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A Year of Hate: Southern Poverty Law Center Sounds the Alarm on the Rise of Extremist Hate Groups in America - Atlanta Black Star
A Year of Hate: Southern Poverty Law Center Sounds the Alarm on the Rise of Extremist Hate Groups in America
February 19, 2016 | Posted by David Love
Southern Poverty Law Center
In a nation in which racism is endemic and yet there is widespread denial over its existence, hate groups are on the rise in America. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual report of hate groups and extremist organizations, the number of extremist groups increased in 2015, a year marked by extremist violence as well as hate-filled rhetoric emanating from mainstream politicians.
The Montgomery, Alabama, based civil rights organization reported in its annual census, Intelligence Report, that the number of hate groups jumped 14 percent last year — from 784 in 2014 to 892 in 2015 — as did the number of anti-government “Patriot” groups — from 874 to 998 — which includes armed militias and other groups motivated by conspiracy-theories.
“While the number of extremist groups grew in 2015 after several years of declines, the real story was the deadly violence committed by extremists in city after city,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the SPLC and editor of the Intelligence Report. “Whether it was Charleston, San Bernardino or Colorado Springs, 2015 was clearly a year of deadly action for extremists.”
Moreover, 2015 was a year of deadly terror attacks perpetrated by extremists, including the Charleston, South Carolina massacre, in which a white supremacist gunned down nine Black people at the Emanuel AME Church. Further, in December, an anti-abortion extremist killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, and Islamic radicals killed 14 people in San Bernadino, California.
Here are some of the lesser-known political cases that cropped up: A West Virginia man was arrested for allegedly plotting to attack a courthouse and murder first responders; a Missourian was accused of planning to murder police officers; a former Congressional candidate in Tennessee allegedly conspired to mass-murder Muslims; a New York white supremacist blew his own leg off as he built bombs; and three North Carolinians were accused in a plot to attack the military.
There’s more. A Pennsylvania man who ran a “White Church” pleaded guilty to manufacturing 20 bombs; a New Yorker allegedly collected heavy weapons to murder Jews and African-Americans; three Georgia militiamen went to prison for plotting to attack utilities and start a war with the government; a West Virginia “sovereign citizen” was accused of attempting to overthrow the state government; two white supremacists in Virginia were charged with buying explosives from undercover agents in order to attack Black churches and synagogues; and a racist Minnesotan was arrested for shooting five Black Lives Matter protesters.
Better stay strapped while you have the freedoms. Full Article Here Long read....A Year of Hate: Southern Poverty Law Center Sounds the Alarm on the Rise of Extremist Hate Groups in America - Atlanta Black Star
A Year of Hate: Southern Poverty Law Center Sounds the Alarm on the Rise of Extremist Hate Groups in America
February 19, 2016 | Posted by David Love
Southern Poverty Law Center
In a nation in which racism is endemic and yet there is widespread denial over its existence, hate groups are on the rise in America. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual report of hate groups and extremist organizations, the number of extremist groups increased in 2015, a year marked by extremist violence as well as hate-filled rhetoric emanating from mainstream politicians.
The Montgomery, Alabama, based civil rights organization reported in its annual census, Intelligence Report, that the number of hate groups jumped 14 percent last year — from 784 in 2014 to 892 in 2015 — as did the number of anti-government “Patriot” groups — from 874 to 998 — which includes armed militias and other groups motivated by conspiracy-theories.
“While the number of extremist groups grew in 2015 after several years of declines, the real story was the deadly violence committed by extremists in city after city,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the SPLC and editor of the Intelligence Report. “Whether it was Charleston, San Bernardino or Colorado Springs, 2015 was clearly a year of deadly action for extremists.”
Moreover, 2015 was a year of deadly terror attacks perpetrated by extremists, including the Charleston, South Carolina massacre, in which a white supremacist gunned down nine Black people at the Emanuel AME Church. Further, in December, an anti-abortion extremist killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, and Islamic radicals killed 14 people in San Bernadino, California.
Here are some of the lesser-known political cases that cropped up: A West Virginia man was arrested for allegedly plotting to attack a courthouse and murder first responders; a Missourian was accused of planning to murder police officers; a former Congressional candidate in Tennessee allegedly conspired to mass-murder Muslims; a New York white supremacist blew his own leg off as he built bombs; and three North Carolinians were accused in a plot to attack the military.
There’s more. A Pennsylvania man who ran a “White Church” pleaded guilty to manufacturing 20 bombs; a New Yorker allegedly collected heavy weapons to murder Jews and African-Americans; three Georgia militiamen went to prison for plotting to attack utilities and start a war with the government; a West Virginia “sovereign citizen” was accused of attempting to overthrow the state government; two white supremacists in Virginia were charged with buying explosives from undercover agents in order to attack Black churches and synagogues; and a racist Minnesotan was arrested for shooting five Black Lives Matter protesters.
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