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News Roundup for June 29, 2011
Posted By Hatewatch Staff On June 29, 2011 @ 2:20 pm In Anti-Black, Anti-Muslim, Antigovernment, Hate Crime, Neo-Nazi | 2 Comments
A retired naval commander who headed the antigovernment “Patriot” group American Grand Jury reportedly was convicted [1] of resisting arrest last week in connection with his attempt to arrest a country grand jury foreman [2] in Madisonville, Tenn. Walter Fitzpatrick allegedly tried to carry out the citizen’s arrest because the grand jury declined his demand that it indict President Obama for not being a U.S. citizen.
Police are investigating the claims of a black Santa Monica, Calif., high school student who reported [3] that members of his wrestling team bullied him over his race. The teen described being harassed with racist comments, chained to a locker, and finding a wrestling dummy with a noose tied around its neck.
The first overseas summit of Islamophobic groups, set for early July in Strasbourg, France, has been canceled [4] over security issues, according to the sponsoring group, Pamela Geller [5]’s Stop the Islamization of America. The group has also announced a “Freedom from Jihad Flotilla” which it claims will aid “persecuted non-Muslims” and which mocks the 2010 Freedom Flotilla that attempted to bring aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
A former Mafia hitman on the lam was found [6] to have sought refuge as a white supremacist in a small Idaho town. Boston mobster Enrico Ponzo assumed a false identity while under investigation for murder, fled West, and was revealed to have had a bust of Adolf Hitler in his house as well as literature from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations [7] and several guns.
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[1] reportedly was convicted: http://advocateanddemocrat.com/story/22590
[2] attempt to arrest a country grand jury foreman: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/fall/in-tennessee-a-patriot-uprising-collaps
[3] reported: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/29/state/n055952D72.DTL
[4] canceled: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/democracy-collapses-in-europe-eu-cancels-sioasioe-free-speech-rally----freedom-from-jihad-flotilla-to-launch-on-911-124659753.html
[5] Pamela Geller: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller
[6] was found: http://bostonherald.com.nyud.net/news/regional/view/2011_0629feds_accused_mobster_posed_as_supremacist/srvc=home&position=also
[7] Aryan Nations: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/aryan-nations
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2 Comments To "News Roundup for June 29, 2011"
#1 Comment By Ruslan Amirkhanov On June 30, 2011 @ 7:46 am
“The group has also announced a “Freedom from Jihad Flotilla” which it claims will aid “persecuted non-Muslims””
Uh, where, exactly?
#2 Comment By Mitch Beales On June 30, 2011 @ 9:47 am
I suspect the flotilla will aid “persecuted non-Muslims” in Oklahoma once Sharia law is imposed. That’s not about to happen anytime soon but they probably figure it will take awhile to sail the flotilla to landlocked Oklahoma.