Comments on: Violent IKA Activist Lashes Out Again

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:30:31 +0000

We are Anonymous! Zero tolerance we say to dirt bags like you. You disrespect websites of those that have passed away. Therefore we will come and get you and all those racist good for nothing KKK members. We “will” bring you down!
We are Anonymous, we are Legion!

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:25:21 +0000

If you are not doing something to contribute to life then your life is meaningless. If you are doing something to make life harder for anyone you may as well not have lived. You have no purpose. None.

By: zuzu burford

zuzu burford — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:44:55 +0000

How come this Australian hasn’t been deported? Australians cannot obtain a visa into the USA if they have a criminal record. Last year the number of Australians stopped at the border and returned for not filling out their entry papers was considerable. As an Australian I find that this person is allowed to stay and not be deported strange indeed. Maybe some authorities are slow to move for whatever reason. It doesn’t make sense.

By: Greg deGiere

Greg deGiere — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:56:43 +0000

This is irrelvant to the subject, but just as a factual correction, the old version of the Georgia flag shown in the untrimmed photo includes the Confederate battle flag (the one we usually see displayed by racists etc.), not the Stars and Bars (which some people consider less offensive, and which is the basis of the current Georgia flag).

By: Mitch Beales

Mitch Beales — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:51:26 +0000

For what it’s worth an untrimmed photo at http://www.politicalarticles.n.....ensley.jpg makes it clear that there are two flags, a nazi flag and the pre-2001 stars and bars version of the Georgia flag.

By: Mitch Beales

Mitch Beales — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:42:04 +0000

Rarian Rakista
Freedom of speech has little to with the sort of heartless attacks on the family and friends of private citizens who have died that this post describes. The sort of speech described here may constitute assault under the laws of many nations including the USA. Do you believe vandalism of grave markers or painting swastikas on synagogues is also protected under freedom of speech?

I’m not sure why you call the SPLC crybabies. Babies cry when they themselves are in pain or in need. It is in fact very adult to cry upon witnessing needless injury inflicted upon another. Perhaps you are too much of a baby to understand that.

By: Mitch Beales

Mitch Beales — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:28:26 +0000

A google search for “white power flag” will give you plenty to choose from. The flag pictured does not appear to be the flag of the State of Georgia from the 1920-1956 era. http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives.....0_1956.htm It more closely resembles the flag that flew over Georgia between 1956 and 2001. http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives.....e_1956.htm That flag incorporated the confederate battle flag so it really wasn’t too much of a stretch to replace the stars and bars with a swastika to create the sort of “white power flag” that might well have been produced by those who took issue with removing the stars and bars from Georgia’s state flag in 2001. I think Mark was right the first time.

By: Rarian Rakista

Rarian Rakista — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:01:55 +0000

Freedom of speech, as abhorrent as it is – it is very – please don’t mess it up for the rest of us by whining every time a bigot trolls someone. When did the SPL become a bunch of reactionary crybabies and who said people have a right not to be insulted on a public web page?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:04:28 +0000

You Americans deserve people like this. You created him, now you can live with him.
Have fun with that.

By: Mark Potok

Mark Potok — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:47:51 +0000

You’re right on the flag, of course. I’ve corrected that line. Thanks.

By: Skipper

Skipper — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:44:22 +0000

Kevin: And your point is…..?

By: A sane Ohioan

A sane Ohioan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:20:06 +0000

Please accept my sincere apology for the behavior of one of our despicable denizens. As stated in the article, he has been in prison once for his hatred and it will, no doubt, land him in prison again. Take solace that this poor excuse of a human will die bitter and alone as his hatred consumes him. An unfortunate side of the internet is that more people have to endure his bile. Again, my deepest apologies.

By: Jafafa Hots

Jafafa Hots — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:30:37 +0000

“but that is not a white power flag but the state flag of Georgia.”

In other words, it’s a white power flag.

By: William

William — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:20:52 +0000

I’m certain quite a few lucky individuals are saying, “mmm-hmm, I want me some of that” when viewing this outstanding specimin..

By: notrelevant

notrelevant — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:14:02 +0000

Britain and the USA have extradition treaties (not sure about Australia). The USA has applied for and so far has won the right to extradite a British subject (who never left Britain) for vandalism/damage to American computers. If this scumbag did anything to British sites, why can he not be extradited to Britain to face charges?

By: mag

mag — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:30:35 +0000

People, its 2 different flags. One is the 1920-1956 State of Georgia flag, and the other is a Nazi flag. There is no white power flag.

By: Michael Powers

Michael Powers — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:02:39 +0000

It has been my experience that if someone does you harm, it is for no other reason than that they can. I alway knew this to some extent, but it really hit home a few years ago, when I ended up in prison. Not an experience I’d recommend, BTW. It’s nothing like the brochure.

Crazy skinheads, surly prison guards, sometimes one in the same person. Circumstance would give someone the opportunity, and sometimes the authority to do harm without any repercussions. They would always go for it, without thought. In their minds they could always rationalize it later. Some disconnect in their brains, or perhaps simply a lack of imagination, keeps them from feeling empathy or compassion.

It is much as it’s always been, except, as of late, some don’t even bother with trying to rationalize it anymore.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:32:56 +0000

My guess is that , although he was released from prison, he is still on parole and that this online behavior probably violates his parole .

Someone should check on this – if he is on parole then it is possible he can be sent back to prison – where he belongs.

By: ian

ian — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:17:21 +0000

I think Kevin was referring to the flag in the background on the left side of the photo. It is not a white power logo. It is the state seal of Georgia.

By: Wayne Dickson

Wayne Dickson — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:16:31 +0000

A question for the lawyers:

My understanding is that if a person travels to another country and commits a crime, then the laws of that other country obtain. What I’m foggy about is a crime that’s effected virtually simultaneously across national borders.

Extreme case thought experiment: Person A stands on one side of an international border and shoots lethally Person B, who’s standing a few yards away on the other side of the border. The crime was initiated in one country and effected in another. So what’s the law?

But let’s make it trickier. In Person A’s country it’s legal lethally to shoot someone, but in Person B’s country it’s not. Now what’s the law?

The application is obvious. Hensley “shot” from the U.S. (where the law probably varies across jurisdictions) and “hit” people in Australia, where his actions would definitely be illegal. He boasts that he can’t be held to account because he’s acted by typing at an internet terminal in the U.S. rather than one in Australia.

No question that Hensley’s behavior has been morally reprehensible. But are he and persons like him subject to civil and/or criminal liability for such behavior? for crimes initiated in one jurisdiction and effected in another, nationally or internationally? for crimes effected “digitally” rather than physically?

What’s the law?

By: Ruslan Amirkhanov

Ruslan Amirkhanov — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:44:57 +0000

Uh, Kevin, look at the right side of the photo.

By: Cm

Cm — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:00:53 +0000

Kevin: look at the swastika in the lower right.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:43:03 +0000

you said “Hensley is pictured online in formal KKK regalia giving a Hitler salute with white power and Nazi flags in the background.” but that is not a white power flag but the state flag of Georgia.

By: Douglas Graham

Douglas Graham — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:59:20 +0000

And why is Facebook allowing this sort of thing to go on?

By: linny miller

linny miller — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:16:55 +0000

People like this, with mindless hate…this is why we have to stand up…no matter how long.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:52:00 +0000

I sincerely hope our government (good luck) will crack down on low lives like Hensley. I grew up in the “deep” South and I’m all too familiar with people like this.

Good for the Australians and Brits for taking immediate action and making this news.

By: Bobbelieu

Bobbelieu — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:20:52 +0000

Cowardice is the nature of their ilk.

By: Albatross

Albatross — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:16:35 +0000

It is sad that this man is so cowardly and so empty inside that this is how he chooses to spend his time. He is little different from the Fred Phelps/Westboro Baptist Church crowd, except they at least show up in person.

Hopefully he will develop a conscience.

By: stormkite

stormkite — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:15:41 +0000

Bright this guy ain’t. Look VERY VERY closely at the photograph and you’ll notice that he has issues with the whole “Right Hand, Left Hand” thing. We can therefore assume that this is a back-end time for his flunking out of school… somewhere before that lesson arrived. (Most of us covered that in Pre-K or before.)

By: Paen

Paen — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:21:47 +0000

What a gutless coward.