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IR 113

The Year in Hate

Issue Number: 
113
 | 
Spring
 
2004

After a tumultuous year, U.S. hate groups made something of a comeback, particularly among racist Skinheads and Klansmen. 'Patriot' groups increased significantly as well. Neo-Confederate zealots Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins set off a firestorm of protests in a small Idaho college town. A S.C. shootout belies the area's proclivity toward antigovernment sentiment.

In This Issue

The Year in Hate, 2003

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow
After a tumultuous year, U.S. hate groups stage something of a comeback in 2003.

Taliban on the Palouse?

A religious empire based in Idaho is part of the far-right theological movement fueling neo-Confederate groups
By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow
While hosting a conference featuring his defense of Southern Slavery, Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing 'Christian' empire.

The Abbeville Horror

A 'Patriot' shootout kills two officers, shatters the peace of an Old South town and raises questions about an extremist past — and present
By Bob Moser
A 'Patriot' shootout in Abbeville that left two law enforcement officials dead belies the extremism of the 'upstate' portion of South Carolina.

'Hostile Takeover'

A director of the Sierra Club discusses an ongoing attempt to turn the environmental powerhouse into an anti-immigration group
Robbie Cox, former Sierra Club president, discusses the ongoing attempt to turn the environmental organization into an anti-immigration group.

More Features

The Party of Fear

Editorial
By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow
History repeats itself as Americans strike out against immigrants with hate speech and even violence, this time creating a schism within the environmentalist Sierra Club.

The Rating Game

By Camille Jackson
Despite talk show host Michael Savage's astounding bigotry and anti-Semitism, the radio industry can't get enough of him.

Terror, American Style

By Camille Jackson
The discovery in Texas of a huge arms cache, including a cyanide bomb, is a reminder that not all alleged terrorists are foreign

Talking Tough

By Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project Director
At a D.C.-area conference sponsored by the antigovernment, tax-protest extremist group We the People, the 'Patriot' movement proves it still has legs.

Up In Arms

A call to revolution by the former spokesperson of the Earth Liberation Front
By Bob Moser
A new manifesto by former ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh touts the 'Logic of Political Violence.'

Hitler and the Sea-Monkeys

By Bob Moser
It seemed like a good old all-American craze — until the nasty truth emerged about the man who concocted it.

Wilkins' World

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow

Neo-Confederate historian and pastor Steve Wilkins' 'America: The First 350 Years' markets a theocratic, white, male, pro-slavery American history to homeschoolers and the general public.

Attack of the CAVE People

By Bob Moser
Up the road from Abbeville, a coalition of extremists puts Anderson County government in the crosshairs.

Belligerent Broadcaster

A hate group leader in St. Louis continues to broadcast vitriol — even after his most racist diatribe to date comes to light
By Camille Jackson
After replying to an antiracist blogger with an expletive- and slur-laced E-mail that went public, Earl P. Holt III has not been asked to step down as the co-host of a talk radio show in St. Louis, Mo.

The Blotter: Spring 2004

By Camille Jackson
In 2003, a large number of crimes were carried out by extremists, including the murder of law enforcement officers and the amassing of a lethal, illegal arsenal.

Briefs

Rocked by Porn Scandal, SCV Attempts to Oust Moderates

Neo-Confederates
After a scandal exposed by the Intelligence Report, the neo-Confederate Sons of Confederate Veterans' controversial leader Ron Wilson tries to rid the organization of moderates.

Aryan Financial 'Whiz' Pleads to Ripping Off Investors

'Patriot' Games
White supremacist financial adviser and former co-owner of the antigovernment and anti-Semitic Media Bypass magazine has pleaded guilty to running a million-dollar scam targeting his clients.

EURO Chief's Final Answer: Pornography Trumps Aryanism

Neo-Nazis
Pornographer Bruce Alan 'Vince' Breeding quit his job as the head of David Duke's European-American Unity and Rights Organization in the wake of an Intelligence Report exposé.

Heritage Battles

White supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons' quixotic quest to establish "Confederate Southern Americans" as a legally protected minority has run into a serious roadblock — again. This time, the future of Lyons' Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) could be in jeopardy.

KKK Initiation Ceremony Goes Astray

Ku Klutz Klan
During a complex initiation ceremony involving a noose, paintballs, and live fire, one Tennessee member of America's Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan shot another in the head, leaving the injured man unable to speak and in serious condition.

Neo-Nazi Fundraising Success Turns Sour

Extremist Crimes
After Chester Doles, Georgia National Alliance leader, pleads guilty to illegal weapons possession, supporters wonder what happened to the donations made to help him fight the charge.

Disorder in the Courts

A year of irresolution in cases involving hate crimes and extremism
By Brian Levin
2003 saw a variety of legal cases involving hate crimes and extremism fail to be resolved with clear ramifications.