internationale situation - USA

11. Mai 2012

The FBI in 2010 disrupted what its agents now believe was a terrorist plot that involved killing President Obama, according to testimony and court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. The revelation came at the two-day sentencing hearing for white supremacist Wayde Lynn Kurt, the accused mastermind of an alleged plot that was foiled with his arrest on federal firearms and forgery charges. At the time of his arrest on Aug. 30, 2010, Kurt was associated with a gang of violent neo-Nazi skinheads and white supremacist Odinists who proudly talked of carrying out “coon-hunting” racial attacks in the Pacific Northwest. Their conversations were captured on a videotape that was later turned over to the FBI and shown in court during Kurt’s sentencing hearing. “I believe Mr. Kurt had a terrorist plan that involved the president of the United States,” FBI Special Agent Joseph Cleary testified Thursday. U.S. District Court Judge Frem Nielsen granted prosecutors’ request at the hearing for a “terrorism enhancement” to Kurt’s prison sentence. The judge ruled that Kurt’s activities met the definition of terrorism after hearing testimony that included newly released excerpts from secret tape recordings from conversations Kurt had with an FBI informant.

via splcenter: FBI: Washington White Supremacist Plotted to Kill Obama in 2010

internationale situation - USA

11. Mai 2012

The 10 members of a Florida-based neo-Nazi militant group arrested last week received training in close-quarters combat and other Army-approved tactics from a member of the US Army National Guard, according to court filings. The co-conspirators, alleged to be members of the violent white-power American Front, face felony charges for hate crimes, paramilitary training, and preparing for a coming “race war” against blacks, Jews, and immigrants on a fortified compound in the marshlands of St. Cloud, Florida, just south of the amusement-park haven of Orlando. But a short paragraph buried in the group’s arrest affidavit suggests a disturbing link between the Florida gang and a well-trained US military employee

via motherjones: US Soldier Trained Neo-Nazis in Florida for “Race War”

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08. Mai 2012

A recent column argued that, unlike Europe, right-wing extremism in Canada has actually waned since white supremacists, neo-Nazis, violent Christian fundamentalists and Holocaust deniers commanded centre stage 20 years ago. A recent column argued that, unlike Europe, right-wing extremism in Canada has actually waned since white supremacists, neo-Nazis, violent Christian fundamentalists and Holocaust deniers commanded centre stage 20 years ago. After all, Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was jailed for inciting hatred; Jim Keegstra’s dismissal from the Alberta school system for teaching anti-Semitic nonsense was upheld by the courts; Ron Gostick, one of Keegstra’s mentors, is dead; and Terry Long, who burned crosses for the Aryan Nations, has dropped off the map. Alan Dutton of the Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society begs to differ. Dutton monitors extreme right-wing and neo-Nazi organizations. He has advised governments on the hate groups who target Jews, Muslims, Roman Catholics, progressive Protestants, visible minorities, big government, big business, big unions, immigrants, first nations and so on. Dutton says in a letter the extreme right only appears quiescent. It has a new strategy, one for which National Post (and former Vancouver Sun) reporter Stewart Bell’s recent story about White Nationalist Front leader Kevin Goudreau provides an apt metaphor. (The Sun published the article Aug. 8 under the headline “Diminished, yet still full of hate”.) Goudreau buttons his shirt right up to the collar, Bell observed. His chest is tattooed with a huge flaming swastika adorned by “SS” lightning bolts, surmounted by what looks like a double-barrelled shotgun and a wolf, or maybe it’s a wildcat.

via canada.com: Modern hate groups run ‘silent and deep’

internationale situation - USA

06. Mai 2012

Gilbert police officers blocks the street outside a shooting crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. The future of a group who patrolled Arizona’s border with Mexico for undocumented immigrants and drug smugglers is up in the air following the death of their neo-Nazi leader. Friends of Jason Todd “JT” Ready vowed Friday that U.S. Border Guard’s armed patrols will continue, but monitoring groups doubted the operations could be sustained. Authorities say the 39-year-old Ready shot and killed his girlfriend and three others, including a toddler, before killing himself in a Phoenix suburb Wednesday, a murder-suicide stemming from domestic violence issues. The Arizona Republic reported on its website Saturday that the FBI was already conducting a domestic terrorism investigation into Ready’s activities prior to the shootings. James Turgal, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Phoenix office, told the paper that the FBI’s investigation dated to when Ready was a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and continued into his participation with the border group. The probe is based on tips of criminal activity that Turgal would not specify.

via foxnews: Neo-Nazi Leader Dead, but Group Says Immigrant Patrols will Continue

siehe auch: Jason Todd Ready Was Under FBI Investigation Before Gilbert Shooting. The FBI says it was already conducting a domestic terrorism investigation of an Arizona border vigilante when the man allegedly killed four people and then himself this week. Ready was the leader of the U.S. Border Guards, a group of armed civilians that patrols the Arizona desert for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Turgal says the FBI’s investigation dated to when Ready was a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and continued into his participation with the border group. The probe is based on tips of criminal activity that Turgal would not specify. The report on the paper’s website Saturday says the killings have given the FBI access to Ready’s documents and computers.

internationale situation - USA

22. April 2012

About 150 people gathered near the Capitol steps today to protest a neo-Nazi rally that was full of heated rhetoric, but free of any physical altercations. The National Socialist Movement, a Detroit-based political party and largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S., joined with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to form a group of about 40 who spoke about illegal immigration, white civil rights, economic recession, homosexuals and crime. NSM members wore uniforms – some were in Nazi garb – while KKK members dressed in white and black robes with pointed hoods. The members of NSM waved their flags, which display a spliced American flag with a swastika in the center, while raising their fists in support of the speakers. The NSM goals are “defending the rights of white people everywhere, promotion of white separation” and demanding that “all non-whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force,” according to its website.

via state-journal: Neo-Nazi rally ‘peaceful’ despite heated exchanges