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apr 21, 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 from the stupid, the racist, the hypocrite, and the just
plain ignorant - the bottom 70%
the people who make-up the shithole
(sources: raw story, politicus usa, daily kos)
*genius: Illinois man busted on drug charges after taunting police on their social media site with racist slurs
A 20-year-old Illinois man was taken into custody on Wednesday after sheriff’s investigators, tracking his racist comments on their social media sites, discovered he was also posting pictures of his drugs and weapons.
*Family members turn in California man with ‘kill list’ of prominent Jewish entertainment figures
An Irvine man has been taken into custody after one of his family members alerted police that he spoke about committing murder, leading investigators to discover “kill lists” of local prominent Jewish leaders.
*Conservative whines Tammy Duckworth will ‘weaponize her baby’ on Senate floor — and the backlash is brutal
A day after it was reported that Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) would be allowed to bring her newborn daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey onto the Senate floor if necessary, a conservative pundit for Turning Point USA lamented the impact that baby could have.
*Minnesota man freed from mental hospital murders family with pipe wrench after they take him in: police
When interviewed by police while still wearing bloody clothing, he allegedly said that he did it because Dalton McFadzen, 21, and Denise McFadzen, 42, were “weird.”
*Unhinged conservatives spew venomous hate at author over viral tweet about daughter asking for a ‘girl’ dentist
An author shared an anecdote on Twitter about her young daughter complaining about having a “boy” dentist — and menacing threats and hateful comments poured in after a conservative gadfly directed his audience to the viral tweet.
*Horrifying video shows gay couple beaten in potential hate crime in a popular DC neighborhood
*Kansas City firefighter fired for spitting on 3-year-old black boy and calling him the N-word gets his job back
The Kansas City firefighter who was fired after he spit on a 3-year-old black boy and called him the N-word has gotten his job back.
*Colorado serial rapist wanted a ‘harem’ of girls — and used suicide threats to manipulate children: police
A Colorado man charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a child plotted to have a “harem” of teen girls across the country.
*WATCH: White Georgia man hurls racial slurs at black teacher in terrifying road rage incident
A white man in Georgia was arrested after he was caught on camera going off on a profane, racist tirade against a black teacher in a shopping center parking lot.
*WATCH: RACIST WHITE WOMAN IN GEORGIA CAUGHT VERBALLY ASSAULTING TWO BLACK SOLDIERS
*‘The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ sues Christian publisher to remove his name from bogus bestseller
The subject of the bestselling book “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven” has sued the Christian publisher Tyndale House after admitting his tale was entirely made up.
*The View’s Meghan McCain defends Trump’s porn star payout by comparing him to the founding fathers
*WATCH: Cory Booker hammers Mike Pompeo over his longtime friendship with anti-Muslim bigots
Watch an Ohio Racist Malfunction When Reporter Asks Which Side Won the Civil War
History is no friend to racists appealing to nationalism.
By Travis Gettys / Raw Story - alternet
April 20, 2018, 2:01 PM GMT
An Ohio man apparently decided his collection of lawn jockey ornaments wasn’t racist enough, so he placed afro wigs on them and set them among his Confederate flag displays.
Louie Jones Jr. lives in the Lindale home with his father, and he said the display has been up for years without complaint, reported WXIX-TV.
The lawn jockeys are joined by a black-faced figurine eating a slice of watermelon and a dark-skinned mannequin with an afro wig and large, garishly painted red lips.
“In no way, shape, or form should anybody think that it’s racist,” Jones insisted.
The homeowner’s friend Tammy helped him explain the demonstration, which she told Fox 19 reporter Maytal Levi had started with the Confederate flags and had grown to include the racist caricatures.
“They went up, a few of them at one time, and then a couple more were added, but the flags have always flown,” Tammy said. “That’s for our country.”
Jones said he was proud to display numerous Confederate flags, which he calls the “rebel flag,” alongside the lawn jockeys and a single U.S. flag.
“It’s not racist, it’s for the war that we won, you know,” Jones said.
Tammy clarified that her friend meant the Civil War, and the TV reporter seemed to genuinely confuse Jones when she asked if he believed the North or South had won the Civil War.
“We, as in the North,” Jones said, after a pause, and then turned to stare at passing traffic.
Then it was the TV reporter’s turn to be confused.
“That flag would be the wrong flag to fly,” the reporter said.
Tammy quickly interjected.
“Um, in some people’s eyes,” Tammy said.
Ohio remained with the Union during the Civil War, and Clermont County, where Jones lives, contains 33 historical sites on a self-guided Freedom Trail that includes 19 approved to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
The village of Lindale is about a five-minute drive from the birthplace of Ulysses Grant, the Union general who negotiated the Confederate surrender and was later elected 18th president.
Tammy explained that the lawn jockey ornaments were intended to honor “the first blacks that played the baseball game,” and then she tried to explain the mannequin.
“Like, the mother of the baseball players, basically,” Tammy said.
Jones said his family has been threatened over the display, but he had little explanation to anyone who believes he hates black people.
“Everybody hates everybody, you know?” Jones said. “It just depends on what you hate and what you like. It ain’t got nothing to do with race, we ain’t racial.” (video)
Louie Jones Jr. lives in the Lindale home with his father, and he said the display has been up for years without complaint, reported WXIX-TV.
The lawn jockeys are joined by a black-faced figurine eating a slice of watermelon and a dark-skinned mannequin with an afro wig and large, garishly painted red lips.
“In no way, shape, or form should anybody think that it’s racist,” Jones insisted.
The homeowner’s friend Tammy helped him explain the demonstration, which she told Fox 19 reporter Maytal Levi had started with the Confederate flags and had grown to include the racist caricatures.
“They went up, a few of them at one time, and then a couple more were added, but the flags have always flown,” Tammy said. “That’s for our country.”
Jones said he was proud to display numerous Confederate flags, which he calls the “rebel flag,” alongside the lawn jockeys and a single U.S. flag.
“It’s not racist, it’s for the war that we won, you know,” Jones said.
Tammy clarified that her friend meant the Civil War, and the TV reporter seemed to genuinely confuse Jones when she asked if he believed the North or South had won the Civil War.
“We, as in the North,” Jones said, after a pause, and then turned to stare at passing traffic.
Then it was the TV reporter’s turn to be confused.
“That flag would be the wrong flag to fly,” the reporter said.
Tammy quickly interjected.
“Um, in some people’s eyes,” Tammy said.
Ohio remained with the Union during the Civil War, and Clermont County, where Jones lives, contains 33 historical sites on a self-guided Freedom Trail that includes 19 approved to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
The village of Lindale is about a five-minute drive from the birthplace of Ulysses Grant, the Union general who negotiated the Confederate surrender and was later elected 18th president.
Tammy explained that the lawn jockey ornaments were intended to honor “the first blacks that played the baseball game,” and then she tried to explain the mannequin.
“Like, the mother of the baseball players, basically,” Tammy said.
Jones said his family has been threatened over the display, but he had little explanation to anyone who believes he hates black people.
“Everybody hates everybody, you know?” Jones said. “It just depends on what you hate and what you like. It ain’t got nothing to do with race, we ain’t racial.” (video)
Confederate revolt at Michigan ‘slave’ school was sparked after black girl snatched white boy’s flag
TRAVIS GETTYS - raw story
20 APR 2018 AT 08:47 ET
An ongoing demonstration of Confederate symbols outside a Michigan high school was apparently set off when a black girl snatched a flag from a white classmate’s pickup truck.
Classes were canceled Thursday at Bay City Western High School over a threat, although school officials later said no credible evidence was turned up about the rumors, reported WNEM-TV.
The demonstration started Tuesday, when six pickups waved Confederate flags outside the school, and swelled Wednesday to dozens of trucks bearing Confederate flags, Trump campaign flags, Punisher skull flags and Gadsden flags associated with the tea party movement.
After school was called off, some Western students and adults gathered at Auburn City Park to wave Confederate flags and hold a cookout.
The protesters expressed hostility to reporters at the park, complaining that they had been portrayed as racist in media accounts of the protest and conditions at the school, where the handful of black students who go there say they’ve been called “slave” and other racial slurs.
Student Cameron Myers said he organized the protest earlier this week after a black classmate removed the Confederate flag on his truck, which he said was vandalized with a racial slur.
“They wrote the ‘N’ word on the back of my truck,” Myers told WJRT-TV. “I have the video of her doing it, and they ripped down my flag.”
Myers said school administrators failed to act, although he said his truck was parked on school property at the time, and he complained he was the victim of a double standard.
“I want to do what’s right,” he said. “If I would have went to and touched her car, I would have been suspended. If I would have done anything to her car, I would have been suspended. So I want repercussions for what was done to my property.”
Myers said the flag represented “a country boy thing” to him and his friends, and he told a reporter the symbol has been “part of American history” since the founding of the U.S.
“We’re flying the flag because of injustice,” Myers said. “It looks cool in the mirror,” he said.
The Confederate demonstration has been met by counter-protesters waving rainbow flags to support LGBT rights and carrying Black Lives Matter banners, and they said the school’s tiny minority population had been singled out for abuse.
“I honestly don’t care if they fly the flag on their way home, but we have such a small minority population,” said student Kendrix Szilagyi. “We do not have a diverse school at all, it is a white majority for sure, so the fact that we have to come in every day with kids who already feel out of place, every single day they have to come and see these flags that represent far more all of the white students here could ever imagine.”
Superintendent Stephen Bigelow said he hopes outside organizations can help students discuss the controversy, and said his responsibility was to ensure a safe learning environment for all students.
“My concern is what (the Confederate flag) represents to some students in the building,” Bigelow said. “There’s certainly some racial undertones that could be taken with it.”
Classes were canceled Thursday at Bay City Western High School over a threat, although school officials later said no credible evidence was turned up about the rumors, reported WNEM-TV.
The demonstration started Tuesday, when six pickups waved Confederate flags outside the school, and swelled Wednesday to dozens of trucks bearing Confederate flags, Trump campaign flags, Punisher skull flags and Gadsden flags associated with the tea party movement.
After school was called off, some Western students and adults gathered at Auburn City Park to wave Confederate flags and hold a cookout.
The protesters expressed hostility to reporters at the park, complaining that they had been portrayed as racist in media accounts of the protest and conditions at the school, where the handful of black students who go there say they’ve been called “slave” and other racial slurs.
Student Cameron Myers said he organized the protest earlier this week after a black classmate removed the Confederate flag on his truck, which he said was vandalized with a racial slur.
“They wrote the ‘N’ word on the back of my truck,” Myers told WJRT-TV. “I have the video of her doing it, and they ripped down my flag.”
Myers said school administrators failed to act, although he said his truck was parked on school property at the time, and he complained he was the victim of a double standard.
“I want to do what’s right,” he said. “If I would have went to and touched her car, I would have been suspended. If I would have done anything to her car, I would have been suspended. So I want repercussions for what was done to my property.”
Myers said the flag represented “a country boy thing” to him and his friends, and he told a reporter the symbol has been “part of American history” since the founding of the U.S.
“We’re flying the flag because of injustice,” Myers said. “It looks cool in the mirror,” he said.
The Confederate demonstration has been met by counter-protesters waving rainbow flags to support LGBT rights and carrying Black Lives Matter banners, and they said the school’s tiny minority population had been singled out for abuse.
“I honestly don’t care if they fly the flag on their way home, but we have such a small minority population,” said student Kendrix Szilagyi. “We do not have a diverse school at all, it is a white majority for sure, so the fact that we have to come in every day with kids who already feel out of place, every single day they have to come and see these flags that represent far more all of the white students here could ever imagine.”
Superintendent Stephen Bigelow said he hopes outside organizations can help students discuss the controversy, and said his responsibility was to ensure a safe learning environment for all students.
“My concern is what (the Confederate flag) represents to some students in the building,” Bigelow said. “There’s certainly some racial undertones that could be taken with it.”
Muslim woman new in town got a flat tire – and a note, ‘Go home terrorist’
NJ.com - raw story
19 APR 2018 AT 09:54 ET
A photo of the note left on Kenya Robinson's tire April 11, redacted to remove profanities.
Kenya Robinson said she already felt like an outsider when she moved to Mount Holly recently, from Penns Grove in Salem County where she knew everyone.
But the 24-year-old was shocked when just two weeks after moving to the apartment in Burlington County with her two young sons, she found her car's tire flattened.
Next to the wheel was a note that called her a terrorist, used a racial slur and said she should "go home" because she was "not wanted here."
"I thought it was just trash and then I saw that my tire was flat," she said of the note she found April 11. "It was a 'go home' letter -- I'm from New Jersey."
Robinson said that although the note included the n-word, she believes she was targeted mostly because she wears a hijab and other clothing that makes it obvious that she is Muslim.
She said she never had anything like this happen before, and now she feels that people in the area are looking at her differently because of her attire.
"In Salem County everyone knows me, but here I feel uncomfortable. I feel like they don't know me because I'm an an outsider, plus the way I dress," she said.
Still, she said she can't believe that in 2018, some people still call any Muslim person a terrorist.
"I tell people all the time: Just talk to me, I'll tell you about my religion," she said.
Mount Holly Police Capt. Rich Spitler said officers determined that someone had let the air out of the tire, and they refilled it for Robinson. He said the department is taking the bias incident very seriously but he could not say much more without compromising the investigation.
"It's ongoing. We're not anywhere near done with it," he said.
Robinson said she moved to the second-floor apartment on Cherry Street March 28. While she didn't know anyone and felt kind of isolated, she had heard the public schools in Mount Holly were good. She has a daughter, Suhaylah, 4, and a son, Ibn'Anthony, 5.
She was heading to the grocery store on the afternoon of April 11 when she noticed her car's front driver's side tire was flat and saw the note. She called police, who asked her who she thought could have done it.
In a Facebook Live video she posted of her talking with police, she told them that she kept to herself and doesn't know anyone.
Police took the note, she said, and assured her they'd do extra patrols in the area.
But later that night, around midnight, someone started banging on a door at the apartment complex. Robinson said she believed it was her door, but Spitler said it was a communal, external door to the apartment building.
Robinson said the banging had her children "screaming and hollering" in fear. It stopped after about 10 minutes, when she yelled that she had called the cops.
Robinson said she hasn't had any trouble since then, but she's still shaken by everything.
"Every night I'm pacing. I feel paranoid," she said, suspicious that anyone who looks at her could be the one who left the note. "I put a chair under my doorknob so nobody can open my door."
She said she doesn't want to "let anyone run me from my home," but the experience does make her want to leave Mount Holly, especially if she continues to worry about her kids' safety.
In the Facebook Live video, her son Ibn'Anthony is seen scooting around the driveway on a plastic car and Suhaylah on a Thomas the Tank Engine. Now, Robinson said, she doesn't feel comfortable going outside.
"I don't walk outside, I don't do anything," she said.
But the 24-year-old was shocked when just two weeks after moving to the apartment in Burlington County with her two young sons, she found her car's tire flattened.
Next to the wheel was a note that called her a terrorist, used a racial slur and said she should "go home" because she was "not wanted here."
"I thought it was just trash and then I saw that my tire was flat," she said of the note she found April 11. "It was a 'go home' letter -- I'm from New Jersey."
Robinson said that although the note included the n-word, she believes she was targeted mostly because she wears a hijab and other clothing that makes it obvious that she is Muslim.
She said she never had anything like this happen before, and now she feels that people in the area are looking at her differently because of her attire.
"In Salem County everyone knows me, but here I feel uncomfortable. I feel like they don't know me because I'm an an outsider, plus the way I dress," she said.
Still, she said she can't believe that in 2018, some people still call any Muslim person a terrorist.
"I tell people all the time: Just talk to me, I'll tell you about my religion," she said.
Mount Holly Police Capt. Rich Spitler said officers determined that someone had let the air out of the tire, and they refilled it for Robinson. He said the department is taking the bias incident very seriously but he could not say much more without compromising the investigation.
"It's ongoing. We're not anywhere near done with it," he said.
Robinson said she moved to the second-floor apartment on Cherry Street March 28. While she didn't know anyone and felt kind of isolated, she had heard the public schools in Mount Holly were good. She has a daughter, Suhaylah, 4, and a son, Ibn'Anthony, 5.
She was heading to the grocery store on the afternoon of April 11 when she noticed her car's front driver's side tire was flat and saw the note. She called police, who asked her who she thought could have done it.
In a Facebook Live video she posted of her talking with police, she told them that she kept to herself and doesn't know anyone.
Police took the note, she said, and assured her they'd do extra patrols in the area.
But later that night, around midnight, someone started banging on a door at the apartment complex. Robinson said she believed it was her door, but Spitler said it was a communal, external door to the apartment building.
Robinson said the banging had her children "screaming and hollering" in fear. It stopped after about 10 minutes, when she yelled that she had called the cops.
Robinson said she hasn't had any trouble since then, but she's still shaken by everything.
"Every night I'm pacing. I feel paranoid," she said, suspicious that anyone who looks at her could be the one who left the note. "I put a chair under my doorknob so nobody can open my door."
She said she doesn't want to "let anyone run me from my home," but the experience does make her want to leave Mount Holly, especially if she continues to worry about her kids' safety.
In the Facebook Live video, her son Ibn'Anthony is seen scooting around the driveway on a plastic car and Suhaylah on a Thomas the Tank Engine. Now, Robinson said, she doesn't feel comfortable going outside.
"I don't walk outside, I don't do anything," she said.
lying or just stupid????
NRA flak complains about public Planned Parenthood funding, forgets NRA conventions are subsidized
Dana Loesch does not understand how non-profits work.
JOSH ISRAEL - think progress
APR 19, 2018, 10:09 AM
Dana Loesch, the National Rifle Association national spokesperson, is appalled and infuriated that Planned Parenthood’s political arm is part of a coalition planning to spend $30 million to help elect candidates who support abortion rights in the 2018 midterm elections, while its non-profit affiliate the Planned Parenthood Federation of America receives taxpayer reimbursements for providing medical care.
But while she falsely claimed that this unconnected funding amounts to “innocent American taxpayers who are being robbed,” she conveniently omitted the fact that her organization also has benefited from public subsidies as its own political arm has spent hundreds of millions on political advocacy.
“[Planned Parenthood] is a for-profit business,” Loesch incorrectly told Fox & Friends on Thursday, “and if they can afford to spent millions and millions of dollars on all of these Democrat [sic] politicians and buy influence in Washington, D.C., well then they can very much afford to operate without the indulgence of society’s forced tax funding.”
Planned Parenthood’s non-profit arm (a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization) receives reimbursement for providing medical care to patients under Medicaid and Title X. By law, almost none of this money is used to fund abortions and none of it is used for political advocacy. The separate, segregated 501(c)(4) Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the Planned Parenthood Votes political action committee are using money raised from donations — not taxpayer dollars — as part of a coalition working to mobilize “infrequent voters.”
Similarly, the NRA operates political arms including its Institute for Legislative Action and its Political Victory Fund. Through these, it spend at least $55 million on the 2016 election in support of Donald Trump and other pro-gun candidates.
Yet the NRA accepts huge subsidies from local governments for its annual conferences. In February, Dallas residents launched a petition to urge the NRA to move its May 2018 conference after learning the city had given more than $400,000 worth of free rent to the group for its gathering. A 2016 Charlotte Observer report, “Cities beset by gun violence use subsidies to woo NRA,” noted that this was not unusual: “In cities such as Charlotte, Louisville and Houston, taxpayers have supported the NRA with subsidies, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
But while she falsely claimed that this unconnected funding amounts to “innocent American taxpayers who are being robbed,” she conveniently omitted the fact that her organization also has benefited from public subsidies as its own political arm has spent hundreds of millions on political advocacy.
“[Planned Parenthood] is a for-profit business,” Loesch incorrectly told Fox & Friends on Thursday, “and if they can afford to spent millions and millions of dollars on all of these Democrat [sic] politicians and buy influence in Washington, D.C., well then they can very much afford to operate without the indulgence of society’s forced tax funding.”
Planned Parenthood’s non-profit arm (a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization) receives reimbursement for providing medical care to patients under Medicaid and Title X. By law, almost none of this money is used to fund abortions and none of it is used for political advocacy. The separate, segregated 501(c)(4) Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the Planned Parenthood Votes political action committee are using money raised from donations — not taxpayer dollars — as part of a coalition working to mobilize “infrequent voters.”
Similarly, the NRA operates political arms including its Institute for Legislative Action and its Political Victory Fund. Through these, it spend at least $55 million on the 2016 election in support of Donald Trump and other pro-gun candidates.
Yet the NRA accepts huge subsidies from local governments for its annual conferences. In February, Dallas residents launched a petition to urge the NRA to move its May 2018 conference after learning the city had given more than $400,000 worth of free rent to the group for its gathering. A 2016 Charlotte Observer report, “Cities beset by gun violence use subsidies to woo NRA,” noted that this was not unusual: “In cities such as Charlotte, Louisville and Houston, taxpayers have supported the NRA with subsidies, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Indiana city councilman resigns after whitesplaining the history of slavery to black people
Brad Reed - raw story
18 APR 2018 AT 14:20 ET
A white city councilman in Goshen, Indiana has resigned after he read an offensive essay that blamed black people for their lack of advancement in American society while also portraying them as criminals.
The South End Tribune reports that Republican city councilman Ed Ahlersmeyer came under fire from Goshen residents after he read aloud an essay titled “Blacks, Crime, and Bended Knee” that was posted on the right-wing American Thinker website that said, among other things, that black people today live on an “imaginary plantation” that’s been brought about by an “through the indoctrination of victimhood.”
The essay also lectured black people that “it is not ‘whitey’ who is committing 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders, 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties throughout the United States.”
The essay also drew scorn from community members for arguing that no one should complain about the legacy of slavery, segregation and racism in the United States because “America fought a civil war to end slavery” in the 19th century.
Ahlersmeyer defended himself by saying he didn’t agree with everything in the essay, although he did agree with its notion that people should stop believing slavery is still relevant. He also liked its message to black people that “education, self-reliance and delayed gratification and responsibility, hard work and ambition and an intact family are values that are ingrained within those who lead productive lives.”
In addition to taking heat for reading the essay, Ahlersmeyer also drew criticism after he followed a progressive activist across two different towns so he could confront her over criticism she leveled against him at a meeting the week before.
“There is no situation where an elected official should make that choice,” Goshen Mayor Jeremy Stutsman said. “Talking with somebody on the sidewalk is one thing. Following them is another. After discussing it with him, I do believe he had no ill intent in that. It was just a poor decision.”
RELATED: Texas bar owner reluctantly takes down ‘shut up nigger’ sign — but insists he didn’t know slur was racist
A Texas bar owner agreed to take down a sign that reads “shut up nigger” after two customers circulated photos of the slur on social media.
The South End Tribune reports that Republican city councilman Ed Ahlersmeyer came under fire from Goshen residents after he read aloud an essay titled “Blacks, Crime, and Bended Knee” that was posted on the right-wing American Thinker website that said, among other things, that black people today live on an “imaginary plantation” that’s been brought about by an “through the indoctrination of victimhood.”
The essay also lectured black people that “it is not ‘whitey’ who is committing 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders, 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties throughout the United States.”
The essay also drew scorn from community members for arguing that no one should complain about the legacy of slavery, segregation and racism in the United States because “America fought a civil war to end slavery” in the 19th century.
Ahlersmeyer defended himself by saying he didn’t agree with everything in the essay, although he did agree with its notion that people should stop believing slavery is still relevant. He also liked its message to black people that “education, self-reliance and delayed gratification and responsibility, hard work and ambition and an intact family are values that are ingrained within those who lead productive lives.”
In addition to taking heat for reading the essay, Ahlersmeyer also drew criticism after he followed a progressive activist across two different towns so he could confront her over criticism she leveled against him at a meeting the week before.
“There is no situation where an elected official should make that choice,” Goshen Mayor Jeremy Stutsman said. “Talking with somebody on the sidewalk is one thing. Following them is another. After discussing it with him, I do believe he had no ill intent in that. It was just a poor decision.”
RELATED: Texas bar owner reluctantly takes down ‘shut up nigger’ sign — but insists he didn’t know slur was racist
A Texas bar owner agreed to take down a sign that reads “shut up nigger” after two customers circulated photos of the slur on social media.
a confused racist????
Indiana Republican defends Trump-loving staffer with white nationalist past
Travis Gettys - raw story
12 APR 2018 AT 14:06 ET
A conservative activist with white nationalist ties has turned up again working for a Republican campaign after his past got him dismissed by another Indiana candidate.
Plastic surgeon Richard Moss, a congressional candidate in southwestern Indiana, defended staffer Caleb Shumaker after a local TV news report revealed his racist associations, reported WEHT-TV.
Campaign finance documents show the Moss campaign paid $201.25 to Shumaker for “campaign supplies,” but a source told the station that he was the physician’s campaign director.
“I’m not going to give you my official title,” Shumaker told the TV reporter when asked for comment.
Shumaker said he was a volunteer, which is also how the Moss campaign described the 25-year-old activist.
“Caleb Shumaker has been a volunteer for my campaign for several months and I have appreciated his help along the way,” Moss said in a statement. “I can say from our interactions these salacious allegations are false. Caleb is a strong young conservative and devout in his faith.”
Moss, who is Jewish, said Shumaker is a father in a multi-ethnic family and strong supporter of Israel, and he dismissed the allegations against his staffer as “racial politics” by incumbent GOP Rep. Larry Buchson.
“This is fake news and a planted story by Congressman Bucshon’s desperate re-election campaign,” Moss said. “Let me be clear, there is no place for racism and White Nationalism in the Republican party.”
Shumaker’s background was exposed in November after Roy Moore touted the endorsement of the Indiana First PAC the young activist chairs.
Moore, who ultimately lost his Senate race, used the endorsement as a show of national support after multiple women accused him of molesting them or pursuing them for sex decades ago, when they were teenagers and he was an assistant prosecutor in his 30s.
Mike Braun, an Indiana Republican, terminated Shumaker from his own Senate campaign after reporters discovered the conservative activist had previously been part of the white supremacist National Youth Front — although he denies the firing.
“I resigned from that campaign to start a PAC,” Shumaker said, whose organization is intended to “grow the Trump coalition.” “This whole idea of he fired me is completely false.”
Shumaker, who served two years ago as the Indiana state director of Millennials for Ted Cruz, insists didn’t initially realize the group was a white supremacist organization and claims he ended his involvement after less than a month.
“It wasn’t anything when I joined it,” Shumaker told WEHT. “It was a couple individuals I didn’t know, who knew me, said, ‘Hey, we should get millennials together.’”
In fact, Shumaker served as first chairman of the group, which was aimed at college students and is tied to three white supremacists who turned up as Trump supporters during the campaign — California lawyer William Johnson, anti-Semitic ex-professor Kevin MacDonald and James Edwards, host of the Political Cesspool radio program.
Shumaker stepped down as the group’s chairman in January 2015, after other National Youth Front members forced him out over his interracial marriage — and both he and Moss insist he’s not racist.
“Everybody here knows the truth,” Shumaker said. “I was part of something, when I found out what it was, I left … because of their ethnic racial views I didn’t agree with.”
Plastic surgeon Richard Moss, a congressional candidate in southwestern Indiana, defended staffer Caleb Shumaker after a local TV news report revealed his racist associations, reported WEHT-TV.
Campaign finance documents show the Moss campaign paid $201.25 to Shumaker for “campaign supplies,” but a source told the station that he was the physician’s campaign director.
“I’m not going to give you my official title,” Shumaker told the TV reporter when asked for comment.
Shumaker said he was a volunteer, which is also how the Moss campaign described the 25-year-old activist.
“Caleb Shumaker has been a volunteer for my campaign for several months and I have appreciated his help along the way,” Moss said in a statement. “I can say from our interactions these salacious allegations are false. Caleb is a strong young conservative and devout in his faith.”
Moss, who is Jewish, said Shumaker is a father in a multi-ethnic family and strong supporter of Israel, and he dismissed the allegations against his staffer as “racial politics” by incumbent GOP Rep. Larry Buchson.
“This is fake news and a planted story by Congressman Bucshon’s desperate re-election campaign,” Moss said. “Let me be clear, there is no place for racism and White Nationalism in the Republican party.”
Shumaker’s background was exposed in November after Roy Moore touted the endorsement of the Indiana First PAC the young activist chairs.
Moore, who ultimately lost his Senate race, used the endorsement as a show of national support after multiple women accused him of molesting them or pursuing them for sex decades ago, when they were teenagers and he was an assistant prosecutor in his 30s.
Mike Braun, an Indiana Republican, terminated Shumaker from his own Senate campaign after reporters discovered the conservative activist had previously been part of the white supremacist National Youth Front — although he denies the firing.
“I resigned from that campaign to start a PAC,” Shumaker said, whose organization is intended to “grow the Trump coalition.” “This whole idea of he fired me is completely false.”
Shumaker, who served two years ago as the Indiana state director of Millennials for Ted Cruz, insists didn’t initially realize the group was a white supremacist organization and claims he ended his involvement after less than a month.
“It wasn’t anything when I joined it,” Shumaker told WEHT. “It was a couple individuals I didn’t know, who knew me, said, ‘Hey, we should get millennials together.’”
In fact, Shumaker served as first chairman of the group, which was aimed at college students and is tied to three white supremacists who turned up as Trump supporters during the campaign — California lawyer William Johnson, anti-Semitic ex-professor Kevin MacDonald and James Edwards, host of the Political Cesspool radio program.
Shumaker stepped down as the group’s chairman in January 2015, after other National Youth Front members forced him out over his interracial marriage — and both he and Moss insist he’s not racist.
“Everybody here knows the truth,” Shumaker said. “I was part of something, when I found out what it was, I left … because of their ethnic racial views I didn’t agree with.”
‘Don’t care if I lose my life — I want out’: Ex-Aryan Brotherhood member shot in the face for leaving gang
Sarah K. Burris - raw story
09 APR 2018 AT 13:07 ET
Thomas Engelmann is a former member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi and when he decided he wanted out, he knew his life would be in jeopardy.
In an interview with The Clarion Ledger, Engelmann detailed his life as a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood and his struggle to get out.
“It takes a willingness to say, ‘OK, I’m ready to die,'” said Engelmann. “It takes that person saying, ‘OK, I don’t care if I lose my life tomorrow, I want out.’
He noted that if a member of the AB wants out, “they might as well just go hang themselves.” He was trying to figure out a way out when prospective members Brett Davis and Andrew Walters began following him. In June 2016, they pulled up next to him on I-20 and shot him in the face. He’d noticed the two men circling his neighborhood, got behind their truck and took photos of them and the tag.
He knew he’d been shot, though he didn’t know who did it.
“I knew I was blind, but I didn’t know why. My brain wouldn’t let me put it together,” he described. “I was like, ‘Why can’t I see?’ And I’m trying to wipe whatever’s in my eyes out, and I didn’t realize my face is blown up.”
He drove off the road and into overgrown grass where he slammed on the breaks. Engelmann heard a man’s voice telling him to turn off the car. He wasn’t sure if it was the shooter or someone else but trusted the voice. He gave the man the unlock code to his phone that gave the man access to the photos of the shooters.
The man asked if he was praying and Engelmann said he was.
“He told me, ‘Good, you need to. It’s bad,'” he recalled. But he wasn’t praying to live, he was praying for forgiveness “for not making it out of the criminal lifestyle that had shaped so much of my life.”
“I don’t know who that person was, even to this day,” he continued. “That person, no matter what, is an angel in my book.”
It all began when Engelmann was taken into custody in the Mississippi Department of Corrections for armed robbery. He said he joined because most of his family was dead, he came from a broken home and he wanted a family.
“Everyone in prison is already attacking everyone,” he explained. “So, it’s good to have someone who has your back, who can say, ‘I know what you’re going through, bro.'”
To be considered for the ABM, an applicant needs a sponsor and is on probation for at least six months. They sign a “prospect compact” where an oath of secrecy and declare a lifetime allegiance. Engelmann expected to only join the gang for 15 years thinking he could simply leave after. It wasn’t the case.
“I did my 15 years, and they did not let me out,” he said. “I knew too much, and I was a source of income. Remember the Brotherhood is organized crime. Why wouldn’t they keep me? That’s what that boils down to. It’s all about power, drugs and, of course, murder is in there. It’s just like racism is on the butt end of it.”
Once he was out of prison he learned the authorities were watching ABM members, so he “went underground” for four years.
“You realize it’s a bunch of power plays between power-hungry people inside [prison], and it’s an internal struggle, so you hope you don’t get caught up in their things that get everyone RICO charges and state charges and stuff,” he said. “The ones that can’t get out are trying to lay low and hope nobody notices them until they can move on, and that’s the only way to do that safely.”
As a former addict, the ABM saw Engelmann as a possible source for selling drugs, but he told them he’s trying to get away from it and avoid relapsing.
One week he was forced to miss an ABM meeting after his aunt died. He didn’t attend the meeting that followed, either and neither did many other members, following his lead. They removed his leadership position and not long after the ABM was raided. They blamed Engelmann. He explained to those that confronted him that given what he knew the police would have raided much more than simply a meeting.
One of the three main members then passed an SOS or “smash on sight” for Engelmann, though it wasn’t a kill order. Still Walters and Davis decided to shoot instead.
All involved were arrested and plead guilty. Walters and Davis are currently serving 30 and 25 years. Engelmann was blinded by the shot. He has since left Mississippi, leaving everything he owned behind, trying to start over.
“I want people to understand that to dehumanize the people that are in the gangs, it’s no better than the white supremacists dehumanizing other races, or the Nazis dehumanizing Jews. We don’t need to exclude the gang members or the ex-cons coming out,” he closed. “We are all human beings in this together and we need to remember that. These are people. These are human beings. I’m a human being, I’m not just the guy that was shot in the face.”
In an interview with The Clarion Ledger, Engelmann detailed his life as a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood and his struggle to get out.
“It takes a willingness to say, ‘OK, I’m ready to die,'” said Engelmann. “It takes that person saying, ‘OK, I don’t care if I lose my life tomorrow, I want out.’
He noted that if a member of the AB wants out, “they might as well just go hang themselves.” He was trying to figure out a way out when prospective members Brett Davis and Andrew Walters began following him. In June 2016, they pulled up next to him on I-20 and shot him in the face. He’d noticed the two men circling his neighborhood, got behind their truck and took photos of them and the tag.
He knew he’d been shot, though he didn’t know who did it.
“I knew I was blind, but I didn’t know why. My brain wouldn’t let me put it together,” he described. “I was like, ‘Why can’t I see?’ And I’m trying to wipe whatever’s in my eyes out, and I didn’t realize my face is blown up.”
He drove off the road and into overgrown grass where he slammed on the breaks. Engelmann heard a man’s voice telling him to turn off the car. He wasn’t sure if it was the shooter or someone else but trusted the voice. He gave the man the unlock code to his phone that gave the man access to the photos of the shooters.
The man asked if he was praying and Engelmann said he was.
“He told me, ‘Good, you need to. It’s bad,'” he recalled. But he wasn’t praying to live, he was praying for forgiveness “for not making it out of the criminal lifestyle that had shaped so much of my life.”
“I don’t know who that person was, even to this day,” he continued. “That person, no matter what, is an angel in my book.”
It all began when Engelmann was taken into custody in the Mississippi Department of Corrections for armed robbery. He said he joined because most of his family was dead, he came from a broken home and he wanted a family.
“Everyone in prison is already attacking everyone,” he explained. “So, it’s good to have someone who has your back, who can say, ‘I know what you’re going through, bro.'”
To be considered for the ABM, an applicant needs a sponsor and is on probation for at least six months. They sign a “prospect compact” where an oath of secrecy and declare a lifetime allegiance. Engelmann expected to only join the gang for 15 years thinking he could simply leave after. It wasn’t the case.
“I did my 15 years, and they did not let me out,” he said. “I knew too much, and I was a source of income. Remember the Brotherhood is organized crime. Why wouldn’t they keep me? That’s what that boils down to. It’s all about power, drugs and, of course, murder is in there. It’s just like racism is on the butt end of it.”
Once he was out of prison he learned the authorities were watching ABM members, so he “went underground” for four years.
“You realize it’s a bunch of power plays between power-hungry people inside [prison], and it’s an internal struggle, so you hope you don’t get caught up in their things that get everyone RICO charges and state charges and stuff,” he said. “The ones that can’t get out are trying to lay low and hope nobody notices them until they can move on, and that’s the only way to do that safely.”
As a former addict, the ABM saw Engelmann as a possible source for selling drugs, but he told them he’s trying to get away from it and avoid relapsing.
One week he was forced to miss an ABM meeting after his aunt died. He didn’t attend the meeting that followed, either and neither did many other members, following his lead. They removed his leadership position and not long after the ABM was raided. They blamed Engelmann. He explained to those that confronted him that given what he knew the police would have raided much more than simply a meeting.
One of the three main members then passed an SOS or “smash on sight” for Engelmann, though it wasn’t a kill order. Still Walters and Davis decided to shoot instead.
All involved were arrested and plead guilty. Walters and Davis are currently serving 30 and 25 years. Engelmann was blinded by the shot. He has since left Mississippi, leaving everything he owned behind, trying to start over.
“I want people to understand that to dehumanize the people that are in the gangs, it’s no better than the white supremacists dehumanizing other races, or the Nazis dehumanizing Jews. We don’t need to exclude the gang members or the ex-cons coming out,” he closed. “We are all human beings in this together and we need to remember that. These are people. These are human beings. I’m a human being, I’m not just the guy that was shot in the face.”
White man stabs a Muslim nurse and calls her a ‘sand n**ger’ during hate-filled attack in Houston
Noor Al-Sibai - raw story
06 APR 2018 AT 21:31 ET
On Thursday morning, a nurse in Houston, Texas was driving home early in the morning after an overnight shift when a man stopped her car, began screaming anti-Muslim slurs at her and stabbed her.
Houston’s KTRK reported Friday that the Muslim nurse, who was wearing hijab, believes the attack was religiously-motivated based on slurs the attacker yelled at her, calling her a “raghead” and a “sand nigger.”
A man riding with the attacker, who made a U-turn to attack the nurse after seeing her drive in the other direction, tried to restrain him when he got out to yell at the woman — but not before the rage-filled driver stabbed her. She then returned to the hospital where she’d just gotten off work to have her wounds treated.
The attacker and his passenger were described as white males between the ages of 20 an 35, and the driver was said to have tattoos on his arms and neck.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in Houston is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who has information on the attack .
Houston’s KTRK reported Friday that the Muslim nurse, who was wearing hijab, believes the attack was religiously-motivated based on slurs the attacker yelled at her, calling her a “raghead” and a “sand nigger.”
A man riding with the attacker, who made a U-turn to attack the nurse after seeing her drive in the other direction, tried to restrain him when he got out to yell at the woman — but not before the rage-filled driver stabbed her. She then returned to the hospital where she’d just gotten off work to have her wounds treated.
The attacker and his passenger were described as white males between the ages of 20 an 35, and the driver was said to have tattoos on his arms and neck.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in Houston is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who has information on the attack .
Staffer at Texas Mormon church allegedly molested multiple children, including 2-year-old
Martin Cizmar - raw story
01 APR 2018 AT 00:07 ET
Noel Young Anderson, the alleged molester, in his booking photo
A 22-year-old Mormon who worked as a teacher for the church has allegedly admitted to sexually assaulting four children over the past seven years.
The victims were very young, between 2 and 6 years old, according to police quotes in the Dallas News.
Noel Young Anderson was a paid staffer at the Mormon church in McKinney, Texas. The abuse went on over years, the police said.
The church says that they are cooperating with authorities, who are looking for more victims. They also implied that they may excommunicate Anderson if he’s guilty.
“Children are precious, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families,” the church said in a statement. “The Church teaches that abuse of any kind is offensive to God and is sinful and wrong. It cannot be tolerated in the Church. We remember the words of Jesus Christ, who taught that harming a child is among the most serious of offenses. Anyone who engages in such behavior is rightfully subject to criminal prosecution and will also face discipline from the Church, including loss of Church membership.”
The victims were very young, between 2 and 6 years old, according to police quotes in the Dallas News.
Noel Young Anderson was a paid staffer at the Mormon church in McKinney, Texas. The abuse went on over years, the police said.
The church says that they are cooperating with authorities, who are looking for more victims. They also implied that they may excommunicate Anderson if he’s guilty.
“Children are precious, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families,” the church said in a statement. “The Church teaches that abuse of any kind is offensive to God and is sinful and wrong. It cannot be tolerated in the Church. We remember the words of Jesus Christ, who taught that harming a child is among the most serious of offenses. Anyone who engages in such behavior is rightfully subject to criminal prosecution and will also face discipline from the Church, including loss of Church membership.”
Kirbyjon Caldwell - Houston megachurch pastor and spiritual adviser to George W. Bush - indicted on fraud charges
By Robert Downen - chron
Updated 6:42 am, Friday, March 30, 2018
A prominent Houston pastor and spiritual adviser to President George W. Bush has been indicted on federal charges that he sold millions of dollars in worthless Chinese bonds to elderly and vulnerable investors, according to federal authorities.
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, 64, and Shreveport financial planner Gregory Alan Smith, 55, were charged with 13 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
Caldwell is accused of using his position as the senior pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church to help lure nearly $3.5 million in investments into historic Chinese bonds that are not recognized by the Chinese government. He and Smith told investors they could see returns as high as 15 times their initial investment, according to the indictment.
The charges, filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, accuses the men of cheating 29 investors between April 2013 and August 2014 for the bonds, which are described in the indictment as “mere collectible memorabilia.”
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, 64, and Shreveport financial planner Gregory Alan Smith, 55, were charged with 13 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
Caldwell is accused of using his position as the senior pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church to help lure nearly $3.5 million in investments into historic Chinese bonds that are not recognized by the Chinese government. He and Smith told investors they could see returns as high as 15 times their initial investment, according to the indictment.
The charges, filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, accuses the men of cheating 29 investors between April 2013 and August 2014 for the bonds, which are described in the indictment as “mere collectible memorabilia.”
Ohio teacher molested her black foster son and had his baby — as crimes went on for years despite red flags
Martin Cizmar - raw story
28 MAR 2018 AT 12:41 ET
A n Ohio teacher has admitted to molesting her foster son over a three-year period and having a baby fathered by the boy.
Lauren Lynn Cross, 37, was a teacher at Buchtel High School in inner-city Akron and lived in suburban Tallmadge. She started grooming the boy by inviting him to her house to go swimming and then got him to start staying overnight. Cross later got the boy’s mother and a court to approve “partial parental custody” so he could move into her Tallmadge home where she would “mentor” him.
In 2012, the father of the boy, who is black, had gone to police with concerns about the teacher, who is white, but was brushed off. In June 2015, the boy’s mother also went to police about the affair, but Cross was not arrested or charged.
In December 2015, Cross gave birth to a son fathered by the boy. She gave the baby up for adoption. Cross was not charged until August 2017, nearly two years later.
The boy had refused to cooperate with Tallmadge police, who told his parents that they could not do anything. The police even saw text messages that implied they were in a relationship, but did nothing.
“There was not anything that would allow us to make a case,” Tallmadge police chief Ronald Williams told an Ohio newspaper in August 2017. “And they both denied it and had stories that explained the texts.”
Eventually the boy’s father made an audio recording of his son confessing to the affair, which he presented to police who finally arrested Cross.
Lauren Lynn Cross, 37, was a teacher at Buchtel High School in inner-city Akron and lived in suburban Tallmadge. She started grooming the boy by inviting him to her house to go swimming and then got him to start staying overnight. Cross later got the boy’s mother and a court to approve “partial parental custody” so he could move into her Tallmadge home where she would “mentor” him.
In 2012, the father of the boy, who is black, had gone to police with concerns about the teacher, who is white, but was brushed off. In June 2015, the boy’s mother also went to police about the affair, but Cross was not arrested or charged.
In December 2015, Cross gave birth to a son fathered by the boy. She gave the baby up for adoption. Cross was not charged until August 2017, nearly two years later.
The boy had refused to cooperate with Tallmadge police, who told his parents that they could not do anything. The police even saw text messages that implied they were in a relationship, but did nothing.
“There was not anything that would allow us to make a case,” Tallmadge police chief Ronald Williams told an Ohio newspaper in August 2017. “And they both denied it and had stories that explained the texts.”
Eventually the boy’s father made an audio recording of his son confessing to the affair, which he presented to police who finally arrested Cross.
What’s with these so-called ‘patriots’ calling for the breakup of America?
Choosing assault weapons over country, "nationalists" are apparently anything but.
CASEY MICHEL - think progress
MAR 27, 2018, 7:02 PM
For some so-called patriots, the prospect of gun regulations, from banning AR-15s to eliminating high-capacity magazines, is too much to bear. In fact, the way they see it, the only solution isn’t to lobby Washington, but to break up the U.S. wholesale.
Couched in terms like “amicable divorce,” these far-right figures — some claiming to be “nationalists” — would apparently rather see America disintegrate before the end of the sale of high-powered weaponry, or from the expansion of any other liberal policies.
Talk of secession has percolated in the far-right before the current gun debate, such as when conservative pundit Erick Erickson — after calling the American left an “American ISIS” — wrote that Americans “should start talking about secession.” But the past month seems to have sent the talk about disintegrating America into over-drive, at least among certain segments of the extreme right.
A Houston-based writer and failed Congressional candidate named Jesse Kelly, for instance, recently gave voice such sentiments. Pointing to discussion about gun control, Kelly wrote that Americans have “nothing in common anymore,” staking that it was time to “go our separate ways before it gets ugly.”
For good measure, Kelly even included a map of how he’d like to break up America.
Another semi-prominent voice on Twitter, a financial analyst named Jesse Colombo, said he believed that the “masses” of the U.S. will soon “start demanding communism” — and that, as such, he will demand the fracture of the U.S.
And earlier this month, in an unhinged column that detailed the tactics anti-government extremists — traitors, in effect — could use to slaughter the American military, writer Kurt Schlichter claimed that “we could easily see the country split into red and blue.” Schlichter also pointed to another bogeyman among the American far-right as a reason to break up the U.S.: California, whose “secessionist antics,” Schlichter wrote, “are approaching the point where President Trump could legitimately employ his power to crush insurrections.”
Another so-called patriot, Wayne Allen Root, picked up Schlichter’s thread a week later. In a column titled, “California wants to secede? Let’s help them!”, Root lobbied for America to boot California form the union — lobbying, that is, to block the U.S. from a giant swath of America’s Pacific shoreline, from the naval base in San Diego, and from California’s massive economic engine. “They call it ‘Calexit.’ I say, ‘Glory Hallelujah,'” wrote Root. “Let’s help make it happen.”
The irony of such calls, of course, lies in the fact that these voices — those emphasizing their patriotic pride at every turn — are actively calling for policies that would, at best, kneecap American strength, and corrode American interests that much further. There’s a reason, after all, that Kremlin-funded figures have made a concerted effort over the past four years to build ties with American secessionists.
These right-wing talking heads also believe that their guns are the only thing preventing America’s descent into tyranny — despite the fact that the rate of civilian gun ownership has almost no relationship with democracy.
Beyond that, though, there’s also the reality that the “red” states to which Schlichter alluded are anything but uniform in their political outlook. Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Louisville, and St. Louis — all are cities that voted for Democratic candidates, but that nonetheless remain in Republican-leaning states.
Of course, there’s also the fact that secession remains illegal in the U.S. (As former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.”) As such, any insurgents, any traitors, would, like their Confederate forebears, have to resort to force of arms against American police, against American infantry, and against other American citizens. They might want to consider the fortunes of their Confederate predecessors before they do.
Couched in terms like “amicable divorce,” these far-right figures — some claiming to be “nationalists” — would apparently rather see America disintegrate before the end of the sale of high-powered weaponry, or from the expansion of any other liberal policies.
Talk of secession has percolated in the far-right before the current gun debate, such as when conservative pundit Erick Erickson — after calling the American left an “American ISIS” — wrote that Americans “should start talking about secession.” But the past month seems to have sent the talk about disintegrating America into over-drive, at least among certain segments of the extreme right.
A Houston-based writer and failed Congressional candidate named Jesse Kelly, for instance, recently gave voice such sentiments. Pointing to discussion about gun control, Kelly wrote that Americans have “nothing in common anymore,” staking that it was time to “go our separate ways before it gets ugly.”
For good measure, Kelly even included a map of how he’d like to break up America.
Another semi-prominent voice on Twitter, a financial analyst named Jesse Colombo, said he believed that the “masses” of the U.S. will soon “start demanding communism” — and that, as such, he will demand the fracture of the U.S.
And earlier this month, in an unhinged column that detailed the tactics anti-government extremists — traitors, in effect — could use to slaughter the American military, writer Kurt Schlichter claimed that “we could easily see the country split into red and blue.” Schlichter also pointed to another bogeyman among the American far-right as a reason to break up the U.S.: California, whose “secessionist antics,” Schlichter wrote, “are approaching the point where President Trump could legitimately employ his power to crush insurrections.”
Another so-called patriot, Wayne Allen Root, picked up Schlichter’s thread a week later. In a column titled, “California wants to secede? Let’s help them!”, Root lobbied for America to boot California form the union — lobbying, that is, to block the U.S. from a giant swath of America’s Pacific shoreline, from the naval base in San Diego, and from California’s massive economic engine. “They call it ‘Calexit.’ I say, ‘Glory Hallelujah,'” wrote Root. “Let’s help make it happen.”
The irony of such calls, of course, lies in the fact that these voices — those emphasizing their patriotic pride at every turn — are actively calling for policies that would, at best, kneecap American strength, and corrode American interests that much further. There’s a reason, after all, that Kremlin-funded figures have made a concerted effort over the past four years to build ties with American secessionists.
These right-wing talking heads also believe that their guns are the only thing preventing America’s descent into tyranny — despite the fact that the rate of civilian gun ownership has almost no relationship with democracy.
Beyond that, though, there’s also the reality that the “red” states to which Schlichter alluded are anything but uniform in their political outlook. Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Louisville, and St. Louis — all are cities that voted for Democratic candidates, but that nonetheless remain in Republican-leaning states.
Of course, there’s also the fact that secession remains illegal in the U.S. (As former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.”) As such, any insurgents, any traitors, would, like their Confederate forebears, have to resort to force of arms against American police, against American infantry, and against other American citizens. They might want to consider the fortunes of their Confederate predecessors before they do.
California GOP Assemblyman Travis Allen: Police justified in killing Stephon Clark because he ran away
Bob Brigham - raw story
26 MAR 2018 AT 17:08 ET
Conservative Orange County Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) lashed out at Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by Sacramento police in his backyard.
Assemblyman Allen, a controversial lawmaker, made the remarks on Sunday at a gubernatorial candidate forum co-hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune and ABC 10 News.
Assemblyman Allen, a controversial lawmaker, made the remarks on Sunday at a gubernatorial candidate forum co-hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune and ABC 10 News.
‘Confederate’ school board candidate with history of racist statements says she’s not racist
Martin Cizmar - raw story
25 MAR 2018 AT 23:55 ET
A school board candidate in suburban St. Louis who self-identifies as a “Confederate,” says she’s not racist, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports.
Jeanie Ames once called Michelle Obama a “giant rat” on Twitter and has tweeted in support of banning Islam in the United States.
“I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,” the Confederate says.
A recent debate featuring Ames drew protestors who shouted at her Cadillac as she drove away.
Ames is a Trump-supporter who printed Republican logos on her yard signs for the non-partisan race.
On Facebook, she has complained that those signs are being stolen and that she has gotten the police involved.
“We have people on the ground and technology where the signs have been stolen,” she wrote.
She is also now proposing that Parkway look into a plan of arming students with buckets rocks to fend off school shooters who have AR-15s.
“I would evaluate this plan on it’s practicality and potential effectiveness. I’m interested in what parents and teachers think. Please share your opinions and thoughts,” she wrote on Facebook.
Jeanie Ames once called Michelle Obama a “giant rat” on Twitter and has tweeted in support of banning Islam in the United States.
“I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,” the Confederate says.
A recent debate featuring Ames drew protestors who shouted at her Cadillac as she drove away.
Ames is a Trump-supporter who printed Republican logos on her yard signs for the non-partisan race.
On Facebook, she has complained that those signs are being stolen and that she has gotten the police involved.
“We have people on the ground and technology where the signs have been stolen,” she wrote.
She is also now proposing that Parkway look into a plan of arming students with buckets rocks to fend off school shooters who have AR-15s.
“I would evaluate this plan on it’s practicality and potential effectiveness. I’m interested in what parents and teachers think. Please share your opinions and thoughts,” she wrote on Facebook.
Mark Anthony Conditt — the suspect in deadly Texas blasts — was quiet and home-schooled
Reuters - raw story
21 MAR 2018 AT 13:32 ET
The quiet, home-schooled son of a local couple that sold Amway products is suspected of staging a three-week deadly bombing campaign that gripped the Texas capital of Austin.
Local media, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, identified the maker of the homemade bombs as Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, who in 2017 moved out of the home owned by his parents, Danene and William Conditt, in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville, Texas, according to public records.
Police have not yet identified Conditt as the suspect. They confirmed that the man suspected of carrying out the bombing attack blew himself up on Wednesday as police closed in.
Attempts to contact members of the Conditt family by telephone and at their homes in Pflugerville were unsuccessful. Authorities in Texas did not respond to requests to comment on the shooter’s identity.
The unemployed Conditt was living with a couple of roommates in a home just hundreds of yards from the mayor of Pflugerville when a three-week series of explosions rocked the community, killing two people and injuring five others, public records show.
Conditt attended Austin Community College from 2010 to 2012 but did not graduate, school spokeswoman Jessica Vess said in an email.
He had amassed 30 hours of college credit when he received his high school diploma, having been home-schooled with his three siblings, his mother wrote on Facebook.
“But he’s thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do … maybe a mission trip,” Danene Conditt wrote on Facebook.
Neighbors said the Conditt family, who lived in a neat white house with a blue picket fence around the front porch, was quiet and the parents sold products for Amway, the direct-sales household and personal care items company.
“They are a really nice, calm family,” said retiree Jeff Reeb, who lives next door. “They have always been extremely nice.”
Local media, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, identified the maker of the homemade bombs as Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, who in 2017 moved out of the home owned by his parents, Danene and William Conditt, in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville, Texas, according to public records.
Police have not yet identified Conditt as the suspect. They confirmed that the man suspected of carrying out the bombing attack blew himself up on Wednesday as police closed in.
Attempts to contact members of the Conditt family by telephone and at their homes in Pflugerville were unsuccessful. Authorities in Texas did not respond to requests to comment on the shooter’s identity.
The unemployed Conditt was living with a couple of roommates in a home just hundreds of yards from the mayor of Pflugerville when a three-week series of explosions rocked the community, killing two people and injuring five others, public records show.
Conditt attended Austin Community College from 2010 to 2012 but did not graduate, school spokeswoman Jessica Vess said in an email.
He had amassed 30 hours of college credit when he received his high school diploma, having been home-schooled with his three siblings, his mother wrote on Facebook.
“But he’s thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do … maybe a mission trip,” Danene Conditt wrote on Facebook.
Neighbors said the Conditt family, who lived in a neat white house with a blue picket fence around the front porch, was quiet and the parents sold products for Amway, the direct-sales household and personal care items company.
“They are a really nice, calm family,” said retiree Jeff Reeb, who lives next door. “They have always been extremely nice.”
is a serial bomber a terrorist???
Austin bombing suspect blows himself up after swat team closed in
Suspect named as Mark Anthony Conditt, 24
Two people died in string of explosions in Austin this month
Jamie Grierson and Associated Press
the guardian
Wed 21 Mar 2018 08.14 EDT
A man suspected of being the bomber behind a series of explosions across central Texas blew himself up in a vehicle as a swat team approached, police have confirmed.
The suspect, identified by police as a 24-year-old white male, killed himself in Round Rock, a town 20 miles north of Austin, in a dramatic end to a siege of the Texas capital.
A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that the dead Austin bombing suspect was named Mark Anthony Conditt. The official, who has been briefed on the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Victor Gonzales, the mayor of Pflugerville, a city north of Texas, told the AP that the bombing suspect lived in his city.
A number of devices have exploded in residential areas of Austin this month, killing two and injuring several, while a package destined for the Texan city exploded on a conveyor belt at a FedEx facility near San Antonio on Tuesday.
Police previously said they believed the explosions were the work of a serial bomber.
Authorities had zeroed in on the suspect in the last 24 to 36 hours and located him at a hotel on Interstate 35 in the Austin suburb, Austin police chief Brian Manley said at a news conference.
They were waiting for ballistic vehicles to arrive when his vehicle began to drive away, Manley said. Authorities followed the vehicle, which stopped in a ditch on the side of the road, the police chief said.
When members of the swat team approached, the suspect detonated an explosive device inside the vehicle. The blast knocked back one officer, while a second officer fired his weapon, Manley said.
The suspect, who suffered significant injuries from the blast, was killed. Authorities identified him only as a 24-year-old white man and said it was too soon to say if the suspect had worked alone or what his motive was.
Isaac Figueroa, 26, said he and his brother heard sirens and helicopters early on Wednesday and drove toward them, then cut through nearby woods on foot after they hit a police roadblock. Figueroa said they saw a silver or gray Jeep Cherokee that was pinned between black and white vehicles and “looked like it had been rammed off the road”. He said he saw police deploy a robot to go examine the Jeep.
Manley said the suspect is believed to be responsible for all the major Austin bombings.
Fred Milanowski, an agent with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said it was “hard to say” if the bombing suspect was acting alone.
The suspect, identified by police as a 24-year-old white male, killed himself in Round Rock, a town 20 miles north of Austin, in a dramatic end to a siege of the Texas capital.
A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that the dead Austin bombing suspect was named Mark Anthony Conditt. The official, who has been briefed on the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Victor Gonzales, the mayor of Pflugerville, a city north of Texas, told the AP that the bombing suspect lived in his city.
A number of devices have exploded in residential areas of Austin this month, killing two and injuring several, while a package destined for the Texan city exploded on a conveyor belt at a FedEx facility near San Antonio on Tuesday.
Police previously said they believed the explosions were the work of a serial bomber.
Authorities had zeroed in on the suspect in the last 24 to 36 hours and located him at a hotel on Interstate 35 in the Austin suburb, Austin police chief Brian Manley said at a news conference.
They were waiting for ballistic vehicles to arrive when his vehicle began to drive away, Manley said. Authorities followed the vehicle, which stopped in a ditch on the side of the road, the police chief said.
When members of the swat team approached, the suspect detonated an explosive device inside the vehicle. The blast knocked back one officer, while a second officer fired his weapon, Manley said.
The suspect, who suffered significant injuries from the blast, was killed. Authorities identified him only as a 24-year-old white man and said it was too soon to say if the suspect had worked alone or what his motive was.
Isaac Figueroa, 26, said he and his brother heard sirens and helicopters early on Wednesday and drove toward them, then cut through nearby woods on foot after they hit a police roadblock. Figueroa said they saw a silver or gray Jeep Cherokee that was pinned between black and white vehicles and “looked like it had been rammed off the road”. He said he saw police deploy a robot to go examine the Jeep.
Manley said the suspect is believed to be responsible for all the major Austin bombings.
Fred Milanowski, an agent with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said it was “hard to say” if the bombing suspect was acting alone.
2-year-old girl dies after parents treat her pneumonia with prayers and anointing oil instead of medicine
Travis Gettys - raw story
20 MAR 2018 AT 13:16 ET
A jury has been seated in the trial of a Pennsylvania couple whose 2-year-old daughter died after they tried to treat her pneumonia with prayer and religious oils.
Jonathan and Grace Anne Foster have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child in the Nov. 8, 2016, death of Ella Grace Foster, reported the Reading Eagle.
The couple did not seek medical care for the sick child due to their religious beliefs, and instead asked Pastor Rowland Foster — the girl’s grandfather — to pray over her and anoint her with oils.
The toddler had a sore throat and struggled to sleep the night before she died, and she stopped breathing in her father’s arms after her mother called him to their Upper Tulpehocken Township home from work.
A forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy testified in a previous hearing that Ella Grace would have been fighting to breathe and coughing uncontrollably due to pneumonia, and he told the court any reasonable person would have concluded she needed medical care.
Defense attorneys have argued that the child’s illness developed rapidly, and the parents made a judgment call.
The 35-year-old Jonathan Foster and his 33-year-old wife previously gave up custody of their other six children, who are aged 1 to 12, after prosecutors tried to add condition to their bail that would have mandated proper medical care for them.
Authorities said at the time that the children would be kept together and placed with a family that believes in medicine.
Prosecutors sought charges against the grandfather, who is pastor of Faith Tabernacle Church, for failing to report child abuse, but a judge dismissed the case in December for lack of evidence.
Assistant District Attorney Katie Lehman asked the judge not to allow any singing or humming in front of the jury, after supporters from the couple’s church hummed during previous hearings.
Judge M. Theresa Johnson agreed to instruct courtroom observers not to make any noise from the gallery while the trial was in session.
Jonathan and Grace Anne Foster have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child in the Nov. 8, 2016, death of Ella Grace Foster, reported the Reading Eagle.
The couple did not seek medical care for the sick child due to their religious beliefs, and instead asked Pastor Rowland Foster — the girl’s grandfather — to pray over her and anoint her with oils.
The toddler had a sore throat and struggled to sleep the night before she died, and she stopped breathing in her father’s arms after her mother called him to their Upper Tulpehocken Township home from work.
A forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy testified in a previous hearing that Ella Grace would have been fighting to breathe and coughing uncontrollably due to pneumonia, and he told the court any reasonable person would have concluded she needed medical care.
Defense attorneys have argued that the child’s illness developed rapidly, and the parents made a judgment call.
The 35-year-old Jonathan Foster and his 33-year-old wife previously gave up custody of their other six children, who are aged 1 to 12, after prosecutors tried to add condition to their bail that would have mandated proper medical care for them.
Authorities said at the time that the children would be kept together and placed with a family that believes in medicine.
Prosecutors sought charges against the grandfather, who is pastor of Faith Tabernacle Church, for failing to report child abuse, but a judge dismissed the case in December for lack of evidence.
Assistant District Attorney Katie Lehman asked the judge not to allow any singing or humming in front of the jury, after supporters from the couple’s church hummed during previous hearings.
Judge M. Theresa Johnson agreed to instruct courtroom observers not to make any noise from the gallery while the trial was in session.
Neo-Nazi groups are increasingly spreading their hate from buildings and overpasses
Travis Gettys - raw story
15 MAR 2018 AT 12:38 ET
Staff Sgt. Joseph Manning's white nationalist banner, flown on "Confederate memorial day" in May. Image via screengrab.
White supremacists are drawing attention to themselves and their organizations with a low-budget method — hanging banners from overpasses.
Racist hate organizations have spread their message for years with banners displaying their group names and slogans, but those demonstrations have become increasingly common in recent months, reported the New York Times.
The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism found 72 such episodes between May 20, 2017, and last Monday, while none were documented in the previous five-month period beginning in December 2016.
Those banners primarily displayed racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim messages such as “America first: End immigration” to “‘Diversity’ is a code word for white genocide.”
More than two-thirds of the banners were set up by “alt-right” groups such as Identity Evropa, which was responsible for 28 banners in 13 states.
The banners cost very little to produce, and often garner local news coverage to amplify their message.
Identity Evropa, whose members helped organize the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, has been identified as a white nationalist group by the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The neo-Nazi group Patriot Front was responsible for nearly 30 percent of the banners listed in the ADL report.
Two other neo-Nazi groups, Vanguard America and Atomwaffen, also displayed racist banners.
The banners were reported in 21 states, and Oregon had the most — thanks in large part to neo-Nazi resident Jimmy Marr.
A Marine sergeant was kicked out of the corps for unfurling a banner with Identity Evropa messages in North Carolina.
Racist hate organizations have spread their message for years with banners displaying their group names and slogans, but those demonstrations have become increasingly common in recent months, reported the New York Times.
The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism found 72 such episodes between May 20, 2017, and last Monday, while none were documented in the previous five-month period beginning in December 2016.
Those banners primarily displayed racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim messages such as “America first: End immigration” to “‘Diversity’ is a code word for white genocide.”
More than two-thirds of the banners were set up by “alt-right” groups such as Identity Evropa, which was responsible for 28 banners in 13 states.
The banners cost very little to produce, and often garner local news coverage to amplify their message.
Identity Evropa, whose members helped organize the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, has been identified as a white nationalist group by the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The neo-Nazi group Patriot Front was responsible for nearly 30 percent of the banners listed in the ADL report.
Two other neo-Nazi groups, Vanguard America and Atomwaffen, also displayed racist banners.
The banners were reported in 21 states, and Oregon had the most — thanks in large part to neo-Nazi resident Jimmy Marr.
A Marine sergeant was kicked out of the corps for unfurling a banner with Identity Evropa messages in North Carolina.
Six cold white men with flag stand in the snow counter-protesting national school walkout in Ohio
MARTIN CIZMAR - raw story
14 MAR 2018 AT 15:51 ET
Across the country, students participated in the National School Walkout today.
That includes Norton, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb where more than 100 students filed out to the football stadium holding signs, as reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.
With snow swirling and with temperatures at 30 degrees, six white men in hoodies showed up to mill around across from the school holding a “counter-protest.” One of them held an American flag.
“What a sad, small group of men,” noted one observer.
That includes Norton, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb where more than 100 students filed out to the football stadium holding signs, as reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.
With snow swirling and with temperatures at 30 degrees, six white men in hoodies showed up to mill around across from the school holding a “counter-protest.” One of them held an American flag.
“What a sad, small group of men,” noted one observer.
Leading white supremacist arrested following affair with mother-in-law
Battery charges and the likelihood of a lengthy prison sentence now await Matthew Heimbach.
CASEY MICHEL - think progress
MAR 14, 2018, 11:59 AM
Two years ago, ThinkProgress named the Traditionalist Worker Party head Matthew Heimbach the “most important white supremacist of 2016.”
Where Heimbach may once have been a force, however, he’s now rapidly approaching farce. The previously ascendant leader was arrested Tuesday, following a scuffle relating to an affair with his landlord — who also happened to be his mother-in-law.
The arrest on charges of battery, including domestic battery in the presence of a minor, presents a bizarre close to what had been Heimbach’s and the Traditionalist Worker Party’s decline in relevance over the past year. Where Heimbach once stood at the vanguard of rising white supremacy, especially among younger Americans, the circumstances of his arrest are as outlandish as any white supremacists have faced over the past few years.
The details in the police report relating to Heimbach’s arrest present a contorted, convoluted web of relations between Heimbach, his wife, and his in-laws. For years, Heimbach had worked closely with Matthew Parrott, his father-in-law, in building the Traditionalist Worker Party into an organization that could tour the country, calling for the fracture of the U.S. in pursuit of a whites-only ethno-state.
Recently, though, Heimbach apparently developed affections for his mother-in-law, Jessica Parrott — such that the two of them, according to the police report, had a months-long affair. The affair eventually ended, with Jessica confiding in Heimbach’s wife the details of the relationship.
From there, things got even more ridiculous — at least until Heimbach, as witnesses say, decided to assault both his wife and Matthew Parrott alike.
As the police officer on the scene wrote, Jessica Parrott and Heimbach’s wife “made a plan to ‘set up’ [Heimbach] to see if [he] would in fact attempt to sleep with Jessica after they had stated that they had ended things.” Matthew Parrott “watch[ed] the encounter on a box through a window. While doing this the box broke and [he] ran around the trailer to confront [Heimbach].”
When Heimbach, who had recently been living in a trailer, didn’t leave the property, Parrott “poked [him] in the chest. From this [Matthew Parrott] stated that [Heimbach] grabbed his hand and twisted down then got behind him and ‘choked him out’ with his arm.” Parrott even said he briefly lost consciousness. Not long after, Parrott “threw a chair at [Heimbach] to make him leave and [Heimbach] proceeded to then choke him again in the same manner as before. [Matthew Parrott] went unconscious again.” Heimbach’s wife also told police that Heimbach grabbed her by the cheeks, making her bleed.
For good measure, all four members listed their occupations on police forms as some form of “White Nationalist.”
Heimbach did not respond to ThinkProgress’ request for comment, but his troubles appear to have only just begun. In 2017, Heimbach pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for shoving an anti-Donald Trump protester at a rally. While Heimbach escaped significant jail time, he was also placed on two years of probation — a period that would cover yesterday’s arrest.
Likewise, with the arrest — and the affair — it appears the Traditionalist Worker Party may have collapsed entirely. Matthew Parrott told the Southern Poverty Law Center that he’s “done. I’m out. SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”
Not long after Heimbach’s arrest, the website for the Traditionalist Worker Party — which had already seen members struggling to raise funds — was no more.
The arrest is an asinine, madcap end to a series of events that have deflated young white supremacists’ momentum over the past few weeks. Between the collapse of the so-called “sword and shield” of young white supremacists, to the non-attendance greeting Richard Spencer’s recent college tour, to the decimation of white supremacists’ main funding mechanism, the fall from grace for this cohort has been as swift as it’s been complete.
Where Heimbach may once have been a force, however, he’s now rapidly approaching farce. The previously ascendant leader was arrested Tuesday, following a scuffle relating to an affair with his landlord — who also happened to be his mother-in-law.
The arrest on charges of battery, including domestic battery in the presence of a minor, presents a bizarre close to what had been Heimbach’s and the Traditionalist Worker Party’s decline in relevance over the past year. Where Heimbach once stood at the vanguard of rising white supremacy, especially among younger Americans, the circumstances of his arrest are as outlandish as any white supremacists have faced over the past few years.
The details in the police report relating to Heimbach’s arrest present a contorted, convoluted web of relations between Heimbach, his wife, and his in-laws. For years, Heimbach had worked closely with Matthew Parrott, his father-in-law, in building the Traditionalist Worker Party into an organization that could tour the country, calling for the fracture of the U.S. in pursuit of a whites-only ethno-state.
Recently, though, Heimbach apparently developed affections for his mother-in-law, Jessica Parrott — such that the two of them, according to the police report, had a months-long affair. The affair eventually ended, with Jessica confiding in Heimbach’s wife the details of the relationship.
From there, things got even more ridiculous — at least until Heimbach, as witnesses say, decided to assault both his wife and Matthew Parrott alike.
As the police officer on the scene wrote, Jessica Parrott and Heimbach’s wife “made a plan to ‘set up’ [Heimbach] to see if [he] would in fact attempt to sleep with Jessica after they had stated that they had ended things.” Matthew Parrott “watch[ed] the encounter on a box through a window. While doing this the box broke and [he] ran around the trailer to confront [Heimbach].”
When Heimbach, who had recently been living in a trailer, didn’t leave the property, Parrott “poked [him] in the chest. From this [Matthew Parrott] stated that [Heimbach] grabbed his hand and twisted down then got behind him and ‘choked him out’ with his arm.” Parrott even said he briefly lost consciousness. Not long after, Parrott “threw a chair at [Heimbach] to make him leave and [Heimbach] proceeded to then choke him again in the same manner as before. [Matthew Parrott] went unconscious again.” Heimbach’s wife also told police that Heimbach grabbed her by the cheeks, making her bleed.
For good measure, all four members listed their occupations on police forms as some form of “White Nationalist.”
Heimbach did not respond to ThinkProgress’ request for comment, but his troubles appear to have only just begun. In 2017, Heimbach pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for shoving an anti-Donald Trump protester at a rally. While Heimbach escaped significant jail time, he was also placed on two years of probation — a period that would cover yesterday’s arrest.
Likewise, with the arrest — and the affair — it appears the Traditionalist Worker Party may have collapsed entirely. Matthew Parrott told the Southern Poverty Law Center that he’s “done. I’m out. SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”
Not long after Heimbach’s arrest, the website for the Traditionalist Worker Party — which had already seen members struggling to raise funds — was no more.
The arrest is an asinine, madcap end to a series of events that have deflated young white supremacists’ momentum over the past few weeks. Between the collapse of the so-called “sword and shield” of young white supremacists, to the non-attendance greeting Richard Spencer’s recent college tour, to the decimation of white supremacists’ main funding mechanism, the fall from grace for this cohort has been as swift as it’s been complete.
Trump supporter fantasizes about conservative gun owners slaughtering soldiers and liberals in a new civil war
Brad Reed - raw story
12 MAR 2018 AT 11:28 ET
Trump supporter Kurt Schlichter, who in the past has been condemned by historians of the Holocaust for saying that any Jewish person who supports Democrats “would have made a fine helper at Auschwitz,” has written up an elaborate fantasy of a new American civil war that involves armed Wisconsin farmers bringing down a column of Abrams tanks.
Writing over at Townhall.com, Schlichter thinks civil war is more likely today than it has been in the past because “the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans.”
While he still doesn’t think a civil war is likely, he believes that if such a war were to occur, Red America would defeat Blue America easily.
Among other things, he thinks that so-called “Normal Americans” could launch an insurgency campaign against the military similar to the one that Iraqis waged against the United States last decade.
“For example, how do a bunch of hunters in Wisconsin defeat a company of M1A2 Abrams tanks?” he asks. “They ambush the fuel and ammo trucks. Oh, and they wait until the gunner pops the hatch to take a leak and put a .30-06 round in his back from 300 meters. Then they disappear. What do the tanks do then? Go level the nearest town? Great. Now they just moved the needle in favor of the insurgents among the population.”
Later in the piece, he imagines how the forces of Red America could utterly decimate the city of San Francisco in a plan that would involve destroying the city’s water supply.
“San Francisco is a hotbed of treason, but the populace is largely unarmed and is trapped in a confined area,” he writes. “You put a brigade on securing the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, then put a brigade on the San Francisco Peninsula to cut off the I-280 and US-101 corridors. Next you go to the Crystal Springs Dam and cut off the water.”
Read the whole column at this link.
Writing over at Townhall.com, Schlichter thinks civil war is more likely today than it has been in the past because “the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans.”
While he still doesn’t think a civil war is likely, he believes that if such a war were to occur, Red America would defeat Blue America easily.
Among other things, he thinks that so-called “Normal Americans” could launch an insurgency campaign against the military similar to the one that Iraqis waged against the United States last decade.
“For example, how do a bunch of hunters in Wisconsin defeat a company of M1A2 Abrams tanks?” he asks. “They ambush the fuel and ammo trucks. Oh, and they wait until the gunner pops the hatch to take a leak and put a .30-06 round in his back from 300 meters. Then they disappear. What do the tanks do then? Go level the nearest town? Great. Now they just moved the needle in favor of the insurgents among the population.”
Later in the piece, he imagines how the forces of Red America could utterly decimate the city of San Francisco in a plan that would involve destroying the city’s water supply.
“San Francisco is a hotbed of treason, but the populace is largely unarmed and is trapped in a confined area,” he writes. “You put a brigade on securing the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, then put a brigade on the San Francisco Peninsula to cut off the I-280 and US-101 corridors. Next you go to the Crystal Springs Dam and cut off the water.”
Read the whole column at this link.
‘Nigger leave:’ racist defaces centuries old African meeting house in Massachusetts
Martin Cizmar - raw story
11 MAR 2018 AT 17:03 ET
The meeting house/Courtesy of police
A historic building where escaped slaves once found shelter was defaced in Nantucket, the Boston Globe reports.
The African Meeting House in Nantucket dates to 1827 and was once a school house, church and meeting house when the island was segregated. It became a museum in 1999.
“Someone spray-painted “nigger leave” and what appeared to be a penis on the building overnight.
The racist graffiti was found at 7 am, and residents of the tony island and city employees gathered to clean it up.
A state senator representing the area also condemned the act in strong words, calling it “racist terror.”
The African Meeting House in Nantucket dates to 1827 and was once a school house, church and meeting house when the island was segregated. It became a museum in 1999.
“Someone spray-painted “nigger leave” and what appeared to be a penis on the building overnight.
The racist graffiti was found at 7 am, and residents of the tony island and city employees gathered to clean it up.
A state senator representing the area also condemned the act in strong words, calling it “racist terror.”
White Nationalists Are Pushing for a 'Blue-Eyed' English
They call it Anglish.
By Ryan Lenz / Southern Poverty Law Center - alternet
March 10, 2018, 9:09 AM GMT
White nationalists have gone looking for a mothertung. No, that isn’t a misspelling, rather how the word would look for white nationalists obsessed with seeing Anglish in widespread use.
Anglish? I must certainly mean English, right? Nope.
Derived from “linguistic purism,” an idea that dates to the 16th and 17th centuries, Anglish is the English language either expunged of words with Latinate or Greek origins, or with those words completely reimagined with deference to Germanic roots. In the 19th century, writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy favored the style, even introducing words like “birdlore” instead of ornithology and “bendsome” in place of flexible.
But in the last year, as the racist “alt-right” has moved farther into the mainstream, this old idea has seen some newfound enthusiasm. (Maybe racists have come to realize that if a white ethnostate can’t be built on a gene pool, grammar will do.)
As early as 2010, though, Anglish was casually discussed in places such as Stormfront, once the largest white supremacist website in the world.
There, last summer, someone with the username “Hail Britain,” lauded Anglish after someone posted a YouTube video exploring the question, “What if English were 100 percent Germanic.”
“Good to see this sort of thing circulating,” a user named “Branmakmorn” wrote. “Hopefully it’ll spur a few normies to start asking more questions about their white identity.”
More recently, last November, an author revisited the idea of Anglish in the Renegade Tribune, an online anti-Semitic newspaper that has dabbled in Holocaust denial and featured headlines such as, “The jewish [sic] Plans for 2018: Immigrant Invasion, Miscegenation, and White Genocide.”
“How is that White countries with languages derived from Latin fell easier to Jewish universalism than Germany? Of course language is not the main reason but it is certainly related to it, and it had its own contribution,” an author last opined last November for the Renegade Tribune.
He added, in a comment to his own post: “Latin is a slave language because it is intended to be universal, to facilitate the breeding together of different humans.”
While the idea is bizarre, and almost certain to fall short in a racist culture driven more by memes more than transliterate mental gymnastics, there have been discussions about pushing Anglish into the mainstream on Reddit, and online forums elsewhere dedicated to Anglish.
But even for racists concerned with racial purity, the idea of speaking an entirely different language seems daunting.
“What would be the point in changing the time-proven fully functional English language???” a user named “Rebel Robbie” asked last July on Stormfront. “Language is the least of our problems. … a common language is a way of communicating with with [sic] the peoples that are local to each other in a specific area.”
Rebel Robbie has a point, even if he expressed it with some grammatical stumbles.
Every white nationalist knows its hard enough getting the movement to agree on anything, and that’s when everyone involved is pulling from the same “wordstock.” That’s not to mention how the anti-immigrant movement and groups such as Pro-English, one of Michigan ophthalmologist John Tanton’s projects, have spent the better part of nearly three decades feebly pushing for the United States to adopt English as a national language.
But, hey, the brainy racists obsessed with language are right about one thing: language matters. And even they have to realize that pushing Anglish is one thing above all else: laughably stupid.
Anglish? I must certainly mean English, right? Nope.
Derived from “linguistic purism,” an idea that dates to the 16th and 17th centuries, Anglish is the English language either expunged of words with Latinate or Greek origins, or with those words completely reimagined with deference to Germanic roots. In the 19th century, writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy favored the style, even introducing words like “birdlore” instead of ornithology and “bendsome” in place of flexible.
But in the last year, as the racist “alt-right” has moved farther into the mainstream, this old idea has seen some newfound enthusiasm. (Maybe racists have come to realize that if a white ethnostate can’t be built on a gene pool, grammar will do.)
As early as 2010, though, Anglish was casually discussed in places such as Stormfront, once the largest white supremacist website in the world.
There, last summer, someone with the username “Hail Britain,” lauded Anglish after someone posted a YouTube video exploring the question, “What if English were 100 percent Germanic.”
“Good to see this sort of thing circulating,” a user named “Branmakmorn” wrote. “Hopefully it’ll spur a few normies to start asking more questions about their white identity.”
More recently, last November, an author revisited the idea of Anglish in the Renegade Tribune, an online anti-Semitic newspaper that has dabbled in Holocaust denial and featured headlines such as, “The jewish [sic] Plans for 2018: Immigrant Invasion, Miscegenation, and White Genocide.”
“How is that White countries with languages derived from Latin fell easier to Jewish universalism than Germany? Of course language is not the main reason but it is certainly related to it, and it had its own contribution,” an author last opined last November for the Renegade Tribune.
He added, in a comment to his own post: “Latin is a slave language because it is intended to be universal, to facilitate the breeding together of different humans.”
While the idea is bizarre, and almost certain to fall short in a racist culture driven more by memes more than transliterate mental gymnastics, there have been discussions about pushing Anglish into the mainstream on Reddit, and online forums elsewhere dedicated to Anglish.
But even for racists concerned with racial purity, the idea of speaking an entirely different language seems daunting.
“What would be the point in changing the time-proven fully functional English language???” a user named “Rebel Robbie” asked last July on Stormfront. “Language is the least of our problems. … a common language is a way of communicating with with [sic] the peoples that are local to each other in a specific area.”
Rebel Robbie has a point, even if he expressed it with some grammatical stumbles.
Every white nationalist knows its hard enough getting the movement to agree on anything, and that’s when everyone involved is pulling from the same “wordstock.” That’s not to mention how the anti-immigrant movement and groups such as Pro-English, one of Michigan ophthalmologist John Tanton’s projects, have spent the better part of nearly three decades feebly pushing for the United States to adopt English as a national language.
But, hey, the brainy racists obsessed with language are right about one thing: language matters. And even they have to realize that pushing Anglish is one thing above all else: laughably stupid.
another uncle tom!!!
Watch Stacey Dash, Now a Congressional Candidate, Defend Trump and Charlottesville White Supremacists
The film star proved she's actually clueless.
By Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story
March 9, 2018, 12:19 AM GMT
Making her first televised appearance since announcing her bid for a Congressional seat, Clueless star Stacey Dash said she agrees with President Donald Trump’s rhetoric claiming there were good and bad people on “both sides” of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last August.
“I think he’s absolutely right,” Dash told MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thursday evening. “There were two extreme sides.”
After touting both sides “right to assemble,” the conservative actress went on to pay lip service to the need for the rally’s white supremacists, Klansmen and neo-Nazis and those who counter-protested in opposition of them to “listen to each other.”
Melber asked Dash to elaborate on her assertion that there was “hate on both sides,” to which she replied Trump “was not siding with the neo-Nazis.”
“When he said there are ‘good people on both sides,’ good people at the white supremacist rally, do you cosign that?” the host asked Dash.
“I’m not here to judge,” she responded. “The only one who can judge is God.”
Watch via MSNBC:
“I think he’s absolutely right,” Dash told MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thursday evening. “There were two extreme sides.”
After touting both sides “right to assemble,” the conservative actress went on to pay lip service to the need for the rally’s white supremacists, Klansmen and neo-Nazis and those who counter-protested in opposition of them to “listen to each other.”
Melber asked Dash to elaborate on her assertion that there was “hate on both sides,” to which she replied Trump “was not siding with the neo-Nazis.”
“When he said there are ‘good people on both sides,’ good people at the white supremacist rally, do you cosign that?” the host asked Dash.
“I’m not here to judge,” she responded. “The only one who can judge is God.”
Watch via MSNBC:
Racist Oregon woman harassed 4-year-old black boy before bashing his mom in the head with a bottle
Martin Cizmar - raw story
07 MAR 2018 AT 10:21 ET
Booking photo of Brenda Mae Glenn
An Oregon woman is facing jail time after being found guilty of repeatedly calling two young children the N-word and striking their mom in the head with a beer bottle when she went to complain.
Two African-American boys, aged 4 and 11, were playing in the courtyard of a Southeast Portland apartment complex in September 2016 when they caught the attention of Brenda Mae Glenn, the Oregonian reports.
It’s not illegal to call a young child the N-word in Oregon, but it is illegal to hit someone in the head with a 40-ounce bottle of Hurricane malt liqour. Which is what Glenn was found guilty of doing to the boy’s mother, Tierra Dizer, when she confronted the woman. Dizer suffered a large bump on her forehead from the assault, police said.
Since she had yelled racist insults at the children before assaulting their mother, prosecutors pursued a hate crime charge. The defense attorney argued that since the racial slurs were only hurled at the children, there was no evidence that her attack on their mother was racially motivated. Judge Henry Hodson allowed her to walk free on those charges.
Glenn moved out of the apartment after the assault but skipped her sentencing on February 22, the Oregonian reports, leaving a voicemail about how “she needed a week to get her affairs in order before sentencing.”
She’s wanted.
Two African-American boys, aged 4 and 11, were playing in the courtyard of a Southeast Portland apartment complex in September 2016 when they caught the attention of Brenda Mae Glenn, the Oregonian reports.
It’s not illegal to call a young child the N-word in Oregon, but it is illegal to hit someone in the head with a 40-ounce bottle of Hurricane malt liqour. Which is what Glenn was found guilty of doing to the boy’s mother, Tierra Dizer, when she confronted the woman. Dizer suffered a large bump on her forehead from the assault, police said.
Since she had yelled racist insults at the children before assaulting their mother, prosecutors pursued a hate crime charge. The defense attorney argued that since the racial slurs were only hurled at the children, there was no evidence that her attack on their mother was racially motivated. Judge Henry Hodson allowed her to walk free on those charges.
Glenn moved out of the apartment after the assault but skipped her sentencing on February 22, the Oregonian reports, leaving a voicemail about how “she needed a week to get her affairs in order before sentencing.”
She’s wanted.
Virginia sex offender confesses to threatening to murder black students at Howard University
Noor Al-Sibai - raw story
06 MAR 2018 AT 16:45 ET
A 26-year-old Virginia man who threatened the lives of students at Howard University, a historically black institution, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making the racist threats.
The Washington Post reported that an attorney for John Edgar Rust, who was attending Missouri University during a period of racial unrest when he issued the threats in 2015 but was at home on break, claimed the Virginia man is mentally unstable but competent to stand trial.
“I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore,” Rust wrote in a Facebook post. “I go home to Maryland and what do I see? The same old sh*t. Turn on the news and it’s always the n*ggers causing trouble everywhere. So I’ve decided. Any n*gger left at Howard University after 10 tomorrow will be the first to go. And any of those cheapskate n*gger who try to get out using the metro will regret that choice real fast.”
He went on to claim “it’s not murder if they’re black.”
Rust, who was on probation as part of his 2012 conviction for “indecent liberties with a child by custodian and aggravated sexual battery,” made the threats against black students at Howard, which is located within the city limits of Washington, D.C., from a Panera Bread in Alexandria, Virginia. The location difference led to his charge and eventual guilty plea of “transmission in interstate commerce of a communication containing threats to injure the person of another.”
The Washington Post reported that an attorney for John Edgar Rust, who was attending Missouri University during a period of racial unrest when he issued the threats in 2015 but was at home on break, claimed the Virginia man is mentally unstable but competent to stand trial.
“I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore,” Rust wrote in a Facebook post. “I go home to Maryland and what do I see? The same old sh*t. Turn on the news and it’s always the n*ggers causing trouble everywhere. So I’ve decided. Any n*gger left at Howard University after 10 tomorrow will be the first to go. And any of those cheapskate n*gger who try to get out using the metro will regret that choice real fast.”
He went on to claim “it’s not murder if they’re black.”
Rust, who was on probation as part of his 2012 conviction for “indecent liberties with a child by custodian and aggravated sexual battery,” made the threats against black students at Howard, which is located within the city limits of Washington, D.C., from a Panera Bread in Alexandria, Virginia. The location difference led to his charge and eventual guilty plea of “transmission in interstate commerce of a communication containing threats to injure the person of another.”
Atomwaffen, Extremist Group Whose Members Have Been Charged in Five Murders, Loses Some of Its Platforms
Three technology companies have banned the neo-Nazi group from using their online services after reporting by ProPublica. Atomwaffen’s t-shirt retailer is out, as well.
by A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston - pro publica
March 6, 5 a.m. EST
At least four technology companies have taken steps to bar Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi organization, from using their online services and platforms to spread its message or fund its operations.
The action comes after ProPublica reports detailing the organization’s terrorist ambitions and revealing that the California man charged with murdering Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old college student found buried in an Orange County park earlier this year, was an Atomwaffen member.
Activists and journalists with other media outlets have criticized the tech firms — among them chat services, web merchants, social media channels and gaming platforms — for enabling the outfit, which has members in 23 states and Canada, records show.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s happened since ProPublica reported on Feb. 23 that chat logs used by Atomwaffen showed members celebrating Bernstein’s murder. Bernstein was gay and Jewish, and Atomwaffen members took to calling his accused killer, Samuel Woodward, a “one man gay Jew wrecking crew.”
Discord
Discord was designed to allow video gamers to communicate with one another while immersed in multiplayer online games, but over the past year it has been co-opted by white supremacists who have used it to share bomb-making manuals, plot the violent confrontations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, in the case of Atomwaffen, revel in the killing of Bernstein.
Scattered across the country, Atomwaffen members relied on Discord to disseminate confidential information and make organizational plans.
After ProPublica obtained more than 250,000 Discord messages posted by Atomwaffen members and reprinted excerpts of those messages as part of our Feb. 23 article, Discord quickly shut down the group’s server.
Discord’s terms of service “specifically prohibit harassment, threatening messages, or calls to violence,” the company said in an emailed statement to ProPublica. “There were a handful of servers that violated these ToS recently and were swiftly removed from the platform. We will continue to be aggressive to ensure that Discord exists for the community we set out to support — gamers.”
YouTube and Steam
tomwaffen had long posted its propaganda videos, which are full of violent imagery and racist messaging, on YouTube, where the group had its own channel. Then Motherboard, the Daily Beast, and the Anti-Defamation League took on the video-sharing giant.
As the Daily Beast noted, Atomwaffen seemed to be in clear violation of YouTube’s policy on hate speech, which bans videos made with “the primary purpose of inciting hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, such as: race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation/gender identity.”
At first, YouTube balked at pulling down the videos, which call for “race war now” and the mass murder of Jews. But on Feb. 28, the company reversed its position and terminated the Atomwaffen channel.
Still, a second channel maintained by the group, SIEGEtv, which promotes Nazi ideology, is online and active.
Motherboard, an arm of Vice Media, also discovered that there was an Atomwaffen group on the community discussion board of Steam, a gaming platform.
“The group only has 17 members, but their accounts are a disturbing grab bag of Nazi imagery and Atomwaffen-style propaganda,” Motherboard reported. “The group’s description section clearly states its racist worldview. One member has used the screen name ‘PURE ARYAN 100%,’ and uses a photo of South Carolina mass murderer Dylann Roof as his avatar.”
Valve, the parent company of Steam, has deleted the group.
Inktale
Until recently, Atomwaffen used Inktale, an online t-shirt retailer, to fund its operations through the sale of Nazi-themed t-shirts. Shirt designs celebrated figures like Charles Manson and Atomwaffen’s ideological inspiration, longtime Nazi James Mason. (The t-shirt with Mason’s image read “Give hate a chance.”)
On Feb. 24, Twitter users began confronting the company.
The next day Inktale quit selling the shirts.
The company told ProPublica that “Inktale reserves the right to review, and if necessary remove, any content from the site.“
“In this case, the user in question violated part 3 of the Acceptable Content Policy (https://inktale.com/content-policy), thus their profile and products were deleted.”
The on-demand t-shirt printer said it has systems in place to keep organizations like Atomwaffen from using its services, “but we also appreciate anyone reporting inappropriate content to our team from the outside, and we take such claims very seriously.”
Cloudflare
The San Francisco-based company provides anti-hack protection to two Atomwaffen websites: AtomwaffenDivision.org and SiegeCulture.com. As part of that protection, Cloudflare obscures the name of the hosting company providing Atomwaffen with space on the internet.
Cloudflare, which sells services to some 7 million websites, said it has no control over the content on those sites and doesn’t plan to stop doing business with Atomwaffen. From the company’s perspective, it’s up to the web hosts, domain registrars and ISPs to decide if they want to yank Atomwaffen’s sites, said Cloudflare general counsel Doug Kramer.
“We don’t want to be put in the position of being judge and jury on our own,” said Kramer, noting the struggles of much larger outfits like YouTube and Facebook to identify unacceptable content. “We’ve seen that we get some legitimate complaints and we get some that aren’t on the up-and-up — that are people going after other people with whom they disagree.”
However, on at least one occasion, Cloudflare has cut ties with a Nazi site: In August 2017, days after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the company ousted The Daily Stormer, an avowedly racist and anti-Semitic news site.
“Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer,” wrote CEO Matthew Prince on the company’s blog at the time. “Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.”
Kramer stressed that members of the public concerned about Atomwaffen’s websites can use Cloudflare’s abuse form to anonymously report the sites, and that Cloudflare will notify the owners or web hosts.
That system was reformed last May in the wake of a ProPublica report revealing that people were being harassed and threatened after complaining to Cloudflare about hate sites, including The Daily Stormer. At the time, the company was sharing the personal information of the complainants with the racist sites.
The action comes after ProPublica reports detailing the organization’s terrorist ambitions and revealing that the California man charged with murdering Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old college student found buried in an Orange County park earlier this year, was an Atomwaffen member.
Activists and journalists with other media outlets have criticized the tech firms — among them chat services, web merchants, social media channels and gaming platforms — for enabling the outfit, which has members in 23 states and Canada, records show.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s happened since ProPublica reported on Feb. 23 that chat logs used by Atomwaffen showed members celebrating Bernstein’s murder. Bernstein was gay and Jewish, and Atomwaffen members took to calling his accused killer, Samuel Woodward, a “one man gay Jew wrecking crew.”
Discord
Discord was designed to allow video gamers to communicate with one another while immersed in multiplayer online games, but over the past year it has been co-opted by white supremacists who have used it to share bomb-making manuals, plot the violent confrontations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, in the case of Atomwaffen, revel in the killing of Bernstein.
Scattered across the country, Atomwaffen members relied on Discord to disseminate confidential information and make organizational plans.
After ProPublica obtained more than 250,000 Discord messages posted by Atomwaffen members and reprinted excerpts of those messages as part of our Feb. 23 article, Discord quickly shut down the group’s server.
Discord’s terms of service “specifically prohibit harassment, threatening messages, or calls to violence,” the company said in an emailed statement to ProPublica. “There were a handful of servers that violated these ToS recently and were swiftly removed from the platform. We will continue to be aggressive to ensure that Discord exists for the community we set out to support — gamers.”
YouTube and Steam
tomwaffen had long posted its propaganda videos, which are full of violent imagery and racist messaging, on YouTube, where the group had its own channel. Then Motherboard, the Daily Beast, and the Anti-Defamation League took on the video-sharing giant.
As the Daily Beast noted, Atomwaffen seemed to be in clear violation of YouTube’s policy on hate speech, which bans videos made with “the primary purpose of inciting hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, such as: race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation/gender identity.”
At first, YouTube balked at pulling down the videos, which call for “race war now” and the mass murder of Jews. But on Feb. 28, the company reversed its position and terminated the Atomwaffen channel.
Still, a second channel maintained by the group, SIEGEtv, which promotes Nazi ideology, is online and active.
Motherboard, an arm of Vice Media, also discovered that there was an Atomwaffen group on the community discussion board of Steam, a gaming platform.
“The group only has 17 members, but their accounts are a disturbing grab bag of Nazi imagery and Atomwaffen-style propaganda,” Motherboard reported. “The group’s description section clearly states its racist worldview. One member has used the screen name ‘PURE ARYAN 100%,’ and uses a photo of South Carolina mass murderer Dylann Roof as his avatar.”
Valve, the parent company of Steam, has deleted the group.
Inktale
Until recently, Atomwaffen used Inktale, an online t-shirt retailer, to fund its operations through the sale of Nazi-themed t-shirts. Shirt designs celebrated figures like Charles Manson and Atomwaffen’s ideological inspiration, longtime Nazi James Mason. (The t-shirt with Mason’s image read “Give hate a chance.”)
On Feb. 24, Twitter users began confronting the company.
The next day Inktale quit selling the shirts.
The company told ProPublica that “Inktale reserves the right to review, and if necessary remove, any content from the site.“
“In this case, the user in question violated part 3 of the Acceptable Content Policy (https://inktale.com/content-policy), thus their profile and products were deleted.”
The on-demand t-shirt printer said it has systems in place to keep organizations like Atomwaffen from using its services, “but we also appreciate anyone reporting inappropriate content to our team from the outside, and we take such claims very seriously.”
Cloudflare
The San Francisco-based company provides anti-hack protection to two Atomwaffen websites: AtomwaffenDivision.org and SiegeCulture.com. As part of that protection, Cloudflare obscures the name of the hosting company providing Atomwaffen with space on the internet.
Cloudflare, which sells services to some 7 million websites, said it has no control over the content on those sites and doesn’t plan to stop doing business with Atomwaffen. From the company’s perspective, it’s up to the web hosts, domain registrars and ISPs to decide if they want to yank Atomwaffen’s sites, said Cloudflare general counsel Doug Kramer.
“We don’t want to be put in the position of being judge and jury on our own,” said Kramer, noting the struggles of much larger outfits like YouTube and Facebook to identify unacceptable content. “We’ve seen that we get some legitimate complaints and we get some that aren’t on the up-and-up — that are people going after other people with whom they disagree.”
However, on at least one occasion, Cloudflare has cut ties with a Nazi site: In August 2017, days after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the company ousted The Daily Stormer, an avowedly racist and anti-Semitic news site.
“Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer,” wrote CEO Matthew Prince on the company’s blog at the time. “Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.”
Kramer stressed that members of the public concerned about Atomwaffen’s websites can use Cloudflare’s abuse form to anonymously report the sites, and that Cloudflare will notify the owners or web hosts.
That system was reformed last May in the wake of a ProPublica report revealing that people were being harassed and threatened after complaining to Cloudflare about hate sites, including The Daily Stormer. At the time, the company was sharing the personal information of the complainants with the racist sites.
exposed another racist!!!
Proudly pro-Confederate Republican candidate shocked to find out her family owned dozens of slaves
Martin Cizmar - raw story
28 FEB 2018 AT 11:09 ET
A candidate running to the right of South Carolina’s governor in the Republican primary on a Southern Pride platform says she just now learned that her ancestors were major slaveholders.
Catherine Templeton is an attorney and former member of Nikki Haley’s cabinet who is running to unseat Haley’s successor, Henry McMaster. She’s moving right as she runs:She now opposes abortion even in the case of incest.
In a state which removed Confederate monuments after white nationalist Dylann Roofmassacred nine people at a black church, she’s also waving the stars and bars.
“I’m proud of the Confederacy,” she told Pickens County Republicans, in explaining why she opposed removing Confederate statues from the state.
“I don’t think there’s anything else to say about it,” she said at the meeting. “You cannot rewrite history. I don’t care whose feelings it hurts. You cannot rewrite history.”
But Templeton might not know as much history as she suggests. On February 1, Templeton bragged that her family engaged in an armed insurrection on principle.
“I think it’s important to note that my family didn’t fight because we had slaves,” she said. “My family fought because the federal government was trying to tell us how to live. We didn’t need them to tell us how to live way back then, and we don’t need them to tell us how to live today.”
However, census records unearthed by the Greenville News show that her ancestor, Hiram Clark Brawley, owned 66 human beings, which were valued at $32,000. That’s about $900,000 in today’s dollars. The family managed the Plantation after his death and his son joined the South Carolina army during the Civil War.
The revelation that a proud neo-Confederate’s ancestors also profited handsomely from slavery was not shocking to black leaders in the state.
“I don’t think she understands the diversity we have in South Carolina and that we’re not all a bunch of flag-waving yahoos,” said a local black church leader, Joe Darby. “When you elevate the Confederacy, you stomp on the memories of those who were subjugated, the slaves. She’s stomping on my ancestors.”
Templeton posted a self-pitying selfie video to Twitter.
“Yesterday, the Democratic Party called me a white supremacist. Because I support president Trump? Or because I fight for Democratic ideals?”
Catherine Templeton is an attorney and former member of Nikki Haley’s cabinet who is running to unseat Haley’s successor, Henry McMaster. She’s moving right as she runs:She now opposes abortion even in the case of incest.
In a state which removed Confederate monuments after white nationalist Dylann Roofmassacred nine people at a black church, she’s also waving the stars and bars.
“I’m proud of the Confederacy,” she told Pickens County Republicans, in explaining why she opposed removing Confederate statues from the state.
“I don’t think there’s anything else to say about it,” she said at the meeting. “You cannot rewrite history. I don’t care whose feelings it hurts. You cannot rewrite history.”
But Templeton might not know as much history as she suggests. On February 1, Templeton bragged that her family engaged in an armed insurrection on principle.
“I think it’s important to note that my family didn’t fight because we had slaves,” she said. “My family fought because the federal government was trying to tell us how to live. We didn’t need them to tell us how to live way back then, and we don’t need them to tell us how to live today.”
However, census records unearthed by the Greenville News show that her ancestor, Hiram Clark Brawley, owned 66 human beings, which were valued at $32,000. That’s about $900,000 in today’s dollars. The family managed the Plantation after his death and his son joined the South Carolina army during the Civil War.
The revelation that a proud neo-Confederate’s ancestors also profited handsomely from slavery was not shocking to black leaders in the state.
“I don’t think she understands the diversity we have in South Carolina and that we’re not all a bunch of flag-waving yahoos,” said a local black church leader, Joe Darby. “When you elevate the Confederacy, you stomp on the memories of those who were subjugated, the slaves. She’s stomping on my ancestors.”
Templeton posted a self-pitying selfie video to Twitter.
“Yesterday, the Democratic Party called me a white supremacist. Because I support president Trump? Or because I fight for Democratic ideals?”
voice from the shithole!!!
Far-right minister insists Melania Trump had Obamas’ “voodoo” relics cleansed from White House
Pastor Paul Begley won’t retract claims about “idols” in White House despite First Lady office’s denials
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
02.26.2018•3:23 PM
A side-effect of the Religious Right’s ardent embrace of serial adulterer Donald Trump is that many of the movement’s leaders have felt the need to construct their own narratives of how the president is supposedly a different man now. Many of them claim that, as a candidate, the former strip club and casino owner had been “anointed” by God.
Long-time Christian nationalist fixture James Dobson has claimed that Trump has experienced a religious conversion and should now be regarded as a “baby Christian.”
Inevitably, such tales are offered as justifications for why a group that spent decades claiming that “character counts” in political leaders are now interested in supporting a man who has publicly boasted about walking into teenage girls’ dressing rooms.
Occasionally, Trump fans have claimed that his wife, Melania, is the inspiration for his turnaround. She hasn’t spoken much publicly about her faith or much of anything else, so it’s tough so say how interested she is in religion.
But according to doomsday minister Paul Begley, Melania has been waging a spiritual battle of her own. Earlier this month, he claimed that the First Lady made sure that the White House was “completely exorcised” before she would move into the presidential residence, since former president Barack Obama had left the place littered with “idols” and other “demonic” artifacts.
In a podcast interview last week that was first reported by Right Wing Watch, Begley claimed that on Inauguration Day last year, the incoming First Lady ordered a massive physical and spiritual cleansing of the White House.
“During that five hours when they were ripping out carpets and changing drapes,” Begley told his host, Sheila Zilinsky.
“Melania Trump said to her husband, ‘I’m not going to go into that White House unless it has been completely exorcised.’”
He continued:
“There were people in there packing up every idol. The only thing that was left, Sheila, was one cross on one wall. They cleansed the White House. They had people in there anointing it with oil and praying everywhere.”
The First Lady’s office denied the story in a response to the Associated Press, calling it “not true in any way,” but in a subsequent interview also reported by Right Wing Watch, Begley stood by his claim.
Speaking with fellow doomsday Christian propagandist Doug Hagmann, Begley insisted that his tale was true and that the media were lying by claiming the First Lady had denied it. Instead, he argued, people needed to parse very carefully what the White House had said.
“The lamestream, mainstream fake news media tried to say that that was fake news or that there was no—I think they said the White House, Melania Trump’s spokeswoman said there was no ‘exorcism’ in the White House,” Begley said.
“There may not have been a, quote, ‘exorcism’ in the White House, but they didn’t say that they didn’t remove all of the idols, all the relics, all the witchcraft, all the voodoo, all of the things that were in there. They are not going to tell you those weren’t removed because, believe me, they were.”
The far-right pastor claimed that his story was accurate based on the word of an anonymous person he claims was “involved” with the objects’ removal.
This is hardly the first time that Obama’s right-wing critics have caricatured him by attempting to associate him with paganism or non-Christian religions. Usually, however, these sorts of caricatures arrive via racist jokes or cartoons. Begley just might be the first person to actually assert that Obama believes in voodoo.
In a May 2016 survey, two-thirds of respondents who supported Donald Trump said they believed that Obama was a Muslim.
Long-time Christian nationalist fixture James Dobson has claimed that Trump has experienced a religious conversion and should now be regarded as a “baby Christian.”
Inevitably, such tales are offered as justifications for why a group that spent decades claiming that “character counts” in political leaders are now interested in supporting a man who has publicly boasted about walking into teenage girls’ dressing rooms.
Occasionally, Trump fans have claimed that his wife, Melania, is the inspiration for his turnaround. She hasn’t spoken much publicly about her faith or much of anything else, so it’s tough so say how interested she is in religion.
But according to doomsday minister Paul Begley, Melania has been waging a spiritual battle of her own. Earlier this month, he claimed that the First Lady made sure that the White House was “completely exorcised” before she would move into the presidential residence, since former president Barack Obama had left the place littered with “idols” and other “demonic” artifacts.
In a podcast interview last week that was first reported by Right Wing Watch, Begley claimed that on Inauguration Day last year, the incoming First Lady ordered a massive physical and spiritual cleansing of the White House.
“During that five hours when they were ripping out carpets and changing drapes,” Begley told his host, Sheila Zilinsky.
“Melania Trump said to her husband, ‘I’m not going to go into that White House unless it has been completely exorcised.’”
He continued:
“There were people in there packing up every idol. The only thing that was left, Sheila, was one cross on one wall. They cleansed the White House. They had people in there anointing it with oil and praying everywhere.”
The First Lady’s office denied the story in a response to the Associated Press, calling it “not true in any way,” but in a subsequent interview also reported by Right Wing Watch, Begley stood by his claim.
Speaking with fellow doomsday Christian propagandist Doug Hagmann, Begley insisted that his tale was true and that the media were lying by claiming the First Lady had denied it. Instead, he argued, people needed to parse very carefully what the White House had said.
“The lamestream, mainstream fake news media tried to say that that was fake news or that there was no—I think they said the White House, Melania Trump’s spokeswoman said there was no ‘exorcism’ in the White House,” Begley said.
“There may not have been a, quote, ‘exorcism’ in the White House, but they didn’t say that they didn’t remove all of the idols, all the relics, all the witchcraft, all the voodoo, all of the things that were in there. They are not going to tell you those weren’t removed because, believe me, they were.”
The far-right pastor claimed that his story was accurate based on the word of an anonymous person he claims was “involved” with the objects’ removal.
This is hardly the first time that Obama’s right-wing critics have caricatured him by attempting to associate him with paganism or non-Christian religions. Usually, however, these sorts of caricatures arrive via racist jokes or cartoons. Begley just might be the first person to actually assert that Obama believes in voodoo.
In a May 2016 survey, two-thirds of respondents who supported Donald Trump said they believed that Obama was a Muslim.
‘It would damage the reputation of Jesus himself’: How one California church justified child sex abuse cover-up
Sarah K. Burris - raw story
26 FEB 2018 AT 13:52 ET
At a time of great vulnerability, Jennifer Graves’s pastor not only forcibly kissed and fondled her, but he proceeded to molest her over the course of the years that followed.
It all happened at the First Baptist Church in Modesto, California, now known as CrossPoint Community Church, when Brad Tebbutt was a 27-year-old married youth pastor, The Modesto Bee reported. Tebbutt now works in seniors ministry for the International House of Prayer in Kansas City after spending 30 years as a youth pastor.
When Graves attended his youth group in Modesto, she alleged Tebbutt would have sex with her after school. The molestation took place in his office, his car and even at his home before his wife came home from work. It continued for two-and-a-half years.
She explained that after her father’s death, her mother had difficulty dealing with her three teenage children. Graves was depressed as well and thought about harming herself. When the youth pastor paid her special attention it brightened her, but prayers turned into something else.
The Tebbutts invited Graves to stay in their apartment overnight but they ultimately took her in indefinitely.
She explained that he “became my entire emotional support, and I was this vulnerable, depressed, anxious girl who had just lost her dad and couldn’t get along with her mom and had no other options. At that age, I didn’t feel I had other choices, and he took advantage of that.”
At one point in the investigation, she was put in a room with a handful of men who asked her to describe in specific detail what had happened. She was only 17.
The former head pastor, Bill Yaeger, died in 2005. Today, CrossPoint does full background checks and fingerprinting checks on it’s staff and volunteers working with children. They’re also required to go through prevention training every two years.
George Austin, was a retired California Highway Patrol officer who taught Sunday School at First Baptist. He too was molesting boys. By the time he was finally prosecuted and convicted, 10 victims came forward.
Christa Brown has been documenting Baptist clergy abuse for the last 12 years and explained that it’s a mystery why the church was swift to act in the cases of the boys molested but not in Graves’s case.
Brown is a survivor herself and at the age of 17 she was forced to apologize to the wife of her abuser.
The Graves case “fits that pattern perfectly of what we’ve seen in so many other Baptist clergy cases,” Brown explained. Victims are “shamed, blamed and slammed all over again.”
“Hundreds of victims have told me that when they tried to make a report within the faith community, it seemed even worse than the damage of the abuse itself,” Brown said. “The church culture enables these coverups. The notion that you better forgive and the grace of God will redeem him is lovely sounding in the abstract, but it can get twisted to be enabling. There need to be consequences for cover-uppers.”
The statute of limitations has expired and Tebbutt can no longer be prosecuted. Graves’s former pastor Jacobo said that he never went to the police because Graves said she didn’t want to press charges.
“We wanted to honor her wishes in that and begin her process of healing,” he said. At the time, Tebbutt was forced to apologize and Graves “seemed satisfied with the process and the results. I feel like we did everything we knew to do in addressing it. If she now feels this was insufficient, then we sincerely apologize.”
She called it “a ‘sorry-she-got-her-feelings-hurt’ apology.”
There are no current claims of abuse against Tebbutt in Oregon where he went after Modesto. However, at some point, Tebbutt went through an “18-month repentance and restoration process” with a psychologist, according to a letter from his church in Missouri, Forerunner Christian Fellowship. He “continues to express deep sadness and sorrow over his actions,” wrote director of pastoral support Dale Anderson.
It all happened at the First Baptist Church in Modesto, California, now known as CrossPoint Community Church, when Brad Tebbutt was a 27-year-old married youth pastor, The Modesto Bee reported. Tebbutt now works in seniors ministry for the International House of Prayer in Kansas City after spending 30 years as a youth pastor.
When Graves attended his youth group in Modesto, she alleged Tebbutt would have sex with her after school. The molestation took place in his office, his car and even at his home before his wife came home from work. It continued for two-and-a-half years.
She explained that after her father’s death, her mother had difficulty dealing with her three teenage children. Graves was depressed as well and thought about harming herself. When the youth pastor paid her special attention it brightened her, but prayers turned into something else.
The Tebbutts invited Graves to stay in their apartment overnight but they ultimately took her in indefinitely.
She explained that he “became my entire emotional support, and I was this vulnerable, depressed, anxious girl who had just lost her dad and couldn’t get along with her mom and had no other options. At that age, I didn’t feel I had other choices, and he took advantage of that.”
At one point in the investigation, she was put in a room with a handful of men who asked her to describe in specific detail what had happened. She was only 17.
The former head pastor, Bill Yaeger, died in 2005. Today, CrossPoint does full background checks and fingerprinting checks on it’s staff and volunteers working with children. They’re also required to go through prevention training every two years.
George Austin, was a retired California Highway Patrol officer who taught Sunday School at First Baptist. He too was molesting boys. By the time he was finally prosecuted and convicted, 10 victims came forward.
Christa Brown has been documenting Baptist clergy abuse for the last 12 years and explained that it’s a mystery why the church was swift to act in the cases of the boys molested but not in Graves’s case.
Brown is a survivor herself and at the age of 17 she was forced to apologize to the wife of her abuser.
The Graves case “fits that pattern perfectly of what we’ve seen in so many other Baptist clergy cases,” Brown explained. Victims are “shamed, blamed and slammed all over again.”
“Hundreds of victims have told me that when they tried to make a report within the faith community, it seemed even worse than the damage of the abuse itself,” Brown said. “The church culture enables these coverups. The notion that you better forgive and the grace of God will redeem him is lovely sounding in the abstract, but it can get twisted to be enabling. There need to be consequences for cover-uppers.”
The statute of limitations has expired and Tebbutt can no longer be prosecuted. Graves’s former pastor Jacobo said that he never went to the police because Graves said she didn’t want to press charges.
“We wanted to honor her wishes in that and begin her process of healing,” he said. At the time, Tebbutt was forced to apologize and Graves “seemed satisfied with the process and the results. I feel like we did everything we knew to do in addressing it. If she now feels this was insufficient, then we sincerely apologize.”
She called it “a ‘sorry-she-got-her-feelings-hurt’ apology.”
There are no current claims of abuse against Tebbutt in Oregon where he went after Modesto. However, at some point, Tebbutt went through an “18-month repentance and restoration process” with a psychologist, according to a letter from his church in Missouri, Forerunner Christian Fellowship. He “continues to express deep sadness and sorrow over his actions,” wrote director of pastoral support Dale Anderson.
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