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Title: White Supremacists Ratchet Up Anti-Hispanic Action As U.S. Immigration Debate Rages
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URL Source: http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Extremism_72/4822_72.htm
Published: Jun 22, 2006
Author: staff
Post Date: 2006-06-22 12:38:17 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 4315
Comments: 192
New York, NY, May 24, 2006 … As the national debate over immigration continues to hold the national spotlight, neo-Nazis and white supremacists have ratcheted up their anti-Hispanic action, using everything from Internet video games to street demonstrations and other confrontational tactics in an effort to exploit the debate as a means to spread hate. Their goal is to draw new attention to their hateful notions about minorities and hopes for making America a nation for "Whites only." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors and reports on the activities of far-right extremists, has updated its online report, "Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants" with new information showing that extremists continue to focus their energies on Hispanic hate-mongering through racist rhetoric, crude stereotypes, and threats of using violence to intimidate illegal immigrants. "As we have gotten deeper into the discussion on immigration, the white supremacist movement has reinvigorated itself and closed ranks around the cause of fighting immigration and turning America into a nation for 'Whites only'", said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "The immigration debate has provided the perfect storm for America's white supremacist fringe to recruit, organize and sow the seeds of racial discord and hate." On the Internet, right-wing extremists have championed video games such as "Border Patrol," where the aim is to shoot to kill Mexicans as they attempt to cross the border, and used their Web sites to spread hateful anti-Hispanic messages. In the real world, white supremacist leaders have organized protests and encouraged their followers to act violently against immigrants or anyone of Hispanic origin. Anti-Hispanic Violence ADL's report cites two recent incidents as the latest in a multi-year trend of increasing violence targeting Hispanics: •A teenager was arrested in East Hampton, Long Island, on April 29 after he allegedly threatened a Hispanic teenager with a machete and chased a second teenager with a chain saw while shouting racial epithets. Described by classmates as a skinhead, the alleged perpetrator had posted to the Internet photographs of himself posing as a Nazi and adorning a shed with swastikas. •David Henry Tuck, 18, and Keith Robert Turner, 17, were arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault in the brutal April 22 attack of a teenage Hispanic high school student in Houston. The victim was beaten and sodomized with a plastic pipe from a patio umbrella, then kicked in the head with steel-toed boots. White Supremacist Protests In recent weeks, white supremacists have organized protests, rallies and other events across the country: •In Seattle, Washington, and Las Vegas, Nevada, members of the neo-Nazi National Vanguard held anti-immigration protests on May 20. On its Web site, the National Vanguard declared that day to be a "day of protest against George W. Bush's plan to destroy America," calling the president's immigration proposals a "sellout of the nation." •In Keene, New Hampshire, New England members of the Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group White Revolution held a self-described "anti-invasion" demonstration on May 7 to protest "the invasion of America by illegal non white hordes.' •In Russellville, Alabama, members of the Alabama chapter of the Indiana-based National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an anti-immigration rally on May 6, yelling "Let's get rid of the Mexicans!" After the rally, the Klansmen burned a cross in a field outside of town. •In Montgomery, Alabama, the neo-Confederate group League of the South and the Coalition against Illegal Immigration together organized an anti-immigration "Cinco de Mayo" demonstration on May 5. The event was promoted in the racist and anti-Semitic newspaper, "First Freedom." •In Greenville, South Carolina, the racist Council of Conservative Citizens held an anti-immigration demonstration on April 29 in front of the offices of Republican Congressman Lindsey Graham, where they burned Mexican flags and displayed signs such as "More INS, Less IRS," "Vote for Pedro to Go Home," and "I Didn't Fight in Iraq for Illegal Aliens."
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#1. To: All, Yertle Turtle, christine, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Mind_Virus, Brian S, Jethro Tull, Tauzero, Bub, mugwort, Peetie Wheatstraw, HOUNDDAWG, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, tom007, aristeides, Eoghan, Diana, SKYDRIFTER (#0)
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That's my ping list, minus Jethro Tull and Weasel Mickey. Bringing the ADL to this joint is like bringing a squirt gun to a turkey shoot.
So, are you saying it is a proprietorial list? You should be flattered sweet boy, not pissy. This forum is open to posting of articles, news releases, and many contributions from everywhere. Why don't you settle down, unruffled those tail feathers, grab another cup of morning coffee and enjoy the first day of summer? ;-)
Not in the least. You're more than welcome to any info I put on this board. It only proves, yet again, that you ADL types are unthinking leeches that are incapable of doing your own footwork.
Heh, I am not ADL, thanks. And I thought you on that list would find the piece interesting and I wanted to here what you had to say about it. You are most welcome to add my name to your list as I read what you post when I see it anyway. A ping list is not merely a collection of like minds, it should be one of common interests, even if those on it do not see eye to eye. I didn't know it would anger you so to see me use it. I apologize for angering you in that fashion if that helps. But I don't for using it. I have a list after a fashion, but have never really been in the practice of using one consistently enough to be motivated to make one that is all purpose. I started posting in the Well and on http://Time.com/Politics which was a large board unto the AOL merger with http://Time.com caused it's demise in April 2001. I still use one of my first account names, Ferret Mike. Though my first one was Hob which is the term for a male ferret. ('Hobbb' on http://Time.com as they required five character in a nick.) Before I did that I was a chronic mIRC poster and have done this sort of stuff online for over a decade now. I cut my teeth on a different sort of posting culture then those who started out on Free Republic, and ping lists were new to me when I first joined that forum in 1998. In any event, I hope that explains better where I come from in terms of board culture and attitudes I may have concerning ping lists and how they differ from yours' and why.
It takes a lot more than that to make me angry. I said you're welcome to use it. I am not ADL, thanks. Yuh right. Pardon my skepticism.
I'm glad. It takes allot to anger me. Posting and political activism has given me a thick skin. And thanks for the use of the list. As for your skepticism, that is your baggage, not mine. I do not belong to their organization, nor are we working in concert. You are welcome to believe what you like, but for the record you are very wrong. ;-)
You walk like a duck. You quack like a duck. Please don't try and tell me you're a dove.
Heh, And what does a blind man think an elephant is at first encounter with one? You are showing that a weakness of yours is the propensity to make assumptions on too little evidence, nothing more. By the way because of the university I went to, I am very much a Duck fan, and proud of it too by the way. ;-) As for a dove, I am indeed one, in the sense of the old appellations of Dove dove for those who prefer peace, and hawk for those who support a more proactive use of the military in the realm of foreign affairs.
Problem with metaphor: I'm not blind, Mickey. You are showing that a weakness of yours is the propensity to make assumptions on too little evidence, nothing more You praise the ADL. You "monitor" "hate sites". Everyone's a hater and a racist and a whatever, except for the ADL. I've been down this road many times with self-appointed commissars. As for a dove, I am indeed one Then start walking and talking like one. The ADL advocates mass murder and always has.
I don't believe your perception of the ADL. But I will give extra attention to any pings you give me to information you say supports your contentions regarding them. I will do that much. I don't promise I will agree, but I do promise I will look harder at what you cite as evidence supporting your assertions concerning that organization.
#45. To: Ferret Mike (#44)
Translation: The ADL advocates mass murder.
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#2. To: Ferret Mike, Yertle Turtle, christine, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Mind_Virus, Brian S, Jethro Tull, Tauzero, Bub, mugwort, Peetie Wheatstraw, HOUNDDAWG, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, tom007, aristeides, Eoghan, Diana, SKYDRIFTER (#1)
Yertle Turtle, christine, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Mind_Virus, Brian S, Jethro Tull, Tauzero, Bub, mugwort, Peetie Wheatstraw, HOUNDDAWG, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, tom007, aristeides, Eoghan, Diana, SKYDRIFTER
#6. To: bluegrass (#2)
"Bringing the ADL to this joint is like bringing a squirt gun to a turkey shoot."
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
are you saying it is a proprietorial list?
#25. To: bluegrass (#8)
"It only proves, yet again, that you ADL types are unthinking leeches that are incapable of doing your own footwork."
#27. To: Ferret Mike (#25)
I didn't know it would anger you so to see me use it.
#29. To: bluegrass (#27)
"It takes a lot more than that to make me angry. I said you're welcome to use it."
#30. To: Ferret Mike (#29)
As for your skepticism, that is your baggage, not mine.
#34. To: bluegrass (#30)
"You walk like a duck. You quack like a duck. Please don't try and tell me you're a dove."
#40. To: Ferret Mike (#34)
And what does a blind man think an elephant is at first encounter with one?
#44. To: bluegrass (#40)
Replies to Comment # 44. I don't believe your perception of the ADL.
"We strongly support the actions of the President and his Administration in regard to the War on Terror," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.
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