Saturday, November 17, 2007
White supremacist Pat Buchanan Calls For Operation Wetback
On MSNBC's Hardball on 11/14/07, regular commentator Pat Buchanan calls for a return to President Eisenhower's anti-migrant campaign of 1954. Known as Operation Wetback, it caused terror in minority neighborhoods and sparked a police campaign based on race.
Latino cops want state review
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Supporters of five Latino Hoboken police officers who have accused a commanding officer in court of being an "unabashed white supremacist" are calling for the state attorney general to intervene.
This call was issued even as one of the officers' attorneys traded accusations with the Hudson County prosecutor over a client's willingness to cooperate with the prosecutor's investigation.
In a bombshell lawsuit filed last month that seeks unspecified damages, the cops accuse their former SWAT team commander, Lt. Angelo Andriani, of using racial slurs, making a mock Ku Klux Klan hood out of a napkin, using the "n-word," and forcing them to do manual labor at his home.
At a rally held last week in front of City Hall, members of the New Jersey State National Latino Peace Officers Association, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, and the Hoboken chapter of the NAACP called for Attorney General Anne Milgram "to conduct an independent review of the Hoboken Police Department and the underlying causes that has allowed such bigotry to exist unchallenged."
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio is already looking into the allegation the police officers were coerced to work on Andriani's house when they should have been doing police work.
The call for the Attorney General's involvement was not a slap at DeFazio, said Richard Rivera, public relations officer for NJLPOA. It is intended to eliminate "all appearance of impropriety" since Hoboken Police Chief Carmen LaBruno once headed up the Prosecutor's Office detective unit, Rivera said.
DeFazio responded that LaBruno's stint at the office "20 years ago" had no bearing on his investigation.
Attorney General spokesman David Wald said his office is "in contact" with the Prosecutor's Office and plans to stay in contact."The allegations brought forth in the complaint are extremely disturbing and the city has taken this matter very seriously," said Mayor David Roberts. "We are independently investigating this matter thoroughly."
DeFazio said last week his office invited the first of the five officers in for a interview, but to his surprise the officer - identified by his attorney, Luis Zayas, as Detective Mario Novo - refused to cooperate.
But according to Zayas, Nova was willing to give a statement but wanted his attorney present.
Zayas said his clients remained skeptical of DeFazio's office, given LaBruno's past connection to the office.
"Every person has a right to counsel," Zayas said. "Even though my clients were not the targets, but rather the victims of a criminal act, they have a right to have their attorney present to insure the investigation is a not a sham."
The protocol for possible grand jury cases is not to have attorneys present, DeFazio said
"The bottom line is people either want to cooperate and be witnesses or they don't," he added. "If they don't, we have to figure out where we go from there."
Andriani couldn't be reached to comment. The other plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Detectives George Fonseca, James Perez, Cesar Olavarria, and Sgt. Edwin Pantoja.
Source: NJ
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Supporters of five Latino Hoboken police officers who have accused a commanding officer in court of being an "unabashed white supremacist" are calling for the state attorney general to intervene.
This call was issued even as one of the officers' attorneys traded accusations with the Hudson County prosecutor over a client's willingness to cooperate with the prosecutor's investigation.
In a bombshell lawsuit filed last month that seeks unspecified damages, the cops accuse their former SWAT team commander, Lt. Angelo Andriani, of using racial slurs, making a mock Ku Klux Klan hood out of a napkin, using the "n-word," and forcing them to do manual labor at his home.
At a rally held last week in front of City Hall, members of the New Jersey State National Latino Peace Officers Association, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, and the Hoboken chapter of the NAACP called for Attorney General Anne Milgram "to conduct an independent review of the Hoboken Police Department and the underlying causes that has allowed such bigotry to exist unchallenged."
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio is already looking into the allegation the police officers were coerced to work on Andriani's house when they should have been doing police work.
The call for the Attorney General's involvement was not a slap at DeFazio, said Richard Rivera, public relations officer for NJLPOA. It is intended to eliminate "all appearance of impropriety" since Hoboken Police Chief Carmen LaBruno once headed up the Prosecutor's Office detective unit, Rivera said.
DeFazio responded that LaBruno's stint at the office "20 years ago" had no bearing on his investigation.
Attorney General spokesman David Wald said his office is "in contact" with the Prosecutor's Office and plans to stay in contact."The allegations brought forth in the complaint are extremely disturbing and the city has taken this matter very seriously," said Mayor David Roberts. "We are independently investigating this matter thoroughly."
DeFazio said last week his office invited the first of the five officers in for a interview, but to his surprise the officer - identified by his attorney, Luis Zayas, as Detective Mario Novo - refused to cooperate.
But according to Zayas, Nova was willing to give a statement but wanted his attorney present.
Zayas said his clients remained skeptical of DeFazio's office, given LaBruno's past connection to the office.
"Every person has a right to counsel," Zayas said. "Even though my clients were not the targets, but rather the victims of a criminal act, they have a right to have their attorney present to insure the investigation is a not a sham."
The protocol for possible grand jury cases is not to have attorneys present, DeFazio said
"The bottom line is people either want to cooperate and be witnesses or they don't," he added. "If they don't, we have to figure out where we go from there."
Andriani couldn't be reached to comment. The other plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Detectives George Fonseca, James Perez, Cesar Olavarria, and Sgt. Edwin Pantoja.
Source: NJ
Roanoke supremacist investigated
The Justice Department confirmed that it is still looking into a call to "Lynch the Jena 6."
By Laurence Hammack
981-3239
A Roanoke white supremacist who used his Web site to advocate the lynching of the Jena Six defendants remains under investigation, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said Friday.
While declining to elaborate, "I can say that it's an ongoing investigation," Erik Ablin wrote in an e-mail.
William White drew the scrutiny of federal authorities in September, when he posted on his Web site the names and addresses of six black teenagers charged with assaulting a white classmate in Jena, La., along with the words "Lynch the Jena 6."
Controversy over the Jena Six case continued to simmer Friday, as thousands of protestors surrounded the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to demand better enforcement of hate crimes.
Supporters of the six youths have criticized authorities for not prosecuting the white students who initiated racial unrest in Jena by hanging nooses from a tree on the high school campus. As the case gained national attention, the Justice Department came under increased fire for not bringing charges related to threats against blacks in Jena and elsewhere.
In a statement Friday, the Justice Department said it was investigating "dozens of noose-hangings and other recent racially-motivated threats around the country. Where the facts and the laws warrant, these investigations will result in prosecution."
Some legal scholars have said it appears White broke no laws when he made the addresses of the Jena Six available to anyone who, as he put it, might be "willing to deliver justice."
But Brian Levin, an attorney who heads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said authorities may have a case under a federal law that makes it illegal to interfere with someone's civil rights.
White has said he was simply "expressing my point of view" and that he does not expect to be charged.
Meanwhile, the neo-Nazi activist faces assault charges in Roanoke related to an encounter with a black couple in the West End neighborhood where he owns more than a dozen rental houses.
LaToria Minnis claims in court papers that White approached her Oct. 10 as she walked on Chapman Avenue, taunted her with a racial slur and hit her in the face. Aries Brown says he witnessed the attack and was also assaulted by White when he tried to intervene.
White has filed cross warrants alleging that Minnis and Brown assaulted him.
The cases are scheduled for trial Dec. 7. If a judge finds that White assaulted Minnis or Brown because of their race, he could face a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days in jail.
Source: Roanoke
By Laurence Hammack
981-3239
A Roanoke white supremacist who used his Web site to advocate the lynching of the Jena Six defendants remains under investigation, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said Friday.
While declining to elaborate, "I can say that it's an ongoing investigation," Erik Ablin wrote in an e-mail.
William White drew the scrutiny of federal authorities in September, when he posted on his Web site the names and addresses of six black teenagers charged with assaulting a white classmate in Jena, La., along with the words "Lynch the Jena 6."
Controversy over the Jena Six case continued to simmer Friday, as thousands of protestors surrounded the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to demand better enforcement of hate crimes.
Supporters of the six youths have criticized authorities for not prosecuting the white students who initiated racial unrest in Jena by hanging nooses from a tree on the high school campus. As the case gained national attention, the Justice Department came under increased fire for not bringing charges related to threats against blacks in Jena and elsewhere.
In a statement Friday, the Justice Department said it was investigating "dozens of noose-hangings and other recent racially-motivated threats around the country. Where the facts and the laws warrant, these investigations will result in prosecution."
Some legal scholars have said it appears White broke no laws when he made the addresses of the Jena Six available to anyone who, as he put it, might be "willing to deliver justice."
But Brian Levin, an attorney who heads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said authorities may have a case under a federal law that makes it illegal to interfere with someone's civil rights.
White has said he was simply "expressing my point of view" and that he does not expect to be charged.
Meanwhile, the neo-Nazi activist faces assault charges in Roanoke related to an encounter with a black couple in the West End neighborhood where he owns more than a dozen rental houses.
LaToria Minnis claims in court papers that White approached her Oct. 10 as she walked on Chapman Avenue, taunted her with a racial slur and hit her in the face. Aries Brown says he witnessed the attack and was also assaulted by White when he tried to intervene.
White has filed cross warrants alleging that Minnis and Brown assaulted him.
The cases are scheduled for trial Dec. 7. If a judge finds that White assaulted Minnis or Brown because of their race, he could face a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days in jail.
Source: Roanoke
Dog Gets Death Threats From White Supremacist Group For Slur Apology
A group of hardcore white supremacists have put a bounty on Duane 'Dog' Chapman's head after he publicly apologized for racial slurs he was caught using in a taped conversation.
The TV bounty hunter's son went public with the tape after Chapman lashed out at his Mexican girlfriend, calling her a "whore" and a "n----r", during a family argument.
The National Enquirer then broadcast the tape on the internet, prompting a shamed Chapman to appear on CNN's Larry King Live to apologize for his ill-advised rant.
And now it seems his apology has upset members of the Aryan Nation, who want to teach Chapman a lesson for bowing to pressure and apologizing to African-Americans.
Niger Innis, a spokesman for the Congress Of Racial Equality, tells The Globe that he has discovered the white supremacists want the bounty hunter dead - and they're offering $75,000 to anyone who'll carry out the job.
Innis tells the publication, "Chapman told me himself that there was a bounty on his head from the white Aryan Nations. They don't believe he is demonstrating enough white pride... Chapman's not only upset black America with his ugly taped talk, he's now drawn the wrath of the white supremacists too."
Source: Hiphop-Elements
Mass Vandalism in Waynesboro
Waynesboro Police are looking for vandals who painted the town red, white, and black early Friday morning.
Police have spent the day checking on reports of graffiti that is usually associated with white supremacist groups. Police say they have received almost 20 reports of such markings.
Glenda Carroll and her husband woke Friday morning to find a giant swastika painted on their garage door.
"I was very surprised, because we had never had anything in our neighborhood like that," says Carroll.
All over town, houses, garages, cars and even businesses were tagged. Various places including Target, some furniture stores and other businesses such as Total Performance Golf on Route 250 were all tagged.
Total Performance Golf owner Todd Hall says he's not used to seeing crime.
"You see something like this and you always think about the crime element. Gangs, drugs, you wonder is this something that will lead to an eventual break-in? You can just never tell," says Hall
Waynesboro Police Sgt. Kelly Walker says it could be evidence of a white supremacist group or gang in the area, but they don't want to label that it yet.
"Certainly, we'll be looking at any possible gang affiliation, but we'll also be looking at other avenues to see if there's any hate groups involved, or to see if it’s just a vandalism, destruction of property in and of itself," says Walker.
Walker says businesses should concentrate, for now, on cleaning the markings up to prevent future problems.
"You want to give the person who painted the graffiti as little exposure as possible. That way the clean neighborhood atmosphere won't become an attractive spot," says Walker.
Augusta County had some of the same tagging in Stuarts Draft and Fishersville. Staunton has also seen similar vandalism problems within the last few days.
Source: WHSV
Police have spent the day checking on reports of graffiti that is usually associated with white supremacist groups. Police say they have received almost 20 reports of such markings.
Glenda Carroll and her husband woke Friday morning to find a giant swastika painted on their garage door.
"I was very surprised, because we had never had anything in our neighborhood like that," says Carroll.
All over town, houses, garages, cars and even businesses were tagged. Various places including Target, some furniture stores and other businesses such as Total Performance Golf on Route 250 were all tagged.
Total Performance Golf owner Todd Hall says he's not used to seeing crime.
"You see something like this and you always think about the crime element. Gangs, drugs, you wonder is this something that will lead to an eventual break-in? You can just never tell," says Hall
Waynesboro Police Sgt. Kelly Walker says it could be evidence of a white supremacist group or gang in the area, but they don't want to label that it yet.
"Certainly, we'll be looking at any possible gang affiliation, but we'll also be looking at other avenues to see if there's any hate groups involved, or to see if it’s just a vandalism, destruction of property in and of itself," says Walker.
Walker says businesses should concentrate, for now, on cleaning the markings up to prevent future problems.
"You want to give the person who painted the graffiti as little exposure as possible. That way the clean neighborhood atmosphere won't become an attractive spot," says Walker.
Augusta County had some of the same tagging in Stuarts Draft and Fishersville. Staunton has also seen similar vandalism problems within the last few days.
Source: WHSV
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Americans confront Lou Dobbs
CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs participated in the Revelle Forum to promote his new book "Independents Day" at the UCSD Neurosciences Institute on Sunday, Nov. 11. Before entering Atkinson Hall for his 7pm presentation, he debated with a crowd of about two dozen protesters about economic and immigration policy.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Minutemen considered "Gang/Subversive group" by Las Vegas Police Department
Jeeeze LVPD, you think?
Job Application
Scroll down to question 57.
The question reads:
“Have you, your spouse, any members of your family, or any members of your spouse’s family ever been associated with gangs or subversive groups (Minutemen, Aryan Brotherhood, etc.)"
Job Application
Scroll down to question 57.
The question reads:
“Have you, your spouse, any members of your family, or any members of your spouse’s family ever been associated with gangs or subversive groups (Minutemen, Aryan Brotherhood, etc.)"
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Whites-Only Bathroom in Georgia: Local Company Sued for Discrimination
By Jeannie Blaylock
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- First Coast News has been investigating allegations that a major local company is guilty of racial discrimination.
Lisa Woods contacted us almost a year ago. She worked at Georgia-Pacific near Brunswick at the scaling house where truckers come to weigh their logs.
She says for months the restroom had a sign saying, "OUT OF ORDER." She alleges her co-worker, Anthony Lee, believed the races shouldn't mix. Lee had no comment.
An independent trucker, Donald Jones, says when he went to the scaling house he saw the same "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
Jones says, "I had to go off in the woods and do what I had to do."
But Lisa Wagner, a former security guard at the scaling house, says if a white truck driver came through, "No problem, no problem at all." Whites were invited to use the toilet, Wagner says.
Was the toilet really broken? First Coast News Jeannie Blaylock went to the scale house with a photographer to find out. She flushed the toilet and it seemed to be working just fine.
Several hours after our news crew stopped at the job site, Georgia-Pacific fired Woods.
Woods is suing Georgia-Pacific for racial and sexual discrimination.
She also alleges Lee put up a cartoon at the job site showing a pregnant monkey. Woods was pregnant at the time but later miscarried.
That miscarriage, verified by medical records from Southeast Georgia Health Systems, is also part of Woods' complaints. She says the company would not let her off from work, even though medical experts recommended she "rest at home for the next several days."
Wagner says, "She worked all day. I seen truckers in and out..in and out...and her by herself working when she had a miscarriage the night before."
Woods alleges she sent numerous communications to the area human resource manager for Georgia-Pacific, but nothing changed.
Attorneys for Geogia-Pacific did not return our calls. But a company spokesperson sent us an email saying, "Georgia-Pacific had a legitimate basis for Ms. Wood's termination and we dispute all of her allegations. We will vigorously defend our position."
Source: FirstCoastNews
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- First Coast News has been investigating allegations that a major local company is guilty of racial discrimination.
Lisa Woods contacted us almost a year ago. She worked at Georgia-Pacific near Brunswick at the scaling house where truckers come to weigh their logs.
She says for months the restroom had a sign saying, "OUT OF ORDER." She alleges her co-worker, Anthony Lee, believed the races shouldn't mix. Lee had no comment.
An independent trucker, Donald Jones, says when he went to the scaling house he saw the same "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
Jones says, "I had to go off in the woods and do what I had to do."
But Lisa Wagner, a former security guard at the scaling house, says if a white truck driver came through, "No problem, no problem at all." Whites were invited to use the toilet, Wagner says.
Was the toilet really broken? First Coast News Jeannie Blaylock went to the scale house with a photographer to find out. She flushed the toilet and it seemed to be working just fine.
Several hours after our news crew stopped at the job site, Georgia-Pacific fired Woods.
Woods is suing Georgia-Pacific for racial and sexual discrimination.
She also alleges Lee put up a cartoon at the job site showing a pregnant monkey. Woods was pregnant at the time but later miscarried.
That miscarriage, verified by medical records from Southeast Georgia Health Systems, is also part of Woods' complaints. She says the company would not let her off from work, even though medical experts recommended she "rest at home for the next several days."
Wagner says, "She worked all day. I seen truckers in and out..in and out...and her by herself working when she had a miscarriage the night before."
Woods alleges she sent numerous communications to the area human resource manager for Georgia-Pacific, but nothing changed.
Attorneys for Geogia-Pacific did not return our calls. But a company spokesperson sent us an email saying, "Georgia-Pacific had a legitimate basis for Ms. Wood's termination and we dispute all of her allegations. We will vigorously defend our position."
Source: FirstCoastNews
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Boyles' guest Gheen called Mexicans who contend racism is driving U.S. immigration debate "brown Nazis"
On the October 9 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show, guest William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), responded to host Peter Boyles' criticism of Mexico's former President Vicente Fox -- who reportedly has asserted that the United States is letting racism shape its immigration policies -- by labeling as "brown Nazis" the Mexicans who make such arguments, later stating, "Americans are the Jews."
During his broadcast, Boyles referred to Fox's appearance on the October 8 edition of CNN's Larry King Live by saying that Fox did "exactly the same thing that these idiots are allowed to do in this country. He says it's the xenophobes, the racists, and those who feel that they are a superior race that are going to decide the future of the United States of America." Gheen responded by saying, "I'll take it further than that, Peter. Let me say somethin' about these brown Nazis, OK? They are equating a nation and a flag with a race that's not even technically a race." After Boyles said, "I agree," Gheen continued: "[T]he last time that that has really happened in modern history was Nazi Germany." After Boyles again agreed, Gheen added, "They equated the German homeland with a race of Aryan Caucasians, and that flag stood for 'the race.' " Gheen later claimed, "That's what these Mexicans are doing. And then they act so offended, saying, like, if you talk about Mexicans that's a new thing."
Contrary to Boyles' characterization of Fox's comments on Larry King Live -- which Boyles admitted he "didn't see" -- a transcript indicates that during the show Fox did not use the terms "xenophobes" or "racists." However, the Associated Press reported that in an October 8 interview with the news service, Fox said: "The xenophobics, the racists, those who feel they are a superior race ... they are deciding the future of this nation,'' but did not name anyone specifically.
As Colorado Media Matters has noted, during previous appearances on Boyles' show, Gheen has repeated anti-immigration falsehoods and claimed that "illegal aliens have shown a pattern of criminality" and that "when you put that on the backdrop of the resentment and the hate that many illegal aliens have for Americans, and ... the jealousy, the anger of what Americans have, and they don't have -- it creates a very unstable situation."
From the October 9 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:
BOYLES: And also, I didn't see Larry King last night -- I have gone way past Larry King -- but apparently, Vicente Fox appears on Larry King, and he does exactly the same thing that these idiots are allowed to do in this country. He says it's the xenophobes, the racists, and those who feel that they are a superior race that are going to decide the future of the United States of America, letting racism dictate the policies of the United States of America. That could have been said by anybody in this country who can't discuss the argument. Who can't --
GHEEN: Oh, look, I'll take it further than that, Peter. Let me say somethin' about these brown Nazis, OK? They are equating a nation and a flag with a race that's not even technically a race.
BOYLES: I agree. I agree.
GHEEN: OK? And the last time that that has really happened in modern history was Nazi Germany.
BOYLES: I agree.
GHEEN: OK. They equated the German homeland with a race of Aryan Caucasians, and that flag stood for "the race." No one does that. The Canadian -- the maple leaf is not a -- you know, they, we don't do that with a maple, the Canadian flag, we don't do that with the American flag, we don't do that with the French flag, we don't do that with the British flag. It's rarely that you do that. That's what these Mexicans are doing. And then they act so offended, saying, like, if you talk about Mexicans that's a new thing. And I counted it. I was on CNN last night with The Rick Sanchez Show, and I enjoyed it, and I'm puttin' the video out today, 'cause I got a chance to get my message to the illegal aliens: Get out of my country -- now. Take a hint. Vamoose. I don't got to say, "Don't let the border gate hit you on the backside on the way out." And I mean it. I'm very serious about it. But the thing is, he tried the ploy with the, "Oh, I hear on talk radio all the time, these Mexicans are comin' in here." Like, as if we Americans talk about Mexicans --
BOYLES: No.
GHEEN: -- we're racists.
BOYLES: Well, no, but see that's the game that's now been played. It's been played here by elected officials, by columnists, by idiot on-airs, by so-called activists. They start using, "We're the new Jews, you're the Nazis." I mean, the rest of this nonsense. I --
GHEEN: But see, that stuff, that's -- Americans are the Jews.
BOYLES: But William -- but Bill, that's -- right, of course. But, see, not how it's, the victimization of the illegal. And I have, always have one question, which is never answered: When did illegal become a race?
—C.H.
Source: MediaMatters
During his broadcast, Boyles referred to Fox's appearance on the October 8 edition of CNN's Larry King Live by saying that Fox did "exactly the same thing that these idiots are allowed to do in this country. He says it's the xenophobes, the racists, and those who feel that they are a superior race that are going to decide the future of the United States of America." Gheen responded by saying, "I'll take it further than that, Peter. Let me say somethin' about these brown Nazis, OK? They are equating a nation and a flag with a race that's not even technically a race." After Boyles said, "I agree," Gheen continued: "[T]he last time that that has really happened in modern history was Nazi Germany." After Boyles again agreed, Gheen added, "They equated the German homeland with a race of Aryan Caucasians, and that flag stood for 'the race.' " Gheen later claimed, "That's what these Mexicans are doing. And then they act so offended, saying, like, if you talk about Mexicans that's a new thing."
Contrary to Boyles' characterization of Fox's comments on Larry King Live -- which Boyles admitted he "didn't see" -- a transcript indicates that during the show Fox did not use the terms "xenophobes" or "racists." However, the Associated Press reported that in an October 8 interview with the news service, Fox said: "The xenophobics, the racists, those who feel they are a superior race ... they are deciding the future of this nation,'' but did not name anyone specifically.
As Colorado Media Matters has noted, during previous appearances on Boyles' show, Gheen has repeated anti-immigration falsehoods and claimed that "illegal aliens have shown a pattern of criminality" and that "when you put that on the backdrop of the resentment and the hate that many illegal aliens have for Americans, and ... the jealousy, the anger of what Americans have, and they don't have -- it creates a very unstable situation."
From the October 9 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:
BOYLES: And also, I didn't see Larry King last night -- I have gone way past Larry King -- but apparently, Vicente Fox appears on Larry King, and he does exactly the same thing that these idiots are allowed to do in this country. He says it's the xenophobes, the racists, and those who feel that they are a superior race that are going to decide the future of the United States of America, letting racism dictate the policies of the United States of America. That could have been said by anybody in this country who can't discuss the argument. Who can't --
GHEEN: Oh, look, I'll take it further than that, Peter. Let me say somethin' about these brown Nazis, OK? They are equating a nation and a flag with a race that's not even technically a race.
BOYLES: I agree. I agree.
GHEEN: OK? And the last time that that has really happened in modern history was Nazi Germany.
BOYLES: I agree.
GHEEN: OK. They equated the German homeland with a race of Aryan Caucasians, and that flag stood for "the race." No one does that. The Canadian -- the maple leaf is not a -- you know, they, we don't do that with a maple, the Canadian flag, we don't do that with the American flag, we don't do that with the French flag, we don't do that with the British flag. It's rarely that you do that. That's what these Mexicans are doing. And then they act so offended, saying, like, if you talk about Mexicans that's a new thing. And I counted it. I was on CNN last night with The Rick Sanchez Show, and I enjoyed it, and I'm puttin' the video out today, 'cause I got a chance to get my message to the illegal aliens: Get out of my country -- now. Take a hint. Vamoose. I don't got to say, "Don't let the border gate hit you on the backside on the way out." And I mean it. I'm very serious about it. But the thing is, he tried the ploy with the, "Oh, I hear on talk radio all the time, these Mexicans are comin' in here." Like, as if we Americans talk about Mexicans --
BOYLES: No.
GHEEN: -- we're racists.
BOYLES: Well, no, but see that's the game that's now been played. It's been played here by elected officials, by columnists, by idiot on-airs, by so-called activists. They start using, "We're the new Jews, you're the Nazis." I mean, the rest of this nonsense. I --
GHEEN: But see, that stuff, that's -- Americans are the Jews.
BOYLES: But William -- but Bill, that's -- right, of course. But, see, not how it's, the victimization of the illegal. And I have, always have one question, which is never answered: When did illegal become a race?
—C.H.
Source: MediaMatters
Fake letters spark immigration fears
Arlington: Feds say cash demand sent to Latinos' apartments is a scam
By ISABEL C. MORALES Al DÃa imorales@aldiatx.com
ARLINGTON – Latino residents of Arlington apartment complexes say they received letters threatening a visit from federal immigration agents if they didn't send $95 cash to a post office box.
"People have fear, and more than anything because of what is happening in Irving," said Ruby Valenzuela, assistant manager of the Las Lomas apartments, where at least four residents said they found the notices from the nonexistent "Immigration Citizenship Enforcement" agency taped to their doors.
Carl Rusnok, regional spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that his agency did not send the bogus letters.
MarÃa Elena GarcÃa Upson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Dallas, said people who receive such letters should contact government offices.
"We are living [in] very turbulent times in regards to immigration," she said.
The letters, written in English on official-looking letterhead, ask that the recipients send the money to a post office box in Dallas to help start the citizenship process.
"If the amount is not received in 14 days, you can get a visit from an ICE agent," the letter warns.
"When I saw it posted on the door and read it for the first time, I felt very scared," said one homemaker who spoke on the condition that her name not be used. "One cannot do anything with something like this."
Giovani Estrada, a tenant and employee of the Park Row apartments, said he also received a letter, and about 10 residents at the complex had asked him to translate the letters they received. Mr. Estrada, a permanent legal U.S. resident, said the letter looked real. "People were terrified," he said.
Source: DallasNews
By ISABEL C. MORALES Al DÃa imorales@aldiatx.com
ARLINGTON – Latino residents of Arlington apartment complexes say they received letters threatening a visit from federal immigration agents if they didn't send $95 cash to a post office box.
"People have fear, and more than anything because of what is happening in Irving," said Ruby Valenzuela, assistant manager of the Las Lomas apartments, where at least four residents said they found the notices from the nonexistent "Immigration Citizenship Enforcement" agency taped to their doors.
Carl Rusnok, regional spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that his agency did not send the bogus letters.
MarÃa Elena GarcÃa Upson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Dallas, said people who receive such letters should contact government offices.
"We are living [in] very turbulent times in regards to immigration," she said.
The letters, written in English on official-looking letterhead, ask that the recipients send the money to a post office box in Dallas to help start the citizenship process.
"If the amount is not received in 14 days, you can get a visit from an ICE agent," the letter warns.
"When I saw it posted on the door and read it for the first time, I felt very scared," said one homemaker who spoke on the condition that her name not be used. "One cannot do anything with something like this."
Giovani Estrada, a tenant and employee of the Park Row apartments, said he also received a letter, and about 10 residents at the complex had asked him to translate the letters they received. Mr. Estrada, a permanent legal U.S. resident, said the letter looked real. "People were terrified," he said.
Source: DallasNews
ADL: Anti-Immigrant Groups Borrow From Playbook of Hate Groups to Demonize Hispanics
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the national debate
over immigration reached a fever pitch, some mainstream advocacy groups
"reached for the playbook of hate groups" -- resorting to hateful and
dehumanizing stereotypes and outright bigotry to demonize immigrants.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors extremist groups and
their rhetoric with regard to the immigration debate, has exposed a new
development where some of the more mainstream anti-immigrant groups
increasingly are adopting the tactics and rhetoric of racist groups and
moving it into the mainstream.
"Under the guise of warning about the impact of illegal immigration in
the rush to thwart the immigration bill from becoming law, some
anti-immigrant groups reached for the playbook of hate groups," said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "They have taken hateful and
racist rhetoric and brought it into the mainstream."
ADL's new online report, Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves
into the Mainstream documents the rhetoric employed by groups that
routinely position themselves as legitimate, mainstream advocates against
illegal immigration in America.
A closer look at the public record reveals that many ostensibly
mainstream anti-illegal immigration organizations -- including those who
testified before Congress or frequently appeared on news programs --
promote virulent anti- Hispanic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Some groups
have fostered links with extremist groups. The groups highlighted in the
ADL report include Mothers Against Illegal Aliens (Phoenix, AZ), the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (Washington, DC), Choose Black
America, You Don't Speak for Me, Americans for Legal Immigration Political
Action Committee (Raleigh, NC), Grass Fire (Maxwell, IA) and The Dustin
Inman Society (Marietta, GA).
"The Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis were not the only ones who saw an
opportunity in the national debate over immigration to sow the seeds of
racism as a means to derail immigration reform," said Mr. Foxman. "While
reasonable people can disagree about border control and the appropriate
parameters for immigration reform, the debate has been tainted by the
virulent anti-immigrant message employed by a handful of groups. The real
victims in this are Hispanic-Americans and other immigrants who are being
unfairly targeted, demeaned and stereotyped."
The report cites several key tactics used by anti-immigrant groups,
including:
-- Describing immigrants as "third world invaders," who come to America to
destroy our heritage, "colonize" the country and attack our "way of
life." This charge is used against Hispanics, Asians and other people
of color.
-- Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of "hordes" that
"swarm" over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.
-- Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy,
tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease),
dengue fever, polio, malaria.
-- Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and
a danger to children and families.
-- Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret "reconquista"
plot by Mexican immigrants to create a "greater Mexico" by seizing
seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico.
ADL has written a number of reports documenting the impact of anti-
immigrant rhetoric and activities by extremist groups. The full report,
Immigrants Targeted, which includes video clips showing the rhetoric of
some of the groups, is available on the League's Web site at
http://www.adl.org.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
SOURCE Anti-Defamation League ADL | PRNewsWire
over immigration reached a fever pitch, some mainstream advocacy groups
"reached for the playbook of hate groups" -- resorting to hateful and
dehumanizing stereotypes and outright bigotry to demonize immigrants.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors extremist groups and
their rhetoric with regard to the immigration debate, has exposed a new
development where some of the more mainstream anti-immigrant groups
increasingly are adopting the tactics and rhetoric of racist groups and
moving it into the mainstream.
"Under the guise of warning about the impact of illegal immigration in
the rush to thwart the immigration bill from becoming law, some
anti-immigrant groups reached for the playbook of hate groups," said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "They have taken hateful and
racist rhetoric and brought it into the mainstream."
ADL's new online report, Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves
into the Mainstream documents the rhetoric employed by groups that
routinely position themselves as legitimate, mainstream advocates against
illegal immigration in America.
A closer look at the public record reveals that many ostensibly
mainstream anti-illegal immigration organizations -- including those who
testified before Congress or frequently appeared on news programs --
promote virulent anti- Hispanic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Some groups
have fostered links with extremist groups. The groups highlighted in the
ADL report include Mothers Against Illegal Aliens (Phoenix, AZ), the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (Washington, DC), Choose Black
America, You Don't Speak for Me, Americans for Legal Immigration Political
Action Committee (Raleigh, NC), Grass Fire (Maxwell, IA) and The Dustin
Inman Society (Marietta, GA).
"The Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis were not the only ones who saw an
opportunity in the national debate over immigration to sow the seeds of
racism as a means to derail immigration reform," said Mr. Foxman. "While
reasonable people can disagree about border control and the appropriate
parameters for immigration reform, the debate has been tainted by the
virulent anti-immigrant message employed by a handful of groups. The real
victims in this are Hispanic-Americans and other immigrants who are being
unfairly targeted, demeaned and stereotyped."
The report cites several key tactics used by anti-immigrant groups,
including:
-- Describing immigrants as "third world invaders," who come to America to
destroy our heritage, "colonize" the country and attack our "way of
life." This charge is used against Hispanics, Asians and other people
of color.
-- Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of "hordes" that
"swarm" over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.
-- Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy,
tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease),
dengue fever, polio, malaria.
-- Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and
a danger to children and families.
-- Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret "reconquista"
plot by Mexican immigrants to create a "greater Mexico" by seizing
seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico.
ADL has written a number of reports documenting the impact of anti-
immigrant rhetoric and activities by extremist groups. The full report,
Immigrants Targeted, which includes video clips showing the rhetoric of
some of the groups, is available on the League's Web site at
http://www.adl.org.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
SOURCE Anti-Defamation League ADL | PRNewsWire
Hispanics claim targeting
KELLY KERR / Tulsa World
By DEON HAMPTON World Staff Writer Deon Hampton 581-8413
deon.hampton@tulsaworld.com
11/3/2007
Police are accused of singling out immigrants.
Some police are profiling Hispanics in the wake of the state’s new anti-illegal immigration law, the Rev. Victor Orta said Friday.
A small number of rogue police officers are targeting undocumented immigrants in attempts to have them deported two days after House Bill 1804 went into effect, Tulsa Hispanic leaders said Friday.
Officers will always take the law into their own hands and cross the line, the Rev. Victor Orta said at a press conference.
Police officers recently pulled over a legal American Hispanic while he was driving with his girlfriend and later arrested him because he couldn't prove his identity, Orta said.
The police then told the girlfriend that she should feel lucky that the bill hadn't gone into effect yet, or she would have faced felony charges for "transporting" an illegal immigrant Orta said.
He also spoke of area Hispanics being asked for green cards upon entering their respective apartment complexes.
"The panic level is high," Orta said.
He declined to provide specific details on the incidents, including names.
"I want to protect their privacy," Orta said.
Russell Abbott, an attorney representing many illegal immigrants, also believes local law enforcement are racially profiling Hispanics.
Officers are looking to hand out nuisance traffic tickets in hopes of catching illegal aliens, he said.
"On the surface, it seems like discrimination," Abbott said.
Tulsa County Undersheriff Brian Edwards has said the sheriff's office is only checking the residency status of people who are arrested, not victims or witnesses.
The new law makes it a felony to knowingly transport illegal aliens; creates state barriers to hiring illegal immigrants; requires state contractors to check the immigration status of workers after July 1; and requires proof of citizenship to receive certain government benefits.
Tulsa resident LouAnn Beavers attended the news conference, held at the Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, as a concerned citizen.
Beavers said she has many friends in fear of deportation, which would split their families.
"I know someone who may pack up her grandchildren and drive to Mexico to meet the children's father once he is arrested and deported by police," she said.
Orta said he believe that police aren't planning to raid homes or set up road blocks to capture Hispanics.
However, after learning the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office planned to conduct a routine roadside safety check Friday night, Orta warned Hispanics to stay home at all costs.
"There's a need to be cautious," Orta said.
The sheriff's office said the roadblock wasn't targeting illegal immigrants and was part of a continuing traffic safety effort.
Connection Clinic, a federally qualified health clinic, plans to offer help for Hispanic children traumatized by events.
"We have bilingual counselors and psychologists to help the children cope during this difficult time," said Laurie Paul, the executive director.
Orta said many children need counseling due to broken families and other reasons.
By DEON HAMPTON World Staff Writer Deon Hampton 581-8413
deon.hampton@tulsaworld.com
11/3/2007
Police are accused of singling out immigrants.
Some police are profiling Hispanics in the wake of the state’s new anti-illegal immigration law, the Rev. Victor Orta said Friday.
A small number of rogue police officers are targeting undocumented immigrants in attempts to have them deported two days after House Bill 1804 went into effect, Tulsa Hispanic leaders said Friday.
Officers will always take the law into their own hands and cross the line, the Rev. Victor Orta said at a press conference.
Police officers recently pulled over a legal American Hispanic while he was driving with his girlfriend and later arrested him because he couldn't prove his identity, Orta said.
The police then told the girlfriend that she should feel lucky that the bill hadn't gone into effect yet, or she would have faced felony charges for "transporting" an illegal immigrant Orta said.
He also spoke of area Hispanics being asked for green cards upon entering their respective apartment complexes.
"The panic level is high," Orta said.
He declined to provide specific details on the incidents, including names.
"I want to protect their privacy," Orta said.
Russell Abbott, an attorney representing many illegal immigrants, also believes local law enforcement are racially profiling Hispanics.
Officers are looking to hand out nuisance traffic tickets in hopes of catching illegal aliens, he said.
"On the surface, it seems like discrimination," Abbott said.
Tulsa County Undersheriff Brian Edwards has said the sheriff's office is only checking the residency status of people who are arrested, not victims or witnesses.
The new law makes it a felony to knowingly transport illegal aliens; creates state barriers to hiring illegal immigrants; requires state contractors to check the immigration status of workers after July 1; and requires proof of citizenship to receive certain government benefits.
Tulsa resident LouAnn Beavers attended the news conference, held at the Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, as a concerned citizen.
Beavers said she has many friends in fear of deportation, which would split their families.
"I know someone who may pack up her grandchildren and drive to Mexico to meet the children's father once he is arrested and deported by police," she said.
Orta said he believe that police aren't planning to raid homes or set up road blocks to capture Hispanics.
However, after learning the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office planned to conduct a routine roadside safety check Friday night, Orta warned Hispanics to stay home at all costs.
"There's a need to be cautious," Orta said.
The sheriff's office said the roadblock wasn't targeting illegal immigrants and was part of a continuing traffic safety effort.
Connection Clinic, a federally qualified health clinic, plans to offer help for Hispanic children traumatized by events.
"We have bilingual counselors and psychologists to help the children cope during this difficult time," said Laurie Paul, the executive director.
Orta said many children need counseling due to broken families and other reasons.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Horror Gateway
The hate crime that killed Cheryl Green may be part of a larger campaign, orchestrated out of the prisons
The spot where Cheryl Green was gunned down by the 204th St. Gang
Like other African-American residents of this 12-block working-class enclave, Charlene Lovett came to the South L.A. neighborhood of Harbor Gateway thinking she was giving her kids a better life. Shortly after she settled in, her neighbors came over to warn her about a decade of violence by Latino gangs against neighborhood blacks. Lovett recalls, "They said don't walk north to 204th Street."
That was six years ago. Today, one wall in Lovett's tidy ground floor apartment is dedicated with photos, letters, and posters to her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Green, who was brutally gunned down in December by the 204th Street Gang, the 100-member Latino street gang that has been terrorizing the black community there. "I'm not part of a gang. My daughter was not part of a gang," Lovett stresses. "My daughter was killed because of the color of her skin."
This is not a gang war. There is no black gang that encroaches on the 204's turf. The hate is so prevalent and obvious that activists and city officials alike can no longer avoid calling it by the name being used by everyone from prosecutors to opinion writers in the L.A. Times: ethnic cleansing. "I'm not saying it's a problem with Latinos generally," Lovett clarifies. "I wouldn't dare say that. All I'm saying is that the gangs here have let it be known that they hate black people.
"They have written it on the walls, graffiti-ed the ground, and put it online, on the web."
The evidence is hard to miss: the N-word is graffitied everywhere; 206th Street has been declared a line blacks cannot cross; there is a big market on 204th Street in which blacks are forbidden to shop. Like other Latino gang members, one of the suspects charged in this murder had a MySpace web page riddled with anti-black rhetoric.
And now, more. Seated at her dining table and joined by Los Angeles Humanity Advocacy Group's Melvin Snell and Project Islamic Hope's Najee Ali, Lovett listens, hands pressed against her mouth, as Snell reads a letter she recently received from the previous occupant of her apartment. And though it came just a few days ago, "Words of encouragement from one black mother to another," is dated December 13, 2006. The sender, Snell calls her "Blank" � was working in the Emergency Room in Harbor UCLA hospital the night Cheryl and her friends were rushed in. She helped get the victims out of the car. "I watched them work on your baby," she says.
"I know you don't remember me, but my name is �Blank.� I'm the lady who used to live in your apartment. When I moved out, you moved in. I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for not warning you about the 204s. You see I had a bad experience with them. They shot my daughter's boyfriend's car up one night as they were leaving to go to the movies. God spared my daughter, for some reason. I don't know. God needed Cheryl up in heaven."
Across the street, newly constructed Spanish-style town homes are riddled with bullet holes and anti-black graffiti. Photographer Ted Soqui was taking pictures when he caught up with the developer, a Chinese immigrant, who said he has to patch broken windows and bullet holes and clean up the 204s racial slogans once a week. It�s sad, he said. He was trying to build something that would make the neighborhood nicer.
Ernesto Alcarez, 20, was arrested Dec. 21 in connection with Green�s murder, and on Jan. 4 police had Jonathan Fajardo, 18, the alleged triggerman, in custody. Both are charged with special circumstances murder, attempted murder, ? and hate crimes. They can face the death penalty if convicted.
On Jan. 15, Ali announced that he had negotiated a peace treaty with the 204s that would be signed at 10 a.m. the following Thursday outside the Del Amo market where blacks are forbidden to shop. One of the reasons, he said, was fear of more violence by black gangs living outside the Harbor Gateway area who might come seeking retaliation. Snell, National Action Network President Rev. K.W. Tullos, members of Ali�s Latino and African American Leadership Alliance, and members of the 204th Street Gang would all be present.
That event was co-opted by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who scheduled a press conference on the subject at exactly the same time, right nearby. At 10 a.m. that Thursday, Villaraigosa stood outside the Del Amo Market with LAPD Chief William Bratton and FBI Director Robert Muller and announced that they were putting the 204�s on gang injunctions and taking other measures citywide. �We are coming with everything we have � and we are putting you out of business,� the mayor said.
As gang violence increased 40 percent in 2006, community leaders prevailed on the mayor and law enforcement to take a harder look at the increase in hate crimes � not only in Harbor Gateway, but also in Long Beach, where a crowd of blacks on Halloween attacked three white teenage girls. In Highland Park, where prosecutors who obtained hate-crime convictions against four members of the Latino gang, the Avenues, uncovered the gang�s chilling �racial cleansing plot� against young African Americans and their Latino supporters.
Criminal attorney Anthony Willoughby has defended gang members as well as members of the Mexican Mafia, the prison gang known by the FBI to control some aspects of the drug trade. Unlike street gangs, this Mafia is highly organized; Latino gangs pay them a tax. As long as recalcitrant gang members don�t end up in prison, Willoughby explains, they are safe. However, since most gangbangers will do at least one prison stint, a Latino gang member who refuses to carry out their agenda stands a good chance of being killed.
To Willoughby this is the �the 400-pound gorilla in the room.� No one is talking about it. "Every race riot in L.A. is precipitated and directed by the Mexican Mafia," he says.
�[Villaraigosa and others are] missing the boat,� he adds. �The issue is that the Mexican Mafia has issued a green light for these killings. Unless you deal with the source, the Mexican Mafia, you�re only dealing with the symptoms. The light must go red.�
When asked by Newsweek reporter Andrew Murr last week if prison gang violence was spilling onto the streets, Bratton answered, �There were stories a couple of years back about the Mexican Mafia targeting blacks, but we could not document it anywhere.�
�We�assumed that Muller the head of the FBI would have at least briefed�Bratton before they met, or�e-mailed him a copy of the report on the FBI website detailing the Mexican Mafia�s stated desire to kill all blacks,� Ali says.
Five days after the mayor's press conference, there's new graffiti on 205 St. It says "205s Fuck the Injunctions."
"It wasn't there this morning," says William, a black man who doesn't want to give us his last name. "They used to write 204s." When William first moved here, the 204s visited and said he wasn't allowed to go to the market.
On the other side of 205th Street and Harvard, a Latino man holding his baby daughter stops to talk to us. He points west, down the block. That's where they deal the drugs, he says. "By the trucks. You see? They kill many children there."
Early in the morning on January 21, a black man on his way to pick up his kids was shot on 225 St. Law enforcement believes it was the work of a rival Latino gang, the East Torrance gang that Ali says has threatened to kill him if he doesn't stop coming around.
"I've been coming over here since about 1995 and this has always been about racial tension. There is no other gang here," says a 30-year-old African American who wished to go unnamed.
"If the white population was acting like the Latino population, we'd have the Department of Justice and everyone else in here," Willoughby says. "Because the actions that are occurring right now are worse than the Ku Klux Klan."
Source: StreetGangs
The spot where Cheryl Green was gunned down by the 204th St. Gang
Like other African-American residents of this 12-block working-class enclave, Charlene Lovett came to the South L.A. neighborhood of Harbor Gateway thinking she was giving her kids a better life. Shortly after she settled in, her neighbors came over to warn her about a decade of violence by Latino gangs against neighborhood blacks. Lovett recalls, "They said don't walk north to 204th Street."
That was six years ago. Today, one wall in Lovett's tidy ground floor apartment is dedicated with photos, letters, and posters to her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Green, who was brutally gunned down in December by the 204th Street Gang, the 100-member Latino street gang that has been terrorizing the black community there. "I'm not part of a gang. My daughter was not part of a gang," Lovett stresses. "My daughter was killed because of the color of her skin."
This is not a gang war. There is no black gang that encroaches on the 204's turf. The hate is so prevalent and obvious that activists and city officials alike can no longer avoid calling it by the name being used by everyone from prosecutors to opinion writers in the L.A. Times: ethnic cleansing. "I'm not saying it's a problem with Latinos generally," Lovett clarifies. "I wouldn't dare say that. All I'm saying is that the gangs here have let it be known that they hate black people.
"They have written it on the walls, graffiti-ed the ground, and put it online, on the web."
The evidence is hard to miss: the N-word is graffitied everywhere; 206th Street has been declared a line blacks cannot cross; there is a big market on 204th Street in which blacks are forbidden to shop. Like other Latino gang members, one of the suspects charged in this murder had a MySpace web page riddled with anti-black rhetoric.
And now, more. Seated at her dining table and joined by Los Angeles Humanity Advocacy Group's Melvin Snell and Project Islamic Hope's Najee Ali, Lovett listens, hands pressed against her mouth, as Snell reads a letter she recently received from the previous occupant of her apartment. And though it came just a few days ago, "Words of encouragement from one black mother to another," is dated December 13, 2006. The sender, Snell calls her "Blank" � was working in the Emergency Room in Harbor UCLA hospital the night Cheryl and her friends were rushed in. She helped get the victims out of the car. "I watched them work on your baby," she says.
"I know you don't remember me, but my name is �Blank.� I'm the lady who used to live in your apartment. When I moved out, you moved in. I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for not warning you about the 204s. You see I had a bad experience with them. They shot my daughter's boyfriend's car up one night as they were leaving to go to the movies. God spared my daughter, for some reason. I don't know. God needed Cheryl up in heaven."
Across the street, newly constructed Spanish-style town homes are riddled with bullet holes and anti-black graffiti. Photographer Ted Soqui was taking pictures when he caught up with the developer, a Chinese immigrant, who said he has to patch broken windows and bullet holes and clean up the 204s racial slogans once a week. It�s sad, he said. He was trying to build something that would make the neighborhood nicer.
Ernesto Alcarez, 20, was arrested Dec. 21 in connection with Green�s murder, and on Jan. 4 police had Jonathan Fajardo, 18, the alleged triggerman, in custody. Both are charged with special circumstances murder, attempted murder, ? and hate crimes. They can face the death penalty if convicted.
On Jan. 15, Ali announced that he had negotiated a peace treaty with the 204s that would be signed at 10 a.m. the following Thursday outside the Del Amo market where blacks are forbidden to shop. One of the reasons, he said, was fear of more violence by black gangs living outside the Harbor Gateway area who might come seeking retaliation. Snell, National Action Network President Rev. K.W. Tullos, members of Ali�s Latino and African American Leadership Alliance, and members of the 204th Street Gang would all be present.
That event was co-opted by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who scheduled a press conference on the subject at exactly the same time, right nearby. At 10 a.m. that Thursday, Villaraigosa stood outside the Del Amo Market with LAPD Chief William Bratton and FBI Director Robert Muller and announced that they were putting the 204�s on gang injunctions and taking other measures citywide. �We are coming with everything we have � and we are putting you out of business,� the mayor said.
As gang violence increased 40 percent in 2006, community leaders prevailed on the mayor and law enforcement to take a harder look at the increase in hate crimes � not only in Harbor Gateway, but also in Long Beach, where a crowd of blacks on Halloween attacked three white teenage girls. In Highland Park, where prosecutors who obtained hate-crime convictions against four members of the Latino gang, the Avenues, uncovered the gang�s chilling �racial cleansing plot� against young African Americans and their Latino supporters.
Criminal attorney Anthony Willoughby has defended gang members as well as members of the Mexican Mafia, the prison gang known by the FBI to control some aspects of the drug trade. Unlike street gangs, this Mafia is highly organized; Latino gangs pay them a tax. As long as recalcitrant gang members don�t end up in prison, Willoughby explains, they are safe. However, since most gangbangers will do at least one prison stint, a Latino gang member who refuses to carry out their agenda stands a good chance of being killed.
To Willoughby this is the �the 400-pound gorilla in the room.� No one is talking about it. "Every race riot in L.A. is precipitated and directed by the Mexican Mafia," he says.
�[Villaraigosa and others are] missing the boat,� he adds. �The issue is that the Mexican Mafia has issued a green light for these killings. Unless you deal with the source, the Mexican Mafia, you�re only dealing with the symptoms. The light must go red.�
When asked by Newsweek reporter Andrew Murr last week if prison gang violence was spilling onto the streets, Bratton answered, �There were stories a couple of years back about the Mexican Mafia targeting blacks, but we could not document it anywhere.�
�We�assumed that Muller the head of the FBI would have at least briefed�Bratton before they met, or�e-mailed him a copy of the report on the FBI website detailing the Mexican Mafia�s stated desire to kill all blacks,� Ali says.
Five days after the mayor's press conference, there's new graffiti on 205 St. It says "205s Fuck the Injunctions."
"It wasn't there this morning," says William, a black man who doesn't want to give us his last name. "They used to write 204s." When William first moved here, the 204s visited and said he wasn't allowed to go to the market.
On the other side of 205th Street and Harvard, a Latino man holding his baby daughter stops to talk to us. He points west, down the block. That's where they deal the drugs, he says. "By the trucks. You see? They kill many children there."
Early in the morning on January 21, a black man on his way to pick up his kids was shot on 225 St. Law enforcement believes it was the work of a rival Latino gang, the East Torrance gang that Ali says has threatened to kill him if he doesn't stop coming around.
"I've been coming over here since about 1995 and this has always been about racial tension. There is no other gang here," says a 30-year-old African American who wished to go unnamed.
"If the white population was acting like the Latino population, we'd have the Department of Justice and everyone else in here," Willoughby says. "Because the actions that are occurring right now are worse than the Ku Klux Klan."
Source: StreetGangs
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
6 Arrests In Alleged Torture Case In W.Va.
Victim Is Black, Suspects Are White; Cops Consider Hate Crime Charges
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Sept. 11, 2007
(CBS/AP) Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week, and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man she met on the Internet.
The victim was repeatedly called a racial slur while her captors sexually abused, beat and stabbed her, her mother said.
Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 20-year-old black woman.
"I don't understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter," Carmen Williams said Tuesday from her daughter's room at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital. "I didn't know there were people like that out here."
Megan Williams, with a cast on her arm, spoke barely above a whisper.
"I'm better," she said.
The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name.
A prosecutor said police are investigating the possibility that the victim was lured to the house where she was attacked by a man she met on the internet, but Carmen Williams insisted that wasn't the case. "This wasn't from the Internet," she said.
Deputies also interviewed the victim Tuesday morning. State, local and federal officials planned to meet later in the day to decide whether to file hate crime charges, Logan County sheriff's Sgt. Sonya Porter said. An FBI spokesman in Pittsburgh, Bill Crowley, confirmed that the agency is looking into possible civil rights violations.
The woman's abductors called her the N-word "every time they stabbed her," Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette earlier.
Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the woman to the house where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess.
The case is "something that would have come out of a horror movie," Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said.
Deputies found Williams on Saturday when they went to the house in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip from someone who had witnessed the abuse, Porter said Tuesday.
One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the woman limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying "Help me," the sheriff's department said in a news release.
Carmen Williams said doctors told her daughter she may be well enough to leave the hospital within a few days, although a nurse said the young woman's condition was listed as "under evaluation."
"I just want my daughter to be well and recover," Carmen Williams said. "I know the Lord can do anything."
Besides being sexually assaulted, the woman was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Her eyes were black and blue. The wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.
The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also had been choked with a cord, it alleges.
She was made to lick parts of Brewster’s body, under the threat of death, according to The Charleston Gazette. Her hair was pulled out. She was sexually assaulted while hot water was poured on her body, and while a man held a knife to her, the paper reported.
One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.
The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were still trying to determine whether the woman knew her assailants, Porter said.
Brewster, the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation.
Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony.
Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony.
Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.
Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.
All six remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 bail each, and all have asked for court-appointed attorneys.
Source: CBSNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Sept. 11, 2007
(CBS/AP) Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week, and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man she met on the Internet.
The victim was repeatedly called a racial slur while her captors sexually abused, beat and stabbed her, her mother said.
Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 20-year-old black woman.
"I don't understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter," Carmen Williams said Tuesday from her daughter's room at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital. "I didn't know there were people like that out here."
Megan Williams, with a cast on her arm, spoke barely above a whisper.
"I'm better," she said.
The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name.
A prosecutor said police are investigating the possibility that the victim was lured to the house where she was attacked by a man she met on the internet, but Carmen Williams insisted that wasn't the case. "This wasn't from the Internet," she said.
Deputies also interviewed the victim Tuesday morning. State, local and federal officials planned to meet later in the day to decide whether to file hate crime charges, Logan County sheriff's Sgt. Sonya Porter said. An FBI spokesman in Pittsburgh, Bill Crowley, confirmed that the agency is looking into possible civil rights violations.
The woman's abductors called her the N-word "every time they stabbed her," Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette earlier.
Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the woman to the house where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess.
The case is "something that would have come out of a horror movie," Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said.
Deputies found Williams on Saturday when they went to the house in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip from someone who had witnessed the abuse, Porter said Tuesday.
One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the woman limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying "Help me," the sheriff's department said in a news release.
Carmen Williams said doctors told her daughter she may be well enough to leave the hospital within a few days, although a nurse said the young woman's condition was listed as "under evaluation."
"I just want my daughter to be well and recover," Carmen Williams said. "I know the Lord can do anything."
Besides being sexually assaulted, the woman was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Her eyes were black and blue. The wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.
The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also had been choked with a cord, it alleges.
She was made to lick parts of Brewster’s body, under the threat of death, according to The Charleston Gazette. Her hair was pulled out. She was sexually assaulted while hot water was poured on her body, and while a man held a knife to her, the paper reported.
One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.
The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were still trying to determine whether the woman knew her assailants, Porter said.
Brewster, the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation.
Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony.
Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony.
Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.
Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.
All six remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 bail each, and all have asked for court-appointed attorneys.
Source: CBSNews
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Kansas City Minuteman Extremist refuses to step down
The Associated Press
Kansas City — A woman whose presence on the city's park board has two national groups threatening to pull their conventions from Kansas City unless she steps down says she doesn't intend to resign.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser's June appointment of an Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist and member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has caused a stir in the local Hispanic community. It also has led officers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Council of La Raza to threaten cancellation of national conventions in Kansas City.
Not hosting those events in 2009 and 2010 could cost the city thousands of visitors and millions of dollars.
Semler said Thursday that she felt the pressure from the two national groups and was shaken by a local group that showed up at her doorstep Wednesday.
But, she said, "I don't intend to resign."
In June, Funkhouser turned down Semler's offer to resign after the initial uproar over her appointment. But on Thursday he said he wouldn't require her to stay on the park board, because of recent events.
"If she feels like it's more than she wants to deal with, I'm not going to force her to do it," Funkhouser said.
Semler called the attention from the national civil rights groups "the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard" and said her views on immigration should not affect her service on the board. She is a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which opposes illegal immigration and has set up patrols along the border with Mexico.
Funkhouser said he continues to support Semler, even if it means losing the two conventions and any other events.
The dispute comes amid efforts to boost downtown and has left many in the Kansas City tourism industry concerned. More than $1 billion has been invested in visitor amenities and attractions now under construction in a reinvented entertainment and night life district near the city's Bartle Hall convention center. As the new district slowly takes shape ahead of a planned spring 2008 opening, future convention bookings have been hitting record levels.
"This has turned into a political dogfight that hurts our employees, and that is sad," said Tom Holden, executive director of the Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Kansas City.
Kansas City officials learned last month that the city was the NAACP's unofficial choice to host the group's 2010 national convention, which is expected to bring 10,000 visitors and $9 million in spending impact over the weeklong event.
La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, plans to hold its 2009 four-day event in Kansas City, bringing in 4,000 visitors who are estimated to spend $5.5 million.
"The country is looking at our city and seeing what we stand for," said Rita Valenciano of the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations. "Do we stand for a community that's diverse, inclusive and welcoming? Or do we stand for bigotry and hatred against a targeted group because of their looks and appearance and language?"
City Councilwoman Beth Gottstein said she worries this issue could grow into a bigger boycott of Kansas City.
Source: News-Leader
Kansas City — A woman whose presence on the city's park board has two national groups threatening to pull their conventions from Kansas City unless she steps down says she doesn't intend to resign.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser's June appointment of an Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist and member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has caused a stir in the local Hispanic community. It also has led officers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Council of La Raza to threaten cancellation of national conventions in Kansas City.
Not hosting those events in 2009 and 2010 could cost the city thousands of visitors and millions of dollars.
Semler said Thursday that she felt the pressure from the two national groups and was shaken by a local group that showed up at her doorstep Wednesday.
But, she said, "I don't intend to resign."
In June, Funkhouser turned down Semler's offer to resign after the initial uproar over her appointment. But on Thursday he said he wouldn't require her to stay on the park board, because of recent events.
"If she feels like it's more than she wants to deal with, I'm not going to force her to do it," Funkhouser said.
Semler called the attention from the national civil rights groups "the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard" and said her views on immigration should not affect her service on the board. She is a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which opposes illegal immigration and has set up patrols along the border with Mexico.
Funkhouser said he continues to support Semler, even if it means losing the two conventions and any other events.
The dispute comes amid efforts to boost downtown and has left many in the Kansas City tourism industry concerned. More than $1 billion has been invested in visitor amenities and attractions now under construction in a reinvented entertainment and night life district near the city's Bartle Hall convention center. As the new district slowly takes shape ahead of a planned spring 2008 opening, future convention bookings have been hitting record levels.
"This has turned into a political dogfight that hurts our employees, and that is sad," said Tom Holden, executive director of the Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Kansas City.
Kansas City officials learned last month that the city was the NAACP's unofficial choice to host the group's 2010 national convention, which is expected to bring 10,000 visitors and $9 million in spending impact over the weeklong event.
La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, plans to hold its 2009 four-day event in Kansas City, bringing in 4,000 visitors who are estimated to spend $5.5 million.
"The country is looking at our city and seeing what we stand for," said Rita Valenciano of the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations. "Do we stand for a community that's diverse, inclusive and welcoming? Or do we stand for bigotry and hatred against a targeted group because of their looks and appearance and language?"
City Councilwoman Beth Gottstein said she worries this issue could grow into a bigger boycott of Kansas City.
Source: News-Leader
Police look into racist vandalism in Dogtown
Gary Klien
Marin Independent Journal
Racist comments scrawled on a highway sign and a tarp in West Marin have prompted an investigation by the sheriff's office.
The vandalism was discovered at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday by a deputy patrolling Shoreline Highway in Dogtown, a sparsely populated village between Olema and Bolinas. Police said someone wrote "Help KKK kill blacks" on a state "Adopt a Highway" sign in the 5900 block of Shoreline Highway.
The vandal or vandals also wrote "It's not a crime to be white and proud" on a tarp and stretched it from the highway sign to a nearby tree, said sheriff's Lt. Scott Anderson.
The vandalism had not been present when the deputy passed the area at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
"The smell of fresh paint was still in the air," Anderson said.
No similar incidents have been reported, and Anderson said he could recall no such graffiti ever occurring in the area.
Cela O'Connor, who has lived in Dogtown since 1966, expressed disbelief when informed of the incident.
"You're kidding - in West Marin?" she said. "I know everybody who lives out here in Dogtown. I just don't see that coming from anyone up in my neck of the woods.
"That's really odd. That's an anomaly. All we got out here is signs that say 'Save the white deer.'"
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's investigators at 499-7265.
Hate-related crimes of any variety are rare in Marin. In 2006, eight hate offenses were reported, including five in San Rafael, two in Novato and one in the unincorporated area, according to the state Department of Justice.
In 2005, Marin reported 10 hate-related offenses, including seven in unincorporated areas, two in Novato and one in San Rafael.
By comparison, Sonoma County, which has roughly twice Marin's population, logged 29 hate-related offenses last year, including two in Petaluma.
Statewide, the number of hate offenses increased slightly between 2005 and 2006, rising from 1,691 to 1,702, the Department of Justice reported.
Roughly two-thirds of the incidents involved race, ethnicity or national origin; the remainder primarily involved sexual orientation or religion.
The number of hate-related offenses in California hit a 10-year peak of 2,265 in 2001.
Source: MarIniJ
Marin Independent Journal
Racist comments scrawled on a highway sign and a tarp in West Marin have prompted an investigation by the sheriff's office.
The vandalism was discovered at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday by a deputy patrolling Shoreline Highway in Dogtown, a sparsely populated village between Olema and Bolinas. Police said someone wrote "Help KKK kill blacks" on a state "Adopt a Highway" sign in the 5900 block of Shoreline Highway.
The vandal or vandals also wrote "It's not a crime to be white and proud" on a tarp and stretched it from the highway sign to a nearby tree, said sheriff's Lt. Scott Anderson.
The vandalism had not been present when the deputy passed the area at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
"The smell of fresh paint was still in the air," Anderson said.
No similar incidents have been reported, and Anderson said he could recall no such graffiti ever occurring in the area.
Cela O'Connor, who has lived in Dogtown since 1966, expressed disbelief when informed of the incident.
"You're kidding - in West Marin?" she said. "I know everybody who lives out here in Dogtown. I just don't see that coming from anyone up in my neck of the woods.
"That's really odd. That's an anomaly. All we got out here is signs that say 'Save the white deer.'"
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's investigators at 499-7265.
Hate-related crimes of any variety are rare in Marin. In 2006, eight hate offenses were reported, including five in San Rafael, two in Novato and one in the unincorporated area, according to the state Department of Justice.
In 2005, Marin reported 10 hate-related offenses, including seven in unincorporated areas, two in Novato and one in San Rafael.
By comparison, Sonoma County, which has roughly twice Marin's population, logged 29 hate-related offenses last year, including two in Petaluma.
Statewide, the number of hate offenses increased slightly between 2005 and 2006, rising from 1,691 to 1,702, the Department of Justice reported.
Roughly two-thirds of the incidents involved race, ethnicity or national origin; the remainder primarily involved sexual orientation or religion.
The number of hate-related offenses in California hit a 10-year peak of 2,265 in 2001.
Source: MarIniJ
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
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