The Consequences of Right-Wing Extremism on the Internet

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[mgist]

The Consequences of Right-Wing Extremism on the Internet

Creating Electronic Community of Hate

The Internet has provided the means for those on the far-right to create an "electronic community of hate."

There are three important, measurable respects in which the "electronic community of hate"  strengthens  the work of right-wing extremists offline. The Internet 

• provides instant and anonymous access to propaganda that inspires and guides criminal activity  
• helps more effectively coordinate their activities  
• offers new ways to make money

These consequences of right-wing extremism on the Internet should be of concern to us all.

Online, racists, anti-Semites, and anti-government extremists can reach a much larger audience than ever before. Anyone using the Internet may inadvertently be exposed to hate online.

Though gauging the affect of extremist material on the vast population of Internet users presents enormous difficulties, substantial information does exist about a small subset of this group: right-wing extremists. 

In the Internet age, these extremists can communicate with thousands of their compatriots with the click of a mouse.
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The Internet has provided the far-right fringe with formerly inconceivable opportunities. Online, racists, anti-Semites, and anti-government extremists can reach a much larger audience than ever before and can more easily portray themselves as legitimate. 

Anyone using the Internet may inadvertently be exposed to hate online. When uninformed or easily influenced people – particularly children – come across hate propaganda, they can fall prey to its deceptive reasoning and adopt hateful beliefs themselves, sometimes going so far as to act on what they have read.

Gauging the affects of online hate on this vast population of Internet users presents enormous difficulties. No reliable measurement has been taken of the number of Internet users who find and read hateful material online. Nor can one safely generalize about the ways in which this material affects the beliefs and actions of those who read it. Yet there is a subset of this enormous group of Internet users about whom substantial information does exist: known, active, right-wing extremists.

Though the number of active right-wing extremists is relatively small, the harm they can cause is significant. By spreading their views, racists, anti-Semites, and anti-government "patriots" encourage and sustain prejudice in the mainstream. In addition, these extremists are often ready to break the law in support of their beliefs.

The Internet has provided the means for extremists to create an "electronic community of hate." In the Internet age, extremists are no longer isolated from others who share their beliefs. Now, they can communicate with thousands of their compatriots with the click of a mouse, from the comfort of their own homes. Just as it has benefited millions of ordinary people, the Internet has profited, connected, and inspired extremists in previously unimaginable ways.

This report will detail three important, measurable respects in which the "electronic community of hate" strengthens the work of right-wing extremists offline. First of all, the Internet has provided them with instant and anonymous access to propaganda that inspires and guides criminal activity. Secondly, it has helps them to more effectively  coordinate their activities. Finally, it offers them new ways to make money. 

These, then, are actual, measurable consequences of right-wing extremism on the Internet and should be of concern to us all.

[TLI]

Hillery Campain Headquarters?

[N. Theknow]

WOW!

Rachel Corrie was a right-wing extremist nut!

Since Hillary Clinton kissed Arafat's wife, does that mean she is a member of the VRWC?

[JasonC]

The usefulness of air to radical communism

While many think the existence of the earth's atmosphere is a benign or even a positive reality, still there are drawbacks and real costs associated with it. Particularly worrisome is the usefulness of the atmosphere to radical communists. It aids their nefarious cause in numerous critical ways.

First, air supplies essential oxygen for communist respiration. Without it, their brains would be starved of oxygen, rendering them even dumber than they already are within about 3 minutes, unconscious and so comparatively undangerous in not much longer, and could even finish them off without use of the 82nd Airborne division or depleting limited stocks of JDAMs. It is true this effect extends to non-communists. This shows that it is important to develop ways to make the atmosphere more discriminating, or to limit immediate access to it by individual radical communists.

Second, air provides a vibratory medium through which density waves can propagate, at a considerable velocity approaching 750 miles per hour at typical sea level pressures. Radical communists are known to use such vibrations to communicate their horrible intentions to one another, and even to try to entice innocent, patriotic young people to their notorious errors. Without air, they would be reduced to communicating by means of written signs or gestures. Gestures cannot easily convey the counterintuitive errors upon which radical communism essentially depends. While written signs are more dangerous, at least they leave a trail for authorities to investigate, tracking radical communism to its source.

Third and perhaps most troubling, air contains dangerous gases that are essential to all combustion, and is thus a necessary enabler of fire causing devices and many common explosives. Air is found to have played a critical role in essentially all arsons. Including those motivated by political opposition to global capitalism, both by radical communists and by the more strident of their green allies. While some may think at least air provides some protection against other means of assault, the sad fact is that air is too tenuous to provide any meaningful protection against typical bullets, to say nothing of heavy artillery.

In sum, while the existence of air is no doubt useful to the rest of us, there is a downside to this phenomenon. Radical communists make extensive use of air to further their nefarious conspiracies. While these matters deserve further detailed study to see just what can be done about them, consistent with the noble traditions of our laws and liberties, we trust we have made clear why authorities should be deeply concerned about the communist - air connection.

[mgist]

I hope somebody is contacting these individuals with an attempt to inform them that they are defaming a group of people who support Israel and defend Jews while never asking anything in return. Maybe they don't know us, they certainly don't understand us.

[Peter Libra]

Both the British and Canadian governments have used agents provacateurs to infiltrate so-called extreme right wing groups. Their business at first was to identify the participants. It then evolved to incitement to commit criminal acts, of persons who were members. (See Tim Hepple- English infiltrator). The so-called Combat 18 group in England is possibly kept alive by the bumblers of British "secret service" organisations. The Canadians used such a provacator against the "Heritage Front" -Grant Bristow.

It is chilling in one sense, since the dreaded Cheka, the secret police under the Czar of Russia used these methods. Suddenly they would swoop on the clandestine groups- Siberian time awaited them. They (Russians) had close liasion with the British police of the Victorian era.

I would love to see a Senate inquiry into the ADL. Nothing vicious though, just put 'em under oath. Then maybe find if the authorities have used bogus anti-semites in the USA.

[Peter Libra]

Both the British and Canadian governments have used agents provacateurs to infiltrate so-called extreme right wing groups. Their business at first was to identify the participants. It then evolved to incitement to commit criminal acts, of persons who were members. (See Tim Hepple- English infiltrator). The so-called Combat 18 group in England is possibly kept alive by the bumblers of British "secret service" organisations. The Canadians used such a provacator against the "Heritage Front" -Grant Bristow.

It is chilling in one sense, since the dreaded Cheka, the secret police under the Czar of Russia used these methods. They would fund and encourgage anarchist groups. Suddenly they would swoop on these clandestine groups- Siberian time awaited them. They (Russians) had close liasion with the British police of the Victorian era.

I would love to see a Senate inquiry into the ADL. Nothing vicious though, just put 'em under oath. Then maybe find if the authorities have used bogus anti-semites in the USA.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Schedule of Upcoming Extremist Events: 2004

http://www.adl.org/learn/Events_2001/events_2003_flashmap.asp


This adl is truly the most ridiculous thing ive ever seen i can understand the klu klux klan being called a hate group but the Nordic Fest ,Annual Tax Blast,Bible Conference and American Renaissance Conference ? these people think everything is antisemetic when they expouse hate for these groups whos doing the hating ?

WHITE HETROSEXUAL MALE CHRISTIANS in this country are under target from every fringe extremist group with enough money to lord their say over people stupid enough to listen to them .

[mgist]

I just read about a scheduled racist event on ADL.

"Sponsored by America’s Promise Ministries, an organization whose followers practice Christian Identity, a racist and anti-Semitic religion Note: Scheduled speakers include Dave Barley, James Bruggeman, Doug Evers, Ernestine Young, and Warwick Potts"

Oh my G-d, it's worst than I thought. I know a member of Promises, they are nothing but a group of men who "promise" to be true to their families and God. Unbelievable!