White supremacist, Neo-Nazi Jonathan Edward Stone sentenced to 4 years in prison for role in February 2008 firebombing of Islamic Center of Columbia in Maury county.
White Supremacist, Nazi Johnathan Edward Stone Gets 4 Years in Prison for Firebombing Mosque in Tennessee
Earlier in April 2010, Richard Barrett was promoted by a Stormfront forum member praising Richard Barrett’s “victories.”
After Richard Barrett’s murder on April 22, 2010, the tone on the Stormfront web page changed, with both conspiracy theories being promoted, and mocking attacks on Richard Barrett.
Once again, we see the legacy of contempt that promoting a lifetime of hate will yield.
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We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote violence and hate to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights. We condemn all those who seek violence and murder is the path to advancing any cause.
— Clarion Ledger: Man arrested in Richard Barrett homicide
— Clarion Ledger reports: “state inmate on supervised release is facing a murder charge in the slaying of white supremacist Richard Barrett, 67, whose burned and stabbed body was discovered in his Pearl-area home.”
— “Vincent McGee, 23, who lives with his parents on the same street as Barrett, was arrested around 5 p.m. Thursday at his sister’s home in Pearl, Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said.”
— “While McGee is African American, authorities have not said Barrett’s racial beliefs were a motive in his slaying.”
— “McGee had performed yard work for Barrett, Pennington said.”
— “McGee had served five years of a six-year sentence for simple assault on a police officer and grand larceny when he was released on probation in February from the State Penitentiary at Parchman.”
— “A photo on his Facebook page shows off numerous tattoos associated with the Vice Lords street gang.”
WLBT: “Who was Richard Barrett?”
— WLBT reports: “He was a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran who moved to Mississippi in 1966. A lawyer and author, Barrett soon began traveling around the country promoting racist ideology through a white supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement.”
— “Barrett ran for governor in 1979 and for U.S. Congress in 1984, a loser in both races. He advocated the resettlement of Jews and Mexicans contending that non-whites, especially blacks, were inferior. ”
— “Barrett also launched a movement to support Byron de la Beckwith who was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Barrett’s demand that then Governor Kirk Fordice pardon Beckwith, fell on deaf ears.”
— “In 2004, he spearheaded a failed effort to place a booth at the Mississippi State Fair to feature reputed Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Killen was eventually convicted of manslaughter in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi.”
— “In 2008, Barrett claimed his Nationalist Movement had members in 36 states, but he wouldn’t say how many members there were.”
— “The white supremacist once described himself as “a man whose name will be written in lightning across the pages of American history.” Now, Richard Barrett’s name is written in headlines as a murder victim.”
Mississippi: White Supremacist Richard Barrett (Photo: WJTV)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemn the murder of Richard Barrett, and hope that the guilty individual is brought to justice.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote violence and hate to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights. We condemn all those who seek violence and murder is the path to advancing any cause.
A YouTube video shows a St. Louis political “Tea Party” group member has confronted a self-proclaimed “racist” and “separatist” white individual wearing a shirt with the Neo-Nazi logo “Blood and Honor” group, stating that the individual with the Nazi group shirt does not represent the values of the Tea Party political group.
On the YouTube video, the St. Louis Tea Party representative rejects these groups and the Nazi shirt with a small swastika on it as not representative of the Tea Party group values, stating “the swastika is not welcome at the Tea Party.” The individual with the Nazi shirt states “I don’t care what you stand for, I care what I stand for.” He also tells the videographer that “I probably go to church more than you, I am a trustee.”
St. Louis: Self-Proclaimed "Racist" with Blood & Honor Group Shirt at Political Event (Photo: YouTube)
The self-proclaimed “racist” attendee states that “I am proud to be a racist… I am not a Nazi, I am a proud racist, I am white.” He then angrily states “if more people stood up for the white rights, you would not need 25 percent blacks on a job…” He then tells the person with the Tea Party political group “you guys are a bunch of wimps, you need to stand up for your racial purity.” When he then states that “I am a separatist,” the Tea Party representative replies “then separate yourself .”
St. Louis: Self-Proclaimed "Racist:" "You need to stand up for your racial purity..." (Photo: YouTube)St. Louis: Self-Proclaimed "Racist" with "Blood and Honor" Shirt Avoiding Videographer at "Tea Party" Event (Photo: YouTube)Another Image (Photo: YouTube)
For those who are unfamiliar with the “Blood and Honor” Nazi group, Against Nazi has previously reported that it was a U.K.-founded group with U.S. supporters. “Blood and Honor” Nazi events have been promoted on the “white nationalist hate group”Stormfront, headquartered in Florida, and who were big promoters of the failed Washington DC area “American Renaissance” event that was cancelled in February 2010. The self-proclaimed “racist” individual at the St. Louis public event was wearing a Nazi and skinhead promoting shirt and hat. The “deaths head” logo on the front of the Nazi’s shirt and his hat are products that we have seen before. The back of the shirt is not something we have seen before, but elements of it are consistent with other B&H and Aryan supremacist merchandise.
R.E.A.L. has also previously reported on the efforts of other “white nationalist” groups such as the Occidental Dissent,the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), and their supporters to attempt to infiltrate and persuade Tea Party groups to adopt racial hatred. The Occidental Dissent claimed success on April 15 by infiltrating a Washington DC based Tea Party event. The Occidental Dissent, whose mission is the “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America,” used the Gadsden Flag as way to integrate with the Tea Party April 15 event, despite their open and clear contempt for the United States of America.
“I will say this though: there is a common thread that unites the Tea Party protesters with the militias and gun enthusiasts (and the White Nationalists) we saw in Kentucky. All of these groups are starting to rally around a common anti-government symbol: the Gadsden flag.”
“Where there is smoke, there is fire… Several of the Tea Party signs were caricatures of Obama that struck me as mildly negrophobic. They had slightly exaggerated racial features that brought to mind the Jim Crow minstrel show cartoons that I collect back home. The punchline: this man in the White House, the bloodsucking illegitimate thief stealing our money, is a sort of absurd African foreigner. This type of milquetoast racial humor seemed to be quite popular among the crowd.”
“Carl Cameron of FOX News made an appearance. I stood less than five feet away from him waving the Gadsden flag in the background of the U.S. Capitol. I don’t know if any of this was on television. There were other ‘Alternative Right’ commentators on the ground in DC. We saw someone from The Political Cesspool walking among the crowd. Stuff Black People Don’t Like was on the scene and chatted with us. The racialist alternative media has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year.”
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote hate and to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
The first use of a “snake” symbol in American history was simply to signify the divided the 13 colonies and the need to “join or die” as a united nation. The later “Gadsden flag” of uncertain origin, was used by U.S. Marine Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden on his ships in warfare against the British army, after seeing the “rattlesnake” symbol on some drums in Philadelphia. The Gadsden flag is a historic symbol associated with military conflict.
The Gadsden Flag
The use of the Gadsden flag for current political disagreement is not a major part of U.S. political history, as the Gadsden flag has predominantly been associated with historic military conflict. Unfortunately, in addition to the Gadsden flag’s past use as part of military history, there has also been use of the Gadsden flag by groups promoting anti-government militias and racial oriented hate groups.
Because of this, those groups that have used the Gadsden flag for their political views today, are now being joined by those who have also used the Gadsden flag and who promote hate and even violence against their fellow Americans. Unfortunately for those using the Gadsden flag strictly for their political causes, many extremist hate groups have sullied the Gadsden flag for years, by using it to promote their “fight” against our human rights of equality and liberty.
The Occidental Dissent claimed success on April 15 by infiltrating a Washington DC based Tea Party event. The Occidental Dissent, whose mission is the “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America,” used the Gadsden Flag as way to integrate with the Tea Party April 15 event, despite their open and clear contempt for the United States of America.
“I will say this though: there is a common thread that unites the Tea Party protesters with the militias and gun enthusiasts (and the White Nationalists) we saw in Kentucky. All of these groups are starting to rally around a common anti-government symbol: the Gadsden flag.”
“Where there is smoke, there is fire… Several of the Tea Party signs were caricatures of Obama that struck me as mildly negrophobic. They had slightly exaggerated racial features that brought to mind the Jim Crow minstrel show cartoons that I collect back home. The punchline: this man in the White House, the bloodsucking illegitimate thief stealing our money, is a sort of absurd African foreigner. This type of milquetoast racial humor seemed to be quite popular among the crowd.”
“Carl Cameron of FOX News made an appearance. I stood less than five feet away from him waving the Gadsden flag in the background of the U.S. Capitol. I don’t know if any of this was on television. There were other ‘Alternative Right’ commentators on the ground in DC. We saw someone from The Political Cesspool walking among the crowd. Stuff Black People Don’t Like was on the scene and chatted with us. The racialist alternative media has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year.”
To those who simply seek political change, does it makes sense to use a historic symbol that has been sullied by so many hate groups that seek “a fight” in support of racism or other supremacist views?
"White Nationalist" Occidental Dissent Group that Seeks "White Ethnostate" Promoting Gadsden FlagScreen shot of "white nationalist hate group" American Renaissance promoting Gadsden flag"White Nationalist Hate Group" Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) and Gadsden Flag PromotionHutaree Militia Couple -- Arrests for Terror Plot Against Police (Gadsden Flag on Right)Poor Child being given Automatic Weapon by Hutaree Militia Suspects (Gadsden Flag on Right)
CNN reports: — “The student body president of California State University, Chico, was recovering Monday from stab wounds suffered in what police believe was a hate crime, officials said.”
— “Joseph Igbineweka, who was born in Nigeria, was stabbed early Sunday while walking in a Chico neighborhood near the college where mostly students reside, Chico police Sgt. Rob Merrifield said.”
— “Igbineweka passed two men who began to make racial slurs, Merrifield said. He ignored them and continued to walk, but they followed him and continued to yell at him.”
— “Igbineweka eventually turned around, and one of the men struck him, Merrifield said. He fought back, but the man pulled a pocket knife and stabbed him at least four times, in the neck, chest, stomach and arm, according to Merrifield. The attacker fled on foot.”
The National Socialist Movement (NSM) states that it is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. The NSM logo has elements of the American flag and the Nazi swastika. Among its “national officers and leaders,” the NSM “National Party Director” is “Commander Jeff Schoep.”
NSM Los Angeles Event Promotion and Leader Jeff Schoep (Images: YouTube, NSM Web Site)
At the Los Angeles Nazi NSM event, members chanted “Heil Hitler,” and gave Nazi salutes to a crowd of counterprotesters.
AFP reported that the event drew about 100 members of the NSM group that was protesting “against immigrants.”
AP reported that “about 50 members of the National Socialist Movement waved American flags and swastika banners for about an hour.”
LA NSM Protest (Photo AP: Richard Vogel)
AP also reported that “The white supremacists, many of them wearing flack helmets and black military fatigue uniforms, shouted ‘Sieg Heil’ before each of their speakers took the podium to taunt counter-protesters with racial, anti-Semitic and misogynistic epithets…. National Socialist Movement regional director Jeffrey Russell Hall announced that the group would begin backing political candidates who agreed with their anti-immigrant message.”
Both the AP and the LA Times reported on violence by counterprotesters against the Nazi NSM rally in Los Angeles:
NSM Shields to Counterprotests (Photo: AFP)
The LA Times reported that:
— “While some counter-protesters said they had heard about the event through social media such as Twitter and had come to urge peace in the face of the group’s hateful message, others had clearly come for a fight. At least five of them were arrested by the end of the demonstration for throwing eggs and rocks.”
— “Before members of the white supremacist group had arrived, a bare-chested middle-aged man with Nazi insignias tattooed on his chest and back walked into a crowd of hundreds of counter-protesters gathered near 1st and Spring streets.”
— “Surrounded, the man mockingly bobbed his head to the rhythm of demonstrators chanting ‘Nazi scum.’ About a dozen protesters suddenly began pelting the man with punches and kicks. He fell and was struck on the back with the wooden handle of a protester’s sign, which snapped in two. Police eventually reached the man and pulled him from the melee, as blood poured from the back of his neck.”
— “Another man was rushed by a mob on Spring Street. He was punched in the face and kicked for about 20 seconds before police made it to the scene. After that beating was broken up, the man began running south on Spring Street, only to be chased down by a protester and slugged in the face. He collapsed and his face slammed to the curb as protesters began pummeling him again.”
LA Nazi Rally - Man Being Attacked (Photo: AP/Richard Vogel)
AP reported:
— “There was a brief flare-up of violence before the speakers arrived. A shirtless man was seen being escorted to safety behind police lines by a plainclothes officer as counter-protesters punched and grabbed at him. Blood could be seen at the base of the man’s neck.”
— “National Lawyers Guild executive director James Lafferty, who attended both as a legal observer and counter-protester, said he saw the man get into a fight with crowd members who saw his Nazi lightning bolt tattoos.”
— “Police Commander David Doan said a second man who crowd members believed was sympathetic with the white supremacists was also assaulted during the rally. Both men were treated for minor injuries at a hospital and released.”
— “As the rally ended, counter-protesters hurled rocks, branches and other items over the police line and into a parking lot where the white supremacists’ had left their cars.”
"A woman tries to protect a man (with head down) who was being attacked by counter-demonstrators outside L.A. City Hall." (Photo: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / April 17, 2010)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) unequivocally condemns both the racial hatred of white supremacist organizations and the mob hatred of counterprotesters who attacked and injured individuals during the LA Nazi rally. Hate is hate. Violence is violence. We can never stop and we can never challenge hate with hate, and we urge that those responsible for violence are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There is no room in America for mob violence that will beat, bludgeon, and bloody those we disagree with, even if they promote ideologies of hate.
We notice that one of the groups in an Associated Press photograph among the counterprotesters included members of the A.N.S.W.E.R. group, Los Angeles chapter. We see nothing today on the A.N.S.W.E.R. Los Angeles web site today disavowing any of their members or supporters involvement in the counterprotest violence. Should we get future updates, we will update this posting. We see that also one of the women in the photograph below near an A.N.S.W.E.R. placard also sought to protect one of the protesters in the LA Times photograph above.
A.N.S.W.E.R. LA Protesters Challenging Nazi Supporter (Photo: Richard Vogel / AP)
R.E.A.L. has been critical of A.N.S.W.E.R. in the past.
It has been our own experience with our members that A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders and individuals at Washington DC events have sought physical intimidation against R.E.A.L. members at public demonstrations. R.E.A.L.’s founder, Jeffrey Imm, has also been shoved by A.N.S.W.E.R. members at such public demonstrations, and A.N.S.W.E.R. members have tried to physically wrest placards and other protest materials out of his hands. This was at a Washington DC demonstration led by A.N.S.W.E.R.’s Brian Becker.
Law enforcement agency members have advised R.E.A.L. that they have been concerned about A.N.S.W.E.R.’s use of 2×4 wooden planks used to carry placards, which some have feared could be turned into weapons. This is why some law enforcement agencies are particularly concerned about the sticks used to hold placards in public demonstrations.
R.E.A.L. rejects A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders’ ideological support of Communism and Communist totalitarian governments, and R.E.A.L. rejects the bully tactics and physical intimidation tactics that we have seen ourselves from A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge white supremacist, Nazi, and supporters of any ideology of hate and violence to drop the burden of the hate of from their hearts, and to learn that violence is never the answer.
— AFP reports on sentencing on white supremacist Paul Schlesselman
— AFP: “US man gets 10 years for Obama assassination plot”
— “A US white supremacist was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for having conspired to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other African-Americans in 2008.”
— “US District Judge J. Daniel Breen sentenced Paul Schlesselman, 19, of West Helena, Arkansas after he pled guilty in January to a wide-ranging plot targeting US blacks.”
— “He acknowledged having plotted to kill some 88 people and decapitate 14 African-Americans, before a final act assassinating Obama, who was at the time bidding to become the country’s first black president.’
Paul Schlesselman's Photo on MySpaceWhite Supremacist Paul Schlesselman - Pled Guilty to Conspiracy, Plot to Kill Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
Nazi William A. (“Bill”) White was the leader of a Nazi, white supremacist web site called “overthrow.com.” White supremacists and Nazi supporters have had mixed reactions to Bill White. At the Stormfront white nationalist hate group,” the mixed reaction showed that some distrusted Bill White as a someone who was a former “anti-racist,” and is believed to be a federal informer, while others promoted Bill White’s articles.
Media reports on Bill White’s sentencing: — Roanoke Times reports: “Neo-Nazi is handed 2.5 years for threats”
— William A. White senteneced to 2 1/2 years in prison “for using the Internet, e-mail and the telephone to threaten strangers who didn’t share his racist views”
— Roanake Times states: “It was an uncharacteristic finale for a prolific and venomous commentator who once bragged that millions read him on overthrow.com, the now-defunct Web site that was the mouthpiece of his Roanoke-based white supremacy organization.”
— “The prison term locks away White, 32, for a period at the upper end of federal sentencing guidelines. Turk said he rarely imposes such a term but said he did so because of the fear White instilled in many of his victims.” — Complete trial coverage by Roanoke Times
— UPI: Neo-Nazi sentenced for threats — UPI reports: “White was convicted in December of threatening people in Missouri, Delaware and Virginia Beach, using his Web site, e-mail and telephone to harass and threaten his victims — strangers to him and to one another — who unknowingly said or did something to anger the neo-Nazi activist, the Times reported.”
— News Journal Online on Flagler County KKK flier distribution: “When the Ku Klux Klan wants new recruits for its hooded robes, it likes to toss fliers on driveways, according to a researcher who tracks the group.”
— “And finding the Klan’s leaflets on driveways often means a member of the Klan doesn’t live too far from the neighborhood, said Heidi Beirich, director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
— “‘They tend to do this residential stuff with some frequency, hate groups do, and it usually means that there’s somebody in the hate group that lives near there,’ Beirich said.”
— “Flagler County is crafting a condemnation of the Klan fliers, which were recently dropped on driveways in the R, U and Z neighborhoods of Palm Coast, according to a sheriff’s report. “
