Federal agents arrest 34 white supremacists

[reACTIONary]

Source: By Sari Horwitz / The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Federal agents arrested dozens of members of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas on Friday and charged them with murder, kidnapping, racketeering and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.

A 43-page federal indictment unsealed by the Justice Department names 34 members of the violent organized crime group who have been charged, including four of its senior leaders.

Read more: http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20121110/NEWS0107/211100359/

[Daniel537]

1. 34 less Republican voters. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. I am curious if those folks actually DO vote.

[vduhr]

20. If they are a felon, they may not. It depends.......

http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286

[Posteritatis]

39. Once you're off in things like Aryan Brotherhood territory, probably not

Most of those groups refuse to even recognize the US government as a legitimate entity - you know, the ZOG bullshit and all of that. They might support some fringe fascist candidate come election times, though seeing as most of those are vowing to dismantle the whole system anyway I'm not sure if that counts.

[bjobotts]

48. They "influence" voters but

You didn't hear that from me.

[Scairp]

62. I would bet no

They don't register in the first place, would be my guess. Responsible citizens register to vote and then actually go do it. People like this don't do responsible things the rest of us do without thinking.

[Ter]

34. They probably vote third party

The super-far right (not Freepers, they are only super far-right to us) doesn't like Republicans because of their Israel policy and wars.

[Daniel537]

58. True enough

But to get the black guy out, i think they may have put aside their hatred of Israel for just one day.

[Major Nikon]

37. Probably somewhat less

Felons on parole can't vote in Texas.

[Mosby]

38. if they were 34 crips arrested

Would you say "34 less Democratic voters"?

You sound exactly like a freeper but in reverse.

[Scootaloo]

50. Can you point me towards prolific Democratic support and appeal to Crips sentiment?

I mean besides the prevalence of the color blue.

[Daniel537]

57. LOL, somebody got offended.

Do you have a relative in this group or something?

[Mosby]

63. funny

I despise skinheads. You have no idea.

I just think that the average republican is uninformed not evil, and when we paint the average republican as a monster we are doing the same thing that the far right does to dems.

[yardwork]

65. I think that the post was a reference to the blatantly racist campaigns run by many Republicans.

There's no question that many Republican campaigns in recent years have been extremely, blatantly racist.

[atreides1]

76. But you know what

If you choose to remain uninformed then you are part of the evil...with all of the information available no one has any excuse to claim ignorance, unless it's intentional!

I have in-laws who are Republicans...and their self inflicted ignorance is a form of evil. in my view.

[FiveGoodMen]

67. "You sound exactly like a freeper but in reverse."

Freepers are lying, racist, scumbags.

The "reverse" of that is being an honest, decent person.

I understand that many Freepers eat breakfast. So do I. Does that make me exactly like a Freeper?

(Maybe the fact that each side accuses the other does NOT make them equivalent)

[AAO]

53. Funny, but why was that also my first thought?

[PerceptionManagement]

78. This is why right wing domestic terrorism is never acknowledged

When you point out that the fascists in America are all republican (and some of them in government), it kind of makes them look bad. Meanwhile OWS are marked as terrorists and it's leaders marked for assassination. No one must ever impugn the Banksters or the 1%.

[Kber]

2. Wow. They really are superior aren't they?

[mtasselin]

3. Legends

They are legends in their our mind

[kerouac2]

4. Wonder how many had Romney signs on their lawns. nt

[Tutonic]

25. According to their Frau Peggy Noonan

the "number of law signs" that she saw for Romney was a sign that he was going to win the election. Funny how Peggy was wrong like the gang of 34.

[barbtries]

27. for every romney sign you saw in NC

there were one or two obama signs that the republicans assholes stole. mine was one of the stolen ones.

[magical thyme]

54. For every Romney sign in my neck of the Maine woods

there were 1 or 2 Obama supporters who didn't post signs for fear of retribution against our property or, worse, our furfamily.

Simply not worth the risk. Signs don't change anybody's mind, but around here they may make you a target of armed nutcases.

And when the nutcases here aren't in mom's basement eating cheetos, their hunting for meat to eat with the cheetos.

Actually there were very few signs in either direction in my area. I think we're mostly demoralized far right and Paul supporters, or Obama pragmatists like me who wouldn't put my critters and life at risk for no good reason.

[Posteritatis]

40. I actually doubt it - those groups would consider most freepers to be way too liberal

If they had signs on their lawns at all, they'd probably be for someone like Matt Koehl or his general neighborhood.

[barnabas63]

5. geezus...the Racists and their meth!

Good work feds!

[mountain grammy]

6. freedom fighters for the great state of Texas.

Seceed!.....please!

[kentauros]

68. No.

I refuse to allow them the "pleasure". I'd rather they have to put up with the rest of us that do not want to secede.

[Paladin]

74. Learn How To Spell. Please.

The word you're groping for is "secede," not "seceed." If you're going to vilify my state, at least be coherent.

[mountain grammy]

75. oops, shit! Always have trouble with that word, must be the 8 years I lived in Texas.

Sorry, don't mean to vilify Texas. Some of my most lovable, dumb relatives live there, and I do love them. I still listen to Jim Hightower and give Molly Ivins' books at Christmas. Don't secede, Texas, just grow up!

[Paladin]

79. 3.3 Million Texans Recently Voted For Obama.

Don't expect to take a dump on the entire state of Texas, Democrats included, without there being some hostile responses---from grown-up Texans like me.

[mountain grammy]

80. Yes they did, and one was my wonderful, 85 year old aunt in El Paso

may she live forever!

[Paladin]

81. Good For Her. Long May She Abide. (nt)

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Wait. The leaders' name is Kelly Elley?

". . .alleged ABT leader Kelly Ray Elley . . ." I know, I know, sophomoric but it is kinda funny.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Kelly Elley, 2 by 4, made it thru the prison door...

I'm sophomoric as well.

[reACTIONary]

19. Then bent over, asked for more. (nt)

[Earth_First]

23. Prison rape jokes aren't cool in my book...

Please consider removing your response, or I will alert on it.

Thanks!

[kestrel91316]

33. I don't object when it's violent racist miscreants. Just sayin'.

[reACTIONary]

42. It's NOT a rape joke..

...if you "ask for more", you aren't being raped. Prison sex is not necessarily rape. Just because your behind bars doesn't mean you must abstain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_sexual_behavior

[Hugabear]

59. So then it's a gay joke, which is ok...

Sheesh.

[reACTIONary]

61. Nope, its not a gay joke...

... its an asshole joke. As in the big, bad, tough racist asshole has a silly, childish name and is into passive submission to physical abuse. Kind of a role-reversal thing.

Granted, this is very low, crude humor. But it isn't inhumane, insensitive glee about violent sexual abuse or denigration of gay sexuality.

[sammymantha]

66. Dying to know....

what do you know about kelly Elley?

[janx]

72. !!!

[Orrex]

12. Probably likes jelly in his belly.

[janx]

71. That's what I noticed first too--

[sammymantha]

82. funny thing is.....

we were sort of dating for a few weeks.... Kelly and I.... and i didn't know anything about this till after he was arrested.... its just an extremely creepy realization i guess....

[rucky]

8. Good thing the Sons of Anarchy didn't get to them first.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. Oh. My. God.

I LOVE that show! I don't have a TV service so am having to rely on friends in low places to get the current season. I'm only up to episode 5 so I have a LOT of catching up to do. One of the best series ever. Season 1-4 is now on Netflix.

[zabet]

83. ONG

Me too! I don't even watch television but, I do make an exception for SOA!

[DemoTex]

10. Real choirboys

What charges does that leave? Treason, maybe?

Love the link to the Bend Bulletin! Makes me miss Bend. Snowing today?

[oldbanjo]

13. Next they need to arrest the Congressman

that have screwed this Country for two years.

[The Wizard]

15. License plate factory

fills 34 job openings.

[ailsagirl]

16. Murder?

Ugh

[AllyCat]

17. Horrible. So glad to see these people will face justice.

How many more are there?

[momsrule]

18. zi just wonder

Was Grover Norquist one of them?

[starroute]

21. Unfortunately, prison is just one great networking opportunity for these guys

They really should be locked up in a wing of their own with no opportunity to proselytize among the general prison population.

[John2]

22. Eric Holder

finally did his job huh?

[underthematrix]

49. You have no idea what the President, Vice President, the

Attorney General, the FBI, and the Defense Department are up against. Oh and don't forget the Secret Service.

[jpak]

24. Will Rick Perry pardon them? They are his "base"

yup

[alp227]

41. Wait til you hear what THIS texas republicon had to say...

[linK:http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021782291|Peter Morrison, Texas GOP Official, Calls For 'Amicable Divorce' From 'Maggots' Who Voted For Obama]

[d_b]

26. rec 34

[stlsaxman]

28. No thugs in our house, are there, dear?

all the while Graham slept on, dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to.

[waddirum]

64. It was Andy Partridge's birthday on Sunday

Nov. 11.

[toby jo]

29. go FBI - like to see my tax dollars at work like that

[sulphurdunn]

30. I'm glad the Feds

went after the Confederate trail park faction of the Republican Party in Texas. Now, if it'll just go after its Wall Street mansions in the Hamptons faction, I will be seriously impressed.

[2banon]

32. Excellent point.. well said!

and I agree..

[freshwest]

31. Wonder if this will spun to further convince the frightwingers that Obama is coming for 'em...

I can see the headlines in the conspiracy media:

Federal agents, under Executive Orders by Obama, arrest 34 enterprising, Second Amendment-loving Americans. They've take them to the FEMA death camps on fabricated charges! Run for the hills! Now it begins! We told you so!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

35. Thank the Gods for the FBI. n/t

[ancianita]

36. We have the Southern Poverty Law Center's decades of monitoring to thank for this.

Government agencies have depended on their help for awhile now. SPLC is the major medical center for a sick southern society.

[Duppers]

46. exactly right

And my first thought. Thx for saying it.

I am a supporter of SPLC, a worthy cause.

[itsrobert]

43. Off to the Obama labor camps for republicans

where they will be force to make Obama phones and print food stamps.

[Kurovski]

44. R-80 (nt)

[Pachamama]

45. Hopefully these people are being watched and all their ilk and sympathizers....

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=abc+nightline+clip+on+KkK+video+filterui%3aplayable_html5&view=detail&mid=DA822173B253C95A1F3CDA822173B253C95A1F3C&first=0

[shenmue]

47. Yay!

Bunch of jerks. Our society is now a less stinky place.

[qkvhj]

51. nope

Saying these freaks are just repubs is like saying that the new black panthers are just dems.
Zealots get to me very quickly and I don't care what flavor they are. They do not represent any Americans I know or want to know. They are neither R or D they are just Fing crazy.

[Berlum]

84. ...then the Republicans need to publicly denounce the hate mongers

...silence is unacceptable. Dishonorable. The Republicans need to formally, loudly, and persistently disown hate and criminality.

[BainsBane]

52. I wonder if there is a link to assassination threats

If they are cracking down in part because of increased threats against the president.

As for their voting: the one's without felony convictions would have voted for Romney in an effort to prevent Obama from being reelected.

[lunatica]

55. This sounds like Breaking Bad but in real life

[janx]

73. Yes, but I bet they didn't have the blue stuff. n/t

[Iggy]

56. Hmm.. so the excuses surrounding domestic terrorism coming from FBI/CIA

i.e. "we can't stop it" are mostly bullcrap?

that's what I thought.

[sarcasmo]

60. Kick!

[Remmah2]

69. Employees of Walter White Enterprises. nt

nt

[ileus]

70. sounds like an episode of SOA.

[malz]

77. "methamphetamine and cocaine."

Ooooooooh, such SOLID American Values!