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At first blush, the 2012 national hate crime statistics reported in November by the FBI would seem to be remarkably good news. The total number of hate crimes was down 7% from the prior year, and they were also down in every major category, including anti-black, anti-LGBT, anti-Jewish, anti-Latino and anti-Muslim.
The 23-year-old man who allegedly killed a TSA official and wounded four other people at Los Angeles International Airport was carrying a manifesto that referred to the NWO, or New World Order, the Federal Reserve and 鈥渇iat currency,鈥 according to a knowledgeable source with ranking law enforcement contacts.
At last, federal government paychecks have stopped going to Ayo Kimathi, the black, hate-spewing, gay-bashing, race war-predicting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee known as the Irritated Genie of Soufeese.
The fall of 2013 was a season of discontent 鈥 and guilty pleas 鈥 for one of the country鈥檚 most violent white supremacist prison gangs: the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT).
The most ambitious 鈥 and crooked 鈥 members of the antigovernment 鈥渟overeign citizens鈥 movement apparently never sleep, at least not in their own homes.
Golden Dawn, Greece鈥檚 violence-prone neo-Nazi political party, has two more chapters of American members in the United States, according to an October report from the Anti-Defamation League. Joining a chapter in New York City, one of the new groups is in Los Angeles, while the second, known as the Regional League of the Western States, is not listed in any specific location.
No one wants David Duke.
The police department of Suffolk County, N.Y., has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to enhance the training of its officers and improve the way it investigates hate crimes and bias incidents.
Hate groups in America, for the most part, are severely underfinanced and often struggle to find ways to support their activities. But large numbers are using PayPal to sell their products and accept donations, generating fees for that firm, and some are also making significant commissions by advertising Amazon.com鈥檚 products.聽