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Neo-Nazi Groups Plan Pennsylvania Weekend Gathering
There is a huge neonazi rally this weekend. If people have any info on protests planned to disrupt it, post them here and on all of the East Coast Indymedia sites. Its too short notice to fly from here to protest, but perhaps we can help get the word out to help organize more East Coast people to show up.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American neo-Nazis and white supremacists, stung by the death of one top leader and the serious illness of another, will try to regroup at an Aryan Nations World Congress this weekend in Pennsylvania.
The meeting, to be held in Ulysses Township on the property of white supremacist August Kreis, is the first to be convened in the eastern United States for many years, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors extremist hate groups.
The group's Web site listed a number of white supremacist rock bands and speakers scheduled to appear at the gathering in a rural county of north-central Pennsylvania.
The group did not answer telephone calls. However, on its Internet site, it defines its ideology:
"Aryan Nations supports any and all efforts that disrupt the system and lead to system breakdown. Worse is better for now, and societal breakdown is absolutely necessary. ... We are not a non-violent organization. We support the coming of a New Dawn in which white power will be a fact of life. Our soil will be cleansed, of this there is zero doubt," it said.
Such groups have suffered significant setbacks in the past two years. On Tuesday, one of their top leaders, William Pierce, died of cancer at age 69.
Pierce, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the "America's number one neo-Nazi," was leader of the National Alliance, which boasts 51 chapters nationwide. His novel, "The Turner Diaries," helped inspire Timothy McVeigh ( news - web sites) to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.
Another prominent extremist leader, Richard Butler, is said to be terminally ill. Butler, who heads Aryan Nations, was forced to sell his 20-acre compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, last year to pay a $6.3 million court verdict in favor of a woman and her son who were attacked and terrorized by Aryan Nations security guards.
The compound is being transformed into a human rights education center and museum.
FAR FROM DEAD
But the Pennsylvania meeting is a sign that the Aryan Nations and groups like them are far from dead, said Mark Pitcavage, director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League.
"The Aryan Nations has now split into three factions which are trying to outdo each other in their radicalism. They are preaching a very violent, dangerous ideology," he said.
"Their numbers may be small but it doesn't take many people to cause a lot of damage. There's a wide range of criminal activity associated with this movement, ranging from minor assaults and desecrating cemeteries to murder and terrorism," Pitcavage said.
He said the organizers of the weekend would probably be satisfied if 200 people showed up and delighted with 400. The organizers had invited "white power" rock bands to attract young people and reached out locally and nationally to Ku Klux Klan groups to build attendance.
The ADL recently notified local and national law enforcement of the presence of new groups emerging out of Aryan Nations, several of which have issued calls to violence and intimidation on the Internet based on a concept known as "Phineas Priest."
The "Phineas Priest" ideology, based on an incident in the Old Testament in which the son of Aaron killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were having sex, encourages followers to strike out violently against "race mixers," abortion providers, homosexuals, Jews and other perceived enemies.
The Southern Poverty Law Center estimated there were 676 active hate groups in the United States in 2001. It divided them into 109 Ku Klux Klan chapters; 209 neo-Nazi groups; 43 "racist" skinhead groups; 31 "Christian identity" groups; 124 neo-Confederate groups; 51 black separatist groups and a few other miscellaneous factions.
The center is particularly concerned by the spread of so-called "white power" music disseminated on compact discs, short-wave radio and over the Internet, which has grown into a more than a million dollar a year business.
Extremist groups have organized a number of outdoor white power concerts this summer, including "Rudolph Hess memorial concerts" next month in Portland, Oregon and Orange County, California. Hess was a deputy to Adolf Hitler who committed suicide in prison in 1987, aged 93
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=8&cid=578&u=/nm/20020724/ts_nm/life_neonazis_dc_1
The meeting, to be held in Ulysses Township on the property of white supremacist August Kreis, is the first to be convened in the eastern United States for many years, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors extremist hate groups.
The group's Web site listed a number of white supremacist rock bands and speakers scheduled to appear at the gathering in a rural county of north-central Pennsylvania.
The group did not answer telephone calls. However, on its Internet site, it defines its ideology:
"Aryan Nations supports any and all efforts that disrupt the system and lead to system breakdown. Worse is better for now, and societal breakdown is absolutely necessary. ... We are not a non-violent organization. We support the coming of a New Dawn in which white power will be a fact of life. Our soil will be cleansed, of this there is zero doubt," it said.
Such groups have suffered significant setbacks in the past two years. On Tuesday, one of their top leaders, William Pierce, died of cancer at age 69.
Pierce, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the "America's number one neo-Nazi," was leader of the National Alliance, which boasts 51 chapters nationwide. His novel, "The Turner Diaries," helped inspire Timothy McVeigh ( news - web sites) to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.
Another prominent extremist leader, Richard Butler, is said to be terminally ill. Butler, who heads Aryan Nations, was forced to sell his 20-acre compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, last year to pay a $6.3 million court verdict in favor of a woman and her son who were attacked and terrorized by Aryan Nations security guards.
The compound is being transformed into a human rights education center and museum.
FAR FROM DEAD
But the Pennsylvania meeting is a sign that the Aryan Nations and groups like them are far from dead, said Mark Pitcavage, director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League.
"The Aryan Nations has now split into three factions which are trying to outdo each other in their radicalism. They are preaching a very violent, dangerous ideology," he said.
"Their numbers may be small but it doesn't take many people to cause a lot of damage. There's a wide range of criminal activity associated with this movement, ranging from minor assaults and desecrating cemeteries to murder and terrorism," Pitcavage said.
He said the organizers of the weekend would probably be satisfied if 200 people showed up and delighted with 400. The organizers had invited "white power" rock bands to attract young people and reached out locally and nationally to Ku Klux Klan groups to build attendance.
The ADL recently notified local and national law enforcement of the presence of new groups emerging out of Aryan Nations, several of which have issued calls to violence and intimidation on the Internet based on a concept known as "Phineas Priest."
The "Phineas Priest" ideology, based on an incident in the Old Testament in which the son of Aaron killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were having sex, encourages followers to strike out violently against "race mixers," abortion providers, homosexuals, Jews and other perceived enemies.
The Southern Poverty Law Center estimated there were 676 active hate groups in the United States in 2001. It divided them into 109 Ku Klux Klan chapters; 209 neo-Nazi groups; 43 "racist" skinhead groups; 31 "Christian identity" groups; 124 neo-Confederate groups; 51 black separatist groups and a few other miscellaneous factions.
The center is particularly concerned by the spread of so-called "white power" music disseminated on compact discs, short-wave radio and over the Internet, which has grown into a more than a million dollar a year business.
Extremist groups have organized a number of outdoor white power concerts this summer, including "Rudolph Hess memorial concerts" next month in Portland, Oregon and Orange County, California. Hess was a deputy to Adolf Hitler who committed suicide in prison in 1987, aged 93
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=8&cid=578&u=/nm/20020724/ts_nm/life_neonazis_dc_1
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As a Palestinian activist, I greatly appreciated Mr. Pierce's support of our cause and see his death as an unmitigated tragedy. His message about the evil Jews and their attempts to utterly destroy our people were right on target and need to be broadcast now more than ever. Rather than picket these meetings, I suggest we mourn the death of this heroic spokesman for our freedom as a people!
As a Palestinian activist, I greatly appreciated Mr. Pierce's support of our cause and see his death as an unmitigated tragedy. His message about the evil Jews and their attempts to utterly destroy our people were right on target and need to be broadcast now more than ever. Rather than picket these meetings, I suggest we mourn the death of this heroic spokesman for our freedom as a people!
. . . bash our way into their meeting and break as many of their bones as we can. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
If we blocked JoJo and the other rightwingers from this site I think you would find that along with the accusations of antiSemetism, the weird antiSemetic posts would also go away. We should be organizing to fight the Israeli right and neoNazis. Fake posts (or perhaps reports?) by right wing looneys trying to get in our way should not fool us. Our stance is clear.
If any of the right wing people posting to this site really cared about antiSemetism they would help us organize protests to fight groups like the Aryan Nations rather than all these weird attempts to divide us. If any of you right wingers are on the East Coast I assume you will help us disrupt that Nazi conference this weekend. As you all know, the Left is pretty weak. Im sure nobody would object if instead of posting attacks to our site this weekend you drove to PA and helped to shutdown that Nazi meeting. Bring a camera, take pictures and help us build an antiNazi movement. Maybe then we would take your stance on antiSemetism as more than a cheap attempt to discredit the Left.
If any of the right wing people posting to this site really cared about antiSemetism they would help us organize protests to fight groups like the Aryan Nations rather than all these weird attempts to divide us. If any of you right wingers are on the East Coast I assume you will help us disrupt that Nazi conference this weekend. As you all know, the Left is pretty weak. Im sure nobody would object if instead of posting attacks to our site this weekend you drove to PA and helped to shutdown that Nazi meeting. Bring a camera, take pictures and help us build an antiNazi movement. Maybe then we would take your stance on antiSemetism as more than a cheap attempt to discredit the Left.
You said you blocked JOJO and the others? I thought you lefties were for free speech. This sounds like cencership to me.They made this site somewhat funny to read and the bickering between JOJO and nessie was better then anything the WWE could muster. The Right-Wingers are the heels,the bad guys,and you can't have good guys without bad guys.
As for the neo-nazi's,they arn't really on the right,there just for thier own insane views.They are closer to anarchists
then rightwingers.
As for the neo-nazi's,they arn't really on the right,there just for thier own insane views.They are closer to anarchists
then rightwingers.
PA is a weird state,I'm from there. Its like you have Philly on one side and Pittsburg on the other and rednecks in the middle. There are a lot of stupid skinhead groups made up of highschool dropouts that ware thier red suspenders and play in oi bands. There are also alot of SHARPIES(skins,agianst,racial,predgadence) and other people that can't stand them as well.
I close my eyes and do a little visualization. ` I'm sitting atop a lonely hill. With my back to a large boulder I'm surrounded by my finer gear, the stuff my closest friends know I would grab first in a housefire. Everything strip cleaned and oiled to a matte semi gloss buff.
Slowly as if captured in syrup off in the distance a tangled commotion begins. Ever so slowly like when high speed film is set at 1/3rd speed, in complete carnal clarity nazis start to pop. First a skinny one and then a fat one. Then two average ones at once. "The nazis are defective", I hear from my humor bone. Eye sockets and nasal cavities, chins and foreheads begin to scatter on the ground, everywhere as if raining from a red sky. Swastikas and denim, cotton t`s and Caterpillar boots become medical waste, bound for yellow containers and evidence labs. Once again my funny bone whispers, "Nazis pop, film at 11:00". Vertabrae and hip sockets, brain matter and patches of skin frisbee onto the lawn.
As I turn to my left and right to admire unique and plentiful indigenous wildflowers, I take a sip of tomato juice and return to the point of this cosed eye event.
Flipping and flailing nazis begin to fill the narrow eyepiece. Wreckless in where they fall they begin to pile up. Showing no concern for buddies they land knees and elbows on open faces and chests.
Very quickly once again in slow honey motion, the roar disappears. Cameramen and women, reporters and law enforcement officials scurry from behind the trees and trucks where they hide. As the ringing of ears clear they hear a distant boom box still clattering the rattling din of nazi vomit. Only briefly though till I rise to standing then bring my finger to point at it from three thousand feet away. Click. Silence. Yawn.
Neonazis, give them to the bugs, bacteria and obituary as fast as you can. I hate a god damned nazi more than just about anything I've ever heard of. No one on earth is whiter than me. There would be no one on earth of any color if it were not for our original black greatest grandmothers and grandfathers. Before to many years humankind will return to this original greater being we once were, and everyone of us form moronic anarchists to apolitical wise guys, will be black.
Slowly as if captured in syrup off in the distance a tangled commotion begins. Ever so slowly like when high speed film is set at 1/3rd speed, in complete carnal clarity nazis start to pop. First a skinny one and then a fat one. Then two average ones at once. "The nazis are defective", I hear from my humor bone. Eye sockets and nasal cavities, chins and foreheads begin to scatter on the ground, everywhere as if raining from a red sky. Swastikas and denim, cotton t`s and Caterpillar boots become medical waste, bound for yellow containers and evidence labs. Once again my funny bone whispers, "Nazis pop, film at 11:00". Vertabrae and hip sockets, brain matter and patches of skin frisbee onto the lawn.
As I turn to my left and right to admire unique and plentiful indigenous wildflowers, I take a sip of tomato juice and return to the point of this cosed eye event.
Flipping and flailing nazis begin to fill the narrow eyepiece. Wreckless in where they fall they begin to pile up. Showing no concern for buddies they land knees and elbows on open faces and chests.
Very quickly once again in slow honey motion, the roar disappears. Cameramen and women, reporters and law enforcement officials scurry from behind the trees and trucks where they hide. As the ringing of ears clear they hear a distant boom box still clattering the rattling din of nazi vomit. Only briefly though till I rise to standing then bring my finger to point at it from three thousand feet away. Click. Silence. Yawn.
Neonazis, give them to the bugs, bacteria and obituary as fast as you can. I hate a god damned nazi more than just about anything I've ever heard of. No one on earth is whiter than me. There would be no one on earth of any color if it were not for our original black greatest grandmothers and grandfathers. Before to many years humankind will return to this original greater being we once were, and everyone of us form moronic anarchists to apolitical wise guys, will be black.
Vertified by who? How could that be proved?The real anti-semitic postings are the ones that are suptile and have to be read carefully.The Latuff cartoons are real.
The Aryan movements are giving support to Arab causes. Most recently was David Dukes letter printed in an English language Arab Newspaper in Iraq, in which he gave support to the Arab country under threat by the US.
I have heard mention of other incidents where they have shown support of Arab causes. It's probably on one of their sites.
I'm not even going to look at that filth.
If Nazi are like Anarchists, which I would tend to agree with, then they are more akin to extreme leftist.
I'll bet they are Socialists too.
I have heard mention of other incidents where they have shown support of Arab causes. It's probably on one of their sites.
I'm not even going to look at that filth.
If Nazi are like Anarchists, which I would tend to agree with, then they are more akin to extreme leftist.
I'll bet they are Socialists too.
Damn Muslims are the devils spawn. The world would be better more peaceful place without them.
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