Governments Go Online to Fight Terrorism. Oklahoma City National Memorial - Frequently Asked Questions. 15 years later, victims, residents remember Oklahoma City bombing. Fbi-ct-lexicon.pdf. Www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf. The Order (group) The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen (German for Brothers Keep Silent) or Silent Brotherhood, was a white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.
The Order is best known for its role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg. In December 1984, authorities were able to track Mathews down to a house on Whidbey Island where he refused to surrender.[2] During a shootout, the house was ignited by incendiary flares, became engulfed in flames and Mathews was killed.[2] Mathews is considered a martyr by some white nationalists.[8][9] A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.[13] Richard Scutari, member of the Order, was sentenced to a 60 year prison term in 1986,[14] being removed to USP Marion CMU in July 2008. The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. HistoryLink.org Essay 7921 : Printer-Friendly Format On December 8, 1984, Robert Jay Mathews, founder of the violent white-supremist group The Order, is killed in a house fire near Smuggler's Cove on Whidbey Island after a 35-hour standoff with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
He has been the object of an intense manhunt since November 24, 1984, when he escaped from the FBI in Portland, Oregon, after wounding an agent in the leg. The Order's legacy of terror will end on April 15, 1985, when 23 members of the gang are indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle and arrested by the FBI. Twelve of the defendants will plead guilty before trial and many will become government witnesses. Richard Scutari. Richard Scutari's connection with white supremacist organizations can be traced back to 1982 when he attended the national convention of The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord.
Only two years later, his involvement with the white supremacist gang The Order propelled him to the highest ranks of his cause and resulted in a 60-year prison sentence. Since his 1989 imprisonment, Scutari has remained actively involved with the radical right, writing extensively for far-right groups and promoting a racist version of Asatru, a polytheistic Norse religion.
Recently denied parole, he and several of his colleagues in The Order remain unrepentant about their activities and continue to be a driving force in the white supremacist movement -- even from behind bars. Beginnings. Robert Mathews. Robert Jay Mathews. Mathews burned to death during an intense gunfight with approximately seventy-five federal law enforcement agents who surrounded his house on Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington.[1] Biography[edit] Early years[edit] The family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
Though he was an average student in grade school, history and politics interested him. At age eleven, he joined the John Birch Society. Louis Beam. Early Start Born in 1946, Louis Beam, a child of the post-World War II segregationist South, grew up in the 1950s in Lake Jackson, Texas, south of Houston.
He played Little League baseball and attended an all-white school where he was, according to a childhood friend, "very much against blacks. " After an 18-month tour of duty with the United States Armed Forces in Vietnam, he returned home in 1968 and joined the Texas branch of Robert Shelton's Alabamabased United Klans of America (UKA), under the leadership of Texas Grand Dragon Frank Converse. Www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/EVIL/RACISTBBSES/berlet1.txt.
Early Racist and Antisemitic Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) George P.
Dietz, a well-known publisher of racist and antisemitic literature, was apparently the first White supremacist to launch his material into cyberspace on a public BBS. Dietz recalls that his BBS, called variously Info. International Network or Liberty Bell Net, went online probably sometime in late 1983 or early 1984 on an Apple ][e. Dietz, through his Liberty Bell Publications located in West Virginia, had been sending printed neonazi publications throughout the US, and to Europe where much of his material was legally banned.
The early text on Dietz's BBS consisted of articles from his monthly Liberty Bell magazine, published in print form from September 1973 until February 1999. Www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/EVIL/RACISTBBSES/sampletext.txt. /* Written 11:14 am Feb 6, 1993 by cberlet@igc.apc.org in igc:publiceye */ /* ---------- "Sample Text from Racist BBS's" ---------- */ TEXT FROM RACIST BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS (appendix from a conference paper on Telecomunications and Privacy presented by Chip Berlet at a national conference in 1985) [NOTE: This appendix contains an edited compilation of messages from a network of three computer bulleting boards connected to the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, and another system run by a distributor of racist literature in the South.
Much of the material on the four systems is the same, and the material here is drawn from all four systems. The material contains racist rhetoric against Blacks and Jews, threats and innuendos regarding violence, and possibly defamatory material. The Website of Political Research Associates. The Website of Political Research Associates. When Hate Went Online by Chip Berlet 7/10/2000 In 1983 hate went online.
The source was a small computer bulletin board system (BBS) that carried online articles denouncing Jews and Blacks. Few people noticed. Fewer still even knew what an online computer system was, or how to connect to it. Today it is hard to imagine that in 1983 the idea of non-profit organizations sending information between computers over phone lines was considered experimental. This was before there was easy access to what became the Internet. 23 Neo Nazis Indicted - Summon. The College of Wooster Libraries: Full Text Link. Aryan Nations FBI file : Federal Bureau of Investigation. The College of Wooster Libraries: Full Text Link. The Order FBI file : Federal Bureau of Investigation. Imperial Klans of America. The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist organization styled after the original Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Brotherhood of Klans. Www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/klan_report.pdf. Extremism in America. The Ku Klux Klan experienced a resurgence in 2006.
One sign of this resurgence was an increase in activity by some longstanding Klan groups, often accompanied by an expansion in size. Immigration and other issues have allowed these longstanding Klan groups to increase their activities in areas where the Klan has traditionally been strong, such as the eastern Midwest and the South, and to expand into some parts of the country where the Klan did not have a particularly strong presence in the early 2000s, including the Great Plains and Mid-Atlantic states.
Application for kkk. Search Results: Brotherhood of Klans. Business Search Results. Corporation Details. Www.publicsafety.ohio.gov/links/ocjs_hatecrimes2009.pdf. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009. Crimes reported to the FBI involve those motivated by biases based on race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, and disability. Access Tables. Hate Crimes. Domestic Terrorism Post-9/11. Jury Finds Connecticut Man Guilty of Making Grenades, Selling Guns Intended for White Supremacist Group.
BRIDGEPORT, CT—A federal jury in Bridgeport, Conn., today found Alexander DeFelice, 33, of Milford, Conn., guilty of conspiracy and firearms offenses stemming from an alleged attempt to sell firearms and explosive grenades to what he thought was a white supremacist group located outside of Connecticut, announced David B. Fein, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut. The jury found DeFelice’s co-defendants Kenneth Zrallack, 29, of Ansonia, Conn., and David Sutton, 46, of Milford, not guilty of conspiring with DeFelice and others in the same conspiracy.
The trial began on Nov. 15, 2010, and the jury returned the verdicts this morning. KKK revived, with strong Regina ties. Northernborderextremists.pdf. KKK. Klan Leader Ron Edwards Arrested by FBI in Drug Bust. Combating Hate: Domestic Extremism & Terrorism May 21, 2010. No. 2 Klan group on trial in Ky. teen's beating - US news - Crime & courts. DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. — The western Kentucky compound that the nation's second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group's annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses.
The Southern Poverty Law Center wants to take it all away. Www.usip.org/files/resources/sr116.pdf. Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action. Irps.ucsd.edu/assets/014/6735.pdf.