Charles Murrell, a black classically-trained saxophonist, headed for a Boston library on July 2, 2022, to play his sax on the sidewalk. He never got there. Dozens of toughs from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi hate group (details here), were outside the library. When they saw Murrell, they attacked him, s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Nazis’
Will Trump pardon this rioter?
Trump has called the Capitol rioters “patriots” and promised to pardon them if he’s elected again. If I were them, I wouldn’t hold my breath, because Trump lies a lot and doesn’t return loyalty. He’s loyal to no one but himself. But suppose he does. Will he pardon[...]
July 19th, 2024 - 6:54 pm § in Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Master Race
“When I look at you guys, I do not think ‘master race,'” a newsman told a group of taunting neo-Nazis in Nashville, just “wounded, angry men who’ve never accomplished much in their own lives.” Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Electing a new D.A. led to “Unite the Right” charges
The now-infamous “United the Right” rally brought together neo-Nazis and white supremacists for a tiki-torch march across the University of Virginia campus on Friday night, August 11, 2017 (photo, right). The rally culminated in the car-attack murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer by[...]
February 14th, 2023 - 6:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Good riddance
“Teddy Von Nukem, a southwest Missouri man featured prominently in photos from the infamous 2017 Charlottesville white-supremacist rally, died Jan. 30 this year, the same day he was scheduled to go trial for allegedly trafficking fentanyl across the Mexico border,” a local newspaper repo[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 11:43 am § in Politics
If it quacks like a duck …
Robert Keith Packer, shown here outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, pled guilty in January 2022 to a misdemeanor charge of “unlawful parading and picketing.” Prosecutors gave him a break on the charges, given that he invaded the building and other photos show him i[...]
February 5th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
The second-best place for neo-Nazis
America is a free country, and you can be an obnoxious Nazi hater on a soapbox to your heart’s content, as long as it’s just talk. A gang of these nasties were demonstrating near an Orlando, Florida, shopping plaza on Saturday, January 29, 2022, when a Jewish college student stopped by a[...]
This is what happens when you don’t fact-check
First, some background: “Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, has been a vocal critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci.” (Per CNN story here.) So it’s not surprising he went off half-cocked, but this one is a doozy. (Also relevant to this story, while Massie is an MIT grad in electrical[...]
January 12th, 2022 - 12:46 am § in Law and Courts
Washington state Nazi gets 7 years in prison for threats
“Kaleb Cole, neo-Nazi leader from Arlington found guilty in a plot to target journalists and members of the Anti-Defamation Leagues, was sentenced to seven years in prison” on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, a Seattle TV station reported here. Cole, 25 (photo, left), heads the Washington chap[...]
December 5th, 2021 - 4:48 pm § in Jews
Who would vandalize Anne Frank’s memorial park?
Someone did in Boise, Idaho. Most Idahoans are decent people, but the state has a reputation for hosting neo-Nazis, who would be the “usual suspects” (minus the implication of innocence) in a case like this. Police are looking for the actual suspects; graffiti vandalism isn’t prote[...]