人兽性交 Intelligence Report: Deadly radical-right violence examined
In the wake of a neo-Nazi鈥檚 deadly attack at Jewish facilities in Kansas last month, the new issue of the 人兽性交聽Intelligence Report聽explores the white supremacist movement through the eyes of a former racist skinhead and an FBI informant, and examines the role of the Internet in promoting racist violence.
In the wake of a neo-Nazi鈥檚 deadly attack at Jewish facilities in Kansas last month, the new issue of the 人兽性交 Intelligence Report explores the white supremacist movement through the eyes of a former racist skinhead and an FBI informant, and examines the role of the Internet in promoting racist violence.
In the cover story of the Summer 2014 issue, a two-year investigation reveals that active users of Stormfront, the world鈥檚 leading racist Web forum, have murdered nearly 100 people in the past five years.
鈥淭he rampage in Kansas that left three people dead is only the latest reminder that the United States faces its own homegrown terrorists,鈥 said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the 人兽性交 and editor of the Intelligence Report. 鈥淭he threat from the white supremacist movement in America is real. We minimize it at our own peril.鈥
The violent nature of the movement was seen by a Klan member who became an FBI informant after a fellow member of the Knight Riders Klan group allegedly began planning terror attacks against black people. 鈥On the Inside鈥 examines the informant鈥檚 time in the Klan and how he 鈥済rew a conscience鈥 and aided the FBI.
In 鈥Skin Molt,鈥 a woman describes how she was drawn into the dangerous world of racist skinheads and spent three violent decades in the movement. She also tells how she came to reject the movement and racism.
The issue鈥檚 cover story, 鈥White Homicide Worldwide,鈥 shows how the Stormfront web forum has not only provided a gathering place for the white supremacist movement but that registered users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the website was launched in March 1995. The report found that hate killings by Stormfront members began to accelerate rapidly in early 2009, when President Obama took office as the nation鈥檚 first black president.
A similar racist forum, Vanguard News Network (VNN), was used by Frazier Glenn Miller, the man charged in the Kansas killings. He logged more than 12,000 posts on VNN, whose slogan is, 鈥淣o Jews, Just Right.鈥
Stormfront users have included Wade Michael Page, who shot to death six people before killing himself at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012; Richard Andrew Poplawski, who murdered three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009; and Anders Behring Breivik, who bombed a government building in Norway, killing eight people, and then massacred 69 people, most of them teenagers, at a summer camp in 2011.
Also in this issue of the Intelligence Report:
- 鈥Ghosts of Harrison鈥 highlights how local extremists are making it difficult for the city of Harrison, Ark., to overcome a troubled history of racism that goes back more than a century.
- 鈥The Godfather鈥 profiles David Horowitz, a former Marxist intellectual who 聽experienced a radical swing to the other end of the political spectrum that has led him to become a leading purveyor of anti-Muslim propaganda.
- 鈥Ramtha Riled鈥 looks at a New Age cult leader who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old 鈥淟emurian warrior鈥 and savages Catholics, Mexicans, Jews and Jehovah. Her group has drawn tens of thousands of followers 鈥 including Hollywood celebrities 鈥 to her Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, Washington.