Napolitano acted cowardly. Right Wing Hate Groups ARE spreading. KKK to rally in Paris, TX

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1052
This February, in the last issue of the Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on the continued growth of hate groups, whose numbers have risen by more than 50% since 2000. It attributed that growth mainly to fears about non-white immigration, but pointed out that the rise of a black man to the White House also appears to have contributed. And it said the ongoing economic meltdown, which some have already blamed on racial minorities and undocumented Latino immigrants, could well add to a worsening situation.

Two months later, a Department of Homeland Security report, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," was leaked to the press. Dated April 7, the report mirrored many of the conclusions of the SPLC and added that "rightwing extremists attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans." (The Report has written extensively about the problem of extremists in the military.)

Already, there is evidence of the violence that an expansion of the radical right may portend. Some of it is chilling.

* In late April, a man shot to death two Okaloosa County, Fla., sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call. Officials said Joshua Cartwright was interested in militia groups and that his wife told police that he was "severely disturbed" by Obama's election.
* Three days before the DHS report was issued, a gunman in Pittsburgh killed three police officers. Internet postings by the suspect in the months before the murders suggest the man was motivated by racist and anti-Semitic ideology, antigovernment conspiracy theories, and a fear that Obama would pass confiscatory gun laws.
* Around the same time, a Marine who had earlier been arrested for armed robberies near Camp Lejeune, N.C., was indicted for threatening Obama. Kody Brittingham's journal allegedly contained neo-Nazi propaganda and a plan to assassinate the then president-elect.
* On Jan. 21, the day after Obama's inauguration, a white man in Brockton, Mass., allegedly murdered two black people and planned to kill as many Jews as he could that night. Police said the man told them he'd been reading white supremacist websites and believed that whites were facing a genocide.
* Last December, a woman who had just shot her husband to death in Belfast, Maine, told police that James Cummings was "very upset" with Obama's election, had been in touch with white supremacist groups, and had talked of building a "dirty bomb" chock full of deadly radioactive materials. Police found many of the components for that bomb, along with an application for the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement filled out by Cummings.
* And in late October, two racist skinheads were arrested in Tennessee and charged in connection with an alleged plot to murder more than 100 black Americans, beheading some of them, and then to assassinate Obama.

The government report was met with howls of outrage from pundits, politicians and others on the right who characterized it as an attack on conservatives and veterans — an absurd contention for anyone who actually read the document.

In Paris, Texas (a little town with a rich history of racism), it has been fraught with the makings of a current-day boiling race war. The Chicago Tribune has actually been on the forefront of reporting the racial unrest in this East Texas town.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Horse%20with%20no%20Name/54
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Horse%20with%20no%20Name/31
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Horse%20with%20no%20Name/32

These are the tip of the iceberg. More racial hatred can be found without much difficulty at the Paris Topix site. One of the highest read Topix in the country.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/paris-tx

Now today, in the Paris News (on Juneteenth? Mistake? Nah.):

KKK may hold counter rally
http://theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=384f5f155ebec8b9
>>>>snip
The Ku Klux Klan may be planning a counter-rally when demonstrators return to the Lamar County Courthouse July 21 to protest the handling of the Brandon McClelland murder case.

Dallas U.S. Department of Justice official Carmelita Pope-Freeman told a group of more than 100 people in attendance at a community forum Thursday her agency has been monitoring Ku Klux Klan Internet exchanges following a June 8 protest involving the New Black Panther Party.

“On the Web, the Ku Klux Klan is aggressively recruiting,” Freeman said.

Interim Paris Police Chief Bob Hundley said earlier today his department has been in touch with other elected officials as well as state agencies in making a contingency plan if the Klan comes for a counter-demonstration. Hundley said Klan fliers appeared at the June 8 rally and law enforcement began planning immediately.

My personal opinion here is that they better look close under those sheets...more than likely you will find many of those elected officials. I find it quite odd for a group that they are always on the "right" side of history, that they refuse to show their faces.
The Black Panthers show theirs.
Who ELSE is the coward?

[marmar]

1. When I saw Paris, I was thinking of the greatest city in the world....

..... not the one in texas.

Quelle soulagement!!!!

[Horse with no Name]

2. Ahhh I changed it for ya

Don't want to cast that ugly net THAT wide.:D