2007 - Spring - The Year in Hate 2006
Nativist rage fuels rise in hate groups with 144 extremist groups identified; Belgian webmaster is global nexis of hate; and a California professor's career soars despite anti-Semitic writings.
Nativist rage fuels rise in hate groups with 144 extremist groups identified; Belgian webmaster is global nexis of hate; and a California professor's career soars despite anti-Semitic writings.
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Oct. 14 - John Ditullio, a member of the so-called Teak Street Nazis group that terrorized neighbors in a New Port Richey, Fla., trailer park, was indicted for slashing neighbor Patricia Wells and murdering a friend of her son.
The infection is spreading. Like pus from a wound, hatred is seeping from the most virulent extremities of our society into the organs of American democracy. The body politic is at risk of falling ill.
How an academic rose to the heights of his profession while producing 'science' justifying the hatred of Jews
Several members of the extended Phelps family, which makes up most of the notorious anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist Church, are ensconced within the Kansas State Department of Corrections (DOC), a prison advocacy group reported in December.
James Kopp, already serving 25 years to life on a 2003 New York state murder conviction for the 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, was convicted in January of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by assassinating the physician.
It's been a tough couple of years for tax-dodgers in Florida, where the IRS has recently indicted more than 20 individuals in some of the most high-profile cases in the history of the radical tax-protest movement.
A Latino teenager attended a party in April 2006 at a housing complex just north of Houston, in a town called Spring. According to witnesses, the 17-year-old tried to kiss a white girl. She rebuffed him and told her brother about the advance. Word spread.
White anti-immigration activist Tim Brummer admitted to using the false Vietnamese surname "Binh" in his capacity as spokesman for Vietnamese for Fair Immigration.
The December murder of a 14-year-old African-American girl, the latest apparent victim of Latino gang members' campaign to "ethnically cleanse" many neighborhoods in Los Angeles, has set off a political earthquake.
Recent years have seen the death of some of the 20th century's key white supremacist ideologues and leaders, men like Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations and William Pierce of the National Alliance.
A northeastern Indiana Ku Klux Klan organizer told a judge in February that he'd been accepted as a recruit by the U.S. Army in 2006, despite his high-profile white supremacist activities.
Neo-Nazis and other extremists from the United States and Europe headlined a December conference in Tehran that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described as a scholarly gathering to debate issues surrounding the Holocaust.
Canada's Dalhousie University has cancelled a debate between the head of its black history department and an American who describes himself as a "race realist."
David Irving, the infamous British writer who was sentenced in 2005 to three years in an Austrian prison for denying the Holocaust, returned to England in late December after a Vienna court reduced his remaining sentence to probation.
In the mid-1970s, then-Klan leader David Duke began exhorting followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms" in a bid for mainstream respectability.
Kevin MacDonald is not the only college professor to come under fire for racist and anti-Semitic views.
In a community that has struggled to achieve its own civil rights, angry religious opposition to homosexuals is on the march
Video-sharing websites like YouTube have become the hottest new venue for extremist propaganda and recruitment
In the latest disaster to hit the American radical right, Kevin Alfred Strom, the founder of National Vanguard and a major neo-Nazi leader for nearly 20 years, has been arrested and charged with child pornography and witness tampering.
A momentous confrontation ends with a family of U.S. citizens turning the tables on America's most notorious border vigilante.
From his base in Brussels, a Belgian webmaster is running some of Europe's leading hate sites. He also may be breaking the law
About 100 racist skinheads from California and Nevada gathered at the Federal Building in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood for a “Free the Order” rally to support imprisoned members of the The Order.
The recent burning of a Mexican flag by American extremists raised a number of questions. Luckily, they aren’t hard to answer
Hate groups grow steadily as the anti- immigration movement swells; 40% rise reported since the start of the millennium
As the anti-immigration movement grows even more vitriolic, the Intelligence Project identifies 144 'nativist extremist' groups
A former Customs officer discusses life, death and vigilantism on the Mexican border. Lee Morgan doesn’t like what he sees
Un ex funcionario de la aduana habla sobre la vida, la muerte y el vigilantismo en la frontera con Méjico. A Lee Morgan no le gusta lo que está sucediendo
The Intelligence Project identified 147 "Patriot" groups that were active in 2006. Of these groups, 52 were militias and the remainder includes "common-law" courts, publishers, ministries and citizens' groups.
La infección de odio está expandiéndose. Como el pus de una herida, el odio se filtra desde los sectores más virulentos de nuestra sociedad hacia los órganos de la democracia estadounidense. El organismo político corre el riesgo d
Una confrontación épica hizo que una familia de ciudadanos estadounidenses cambie el accionar de los vigilantes de frontera más conocidos de los Estados Unidos
A medida que el movimiento en contra de la inmigración se torna cada vez más violento, el Intelligence Project (Proyecto de Inteligencia) identifica 144 grupos "extremistas nacionalistas"
Los grupos de odio crecen sostenidamente a medida que se incrementa el movimiento en contra de la inmigracin; se registr un aumento del 40% desde el comienzo del milenio
Bishop Harry Jackson is a polite black critic of homosexuality. The white leaders he's allied himself with aren't so nice.
