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

internationale situation - USA

22. April 2012

Seventeen years ago today, Timothy McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols detonated 4,800 pounds of homemade explosives under the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building’s daycare center in downtown Oklahoma City. The explosion resulted in 168 dead, 680 injured and over $652 million in damage. The Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history until 9/11. McVeigh said that he attacked the Murrah building, which held the local offices of the DEA, ATF, Social Security, and the Army and Marine recruiting offices, because of his hatred of the federal government, opposition to gun control laws and anger at the FBI for its actions during the Waco Siege of 1993. McVeigh was found guilty on eleven counts of murder and conspiracy in 1997 and was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001. Though the terrorist attack on Oklahoma City happened nearly two decades ago, right-wing extremist terrorism remains a significant domestic threat to American security. The Department of Homeland Security released a report in 2009 stating that the economic and political climate bears important similarities to the conditions of the early 1990s when right-wing extremism experienced a dramatic resurgence. These conditions, including the public debate around hot-button issues such as immigration, gun control, and abortion, along with the election of the first African-American president, present “unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment,” the report said.

via thinkprogress.org: 17 Years After Oklahoma City Bombing, Right-Wing Extremism Is Significant Domestic Terror Threat

internationale situation - USA

12. April 2012

Der Fall hatte in den USA für Empörung gesorgt - sogar US-Präsident Obama mischte sich in die Debatte ein: Nach den tödlichen Schüssen auf den Jugendlichen Trayvon Martin wird der Schütze George Zimmerman jetzt wegen Mordes mit bedingtem Vorsatz angeklagt. Zimmerman ist bereits in Haft.

Fast sieben Wochen nach dem gewaltsamen Tod des schwarzen US-Teenagers Trayvon Martin hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Anklage gegen den mutmaßlichen Täter erhoben. Sonderstaatsanwältin Angela Corey klagte den 28-jährigen George Zimmerman des Mordes mit bedingtem Vorsatz an. Zimmerman, der sich auf Floridas Notwehrgesetz berufen hat und untergetaucht war, habe sich gestellt und sei in Haft, sagte Corey am Mittwochabend vor Journalisten in Jacksonville.

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internationale situation - USA

09. April 2012

Washington (dpa) – Nach einer Mordserie an Schwarzen im US-Bundesstaat Oklahoma hat die Polizei zwei Weiße als Tatverdächtige festgenommen.

Den beiden 19 und 32 Jahre alten Männern werde zur Last gelegt, am Osterwochenende bei mehrere Attacken in Tulsa drei Afroamerikaner erschossen und zwei weitere verletzt zu haben, hieß es in US-Medien. Dem Fernsehsender CNN zufolge sollten die Verdächtigen am Montag (Ortszeit) erstmals vor Gericht erscheinen. Dabei sollte es auch um die Frage gehen, ob die Morde rassistisch motiviert waren.

Noch sei es zu früh, von einem Hassverbrechen gegen Schwarze zu sprechen, sagte Polizeichef Chuck Jordan am Sonntag vor Journalisten. Eine «logische Theorie» sei dies aber schon. «Es macht mich krank und wütend», ergänzte er.

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internationale situation - USA

09. April 2012

Members of the National Socialist Movement during a patrol on the US-Mexico border in January. Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are “prepared” for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect “white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety” in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting last month, says Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement. “We are not advocating any type of violence or attacks on anybody, but we are prepared for it,” he says. “We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over.”
Because nothing diffuses racial tension like gun-toting racial separatists patrolling an already on-edge community.
Schoep, whose neo-Nazi group is based in Detroit, tells Riptide the patrols are a response to white residents’ fears of a race riot. A group called the New Black Panther Party recently offered $10,000 for a citizens’ arrest of George Zimmerman, Martin’s shooter. Schoep said the bounty is a sign that “the possibility of further racial violence… is brimming over like a powder keg ready to explode into the streets.” The patrols are comprised of between 10 and 20 locals and “volunteers” from across the state, including some from Miami, he added. He couldn’t go into specifics on what kind of firepower, exactly, the patrols had with them.

via miaminewtimes: Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are “Prepared” For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence