Updates on Extremism and the Law
Jan. 12 - Hollis Wayne Fincher, the lieutenant commander of the Militia of Washington County, was convicted of owning illegal machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun
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Quotes from Michael Savage, Frank Hargrove, Kyrsten Sinema
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In Cochise County, Ariz., anti-immigrant militant Roger Barnett has threatened Latinos at gunpoint, yet has never been prosecuted for his actions. In Tucson, armed nativist Roy Warden was caught on videotape threatening to blow a child's brains out, but the prosecutor did not request that Warden serve any jail time.
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The on-again, off-again neo-Nazi is, apparently, on again. Of course, it's always hard to tell with Jacques Anthony Pluss, the fired New Jersey university history professor who now describes himself as a National Socialist, psychotherapist and expert horseman.
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Extremists in the Military
Lt. Cmdr. John Sharpe Jr., the public affairs officer for the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, was temporarily relieved of duty and placed under investigation in early March for allegedly violating a rule that forbids all personnel in the U.S. Navy to "participate in any organization that espouses supremacist causes."
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Two recent potential standoff situations — one in Wisconsin and one in New Hampshire — illustrate radically different law enforcement approaches to dealing with such confrontations with members of the radical right.
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Two more white supremacist organizations collapsed this spring, the latest casualties in a radical right characterized in the last few years by major troubles and organizational shifts.
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The neo-Confederate movement isn't known for its racial diversity, but there long has been one dedicated black man willing to fight for the Southern cause: H.K. Edgerton.
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Another fringe black separatist group has come into the crosshairs of law enforcement. Like many others, the Abannaki Indigenous Nation propounds a bizarre ideology that's a mix of pseudo-scientific ideas about white people and groundless theories about being immune to U.S. laws.
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Neo-Nazi leader Kevin Alfred Strom, arrested last January on charges of possession of child pornography and witness tampering, now faces a key additional accusation — that he "enticed" a 10-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.
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If Steven Bixby ever had a chance of avoiding the death penalty for murdering two South Carolina law enforcement officers in 2003, it surely disappeared under the torrent of 1,500 pages of letters he wrote a girlfriend while awaiting trial.
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When CNN decided to tackle the question of "self segregation" of racial groups in America this April 4, host Paula Zahn lined up a panel of commentators who seemed like they'd make for a lively discussion.
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World-famous author and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel was attacked by a Holocaust denier who had evidently been shadowing Wiesel for weeks before accosting him Feb. 1 in a hotel elevator in San Francisco, where Wiesel had just finished speaking at a peace conference.
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The trial of an American who showed up at the U.S. border two years ago with what appeared to be a bloody chainsaw and several other weapons was delayed this March for a government psychiatric evaluation. Gregory Despres, a U.S. citizen with a large swast
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American neo-Nazi Craig Cobb, the first person to prominently post the home address of a federal judge whose husband and mother were later murdered there, has moved to Estonia to help build a European white supremacist movement.
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Capping their largest series of local, regional and national electoral successes since World War II, far-right extremists in Europe have managed for the first time to create an ultranationalist bloc within the European Parliament.
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Ending a complicated international saga that began when he was deported from the United States in 2003, notorious neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel was sentenced to five years in a German prison last February for denying the Holocaust.
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Southern Gothic
A Klan case opens a window onto a bizarre Southern underworld; 'radical traditionalist Catholics' worry residents in New Hampshire; and violence against the homeless is on the rise.
In This Issue
A Ku Klux Klan Murder Reveals Details of Modern Klan Life
NC Klan Cases Expose Seedy Underworld
By David Holthouse and Casey Sanchez
Photography by Jenny Warburg
The dead man in Glen Gautier's dreams always asked the same question: "Why didn't you bury me with my glasses?" The nightmares began torturing Gautier in early 2002.
Radical Traditionalist Catholic Groups Sour Life in Peaceful New England Town
N.H. Town Split by Radical Traditionalists
By Susy Buchanan
RICHMOND, N.H. — Nestled among rolling hills and thick, verdant forests, this small and quiet place is to all outward appearances a typically peaceful New England town.
Violence Rises Against Homeless Population Nationwide
Attacks on Homeless Rise Across Nation
By Brentin Mock
Harold Washington has two strikes against him: He's black, and he's homeless.
Police Investigate Activities of San Diego Minutemen
San Diego Nativist Group Faces Troubles
By Casey Sanchez
The San Diego Minutemen, a particularly virulent nativist group, is making a thuggish name for itself. But it is also wracked with serious internal problems.
More Features
National Dialogue on Immigration Poisoned by False Propaganda
Even as a shaky legislative agreement on immigration reform is debated in the halls of Congress, poisonous and untrue propaganda continues to leak into the national dialogue on undocumented migration to the United States.
Former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken Publishes Book Touting Aztlan Conspiracy Theory
A hard-line nativist pens a paranoid vision of a Mexican invasion plot. The book is a fictionalized version of the Aztlan conspiracy theory that now animates large swaths of the anti-immigration movement
Racist Kennesaw, Ga. Shop Owner Embraced By Community
The Last Word
By Susy Buchanan
KENNESAW, Ga. —With his long, scruffy beard, chunky silver rings and bandanna headband, the owner and proprietor of Wildman's Civil War Surplus and Herb Shop looks from a distance like a typical aging hippie.
Racist Skinhead David Lynch Reemerges as Leader in Sacramento’s American Front
David Lynch Returns as Skinhead Leader
By David Holthouse
SACRAMENTO, Calif .— Last December, hundreds of racist skinheads across the country received the very same Christmas card. It depicted a half-eaten cookie on a plate next to a bottle of Rebel Yell bourbon, a shot glass etched with a death's head, and stockings hung by the chimney with care.
Jim Gilchrist Fired By Minuteman Project
Minuteman Leader Ousted, Forms New Group
By David Holthouse
The Minuteman Project, one of the country's largest, richest and most influential nativist extremist groups, is in a state of crisis.
Robert Pastor Advocates North American Union, Catches Flack From Extremist Groups
Interview conducted by Mark Potok
Photo by Michael Morgan
Scholar Reacts to Conspiracy Accusations
Exploring Nativist Conspiracy Theories Including The ‘North American Union’ and The Plan de Aztlan
Americans, particularly on the far right, have always been given to conspiracy theories.
Fuerza Bruta
El Estilo Paranoico de Debate
Briefs
The Blotter: July 2007
Jan. 12 - Hollis Wayne Fincher, the lieutenant commander of the Militia of Washington County, was convicted of owning illegal machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun
Overheard, Summer 2007
Quotes From the Right
Quotes from Michael Savage, Frank Hargrove, Kyrsten Sinema
Are There Limits to Prosecutorial Discretion?
The Mad Professor: A Neo-Nazi is Out of the Closet
U.S. Navy Suspends 'Radical Traditionalist Catholic'
Law Officials Pursue Differing Standoff Policies
Two recent potential standoff situations — one in Wisconsin and one in New Hampshire — illustrate radically different law enforcement approaches to dealing with such confrontations with members of the radical right.
National Vanguard, Confederate Knights are Kaput
Lonely Black Neo-Confederate Furls His Flag
Abannaki Indigenous Nation Members Arrested
New Sex Charge Brought Against Neo-Nazi Leader
Jury Sentences Zealot to Death in S.C. Shootout
Radical 'Cesspool' Host a Commentator on CNN
Holocaust Denier Arrested in Attack on Elie Wiesel
Canada Charges U.S. Extremist
The trial of an American who showed up at the U.S. border two years ago with what appeared to be a bloody chainsaw and several other weapons was delayed this March for a government psychiatric evaluation. Gregory Despres, a U.S. citizen with a large swast
U.S. Neo-Nazi Operates in Estonia
Extremist Euro-Deputy Group Formed
Capping their largest series of local, regional and national electoral successes since World War II, far-right extremists in Europe have managed for the first time to create an ultranationalist bloc within the European Parliament.
Holocaust Deniers Sent to Prison