Why Are White Supremacists So Attracted to Ron Paul?

This can't be a plus for the upstart GOP candidate.

Stormfront.org, a white supremacy web site, as well as others, such as WhiteWorldNews.com, have actively supported Paul's bid for the presidency, including directing donors to his campaign. Stormfront has also endorsed Paul for president.

"Once in a great while a presidential candidate is presented to us. A candidate who not only speaks to us, but for us...I am supporting Ron Paul in his run for the presidency," the Stormfront endorsement says. The endorsement praises Paul's plans to reduce taxes, close the borders and eliminate trade deals, such as NAFTA.

"Whatever organization you belong to, remember first and foremost that you are a white nationalist," the endorsement continues. "Put your differences with one and other aside and work together. Work together to strive to get someone in the Oval Office who agrees with much of what we want for our future. Look at the man. Look at the issues. Look at our future. Vote for Ron Paul 2008."

...On the Vanguard News Network , convicted bomber and neo-Nazi Todd Vanbiber posted his support for Paul, saying, "I think I'm going to get in touch with the local Paul people and see if I can help. I am serious about this shit."; Vanbiber was convicted and spent 5 years in a Florida prison for planning to bomb over a dozen Orlando locations.

Ain't that America. Apparently the attraction to Paul of the supremacist set stems from a political newsletter from 1992 where Ron Paul made some comments that are, well, racist. It's after the jump.

I would hope the Paul campaign would explain this:

* "Opinion polls show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action."

* "We are constantly told it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

* "We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males who have been raised and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such."

Even more embarrassing, according to Lone Star Times, Paul has the support of David Duke, and Stormfront has a YouTube audio commercial up supporting Paul.

Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters actually posted on Paul's writings several months ago -- and there's more.

But, hey, Paul's paranoia isn't limited to African-Americans. He fears the Joooooooos, too:

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

Source: Alternet

Prosecutors charge white supremacist with murder, assault

Associated Press

ARDMORE, Okla. - First-degree murder charges are being filed against a man in Ardmore who police say is a white supremacist and killed a fellow gang member.

Darrell Madden is charged with murder in the shooting death of Bradley Qualls and he faces five counts of assault and battery for trying to steal a car at gunpoint in an effort to escape.

Police Lieutenant Eric Hamblin says both Madden and Qualls were members of the United Aryan Brotherhood which recruits many of its members in prison. Both Madden and Qualls were recently released from prison.

Qualls was found shot to death last Wednesday afternoon and Madden was shot by a police officer and arrested a short time later while allegedly trying to carjack motorists at gunpoint.

Hamblin says police believe Qualls and Madden may have been involved in a homicide that began in Oklahoma City but he declined to provide details.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: KFOR

Racists for Ron!

Hey, look! Ron Paul’s true constituency is stepping forward to claim their boy!

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, whose long-shot campaign has been gaining media attention in recent days, apparently has the support of an unusual constituency — the white supremacist movement. Stormfront.org, a white supremacy web site, as well as others, such as WhiteWorldNews.com, have actively supported Paul’s bid for the presidency, including directing donors to his campaign. Stormfront has also endorsed Paul for president.

“Once in a great while a presidential candidate is presented to us. A candidate who not only speaks to us, but for us…I am supporting Ron Paul in his run for the presidency,” the Stormfront endorsement says.

“Whatever organization you belong to, remember first and foremost that you are a white nationalist,” the endorsement continues. “Put your differences with one and other aside and work together. Work together to strive to get someone in the Oval Office who agrees with much of what we want for our future. Look at the man. Look at the issues. Look at our future. Vote for Ron Paul 2008.”

We know who David Duke’s voting for, too.

Oh, and bonus! Here are some of the charming things Paul has said over the years:

“Opinion polls show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”

“We are constantly told it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”

“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males who have been raised and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”

“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the ‘criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”

I just hope all those Seattle liberals who put “Ron Paul: Hope for America” signs in their windows because he’s, like, against the drug war and the war on terror or something at least learn a little more about the candidate they’re so wholeheartedly supporting.

Source: The Stranger

Racist leaflets disturb some

Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:04 AM MST

CHEYENNE (AP) -- People here say they're disturbed by white supremacist leaflets that were left on cars earlier this week.

Police Chief Bob Fecht said half a dozen people complained about the leaflets advertising a group called the Nationalist Coalition.

One leaflet read: "Immigration? or INVASION."

"LOVE YOUR RACE," proclaimed another with a picture of a white, blond-haired woman.

Fecht said city code bans leaving leaflets on cars.

"Technically, those are illegal," he said. "Normally, as long as they are taken down, there is no problem."

Gretchen McCarthy said three fliers were rolled up with a rubber band and placed on her car antenna. She said she has six adopted children of different races, and was worried -- especially because her neighbors to either side didn't get leaflets.

"I thought somebody had a problem with our family," she said.

But she soon found out that leaflets were left on cars parked on several blocks around her home. Also, leaflets were left on nearly every car at a Kohl's department store.

"It makes me sick," said another resident, Cherie Schlumpf. "This is trash, in my opinion."

But Linda Burt, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the leaflets are protected by the First Amendment.

"The speech that most needs to be protected sometimes is the speech that is the most upsetting," Burt said. "But nice speech doesn't need protection."

Source: CasperStarTribune

Online Game Raising Concerns

KOTV - 11/15/2007 6:00 AM - Updated 11/16/2007 5:51 PM

Oklahoma's new immigration law has thrust many Hispanics into a state of panic. They say, legal or not, they’ve become targets for harassment and hateful remarks. A new game circulating online takes things to a different level. The News On 6 anchor Jennifer Loren reports the game targets illegal Hispanics with violence.

The game is called Border Patrol. The characters are named the Mexican Nationalist, the Drug Smuggler and the Breeder. The game's objective is clearly stated, “keep them out at any cost.”

When you click play, the player becomes a crosshair and when you shoot you kill the characters as they run across the Rio Grande. The more you kill, the higher your score.

"This is a hate crime. It teaches people to hate,” said Rev. Leslie Penrose, an opponent of Oklahoma’s House Bill 1804.

Rev. Leslie Penrose has been outspoken against House Bill 1804, taking part in anti-immigration law rallies. She says the fact that this game is circulating in Oklahoman's e-mails makes things even worse.

"And now what this video does is to further dehumanize them. So now, they're just wetbacks and target practice. There's no longer a face or a human being behind how we talk about undocumented persons in this state anymore," said Rev. Penrose.

But the fact that people think it's funny, makes her think this is a bigger problem.

"That we have become so callous as a culture that we can laugh at killing people, killing women and children,” said Rev. Leslie Penrose.

But perhaps if people knew where the e-mail originated, they wouldn't think it's so funny.

It comes from a White Aryan Resistance website. They're a neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded by the Ku Klux Klan. Border Patrol is one of many of their racist games they hope circulates their message of hate.

That's just one reason Rev. Penrose says people need to think about the message they're sending before they click send.

"We're learning that it’s okay and in fact that it's funny to kill one another. There's something deeply, deeply, spiritually wrong with that,” said Rev. Penrose.

Unfortunately, there are several other games circulating on the internet, many of them are racist, sexist and promoting violence. All you can do is delete them from your e-mail and tell the sender you don't want to receive any more.

For complete coverage of Oklahoma's new immigration reform law, click here.

Watch the video: Online Game Targets Illegals

Source: KOTV

Fact Sheet: Hate Crimes and Prosecution of Civil Rights Violations

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Fact Sheet: Hate Crimes and Prosecution of Civil Rights Violations

The U.S. Department of Justice has always been, and remains, deeply committed to the vigorous enforcement of our nation’s civil rights laws. In recent years, the Department has prosecuted a number of high-profile hate crime cases. As permitted by federal criminal law, the Department of Justice continues to aggressively prosecute those within our society who attack others because of the victims’ race, color, national origin, or religious beliefs.

Ongoing Commitment To Prosecuting Civil Rights Violations:

-In the last several years, the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division has set records and achieved notable successes in prosecuting defendants for civil rights violations.

-In fiscal year 2007, the Department convicted 189 defendants of civil rights violations, the largest number ever in the history of the Department.

-The fiscal year 2007 number broke the previous year’s record number of 181 defendants convicted.

-In fiscal year 2006, the Department charged 201 defendants with civil rights violations, the highest number ever recorded in the Criminal Section.

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice charged nearly 15 percent more defendants with civil rights violations than were charged from fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year 2000. (1159 vs. 1010)

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice charged 62 defendants in 41 cross-burning cases.

-In fiscal year 2007, the Department charged and convicted the second largest number of defendants for official misconduct, or color of law, violations in the history of the Department.

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice convicted over 50 percent more defendants with official misconduct, or color of law, violations than were convicted from fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year 2000. (391 vs. 256)

Response to Recent Noose-Hanging Incidents and Other Allegations:

In recent months, there have been reports from across the country of nooses appearing at schools, work places, and neighborhoods around the country. A noose is powerful symbol of hate and racially motivated violence, and it can constitute the basis of a prosecution under federal criminal civil rights laws in certain circumstances.

As part of the Justice Department’s racial threats initiative, the Department – including the Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Federal Bureau of Investigation – is working in partnership with state and local law enforcement and civil rights organizations to aggressively investigate dozens of noose-hangings and other recent racially motivated threats around the country. Where the facts and law warrant, these investigations will result in prosecution.

Recent Hate Crime and Race-Related Prosecutions:

-Some recent examples of cases prosecuted by the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section include:

-Conspiracy to threaten, assault, and murder African-Americans. United States v. Saldana: Four members of a violent Latino street gang in Los Angeles were convicted of participating in a conspiracy aimed at threatening, assaulting, and murdering African-Americans in a neighborhood claimed by the defendants’ gang. Three of the defendants were also charged with, and convicted of, a federal hate crime violation stemming from the murder of an African American who was killed because he was black and because he was using a public street claimed by the gang. All four defendants received life sentences. In recognition of the success in this case, the prosecution team was awarded the Anti-Defamation League’s 2007 Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate and the International Association of Chiefs of Police 2007 Civil Rights Award.

-Racial cross burnings outside homes. United States v. Shroyer and United States v. Youngblood: Individuals in Indianapolis and Detroit, respectively, were successfully prosecuted for burning crosses outside the homes of biracial families with the intent to interfere with victims’ housing rights.

-Racial intimidation of a biracial family. United States v. Fredericy and Kuzlik: Two men were convicted in Cleveland, Ohio, for their roles in pouring mercury, a highly toxic substance, on the front porch and driveway of a bi-racial couple and their young child. This racially-motivated act was done with the intent to force the victims out of their home.

-Assaults by members of national white supremacist organization. United States v. Walker: Three members of the National Alliance, a notorious white supremacist organization, were convicted for assaulting a Mexican-American bartender at his place of employment in Salt Lake City, Utah. These same defendants allegedly assaulted an individual of Native-American heritage outside another bar in Salt Lake City. The Anti-Defamation League praised the Division’s efforts in successfully prosecuting this important hate crimes case.

-Race-based murder of African-American. United States v. Eye and Sandstrom: The defendants in this pending death penalty case in Kansas City, Missouri, have been charged with shooting and killing an African-American man as he walked down the street. The government alleges that the defendants shot the victim because of his race and because he was walking on a public street. Trial is currently set for January 10, 2008. If the defendants are convicted, the Government will seek to have the death penalty imposed against them.

-Cold case against former Klansman for kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with murder of two African-Americans. United States v. Seale: This case stemmed from the 1964 murders of 19-year-old Charles Moore and Henry Dee in Franklin County, Mississippi. In June 2007, former Klansman James Seale, 71, was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the murders of Moore and Dee. The defendant received two life sentences. The Department continues to work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, to identify additional unresolved civil rights era murders.

Key Federal Hate Crime Statutes:

Federally Protected Activities, 18 U.S.C. § 245. The portion of Section 245 of Title 18 which is primarily enforced by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division makes it unlawful to willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with any person, or to attempt to do so, by force or threat of force, BECAUSE OF that other person’s race, color, religion or national origin AND BECAUSE he or she is, or has been, engaging in one of six specifically-enumerated activities:

-Enrolling in or attending a public school or public college; Participating in or enjoying a benefit, service, privilege, program, facility or activity provided or administered by a state or local government;

-Applying for or enjoying employment, or any perquisite thereof, by a private or state employer;

-Serving as a juror or prospective juror in state court;

-Traveling in or using any facility of interstate commerce or transportation;

-Enjoying the services of a place of public accommodation, including a hotel, motels, restaurant, bar, gas station, theater, concert hall, sports arena, or other place of entertainment.

A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves kidnapping or aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty.

Criminal Interference with Right to Fair Housing, 42 U.S.C. § 3631. Section 3631 of Title 42 makes it unlawful for an individual to use force or threaten to use force to injure, intimidate, or interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with, any person’s BECAUSE OF that person’s race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin AND BECAUSE that person is exercising his or her housing rights.

Among the housing rights enumerated in the statute are the right to purchase, rent, or occupy a dwelling, and the right to contract for and finance those rights.

A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves kidnapping or aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty.

Damage to Religious Property, 18 U.S.C. § 247. Section 247 of Title 18 prohibits anyone from intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying religious real property BECAUSE OF the religious nature of the property, SO LONG AS the crime is committed in or affects interstate commerce. The statute ALSO prohibits anyone from intentionally obstructing or attempting to obstruct, by force or threat of force, a person in the enjoyment of that person's religious beliefs, SO LONG AS the crime is committed in or affects interstate commerce. Finally, the statute ALSO prohibits anyone from intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying any religious real property BECAUSE OF the race, color, or ethnic characteristics of any individual associated with the property, regardless of any connection to interstate or foreign commerce. Section 247 also prohibits attempts to do any of the above.

A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves the use, attempted use, or threatened use of dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment; if the crime results in bodily injury and involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 40 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves an attempt to kill, kidnapping or attempted kidnapping, or aggravated sexual abuse or attempted aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

Conspiracy Against Rights, 18 U.S.C. § 241. Section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States. An offense under section 241 is the agreement itself; the statute does not require that one of the conspirators commit an overt act in furtherance of the agreement.

A violation of this statute is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, unless death results or the offense involves kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to kill, in which case the offense is punishable by up to life in prison, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

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Source: USDOJ

Ron Paul Refuses to Divest of Donations from Neo-Nazis

When I read this very well-documented story in the Lone Star Times about the $500 donation to Ron Paul from well-known white supremacist Don Black, I didn't really blame Paul for taking the money. After all, it's hard to screen out every kook in advance. I assumed Paul would immediately return the money (or donate it to a group like the Holocaust Museum), prevent a link on Black's Neo-Nazi website, Stormfront, from connecting to the campaign's donation page, and announce these moves on the official Ron Paul website. I assumed wrong.

Five days after the Lone Star Times story appeared, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told the paper he was still unsure whether the campaign would return Black's money. "At this time, I cannot say that we will be rejecting Mr. Black’s contribution," he said, "but I will bring the matter to the attention of our campaign director again, and expect some sort of decision to be made in coming days." Would the campaign at least block fundraising links from Stormfront's IP address? Again, Benton said, he'd have to bring up the idea with the campaign director.

Since then, more than two weeks have passed without an update from the Paul campaign, so I sent Benton and email today asking what the campaign manager had decided. Would Paul be returning Black’s money and blocking further donations from Stormfront? A few minutes later he wrote back, and this is what he said:

Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity and the protection of inalienable individual rights for every American. All of our campaigns energy is dedicated to spreading the message of liberty and limited government, and we do not spend time screening donors or blocking websites. We don’t know who Don Black is, and pay him no attention. If a small number individuals who hold racist beliefs want to waste their money by giving to Dr. Paul, a man who stands firmly against their small minded ideologies, then the campaign will simply use those funds to protect freedom, peace and civil liberties across our Nation.

Frankly, I find the glibness of this response appalling, and I could not disagree more with its reasoning. Accepting Black's dirty money creates an implied obligation to these nut jobs and their priorities, which, even if rejected by Paul, is hard to deny. Are we to simply take Paul's word that these people aren't buying anything? How are we to know that Paul doesn't share their motives? Does Paul support tighter border controls because he fears a drain on social services, or because he doesn't like brown people? Now it's hard to know. I say this reluctantly, as someone who has a great deal of respect for Paul's courageous stands on issues such as the war in Iraq: I no longer believe that Paul is a man of principle. There is simply never any principle to taking cash tainted with the blood of Auschwitz and Jim Crow.

More thoughts: In the comments Paulites have echoed Benton's assertion that money from racists is better spent on the Paul campaign than on the active promotion of racism. This is true, but it doesn't make it right to accept the money. The fact remains that some people will view its acceptance as a legitimization of the racists who donated it, no matter what Paul says to the contrary. Racism in America has been a duplicitous endeavor. Why do you think members of the KKK wore masks? Actions speak louder than words here, and if Paul really cared about rebuking the Neo-Nazis, he would do so in the most direct way possible, which is to donate their money to a group that counters them, such as the Anti-Defamation League. (More on Paul and racism here, here, and here).

Ultimately, the Paulites might be correct that this incident isn't worth taking seriously. The Neo-Nazis are not a great threat to American society, and in the end, neither is Paul. He has made a buffoonish, politically tone deaf move, and it confirms, despite his great strides in recent months, that he is still a fringe candidate with no hope of winning the presidency. There's simply no way America will elect a candidate who knowingly takes money from Neo-Nazis.

Source: MotherJones

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

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

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

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.

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.)"

Who is Joseph Turner?

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

Members of the white supremacist groups of Save Our State and the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps dance on top of a Mexican flag

Notorious White supremacist Roy Warden burns another Mexican flag

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

Fake letters spark immigration fears

Arlington: Feds say cash demand sent to Latinos' apartments is a scam
By ISABEL C. MORALES Al Día 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.

María Elena García 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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hispanofacist groups?

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Man smashes Home Depot checkout stand with pry bar he was trying to buy

By BRAD WONG
P-I REPORTER

Well, let's look at it this way: At least, this guy wasn't buying a blowtorch.

But that age-old adage -- that patience is a virtue -- somehow slipped the mind of a man shopping at Home Depot on Utah Avenue South in Seattle on Thursday.

Around 9 p.m., the man was in line at a self-service checkout stand, ready to buy a pry bar and hacksaw, according to a Seattle police report.

But as a manager told an officer, the man accidentally hit the button for Spanish on the computer screen.

And that was the tipping point for this consumer.

He became "frustrated that the machine was speaking Spanish," the police report says.

So, instead of asking for customer service help, he let loose a blow with the pry bar and shattered the computer. He ran from the store and made a beeline to some nearby railroad tracks, the report said.

A Seattle police officer searched for the customer. But he had vanished.

The manager believes he caused about $10,000 in damages. He left the pry bar in his shopping cart.

P-I reporter Brad Wong can be reached at 206-448-8137 or bradwong@seattlepi.com.

Source: SeattlePI

Swastika Duo Busted

By Post Wire Services

September 3, 2007 -- A member of a white supremacist group and a teenage accomplice were arrested on charges of scrawling swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on the side of a synagogue and on a school bus, a school and a house on Long Island, police said yesterday.

Swastikas and anti-Jewish slurs scrawled in red spray paint were found Saturday on the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Plandome, on a school bus parked at Roslyn HS and on a Roslyn Estates home, police said. Graffiti also was found at a nearby elementary school.

Police on Saturday arrested John Rocissano, 20, and Matthew Felicetti, 17, in all four incidents. Rocissano, of Manhasset, and Felicetti, of Floral Park, were to be arraigned on several counts of aggravated harassment and criminal mischief.

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Arsonist sentenced in racially motivated house fire

Man, 38, convicted of multiple crimes, faces 17 years

By Anne Sullivan, The News-Herald

DETROIT — Lori Doster and her 14-year-old daughter, Vianca, were in U.S. District Court on Tuesday as one of the men convicted of setting fire to their house in Taylor was sentenced.

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Wayland Mullins, 38, of Taylor was sentenced to 17 years and three months in prison.

A jury found Mullins guilty April 20 of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the Reginald Doster family, interfering with the family's housing rights, using fire to commit a felony and conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation. It also found that his actions were racially motivated.

The Dosters are black and Mullins is white.

Two other men, both white, also have been convicted in the crime.

Michael Richardson, 35, of Taylor was convicted of the same four charges and will be sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court.

Ricky Cotton, 35, also of Taylor, was convicted by a jury of lying to federal investigators and a federal grand jury for obstructing justice. He also pleaded guilty to conspiring with Mullins and Richardson and others to violate the Dosters' housing rights.

Cotton was sentenced in April to 6 1/2 years in prison and is serving time in the Federal Corrections Institution in Milan.

Reginald and Lori Doster had lived in Taylor for nine years before they bought a house in the 5900 block of Ziegler in 2002. It was the first house the couple had purchased. They were fixing up the house and preparing to move in when the fire was set.

During the trial, prosecutors proved that Mullins and several of his neighbors discussed burning down the house the Dosters had recently purchased.

After the discussion, Mullins broke a bedroom window in the family's house, poured gasoline in the window and set the fire July 28.

The fire had burned itself out and was discovered when the family returned to the house to continue working on it.

The fire was contained to one bedroom, but soot and smoke covered the freshly painted walls.

"I feel very good today," Lori Doster said Wednesday.

"By me being the person I am, (and hearing) 17 years, I felt bad. But being in court, and him still denying it, I have no empathy for him. He's the one who struck the match or lit the lighter.

"Vianca, she was happy. She was 9 at the time; (now) she's 14. She felt bad (about) 17 years, but it's like she said, 'He showed no remorse.'"

Although Mullins apologized in court, Doster said she didn't think it was a sincere apology.

"He said, 'I'm sorry, but I didn't firebomb the house,'" Doster said.

"I believe he was sorry he got caught. I didn't believe his apology, not at all."

Doster said her husband and son were working and couldn't be in court when Mullins was sentenced.

She also plans to be there when Richardson is sentenced.

"I lived in Taylor 12 years," Doster said. "Vianca grew up in Taylor. When we moved to that area of Taylor, up to Van Born and Ziegler, everything changed."

U.S. attorneys said the three men told "nothing but lies," the neighborhood hung together and it was a three-year conspiracy to run out the Doster family.

"Only that neighborhood knows everyone involved," Doster said. "I don't feel safe in Taylor."

In addition to the house being set on fire, people would drive over their front lawn, damaging it. Dead cats and dead dogs were thrown in the yard. And, drains were pulled up in the street near where the family parked cars.

After three years, they moved out. She would not say where the family is living.

"We're not going to live in fear, but we will be cautious," Doster said. "When I ride through Taylor I get an eerie feeling. I can't say I hate Taylor. The city has beautiful trees and houses, but (officials) know there are problems they need to address.

"I want a message to get out to everyone that you can't do this to people and get away with it. The judge sent a message that you can't violate anyone's rights because of their color, and if you do, you're going to get punished.

"I think (Mullins) really thought he was going to get away with it."

Doster saw Mullins' and his family in court, crying at the sentencing. But, she said if one of them had discouraged him from setting the fire, it never would have happened and they wouldn't have been sitting in court as he was sentenced.

Although it took nearly five years to convict the men who terrorized her family and forced them out of their house, Doster said she's happy with the law enforcement agencies that handled the case and she believes justice has been served.

"I call them my dream team — the FBI, U.S. attorneys," she said. "It took 4 1/2 years, but they did it.

"The FBI said it could take, a month, two years, 10 years, no matter how long it took, they were going to get the people that caused it, and they did."

Although she no longer lives in Taylor, Doster said she hopes the city will address the issue so it doesn't happen to another family.

Source: TheNewsHerald

Residents Rally For Peace After Racially Motivated Arsons

CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland neighborhood is set to come together Thursday night to show support for a family burned out of their home by arsonists.

Investigators are calling the fire a hate crime, and its one of two such arsons in the Tremont neighborhood.

Residents want to send a message tonight to whoever is behind the hateful acts, telling the arsonists that they won't win, reported NewsChannel5's John Kosich.

On July 31, Rogina Weakley awoke to find her West 12th Street home on fire. It took just seconds for the place to go up in flames.

"I looked out of this window and I saw a white T-shirt hanging … it was lit on fire but also the porch was lit on fire and you can see that it was all wet," said Weakley.

The wet stuff was an accelerant, and the fire was an arson. The home was destroyed.

A month earlier, Vanessa Glover's garage had been spray painted with racial graffiti. When the graffiti was painted over, the garage was also set on fire.

"So someone has a problem, a very big one, and I wish they'd hurry up and catch them because I'm scared that it's going to happen again," said Glover.

Two weeks ago, community leaders met with Weakley and Glover. The police commander assured them that the city was doing whatever it takes to catch those responsible, but in doing so, they laid the groundwork for Thursday's Walk For Unity.

"The outrage has been extreme that anybody would do this to these two families, and so it's been interesting. What has been a real crisis seems to be something that the neighborhood is now saying, 'We have to build around this thing,'" said Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman.

The Tremont Unite vigil gets under way at 7 p.m. Thursday. The walk will go from West 11th Street and Starkweather Avenue to West 12th Street and Mentor, where there will be a community peace vigil at 7: 15 p.m.

Source: NewsNet5

Driver assaults man in racial attack

By Erin Smith/Chronicle Staff
GateHouse News Service

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An irate driver slammed a Cambridge man’s arm in his car door and tried to pull him from his car in what police suspect was a racially motivated attack in Inman Square.

As the suspect fled to his car after the attack, one woman in his car allegedly yelled, “9/11 [expletive],” while the suspect allegedly screamed, “That’s what you get for marrying a foreigner,” according to police reports. The driver was with three females, who police say were likely his wife and daughters.

Police said the 40-year-old victim’s complexion is similar to a person of Middle Eastern descent and the victim told police he thought he was attacked because of his ethnic background.

The victim told police he was walking across a city parking lot on Springfield Street Aug. 27 at 8:15 p.m. when the suspect’s gray 2007 GMC Yukon sped into the lot, nearly hitting him, according to police reports.

The victim later saw the driver walk into the Ole Mexican Grill at 11 Springfield St., where the victim was dining with his wife, police said. After they finished their meal and left the restaurant, the victim placed a written note on the windshield of the gray SUV asking the driver to slow down and use more caution, according to reports.

As the victim was getting into his car, the suspect approached him, asked if he had put a note on his car, crumbled the note and threw it on the ground, police said. The suspect began screaming, allegedly opened the victim’s car door and then slammed the car door shut on the victim’s arm, according to police reports.

The suspect then reopened the victim’s door, grabbed hold of his left arm and forcefully pulled the victim partially out of the car, according to police. The suspect only fled back to his own car after the victim’s wife called police. As the suspect drove out of the parking lot, turning right on Springfield Street, he allegedly threw a brown glass bottle out of the window, which shattered in the road, police said.

A waiter at Ole Mexican Grill told police the suspect drank two alcoholic drinks at the restaurant prior to the attack.

Police suspect a 55-year-old Plainville man in the attack but no arrests had been made in the case as of Friday.

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Authorities worry about increased hate crimes

By Tony Manolatos
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

September 2, 2007

LAKESIDE – The first of three brutal attacks occurred at a roadside bar called Don's Cocktail Lounge off the Highway 8 business route.

A white man with a swastika tattooed on his chest sucker-punched a black man who had stepped outside to have a cigarette. The victim, who suffered severe brain damage, can barely speak now.

About a month after the July 7 attack, a pair of skinheads beat up two black men, one of them a Marine, at a gas station. A week later, two skinheads attacked a Latino laborer outside a liquor store.

All three assaults happened in Lakeside, a rural community about 20 miles east of San Diego that has tried for years to shake its reputation as a haven for hate.

Investigators are uncertain if the beatings were related. They are sure of one thing – they were meant to send a message:

“ 'Be afraid. We're there, and we're going to come after you,' ” sheriff's Detective Ellen Vest said. “It's a growing problem throughout East County.”

Deputy Bo Roberson, who patrols the streets of Santee in search of white gangsters as part of a special task force, put it this way: “We've definitely been seeing a rise in stuff, especially since the Don's Cocktail incident.”

Sparked by complaints from residents, along with a rise in such things as racist graffiti and children wearing white supremacist garb, the Sheriff's Department partnered with El Cajon police and other law enforcement agencies last year to form the East County Regional Gang Task Force.

Thanks in part to a $430,000 annual subsidy from the city of Santee, the task force works hand-in-hand with a three-person gang-suppression team that tracks down suspects and reluctant witnesses. Similar teams operate in La Mesa, El Cajon and Lemon Grove.

Unjustly or not, swaths of rural East County have long had a reputation as an enclave for bigots. But as the suburban population has grown, the area has undergone great change.

Still, authorities say, white supremacist groups continue to thrive.

Gang members are recruiting teens in parks and at schools. Many now dress alike, even wearing boots with soles that leave swastikas in the dirt, authorities said. A hate anthem called “East County Stand Up” was recently posted on the MySpace page belonging to a young Lakeside man.

History of incidents
Several parts of Lakeside feel dusty and isolated. With newer homes and shopping centers, neighboring Santee seems more suburban.

Blacks make up 2 percent of the population in both towns.

Last year, a gay rodeo in Lakeside drew fierce objections from some locals. Less than two years ago, two skinheads were convicted of beating up a Latino man in a Santee park.

There have been other incidents. Some have made national news, including the 1998 beating of a black Marine in Santee. Four men confessed to the assault, which paralyzed the Marine.

Concerned with the city's racist reputation, Santee City Manager Keith Till met with sheriff's officials to get a rundown on hate crimes a month after beginning his job.

That was seven years ago, and Till decided to work with local schools to promote acceptance and diversity, an ongoing effort. “It became evident that it was in the community's interest to address this pretty aggressively,” he said.

Till said he quickly realized that groups of students, mostly high school boys, were not only ignoring the message, but also “they were congregating, and their message seemed to focus on hate.”

“But the problem here pales in comparison from what you see in many, many communities . . . We're getting in at the early end to make sure” gangs don't become an overwhelming problem. “We have one of the lower crime rates in San Diego County, and we want to maintain that.”

Donald Hamer would be the first to tell you Santee is safer than it was. Hamer, who is black, heads the Human Relations Advisory Board of Santee, formed six years ago to review hate crimes and discrimination complaints.

“For sure, there's been a stepping up in East County to try and get rid of this problem,” Hamer said.

Clayton Davis and his wife, Kim, live in Blossom Valley, about four miles north of Don's Cocktail Lounge. To them, race isn't a bigger problem here than anywhere else.

“There's bad apples out here, but you got bad apples wherever you go,” said Clayton Davis, a composite technician.

Eric Powell, a 40-year-old engineer who is black, moved to Santee from the east San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos a year ago because of a deal he and his wife got on a four-bedroom home. They're not sure they will stay.

No one has given Powell any trouble, he said, but his 15-year-old daughter has “heard some things.”

“I think a more diverse neighborhood would be better, but we couldn't pass up the deal,” said Powell, who grew up in southeastern San Diego. “The worst thing for me is I know the history of this place, so it keeps me on edge, and I don't want to live like that.”

'The least successful'
Across the country, skinheads and hate crimes typically turn up in poorer communities with conservative beliefs, experts observe.

“You're not going to find skinheads in La Jolla,” said Malcolm Klein, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California and one of the nation's leading gang experts.

Klein said white supremacy is usually picked up at home.

“These are the kids whose parents aren't doing very well,” he said. “They're the kids not doing well in schools. They're the least successful of the unsuccessful.”

Figuring out who the gangsters are and what they're up to falls to investigators such as Vest and her partner, Marilu Marcq. They and others work to identify and track gangsters, or document them, a process designed to strengthen prosecutions and clean up communities.

During the past two years, Vest and Marcq have documented four gangs, all white, based in East County. They're working to document at least five more.

Only one white gang, based in Lakeside, had been documented in San Diego County when they started, and that was six years ago.

Marcq said there are more than a dozen white gangs claiming hundreds of members in East County – small numbers when stacked next to the dozens of gangs and thousands of members in San Diego, for example.

“These are dangerous individuals, and they have no fear at all,” Marcq said.

Incomplete statistics
In the communities that the Sheriff's Department patrols, more than a third of the hate crimes reported in the past 3½ years were in Lakeside, Santee and unincorporated areas of El Cajon.

But the statistics don't paint a complete picture because not all hate crimes are classified as such. A beating motivated by hate, for example, can be classified as an assault. On the other hand, some cases likely wouldn't have surfaced if not for the additional enforcement in place.

Statistics mean little to the 44-year-old machinist who was knocked out at Don's Cocktail Lounge.

He was standing just outside the bar with another patron when Timothy Caban walked toward him, ripped off his T-shirt and threw a vicious uppercut, Vest said. The man's head snapped back and slammed into the pavement.

A few weeks ago he was moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation center. No matter what question he's asked, he answers by saying his name.

Caban, 40, of Lakeside, is scheduled to stand trial next month. His attorney said he was acting in self-defense.

Don McGourty, who tends bar at Don's, described the victim as an affable guy who loved to sing karaoke.

“He was a sweetheart, and I don't say that about too many guys, especially around here,” said McGourty, a 40-year resident of Lakeside. “I know this area is known for this sort of thing, but we don't have stuff like that” at Don's.

As Vest and Marcq looked into Caban's background – they haven't linked him to a gang – they learned that he and his buddies had been kicked out of more than half a dozen bars in the area. The men were forced to leave one bar on April 20 because they were singing “Happy Birthday” to Adolf Hitler.

Tony Manolatos: (619) 542-4559; tony.manolatos@uniontrib.com

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