Neo-Nazi Father Is Killed; Son, 10, Steeped in Beliefs, Is Accused

[groovedaddy]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor. It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia of the Nazi SS.

“Look what my dad got me,” the boy said shyly, perched on the living room stairs, one of the few quiet spots in a house with five children.

A little more than 12 hours later, the police say, the boy stood near those stairs with a handgun and killed his father, Jeff Hall, as he lay on the living room couch. It was about 4 a.m. on May 1; paramedics declared Mr. Hall dead when they arrived.

The police say that the killing was intentional, but that the motives behind it are still not fully understood. But whatever the reason, it has cast fresh light on the fringe group to which Mr. Hall devoted his life: the National Socialist Movement, the nation’s largest neo-Nazi party, whose message stands in surreal juxtaposition to the suburban, workaday trappings of many of its members.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/us/11nazi.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

[sasha031]

1. I hope the child gets the help he needs

[Old and In the Way]

2. Dad probably made this little kid's life hell.

He will most likely need counseling and I'll bet the details as to why he shot him will be quite ugly.

[TygrBright]

3. The article ticks along nicely, and then all of a sudden, WTF?!?!?

Mr. Hall was a rising force in the party, which has capitalized on a tide of anti-immigrant sentiment to attract members — young racist skinheads, aging Ku Klux Klan members, and extremists on the left and the right.

Excuse me.

Can ANYONE here? Anyone on DU? --tell me of any group, individual, or ideological manifesto that can even marginally be considered "extreme left" that would militate toward participation in the NSM? Seriously?

I mean, I think we have plenty of frootloops out at the far end of our half of the spectrum, as it were, but the particular varieties of wackery that leftist "extremism" is prone to don't actually lend themselves to the kind of military hate-wankery that is the essence of this group's creed and practice.

Do they?

Do they?!?

Enlighten me, someone.

Or, just maybe, someone needs to enlighten Jesse McKinley of the New York Times, and all of his editing staff on up the foodchain, that careless verbiage like this will detract from an otherwise interesting article's credibility. Oh, yeah, and from the NYT's credibility overall.

disgustedly,
Bright

[groovedaddy]

4. You're right. That is total b.s. n/t

[rasputin1952]

5. I have no comprehension how anyone on the left...

whether just left of center or radical left, would even contemplate being a neo-nazi. That is all far right insanity, based on pure authoritarian rule.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That's the corporate media; spin on it, because they have an out-sized fear

of the "extreme left" because that part of the political spectrum; simply doesn't believe that corporations should reign supreme over the people and "We the Peoples'" government.