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struggle4progress

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Tue Aug 2, 2016, 10:03 PM Aug 2016

Man Who Dreamed of Restarting Aryan Army Charged with Hate Crime

Bill Morlin
August 02, 2016

Federal hate crimes charges are being brought against two Ohio men accused of beating a black man with a broom handle during what authorities describe as an unprovoked racial assault in Toledo.

One of the two suspects, Charles E. Butler Jr., 33, told Ohio prison officials last year that he was fascinated with and hoped to “restart” a racist group, the Aryan Republican Army. The band of domestic terrorists successfully robbed 22 banks in the mid-1990s, hoping to use the loot to start a race war.

Butler and Robert A. Paschalis, 25, were arrested on state assault charges following the May 18 assault and charged last Friday and now face federal charges of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The law, enacted in 2009, makes it a federal crime to assault someone because of their race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability ...


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/02/man-who-dreamed-restarting-aryan-army-charged-hate-crime

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Man Who Dreamed of Restarting Aryan Army Charged with Hate Crime (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP
These people need to be locked away for a very long time. Judi Lynn Aug 2016 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. These people need to be locked away for a very long time.
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 06:43 AM
Aug 2016

If they have the opportunity to attack someone again, they'll probably try harder to kill him/her.

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Butler is the one on the left, Paschalis, the right. Drooling idiots, losers. [/center]

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