It’s been a bad month at Black Rock for the Patriots Border Alliance, a border vigilante group formed last year by disgruntled former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps officials.

First Phoenix New Times blogger Stephen Lemons unearthed a photo of Patriots Border Alliance leaders and members posing with a wheelchair-bound Elton Hall, a septuagenarian neo-Nazi and past Arizona organizer for George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party who still frequently attends racist skinhead festivals and anti-immigration demonstrations in the Phoenix area. Hall was injured in February when he was struck by a car while participating in a Patriots Border Alliance-sponsored protest outside a day labor center. The photo of him surrounded by adoring Patriots Border Alliance activists was posted on the group’s website accompanied by this caption: “PATRIOTS BORDER ALLIANCE HONORING ELTON HALL: In appreciation for your service, devotion, commitment to securing American border and promoting THE RULE OF LAW.”

Three days after the Hall photo surfaced, the El Paso Times ran a story in which Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier debunked several outlandish claims made by Patriots Border Alliance president Bob Wright at a recent meeting of the far-right Eagle Forum in Alamagordo, N.M. ( continue to full post… )

[MO] Neo-Nazi Inmate Wins Lawsuit Seeking Kosher Meals
St. Louis Post-Dispatch / April 26, 2008
Norman Lee Toler, who claims he’s Jewish despite his SS tattoos, links to white supremacists and fondness for Hitler paraphernalia, is legally entitled to kosher meals in prison, a federal judge ruled.

[PN] Skinheads Held For Trial On Weapons, Conspiracy, Assault Charges
Philadelphia Daily News / April 26, 2008
Three members of the Keystone State Skinheads face a criminal trial for allegedly conspiring to attack a fourth member of the gang last Memorial Day weekend because he got a tattoo they didn’t like.

[FL] Synagogue Defaced With Swastikas
Miami Herald / May 1, 2008
Vandals spray-painted a series of swastikas on a synagogue along with pro-Hitler graffiti nearby two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day.

[FL] White Supremacist Arrested For Sexual Battery
The Suncoast News / April 28, 2008
Self-proclaimed Aryan Brotherhood member Larry Austin Gregory, 37, was arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl.

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On May 1, the racist British National Party (BNP) won a seat on the 25-member London Assembly, which has the power to amend the London mayor’s budget and investigate and publish findings on matters of interest to Londoners. Richard Barnbrook, who will take the BNP seat after coming in fifth in the mayoral race and winning 5% of the overall vote, became the extreme right’s most visible elected politician in Britain as a result. All major parties had denounced the BNP in the run-up to the city elections, saying that it represented “hatred, violence and stupidity.”

In 2001, BNP head Nick Griffin, a Holocaust denier, told reporters that his party did not admit anyone not descended from European whites or “kindred” peoples. (The BNP has since accepted a tiny handful of people of color in order to bolster its battle against Muslims.) The party is particularly well known for its hardline anti-immigrant views. Its officials have proposed deporting all illegal immigrants and even paying legal immigrants to leave England, promising “voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin.”

Despite his party’s affiliation with white nationalism, Barnbrook tried to reassure foreign-born Londoners after his election. “Do not be nervous. As long as you abide by our identity and laws of this land, come to me and I will see where we can help,” Barnbrook told the BBC.

Barnbrook was the best known of several BNP councillors — the rough equivalent of local City Council members in the United States — before his May election to the higher-ranking post. He was well known to most Londoners, in part because in 2006 he was accused of making a film 17 years earlier that was widely described as gay pornography. (The BNP opposes the “promotion” of homosexuality.) He angrily disputed the charge, saying it was simply an art film about “sexuality.” ( continue to full post… )

[AZ] Patriots Border Alliance Honors Neo-Nazi
Phoenix New Times / May 2, 2008
Leaders of the Patriots Border Alliance, a Minuteman splinter faction, posted a photo of PBA members posing with Elton Hall, 74, a former organizer for the American Nazi Party, above the caption “PATRIOTS’ BORDER ALLIANCE HONORING ELTON HALL.”

[AZ] American Freedom Riders Join Recall Effort Against Phoenix Mayor
The Arizona Republic / April 30, 2008
American Freedom Riders member Keith LeFebvre announced that his group was the core of American Citizens United, a political action coalition formed to attempt to recall Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for being “soft” on illegal immigration.

[TX] Border Mayors Spar With Tancredo
San Antonio Express-News / May 2, 2008
Members of the Texas Border Coalition took issue with U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s muttered suggestion that a border fence should be placed north of Brownsville, Tex.

[CA] Fire Coalition Teams With Minuteman Project For Consulate Protest
San Bernardino County Sun / May 1, 2008
About 20 members of the Minuteman Project and the Fire Coalition, many of them clad in red, white and blue, gathered outside a Mexican Consulate to protest illegal immigration.

[UT] Minuteman Submits Immigration Resolution To GOP Convention
The Deseret News / May 2, 2008
Utah Minuteman Project member Alex Segura submitted a resolution to the Salt Lake County GOP convention that calls for Republicans to oppose Illegal immigration, advocate for secure borders and affirm the United States as a “Christian nation.”

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MSNBC cable television commentator and two-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has once again relied on white supremacist sources for inspiration and information. In his May 2 column “The Way Our World Ends,” Buchanan complains that people of European descent are being wiped out worldwide and even in their own backyards, where “[t]he Third World is coming to colonize the mother countries.” Buchanan bemoans the prediction that whites, who were some 28% of the global population in 1950, will be only 9% by 2060. “The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans,” Buchanan laments.

And what brought on Buchanan’s gloomy mood? Apparently, he was greatly bothered by a new report put out in early April by the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist research group. Entitled “Global White Population to Plummet to Single Digit – Black Population to Double,” NPI’s research supposedly spells doom for the white “race.” In so many words, the report argues that by 2060, blacks and Asians will have whites on the run. This “status reversal” will lead to countries like Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Russia being “pressured to accept collectively hundreds of millions of refugees from India, and sub-Sahara Africa,” according to the report.

That thought has Buchanan mightily worried. “Hopefully, the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, who are about to inherit the earth as we pass away, will treat us better than our ancestors treated them,” he frets. ( continue to full post… )