A few miles from Mar-a-Lago, white supremacists set up headquarters

[highplainsdem]

This was published by the Sun-Sentinel a few days ago, but I don't recall seeing it here and couldn't find it with a search.


https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-white-supremacists-ss-prem-20210120-55z7iiaribet3lei4h6372ftb4-story.html

As the drumbeat of white supremacists grew louder in America, three men quietly formed a new extremist group, planting their flag in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach.

Whites, the group’s website says, are genetically superior in “civilization building” and “should always have the majority of power and influence in the nations founded and built by our European ancestors.”

The Sovereign American Project began recruiting in August and was flagged to the FBI in recent days.

The group’s leaders envision an America separated, as in the days of segregation, demanding “the end of forced integration” between races, according to their website. Their goals: dismantling affirmative action programs and other policies “that are detrimental to Whites”; undoing “the fallacy of feminism” and gay rights movements; and reversing multiculturalism, which the group’s website calls “a pressure cooker” ... “not a melting pot.”

Hate group monitors and experts said the Sovereign American Project stands out because of its international network, with allies in the Ukraine and Portugal; an online sophistication in covering its tracks; and its brazen incorporation as a “social welfare” nonprofit with an address on Clematis Street, the main street of West Palm Beach.

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Editing to add that the story above, with a shortened headline, is the top story in the Sun-Sentinel's 1/24 Sunday edition, too:

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[Chainfire]

1. The house that Trump built.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. The house that Trump played to, exploited.

The house has been around for a long time. KKK, John Birch, voting poll tax, etc.

Trump was just a charismatic demagogue who could get them riled up.

[bullwinkle428]

6. "STAND BACK, AND STAND BY!!"

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. SMH at the stupidity and the insane hatred.

This group needs to be on a watchlist all it's own.

[patricia92243]

4. Guess they can now visit their leader anytime they want to now.

[Irish_Dem]

5. West Palm Beach is going to be Magaville.

The neighbors must love the idea. Not.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. This is exactly what the residents were afraid was going to happen.

[Hortensis]

8. Too overtly extreme to prosper, very unlike the long-lived White Man's Party aka GOP,

with its claimed basic principles of small government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberties, law and order, etc. Nothing about racism or subjugation of women to object to in that.

[still_one]

9. Perfect

[Arne]

10. They'll be in the nearest strip club if you have to find them.

[Mike 03]

11. Increasingly, the organizations trying to destroy us from the inside have

various forms of support from counterparts foreign countries (including from very high up, as is the case with Viktor Orban and Putin) and, regardless of whether these groups are racist or Christian nationalists, the list of nations supporting them often has the same suspects:

Hungary
Russia
Georgia
Ukraine (often Russian Ukrainians, though)
Poland
Now, Portugal is mentioned in this article.

This fatal connection with international backers is something discussed in both Sarah Posner's book Unholy and also touched upon in Katherine Stewart's book The Power Worshippers, and they also explain the toxic overlap between the Christian Nationalists and the White Supremacists--who disagree on particulars but find common ground with the idea of rejecting Democracy in favor of a nation where everyone looks and worships as they do.

[paleotn]

16. Hate to be the purveyor of Russian conspiracies, but....

I think this stems from Russian destabilization efforts. Taping into existing racial hatred to further their own agenda. But that's just me.

[Mike 03]

17. No, no, you've got it exactly!

They will support any project that divides us.

In the unlikely event Zen Buddhists sought Russian financing to create a group of violent extremists in the U.S., Putin would probably be too happy to help.

You are dead on.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. Well named - SAP

[paleotn]

13. Seems to me we need an RFK style crackdown once again.

Really put the screws to these people.

Civilization building. Oh, that's rich. Reminds me of a long past uncle of mine. A family genealogy aficionado. He was also a general history fan to the nth degree. Back in the 80's, I made some half ass quip about Middle East terrorism and society in general. He quickly set me straight. They were one of, if not the, most advanced civilization on the planet when our people where ragged illiterates, living in stone and thatch hovels, running around fighting our neighbors and stealing each other's cattle. So show a little respect, will you? The renaissance of science, mathematics and medicine didn't hit Europe until the 15th century, and didn't make it to our people until the 18th century. Arabs and Persians were a 1000 years or more ahead of us. And if you think we're the most advanced now, ask the Romans how that works.

Whenever I hear the old Sting song, All This Time, I'm reminded of that..."but their empire crumbled and all that was left were some stones the workmen found."

[secondwind]

14. Racism is learned behavior.

Sad, but true.

[rso]

15. W Palm Beach

The ultimate irony is that Palm Beach County, but especially West Palm Beach, are overwhelmingly democratic.

[CurtEastPoint]

18. Sovereign American Project SAP exactly what they all are: ignorant, gullible dumbasses.

[FM123]

19. This makes me want to throw up.

This is way too close for comfort. I am in bluer than blue Broward county, with Miami-Dade county below me struggling to stay blue and Palm Beach county above me that's barely blue and going more maga by the day - it feels like our little blue bubble is getting smaller and smaller....

[Thekaspervote]

20. Hopefully this will back fire and the rich idiots of WPB will have to throw them out

[2naSalit]

21. I suspect they won't be comfortable there.

[Blue Owl]

22. K&R for exposure

[applegrove]

23. Scary.

[struggle4progress]

24. Look! There's Furor guy's brand new party!