The Year in Hate 2006

Issue Number:

125

Spring

2007

Nativist rage fuels rise in hate groups with 144 extremist groups identified; Belgian webmaster is global nexis of hate; and a California professor's career soars despite anti-Semitic writings.

In This Issue

Number of Hate Groups Up 5 Percent From Last Year

Hate Group Count Reaches 844 in 2006

Hate groups grow steadily as the anti- immigration movement swells; 40% rise reported since the start of the millennium

Bishop Eddie Long and His Church Align with Others to Promote Anti-Gay Agenda

Black Religious Opposition to Gays Rising

By Brentin Mock

In a community that has struggled to achieve its own civil rights, angry religious opposition to homosexuals is on the march

California State University, Long Beach Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald Publishes Anti-Semitic Books

By Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project Director

How an academic rose to the heights of his profession while producing 'science' justifying the hatred of Jews

Arizona Rancher’s Vigilante Activity Lands Him in Court

Rancher Roger Barnett Faces a Come-Uppance

By Susy Buchanan

A momentous confrontation ends with a family of U.S. citizens turning the tables on America's most notorious border vigilante.

More Features

What fuels increasing number of hate groups? Editorial By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow The infection is spreading. Like pus from a wound, hatred is seeping from the most virulent extremities of our society into the organs of American democracy. The body politic is at risk of falling ill.	Neo-Nazi Groups Share Hate Via YouTube Video-Sharing Websites Become Extremist Venue By Brentin Mock Video-sharing websites like YouTube have become the hottest new venue for extremist propaganda and recruitment
National Vanguard Founder Kevin Alfred Storm Arrested for Child Pornography By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow In the latest disaster to hit the American radical right, Kevin Alfred Strom, the founder of National Vanguard and a major neo-Nazi leader for nearly 20 years, has been arrested and charged with child pornography and witness tampering.	Belgian Webmaster Hosts U.S., European Hate Sites By David Holthouse From his base in Brussels, a Belgian webmaster is running some of Europe's leading hate sites. He also may be breaking the law
Demonstration Sponsored By Border Guardians and Emigration Party of Nevada Falls Flat The Last Word By Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse The recent burning of a Mexican flag by American extremists raised a number of questions. Luckily, they aren’t hard to answer	Freedom Riders and Other Nativist Groups Join for Campaign to Scare Off Immigrants 144 'Nativist Extremist' Groups Identified By Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse As the anti-immigration movement grows even more vitriolic, the Intelligence Project identifies 144 'nativist extremist' groups
Retired Customs Agent Lee Morgan Writes Memoir About His Time on the Arizona Border Retired Customs Agent Discusses Border A former Customs officer discusses life, death and vigilantism on the Mexican border. Lee Morgan doesn’t like what he sees	En la Frontera Un ex funcionario de la aduana habla sobre la vida, la muerte y el vigilantismo en la frontera con Méjico. A Lee Morgan no le gusta lo que está sucediendo
Patriot Groups Active in the Year 2006 The Intelligence Project identified 147 "Patriot" groups that were active in 2006. Of these groups, 52 were militias and the remainder includes "common-law" courts, publishers, ministries and citizens' groups.	La infección de odio Por Mark Potok La infección de odio está expandiéndose. Como el pus de una herida, el odio se filtra desde los sectores más virulentos de nuestra sociedad hacia los órganos de la democracia estadounidense. El organismo político corre el riesgo d
Justicia Vigilante Por Susy Buchanan Una confrontación épica hizo que una familia de ciudadanos estadounidenses cambie el accionar de los vigilantes de frontera más conocidos de los Estados Unidos	'Dispara, Cava Un Foso Y Cállate' Por Susy Buchanan y David Holthouse A medida que el movimiento en contra de la inmigración se torna cada vez más violento, el Intelligence Project (Proyecto de Inteligencia) identifica 144 grupos "extremistas nacionalistas"
El Año Del Odio Por Mark Potok Los grupos de odio crecen sostenidamente a medida que se incrementa el movimiento en contra de la inmigracin; se registr un aumento del 40% desde el comienzo del milenio

Briefs

Gay-Bashing Phelpses in Key Kansas DOC Posts Anti-Gay Extremism Several members of the extended Phelps family, which makes up most of the notorious anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist Church, are ensconced within the Kansas State Department of Corrections (DOC), a prison advocacy group reported in December.	Assassin Supported by Baptist Official is Convicted Anti-Abortion Movement James Kopp, already serving 25 years to life on a 2003 New York state murder conviction for the 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, was convicted in January of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by assassinating the physician.	Crackdown Hits Tax Protesters, Celebrities Included Tax Protesters It's been a tough couple of years for tax-dodgers in Florida, where the IRS has recently indicted more than 20 individuals in some of the most high-profile cases in the history of the radical tax-protest movement.
Neo-Nazi Convicted in Savage Anti-Latino Assault Anti-Latino Violence A Latino teenager attended a party in April 2006 at a housing complex just north of Houston, in a town called Spring. According to witnesses, the 17-year-old tried to kiss a white girl. She rebuffed him and told her brother about the advance. Word spread.	'Vietnamese' Anti-Immigration Group Really Isn't Nativist Movement White anti-immigration activist Tim Brummer admitted to using the false Vietnamese surname "Binh" in his capacity as spokesman for Vietnamese for Fair Immigration.	More ‘Ethnic Cleansing' Violence Hits Los Angeles Race-Based Gangs The December murder of a 14-year-old African-American girl, the latest apparent victim of Latino gang members' campaign to "ethnically cleanse" many neighborhoods in Los Angeles, has set off a political earthquake.
Supremacists' Deaths Sap Movement Old Guard White Nationalism Recent years have seen the death of some of the 20th century's key white supremacist ideologues and leaders, men like Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations and William Pierce of the National Alliance.	Klan Organizer Could Be Headed for U.S. Army Ku Klux Klan A northeastern Indiana Ku Klux Klan organizer told a judge in February that he'd been accepted as a recruit by the U.S. Army in 2006, despite his high-profile white supremacist activities.	David Duke at Iranian Denial Conference Neo-Nazis and other extremists from the United States and Europe headlined a December conference in Tehran that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described as a scholarly gathering to debate issues surrounding the Holocaust.
Debate Squelched by Canadian School Canada's Dalhousie University has cancelled a debate between the head of its black history department and an American who describes himself as a "race realist."	Austria Frees Infamous Denier Early David Irving, the infamous British writer who was sentenced in 2005 to three years in an Austrian prison for denying the Holocaust, returned to England in late December after a Vienna court reduced his remaining sentence to probation.	Racist British Party Seeks Whitewash In the mid-1970s, then-Klan leader David Duke began exhorting followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms" in a bid for mainstream respectability.
Testing 'Academic Freedom' Can Racist Professors Be Disciplined? By Rhonda Brownstein Kevin MacDonald is not the only college professor to come under fire for racist and anti-Semitic views.	Free the Order Rally Dec. 9, 2006 About 100 racist skinheads from California and Nevada gathered at the Federal Building in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood for a “Free the Order” rally to support imprisoned members of the The Order.	Overheard, Spring 2007 Quotes from the Right Quotes from Joe Turner, Lou Sheldon, Tom Tancredo...
The Blotter, Spring 2007 Updates on Extremism and the Law Oct. 14 - John Ditullio, a member of the so-called Teak Street Nazis group that terrorized neighbors in a New Port Richey, Fla., trailer park, was indicted for slashing neighbor Patricia Wells and murdering a friend of her son.