Traditional Values Coalition attacks Anti-Defamation League for reporting rise in hate crimes

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The TVC recently attacked the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its January report on the rise of extremist hate groups operating in Orange County, California and nationwide. The TVC issued a statement calling the ADL “experts at propaganda” who are masterminding a “deceitful effort” using the “KKK and skinheads.”

“TVC’s research into the incidence of ‘hate crimes’ has consistently shown that there is very little substance to the claims of such groups as the ADL,” said Andrea Lafferty, the group’s executive director. “(The ADL’s extremist group report is) an orchestrated effort to manipulate public opinion into supporting passage of a draconian ‘hate crime’ bill.”

But unlike the TVC, whose staff live off of the proceeds of a well-oiled anti-gay direct mail machine, the ADL report isn’t mere political posturing. For example, the group detailed the increasing activism of the Public Enemy Number 1 Death Squad (PEN1). The 350-member white supremacist gang formed in Long Beach in 1986 and its forte includes murder, illegal weapons, narcotics—especially methamphetamines—forgery, identity theft and aggravated assaults.

For a glimpse at PEN1’s violence, see the Weekly’s 2006 feature on the savage torture and killing of a young man in Huntington Beach with a steel claw hammer. (“The Trials of Billy Joe, White Supremacist,” Feb. 16, 2006.)

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/hate-inc/26708/

[bryant69]

1. Traditional values include violence and racism

I guess.

Bryant
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2. Not surprising.

Makes you wonder what the TVC has to hide.