Subject: Hate and Extremist Groups

• Protecting your toner from terror

  Big terrorism news yesterday– and this time it involves a real terrorist, not one of that motley assembly of the largely misidentified down at Guantanamo Bay. And as is usual when we're talking about real terrorism in America, the terrorist is a disgruntled white guy. Yesterday, a jury in Jackson, Tennessee convicted white supremacist Demetrius Van Crocker on five counts of attempting to acquire chemical weapons and explosives to destroy government buildings. Van Crocker, a 40 year old fa

  April 14, 2006

• Spreading Democracy... or something

  Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the British were kicked out many long decades ago: white supremacists. As the New York Times reports this morning: "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the [Southern Poverty Law Center] quoted a D

  July 7, 2006

• Overheard at Chapman University...

  ...right before the beginning of Nigger Wetback Chink: "White Power".

  August 28, 2006

• Neo-Nazis for Gilchrist

  The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has a piece on Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-sealing Minutemen Project, tolerating neo-Nazis campaigning for him when he ran unsuccessfully for an Orange County congressional seat last year. We think someone misunderstood when it was suggested the Minutemen need to be more tolerant. The story claims that neo-Nazis were spotted at Gilchrist rallies in Sacramento, Lake Forest and Laguna Beach, and that when Orange County dance instr

  August 8, 2006

• White Supremacists Jury Reaches Some Verdicts

  White supremacists Michael Lamb and Jason Rump must have sighed in relief this afternoon. Despite a week of deliberations following their nine-week trial, the panel hasn't been able to reach unanimous verdicts on the murder and attempted-murder counts. But at lunchtime today, jurors announced they had found the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squard hoodlums guilty of street terrorism and possession of a firearm by a felon. Lamb was also convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime. One jur

  July 2, 2007

• The Truth About Glenn Spencer

  *Updated, with grammatical erros bolded The last time I saw Glenn Spencer (founder of the frothingly anti-immigrant American Patrol), the portly man was sporting a huge smile as a race riot erupted around him. The occasion was a Dec. 8, 2001 rally in front of Anaheim City Hall, where Spencer and his amigos were decrying the Anaheim Police Department’s policy to accept Mexican-government-issued identification cards as proper ID for illegal immigrants. Anarchists counter-protested Spencer's i

  September 3, 2007

• Conviction Overturned for OC's Most Famous Anarchist

  Three years ago, Orange County's most famous anarchist pleaded no contest to several felonies relating to his alleged attempt to blow up La Habra's Moose Lodge in 2002. On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court overturned Matthew Gordon "Rampage" Lamont's conviction, arguing that police violated Lamont's civil rights when they searched his car on April 20 of that year. If April 20 sounds like a familiar anniversary, it is, although not in a good way. That night at the Moose Lodge, members of

  September 28, 2007

• Orange County Founded by KKK?

  In preparing for a--shameless self-promotion alert!--coming Navel Gazing profile of Orange County hate groups, I came across a stunning--though not surprising--revelation: Orange County was officially founded by the Ku Klux Klan. This insight comes courtesy of Dr. Henry William Head, a Civil War veteran who served as a Los Angeles County Assemblymember (representing the Orange County region) from 1883-1889. Biographies on Head in the Santa Ana Library History Room and subsequent stories about h

  March 17, 2008

• Searched and Seized

  May 9, 2002

• OC's Rich Vein of Klanniness Tapped Out?

  Call it racist gentrification (redundant, right?): The Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group that virtually created Orange County, can now barely be found among our county's pale-colored treasure trove of bigots. Californian politician and proud clucker Dr. Henry William Head helped engineer Orange County's secession from Los Angeles in 1889. In the 1920s, the Klan attempted to turn Anaheim into a knightly mecca by taking over the city council. But it appears that one of the remaining Klan g

  January 28, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 2, 2009

• Old World Village's Rep As a Haven for Skinheads Is the Least of the Huntington Beach Oddity's Problems

  March 19, 2009

• When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

  July 17, 2008

• The KKK Took My County Away: Meet the Klansman Who Helped to Found Orange County

  April 17, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Why Did Wayne Gross Recuse Himself From the Mike Carona Investigation?

  February 21, 2008

• Hey, You!

  White Power Bitch

  July 12, 2007

• White Power With a Lisp

  In a sensational gang murder trial, Billy Joe Johnson talks about sex, drugs, guns, dirty cops and Jews but not his homeboys

  June 14, 2007

• Hating the Haters

  December 18, 2003

• Hate, Inc.

  You never know who is standing next to you in OC

  February 15, 2007

• Real Gene-ius

  August 17, 2006

• Hatesville, USA

  July 20, 2006

• Hey, You!

  July 13, 2006

• The Trials of Billy Joe, White Supremacist

  February 16, 2006

• Who Dunn It?

  July 21, 2005

• Wake Up, White People!

  April 8, 2004

• One of us

  December 4, 2003

• Did Matt Lamont Try to Blow Up Hitlers Birthday Party?

  May 1, 2003

• White Like Me

  April 3, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 5, 2002

• Das Boot!

  May 23, 2002

• Identity Trap

  May 23, 2002

• No Cake for Adolf

  May 2, 2002

• Taking Sides

  March 14, 2002

• Crystal Unclear

  March 14, 2002

• The Good Old Days

  February 28, 2002

• Hour of White Power

  February 21, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Letters

  September 20, 2001

• Springboard for Hitler

  September 13, 2001

• Take the Skinheads Bowling

  August 23, 2001

• Another Fine Mess

  July 15, 1999

• In Defense of Klanaheim

  The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a picture of lucha libre!" another pal cracked, referring to the Mexican wrestling matches that have been occurring every Sunday at the Anaheim Indoor Marketplace for so long that the second piece I ev

  May 15, 2009

• Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

    Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and racists and supremacists and Hitler lovers and Mexican bashers and hater/racist skinheads of Huntington Beach (and, yes, not all skinheads are hater/racists, so hold that comment). Oh, yes, the

  July 30, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Activista (the Activist): Brian Levin

  October 8, 2009

• Anaheim CAIR Office Condemns Neo-Nazis Harassing Jews, Joins Riverside Counter-Protest

  ​The Anaheim-based Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) is jumping into the controversy involving neo-Nazis harassing worshipers at a Jewish synagogue in Riverside.As the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports, more than 20 organizations, including CAIR-LA, plan to stage a counter-protest to a neo-Nazi rally scheduled for Oct. 24. The Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization joined the Islamic Center of Riverside and the Islamic Society of

  October 8, 2009

• Counterprotesters Vastly Outnumber Neo-Nazis at Rallies

  Bad weekend for Adolf lovers.​Neo-Nazis rallying in Riverside--which was previously referred to here and here--were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters Saturday.A morning counterprotest sponsored by 32 community organizations, including some with Orange County members, drew 200 people to Riverside City Hall. Their enthusiasm--and numbers--carried over to an anti-immigration rally staged later that day by eight Neo-Nazis in front of a Madison Avenue Farmer Boys restaurant that is adjacent t

  October 12, 2009

• Stupid Skinhead Sartorial Tricks!

  Brooks: dig those Sharpie eyebrows!​ Skinheads never cease to crack me up with their stupidity, and I had to muffle my laughs today at the West Justice Center. The Nazi party involved the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos (and one pendeja) who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Beach's Slater Slum neighborhood with the expressed purpose of beating up a Mexican, only to have their asses cracked at the hands of wabs. In the shackles and jumpsuits were Brian Charles Hanson, Bret Macdonald H

  September 27, 2009

• Candy-Ass Gang Pleads Not Guilty to Slater Slums Hate Crime; Two Like Mexi Culture?

  Brooks, Hanson, Hicks and Powell: What cholas taught Brooks how to paint on eyebrows?​The Candy-Ass Gang--Erin Lee Brooks, Brian Charles Hanson, Bret Macdonald Hicks, and Michael Aaron Powell, the quartet of neo-Nazi fools whom the Huntington Beach Police Department say went to Surf City's Slater Slums barrio early July specifically to assault a Latino only to have their asses handed to them by wabs--pleaded not guilty to their charges today in Orange County Superior Court. Each faces attempte

  September 4, 2009

• White Supremacist Party Made in Garden Grove

  Jaimee Lynn Fletcher has a fascinating piece in today's Orange County Register about a pro-white (as in Caucasian) political group forming in Garden Grove. Supporters of the Golden State Party notified the Secretary of State in May they would try to qualify as a political party for 2010, elections officials said. The kicker is the self-proclaimed "European-American" group has links to white supremacist groups and is run by a two-time convicted felon, something that has caught the atte

  September 4, 2009

• OC Racist Reign of Lameness Continues Over Weekend

  ​What is the deal with Freedom 14? This pesky little group of Nazi skinheads apparently believes it is going to establish Southern California as an all-white enclave simply by passing out leaflets in notoriously white enclaves of Orange County. For one thing, they really seem to like the beach. First they passed out leaflets at the pier in San Clemente, then the one in Huntington Beach. And this past weekend, they visited the upper-class, overwhelmingly white city of Newport Beach to spread th

  August 3, 2009