Neo-Nazi Leader Is a Secret Porn Star
One of the nation’s largest neo-Nazi organizations, the National Socialist Movement (NSM), suffered a humiliating blow today when one of its prominent leaders was revealed as a porn actor.
In a statement released on the website Portland Indymedia, the anti-fascist group Portland Anti-Racist Action detailed the appearance of Oregon NSM leader Corinna Luray Burt on several hardcore pornographic DVDs and websites. This revelation is expected to cause internal strife for the NSM, a white supremacist organization that has recently been engaged in high-publicity armed patrols along the Arizona border. Border vigilante groups, which have historically included the minutemen, now include neo-Nazis like National Socialist Movement members. Read more
Even Bigots Have Sympathizers
FAIR founder John Tanton
No matter how much controversy rains down on anti-immigrant groups like the Federation for American Immigration (founded by white nationalist John Tanton), some politicians and media pundits persistently give them the benefit of the doubt. Why? Because a lot of times human nature tells us to let our personal agendas override common sense. Even when we are in positions of influence.
I was reminded of this facet of human behavior over the weekend while listening to various talk radio hosts (all men) discuss Mel Gibson’s recent antics. One host inanely said “Gibson’s rants and actions are totally indefensible…” pause, “but what I want to know if he really said those things…I want to know first if this woman set him up.” Common sense tells us that the same guy who hurled anti-Semitic slurs at a female police officer a few years ago, whose voice is on record verbally abusing his girlfriend and admitting to hitting her, did something terribly wrong, something “indefensible.” But Mr. Radio Host likely has a little racist misogynist deep down inside telling him to defend the guy who punched his girlfriend in the face.
So it goes. Even the lowliest characters have their sympathizers, and anti-immigrant groups are no exception. Read more
Anti-Immigrant Groups Forced to Address Ties to White Nationalists
It’s no secret that the anti-immigrant movement in the United States has long and deep connections to white nationalist individuals and organizations. The current anti-immigrant movement is tainted by these ties and they follow the anti-immigrant individuals and organizations into whatever area they go. For years, civil rights organizations like the Center for New Community, the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, to name a few, have exposed these ties for the world to see.
Since the summer began we have seen many examples of anti-immigrant organizations forced to act in defense of their ties to white nationalist individuals and organizations. Here are a few examples:
Kris Kobach, a lawyer for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of the hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform, and his buddy Sheriff Joe Arpaio were forced to relocate a Kansas anti-immigrant event after the location raised concerns. Read more
What’s Wrong With Nebraska?
When people think of Nebraska, things like the open road or University of Nebraska Cornhusker’s great college football team come to mind. In recent weeks however, Nebraska has become a hotbed for white nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment. Just last week, the residents of Fremont, Nebraska passed an anti-immigrant ordinance which bars businesses from hiring and landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants. The man behind the ordinance is Kris Kobach, a lawyer for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of the hate group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) which has strong ties to white nationalists.
This coming weekend, on land somewhere outside of Omaha, the American Division of Blood & Honour will be hosting a gathering. Blood & Honour was originally founded in England and is a neo-Nazi network. Blood & Honour American Division surfaced in 2005 by members of the neo-Nazi organization, Volksfront. Blood & Honour is made up of a toxic mix of Christian Identity adherents, racist skinheads and neo-Nazis. While the details of this weekend’s gathering are vague, there are some clues as to who is running this twisted festival. Read more
Armed Neo-Nazis Hunt Immigrants in Arizona Desert
The climate of fear in Arizona’s desert has just reached new levels. Stephen Lemons’ piece in yesterday’s Phoenix New Times clearly illustrates this as he documents his trip with J.T. Ready -a neo-Nazi and border vigilante.
As previously reported by Imagine2050, J.T. Ready is a well-known member of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group. According to its website,
“Only those of pure White blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. Non-citizens may live in America only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens. Accordingly, no Jew or homosexual may be a member of the nation.”
In May, J.T. Ready and his white nationalist friends showed up to the anti-S.B 1070 rally with signs, confederate flags, loaded weapons and the following message, “We are here to defend ourselves. That’s one of our rights here in America.” Read more
Cross-Post: The Rio Rico Shootings, J.T. Ready, and Neo-Nazis in the Desert
Stephen Lemons of Feathered Bastard, provides more details on the recent desert shootings, including information on neo-Nazis who are “patrolling” Pinal County. This is the county where two men were murdered by unknown assailants the day after the anti-immigrant rally in Phoenix.
J.T. Ready & Russell Pearce
I called Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada Thursday about a report I’d read on the Website of NBC affiliate KVOA Tucson concerning four border crossers fired upon by two men wearing camouflage and bearing assault rifles.
One man was injured with a gunshot wound to the left forearm, the rest were unharmed. The shooting occurred around 5 a.m. on Friday, June 11 at Peck Canyon, nearby Rio Rico. Sheriff Estrada suggested in the KVOA report that the shooters could have been U.S. citizens “hunting illegal border crossers.” Read more
Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce Embraces Role As Outspoken Bigot
Here’s the downside to being the enthusiastic spokesperson of an abhorrent law: people start paying close attention to you. Such is the case with Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce. Turns out his involvement in passing racist law S.B. 1070 isn’t the only reason to dislike the politician.
Following are a few more:
Pearce is trying to pass legislation that would dismantle the 14th Amendment. On May 25, he justified the proposed law to ban birthright citizenship by inexplicably calling the 14th Amendment, which acts as a constitutional guarantee of citizenship rights, “unconstitutional.” Pearce has added his voice to a chorus of narrow-minded individuals who seek to turn back the clock on hard-won civil rights. The destruction of the 14th Amendment would dismantle civil rights, limit citizenship, and redefine our national identity to something more recognizable as white nationalism. Read more
Neo-Nazis Antagonize Marchers Protesting SB 1070 in Phoenix
This past Saturday, well over 50,000 people attended a rally in Phoenix, Arizona to protest the racist S.B. 1070 bill signed by Arizona governor Jan Brewer in April. People from all across the country traveled to Phoenix and braved the extreme heat in order to express their outrage over the law. The march was non-violent and passed without incident. A pro-S.B. 1070 rally was scheduled for later on Saturday but some of the anti-immigrant folks decided to show up to the earlier rally to show off their support for the racist law.
One of those people was neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. Ready and a half dozen others protested the anti-S.B. 1070 march. Ready and his cronies showed up not only with signs and confederate flags but also loaded guns. One of Ready’s fellow protesters was wearing a t-shirt promoting a “white peoples party.” That same man had a loaded shotgun strung across his shoulder. Ready was the spokesman for the protesters and when asked if they were ready to use their weapons he responded, “We are prepared to defend ourselves. That’s one of our rights here in Arizona too.” Read more
Russell Pearce: The Public Face of S.B. 1070
neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is the smiling face of S.B. 1070. The Arizona State Senator has reveled in the limelight since the racist bill was signed last month. He earns his living bashing immigrants and is a hero for the anti-immigrant movement in Arizona. Pearce’s history, however, is far from cheerful; it involves Nazis, domestic violence and xenophobia.
Pearce is a member of State Legislators for Legal Immigration, a coalition of anti-immigrant state-elected officials. As a partner of the John Tanton Network, a web of controversial anti-immigrant organizations
Orchestrated by John Tanton, State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) serves as the local legislative arm of the network. Pearce has many more connections to the Tanton Network. He was the chief sponsor of the racist S.B. 1070 bill in Arizona. The bill was drafted by Kris Kobach of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) the legal arm of the Tanton Network. Pearce recently spoke at a membership meeting of the Texans for Immigration Reform, a group listed on FAIR’s website as a state contact. Read more
Dept. Homeland Security Welcomes Neo-Nazi, Deports Immigrant Students
Janet Napolitano, the head of The Department of Homeland Security should stop the harassment of immigrant workers and students and focus on real threats. Searchlight Magazine, an anti-racist European monthly, has alerted civil rights organizations in the United States to the arrival of Nick Griffin. Griffin is the leader of the British National Party (BNP), a racial extremist political organization based in the United Kingdom.
Griffin, scheduled to speak at the now canceled white nationalist American Renaissance conference, will be appearing February 18 at Michigan State University. The student group sponsoring the event, Sons of Liberty, also states in its media release that Griffin “is expected to make an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C.” Read more
White Power Music Groups Lure High Schoolers
Last week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report highlighting the exploits of neo-Nazis who are attempting to lure high school and college students into the white power music scene. According to the ADL one such scheme involves a website offering free music downloads in an ad published in school newspapers. Before the ads were published the website had free downloads of independent artists, but after the ads ran in the school newspapers the website changed to a strictly white power music site.
ADL Director Abraham Foxman described the increase in deceptive tactics by white nationalists and neo -Nazis by stating, “While the hatemongers have used stealth tactics before, now they are taking it to the next level by attempting to trick unsuspecting students into logging on to sites that appear harmless, but in reality are promoting music with a white supremacist message,”
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Anti-immigrant Sentiment is Racism
The United States has struggled historically when it comes to race. Slavery and the conquering of North America from the indigenous populations are two examples of how the wealth and prosperity of this country came at the expense of so many others. In both instances, the ‘others’ were people of color.
With immigration coming to the forefront of discussion in the coming year, it is a good time to remember the values this country has always taken pride in: equality, democracy, freedom and rights for all people. While we have yet to see such values come to full fruition, the fight to strive for them has made the United States a starship of civil rights. Read more
The Reality of White Nationalism
As an anti-racist activist, researching white supremacists, white nationalists, anti-Semites, neo-Nazis and anti-immigrant groups hasn’t always been easy, particularly when I’m trying to figure out the similarities and differences (and yes, there are MANY important differences) between each of these groups. And then there are the militia/patriot groups and those we define as “Christian identity”. (Are you confused yet?)
When I started working with anti-racist leaders I heard the term “white nationalist”, but I had no idea what it meant. Out of fear of looking stupid, I didn’t ask anyone if there was a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy. I assumed that they were the same – a huge mistake for any researcher, particularly for anyone trying to understand how race and racism functions in 21st century society. Read more
Neo-Nazis Welcomed to America While Immigrants Persecuted
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano attacks immigrants yet welcomes a convicted anti-Semite to the US. In the aftermath of the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in DC, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to focus on rounding up immigrants with no criminal background, David Irving, notorious Holocaust denier, neo-Nazi sympathizer, and convicted criminal is allowed to hold more than 15 speaking engagements. Irving has already made more than half of those stops. Holocaust deniers like David Irving are the “intellectual elite” of modem neo-Nazism. The re-writing of Third Reich history is a major preoccupation for modern neo-Nazis and neo-fascists, who correctly believe that memory of the Holocaust is a significant barrier to the mainstreaming of their beliefs.
In neo-Nazi minds, Jews control the media, movies, the music industry; they control banking and the money supply; they manipulate other minorities to attack whites. According to neo-Nazi ideology they undermine the “white race” by encouraging and facilitating the abortion of white children and interracial marriage. Jews, in short, are the deadly enemy of the white race. Read more
Blog Highlight: Nazis in the U.S. military
One of our favorite bloggers over at Crooks and Liars breaks down a troubling military trend. This is a topic that David Neiwert has covered extensively already. And one that Southern Poverty Law Center has warned about for years.
In his “about me” section, “SoldatAMG” describes himself as a “Sergeant in USMC stationed at Camp Lejeune. I recently returned from my 3rd trip to Iraq. I fight every day to stem the tide of multicultturalism and to ensure that my children have a better world. SIEG HEIL!” — Stars and Stripes
Why, it feels like only yesterday that every right-wing talker on the planet — from Michael Savage to Greta Van Susteren — was denouncing the Department of Homeland Security for supposedly “smearing our veterans” by issuing a bulletin for law-enforcement officers warning that right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis intended to recruit members of the military and returning veterans.
Well, we’ve already seen just how prescient the bulletin actually was — after Richard Poplawski, Scott Roeder, and James Von Brunn all proved its point.
Read the entire article at http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/nazis-us-military-splc-will-ask-cong. Read more
Keep the Klan Kleaning
Just when you thought that the Klan had been swept away by the tidal wave of racist anti-immigrant activity across the nation (that is, by the “mainstream” groups that stole the anti-immigrant mantra from under the hood) the robed warriors of the Springfield, Missouri area’s National Socialist Movement have once again triumphed in their abiding commitment to keep America clean.
A half-mile of roadsides outside Springfield will still be the Klan’s to clean in the adopt-a-highway program, complete (we presume) with a nice rainbow sign denoting their obligation. Naturally, Missouri officials have never been too supportive of the idea, but they lost that battle some time ago in the courts. Their most recent efforts to undercut the Klan by renaming the stretch of highway after the venerable Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, an icon of American theology and human rights, was kindly but firmly declined by Rabbi Heschel’s esteemed daughter, Susannah. Her decision should be deeply respected. Read more
Sheriff Joe Called Upon to Renounce Neo-Nazi Followers
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon came out swinging at Sheriff Joe last week, demanding that he renounce his neo-Nazi fan base in light of the Holocaust Museum shooting. Phoenix New Times Reports:
In a response to the tragedy today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly opened fire killing a security guard before being severely wounded himself, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon called on Sheriff Joe Arpaio to distance himself from his neo-Nazi and racist supporters.
“I’m calling upon the sheriff of Maricopa County to denounce the neo-Nazis and the Nazis today,” said Gordon during a press conference this afternoon.”Not that I believe that the sheriff is a Nazi or a neo-Nazi. Let me be very clear, he has given the sense of recognition to the neo-Nazis and Nazis that he’s associated with.” Read more
Bolivia’s Neo-Nazis: Imbedded in the Ballot and Bullet
While Bolivia’s diverse neo-Nazi and right-wing movements have a long and fruitful history in this majority-indigenous nation, the recent assassination attempt of President Evo Morales shows a new level of paranoia and extremism rising.
At dawn on April 16 an elite police unit, flown in from La Paz, stormed rooms at the Hotel Las Americas in the Department of Santa Cruz killing three men – Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Arpád Magyarosi and Michael Dwyer- who were planning several assassination attempts. It appears their targets included President Morales (the countries first indigenous president) and Vice President Alvaro García Linera. Rózsa Flores, the ringleader, was born in Santa Cruz of Hungarian-Bolivian parents. Flores, a supporter of the right-wing Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei, founded the neo-fascist First International Platoon to fight for the far right in Croatia during the Balkan Wars. Read more
White Nationalists Tied to Tea Parties
It’s no secret that conservatives have a hard time keeping racism out of their ranks (airwaves), and now it seems it has surfaced in even their grassroots (astro turf) movements. The whole tea party thing (except with representation and a high income bracket this time) is being organized by conservative corporate lobbyists, Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity, who are no doubt milking this all the way to their billion dollar bank accounts.
If that wasn’t hard enough for real [sic] conservative activists to swallow, they are really going to hate showing up at rallies only to rub elbows with white nationalists. Kris Kobach got the party started in Kansas on April 4th when he hosted a joint tea party/anti-immigrant rally with Billy Gilchrist, Topeka chapter leader for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. In 2004 Kansas Republican leader Timothy Burger wrote in response to Kobach’s failed congressional run, “It doesn’t help matters that Kobach was hired by FAIR, widely perceived as a racist anti-immigrant group during the campaign.” But that stinging accusation hasn’t stopped Kobach from working for the John Tanton network ever since, or from dipping his tainted toes into anything that smells ripe for manipulation and publicity. Read more
Anti-Immigrant Leaders Publicly Threaten Voters of El Salvador
U.S. Congressional leaders should immediately rebuke two of their colleagues for attempting to influence voters of another democratic country through threats and intimidation. The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) reports that two anti-immigrant congressional members, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), are publicly calling for El Salvadoran refugees and immigrants to be deported from the U.S., if the citizens of El Salvador elect opposition party, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), in Sunday’s upcoming elections.
The FMLN is running against the right-wing ARENA party in an election that will have historic consequences. ARENA has worked closely with death squads in El Salvador. The violence that included rape, executions and tortures sent thousands of refugees to the United States in fear in the 1980s. Read more
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