tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69812789636877909432024-02-22T18:23:21.529+00:00...Stand Up To Hate..Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3049125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-27996022292768290172013-12-02T19:16:00.001+00:002013-12-02T19:16:46.674+00:00States try again to ban neo-Nazi party (Germany)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T4Fs9-Hh8_sbFi9thME-T1HS8PUZpnYKKS65VRkRaWoXUgRx2K8sAEQRF0VRZPmPjYmXF1t5FNYjYRIpBomxRy7FJzawWyMbUwF_TEUlRv8UZyCZ7oGZvYBZMAp6cWD5MA5nl9b8n6M/s1600/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T4Fs9-Hh8_sbFi9thME-T1HS8PUZpnYKKS65VRkRaWoXUgRx2K8sAEQRF0VRZPmPjYmXF1t5FNYjYRIpBomxRy7FJzawWyMbUwF_TEUlRv8UZyCZ7oGZvYBZMAp6cWD5MA5nl9b8n6M/s1600/index.jpg" /></a>Germany's states are making a renewed push to ban the country's
best-known neo-Nazi party, arguing it <br /><br />
is basically the same as Hitler's
party, and is damaging democracy.
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The states - represented in the upper house of parliament, the
Bundesrat - are due to submit their application for a ban to the
Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on Tuesday.<br />
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It is the second
attempt to ban the NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany), after the
same court rejected a submission in 2003, because too much of the
crucial evidence was from party members who were acting as paid agents
of the security services.<br />
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That attempt was backed by the
government and Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, as well as the
Bundesrat. This time the Bundesrat is going it alone, after the other
two bodies decided a second attempt was unlikely to succeed.<br />
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This time around, the submission consists only of publicly available
evidence, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reported -
as well as two reports from academics.<br />
One of these talks of a
"continuity in ideological direction" from historical National Socialism
to the NPD. A second says that the actions of the NPD have "already led
to the limitation of public democratic life at the local level."<br />
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The NPD last got 0.8 percent of the vote in Lower Saxony's state
election, 1.2 percent in Bavaria and 1.1 percent in Hesse, while in
September's federal election they managed 1.3 percent. They have a total
of 13 state MPs in Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.<br /><br />
The submission to ban the party claims the NPD wants to violently deport
foreigners and migrants, as well as those who have German citizenship
but do not met their narrow definition of being German enough.<br />
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It also argues that the NPD's, "rejection of the democratic
parliamentary system of government, its relativism of National Socialist
injustice and the relativism of the state's monopoly on the legitimate
use of force" counted as breaches of the basic order of peaceful
democracy.<br />
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The FAZ also said that a security service report
included in the submission suggested that one in four of the NPD's
leadership nationally and in states, had criminal records for offences
including assault, criminal damage, trespassing, and propaganda-related
offences. Half of those convicted were, according to the report,
habitual offenders and had been given prison sentences for their crimes.<br />
The Bundestag decided to make the submission a year ago in the wake of
the National Socialist Underground (NSU) case, in which a neo-Nazi
gang, which had some connections to NPD functionaries, are accused of
killing ten people over a period of seven years.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-47289936179744090642013-11-28T09:35:00.000+00:002013-11-28T09:35:52.394+00:00Mother of NSU suspect Zschäpe refuses to testify in neo-Nazi killings case (Germany)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UdKzBfXVGR0euRED1bCfRIUxvvA-hm5_Gyxyo9uhKjxDfVRNkMCYWmcEKGMqu6AZi_ZmLt9pRcufyPweCXbyHi_Qc7CgrUhUvMn_L1aUHvqzTUeTfVaOy7WX-s7GVdwp3LwlZh5fQ6Q/s1600/0,,17258258_303,00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UdKzBfXVGR0euRED1bCfRIUxvvA-hm5_Gyxyo9uhKjxDfVRNkMCYWmcEKGMqu6AZi_ZmLt9pRcufyPweCXbyHi_Qc7CgrUhUvMn_L1aUHvqzTUeTfVaOy7WX-s7GVdwp3LwlZh5fQ6Q/s320/0,,17258258_303,00.jpg" width="320" /></a>The mother of Beate Zschäpe, the woman on trial in Germany over her
alleged role in a string of neo-Nazi murders, has refused to testify.
Annerose Zschäpe claimed a legal right not to testify against a close
relative.
<br /><br />Annerose Zschäpe (pictured right), who appeared with her lawyer at the Munich Higher Regional Court on Wednesday, said she was using her right under German law to refuse to give testimony against a close relative.<br /><br />In her brief, three minute appearance, the 61-year-old also directed that her statements made to officers in the November 2011 investigation of the case should not be used in court.<br /><br />Beate Zschäpe is alleged to be the only surviving member of a trio known as the National Socialist Underground, which prosecutors claim embarked on an "execution-style" killing spree between 2000 and 2009.<br /><br />The three, Zschäpe and the now-deceased Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, were allegedly behind the murder of nine immigrants of Turkish and Greek background, as well as a German policewoman.<br /><br />Prosecutors have portrayed 38-year-old Zschäpe as having been a troubled youth growing up in eastern Germany as communism came to an end - with the mass unemployment, youth crime and spread of neo-Nazi ideology that followed.<br /><br />Parental failure has been an important issue in the trial, with Böhnhardt's mother giving evidence earlier in the month.<br /><br />'Right, but not so extreme'<br /><br />Mother and daughter, who are reported to have had a difficult relationship, were said not to have looked at each other in the courtroom.<br /><br />Despite the refusal of Zschäpe's mother to testify, her cousin - identified only as Stefan A. - did speak in court on Wednesday about the childhood of the accused.<br /><br />He described the defendant, with whom he grew up in the eastern German city of Jena, as "nice," but added that she was "not a girl to simply accept things." Zschäpe had right-wing leanings, he said, but these were "not so extreme" and commonplace among young people in the low-income city.<br /><br />"We already had a bias towards the right then," said the 39-year-old. "We hated the state, foreigners, the left - just about everything," he said, but added that he had not directly discussed politics with Zschäpe.<br /><br />Stefan A. added that he had lost contact with Zschäpe and the two men. "Uwe Mundlos disapproved of my lifestyle. I drank a lot and partied," he said, adding Mundlos had become a teetotaler.<br /><br />German police and intelligence agencies have been criticized for their failure to detect a far-right motive for the killings, and for not following up a trail of clues that would have led to the group being caught.<br /><br />Zschäpe is alleged to have set fire to an apartment she shared with Mundlos and Böhnhardt in the city of Zwickau, after the two died in an apparent suicide pact in November, 2011.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dw.de/mother-of-nsu-suspect-zsch%C3%A4pe-refuses-to-testify-in-neo-nazi-killings-case/a-17258237">D.W.</a><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-24933747982135215982013-11-27T19:53:00.000+00:002013-11-27T19:53:04.013+00:00White supremacist church buying up town next to Area 51 (USA)Pastor Robert Kenniston of the little Baptist church next to the trailer park lost most of his congregation when the knot of retirees who parked their mobile homes in Rachel were driven away. <br /><br /> Curious about the man buying up chunks of the town, Kenniston did a bit of digging and found Bunck’s name online along with his affiliation with the JHM Baptist Church, the church Bunck founded and named after his mentor, American Nazi Party founder John Hale McGee.<br /><br />
“Their church is identified by the experts as Christian identity and neo-Nazi. And those two little niches are the most dangerous, I’m told,” Kenniston told Channel 8.<br /><br />When Kenniston told Rachel residents what he’d discovered, he got a visit from Bunck.<br /><br />Kenniston said, “And he looked at me and said, ‘There’s a story going around town that I am a neo-Nazi and a white supremacist, and I believe you are the reason for that story.’ And I said, ‘I believe you are the reason for that story,’ and that was the end of the conversation.”<br /><br />Some are concerned that Bunck may be planning to establish a white supremacist enclave in the Nevada desert. FBI agents visited the town and consulted with residents, asking them what they know of Bunck and his plans for the purchased properties.<br /><br />White supremacist Craig Cobb drew nationwide scorn for trying to establish his own whites-only community in North Dakota this year. In addition to finding out that he himself is a mix of Caucasian and African-American, Cobb was arrested earlier this month for harassing other residents and menacing them with guns.<br />
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<a href="http://www.onenewspage.us/n/US/74w4ff4vg/White-supremacist-church-buying-up-town-next-to.htm">One News Page</a><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-49963953470830142422013-11-26T20:50:00.000+00:002013-11-27T08:25:58.937+00:00EDL founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon admits mortgage fraud<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CqdCZG4yMwb8pPxWlH-mej3hwtNC0LAg2kB8vDfZRtvsBWuzw3UXSPlNZDStMbMIoZi4jzXpzLc_AWR-GmVVjc7FqM22Ch94ah2f0glaUHGNWZ7NlyFbtrcdnb3kwmKQk0Mku8YQAGE/s1600/_71361198_69719578.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CqdCZG4yMwb8pPxWlH-mej3hwtNC0LAg2kB8vDfZRtvsBWuzw3UXSPlNZDStMbMIoZi4jzXpzLc_AWR-GmVVjc7FqM22Ch94ah2f0glaUHGNWZ7NlyFbtrcdnb3kwmKQk0Mku8YQAGE/s320/_71361198_69719578.jpg" width="320" /></a>English Defence League (EDL) founder and former leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has admitted mortgage fraud offences.<br />
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He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring with others to
obtain a mortgage by misrepresentation from the Abbey and Halifax
building societies.<br />
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The 30-year-old, also known as Tommy Robinson, committed the offences in 2009.<br />
Robinson's address and the court where he appeared cannot be named for legal reasons.<br />
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He was warned he could face a prison term when he is sentenced in the new year.<br />
Earlier this year, Robinson was jailed for 10 months for using someone else's passport to travel to the USA.<br />
He left the EDL last month, citing increasingly racist elements within the group. <br />
Yaxley-Lennon founded the EDL in 2009 after five Muslim men
demonstrated in Luton against a homecoming parade by the Royal Anglian
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-74071270994866789022012-04-26T08:58:00.000+01:002012-04-26T08:58:28.256+01:00BNP supporter with swastika-embossed dagger jailed for life after slashing Indian man's throat on Christmas night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkitYcojKDCNV_EqllbXXNa1TbKrB8FHXi56YmCuUhsNC2DUJttuQdGMeGMxWM1owgDkfrEjsHNIM-1aeahmgXPpA-pCO91yj2-j6Ra5AhEMu0RQlzDv4HpIzNpSAPFxG2k6eyKobhKBE/s1600/2228_1868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkitYcojKDCNV_EqllbXXNa1TbKrB8FHXi56YmCuUhsNC2DUJttuQdGMeGMxWM1owgDkfrEjsHNIM-1aeahmgXPpA-pCO91yj2-j6Ra5AhEMu0RQlzDv4HpIzNpSAPFxG2k6eyKobhKBE/s200/2228_1868.jpg" width="160" /></a></div>A BNP supporter - whose terrifying collection of knives included a swastika-embossed dagger - was jailed for life today for slashing a lost Indian man’s throat on Christmas night.<br />
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Sheet metal worker David Folley, 35, was convicted of murdering 36 year-old Inderjit Singh - known as ‘Raj’ to friends - in the early hours of Christmas Day 2010 and will serve a minimum of 26 years.<br />
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The confused victim, described as a ‘quiet, calm, gentle, fun-loving man’ was looking for a friend’s address, but ended up outside Folley’s front door in Bedford and was stabbed to death on the landing.<br />
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Brutal: Racist David Folley, 35, left, slashed the throat of stranger Inderjit Singh, 36, after he accidentally wandered up to the BNP supporter's front door while looking for a friend's address<br />
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Above his body was an ominous sign the defendant had placed over his front door, which read: ‘Danger of Death. Keep Out.’<br />
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Police later found a BNP flyer displayed in the defendant’s flat and seized a t-shirt, with the words: ‘F*** off. We’re full,’ depicting a boat called SS Asylum heading for the white cliff of Dover.<br />
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Judge Warwick McKinnon told Folley: ‘Mr Singh had lost his way that evening, having come from a late-night carol service at his local church and tragically he ended up on your landing, somewhat the worse for wear.<br />
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‘He settled himself down and was drinking from a bottle of whisky and you, yourself were clearly intoxicated and plainly annoyed by Mr Singh’s presence on your landing. You saw it as someone invading your territory.<br />
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‘You worked yourself up into a rage, took a knife from your kitchen, and the drunk Mr Singh, helpless and vulnerable stood no chance.<br />
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‘You sliced his throat open as if you were killing an animal. It is plain to me you are a dangerous man. He posed absolutely no threat to you.’<br />
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Folley confirmed his BNP sympathies from the witness box, telling jurors at Croydon Crown Court: ‘I believe you should put British people first.’<br />
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Officers seized three crossbows from his unkempt flat - one with a telescopic sight - a 17’ ‘Bad To The Bone’ folding knife, the swastika-embossed dagger and a variety of other weapons, including baseball bats, swords and a rifle.<br />
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Vicious: David Folley was also convicted of slashing the face of fellow Woodhill Prison inmate Norman Grant, whose chin he cut with a sharpened plastic knife<br />
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‘The prosecution say this defendant took a knife from his flat and cut the throat of Inderjit Singh, leaving him to die on the staircase of the block of flats,’ prosecutor Mr. Stuart Alford told the court.<br />
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Folley had arrived home in the early hours, after an all-day drinking session during which he downed up to fourteen pints, and murdered Mr. Singh soon afterwards.<br />
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Tiny spots of airborne blood were found on the defendant’s jeans, placing him at the scene at the time of the fatal stabbing.<br />
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Folley claimed Mr Singh had already been attacked by the time he returned home, insisting: ‘I saw this bloke lying there and there was blood everywhere.’<br />
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No murder weapon was ever identified, but a kitchen knife capable of inflicting the wound was discovered wrapped in a plastic bag bearing the defendant’s fingerprint inside his secure dustbin.<br />
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Folley was also convicted of causing actual bodily harm to fellow Woodhill Prison inmate Norman Grant, whose chin he cut with a sharpened plastic knife and received nine months imprisonment to run concurrently with the life sentence.<br />
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Sikh Mr Singh had come to the UK after an arranged marriage and his ex-wife and daughter were in court.<br />
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‘There is some evidence this was a racially-motivated killing, but I cannot be satisfied to the necessary high standard,’ added Judge McKinnon.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-7133115034078722622012-02-01T20:12:00.000+00:002012-02-01T20:12:38.379+00:00BNP links to US extremists revealed by Anonymous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREx9HtPdLkmFW8K2ZHtP3YNdmaw8UYtp6aECyhhOEf2JxXA50b5vbnNA2fHm-ZGGlo8HRN29hay1tqjj5drQPkg2s2qfXpf_3Vmp8VsyJoHIVs4tRxK2QQd-W7pmX5SwQOd6eovhESoo/s1600/BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREx9HtPdLkmFW8K2ZHtP3YNdmaw8UYtp6aECyhhOEf2JxXA50b5vbnNA2fHm-ZGGlo8HRN29hay1tqjj5drQPkg2s2qfXpf_3Vmp8VsyJoHIVs4tRxK2QQd-W7pmX5SwQOd6eovhESoo/s200/BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin-001.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>'Hactivists' target websites of far-right American Third Position and publish emails praising BNP leader Nick Griffin.<br />
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Hacked emails from a far-right group appear to reveal links with the BNP, after the group of American "hactivists" Anonymous targeted a number of US extremists' websites.<br />
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The group infiltrated the site of American Third Position, a white nationalist political group, in a campaign ironically dubbed "Operation Blitzkrieg", publishing emails in which it praised the BNP leader, Nick Griffin.<br />
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In one January 2010 email from "WhiteNewsNow" with the subject "Your Beautiful Pontoon Bridge", Griffin is described as "probably the most effective white activist in the world today".<br />
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A member of the group writes: "I've got my tickets for Jared Taylor's 2010 American Renaissance. Your fellow WhiteNewsNow members [...] are meeting up with some more of us and probably the most effective White activist in the world today, Nick Griffin."<br />
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In another from December 2009, the sender refers to Griffin in an email about the Copenhagen climate conference. It states: "Today will definitely be a Pearl Harbor for the Global Warming criminals who are at this moment cringing in the 4,200-seat arena in Copenhagen where Nick Griffin is clobbering them with the truth about Climategate. Good things are happening … and this is our chance to seize the opportunity."<br />
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The links between the two groups appear to be current. Former BNP leadership contender Andrew Brons is mentioned in an email titled "minutes for leadership phone conference January 7, 2012".<br />
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It states: "Next Meeting: Andrew Brons, Member of European Parliament and no. 2 in BNP, will be joining our phone conference. He has expressed enthusiasm about Merlin's [Merlin Miller, the party's nominee for the 2012 presidential election] presidential campaign. We must be prepared ahead of time by subject matter, questions and inquiring director."<br />
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A spokesman for the BNP could not confirm or deny whether the party had links or was in contact with American Third Position. "We don't know if [Andrew Brons] had contact with them over the phone. If he did we don't see what the issue is, he's a popular MEP. If he spoke to them he's been elected to speak to people and share ideas, we speak to everyone including Muslim groups."<br />
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Commenting on American Third Position presidential nominee Merlin Miller, he added: "With regards to America, we would welcome any deviation from the farce of two-party politics."<br />
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Anonymous – a collective of hackers without any centralised authority – published thousands of personal emails, forum messages and personal details of members under the banner "Good Night, White Pride".<br />
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In a statement, the hackers denounced American Third Position as "racist losers" who "try hard to maintain a professional public image to camouflage their vile racism [...] we're now airing all their dirty laundry all over the internet."<br />
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It continued: "We call upon not only other anti-fascists but all those opposed to white supremacy to utilise this information and make hell for these white nationalist scumbags. It is essential if we wish to live in a world free from oppression to expose and confront racists at their jobs, their schools, at their homes and in the streets."<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-66360016333265911132011-11-14T11:31:00.000+00:002011-11-14T11:31:53.379+00:00German radio host: ‘Holocaust invented as PR’A popular German radio host is slated to return to his program on Sunday, after being temporarily pulled from his post for writing an email denying the Holocaust and spreading conspiracy theories against the US to a listener earlier this month.<br />
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Ken Jebsen, who is a host at the publicly funded “Jugendwelle” music program aired by Radio Fritz, wrote, “I know who invented the Holocaust as PR.”<br />
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n his crude e-mail, Jebsen said Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels implemented the public relations plan of the Holocaust and the Americans provided fuel for the entire Nazi bombing campaign, citing Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller, the American businessman. The rambling e-mail is filled with grammatical and spelling errors.<br />
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In a separate comment, which was voiced before the published e-mail, Jebsen termed the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11 a “warm demolition.”<br />
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The listener sent Jebsen’s email to journalist Henryk M. Broder who published Jebsen’s convoluted diatribes against Jews and the United States on his website.<br />
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Broder, who writes for the daily Die Welt paper and has testified as an expert on modern expressions of Jew-hatred in a Bundestag hearing, told Bild newspaper on Friday, “This is clear anti-Semitism.”<br />
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After the scandal surfaced in early November, Jebsen was removed from the program but will now return to his large youth audience.<br />
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Jerusalem Post attempts to reach the 45-year-old Jebsen were not successful.<br />
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Jebsen denied that his email was anti-Semitic, and he wrote on Fritz’s website that “my biography and my background obligate me to advocate for international understanding, peace and democracy.”<br />
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Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Fritz radio’s parent company, defended Jebsen’s continued employment.<br />
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“The accusations against the moderator that he spreads anti-Semitic ideas and denies the Holocaust are unfounded,” wrote the RBB management on Fritz’s website.<br />
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In a phone conversation with the Post on Saturday, Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal center’s director for international relations, said Jebsen’s statements are “unadulterated anti-Semitism. The program has to be defunded.”<br />
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Speaking from Paris, Samuels said Jebsen and the radio’s management has “to understand their legal responsibility,” adding that Jebsen is “not competent to run a youth program.”<br />
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He called on the authorities to “take legal steps against” the Holocaust revisionism of Jebsen.<br />
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Germany has a hate-crimes law barring incitement against Jews and Holocaust denial. It is unclear at this stage if a criminal complaint has been filed against Jebsen or RBB.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-34784856041906696922011-11-14T11:28:00.001+00:002011-11-14T11:29:13.213+00:00Hackers link MP's aide to neo-Nazi site in member list leak (Finland)The parliamentary aide to a right-wing Finnish MP has offered to resign after the Anonymous hacking collective published what it said was a list of applications to join a local neo-Nazi party.<br />
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Hacktivists broke into the website of Kansallinen Vastarinta, the magazine of the Suomen Vastarintaliike (Finnish Resistance Movement), before extracting and publishing what it said was the party's membership application database at the end of last month. The local cell of Anonymous warned of future internet-based attacks on its websites and forums unless Suomen Vastarintaliike (Finnish Resistance Movement) is disbanded.<br />
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Among the list that allegedly contained the names of hundreds of would-be members of the neo-Nazi group was Ulla Pyysalo, aide to Finnish MP Juho Eerola of the True Finns. Pyysalo told local media that she is offering to quit her job by the end of the year, providing she finds alternative work in the meantime, because she wants to avoid damaging the True Finns. Pyysalo maintains that she never actually joined Suomen Vastarintaliike, which espouses a confrontational anti-immigrant agenda and runs training camps in the Finnish countryside. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-47517757064867198572011-11-14T11:23:00.000+00:002011-11-14T11:23:37.857+00:00Neo-Nazi terrorism sparks calls for NPD ban (Germany)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq35q7NWugiaFx68sRACI0kqmdto9U0mguhHEb1ZpwByJ2ldSyLBSQR40a_SWSwGfPaCXYxurBgD2Q31Gkni_sme1QW8HoXegMoVXz7iStmkv3rjGTsnYUc-TU9SZXeBiATdk16HPtxY0/s1600/0%252C1020%252C1388774%252C00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq35q7NWugiaFx68sRACI0kqmdto9U0mguhHEb1ZpwByJ2ldSyLBSQR40a_SWSwGfPaCXYxurBgD2Q31Gkni_sme1QW8HoXegMoVXz7iStmkv3rjGTsnYUc-TU9SZXeBiATdk16HPtxY0/s200/0%252C1020%252C1388774%252C00.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>As more details of an extreme-right terror cell continued to emerge on Monday, German politicians promised a full investigation into a series of murders and renewed calls to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD).<br />
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nterior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich admitted gross failures by the security services after revelations of a decade-long killing spree by neo-Nazis.<br />
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"It is deeply troubling that there was no connection made between the murder series across Germany and the far-right scene in Thuringia," the east German state where the trio was based, Friedrich told the daily Bild. "State interior ministers are calling for better coordination between police and domestic intelligence on the state level. I strongly back that."<br />
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Friedrich said it was still unclear whether a group of extremists who admitted gunning down nine businessmen of foreign origin and a policewoman had a larger network behind them.<br />
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“The loved ones of the victims can be sure that (Germany) will do everything to get to the bottom of this affair,” Chancellor Angela Merkel told the ARD television network late on Sunday.<br />
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Four suspects – two of whom killed themselves last week – are suspected of involvement in a series of killings, including foreign shopkeepers from 2000 to 2006 and a policewoman in 2007. The two living suspects have been arrested and are currently in police custody. They were all allegedly part of a subversive group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU).<br />
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There have been suggestions that the suspects had connections with domestic intelligence agencies and Thomas Oppermann, the head of the opposition Social Democrats' parliamentary grouping, told the Bild newspaper he was seeking a special meeting of the parliamentary committee overseeing the secret services.<br />
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"I want to know what the authorities knew and how such criminal acts can better be prevented in future," he told the paper.<br />
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Friedrich described the so-called "döner kebab murders," as "new form of extreme-right terror" and said all unsolved crimes in Germany since 1998 suspected of being xenophobic should be reviewed to see whether they can be connected to the group.<br />
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Meanwhile Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann called for officials to discuss how to ban the NPD, despite there being no apparent direct link between the suspects and the party.<br />
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"I am for setting the NPD ban back on the agenda,” Herrmann said.<br />
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Discussion of the issue comes at a critical time for the NPD, which over the weekend ousted long-time leader Udo Voigt from the party chairmanship. Instead, 40-year-old Holger Apfel, head of the party in the Saxony state legislature, has taken the reins of the party.<br />
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German authorities tried to ban the extreme-right party before but failed in 2003 when the Federal Constitutional Court determined that state-affiliated informants were playing major roles in the party’s leadership.<br />
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In order for a ban to be successful, the state would need to convince the court, which is the only body with the power to ban parties deemed unconstitutional.<br />
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The GdP police union said a ban could be helpful because it would prevent the party from openly organising congresses and strip it of its financial base.<br />
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But Cem Özdemir, the leader of the Green party in Germany played down the possibility of a ban, saying “we have to discuss how the NPD and right-wing extremists have become socially hegemonic, especially in the eastern part of our republic.”<br />
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The animal, named Zottel, and fellow dwarf goat Mimo were found in the Zurich-Witikon area, said the party.<br />
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They had been tied to a tree and smeared with black paint by "extremist delinquents", they said.<br />
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Members of a group called Anti-Fascist Action claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.<br />
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<b>Provocative campaign</b>The animals have now been returned to their owner, SVP parliamentarian Ernst Schibli.<br />
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"At the moment he (Zottel) and his friend Mimo are a bit in shock, but mostly exhausted and probably happy that they're home," Mr Schibli told Reuters news agency.<br />
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The 10-year-old Zottel has been the SVP's mascot since the 2007 elections, when the party ran a poster campaign across Switzerland depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag.<br />
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The party then secured nearly 30% of the vote after the provocative campaign.<br />
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According to the SVP's website, "Zottel saves Switzerland" and is "against mass immigration".<br />
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For next week's legislative elections, the SVP has centred its campaign around the issue of immigration which it believes is out of control.<br />
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Polls show that the Swiss People's Party (SVP) is likely to seal its place as Europe's most successful populist political force after a campaign targeting immigrants, whom its posters depict as black boots trampling on the Swiss flag.<br />
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As the election campaign drew to a close, the SVP announced that it had gathered the requisite 100,000 signatures to call a referendum, under Swiss direct democracy laws, on withdrawing from freedom of travel arrangements with the European Union.<br />
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This would mean a return to quotas of migrants from the EU, including Britain, limiting access to the Alpine state and reversing a decade of openness.<br />
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European companies would have to go through bureaucratic application procedures for their non-Swiss employees and EU visitors would lose the automatic right to stay there.<br />
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Analysts have dismissed the move as an election stunt, not least because a referendum would take up to two years to organise, but it fits a pattern of anti-immigrant campaigns backed by the SVP. These include the recent vote in the lower chamber of parliament to ban the Muslim veil, as well as a referendum last year in which Swiss voters backed a ban on the building of minarets.<br />
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“This seems like a last try to get some attention before the election,” said Georg Lutz, the director of Swiss Electoral Studies at the Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences in Lausanne. “I do not think it will make too much difference to the election outcome because the Swiss People's Party is so far ahead. But it would be a disaster for Switzerland because if they managed to get it through it could mean the end of other bilateral agreements with the EU.<br />
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“It is popular, however - there has been a lot of immigration and in certain areas it puts quite serious pressure on the housing market.”<br />
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Researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany, commissioned by the Swiss Liberal Party, have warned that breaching the freedom of movement agreement would lead to the EU cancelling other bilateral arrangements.<br />
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Switzerland is not in the EU but it has agreed to allow freedom of cross-border transit and employment for fellow Europeans, and its citizens to travel and work freely across the continent.<br />
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Silvia Bar, the SVP deputy-general secretary, said that she simply wanted Switzerland to return to its pre-2002 position of running its borders and immigration.<br />
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“We have the problem that there are too many coming from Europe and especially from Germany. They always say they are qualified people but we are not talking about professors of chemistry, it is just anyone who has a degree at university now,” she said.<br />
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She denied that the SVP played on fears of foreigners or racism. “If you do not speak about things that people see on a daily basis, you will see racism come. That is why we are talking frankly and clearly about problems we have.”<br />
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There is resistance to the party however. Its mascot, a goat, was kidnapped and painted black in protest at the party's policies.<br />
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After its breakthrough election in 1999, the SVP has gone from strength to strength and been the most consistently popular far-right party in Europe.<br />
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It stands at 29.3 per cent support in the latest opinion poll, well ahead of the Socialist Party in second place on 19.9 per cent, and higher than its record 28.9 per cent share of the vote in the 2007 election.<br />
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The next most consistently successful far-right party is the Freedom Party of Austria, which joined a coalition government in 2000-05, and has polled at 29 per cent support this summer with the next elections due in 2013.<br />
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Populist anti-immigrant parties have enjoyed rising success in the Netherlands, Hungary and Finland, where the True Finns increased their vote in this year's election to 19.1 per cent from 4.1 per cent in 2007. In Denmark support for the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party, which was in government for 10 years from 2001, slipped slightly in last month's election from 13.8 to 12.3 per cent.<br />
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Under the Swiss system of consensus government by a seven-member Cabinet, made up of members from at least three parties, the SVP has made it clear that a convincing victory will lead it to demand an extra seat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris Hopgood</td></tr>
</tbody></table>A North-East tattooist has been questioned by police after a national newspaper claimed he was the leader of the British wing of a notorious white supremacist group.<br />
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Chris Hopgood was visited by officers from Durham Police yesterday.<br />
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Detectives wanted to quiz him over allegations in a newspaper that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.<br />
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They left after a short time and last night a spokesman for Durham Police said no crime had been committed and no further action would be taken.<br />
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Mr Hopgood, who could not be contacted last night, has denied any links to the notorious Far Right group, which is still classed as a terrorist organisation in the US. <br />
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The disclosures in yesterday's Der Spiegel are a major embarrassment for the once Communist state of Thuringia, which spends €2.6m (£2.3m) a year combating extremism in a region renowned for neo-Nazi politics and far-right violence. The neo-Nazi group plans to use the mansion as a centre for far-right extremists and Holocaust deniers.<br />
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Martina Renner, a spokeswoman for Thuringia's opposition Left Party, said the sale of the property was scandalous. "The state government will have to explain how such a well-known building could be sold off to right-wing extremists without anyone realising what was going on," she added.<br />
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The manor in the small village of Guthmannshausen, 30 miles north east of Weimar, is a neo-classical property containing a pillared banqueting hall, a sauna and numerous outbuildings. Previously owned by the state government, it was sold in May to a dubious neo-Nazi organisation called Gedächtnisstätte [Places of Remembrance], based in the western state of Lower Saxony. None of the officials involved realised that the buyer was a far-right group.<br />
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Yesterday, it emerged that Wolfram Schiedewitz, who is the president of Places of Remembrance, is a well-known extremist with a track record of propagating pro-Nazi views and Holocaust denial which goes back two decades.<br />
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"We have finally found a new home," Mr Schiedewitz declared in a message to his supporters. "We want to fill it with memory of our Second World War civilians who were the victims of bombardment, expulsions and prison camps."<br />
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But experts said they were certain the group intended to set up a rallying point for the far right. The group's clandestine purchase fits a well-defined strategy which has enabled neo-Nazis to gradually increase their presence in the former Communist East since Germany's reunification in 1990.<br />
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"The acquisition has enabled the far right to strengthen its infrastructure," said Fabian Virchow, a political analyst. State security officials in Thuringia say the purchase of the house was most probably masterminded by a shadowy female neo-Nazi named only as "B". She posed as an alternative medicine practitioner and duped officials into believing she wanted to hold seminars in the building and rent it to other users.<br />
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However, the security officials, who insisted they were not consulted during the sale, said yesterday that "B" was not only a member of Places of Remembrance but also had close links to a Nazi group called the Society for Free Communication, the country's "largest far-right cultural organisation".<br />
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Thuringia's finance ministry has said it will investigate with a view to cancelling the sale but legal experts said this could take the state years. "The new owners of the manor will bring together neo-Nazis and old Nazis," said the Left Party's Mrs Renner. "The Holocaust deniers will play a particularly important role."<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-78443836817349720042011-10-20T08:29:00.000+01:002011-10-20T08:29:10.552+01:00Soldier suspended over swastika flag (Austria)An Austrian soldier faces a trial for buying flags showing banned Nazi era signs and slogans while participating in an international peacekeeping mission.<br />
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A spokesman for the defence ministry said today (Tues) a colleague of the militiaman informed superiors when he showed the items to him while on patrol at the Golan Heights in Syria. Army officials said the incident was an isolated case, adding that the soldier was suspended. They explained Austrian prosecutors were already looking into the case. The member of an Austrian militia unit could face a fine or a prison term for publicly backing Nazi ideology. One of the flags he owned reportedly showed a swastika while the other one featured prohibited slogans.<br />
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Only last month, a 54-year-old man was sentenced to six months in jail by a court in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, for glorifying the Third Reich. The man – a co-founder and former head of the banned Austrian Nationalist Party (NVP) – was found guilty of breaching Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda bylaws by celebrating late World War Two (WWII) era dictator Adolf Hitler’s birthday between 2007 and 2009. Prosecutors informed the court that he also gave the Nazi salute and praised banned symbols like the swastika as well as Hitler himself. Investigators said data found on the defendant’s computer confirmed his neo-Nazi attitude.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-53877139660983968382011-10-20T08:24:00.000+01:002011-10-20T08:24:53.760+01:00We expose vile racist biker as British leader of the Ku Klux Klan (UK)<i><b>He tried to hide his identity behind the hideous hood of the Ku Klux Klan – but his tell-tale tattoos are visible for all to see.</b></i><br />
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</div>This is Chris Hopgood, vile racist leader of a British wing of the white supremacists. In the first evidence of UK Klan activity in decades, the KKK Grand Dragon poses with other senior members of the sick organisation.<br />
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A Mirror investigation uncovered the snaps on a German extremist website, set up to lure new recruits to the infamous US-based hate group.<br />
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Hopgood, a tattooist living in Co Durham, proudly wears a Klan robe as he stands alongside another KKK Grand Dragon and the European White Knights of the Burning Cross Imperial Wizard. The same group staged a cross-burning ceremony in a field in Germany this year and posted a video of the disturbing <br />
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Hopgood, 51, is also a supporter of Nick Griffin’s far-right British National Party and the English Defence League.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div>He believed he could hide under a Klan hood during secret meetings. But as our photos show, he fails to cover the word KLAN tattooed across the knuckles of his right hand. Also on view are his distinctive spider-web tattoos creeping over both his hands.<br />
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In photos we took of the bearded, heavy-set biker out walking in the old mining town of Easington Colliery, the same tattoos are clearly showing – proving he is the hooded Klan leader. The married dad, who has multiple piercings, including a bull-ring through his nose, also sports a Nazi symbol sewn into his leather biker’s vest.<br />
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The European White Knights bring together white supremacists in Europe and the US who believe in a racist and anti-Jewish creed called Christian Identity.<br />
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meeting.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The group claims it is officially recognised by the original KKK in the US and is partnered with several other US groups – including the gay and black-hating Keltin Klan Kirk, whose masked leader is on YouTube preaching hatred in front of a swastika with an assault rifle.<br />
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The European White Knights claim to be represented in Britain, Germany, France, Greece, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden.<br />
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Butch-looking Hopgood ran a separate whiteknights-kkk.co.uk website, which was recently taken down, on which he denounced homosexuality as a “cancer that threatens our way of life”, and warned: “We are a threat for we will never lay down to the oppressors and enemies of our white race.”<br />
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He has several tattoos across his body, including his nickname “Hoppy” on the side of his shaved head, and his tag on social networking site Fubar is Hoppy Texas Wolves.<br />
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Hopgood has posted dozens of photos of himself on his bikes and posing with the Confederate flag – associated with Southern US heritage but also used by some as a symbol of slavery and racism.<br />
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Hopgood – who has spent time in Georgia, a US state with a huge KKK presence – shared a picture with friends on Fubar of a pregnant white woman and blonde child with the words “Love Your Race”.Underneath, he has written: “For our kids and grandkids”. Under Interests, he writes: “www.whiteknights-kkk.co.uk go visit worth a look.”<br />
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The Mirror has discovered the whiteknights-kkk.co.uk website was set up using Hopgood’s address in Easington Colliery.<br />
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New recruits were invited to join by filling out an application form – and confirming: “I believe in the segregation of the races.”<br />
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His Facebook profile picture is the symbol for the EDL Bikers, a section of the right-wing English Defence League.<br />
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And Hopgood, born in Aldershot, Hants, also trumpeted his support for Nick Griffin and the BNP on his personal site: “The BNP is a legally elected political party elected by the people of England and as such he has the rights of any other legal party to have his say on our behalf.”<br />
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Our investigator made contact with a Chris affiliated to the White Knights site, who claimed to be the KKK Grand Dragon of England.<br />
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In emails, he boasted he was recruiting new members and hoped to open KKK branches in Scotland and Wales.<br />
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On an online forum used by extremists, a Grand Dragon called Chris wrote: “Greetings brothers and sisters and blessings to you all. I am Chris Grand Dragon ‘European White Knights Of The Burning Cross’ England. It is such an honour to be welcomed so well... and to talk to so many great members of the KKK. It is a hard struggle to bring a united white brotherhood to England. But one that is worth it. I send respect to all brothers and sisters in all parts of the white nation.”<br />
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According to a German newspaper, the European White Knights of the Burning Cross have recently printed copies of the Klan bible, called the Klorane.German and English language versions have been distributed to members.<br />
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A video posted in February on their site shows 14 robed Klansmen burning a cross to stirring background music in Grabow, Germany.<br />
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They were all wearing gloves so it is not clear whether Hopgood took part in the ceremony.<br />
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One Klansman shouts in German: “White Power”. The group responds in chorus: “White Power.”<br />
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The arms of the men and women are then raised in a Hitler salute. An entry next to the video, written in German, signs off with: “Our life is for the cross. The cross is our life!...Become a member of our Brotherhood. Rev Imperial Wizard.”<br />
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Yesterday the Mirror paid Hopgood a visit but was told he was not home. Five minutes after we left, Hopgood called our reporter claiming he was not a member of the Ku Klux Klan.<br />
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When asked why he was dressed in a hood and the full Klan uniform, appearing in photos alongside KKK leaders from Europe, he claimed: “I do it for my personal jollies.”<br />
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Hopgood added: “I have no views on the KKK. The fact that I have my political views is known by 99.9% of my customers.<br />
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“One of the royals dressed as a Nazi stormtrooper, but that does not make him a Nazi. I am not a member of the Ku Klux Klan and I am not recruiting in England, Scotland or Wales.”<br />
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A spokesman for anti-extremist organization Hope Not Hate said he was shocked the KKK had a presence in the UK.<br />
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He declared: “It’s chilling to see the KKK bringing their message of hate to the heart of England.<br />
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“It shows how far the tentacles of international extremism have spread. This is why we must all remain vigilant to prevent racists getting a stranglehold on our communities.”<br />
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In 2009, the BNP demanded a former Klan leader be allowed into Britain.<br />
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had put ex-KKK Grand Wizard Don Black on a blacklist of extremists but Mr Griffin urged her to let him in. He said: “The only people who can be kept out are those who inflict violence, which Don Black has not.”<br />
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But in 1981, Black had been found in possession of weapons and ammunition and was jailed for three years. And Griffin was photographed with the white supremacist in New Orleans in 2005 and Washington in 2006.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-69642350035229289492011-10-18T09:35:00.000+01:002011-10-18T09:35:24.754+01:00Far Right Party's 'Fascist Goat' Mascot Snatched (Switzerland)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxX8emsXIF8405XoGUd38CqYZLXrXcTdFzWzi3QqLGXdqgd8A4XQ4D0Xoy_TWujI50a66Qj0aFiw62ChNUguTJLFvINZxH5lxwh8NuW_LLWyX4T3eSonUSGV1aVRI2jlaG6u6De7ZHho/s1600/16090740.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxX8emsXIF8405XoGUd38CqYZLXrXcTdFzWzi3QqLGXdqgd8A4XQ4D0Xoy_TWujI50a66Qj0aFiw62ChNUguTJLFvINZxH5lxwh8NuW_LLWyX4T3eSonUSGV1aVRI2jlaG6u6De7ZHho/s200/16090740.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>A goat used as a mascot by a far-right political party in Switzerland has been kidnapped by left-wing rivals just a week before the country's General Election. <br />
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Zottel has been used in political hustings and campaigns since 2006 by the Swiss People's Party (SVP).<br />
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But sometime during the night of October 14, he and another goat were snatched from their stable in Zurich, at the home of Swiss MP Ernst Schibli.<br />
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Mr Schibli said he had received an anonymous letter with death threats to "fascist goat Zottel" this summer.<br />
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Left-wing group Anti-Fascist Action have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping in a statement posted on the internet - which the SVP responded to by issuing a statement demanding Zottel's return.<br />
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Zottel rose to fame in the 2007 election campaign, when he became a key figure thanks to his starring role in online games.<br />
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In the games, he expelled illegal migrants from the country, prevented them from becoming Swiss citizens and fired a crossbow at European officials which the party claimed were "seeking to steal money from Swiss taxpayers".<br />
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The SVP won 28.9% of the vote in 2007 and are expected to score a record 30% of the vote this year.<br />
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Police in Zurich say they are investigating several leads.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-75891981964652369522011-10-18T09:28:00.000+01:002011-10-18T09:28:59.895+01:00Parents slam school over 'racist' game (Sweden)The parents of children who attend a primary school in Valais in southern Switzerland have complained over the use of a game entitled "Who’s afraid of the black man?", a hide-and-seek game they argue is “racist".<br />
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Hedi Putallaz, the parent of a pupil at a primary school in Monthey first became aware of the game, used by teachers in a gymnastics class, back in 2010.<br />
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He complained to the head of the school, who instructed the teachers to suggest that the game should instead be called "The wolf in sheep’s clothing", according to a report in the La Tribune de Genève daily.<br />
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But in a recent class, one of Putallaz’s son’s teachers again suggested playing the game entitled "Who’s afraid of the black man?"<br />
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According to the head of the school, the staff member concerned was an external coordinator, so he was not aware of the directive.<br />
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This was however the final straw for Putallaz and his wife, who is of afro-American origin. Now the couple want the educational authorities in Valais to issue an “official directive” to change the name of the game in all the schools in the canton, where it is still widely used.<br />
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“The Valais should not be considered the Mississipi of Switzerland,” say the parents in their request to the cantonal authorities because they consider the game to be a throwback to a racist past many blacks had to overcome.<br />
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“If the game was called ‘Are you afraid of the Jew’or ‘of the homosexual’, how would people react?” Putallaz said.<br />
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Jean-François Lovey, chief of the Department of Education of Valais, is yet to review, but he told La Tribune de Genève that he does not see the situation in the same way: “Honestly, it is a harmless game,” he said.<br />
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“The reasoning of these parents shows the extreme [political] correctness of our society,” Lovey added.<br />
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The Putallaz family is now awaiting a resolution from the educational authorities in Valais, but they have already warned that if their petition is not accepted, they will bring the issue in front of the European Court of Human Rights.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-42676586719445249642011-10-18T09:23:00.000+01:002011-10-18T09:23:43.574+01:00Mindless EDL thugs storm Muslim exhibition in Cradley Heath market (UK)A Muslim book stall in Cradley Heath market was stormed by over 25 thugs from the English Defence League this weekend.<br />
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The shocking attack occurred in front of shoppers, many of which were women and children, at the market at 2.30pm on Saturday.<br />
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The local Ahmadiyya Muslim book stall and Qur’an exhibition was attacked and volunteers were manhandled and abused by members of the Far Right organisation.<br />
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Shocked Ahmadiyya outreach worker Toby Ephram described the scene in the market.<br />
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He said: “About 25 of the EDL group stormed our stall in Cradley Heath pushing, shoving and threatening our members.”<br />
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“We have the book stall to raise awareness of our work in Britain and in the local community we are proud to be British Muslims and this incident saddened us.<br />
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“Our motto is ‘Love for All - Hatred for None’ and we do not meet violence with violence so we just stood there and did not respond to the provocation.”<br />
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He added: “I’d like to thank the police for responding to the problem so quickly and controlling the situation and we will be back as usual at the market on Saturday.”<br />
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Last week the News reported the Muslim group was setting up the stall and exhibition in a bid to ‘increase understanding and improve community cohesion’.<br />
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Halesowen and Rowley Regis MP James Morris condemned the incident and branded it an ignorant and mindless attack.<br />
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He said: “The people storming the stall may claim that they are defending their English identity, but tolerance for other people’s views and beliefs has long been a key part of what it means to be English.<br />
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“The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Cradley Heath actively works to help different sections of our society to live peacefully alongside each other, whatever their religion.”<br />
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He added: “This mindless attack is absolutely deplorable and can only have been caused by ignorance of the views and action of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community locally.”<br />
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A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “We were called at 1.40pm with reports of people causing a disturbance in the Market Square area of Cradley Heath. “Officers attended the scene and the groups dispersed.”<br />
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On Boxing Day 2009 Cradley Heath Mosque and Islamic Centre in Plant Street was burnt to the ground by arsonists.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-60384440869512605072011-10-16T12:23:00.000+01:002011-10-16T12:23:17.704+01:00Neo-Nazi boss to appeal to top court for hotel ban (Germany)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Udo Voigt, chairman of the far-right National Demcrocratic Party, is preparing to appeal to the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, after he was allegedly barred from a hotel for his political views.<br />
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Voigt's wife booked four days in the Hotel Esplanade in the eastern German spa town of Bad Saarow in December 2009, but the hotel refused to accept the booking, saying that Voigt's "political beliefs" meant that the hotel could not fulfil its aim of "providing every single guest with an excellent wellness experience."<br />
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Voigt's legal complaints have been unsuccessful so far, and according to a report on news magazine Der Spiegel's website on Sunday, he is planning to appeal to the BGH next Friday.<br />
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His lawyer countered the hotel's decision by saying that other guests could be disturbed by the presence of "black Africans, Muslims and severely disabled people."<br />
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But, Voigt's lawyer said, "in a free democracy, our citizens are expected to show tolerance that some people might consider an imposition." Otherwise a democratic society cannot function, "because there would be too many moves towards discrimination, and at the end we have a fractured society without solidarity."<br />
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The hotel's lawyer argued that Voigt was demanding "tolerance that neither he nor the NPD extend to others."<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-13309516758030317972011-10-16T12:18:00.000+01:002011-10-16T12:18:21.717+01:00Ukrainian street renamed after pro-Nazi battalion 'shameful' - PMA Ukrainian town's decision to rename a street after a battalion that fought alongside the Nazis during World War II is shameful, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Friday.<br />
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"I was shocked. It's hard to imagine such things taking place in our country... It's a shame for our country," Azarov said.<br />
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Peace Street in the village of Razliv in western Ukraine's Lvov region was renamed Nachtigall Battalion Warriors Street. <br />
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Two battalions, Nachtigall and Roland, were formed from ethnic Ukrainians in Nazi-occupied Poland in February 1941. They were among the first units to invade the Soviet Union in June 1941, but were disbanded in August after Germany failed to declare an independent Ukraine.<br />
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Shortly after Nazi troops entered Ukraine in June 1941, nationalist leader Stepan Bandera called on Ukrainians "to help the German army in defeating Moscow and Bolshevism." On June 30 the Nachtigall Battalion entered Lvov. The documentary record shows that its members committed atrocities against the Jewish population.<br />
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The street renaming was initiated by the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party and supported by members of Yulia Tymoshenko's party.<br />
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The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the move and said it hoped that the street's original name would be restored.<br />
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The pro-presidential Party of Regions has already asked the Prosecutor General's Office to study the case and give a legal assessment.<br />
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Ukrainian society is deeply divided over the wartime role of the country's nationalists, namely the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its militant wing, the UPA. One part, mostly residents of the eastern regions bordering Russia, believe UPA fighters were traitors who killed Soviet soldiers, while another, mainly residents of western Ukraine, regard them as patriots who fought for an independent Ukraine.<br />
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On October 14, the anniversary of the UPA's founding, up to 30,000 Ukrainians - nationalists and communists - are expected to march in Kiev in two opposing rallies for and against the UPA.<br />
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The Ukrainian nationalist movement also demands that President Viktor Yanukovych approve construction of monuments to Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa and UPA leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych in Kiev.<br />
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They also want October 14 to be declared a national holiday - The Defender of the Fatherland's Day. The holiday's name and origin are a clear reference to a national holiday in Russia, which bears the same name and marks the first mass draft into the Red Army.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-76840222070298993642011-10-13T14:37:00.000+01:002011-10-13T14:37:24.218+01:00'Racist couple murdered parents then crossed US hunting for Jews'A white supremacist couple face the death penalty after allegedly being caught on their way to kill "more Jews" following a two-week manhunt in which at least three people were murdered.<br />
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David Pederson, 31, and his girlfriend Holly Grigsby, 24, were arrested north of Sacremento, California. An arsenal of loaded handguns and rifles was found in their vehicle.<br />
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Their alleged victims include Pederson's stepmother, Leslie Pederson, 69. Her body was found in her home near Puget Sound in Washington state, with her hands bound by duct tape, her head wrapped in a pillow soaked in blood and a sword lying nearby.<br />
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Yesterday the pair appeared at Yuba County Court, Marysville, California. The court heard Grigsby had confessed that after killing Pederson's stepmother they murdered his 56-year-old father by shooting him in the back of the head as he drove them to a bus station.<br />
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They then drove to Oregon where, Grigsby told police, they killed 19-year-old Cody Myers after mistakenly concluding that his last name meant he was Jewish. The couple were driving Myers's car when captured. Both have known links to white supremacist groups and Pederson has a prominent White Power tattoo on his neck.<br />
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After their arrest, Grigsby allegedly said that she and Pederson were on their way to Sacramento to "kill more Jews". They have also been named as suspects in the murder of Reginald Clark, a 53-year-old black man, whose body was found in a car in Eureka, California.<br />
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In an interview from jail, Pederson - who has spent most of his adult life in prison - claimed he killed his father because he believed he had sexually molested his sister and cousin.<br />
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Police think Mrs Pederson was killed because they thought she knew of the abuse but did not stop it. No proof has been found that the molestation happened.<br />
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Prosecutor Mark Roe said the pair face charges of aggravated first-degree murder and warned the killings in Oregon and California could also be prosecuted as hate crimes.<br />
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Pederson and Grigsby are being held in prison before extradition to Washington after bail was set at $1million each.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-24895688182386349022011-10-13T14:33:00.000+01:002011-10-13T14:33:52.147+01:00Migrants living in fear after racist bomb attack on Poles (Northern Ireland)A campaign of attacks against foreign nationals living in Antrim could force some to flee the area, it has been claimed.<br />
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The warning came after a pipe-bomb was left on the windowsill of a Polish couple's home at Seacash Drive yesterday. Community representatives said it was the latest in a series of incidents targeting foreigners in the town.<br />
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The alert began around 8am yesterday and saw the Parkhall Road closed and nearby homes evacuated for several hours. A PSNI spokesperson confirmed that a viable device had been taken away for examination.<br />
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UUP councillor Adrian Watson said he was hopeful that the family would stay in Antrim.<br />
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“They are giving it a lot of thought, although they are obviously very shaken,” he said.<br />
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There have been other racist attacks recently in Antrim.<br />
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“Last week a mob attacked a house belonging to foreign nationals and put the windows in, and the same night graffiti went up saying that foreigners were not welcome,” said Mr Watson. “There is no justification for it.”<br />
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Maciek Bator from the Polish Association warned that some foreign residents may leave.<br />
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“Some people will decide to move out of this area and some will decide to move out of Northern Ireland,” he said.<br />
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“They will take a bad image of Northern Ireland with them.”<br />
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A loyalist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a call to a news organisation. Progressive Unionist Party Ken Wilkinson — whose own home was targeted in a pipe-bomb attack last year — visited the family and apologised for what had happened.<br />
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He said: “These people carried this out in the name of loyalism, these people are loyal to nothing. These people are just bigots.”<br />
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Graffiti attacking the PUP — calling it the ‘Polish Unity Party’ — has also appeared in the area.<br />
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PSNI area commander Chief Inspector Natalie Wilson appealed information about the attack.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-76088758755373676452011-10-10T09:07:00.000+01:002011-10-10T09:07:12.004+01:00Two detained after neo-Nazi provocation in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic)Led by the convicted con artist Lukáš Kohout, right-wing extremists from the Workers' Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti - DSSS) and other neo-Nazi groups, 300 - 400 people marched through Ústí nad Labem today. The anti-Romani gathering was convened by locals, allegedly to support the rights of "decent" citizens against "the parasitism of inadaptables."<br />
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The crowd did not deviate from its planned route. At one place, neo-Nazis and approximately 10 opponents of neo-Nazism and racism yelled at one another. As many as 50 police officers kept them apart. Two demonstrators wore neo-Nazi slogans on their coats.<br />
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There were 100 state police officers, 100 municipal police, and members of an anti-conflict team deployed on the streets of the town. A police helicopter flew overhead and mounted police and police dogs were also on standby.<br />
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Several promoters of the DSSS arrived in town carrying flags. The gathering started with speeches by the organizers on the square: Convener Milan Sůra, right-wing extremists from the DSSS, and convicted con artist Lukáš Kohout, who has convened similar marches in Varnsdorf. The crowd then marched through the town. The organizers planned the route to lead from Mírové Square down Velká Hradební street to the Hotel Vladimír, returning to Lidické náměstí along Masarykova street. Along the way, people chanted the slogan "Stop Black Racism" and nationalist slogans such as "Bohemia for the Czechs" or "Nothing but the Nation". They bore banners referencing the attacks allegedly committed by Romani people in Nový Bor and Rumburk, which sparked the recent unrest the neo-Nazis are now exploiting.<br />
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Right-wing extremists from the DSSS and convicted con artist Lukáš Kohout occupied the head of the march. "That is exactly what the initiator of this event probably didn't want. It looks like the protest has gotten away from his control and party members have taken over this initiative," a reporter for Czech daily Mf DNES said.<br />
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An incident occurred at a point along the march route near a closed-down restaurant where local anarchists usually meet. They had hung a banner on the building reading "Nationalism is kitsch" which the marchers tore down. About 10 opponents of neo-Nazis and racism had to be separated from the protesting crowd by about 50 special forces police. The groups shouted at one another for several minutes before the crowd continued its march without further clashes. After roughly an hour and a half, the conveners of the march officially ended it on Lidické Square and people started to disperse.<br />
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Police detained two ultra-right radicals for interrogation. "They were wearing illegal slogans on their coats, but it's too early to say whether they have committed a crime or a misdemeanor," said Jarmila Hrubešová, spokesperson for the Ústí police. News server iDNES.cz reports that the men were wearing the English-language phrase "Blood and Honor", the name of an originally British neo-Nazi organization established in 1987 by a singer with the Nazi band Skrewdriver, Ian Stuart. The name was taken from the battle cry of the Hitler Youth. The group defines itself as a "Nationalist Revolutionary Movement" espousing the legacy of the Third Reich.<br />
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Early this morning, police discovered and removed a cache of paving stones and wooden tool-handles in a cellar along the march route. Mounds of paving stones were also found on Velká hradební street. Before noon, police also arrested a man armed with a machete. Vladimír Danyluk, the head of the Ústí nad Labem territory, said police had been monitoring all access roads to the town since morning but did not discover any more weapons.<br />
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At 13:30, a similar rally was held in Varnsdorf (Děčín district), where people were protesting for the ninth weekend in a row. Police spokesperson Daniel Vítek said the situation in the town was completely calm. About 150 people met on the town square, but did not march anywhere. The conveners of the demonstration once again criticized the Mayor of Varnsdorf, Martin Louka.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981278963687790943.post-71273100004776226202011-10-10T09:02:00.000+01:002011-10-10T09:02:46.784+01:00Racist-attacks pair are jailed for a year (EDL, UK)Two former English Defence League members are beginning year-long jail sentences after racist attacks at a mosque and two Asian-run businesses.<br />
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Steven James Vasey and Anthony Donald Smith launched their offensive after incidents at a war memorial in Luton on Armistice Day last November, where poppies were burnt by extreme Islamic groups.<br />
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On the eve of Muslim festival Eid, the masked men, along with an accomplice, climbed a fence at the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool.<br />
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The letters “EDL” and “NEI”, for the North East Infidels, were sprayed along with “no surrender” and images of poppies and the St George flag.<br />
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Prosecutor Chris Baker told Durham Crown Court that a taxi seen in the area at the time was similar to a vehicle spotted later in Potto Street in Shotton Colliery, where an upstairs window of the Milco store was smashed with a brick.<br />
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Similar graffiti to that left on the mosque was sprayed on the shop and the nearby Albert Guest House, which are both owned by an Asian businessman.<br />
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Mr Baker told Recorder William Lowe there was an irony that the store was selling poppies when the attack was carried out.<br />
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He said taxi driver Smith, 24, of Rydale Court, Trimdon, previously of Neptune Way, Easington Colliery, was arrested the next day.<br />
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Messages on his mobile showed planning with then-girlfriend Charlotte Christina Davies and Vasey and included claims they were going “Muzzy bashing” and were going togive the mosque a “makeover”.<br />
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Smith, Vasey, 32, formerly of Pittington and now of Eden Crescent, Darlington, and Davies, 19, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, all admitted conspiracy to commit racially aggravated criminal damage.<br />
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Stephen Constantine, representing Smith, said he showed a “lack ofinsight” into the consequences and it had been prompted by the poppy burning.<br />
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Shaun Dryden, mitigating for Vasey, said his actions were foolish.<br />
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Jane Waugh, mitigating on behalf of Davies, said her involvement came to text messages offering encouragement.<br />
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She was given a 12-week sentence, suspended for a year, and 200 hours’ unpaid work.<br />
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The barristers said all three had severed their ties with the EDL.<br />
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Jailing the men, Judge Lowe remarked that the attacks were carried out in the wake of the Luton incident.<br />
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He said: “It may be that was something these three had in mind, but it does not excuse this conduct.<br />
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He added: “It’s the sort of behaviour from which those who are militant feed.”<br />
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After the hearing, Inspector Dave Coxon, of Peterlee Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “I’m pleased that this has gone to court and they pleaded guilty and the sentence reflects the serious nature of the offence.<br />
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“We continue to take these sorts of offences seriously and we will strive to support all members of the community.”<br />
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Violence between ethnic Russians and people from the Caucasus is frequent. In December, about 5,000 people chanting "Russia for Russians" gathered at Manezh Square and beat dark-skinned passers-by. That gathering was a reaction to the killing of a Russian soccer fan during a fight with people from the Caucasus.<br />
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