NYT: As Investigation Widens, Arson Linked to Md. Gang (Unseen Cavaliers)

[DeepModem Mom]

As Investigation Widens, Arson Is Linked to Maryland Gang
By GARY GATELY

Published: December 22, 2004


GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 21 - One of six young men under arrest in the arson that caused $10 million damage to a new subdivision two weeks ago has told investigators that the leader of a southern Maryland gang orchestrated the attack as a way of adding to the gang's notoriety, the authorities said in court documents made public Tuesday....

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Just before a detention hearing in federal court here Tuesday for the first of the suspects seized, investigators presented the most details yet of what they said they had learned about those arrested. Much of it involved the gang, said to have been called the Family or, alternatively, the Unseen Cavaliers, a reference to the Chevrolet Cavalier; some of the suspects shared an interest in racing autos in rural surroundings, officials said....

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Donna Sanger, an assistant United States attorney, said at the hearing that the suspects had engaged in "nothing less than an attempt to wipe out an entire community."

Ms. Sanger said the suspects had named the arson plot Operation Payback. Though she would not elaborate, law enforcement officials have suggested that revenge may have been a motive of two of the suspects. Mr. Speed had been upset that his employer showed indifference after the death of his infant son last spring, investigators said, and Mr. Parady may have been angry because he was rejected when he applied for a job with the Lennar Corporation, the subdivision's developer.

Ms. Sanger also noted that many of the Hunters Brooke home buyers were black, and suggested that racism may have been a motive. Charging documents and accompanying affidavits have neither mentioned race nor called the arson a hate crime. But law enforcement officials, noting that all the suspects are white, say that two of them have made racist remarks to investigators....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/national/22arson.html

[many a good man]

1. The suspects are all skinheads

Somebody call the SPLC. They're all skinhead losers who resent the fact they are poor and powerless and just paid servants to the upwardly mobile AAs moving into the big new fancy houses.

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2. RW media (including Sinclair) first tried to blame it on environmentalists

I heard Mark Hyman, VP of Sinclair Broadcasting, include this incident in one of his recent editorials as an example of extreme left wing ELF environmentalist protests. Ironic turn of events now that the perps instead seem to be more like angry RW racists with an axe to grind instead of angry LW radicals as Mark Hyman wanted everyone to believe.

[many a good man]

3. Go to the Washington Times for the local perspective

Old specter of racism lurks in flames of arson
By Adrienne Washington
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 10, 2004


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Excuse me, but I've lived in the Washington area long enough to remember when blacks were warned not to be caught in Southern Maryland -- or rural Virginia -- after dark. Then, even Prince George's County was considered "redneck" country. Now, when someone black informs you that they reside in the cookie-cutter communities all the way down to Waldorf and Accokeek and Indian Head and beyond, some old-timers simply will raise a wary eyebrow.

So, when I saw the predominantly black faces of the horrified Hunters Brooke homeowners, I immediately feared the scary specter of racism.

Oh yes, racism is alive and well in America. Just last week, for example, there were news reports of a community near Aberdeen, Md., home to several biracial couples, that was peppered with fliers distributed by a Baltimore-based "white-rights" group, warning against miscegenation.

No one wants to talk about the ugly elephant in the room, but to bury our heads in the dirt and pretend that racism is passe is to set ourselves up for danger, such as people who come to burn your house down in the middle of the night.

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You have to look hard to find truth in the Washington Times but this article proves it does exist.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thanks so much for posting this article, TAndP! nt

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5. "storm front" has over 40 thousand members

and right now there are 150+ registered members on line with some 500+ guests. pretty sizable group. these guys and gals are the ones who actually do have a thought process although it always goes back to the jew,black,yellow ,brown colored skin people as the root of all their perceived problems. it`s to bad they don`t see who the real enemy is.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. "...when you're a 'vette' you're a 'vette' all the way..."

oops... wrong gang. That's the unseen corvettes' song.