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Hatewatch is managed by the staff of the Intelligence Report, an investigative magazine published by the Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.
IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, most of which involved individuals with extreme antigovernment views. One of the plots, if carried out, would have resulted in the deaths of some 30,000 people.
Stack’s actions come as the number of antigovernment “Patriot” and militia groups is rising fast, as revealed by the SPLC this past summer. In the 1990s, the combustible mix of rising antigovernment anger and the growth in militias was a recipe for disaster that ultimately resulted in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, who was motivated by antigovernment hatred.
“This attack comes amid the absolutely explosive growth of the right-wing militias and the larger antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement, which includes thousands of so-called tax protesters who believe the federal income tax is illegal” said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. “There is a populist rage out there about what is seen as the coddling of rapacious elites, like the mortgage bankers who kept receiving multimillion dollar bonuses, even as working Americans seem to keep losing more and more.”
The IRS has often been the target of those filled with hatred for the government. The SPLC has documented five domestic terrorist plots against the agency between 1995 and 2009. In a July 1995 plot, the target was an IRS building in Austin, Texas.
Here are the details of each anti-IRS plot documented by the SPLC:
July 28, 1995
Antigovernment extremist Charles Ray Polk is arrested after trying to purchase a machine gun from an undercover police officer, and is later indicted by federal grand jury for plotting to blow up the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. At the time of his arrest, Polk is trying to purchase plastic explosives to add to the already huge arsenal he’s amassed. Polk is sentenced to almost 75 years in federal prison.
December 18, 1995
An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee discovers a plastic drum packed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in a parking lot behind the IRS building in Reno, Nev. The device failed to explode a day earlier when a three-foot fuse went out prematurely. Ten days later, tax protester Joseph Martin Bailie is arrested. Bailie is eventually sentenced to 36 years in federal prison, with a release date of 2027. An accomplice, Ellis Edward Hurst, is released in 2004.
March 26, 1997
Militia activist Brendon Blasz is arrested in Kalamazoo, Mich., and charged with making pipe bombs and other illegal explosives. Prosecutors say Blasz plotted to bomb the federal building in Battle Creek, the IRS building in Portage, a Kalamazoo television station and federal armories. But they recommend leniency on his explosives conviction after Blasz, a member of the Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines, renounces his antigovernment beliefs and cooperates with them. He is sentenced to more than three years in federal prison and released in late 1999.
May 3, 1997
Antigovernment extremists set fire to the IRS office in Colorado Springs, Colo., causing $2.5 million in damage and injuring a firefighter. Federal agents later arrest five men in connection with the arson, which is conceived as a protest against the tax system. Ringleader James Cleaver, former national director of the antigovernment Sons of Liberty group, is accused of threatening a witness and eventually sentenced to 33 years in prison, with a release date of 2030. Accomplice Jack Dowell receives 30 years and is scheduled to be freed in 2027. Both are ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution. Dowell’s cousin is acquitted of all charges, while two other suspects, Ronald Sherman and Thomas Shafer, plead guilty to perjury charges in connection with the case.
March 19, 2006
U.S. Treasury agents in Utah arrest David J. D’Addabbo for allegedly threatening Internal Revenue Service employees with “death by firing squad” if they continued to try to collect taxes from him and his wife. D’Addabbo, who was reportedly carrying a Glock pistol, 40 rounds of ammunition and a switchblade knife when he was seized leaving a church service, allegedly wrote to the U.S.Tax Court that anyone attempting to collect taxes would be tried by a “jury of common people. You then could be found guilty of treason and immediately taken to a firing squad.” In August D’Addabbo pleads guilty to one charge of threatening a government agent in exchange for the dismissal of three other charges of threatening IRS agents. He is sentenced to time served and released the same year as his arrest.
on February 18th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Oh, so that’s their weak point! Money and Taxes!!!!
Gee, they kept reflecting on their European bloodlines – why don’t they move to a European country that doesn’t collect income taxes?
They complain about taxes, yet, it’s a known fact that women and minorities make less income (ratio based on same position as white counterpart) and pay more taxes – What a bunch of greedy bast**** !
on February 18th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
I just read the entire suicide note from this guy, he certainly sounds like a right-wing extremist to me! No wonder his note was pulled from the internet – yet, I found it, he is definitely a right-wing extremist, no doubt about it. Finally, he is alleged to have flown from Waco!
My only gripe, if he had a Middle Eastern sounding name, he would have been called “suicidal bomber or terrorist.”
on February 19th, 2010 at 3:00 am
One reason they don’t do that is because there is no such European country. The other reason is because no matter how much they wish, they aren’t European.
on February 19th, 2010 at 11:30 am
But Stack was anti-capitalist, anti-Bush, and pro-Obamacare. Sure, he’s anti-government, but it sounds like he’s more Left than Right. People on the Left are sometimes known for being anti-government. Just saying, it happens. And by the way, where was the SPLC on the Amy Bishop thing? You guys haven’t even mentioned her in anything you’ve put out. I guess because she’s from the radical Left, not Right. But seriously, here’s this woman who is a known radical with a violent record and she just killed or maimed every minority in the UAH biology department, and you guys don’t even mention it? You are really off your game.
on February 19th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Stack himself does not appear to have been a member of a militia or hate group. In the letter posted yesterday he also rails against capitalism as well as big corporations—he was angry at all authorities especially the IRS. My concern is that extreme rhetoric from various talking heads can set someone off who is mentally ill. (Glenn Beck was really quick to denounce this suicide act—maybe he does have a conscience after all.)
I find it odd that Stack said he couldn’t afford retirement because of taxes owed but somehow scraped money together to buy an airplane.
The entire country could use a course in anger management at this point.
on February 19th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
RickS is on the money. no comment on amy bishop and trying to peg this guy as right wing? not a chance. his voting record has already been going around today along with quotes from his relatives. this dude was center left democrat. your story is junk.
on February 19th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I’m sure after all the Tea Party nonsense the right is working overtime to portray this guy as a left-winger. Let’s look at a few key facts, shall we?
First off, being “anti-corporate”, especially against “fat cats” and whatnot, does not necessarily equal left-wing. Hell, the Tea Partiers railed against the bailout, the only problem is that many of them seem to forget the role of Bush and the Republicans played in passing the bailout, and some seem to forget that Sarah Palin was also in favor of the bailout(duh).
Right-wing populists, even the Nazis themselves, have always championed a mythical producing “middle class” against a supposedly parasitic proletariat and big “plutocrats”. In fact, one of the NSDAP’s slogans was “Gegen Bolshevismus und hoch Finanz,” “Against Bolshevism and high finance.” Even when we look at American conservatism’s mythology of America, we see the same theme- the urban poor are parasitic “welfare queens” and illegal aliens, and though the rhetoric speaks of “rewarding success of businessmen” and about how billionaires “create jobs”, any time they attack the left they portray them as a super-rich elite. This is the essence of populism.
I cannot comment on his voting record, but the democratic party has been trying to woo upper-class, rich voters for quite some time now, all while throwing the working class under the bus. Many Republicans are socially liberal as well, including neo-cons such as Paul Wolfowitz.
Sorry but trying to call this guy a left-winger is idiotic. Even if he did support Obama, Obama is not in the least bit left-wing, regardless of his speeches.
on February 19th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
First I’d like to respond to “there aren’t any tax-free European countries!” There are tax-free OT’s (overseas territories), i.e. Cayman Islands. ***I must note, however, they have VAT (Value Added Tax) and they are trying to implement a tax system that would charge property taxes – and talks on maybe they should have a tax system such as ours.
In response to Joe Stack not being a right-wing! This guy was known around circles to be a Reagan supporter. Here are the allegations against him in California. His tax problem began in California. The state tax board shut down two of his businesses because of unpaid taxes. His ex-wife filed for divorce in 1999 owing about $127k in taxes – yet, she is now a professor at a community college near West Covina Calif. Then he had tax problems in Texas – Texas doesn’t pay state taxes, but, they pay federal taxes. He didn’t pay taxes while staying in Texas. This guy was a typical right-wing “don’t want to pay taxes.”
As far as being upset with Bush, LOL, most republicans/conservatives were also upset with Bush. The only people from the right that ‘liked’ Bush, were the people making money ‘war-profiteers,’ big corporations that had stashed money in Cayman Islands banks and threatened to not pay taxes/fund pensions/fund retiree medical….unless the tax rate was lowered to 5%.
So of course this guy was upset that he lost his retirement, that meant no medical benefits! That’s why he mentioned his neighbor in PA – he is too young to collect social security (age 53), well, he could get it but it wouldn’t be worth it. Yet, he still had unreported income – he didn’t work, yet, he had a plane and a home, he didn’t report the $12k income his new wife had. All he had to do was sell his plane to pay taxes – how many people own planes and/or yachts in this economy?
on February 19th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I’ve read his letter several times, and he’s definitely not right-wing. If anything, he’s left wing, though that’s really beside the point (wants the bailout money to be spent on healthcare for poor people, the quote at the end from Karl Marx and then the “Capitalist Creed” after that, etc.)
This guy was just someone who was fed up with the entire system– the economy, the tax system/IRS, and our entire government on all sides.
Also, I’m REALLY not aware of a single anti-government militia, “patroit” group, anarchist, or anarcho-communist group– or even those racist groups like Stormfront telling people that they should kill their families before executing their attacks. That’s the sort of thing you typically find in the “Going postal” phenomena– you know, the school shooters and angry-employer-going-on-a-shooting-spree folks. Their rampage almost always begins with them killing their live-in family members, and invariably ends with them committing suicide (by it by their own hands or suicide-by-cop)
Whatever the case, why does it matter what this guy’s political leanings were? Why is it that every discussion about this guy, wherever you go on the internet, always devolves into a disgusting argument over what political ideology this guy associated with? From the very second this story aired, everyone across the internet was quick to label him as belonging to their opposing ideology, except for some of the right-wing-anti-government groups and anarcho-syndicalists who condone what he did, and are both quick to claim him upon their ranks.
It’s incredibly shameful.
on February 19th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
This guy said things that resonate with some folks on the left and right, but he also said things that a “tea party” supporter would never say. I have an analysis of his manifesto on my site you may find by clicking on my name, provided the link I’m adding below isn’t allowed.
http://www.rantnation.com/wordpress/?p=76
on February 20th, 2010 at 12:00 am
I see this site is about keeping an eye on the radical right. Who’s keeping an eye on the radical left? This guy railed against Bush, the church, banks. Does that sound like a right winger to anybody??.
on February 20th, 2010 at 10:03 am
You lost me with your last sentence Ruslan. Obama isn’t left-wing? OK. So are you saying Stack is a right-winger or not? Not sure where the whole Nazi thing comes into it. Hitler was influenced by Mussolini who was a socialist. In fact, the only reason the fascist party came into being was because Mussolini was kicked out of the socialist party for favoring Italy’s entry into the war.
on February 20th, 2010 at 10:30 am
That’s what happens in the sped class. They got told once—just once, because that’s all it takes—by their Newscorp teachers that all terrorists are leftists and it stuck with them.
And they’re bringing up Amy Bishop a lot, even though her crime wasn’t politically motivated. And they’re also insisting the AmRen conference was canceled because of “death threats”. But it’s all talking points; all you have to do is ask for proof and they’ll go away, except for some of the more industrial-strength idiots.
on February 20th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I see everyone is wondering why hate groups are on the rise .perhaps it is because no one cares if a white citizen of this country gets all of there rights violated.I got on your website too see if there were any resources that could help me with a Falure to comply case in which i was imprisoned without a arrest warrant an affidavit and went to trial with no discovery then at appeal the attorney not only did not bring any of those points up but did not bring the full docket to court were the judge dismissed my pro se motions of material fact and law concerning the lack of warrant and affidavit as frivolous .My Pro Se motions were the only ones filed in the case .I have been trying to get help with this case since the begining .I have been unsuccesful ,even though there is not a documented case like mine since the 1820s.I see there are all kind of help if i were a minority or an alien but no help for an american whose direct family has died for this country .I also believe the courts and lawyers never would have done this to me if i had been a minority or alien because they know just like you that there are no resources for poor white males in this country.So that being said i now know that you people only care about people not even born in this country .I WONDER who the racists are now .
on February 22nd, 2010 at 9:00 am
Upon reading his statement, particularly the last line, the guy sounds like the typical right-wing populist. He has what can be called a “Third Positionist” viewpoint, which sees Communism and Capitalism as equal evils- “two sides of the same coin as they often say.”
on February 22nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
This guy was right-wing! I’ve never heard of anyone from the left that complain about – Freedom, Independence, Patriotism, Taxes…now at the bottom of his letter he mentioned capitalism – this is what the Original Boston Tea Party complained against. Then he mentioned communism – well, isn’t that what the right is calling Obama.
Actually, I’ve never heard of a person on the left going to any type of extreme due to taxes. This guy was a Reagan Republican.
It’s obvious what you guys are doing – you’re trying to take the bad reflection off of your groups – something you guys are good at – Blame the other guy.
He’s definitely one of the right – no one complained when we went “to war,” that Bush didn’t sell ‘war bonds’ to finance this war, yet, cut taxes at the same time. Now, according to you, it’s all Obama’s fault.
Just like Stack, complained “as the wealthy left me to rot and die while they bailed out the rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY!”
My question is, how was it his money, he didn’t pay taxes?
on February 23rd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
“Sorry but trying to call this guy a left-winger is idiotic. Even if he did support Obama, Obama is not in the least bit left-wing, regardless of his speeches.”
You have left the reservation. Because he has not been able to implement what he has called for does not negate what he is, a socialist.
on February 23rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I’m a leftist, and it seems clear to me from his letter that Stack was a leftist too. In fact, I basically agree with most of the political points in Stack’s letter, even though of course I disagree with his action (which is ineffective, even if you set aside the obvious ethical problem of murder as Stack must have done). There’s nothing in there about a “parasitic proletariat” (to quote Ruslan Amirkhanov); Stack wants middle-class whites to make common cause with “blacks and poor immigrants”, whom Stack describes as “dying for their freedom in this country”.
Despite being a leftist, I cannot support the left-leaning SPLC, because this organisation takes it for granted that the government is a friend and not an enemy. The SPLC, quite rightly, campaigns against racial profiling and sues for justice for poor and minority victims of the government (police officers, immigration authorities, etc). Yet they also see anti-government racists on the right and fall for the old lie that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” (to quote an anonymous Arab).
I am (like Stack), an anti-government leftist. I see the government which shoots blacks, deports immigrants, bombs foreigners, and taxes people like Joseph Stack to pay for it all as the common enemy.
on February 24th, 2010 at 3:40 am
You are all dense. The issue is NOT whether or not he was a Republican or Democrat. I fail to see how that is relevant.
We all know what this man was going through – we do every April. When the Fed tries to rape you of your living you get infuriated, if you don’t then you probably don’t pay taxes. This man was angered with the system that has betrayed him. I empathize with his situation; however, I do not condone his actions.
And Ruslan, I don’t know one person who makes over $200,000 that was “wooed” by Obama. Telling someone you are going to make them pay more for other people to live on their dime and for services they don’t use is not a good way to earn votes. Fun fact: The richest 1% of Americans pay close to 50% of taxes. (Yes, this includes people with 4 kids, a mortgage, tuition to pay, bills, etc… and who only make ~300k a year). That’s fair though, right? I mean, those who work harder should end up worse off than those who don’t.
on February 24th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Why isn’t the SPLC watching the IRS as a hate group? The IRS has been committing extortion for years. (I don’t care if it is authorized by the FedGov. It’s still taking money by threat of force. That’s extortion.) When someone refuses to pay, they now send out their paramilitary hit squads. And one official has been quoted as saying that he would line up all the “deadbeats” against a wall and shoot them, if he had his way. How is that not hate?
The IRS considers the American Citizen the enemy, to be pillaged when compliant, or to beexterminated when resistant .And you are surprised when one of the Citizens responds in kind, and you make it HIS fault?
Dayum! Just… Dayum!
on February 24th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Joe, go ahead and explain how Obama is a socialist. Show your work.
And TJ, I suggest you do a little research on Obama. Were you aware that he received $3million more from Wall Street lobbyists than McCain? Pretty odd for a socialist. What sort of socialist takes money from the working class and hands it to private corporations?
on February 24th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
@ David Evans
No, the SPLC won’t help you; you’re not within their purview.
If you have a clear constitutional issue, try the ACLU, which is the most experienced and costs you nothing. If they tell you that they’d like to help but can’t, probably there just isn’t a chance that your case will succeed, unfortunately. But if they tell you that they don’t think you have a constitutional issue (even if you really do), then it’s probably something that they’re choosing to ignore (such as gun rights or free enterprise). In that case, try the IJ (Institute for Justice). If the ACLU is really hostile to your case, try the ACLJ. But the ACLU is the best when they’re on your side, so try them first.
That’s my suggestion, if you want to listen to an anti-government left-libertarian. (^_^)
on February 25th, 2010 at 11:22 am
By that logic, the speed limit is also a type of extortion. After all, if you don’t appear in court, or resist being pulled over- you are going to encounter “men with guns” some time or another. ALL law involves “men with guns.”
on February 25th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I get the feeling the SPLC is more of a hate group than the “hate groups”.
You guys ever do or say anything positive?
on February 25th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I knew Joe. I loved him. He had a lot of pain in his life, beginning with his mother’s suicide* at age four, after his dad died of heart failure. His parents didn’t die in a car accident, as reported. He never quite reconciled with that. He wasn’t close to his siblings. I think money took on too much importance in his life. He wanted to be successful. A lot of the “little guys” want that.
The IRS was just the focus for a mind that had snapped. He had worked his ass off–80 and 100 hour weeks–invested in the American Dream, and lost his retirement, just as many did when the stock markets tanked and the little guy got screwed.
He wasn’t rich. He didn’t have a yacht or a second house in the country. He had a 2500 square foot home in Austen, Texas that cost him $250,000 dollars. I’m not 100 percent certain, because I wasn’t privy to all his finances, but I’m betting he owed money on it and was upside down on the loan. Lots of little guys got screwed when the housing bubble collapsed.
His passions were flying and music. He bought a single-seater Cessna that was scrap, and worked his ass off getting the engine up and running, refinishing the carcass, redoing the upholstery. After hours of labor, eventually he sold it for much more than he paid for it and bought a battered four-seater. He worked on that one, too He did lots of his own mechanical work for years. I’m not sure what kind of plane was crashed into the IRS building, but I’m sure it was something he loved. Losing his plane, not being able to fly, would have torn his guts out. A lot of little guys feel that way about a car, or a motorcycle, or a bass boat.
He didn’t have his own band; but he played many of them over the years, mostly for a couple buck each gig, but mainly for love of music. He loved jazz, but was playing (and enjoying) “shit stomping” country. He was good at music and played guitar, piano, drums. He worked his ass off to buy his instruments. I can remember band-aids over blisters on his fingers from sanding and refinishing his first piano. A labor of love.
Joe had a very nice income–six figures–but he knew what it was like to live on peanut butter sandwiches while he was in college, too. He was lucky in that, he got to go to college, unlike many of the little guys. But he bought into the American Dream a little too much, thought there was more reward for hard work. Those 80-100 hour weeks that cost him his first marriage, the one where his wife cheated on him. That tore him up. He wasn’t sure who to blame, so he blamed everybody. His work obsession may have cost his second, too. I wasn’t privy to their relationship. No one really knows what’s going on behind the door. But, there was an argument the night before. She owed taxes on $12,000–big money, right? Maybe that was enough money, and the argument was ugly enough, to set off an explosion that ended at the IRS building.
We should all have six-figure incomes. There’s a lot of little guys that would be happy with four or five. There’s a lot of little guys now that would be happy just to have a damn job. There’s a lot of little guys now paying taxes, and it hurts. Sometimes it hurts bad. The can’t get the windshield fixed on the truck they’re still paying off. They’re buying their kids clothes at the thrift store. And they’re still called ‘middle class’, still chasing that dream. Try looking at the L-Curve on http://www.lcurve.org/. Joe didn’t have a 40 inch stack of $100 bills. The big dogs have a stack of hundreds THIRTY MILES high. Who pays the biggest percentage of their income?: the little guy. Maybe Joe wasn’t a little guy, but he sure wasn’t running with the big dogs, hadn’t made the American Dream come true.
Joe was self-employed and paid all his own insurance. Insurance is expensive, and there’s a lot of little guys that don’t have it. He mentioned that in his nearly incoherent suicide note.
He lost a lot of money and was screwed badly by his accountant, which got him into some deep hot water with the IRS. The little guy gets screwed pretty often in the tax system. I’m not making excuses for why he didn’t pay his taxes, or why he went over the edge and wound up killing a man–a man who was loved, and had a family. I don’t think he would have wanted to kill Vernon Hunter. He was after a nameless, faceless entity under which he felt powerless, like a lot of little guys. But he killed Hunter. Wrong. So wrong.
There’s a lot of little guys that would be overwhelmingly happy with what Joe had. They would have paid their taxes and thought they were blessed, even if they’d had Joe’s trouble. But they weren’t Joe. He snapped. And tragedy was the result.
*Mom’s legacy. Thanks, mom.
on February 25th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
These right wingers want a strong national defense and
more money to fight wars–and then they complain
about taxes. Where is their logic? Do they think the
government can finance the money to fight their wars
by selling Girl Scout cookies? The vast majority of tax
money goes to defense; very little of it is used for the
human services they complain about; most of that is
state, not federal money.
on February 25th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@ I Know Joe
Thanks for that.
It sounds like you knew Joe Stack personally. It might help a lot of us understand if you post this somewhere under your real name. You’ll take heat for it, of course, so the decision has to be yours (which it is anyway).
on February 25th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Everyone’s rights are equally violated these days.
I’m a white woman with a small child.
Every single one of my civil rights were violated in the past five years.
Judges don’t care, and cops don’t care.
Lawyers pretend to care and throw your case because the people with money will be more useful to them in the future.
Southern Poverty Law didn’t care even though I’m pretty sure the slumlord who violated my rates (and the lawyer and the judge) were at least minimally involved in people trafficking.
Rights don’t mean anything if the laws are not enforced. For whatever reason, the laws are not enforced.
Divided we fall, people.
on February 26th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
“left”, “right” – it’s all crap. The government uses such names (leftwing, rightwing, conservative, liberal, christian, muslim, jew, anti-government, pro-government, extremist, terrorists, progressive, etc…) to divide and conquer us all by setting us against each other. The bottom line is it’s the government against all the rest of us. Although a majority “sell-out” and work for the government.
on February 26th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Yes, Toby. I knew him. Not well enough, obviously, but I knew and I loved him, because he was my little brother.
No, I’m not ready to take the heat. I may never be ready to take the heat on this one. It’s just too much to wrap my head around.
Last night I read a quote. It’s from a different context, but it sums up some of what I’m feeling, and what I’m dealing with trying to assess many of the responses to Joe’s actions.
Ed Hickling is a clinical psychologist from Albany, N.Y.
“Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible…..
“We are vulnerable, but we don’t want to be reminded of that. We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different
category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.”
on February 26th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
The problem is that the government once again has cancer. I hate to mention Watergate but I know I’m on the right track. The cancer is a bullfighter. The toreador waves the liberal red cape and the bull attacks! Sometimes the bullfighter is gored instead. Skill, public ed etc. What is staring you right in the face?
on February 27th, 2010 at 4:55 am
To hell with left or right, may this Man Rest in Peace
on February 27th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Mr Rosenthal,
May I draw your attention to the fact, that Israel is the great benefactor of Americas foreign defence spend, it receives billions in aid to slaughter Arabs, in the name of defending its borders. It seems to me from an outsider (Irish) looking at what’s happening in the USA, leaves me with an impression the your Country is imploding from over exposure to internal hatred and greed.
All the while, America rides around the world upon its moral high horse, insisting that the American way is the only way.
I also observe the shameful way America uses the World Bank as an instrument to economically in-slave poor Country’s, where every dollar the give, they demand four in return!.
on March 1st, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Thank you, Mr. Hunt.
on March 2nd, 2010 at 12:16 am
You are more than welcome Sir, I would also like to offer my most sincere condolences to you and your Family.
on March 2nd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
David Evans, quit your whining. You are conveniently forgetting that caucasian Protestants trampled over the rights of everybody else in this country. Vicious anti-seminism, ant-Catholic, antiOriental, anti Irish (No dogs or Irishmen signs in big city parks), horrific racism, discrimination & persecution against Native Americans, women not being allowed to vote until 1919 I believe. Now who was, and continues to discriminate and propogate the vile rhetoric and beliefs of bigoted extremists that flourish still in this country?
In point of fact, Joseph Stack’s attitudes and actions fit very well into the catagory of antitax extremists of the far right including teabag people.
on March 3rd, 2010 at 10:44 am
Mountaingirl,
I never knew that, about the signs in parks saying no Irish etc.
In England up to the late 60s, We were subjected to the same kind of abuse, where signs outside bed & breakfasts stated, no Irish no Blacks and no dogs. Having lived in London for the past 25 years.
I can assure you that racism is alive and well (on all sides) in the UK, only its more towards Muslims now, more extreme cases of this can be found outside London mainly in the northern towns and city’s.
I would also like to point out that the UK is proof on a ”grand scale”, that without proper forward planning,and to expect so many different cultures to live together in harmony is just doomed to failure. Hence the rise of the far right.
on March 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
There was actually an acronym found in many job adverts in the US- NINA, No Irish Need Apply.
on March 3rd, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Having watched many many hours of video on the net, of people such as Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, the Rev Al Sharpton, Don Black, etc etc. I have also read written work’s From Dr King to the Hamas Charter.
Each one of these people speak of the impending doom about to manifest itself within America.
Could somebody please give me their view (s) on this subject?
Is America really on the brink of civil unrest, of such terrible proportions, that to an outsider looking in it sounds like America is heading for civil war?
Or is it the case that these ”firebrand” speakers are just consumed with such hatred, that mainstream Americans just become immune to it? of do they sit up and take notice?
Having found this site by pure chance, I was totally shocked in the extreme with what I have seen thus far, i consider myself to be some what worldly, but i was truly ”astonished” with what I saw when I clicked on the hate map. I’m completely mystified as to why people would waste their time and energy, been involved with one of these organizations, given the fact that we are on this Earth for such a short time.
I would also like to commend the S.P.L.C for been such a Nobel group of people.
on March 4th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Thank’s for the info Mr Amirkhanov,
I wonder do you know of any website where I could view such information?
on March 4th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything, but you can look up “persecution of Irish in America” or something along those lines. I first learned about that acronym from a documentary many years ago.
on March 4th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Re NINA: Try an image search on “no irish need apply” to see cartoons, ads, and songs from the 19th century (also signs, but those are modern reproductions). Also see http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm for a critical examination.
on March 4th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
This website is just another tool for the New World Order to brainwash people into believing that anyone who questions anything, is a terrorist.
People need to wake up! We are being controlled by a handful of Global Elite Bankers whose soul purpose is to destroy all sovereign nations, including the United States in favor of a One World Tyrannical Government. Just follow the money trail. Search history. See for yourself.
Fact is the IRS is not a government agency, much like the Federal Reserve. Its’ an independent agency installed by the elite to control people by means of taxes, furthering the deliberate theft our God given liberties.
Investigate the facts…. Don’t believe the state controlled media of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc… All these so called news outlets are controlled and regulated by the same owners. It’s ALL propaganda designed to enslave the masses and cause even more strife and division with their false “left” vs. “right” parydime.
If you want real news, go to independent news outlets who are not edited and filtered by corporations.
Wake UP! The New World Order’s plan to create a One World Government System is fast approaching. Don’t take my word for it, do your own independent research today!
Search on Youtube. Type in ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement. 9/11: Press For Truth, Loose Change, The Obama Deception, FEMA Camps, Fall of the Republic: Presidency of Barack Obama., Monopoly Men, AMERICA: From Freedom to Fascism.
Also go to Infowars.com or WeAreChange.org. Get educated.
There are literally 1,000′s of fact filled documentaries that were made to inform and wake people up to the NWO.
Everything you need to know is Online. That is why the Elite are trying to regulate and control the Internet, because “They” know that this is the only real source for citizens to get facts about their agenda.
Think I’m crazy? Well thats easy to say. ” Oh this guy is Nuts” I’m not going to listen to this guy!
Well, that’s the easy way out… Just excuse what I say and dismiss it as “conspiracy”.
Well, its NOT Conspiracy, It’s FACTS.
I used to be in the dark too and denied, denied, denied until I started to investigate everything myself and I woke up to the madness in this world.
on March 5th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Thank you Mr Bartels,
I did check that site out, it was very helpful, thank’s once again.
Kind regards,
James
on March 5th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Most people will think what Andre said is lunacy. That’s the beauty of the Elite’s tactic of calling such things “nutty conspiracy theories”. What Andre said is actually true, but most people are unable and (especially) unwilling to think about these things, because it would cause them to have to leave their little safety bubble mindset of how they “wish” things were.
on March 6th, 2010 at 5:28 am
@ Andre,
I have checked out those sites you suggested, and to say that I’m in shock is an understatement.
I have been totally against the European super state for many years, watching those videos has given me a very different insight into scale what is really going on. I shall also inform as many people as I can, of the existence of this information.
It’s a great pity that the many hate groups don’t re-channel their convictions and hatred towards the real treat to Mankind’s existence. I think the difference of a persons skin tone or ones religion, pales into insignificant s, as we are faced with this new World order! Are these hate groups not aware that their governments have actually brainwashed them to turn on each other? thus rendering them unable and unwilling to see the bigger picture.
on March 7th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Yup, good stuff Andre. Keep spreading the word.
on March 8th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
After careful study, I’ve concluded Stack was an Individual.
What does it say about human nature that there is so much hate, stereotyping, generalization, and name calling on a blog called “HateWatch”?
on March 13th, 2010 at 12:34 am
A few years ago I saw a black woman on a video – an ex employee of the IRS – who was telling people they didn’t have to pay federal taxes. She said there is no law requiring it.
on March 19th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Granny the woman you speak of is Sherry Peels Jackson from the movie Freedom To Facisim by the late Arron Russo.She is currantly serving 4 years in prison for tax avasion.She said there was no law because the 16th amendment was never truly ratified.She has just recently discovered she has Grave’s Disease after a long administrative fight to obtain a diagnosis. She is continuing to fight for medical care while in prison and has, to this day, not obtained it.So basically her punishment is death by negligence. As for everything else, it’s not about left or right Democrat or Republican,thats besides the point.It should all be about whats right or wrong, good or bad.Thats exactly what they want is for us to be butting heads.Conquer and divide.We will never know our future if we don’t understand our past, and as far as it goes now it looks pretty bleak .So remember get out there and vote in November so we can throw all the bums out, this may be our last chance.
on March 20th, 2010 at 11:12 am
True, Joe, the name-calling has gotten so out of hand, no one knows who to label “right” or “left” and —– they might be wrong. And people are calling blacks and other people of color “racist” based on the sentiments they express in posts about illegal immigration.
What we have is mass confusion.
I think we should be able to vote on basic budgets for the US.
With almost one-third of the population college grads – and a very large percentage who are at least high school grads – we are ready for this step.
The bureaucracies have grown too complex and too intricate – and it takes the politicans hours and hours of study – they are receiving testimony from agency heads and accountants who are given the opportunity to tell them why their agencies are necessary – but when do we get to give our side of the argument? We look like naive dummies because we don’t have all the facts and figures at our fingertips (we don’t do this for a living) and we don’t look professional enough. Most of all, we aren’t representing a large group – so we are not a concern for a politician whose is always interested in votes/power.
on March 20th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
We need to allow our kids to work. For thousands (or millions) of years kids worked alongside their parents. They took on responsibility gradually. Our youth are delayed, now. They are also the prey of professionals – drug-dealers, cartels, etc.
We need to protect our kids – at the border – where drugs are pouring in at an astounding rate. See press releases at US Customs and Border Protection website. I repeat – press releases.
In the name and spirit of freedom, we have allowed our country to become one in which no one is really free. We must be diligent and watch the children every second – or they will be kidnapped (and worse). This is freedom?
If kids had the hope of a paycheck (however small) they would have the hope Obama speaks of.
It is our responsibility to make our country safe and teach our children how to enjoy work.
on March 20th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
The only wasted votes are those for Democrat or Republican. Voting for either is voting for nothing changing.
on April 29th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Okay, most of you need to re-evaluate your understanding of what left and right really are. Fascism and naziism on are both on the right, the extreme right. Marxist Communism is completely different and is on the far left. Power of one all powerful guy versus power of one all egalitarian people. Neither one works very well and I don’t think anyone currently holding the political reigns in this country is advocating either of these ideologies. America used to fit somewhere in the middle with all the Western nations (yes even the ones with so-called “socialized medicine”). 2012, who knows? But one thing I do know. All this bickering over half-truths and red herrings will get us nowhere but cause more death and destruction. Come on, people, this is 2010! Remember you are supposed to be literate and have abstract thought. You don’t need someone telling you what to think, do and believe. You have a brain- use it!
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