, as the Houston Chronicle reported, sprinted past a police barrier to punch a counterprotester.
However, new leaked chat logs show just how much violence the Texas Patriot Network was preparing for — and whom they planned on targeting.
The logs, unearthed by left-wing blog It’s Going Down, reveal that Texas Patriot Network members — who were protesting alongside members of the Soldiers of Odin, a group founded by white supremacists — had planned to isolate and attack counter-protesters.
Communicating via Zello, one of the Texas Patriot Network members said that “those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence.”
The Texas Patriot Network members also discussed how to assault counter-protesters where police couldn’t see them. (Said one, “I’m just gonna have to play this out and see if I get lucky. It depends on where the police are gonna be.”) For good measure, the Texas Patriot Network members also laced their back-and-forths with plenty of bigotry along the way, describing the day’s festivities at the conference as full of “stupid little goatfucking music.”
“These leaked conversations, if authenticated, clearly indicate a coordinated plot by armed members of white supremacist and Islamophobic groups to harm innocent civilians,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “This potentially deadly plot must be investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the perpetrators brought to justice.”
As it is, the protest appeared largely a bust for the Texas Patriot Network, which was also joined by members of the so-called “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys group. Not only did counter-protesters significantly outnumber the Texas Patriot Network front, but no one from the convention even appeared that interested in the Texas Patriot Network in the first place.
The protest came about two years after Russian operatives convinced a handful of armed white supremacists in Houston to organize a similar rally. Ironically, the Texas Patriot Network page even featured a post from one of the fake Russian pages, called the “Heart of Texas.”
The Texas Patriot Network group hasn’t gained much state-wide or national attention, and appears to be a knock-off of better-known Texas-based far-right organizations — such as the This is Texas Freedom Force organization behind a massive armed rally in Houston last year.
Like other similar organizations, and despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, the Texas Patriot Network claims they are not white supremacists: “We ARE NOT racists We ARE NOT bigots We ARE NOT a hate group We ARE NOT militia We ARE NOT the silent majority any longer [sic]!”
In a video from the convention, the Texas Patriot Network’s Doc Greene said they were simply there to spread the Christian faith, and to discuss the “power” of the American Constitution. “We’re gonna be down here today sharing the love of our lord, Jesus Christ…and talking about why the Constitution is wonderful and very near to the Holy Scriptures in power,” Greene said. (Greene would later complain about the meager turnout, saying that the “only thing that we’re a little unhappy about right now is we only have about 15 patriots down here.”)
Still, the leaked chats reveal a far darker component of the Texas Patriot Network’s aims — as does a quick glimpse through its Facebook page, which is full of posts from far-right conspiracy sites, posts from Texas secessionists, and claims that Houston is “becoming the slums full of radicals.”
The page also reveals just how sidelined the group appears to be, even within far-right militia circles in Texas. One post earlier this month complained about “trash-talking” the group has received from the more prominent This is Texas Freedom Force. They referred to the head of This is Texas Freedom Force as a “Narcissistic Coward and Bullshit Artist.” It remains to be seen what kind of terms they may have used in other chats that haven’t yet been leaked.
Ole Miss ex-chancellor faces backlash for complaining black women in tight dresses will lower property values
Travis Gettys - raw story
20 SEP 2018 AT 13:12 ET
The namesake of the Ole Miss journalism school has been called out for racist overtone in a Facebook post about dozens of arrests following a football game.
Ed Meek, namesake for the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media, posted a photo of two black women wearing skimpy dresses to complain about rowdiness after Saturday’s game that resulted in 40 arrests, reported The Daily Mississippian.
“I hesitated until now to publish these pictures but I think it important that our community see what the camera is seeing at 2 a.m. after a ballgame,” Meek posted Wednesday on his Facebook account. “I hear there were 180 police working the weekend but of all the pictures late night, the fights and scenes, I have seen no police presence. Chief of Police Joey East is quoted in the Mississippian as saying police made 40 arrest [sic] and that there were fights in most venues.”
“Enough, Oxford and Ole Miss leaders, get on top of this before it is too late,” Meek continued. “A 3 percent decline in enrollment is nothing compared to what we will see if this continues… and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue. We all share in the responsibility to protect the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally.”
The university’s longtime assistant vice chancellor for public relations and marketing later deleted the post, after widespread condemnation by students and Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.
“While we all want to ensure a safe, family-friendly environment at the University and in Oxford, I must condemn the tone and content of Ed Meek’s post from earlier today,” Vitter said. “The photos in his post suggest an unjustified racial overtone that is highly offensive. Ed, I urge you to withdraw your comment and apologize to anyone offended.”
Students wondered why Meek had singled out two black women for their attire.
“I’m confused… on Ole Miss game days, every other white female is dressed like this – especially if they are going out afterwards,” said student Twanna Gordon Phillips. “So by you posting these two black girls and the assumption you are making, (it) only makes you sound racist.”
Police said all the arrests were for public intoxication, although five were also charged with simple assault.
“Everybody had issues (Saturday) night. Every club, I think, had fights in it — it wasn’t just one area,” said police chief Joey East.
OPD made 40 arrests for public intoxication throughout the weekend, five of which were accompanied by simple assault charges.
The journalism school’s administrators called the post “highly offensive,” and said Meek’s comments did not represent their values or views.
An online petition was launched seeking to remove Meek’s name from the journalism school, and the former administrator apologized for his comments.
“I apologize to those offended by my post,” Meek said. “My intent was to point out we have a problem in The Grove and on the Oxford Square.”
Ed Meek, namesake for the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media, posted a photo of two black women wearing skimpy dresses to complain about rowdiness after Saturday’s game that resulted in 40 arrests, reported The Daily Mississippian.
“I hesitated until now to publish these pictures but I think it important that our community see what the camera is seeing at 2 a.m. after a ballgame,” Meek posted Wednesday on his Facebook account. “I hear there were 180 police working the weekend but of all the pictures late night, the fights and scenes, I have seen no police presence. Chief of Police Joey East is quoted in the Mississippian as saying police made 40 arrest [sic] and that there were fights in most venues.”
“Enough, Oxford and Ole Miss leaders, get on top of this before it is too late,” Meek continued. “A 3 percent decline in enrollment is nothing compared to what we will see if this continues… and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue. We all share in the responsibility to protect the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally.”
The university’s longtime assistant vice chancellor for public relations and marketing later deleted the post, after widespread condemnation by students and Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.
“While we all want to ensure a safe, family-friendly environment at the University and in Oxford, I must condemn the tone and content of Ed Meek’s post from earlier today,” Vitter said. “The photos in his post suggest an unjustified racial overtone that is highly offensive. Ed, I urge you to withdraw your comment and apologize to anyone offended.”
Students wondered why Meek had singled out two black women for their attire.
“I’m confused… on Ole Miss game days, every other white female is dressed like this – especially if they are going out afterwards,” said student Twanna Gordon Phillips. “So by you posting these two black girls and the assumption you are making, (it) only makes you sound racist.”
Police said all the arrests were for public intoxication, although five were also charged with simple assault.
“Everybody had issues (Saturday) night. Every club, I think, had fights in it — it wasn’t just one area,” said police chief Joey East.
OPD made 40 arrests for public intoxication throughout the weekend, five of which were accompanied by simple assault charges.
The journalism school’s administrators called the post “highly offensive,” and said Meek’s comments did not represent their values or views.
An online petition was launched seeking to remove Meek’s name from the journalism school, and the former administrator apologized for his comments.
“I apologize to those offended by my post,” Meek said. “My intent was to point out we have a problem in The Grove and on the Oxford Square.”
Shortey an avid Trump supporter!!!
Republican Trump booster used Craigslist ads, obscene photos and fake names for child sex trafficking: unsealed court records
Sarah K. Burris - raw story
16 SEP 2018 AT 23:45 ET
Former Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey will be sentence Monday for a case in which he pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking and the records in the case have now been unsealed.
According to News9, the documents reveal Shortey placed Craiglist sex ads, took obscene motel photos and used fake names to traffick underage boys.
In 2017, Shortey was filmed by the body camera of a Moore, Oklahoma police officer doing a “wellness check” after a call came in about a boy in a Super Eight Motel. It was there Shortey was found with the teen.
“I’m sorry, you guys are just freaking me out a little bit,” Shortey said to the officer.
“Yeah, that’s kind of what we do,” the officer can be heard saying on the video. The officers didn’t know at the time that Shortey was an elected official and at first didn’t believe it was his real name. The officer can be heard saying that the boy is 17 years old. Shortey then claimed he “didn’t know.”
The records show 14 ads were posted by Shortey on Craigslist identifying him as “…a married guy looking for a boy…” and requests, “…younger the better…”
Several of the Craigslist ads ask for correspondence and photos. The 17-year-old victim in the motel room exchanged nude photos.
Shortey identified himself as “Brian Tilley,” one of two fake names investigators said he used online.
The court documents reveal photos of stains in an unmade hotel bed, though the 17-year-old victim said that they probably weren’t from his interaction with Shortey.
Shortey was an avid Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign and served as the campaign’s state chairman in the Oklahoma GOP primaries, which Trump won.
“I am proud and honored to have been tapped as Chairman of the campaign for Oklahoma,” Shortey wrote on his Facebook Sept. 2015, according to The Lost Ogle.
“We are very excited for the opportunity to have Mr. Trump here,” he said announcing a rally for Trump at the Oklahoma State Fair.
According to News9, the documents reveal Shortey placed Craiglist sex ads, took obscene motel photos and used fake names to traffick underage boys.
In 2017, Shortey was filmed by the body camera of a Moore, Oklahoma police officer doing a “wellness check” after a call came in about a boy in a Super Eight Motel. It was there Shortey was found with the teen.
“I’m sorry, you guys are just freaking me out a little bit,” Shortey said to the officer.
“Yeah, that’s kind of what we do,” the officer can be heard saying on the video. The officers didn’t know at the time that Shortey was an elected official and at first didn’t believe it was his real name. The officer can be heard saying that the boy is 17 years old. Shortey then claimed he “didn’t know.”
The records show 14 ads were posted by Shortey on Craigslist identifying him as “…a married guy looking for a boy…” and requests, “…younger the better…”
Several of the Craigslist ads ask for correspondence and photos. The 17-year-old victim in the motel room exchanged nude photos.
Shortey identified himself as “Brian Tilley,” one of two fake names investigators said he used online.
The court documents reveal photos of stains in an unmade hotel bed, though the 17-year-old victim said that they probably weren’t from his interaction with Shortey.
Shortey was an avid Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign and served as the campaign’s state chairman in the Oklahoma GOP primaries, which Trump won.
“I am proud and honored to have been tapped as Chairman of the campaign for Oklahoma,” Shortey wrote on his Facebook Sept. 2015, according to The Lost Ogle.
“We are very excited for the opportunity to have Mr. Trump here,” he said announcing a rally for Trump at the Oklahoma State Fair.
Minneapolis microbrewery begs for $700K in donations to move out of ‘dangerous’ neighborhood after gentrification plan fails
Martin Cizmar - raw story
12 SEP 2018 AT 14:06 ET
A microbrewery in Minneapolis is seeking donations to move it’s brewery out of a “dangerous” downtown location after its hopes of helping gentrify the neighborhood failed, reports the Minneapolis Star.
Boom Island Brewing, which has been around for seven years making mostly Belgian-inspired ales, is asking customers to donate $500,000 to $700,000 to help it find a more suitable location.
According to the Star, owner Kevin Welch moved into the overwhelmingly white city’s most diverse neighborhood where he “hoped to be part of West Broadway’s transformation.”
Instead of a “transformation,” though, Welch and his employees have witnessed violence and seen customer’s cars damaged. They complain that “biker gangs started peddling drugs in the alley” outside.
The last straw was a fatal shooting of a black man who is unnamed in the Star story, Steven F. Fields. Fields was a hotel employee who was smoking a cigarette when he was murdered.
Boom Island taproom manager Jim Barnard worried that it could have been him who was shot since he had left the area only 90 minutes before.
“It would have been a complete innocent bystander just walking out,” said Kevin Welch. “At some point, you have to look out for the safety of your employees.”
Welch said that he and his wife “believe in the neighborhood and wanted to make the most out of it” but that he is now scared.
“I’m scared to walk out to my own car,” he said.
Welch told City Pages that he wants to be moved out by the end of the year, even though statistics show the neighborhood is actually getting safer.
“How much worse can it get when you leave on Friday night, and there’s bullets flying around?” asks Kevin Welch, owner and head brewer at nearby Boom Island Brewing Co. “The motivation is extremely dire for us to get the heck out of the area.”
Boom Island Brewing, which has been around for seven years making mostly Belgian-inspired ales, is asking customers to donate $500,000 to $700,000 to help it find a more suitable location.
According to the Star, owner Kevin Welch moved into the overwhelmingly white city’s most diverse neighborhood where he “hoped to be part of West Broadway’s transformation.”
Instead of a “transformation,” though, Welch and his employees have witnessed violence and seen customer’s cars damaged. They complain that “biker gangs started peddling drugs in the alley” outside.
The last straw was a fatal shooting of a black man who is unnamed in the Star story, Steven F. Fields. Fields was a hotel employee who was smoking a cigarette when he was murdered.
Boom Island taproom manager Jim Barnard worried that it could have been him who was shot since he had left the area only 90 minutes before.
“It would have been a complete innocent bystander just walking out,” said Kevin Welch. “At some point, you have to look out for the safety of your employees.”
Welch said that he and his wife “believe in the neighborhood and wanted to make the most out of it” but that he is now scared.
“I’m scared to walk out to my own car,” he said.
Welch told City Pages that he wants to be moved out by the end of the year, even though statistics show the neighborhood is actually getting safer.
“How much worse can it get when you leave on Friday night, and there’s bullets flying around?” asks Kevin Welch, owner and head brewer at nearby Boom Island Brewing Co. “The motivation is extremely dire for us to get the heck out of the area.”
the "best people"!!!
'Jail juvenile offenders until middle age', Trump health secretary argued in 1991 memo
Alex Azar rejected notion that juvenile who committed a crime was ‘salvageable human’
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
the guardian
Mon 10 Sep 2018 08.40 EDT
Donald Trump’s health secretary, who defended the administration’s child separation policy as “charity”, once argued in a private paper that repeat juvenile offenders cannot be rehabilitated and ought to be jailed until they reach middle age, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.
A 1991 legal memo written by Alex Azar, a former drug industry executive who is now secretary of health and human services (HHS), rejected the notion that a juvenile who committed a crime was a “salvageable human” who could be treated rather than punished.
Instead, the memo, written for a senior attorney at a private law practice, outlined the legal rationale for a criminal justice policy that favoured reducing and deterring crime via mass incarceration.
Azar is closely linked personally and ideologically to Brett Kavanaugh, the Trump administration’s nominee to the supreme court. The two men were among the first young prosecutors hired by Kenneth Starr when he became independent counsel and investigated the Clinton administration. In a tweet following Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court, Azar said the judge had been a “close friend for 30 years”.
Azar has recently come under scrutiny because HHS has been charged with overseeing the supervision of more than 2,000 children separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The separation policy was designed to deter illegal crossings into the US.
Azar has defended the policy. In a July interview on CNN, he said the care of immigrant children represented “one of the great acts of American generosity and charity”. He also said the children were being cared for in federal facilities by “well-meaning, altruistic individuals” and were happy and loved in a “compassionate environment”.
The policy of separating parents from their children has ended but it is unclear how hundreds of children who remain in US custody will be reunitedwith their families.
The 1991 memo on criminal justice policy, which explores the legal rationale for mass incarceration, was written when Azar was a fresh graduate of Yale Law School, working as a summer associate for Richard Willard, a Reagan administration lawyer and attorney at Steptoe & Johnson.
Willard is listed as a contributor to the rightwing Federalist Society, which helped choose Kavanaugh as a nominee, and is a leading conservative voice on legal matters. According to one person who has followed Azar’s career, the young graduate’s work for Willard was seen as a way to develop his conservative credentials.
In the memo, Azar wrote that he had collected evidence to “undergird” Willard’s thesis, which the two had discussed.
Willard favoured incarceration as a deterrent to criminal behaviour, “locking up” repeat juvenile offenders until they were in their 30s – an age when the memo said individuals were no longer prone to commit acts of violent crime. The memo supported the growth of privately run prisons to handle overcrowding. Azar also made the assertion that young black men committed the vast majority of violent crimes, citing as evidence the frequency of their arrest.
The analysis did not critically analyse whether there was racial bias in policing and did not address the moral implications of decades-long jail sentences for juveniles.
“Special juvenile courts were created in late 19th century with [the] idea that [a] juvenile was a salvageable human who needed treatment rather than punishment in criminal court,” Azar wrote, citing a report. “We see today that that is not the case.”
Caitlin Oakely, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the memo did not necessarily reflect Azar’s current view on criminal justice matters. But she declined to comment on what that view was.
“Doing research at the instruction of a senior partner during a brief summer associateship 27 years ago says nothing about Secretary Azar’s personal opinions or views,” she said. “This is a ridiculous insinuation even by the standards of the Guardian. He was a summer associate; he was tasked with research for someone else’s project for someone else’s purposes.”
Legal and criminal justice experts who analysed the memo for the Guardian said it in some ways reflected conservative views about criminal justice in the early 1990s, when crime in America was at its peak.
“It’s fairly clear that Azar was given a thesis in quest for a basis and then tasked with backfilling that thesis with any factual support he could muster,” said Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law. The thesis favoured over-enforcement, hyper-policing of communities of colour, and mass incarceration to bolster privatisation.
“With the benefit of hindsight since 1991, we all know this approach has proven to be an unmitigated disaster,” Kassem said. “The profit incentive that has come with privatisation has driven mass incarceration in black and other communities of colour to epidemic proportions, with all sorts of social, economic, and political consequences, including disenfranchisement.”
Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the thesis presented by Azar reflected a time when policymakers had lost faith in rehabilitation and believed incarceration was the only solution to crime.
“Unfortunately those views are still held by a few people,” he said. “And the attorney general, and some of the president’s policy advisers, happen to be among them.”
A 1991 legal memo written by Alex Azar, a former drug industry executive who is now secretary of health and human services (HHS), rejected the notion that a juvenile who committed a crime was a “salvageable human” who could be treated rather than punished.
Instead, the memo, written for a senior attorney at a private law practice, outlined the legal rationale for a criminal justice policy that favoured reducing and deterring crime via mass incarceration.
Azar is closely linked personally and ideologically to Brett Kavanaugh, the Trump administration’s nominee to the supreme court. The two men were among the first young prosecutors hired by Kenneth Starr when he became independent counsel and investigated the Clinton administration. In a tweet following Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court, Azar said the judge had been a “close friend for 30 years”.
Azar has recently come under scrutiny because HHS has been charged with overseeing the supervision of more than 2,000 children separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The separation policy was designed to deter illegal crossings into the US.
Azar has defended the policy. In a July interview on CNN, he said the care of immigrant children represented “one of the great acts of American generosity and charity”. He also said the children were being cared for in federal facilities by “well-meaning, altruistic individuals” and were happy and loved in a “compassionate environment”.
The policy of separating parents from their children has ended but it is unclear how hundreds of children who remain in US custody will be reunitedwith their families.
The 1991 memo on criminal justice policy, which explores the legal rationale for mass incarceration, was written when Azar was a fresh graduate of Yale Law School, working as a summer associate for Richard Willard, a Reagan administration lawyer and attorney at Steptoe & Johnson.
Willard is listed as a contributor to the rightwing Federalist Society, which helped choose Kavanaugh as a nominee, and is a leading conservative voice on legal matters. According to one person who has followed Azar’s career, the young graduate’s work for Willard was seen as a way to develop his conservative credentials.
In the memo, Azar wrote that he had collected evidence to “undergird” Willard’s thesis, which the two had discussed.
Willard favoured incarceration as a deterrent to criminal behaviour, “locking up” repeat juvenile offenders until they were in their 30s – an age when the memo said individuals were no longer prone to commit acts of violent crime. The memo supported the growth of privately run prisons to handle overcrowding. Azar also made the assertion that young black men committed the vast majority of violent crimes, citing as evidence the frequency of their arrest.
The analysis did not critically analyse whether there was racial bias in policing and did not address the moral implications of decades-long jail sentences for juveniles.
“Special juvenile courts were created in late 19th century with [the] idea that [a] juvenile was a salvageable human who needed treatment rather than punishment in criminal court,” Azar wrote, citing a report. “We see today that that is not the case.”
Caitlin Oakely, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the memo did not necessarily reflect Azar’s current view on criminal justice matters. But she declined to comment on what that view was.
“Doing research at the instruction of a senior partner during a brief summer associateship 27 years ago says nothing about Secretary Azar’s personal opinions or views,” she said. “This is a ridiculous insinuation even by the standards of the Guardian. He was a summer associate; he was tasked with research for someone else’s project for someone else’s purposes.”
Legal and criminal justice experts who analysed the memo for the Guardian said it in some ways reflected conservative views about criminal justice in the early 1990s, when crime in America was at its peak.
“It’s fairly clear that Azar was given a thesis in quest for a basis and then tasked with backfilling that thesis with any factual support he could muster,” said Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law. The thesis favoured over-enforcement, hyper-policing of communities of colour, and mass incarceration to bolster privatisation.
“With the benefit of hindsight since 1991, we all know this approach has proven to be an unmitigated disaster,” Kassem said. “The profit incentive that has come with privatisation has driven mass incarceration in black and other communities of colour to epidemic proportions, with all sorts of social, economic, and political consequences, including disenfranchisement.”
Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the thesis presented by Azar reflected a time when policymakers had lost faith in rehabilitation and believed incarceration was the only solution to crime.
“Unfortunately those views are still held by a few people,” he said. “And the attorney general, and some of the president’s policy advisers, happen to be among them.”
EXCLUSIVE: Clarence Thomas’ Wife Hired Ex-TPUSA Staffer Known For Saying ‘I Hate Blacks’
by Caleb Ecarma | meeia ite
Sep 6th, 2018, 12:57 pm
Conservative activist Chrystal Clanton, who was forced to leave the right-wing student group Turning Point USA last year after her racist comments were revealed, was hired by the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Mediaite has learned.
Clanton’s racist comments were made known publicly after the New Yorker obtained screenshots of text messages in which she wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Clanton served as TPUSA’s second-in-command — just below the group’s founder Charlie Kirk — for five years, before she left late last year after the nonprofit was made aware of the text messages and learned that they would be used in a story, according to multiple sources who spoke to Mediaite.
Shortly after she left TPUSA, Clanton was hired by Ginni Thomas — the wife of the only black Supreme Court Justice currently serving on the bench — to assist with her right-wing media ventures.
Clanton, Ginni Thomas, and Clarence Thomas were contacted for comment on this story, but they did not immediately respond.
“A True Honor to have videoed Donald Trump, Jr. — a real class act — today at the Trump Hotel for my next video interview coming at Daily Caller this weekend!” Ginni Thomas posted on Facebook in January. “Hat Tip to Crystal Clanton (who makes every day better and more fun!) for snapping some pictures too of our interviewee, and Sean Moody, our videographer!”
Ginni Thomas’ interview — which Clanton aided in the production of — occurred just over a month after Clanton’s racist comments were made public in the pages of the New Yorker.
Since then, Clanton has traveled to numerous events with Ginni Thomas.
According to several sources with direct knowledge, the ex-TPUSA staffer attended this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference with the Supreme Court justice’s wife. Additionally, Thomas and Clanton went to Dallas, Texas in June and paid a visit to TPUSA’s Young Women Leadership conference where the two posed for photos with activists and TPUSA staffers, as well as advocated for the ultra-conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be the next Speaker of the House.
Ginni Thomas currently serves on TPUSA’s advisory board and spoke at the nonprofit’s Women’s Summit in 2017.
Clanton “always idolized Ginni,” one source told Mediaite. She flaunts her relationship with the Thomases to conservative friends as a way to prove that the New Yorker‘s publication of her racist text messages did not ruin her career, other sources said. In July, Clanton shared a photo on Instagram of herself, Thomas, and Ginni Thomas having a “great weekend” together.
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Clanton’s anti-black comments, however, are not the extent of her controversial remarks.
Numerous sources who worked with Clanton detailed how she would exchange racist remarks regularly with other TPUSA staffers — including Alana Mastrangelo, who currently works for the group, and Timox Prax, who was allegedly forced out of TPUSA this year over “bigoted” remarks — using Snapchat.
One such message reviewed by Mediaite features a photo of a man who appears to be Arab and a caption written by Clanton that reads, “Just thinking about ways to do another 9/11.” (The source who provided Mediaite with the image requested it not be published to protect their anonymity.)
To keep up with their “Snapstreaks” — a feature in the app that counts how many consecutive days two users have used the app to communicate with each other — Clanton, Prax, Mastrangelo, and others would often send similar anti-Muslim messages that included remarks like “a bacon a day keeps the Islams away” and “Ramadan bombathon,” as well as taking pictures of their heads wrapped in towels to mock head coverings commonly worn by Arabs, according to sources who received the messages.
Clanton, Prax, and Mastrangelo were all contacted for comment on this story, but they did not respond to multiple requests.
During her time at TPUSA, Clanton was known as Charlie Kirk’s “enforcer,” per one source. Another person that worked with her joked that Clanton was “the person who made the trains run on time,” a reference to the common myth about fascist dictator Benito Mussolini using harsh policies to ensure efficiency in his country.
This meant that Clanton was in charge of “literally everything” — the conferences, the field work, and even TPUSA’s human resources department. She ran the show without much help from Kirk, who sources say is often preoccupied with boosting his own personal brand by appearing on Fox News and pursuing other opportunities in conservative media. Clanton’s work for TPUSA earned her high praise in Kirk’s 2016 book, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, in which he calls her “the best hire we ever could have made.”
“[Clanton is] integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer,” Kirk wrote. “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”
Other evidence of racism within TPUSA includes a HuffPost report on dozens of bigoted tweets posted by former and current staffers and a Mediaite report that revealed how TPUSA ignored its own black list to allow an alt-right activist who marched in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally to attend their Student Action Summit last year.
As for Ginni Thomas, she has long worked in conservative media. Going back to 2009, she advocated on behalf of the Tea Party movement by forming Liberty Central, an organization designed to fight the “hard-left agenda” supposedly pushed by then-President Barack Obama. Ginni Thomas went on to create the lobbying firm Liberty Consulting where she continued supporting the ultra conservative wing of the GOP. Since her Tea Party days, she has spoken at numerous conservative events and conferences, as well as penned columns and created videos for the Daily Caller, the right-wing website founded by Tucker Carlson. Per a Daily Beast report, Ginni Thomas responded to the Trump travel ban debacle by contacting a right-wing email list in an attempt at creating a “grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items.”
Most recently, Ginni Thomas’ social media presence — with which Clanton assists — has taken a hard-right turn.
As reported by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern — who has extensively covered Ginni Thomas’ antics — the justice’s wife mocked Parkland shooting survivors David Hogg and Emma González in Facebook posts that mirrored right-wing memes about the two young activists.
Clanton’s racist comments were made known publicly after the New Yorker obtained screenshots of text messages in which she wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Clanton served as TPUSA’s second-in-command — just below the group’s founder Charlie Kirk — for five years, before she left late last year after the nonprofit was made aware of the text messages and learned that they would be used in a story, according to multiple sources who spoke to Mediaite.
Shortly after she left TPUSA, Clanton was hired by Ginni Thomas — the wife of the only black Supreme Court Justice currently serving on the bench — to assist with her right-wing media ventures.
Clanton, Ginni Thomas, and Clarence Thomas were contacted for comment on this story, but they did not immediately respond.
“A True Honor to have videoed Donald Trump, Jr. — a real class act — today at the Trump Hotel for my next video interview coming at Daily Caller this weekend!” Ginni Thomas posted on Facebook in January. “Hat Tip to Crystal Clanton (who makes every day better and more fun!) for snapping some pictures too of our interviewee, and Sean Moody, our videographer!”
Ginni Thomas’ interview — which Clanton aided in the production of — occurred just over a month after Clanton’s racist comments were made public in the pages of the New Yorker.
Since then, Clanton has traveled to numerous events with Ginni Thomas.
According to several sources with direct knowledge, the ex-TPUSA staffer attended this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference with the Supreme Court justice’s wife. Additionally, Thomas and Clanton went to Dallas, Texas in June and paid a visit to TPUSA’s Young Women Leadership conference where the two posed for photos with activists and TPUSA staffers, as well as advocated for the ultra-conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be the next Speaker of the House.
Ginni Thomas currently serves on TPUSA’s advisory board and spoke at the nonprofit’s Women’s Summit in 2017.
Clanton “always idolized Ginni,” one source told Mediaite. She flaunts her relationship with the Thomases to conservative friends as a way to prove that the New Yorker‘s publication of her racist text messages did not ruin her career, other sources said. In July, Clanton shared a photo on Instagram of herself, Thomas, and Ginni Thomas having a “great weekend” together.
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Clanton’s anti-black comments, however, are not the extent of her controversial remarks.
Numerous sources who worked with Clanton detailed how she would exchange racist remarks regularly with other TPUSA staffers — including Alana Mastrangelo, who currently works for the group, and Timox Prax, who was allegedly forced out of TPUSA this year over “bigoted” remarks — using Snapchat.
One such message reviewed by Mediaite features a photo of a man who appears to be Arab and a caption written by Clanton that reads, “Just thinking about ways to do another 9/11.” (The source who provided Mediaite with the image requested it not be published to protect their anonymity.)
To keep up with their “Snapstreaks” — a feature in the app that counts how many consecutive days two users have used the app to communicate with each other — Clanton, Prax, Mastrangelo, and others would often send similar anti-Muslim messages that included remarks like “a bacon a day keeps the Islams away” and “Ramadan bombathon,” as well as taking pictures of their heads wrapped in towels to mock head coverings commonly worn by Arabs, according to sources who received the messages.
Clanton, Prax, and Mastrangelo were all contacted for comment on this story, but they did not respond to multiple requests.
During her time at TPUSA, Clanton was known as Charlie Kirk’s “enforcer,” per one source. Another person that worked with her joked that Clanton was “the person who made the trains run on time,” a reference to the common myth about fascist dictator Benito Mussolini using harsh policies to ensure efficiency in his country.
This meant that Clanton was in charge of “literally everything” — the conferences, the field work, and even TPUSA’s human resources department. She ran the show without much help from Kirk, who sources say is often preoccupied with boosting his own personal brand by appearing on Fox News and pursuing other opportunities in conservative media. Clanton’s work for TPUSA earned her high praise in Kirk’s 2016 book, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, in which he calls her “the best hire we ever could have made.”
“[Clanton is] integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer,” Kirk wrote. “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”
Other evidence of racism within TPUSA includes a HuffPost report on dozens of bigoted tweets posted by former and current staffers and a Mediaite report that revealed how TPUSA ignored its own black list to allow an alt-right activist who marched in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally to attend their Student Action Summit last year.
As for Ginni Thomas, she has long worked in conservative media. Going back to 2009, she advocated on behalf of the Tea Party movement by forming Liberty Central, an organization designed to fight the “hard-left agenda” supposedly pushed by then-President Barack Obama. Ginni Thomas went on to create the lobbying firm Liberty Consulting where she continued supporting the ultra conservative wing of the GOP. Since her Tea Party days, she has spoken at numerous conservative events and conferences, as well as penned columns and created videos for the Daily Caller, the right-wing website founded by Tucker Carlson. Per a Daily Beast report, Ginni Thomas responded to the Trump travel ban debacle by contacting a right-wing email list in an attempt at creating a “grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items.”
Most recently, Ginni Thomas’ social media presence — with which Clanton assists — has taken a hard-right turn.
As reported by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern — who has extensively covered Ginni Thomas’ antics — the justice’s wife mocked Parkland shooting survivors David Hogg and Emma González in Facebook posts that mirrored right-wing memes about the two young activists.
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