August 24, 2007
White supremacists, Islamofascists and other hate-filled thugs
I receive law enforcement e-mail updates from the Anti-Defamation League, in their words, "to assist in the monitoring of extremist groups." This is a useful resource, provided by an organization dedicated to keeping tabs on hate groups that often seem to move below the radar of the media and local law enforcement agencies.
However ... well, let's just say there's a problem with the ADL, one that should become obvious by the time you finish reading this post.
Today's update targets various subsets of the hate culture; these are the headlines from the entries, broken up by the nature of the "extremist group."
White Supremacist Activity
Two Aryan Brotherhood Members to Receive Life Sentences
Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty Again After Jury Deadlocks in Santa Ana Public Enemy Number 1 Trial
Public Enemy Number 1 Member Charged With Murder in Orange County
Felony Hate Crime Assault Charges for Possible White Supremacist in Lakeside
French Camp Hate Crime Suspect Possible White Supremacist Gang Member Neo-Nazi Group Distributes Racist Flyers in Northern California
Three Arrested For "White Pride" Freeway Obstruction in Wildomar
Family of Inland Hate Crime Attackers Must Pay Damages
Trial of Man Accused of Attacking Elie Wiesel Underway in San Francisco
The ADL also discusses the latest unsavory activities of another bunch of thugs.
ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
San Jose Man Indicted on Terror Charges
Let's recap: Eight entries on Neo-Nazis, detailing crimes of violence, distribution of racist materials, and a drunken protest; and one entry on an American Muslim indicted by the feds for conspiring with foreign Muslim terrorists who want to kill Americans and Jews.
Got all that?
Now, let's move on to the last group of hate-filled extremists kept under the watchful eye of the ADL and law enforcement.
ANTI-IMMIGRATION EXTREMISM
Anti-Immigration Protest in Laguna
Minuteman Leader Spoke in Visalia
Anti-immigration Activists Accused of Destroying Migrant Worker Camp
The ADL betrays its own bias, identifying the groups and individuals as being "anti-immigrant extremists." I've never heard the Minutemen -- or any other reputable group -- oppose legal immigration. The issue that infuriates miilions of Americans (as well as those foreign nationals stupid enough to play by the rules) is illegal immigration.
Apparently, being opposed to illegal immigration and participating in an anti-illegal immigration rally -- or attending a speech by the head of a group opposed to illegal immigration -- makes you a radical, violent, hate-filled thug, no different from skin-head Neo-Nazis or Islamofascist terrorists.
Are you okay with that?
Posted by Mike Lief at August 24, 2007 02:47 PM
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