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[H2O Man]

"...White men, your only recourse is guns. Either kill those who oppress you, or be made slaves in your own land. ... Morris Dees deserves to be shot where he stands."
-- Alex Linder, Neo-Nazi leader, August 19, 2005

This past weekend, in what I considered an attempt to ignore the Millions More March in Washington, DC, Fox News focused on a confrontation between a neo-nazi demonstration and a group that opposed their agenda. It was unfortunate that the counter-demonstration included a group that engaged in a "riot" after the neo-nazi group decided not to march through a black neighborhood.

My goal is not to justify that riot. I support efforts to identify, arrest, and prosecute those who were involved. I would like, however, to focus for a few minutes on the different approach that society too often takes when dealing with crimes against property versus crimes against people.

Recently, I posted an essay about a Southern Poverty Law Center report that showed that the US Department of Homeland Security lists the only serious domestic terrorist threats as being posed by animal/environmental rights groups, when in the 10 years since the Oklahoma City bombing there have been 60 right-wing terrorist plots uncovered in the USA.

In those same ten years, the SPLC has documented a disturbing number of individual acts of violence against American citizens, based on race, ethnicity, sexual identity, and religion. The numbers of violent hate crimes is growing, which should come as no real surprise when we have an administration that preaches hatred and violence.

In the past couple of years, the SPLC has won a number of significant law suits against the organized hate groups. They have begun a campaign to encourage the murder of SPLC founder Morris Dees. Current reports from SPLC document the dangers that Dees and others face in confronting the evil of these hate groups.

Please support the Southern Poverty Law Center. It takes a lot of guts to confront the hate groups in America.

See: www.splcenter.org
www.intelligenceproject.org

Thank you!
H2O Man