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Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants: Hispanics Target of Incitement and Violence RULE The Rhetoric: Declaring "Open Season" on Immigrants

Posted: May 23, 2006


Overview
White Supremacist Anti-Immigration Protests
The Rhetoric: Declaring "Open Season" on Immigrants
The Violence: Growing Number of Assaults
Anti-Immigration Activists and White Supremacists
Internet Video Games Target Hispanics

White supremacists have not simply expressed racist convictions, but have urged each other and white Americans generally, to "fight back" against the perceived invasion of the "white" United States by Hispanics from Mexico. 

 

The rhetoric in such pronouncements has grown increasingly radical.  "Beaner Brown Supremacist Militias of Latino Communist immigrants firmly intend to conquer [the southwest]," suggested a topic heading on the white supremacist Legion of Saints message board recently.  "Will White Americans sit back, watch it happen & let them do it?  Or will White Americans 'remember the Alamo!?'"

Such voices are unfortunately hardly isolated.  Here are just a few recent examples:

  • Alabaman Larry Darby, a Holocaust denier and candidate for Alabama attorney general, recently stated in a May 3 interview on Alabama Public Television that he wanted National Guard troops on the border with orders to "shoot to kill, absolutely…we are at war, we are being invaded by a foreign country, we are at war."
  • James Wickstrom and Frances Farrell, the virulently racist and anti-Semitic hosts of the "Yahweh's Truth" radio program, blamed Jews for the immigration "invasion" on his May 3 broadcast.  Wickstrom claimed that pro-immigrant marches were being organized and financed by "communist Jews" and the "communist Catholic church," and that Jewish organizations are "criminal accomplices of these illegal aliens."  Farrell suggested that "one attack on one of their marches with automatic weapons or even just rifles will put a stop to them and the time's coming when this is going to happen."  
  • One member of an Aryan Nations faction, "Pastor" Jay Faber of Pennsylvania, claimed on April 10 on the Aryan Nations Internet forum that "I already know they will not throw one of these stumpy little brown beasts out of here, so for the amount of guats in my area, I have at least 10 rounds of ammunition for each of them."
  • Aryan Nations faction leader August Kreis in October 2005 claimed on his Web site that "this infestation of cockroaches need deportation or extermination!"  If legal means of "stopping this rising tide" were not enough, "then these brown squat monsters should begin to turn up dead all across Amerika…We now have another game animal to add to our list of available targets for our favorite pastime, hunting, and we'll declare permanent OPEN SEASON on these dirty wetbacks!  From what I have heard through the grapevine the Skinheads and Klans across the country are more than prepared for this type of action.  I say let's play by state and see which state can claim the most kills and let the jewsmedia whores keep score!"
  • Oregon National Socialist Movement leader Jim Ramm wrote in June 2005 that "the browner invasion is much like a cancerous tumor that should of [sic] been removed.  But instead, it was allowed to grow and infect other organs…as this brown disease rages out of control the white patient faces racial death."
  • Kevin Strom, leader of the neo-Nazi National Vanguard, gave a shortwave radio broadcast in June 2005 in which he claimed that "These Mestizo invaders are so different from us that by mixing with them or being dispossessed by them we will cease to live, we will cease to be ourselves or have a place to exist to support the lives of our future generations. And that is the crucial reason why this invasion must be stopped."
  • "AllisioRex," a member of the neo-Nazi web forum Stormfront, wrote in July 2005 that "they are barbarians, they are our enemies, they want to destroy our civilization and we have to fight them. We need to organize better and be more open activists; otherwise, I only see race war in the future."  Another Stormfronter, "Strasser," wrote in November 2005 that "White minorityhood on a national level is a very real possibility. How can White folk tolerate this? Do they care that most minority populations become a cultural hostage? What is the interest in having their children a minority on a mestizo dominated campus?  Mestizo immigration is going to force White America to make some very important decisions."

Such statements appear routinely on white supremacist Web sites and in white supremacist literature.

Perhaps the white supremacist most active in explicitly advocating extreme violence against Hispanics is
New Jersey racist radio talk show host Hal Turner.  He reserves his most extreme statements to urge violence against illegal immigrants from Mexico:

  • May 3, 2006: Following the May 1 demonstrations, Turner posted to his Web site a 145-page "ethnic cleansing manual" that he said explained "in graphic detail why WHITE people need to prepare to ethnically cleanse this nation and HOW TO DO IT using force and violence." 

  • October 31, 2005:  "Slowly but surely we are headed toward the solution that I have been advocating for years:  KILL ILLEGAL ALIENS AS THEY CROSS INTO THE U.S.  When the stench of rotting corpses gets bad enough, the rest will stay away."

  • October 11, 2005:  "For years I have been publicly advocating on my radio show and this web site, that Mexican illegal aliens be SHOT DEAD as they cross into the U.S. illegally…I plant the seeds verbally and the seeds grow in the minds of others…I am proud to advocate even MORE killings!"
  • July 15, 2005:  "I once again advocate EXTREME VIOLENCE against Mexicans…Once they're dead, their heads should be cut off and put on pike poles as a warning to others."
  • May 17, 2005, responding to news that a restaurant owned by the mayor of Denver had employed an illegal alien who allegedly murdered a police officer:  "…his policy of affording sanctuary to other illegal aliens makes Mayor John Hickenlooper worthy of being KILLED.  I sincerely hope that someone takes a rifle with a scope and puts a bullet through [his] head."
  • May 15, 2005:  "I advocate extreme violence against illegal aliens…I think it would be terrific to trap them by their ankles in steel bear traps then beat them to death when you return and find them in the trap…Oh, if any American sides with the illegals—like a bigmouth politician or a politically correct, ass-kissing local sheriff, lawyers, judges, or the like—it would be a real public service to kill them too!"

Anti-Immigration Groups

The violent rhetoric has not come only from explicitly white supremacist groups, but also from members and leaders of anti-immigration groups.  Anti-immigration activist Fred Puckett, the leader of "Minuteman of One," was caught on camera in late April telling an undercover reporter for a local Phoenix television station that "once you shoot a couple of these sons of bitches, they'll think twice."  

Perhaps most strikingly, Arizona anti-immigration activist Laine Lawless, who has been associated with several border vigilante groups and eventually started the group Border Guardians in 2005, sent an e-mail in April to a prominent Ohio member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, Mark Martin, asking him to pass its contents on to his white supremacist contacts.  Martin did so, forwarding the message to several white supremacist forums on Yahoo and Usenet in early April, but unfortunately for Lawless, Martin ignored the part of her message which read, "Please don't use my name," and instead forwarded the message in full.

Lawless's e-mail, titled, "How to GET RID OF THEM," urged a variety of intimidating, harassing, and even illegal and violent tactics to intimidate immigrants into leaving the U.S., including cutting down the broadcast tower for a Spanish language radio station near Phoenix and stealing money from illegal aliens.  "I hear the rednecks in the South are beating up illegals as the textile mills have closed," she wrote.  "Use your imagination."  

Lawless's suggestions were consistent with previous statements she had made, including a late March posting to an anti-immigration Internet forum in which she wrote that "my Southern friend tells me the rednecks in the South just beat [illegal aliens] up.  Unfortunately, there are too many of them to use that tactic there any more."   

Earlier, in February, Lawless posted to a Texas Minuteman message forum that "We need borders to…preserve our culture, instead of accepting any kind of flotsam and jetsam that seeks to float into our territory."  

Mark Martin himself seemed willing to personally engage in intimidating tactics.  In early May, he admitted in a Google Internet forum that he and another member of the National Socialist Movement had passed out racist fliers in Covington, Ohio, at houses "surrounding a suspected illegal Mexican jobsite."  The two neo-Nazis also approached workers at the jobsite and demanded to see identification from them.  When workers refused, Martin allegedly told one of them that he "was an illegal, wetback who was stealing American jobs and…spreading disease."  Workers called the police, who told the neo-Nazis to leave or be charged with harassment.





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