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A Gathering of Eagles

2011 - Winter - A Gathering of Eagles

With extremists moving into Montana for a last stand they liken to the Alamo and officials struggling to cope with swelling 'sovereign' movements, right-wing rhetoric is turning to an armed struggle.

With extremists moving into Montana for a last stand they liken to the Alamo and officials struggling to cope with swelling 'sovereign' movements, right-wing rhetoric is turning to an armed struggle. 

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Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

For two years in the mid-1990s, Judge Greg Mohr carried a gun and wore a bulletproof vest while presiding over his tiny courtroom east of Kalispell. 

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

A recent Montana transplant who once sat at the feet of Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, neo-Nazi Karl Gharst sent letters to a host of civil rights groups, naming them “Jewish criminals and traitors to the white race.”

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Bryon and Julie Widner decided to quit the world of hate. But former comrades, and Bryon’s tattoos, made it an uphill struggle

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

A clone of an infamous gay-bashing Kansas church is raising Cain in Alabama. But its ‘prophetess’ keeps landing in jail

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Exploiting a local Arizona controversy, the antigovernment Oath Keepers portray themselves as patriots fighting ‘martial law’

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Something is happening on the radical right. Even as the presidential campaign season heats up and, with it, the possibility of ridding themselves of their hated black president, extremists are ratcheting up the rhetoric of war.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

The principal officials of the American Family Association have a long history of making extremely provocative remarks on everything from the role of Jews in the national media to the supposed dangers posed by Muslims and their faith.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Proving yet again that a black president is simply too much for some of them to handle, three right-wing conspiracy theorists in July and August broadcast racially charged hypotheses about supposed federal government plots to keep the white man down.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

The white supremacist who last January planted a backpack bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade in Spokane, Wash., pleaded guilty on Sept. 7 in federal court, five days before his trial was set to begin.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Lynx and Lamb Gaede were twin pop sensations for all the wrong reasons. Their songs dealt with overt white nationalist themes, and even their band, Prussian Blue, was a reference to the distinctive color of Zyklon B residue in the Nazi gas chambers.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported on Aug. 11. The increase, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

It wasn’t much of a surprise, after more than a year of heated anti-Muslim rhetoric, that the 10th anniversary of 9/11 brought out some of the worst in American bigotry.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) has long cultivated relationships with white nationalist organizations. Now, the group appears to be forging ties with the League of the South (LOS).

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

In 1998, the murder of James Byrd Jr. tore open racial wounds in East Texas. Now, controversy is reopening those wounds

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

The League of the South started out verbally defending the South, then went on to advocate secession. Now, its rhetoric has turned to arms.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

As a radical movement grows and the FBI warns of violence, officials struggle to come up with adequate responses

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

At least we can cross one item off our national list of worries: Exhaustive research by an international team of researchers has proved conclusively that our president is not the Antichrist.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

For years, the racist skinhead coalition Hammerskin Nation was in a “blood feud” with a Midwestern skinhead outfit known as the Vinlanders Social Club.

Intelligence Report
2011
Winter Issue
November 15, 2011

A collection of quotes regarding race and hate