Ann Althouse came out in defense of Wisconsin Mass Murderer Wade Michael Page(WMP), and disgusted with Southern Poverty Law Center's rush to judgement!
In 2009, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security came out with a report that says that White Supremacists and Right Wing militia groups, extremists, anti-abortionists and some veterans, were the greatest threats to U.S. Domestic Terror!
This well done report(started by the Bush administration Dept. of Homeland Security) greatly upset the republican party and right wing hate sqwaukers.
Despite the fact this was a nonpartisan report, and it was correct, Secretary Napolitano, was forced by the right wing echo chamber to withdraw it and apologize. Kudo's to the republican party on that one, what could possibly go wrong??
In the meantime, Southern Poverty Law Center, continued to track the right wing extremists and hate groups even having WMP in their sites for the last decade!
To some who track the movements of white supremacist groups, the violence was not a total surprise. Mr. Page, 40, had long been among the hundreds of names on the radar of organizations monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of his ties to the white supremacist movement and his role as the leader of a white-power band called End Apathy. The authorities have said they are treating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism.This is where Ann Althouse steps in(it).
The Southern Poverty Law Center put out the early characterization of End Apathy as a "racist white power" band, but I'm not sure how they know that:Ann is not sure how the SPLC would know that WMP and his band is a "racist white power" band....
Lets see if we can find any clues....
mmm nothing to see here.
Let's take a look and see where Prof. Ann gets her info from...
IN THE COMMENTS: Sorun said:
By the way, what happened to all of the dangerous white militia groups in the 90s? They were everywhere! Did they all just decide to go bowling instead?CommonHandle said:
How much money did the SPLC raise from that great crisis?
I find it a bit creepy that SPLC defines its "intelligence project" as following around anyone who has an association with people or groups that espouse racist beliefs, even if nothing that individual has done or said themselves comes across as overtly racist. Creepiness aside, aren't there plenty of real racists out there? people who regularly and unambiguously engage in racist speech? That the have a "profile" of this man isn't only kind of disturbing, but it seems pretty frivolous.BarryD said:
Sometimes I think the SPLC figures that every time there are two or more white people standing on the street together, it's a white-power group.
That said, this guy was, indeed, not apathetic, in the end.
Too bad, really.
There's a lot to be said for apathy, especially among those who are fucked in the head. I think that apathy saves our society from many ills, actually.
Wait......WHAT????? Ann Althouse uses as her argument anonymous comments on the internet????? If Barry D thinks that apathy saves, then I guess apathy saves and the SPLC can pack up their toys and go home! I guess is Soron thinks right wing militia groups are not a problem, then they are not a problem. heck we even have "Chip" (and Ann for sharing) to thank for showing us that the problem is NOT that WMP killed 6 innocent people, but that the real problem is that SPLC invaded Mr. page's privacy. This is America, you should be able to purchase neo-Nazi goods without having to worry about some silly hate tracking group!
Chip said:
From the article:
"According to Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center 's intelligence project, the group has been tracking Page since 2000, when he allegedly attempted to purchase goods from the neo-Nazi National Alliance."
How does the SPLC have access to to information about a private - and perfectly legal - commercial transaction?
No wonder I do not read Althouse's posts very often, I can go on www.jsonline.com and read ridiculous racist comments anytime I want. The only thing missing from this powerful prose is commentary from Mr. Ann Althouse(I forget his name). Everyone usually hangs on his every word!
Are there any voices in the republican party that are NOT insane, and hateful????
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