Nearly 100 recent homicides linked to users of Stormfront white supremacist site, SPLC says

[one...two...tree 2,762]

A white supremacist charged with killing three people near two Jewish community facilities in suburban Kansas City this week posted more than 12,000 messages on a racist website which carries the slogan “No Jews, Just Right,” according to an organization that tracks hate groups.

The online activity by Frazier Glenn Cross follows a trend in which prolific posters on hate online forums are becoming “disproportionately responsible” for racist murders and mass killings, according to a report released on Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization.

The report said nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by frequent users of one white supremacist website, Stormfront. The site describes itself as a community of “White Nationalists” and “the voice of the new, embattled White minority.”

“It has been a magnet for the deadly and deranged,” said Heidi Beirich, author of the report.

According to the report, past participants in forums on the website included Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran who opened fire at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012 killing six people before taking his own life.

Another was Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian extremist who massacred 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree in Oslo and at a nearby youth summer camp in 2011.

Stormfront owner Don Black told Reuters that Cross had never been allowed to post on his site, and that Breivik and other killers named by the SPLC had been banned.

“We’re obviously a big website, and any site is likely to have a few unstable people pass through. Facebook, Twitter, and particularly Craigslist have had their share,” Black added in a statement he posted on his website.

“Like all good propaganda, it’s a mix of truth, half-truth and outrageous lies,” Black wrote of the SPLC.

Frazier Glenn Cross often posted on Stormfront until he was banned from the site in 2005 after testifying in a trial against white supremacists, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Law enforcement and human rights groups have identified Cross as a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan and someone who has repeatedly expressed hatred for Jewish people.

Cross, who also goes by the name Glenn Miller, later switched to another white supremacist forum, Vanguard News Network, where the center tracked his postings over the last five years.

“These killers are really hiding in plain sight on these forums,” Beirich said.

Vanguard did not immediately respond to an email to the website seeking comment.

Cross faces one count of capital murder in the fatal shooting of Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside a Jewish community center and a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 53-year-old Terri LaManno. Cross is being held on a $10 million bond.

Potok called on law enforcement, particularly the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to increase its focus on racist online forums.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/18/nearly-100-recent-homicides-linked-to-users-of-stormfront-white-supremacist-site-splc-says/

Edited April 18, 2014 by Porterhouse

[luckytxn 2,264]

Freedom of speech.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Homicides don't really fall under the first amendment.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/18/nearly-100-recent-homicides-linked-to-users-of-stormfront-white-supremacist-site-splc-says/

many 100's of Homicides are committed every year people who listen to rap Proof rap is causing homicides..

To be fair insert for rap Followers of Jesus, Allah,Republicans, Democrats people that watch American Idol etc etc

What a sensationalist idiotic headline.

Edited April 19, 2014 by The Nature Boy

[Danno 1,228]

many 100's of Homicides are committed every year people who listen to rap Proof rap is causing homicides..

To be fair insert for rap Followers of Jesus, Allah,Republicans, Democrats people that watch American Idol etc etc

What a sensationalist idiotic headline.

DIdn't you see it was in a report from the $PLC?

What, do you think they make this stuff up for donations?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Don't be idiotic. These are hate groups.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Yes they are. They do have a right to speech though and these sites are allowed to excercise their rights. In the same article it stated all these killers were banned from their sites because of their postings.

Don't be idiotic. These are hate groups.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Yes they are. They do have a right to speech though and these sites are allowed to excercise their rights. In the same article it stated all these killers were banned from their sites because of their postings.

That's not what the article is arguing, nor is the SPLC advocating shutting down those sites, but rather that the FBI focus some of the anti-terrorism task forces on these sites since the type of hatred they profess tends to draw people who are willing to take that type of hatred a step further. It would be no different if there was some radical cleric located in here in the states professing hatred towards Americans. These people should be watched very closely.

[UncleBeer 244]

Don't be idiotic. These are hate groups.

SPLC? I wholeheartedly agree. For "ultra-tolerant lefties", they seem pretty intolerant.

[luckytxn 2,264]

I agree with them on that. I just want to point out that we have to be careful how we tread on this. Should they investigate everyone that posts on the sites? Only if the postings reach a certain "hate level"? Who determines that level? I can go on and on but I think we understand.

That's not what the article is arguing, nor is the SPLC advocating shutting down those sites, but rather that the FBI focus some of the anti-terrorism task forces on these sites since the type of hatred they profess tends to draw people who are willing to take that type of hatred a step further. It would be no different if there was some radical cleric located in here in the states professing hatred towards Americans. These people should be watched very closely.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

That's not what the article is arguing, nor is the SPLC advocating shutting down those sites, but rather that the FBI focus some of the anti-terrorism task forces on these sites since the type of hatred they profess tends to draw people who are willing to take that type of hatred a step further. It would be no different if there was some radical cleric located in here in the states professing hatred towards Americans. These people should be watched very closely.

But wouldn't that be profiling ? OMG certainly you don't advocate profiling

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Why is it difficult for Fox News sheep to understand there's a fundamental difference between profiling criminals based on behavior and racial profiling? Good grief.

[Danno 1,228]

When it comes to Muslims we are cautioned that only a small percentage take the message of Allah and blow stuff up and that is a fair point.

In that light I would ask, how many people have visited Storm front and how many of them have been convicted of such acts?

Or does this logic only work for Muslims?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Why is it difficult for Fox News sheep to understand there's a fundamental difference between profiling criminals based on behavior and racial profiling? Good grief.

But if you profile someone because they are a "criminal" then aren't you missing the "Court" step of the process or do you mean profile someone because you think they could be a criminal ? If you do that then what criteria do you use to figure out who in your mind is a " criminal"

Problem with you libs is you never think things through full circle.

Would you profile someone you did not think was doing something criminal ?

Liberals would be funny if they did not cause so much trouble

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Why is it difficult for Fox News sheep to understand there's a fundamental difference between profiling criminals based on behavior and racial profiling? Good grief.

Oh and BTW I don't watch a lot of TV News The few hours I have watched in the past few months have probally been equally CNN and Fox, but nice assumption or stereotype..