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California Experts Report Upswing In Skinhead Gang Membership

Victorville Daily Press

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May 9, 2009

Racist gangs like the Inland Empire Skinheads are using the immigration debate, the faltering economy and the presidency of Barack Obama to recruit members on high school and college campuses.
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  1. martha may said,

    on May 15th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    The statements in this article do not surprise me I think it would have been more interesting to see the statistics during other times of recessions and depressions.I believe these types of racist gangs target children and teens from lower class families who usually do not have both parents in the family. I think more statistics in regards to these families would have also contributed to making this story more interesting.

  2. Linda Walsh said,

    on May 20th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    I am not surprised either at this extreme right wing attempt to recruit members! It seems that many groups are out to “harvest members.” Sadly, it seems that these groups do not believe in the capacity of or desire that young people think for themselves; they apparently want to herd them like dumb sheep! .These groups do not want students to reason because if that happened , it would show the outrageous flaws in the groups’ arguments! These racists just want power, power, power; the kids are just used as pawns to get it! I know this as for pretty much the entire first part of the week a majority of the students on the Pasadena City College Campus having been trying to duck or avoid aggressive anti abortionist huge graphic posters or bannners set up in three places as well as apparent videotaping of students to allegedly protect these activists! Gee, students do not want or need to be treated as sheep!

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