Charles Powne, owner of Soleilmoon Recordings, recently responded to an inquiry from Portland, Oregon’s Willamette Weekly (WW) regarding SPLC’s listing of his music label as a seller of “Hate Music.” Powne said, "The solution to bad speech is not to shut it down, but to overcome it with more speech.”
Cloudflare, the Internet security giant that specializes in content delivery and optimization has an ambitious goal: to help “power and protect the entire Internet.”
Preaching about the “evils of Islam” and the need for evangelical Christians to step up and defend the Constitution, their beliefs and way of life appears to be a burgeoning business opportunity.
White supremacists target college campuses; Porn star veers right; Jones urges Trump to ‘war’ against his opponents; Militiamen provide ‘security’ at rally; and more.
Beginning this month, SPLC will provide regular updates on the most recent actions of Sovereign Citizen extremists.
Jewish institutions have been the target of intermittent bomb threats since last November. On Friday, police arrested Juan Thompson, 31 for several of them. Thompson allegedly targeted at least eight Jewish Community Centers, the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) New York office, the Jewish History Museum and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Over 90 more Jewish organizations have received threats, but law enforcement is not attributing those to Thompson.
A Florida man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend and a police officer near Orlando appeared in court last week, using what a judge described as a “sovereign citizen” line of defense.
Trump’s wiretap claim source backs away; California incidents inspired by Trump rhetoric; Bannon and that racist French novel; and more.
Trump’s denunciation of threats, hate crimes falls short; CNP pushes hard for ‘religious liberty’ order; New York hate crimes skyrocketing; and more.
Almost a month after Dylann Roof murdered nine parishioners at Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel AME church, a convoy of pickup trucks drove by a young African American child’s birthday party hurling racial epithets and pointing firearms. On February 27, 2017, several among the group of “flaggers” were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and violating a state gang act.
