Posted on 11/09/2009 1:29:53 PM PST by steve-b
Neo-Nazis took to the streets in Arizona and Minnesota this weekend, a new boldness that officials say echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge.
A year after President Obama's election, hate groups are feeling bolder than they have in over a decade, and their usually insular anger is beginning to spill into the public realm. This weekend, the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, held rallies in Arizona and Minnesota. Those demonstrations came on the heels of similar actions in Southern California, where epithet-spewing white supremacists were forced to disband by rock-throwing counter-protesters. The upsurge in visibility is more than anecdotallaw-enforcement officials are monitoring levels of agitation among extremist groups that they say are the highest since Timothy McVeigh's deadly attack in Oklahoma City nearly 15 years ago.
"It's sort of a beehive now," says James Cavanaugh, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Cavanaugh was one of the agents at the standoff at David Koresh's Waco, Texas, compound in 1993 (which McVeigh timed his terrorist act to commemorate, two years later, on April 19, 1995). Last October in Tennessee, Cavanaugh aided in the arrest of two white supremacists charged with plotting to assassinate Obama, and in 2007 he helped bring down members of the Alabama Free Militia, who were found with hundreds of hand- and rifle grenades and other explosives. The arrests had an unsettling familiarity. "We haven't had that kind of activity since the 1990s," Cavanaugh says.
"We believe there is a real resurgence," adds Lieutenant David Hall, director of the Missouri Information Analysis Center, which tracks antigovernment extremist groups around the Midwest. "The atmosphere is ripe."
So where might another McVeighor worsespring from?...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Buford O. Furrow Jr was a White supremacist who killed a postal worker and wounded five people at a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center in a 1999 shooting
Don't think so....He was an antisemitic white-supremacist wing-nut....but, as far as I can find, not a member of a neo-Nazi group....Although he supported most leftist views..
Now, can we think of someone else we all know who is an antisemitic black-supremacist....and is acting like a true Nazi?
The Neo Nazis disbanded because the counter-protesters threw rocks at them? What is happening to Neo Nazis these days? Rocks? Heck, in my day NNs would have crushed the skulls of the rock throwers... Damn, it seems you just can’t find any good Neo Nazis these days....
They’ll howl about Neo-Nazism (who wouldnt’) but ignore islamists..? This is a messed up Freak’in nation!
Sorry.
I’m more concerned at this point with stopping the next Mohammad, or Ali or Hussein, than worrying about a Tim McVeigh Clone, and McVeigh and his supporters very well may have been in contact with Muslims in Oklahoma.
Right now, ISLAM is the PRIMARY enemy.
Excellent points, every one.
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