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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/hate-crime-murders-website-stormfront-report Southern Poverty Law Center singles out Stormfront.org
Report says users disproportionately linked to major killings
Amanda Holpuch in New York
theguardian.com, Friday 18 April 2014 08.16 ED
People charged with the murders of almost 100 people can be linked to a single far-right website, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The White Nationalist web forum Stormfront.org says it promotes values of the embattled white minority, and its users include Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 massacre in Norway, and Wade Michael Page, who shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012.
After a two-year investigation, the SPLC said (pdf) that since Stormfront became one of the first hate sites on the internet in 1995, its registered users have been disproportionately responsible for major killings. The report was released a month early after white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, was accused of killing three people at a Jewish center in Kansas City on Sunday.
We know that the people who are going to commit the kinds of crimes, like the kinds of crimes Miller committed last weekend, this is where they live, said Heidi Beirich, report author and a director at the SPLCs Intelligence Project. The report, released on Thursday, calls Stormfront the largest hate site in the world and a magnet and breeding ground for the deadly and deranged.
Of the sites more than 286,000 users, only a small sliver are highly active, the report found, with fewer than 1,800 people logging in each day. While the SPLC only identified 10 murderers out of this large user base, researchers think the murderers connection to the site is important because it shows how the website offers a community for people who commit these crimes.
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randys1
(16,286 posts)Move along...
White men, hundreds of them, armed to the teeth, can point weapons at Federal agents and nothing will happen, ever.
Black person steals can of beer, will spend a year in prison.
And, we are not allowed to say there is a rightwing terror problem, we are not allowed to study it, follow it, prepare for it because it pisses off the rightwing terrorists who get special treatment in this white racist country.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Have you heard any other people pretend? I do not think I have even seen any white woman pretend. Interesting. Thanks
Response to seabeyond (Reply #5)
Paladin This message was self-deleted by its author.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)We really should have some sort of award for it.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)And the proper spelling of the word is "congratulations." You're welcome.
Amaril
(1,267 posts)What Sea wrote was perfectly coherent. How terribly clever and witty you are; jumping on the bandwagon of posters who bully her for her writing style instead of responding to the point she raised.
Not nice.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)yet you will correct someone's spelling?
Paladin
(28,261 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)If you can't comprehend very simple things, you might not want to immediately go on to correct someone's spelling. Probably one of the first times I have ever seen where one cannot comprehend simple words yet is a master speller. Very unique you are.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)I could have used a better choice of words.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)I think others should do the same.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Response to seabeyond (Reply #5)
heaven05 This message was self-deleted by its author.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)intimating that there is no such thing or never has been such a thing as white privilege and feelings of entitlement that is surreptitiously denied to other based on race? That some get preferential treatment based on race only? That some skate around prison sentences based on race and financial status only? Just wondering what you mean by "pretend". on edit: I think I have misunderstood you I retract my post in response to you. I didn't get it.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i was responding to this comment. the poster said and people pretend.
i was agreeing with post.
and people pretend. yes.
then i started thinking about it. it really is not people that pretend. i have only seen white men pretend. i have never seen anyone else pretend there is not white privilege. so we do not need to use "people". it is not "people" in general. it is white men pretending.
and ya... i didnt get you not getting me heaven, cause though i do not know for sure, seems like you and i are pretty much on the same page with most things.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)my bad. I guess they're still saying that. Same page.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)nt
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I think it was a response to "Am Dork, Will Travel" above.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)took me to
owed beer and travel money
never did get that.
i thought i was clear on that post. complete sentences and all. i guess not.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)I think Sandra Day O'Connor pretended.
I think Condi Rice pretended.
Money can always buy a traitor or 2 or 3 or 100...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i was going thru my mind on du, in the many threads of male and white privilege, if i recalled any women. and of course, not remembering anyone but white men may not be totally accurate. i think i would be accurate to say the vast majority are white men.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)These people are hateful racists and we know it. Privilege or no privilege has nothing to do with it other than you hijacking this tread for your pet rant.
No need to reply your going on my ignore list
Response to upaloopa (Reply #32)
Paladin This message was self-deleted by its author.
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)(I don't really have a dog in this fight I was just trying to keep the cute "z" thing in the post titles going)
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)I just love to correct people who correct other people
antiquie
(4,299 posts)An appeals court has upheld the 25-years-to-life prison sentence a homeless parolee received under California's three-strikes law for stealing four cookies during a restaurant break-in.
Court Upholds 3-Strikes Term for Cookie Thief
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Rolex-clad wrists. WTF??!!! We need to rise up, people.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)etc. It's tyranny and all, ya know.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)There are pictures of Ron Paul with the Founder of Stormfront.org Don Black & they bundle campaign donations for both Ron & Rand Paul!!
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)Poplawski was 'Braced for Fate' in days leading to attack
April 6, 2009 11:15 AM
By Dennis B. Roddy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. . .
An account kept on Stormfront, a gathering place for racial extremists and others from the far-right show Mr. Poplawski's increasing belief in a coming economic and political collapse in the days leading up to the time of the deadly standoff in which he is charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers.
. . .
More at http://www.post-gazette.com/local/breaking/2009/04/06/Poplawski-was-Braced-for-Fate-in-days-leading-to-attack/stories/200904060195
onehandle
(51,122 posts)these guys do and say what teaparty thinks and wants to do
jwirr
(39,215 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)We'd hear of nothing else on TV for the next six months and in 24 hours there'd be a huge appropriations bill in Congress to buy a gagillion drones.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,459 posts)erronis
(15,260 posts)Since our various intelligence (sic) agencies are tapping into all of these nasties we have nothing to worry about, right?
Well, unless they are too busy monitoring pubescent selfies.
Or they find nothing actionable/bothersome about some weirdos saying that they want to whack someone (unless the weirdo has a non-Jewish but middle-eastern name.)
It's OK since we are sinking untold billions of our $s into these black-budget agencies --- all for unknowable benefits. We're not allowed to look at the input$ or reward$ and especially not allowed to look at how the corporate vulture$ are stealing taxpayer's money (and shipping it out of reach of the tax-collector.)
So continue on, citizen, nothing to see here.
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)kind of curious about going to the site-sorta like looking at a car crash curious and lord know it is good to know what the thugs are up to.....
but if they are being monitored i just don't want my address associated in any way with it....
randys1
(16,286 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)alp227
(32,025 posts)But but but...KNOCKOUT GAME TRAYVON MARTIN BLACK ON WHITE CRIME DERRRRRRRP
malaise
(269,004 posts)I thought they were all lone wolves!!
bvar22
(39,909 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)and exactly what we'd expect.
playthegame
(11 posts)Is this supposed to enlighten us to something new going on in the world??
billh58
(6,635 posts)citizens are responsible right-wing gun owners who passed background checks and everything.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Besides, I don't want their evil stench on me.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The place is absolutely vile.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
CBS News: The Key Findings section of the report opens with these words: The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.
Republican John Boehner blasted the report and criticized Janet Napolitano for not focusing more on the REAL threat.. Islamic terrorists.
...
http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/04/15/in-2009-dhs-warned-white-supremacy-is-the-biggest-threat-for-domestic-terror/
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Also:
Republican John Boehner blasted the report and criticized Janet Napolitano for not focusing more on the REAL threat.. Islamic terrorists
Fucking figures.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)I felt like I needed about 100 showers to wash off the filth. However, since then, online comments, especially on Yahoo.com, have become just as obvious and horrible. The RW and their propaganda support team (FoxNoise, Rush Slimeball, etc.) have done an impressive job of making racism OK by denying it's racism at all. In fact, if you say it's racist, that just proves you're a racist.
Ugh!
libodem
(19,288 posts)Includes war culture and the rape culture. Dominate through threats and violence. Not very evolved or what I would consider Christian.
Hope the NRA culture is proud of themselves for spreading this evil in America.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Meanwhile DU is responsible for over 100 zigzag papers being burned.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)No you can't imagine that, because it would be shut down by the legal authorities long before 100+ murders were carried out.
libodem
(19,288 posts)In their title. It would be secretly infiltrated, immediately. And entrapment would ensue.