June 19, 2006   An admitted racist since the age of 12, Matt Hale became one of the most effective and best-known leaders of the far right after he became head of the World Church of the Creator (as it was then known) in 1996. Under Hale's PR-savvy guidance the group regularly gained publicity for its activities and for the violent incidents associated with its members. A 1999 decision by the State of Illinois to reject Hale's application for a law license, due to his past "conduct,"…

May 23, 2006 This report exposes the growing rage of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists toward immigrants, particularly Hispanics. A number of extremist groups have held anti-immigrant events and protests and racheted up their hateful rhetoric toward immigrants. In addition, racists have targeted Hispanics in a number of violent incidents. Read the full report, Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants (PDF). OVERVIEW As the public debate…

May 08, 2006 An e-mail rumor long circulated on the Internet suggests that the maker of Vans skateboarding shoes is anti-Jewish because some of their shoes come with a pattern resembling a Star of David on a portion of their outsole (bottom).  Some of the more conspiracy-minded e-mails suggest that this pattern was created by the company to put Jews down ("step on Jews") or that the company was "founded by neo-Nazis." ADL has concluded that there is no truth to any of these…

April 21, 2006 A member of the Aryan Brotherhood has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma four years ago. A Tulsa jury sentenced James Craig Taylor, 39, in March 2006 in connection with the October 2001 death of Pawnee County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Woodrell, Jr. The jury also found Taylor guilty of a firearm violation  Taylor and his co-defendant, Justin…

March 24, 2006 The article by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" would not be taken seriously if not for the reputations and associations of the authors. They have each written respected scholarly works on government and international relations and occupy important positions at their universities. The article itself, which was first posted in full on the…

March 13, 2006 A series of trials against the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang is scheduled to begin in three federal courtrooms in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California, in the coming weeks. The capital case, the largest filed in U.S. history, spans three decades and involves 32 murders and attempted murders in prisons around the country. A six year federal investigation led to a 140-page indictment alleging that leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood conspired to murder fellow inmates who cheated…

March 09, 2006   A white supremacist fugitive wanted in Michigan for allegedly raping his ex-girlfriend has been captured in Florida.  Joel Dufresne, wanted in Michigan on 21 counts of sexual assault, was hiding in Orange Park, Florida, before surrendering to U.S. Marshals on February 27, 2006, according to authorities.  “Reverend” Dufresne, a prominent member of the white supremacist Creativity Movement, allegedly raped his girlfriend multiple times before…

November 11, 2005 Lamb and Lynx Gaede, adolescent twin girls who make up the band Prussian Blue, have gained recognition in white supremacist circles while preteens by singing about preserving the white race and Nazi heroes. Prussian Blue is the name of the blue residue left over by the use of Zyklon B, the poison the Nazis employed to kill millions of Jews and others in concentration camps during World War II.  The two girls learned their white supremacist ideology from their mother…

September 27, 2005 A Tulsa, Oklahoma, jury convicted a father and son of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery for a deadly bank robbery carried out to finance violent acts against the government. Wade Lay, 44, and Christopher Lay, 20, were convicted on September 26, 2005, for attempting to rob the Mid-First bank in Tulsa on May 24, 2004, and killing a security guard during the attempt.  During the trial, both defendants admitted to the robbery, which was caught on videotape…

September 26, 2005 A member of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison two years after pleading guilty to his role in Los Angeles-area bomb plot. Earl Krugel, 62, the JDL’s former West Coast Coordinator, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and weapons violations stemming from a 2001 plot to bomb the San Clemente office of Rep. Darrell Issa, Lebanese-American Republican congressman, and the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City. Krugel’s co-defendant, JDL…

September 15, 2005 An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to buying weapons for the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Lori Goodrich, 30, of Eastlake, purchased weapons, including a .38-caliber revolver and a .45-caliber pistol, on behalf of James R. Blomquist, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to the federal indictment. Blomquist was apparently unable to buy the guns for himself because of prior criminal convictions. U.S. Attorney Nancy…

September 09, 2005 White supremacists continue to use the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and to promote their racist agenda and hateful worldview.  Within days of the destruction, white supremacists communicating to each other on the Internet had incorporated Hurricane Katrina into their standard racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are controlling and manipulating the government to use African-Americans to destroy the white race. …

September 02, 2005 Three racist skinheads have been charged for their role in attacking Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon, three years ago; one of the defendants is also charged with solicitation to kill potential witnesses.  Jacob Albert Laskey, 25, his brother Gabriel Doyle Laskey, 20, and Gerald Anthony Poundstone, 27, are all charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights for shattering windows at the temple, which at the time was conducting religious services for 80 people,…

August 10, 2005 An anti-government extremist was executed in Alabama’s Holman prison for the brutal shooting death of Opelika, Alabama, police sergeant Roger Motley. George Sibley, Jr., 62, and his common-law wife, Lynda Lyon Block, shot Motley to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Opelika in 1993.  Both were active members of extreme right-wing tax protest and sovereign citizen movements in central Florida, which was a hotbed of such activity at the time. The shooting…

July 21, 2005 A group of Las Vegas neo-Nazis has filed papers in Carson City to create a "White People's Party." While the group stands little chance of achieving electoral success, the media coverage they have already received represents an accomplishment for them.  The idea was the brainchild of Michael O'Sullivan, head of the Las Vegas unit of the racist and anti-Semitic National Vanguard, a newly created neo-Nazi group that broke away from the older National Alliance in 2005…

July 13, 2005   White supremacist James Randall Eckert has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a Hillsboro, Oregon, man last year. Eckert, 36, of Beaverton, was found guilty of shooting Dennis Steffen in the chest in June 2004.  After the guilty verdict was read in Washington County Circuit Court, Eckert, who has a shaved head and sports tattoos of African Americans being hanged and kicked, reportedly said, “at least I’m still breathing.” …

June 29, 2005   A man with a long history of white supremacist activity is one of two men facing hate crime charges in Illinois for allegedly beating two teenage girls at a suburban park in Zion. Patrick Langballe, 29, of Winnetka, and Aaron Rush, 20, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, were arrested on June 23 and charged with hate crimes for attacking the two girls and threatening them with a sledgehammer after they told the two men they were lesbians. The girls told investigators they…

June 28, 2005 Thirty-three people, including members of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, have been arrested in six northeast Ohio counties as part of an investigation into drug and weapon sales. Authorities indicate that over 80 weapons, including automatic machine guns, were seized during raids, which took place in the early hours of June 23 in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Summit, Trumbull, Mahoning and Lake counties; a methamphetamine lab was also raided.  The…

May 13, 2005   White supremacist Martin Lindstedt, of Granby, Missouri, was arrested by Newton County authorities on May 10, and charged with first degree statutory sodomy, a charge that indicates the victim was under 12 years of age.   For years, Lindstedt, a former truck driver, has been a vocal white supremacist and an adherent of Christian Identity, a racist and anti-Semitic religious sect.  Most recently, he had been the Missouri contact for…

April 06, 2005 Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the threat to the United States from domestic extremists is still a serious one.  On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 men, women and children, and injuring hundreds more.  It was the second most deadly terrorist act to occur on American soil. The bombing shocked Americans, most of whom had little idea that fellow citizens…