Fox5 anchor Brian Bolter: "That's right, even hatemongers have figured out the Internet is out there. It's a way to take their movement mainstream. And as Fox5's Sherry Ly reports, they are taking their hate high tech"
The segment opens up with footage of hooded Klansmen, KKK cross burnings and skinhead rallies with voices screaming, "We are the Ku Klux Klan, we are one race!" and "White power!" Then the reporter, Sherry Ly, says: "Rallies, protests, cross burnings. These are the methods used by hate groups--until now. Through videos on the Internet, blogs and websites, hate groups can spread their message to millions. Activist Gustavo Torres has seen it first hand."
Gustavo Torres: "They are going to kill me. That they are...I need to go back to my country. If I disappear for two or three hours, people are starting to be concerned about that."
(Screen shot of top left corner of Free Republic home page) Sherry Ly: "On the conservative website Free Republic bloggers posted Torres' picture (screen grab of picture of Torres) and veiled threats. (Screen grab of comment focused on phrases: "huge powderkeg") The root of their hatred: illegal immigration. And Torres is enemy number one--as executive director of Casa of Maryland. A group that provides support to Hispanic immigrants."
Gustavo Torres: "The last report that we had is that (there are) more than eight hundred different hate groups since 2000. Many of them are attacking Casa and the immigrant community in the Washington metro area."
(Screen grab of website page graphic: "Civil War and Reconquista" followed by screenshot of a post to tgslTakoma on FR of a sentence with the phrase "threats aginst children" highlighted (timestamped "02/24/2006 12:37:51 P.M. P(ST)), followed by another "Civil war and Reconquista" full screen graphic, followed by what appears to be another screen grab from FR with the phrase "citizenship and a chance to strike a blow" highlighted.
Sherry Ly: "As the immigration debate has grown, Torres says the attacks have become more racist, antagonistic and violent. And the Internet is their breeding ground. Just look at what we found. Skinheads in concert promoting white power. Thousands watch white nationalist news. Then there's the hooded Klansmen, swastikas and neo-nazis. It's all there on You Tube." (Matching video clips played.)
Next there's an interview with David Friedman from the Anti-Defamation League. Ly notes the ADL considers the American Renaissance a hate group. Then American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor is interviewd by Ly. Taylor talks about American Renaissance videos being posted on You Tube.
Ly gives cover to You Tube: "You Tube prohibits hate speech which contains slurs or malicious stereotypes. But with millions of videos, the website counts on its viewers to do most of the policing."
Back to Gustavo Torres and two views of a screen grab of a comment on FR that focuses on the phrases 'huge powderkeg' and 'juggling matches' (timestamped 02/24/06 1:27 (timezone unseen) that sets up this insinuation that FR was behind the attempted torching of a day labor center:
Sherry Ly: "The attacks come in e-mails and blogs, but recently the threats became more than words for Gustavo Torres when someone tried to burn down Casa's worker center in Gaithersburg."
Gustavo Torres: "It was a hate crime."
Sherry Ly: "The center's still standing, but the accelerant left a stain on the ground--a reminder of the threat that still exists."
Gustavo Torres: "We are going to take any, you know, security measure. We are, as I mentioned before, are working with the police to ensure that those kind of different situations again we immediately report to them."
Sherry Ly: "The FBI and police can make arrests, but modern day messengers of hate know they can reach millions over the Internet. Shut down one website another one pops up. In this fight only people can stop hate from spreading. Sherry Ly, Fox5 News."
The report closes out with screen shots including a photo of a tattoed racist with swastika tattoos on his shoulders and 'Hitler' tattooed in large letters across his chest.
Anchor Brian Bolter: "You Tube says alert them to any video and they will take it down. For more information about how you can fight hate go to MyFoxDc.com, click on 'Seen on TV'."
BTW, the reporter's last name is pronounced 'Lee'.