Nazi group tackles Colorado highway trash
Nazi group tackles Colorado highway trash
Monday, January 25, 2010; 11:22 AM
BRIGHTON, Colo. — A white supremacist group in Colorado will be heading out on the roads near Denver to pickup litter.
The chapter of the National Socialist Movement is participating in a state Adopt-A-Highway program. The group calls itself America’s Nazi Party and it will be responsible for picking up trash along a 1-mile stretch of highway in a suburb north of Denver. A sign is already up in the area with the group’s name on it.
A spokesman for the group, Neal Land, says the group is “doing good things.”
State highway officials say they allowed the highway adoption because their lawyers said they could be in violation of the group’s free speech if they issued a denial.
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Ukraine to honor Nazi sympathizers
Ukraine to honor Nazi sympathizers
President awards medals to leaders of Ukrainian nationalist group, who helped Nazis murder Jews
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced this week that he had approved medals of commendation for members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), despite their cooperation with the Nazi regime during World War II.
Yushchenko had been under pressure by the group to recognize its veterans as “fighters for the independence of the Ukraine”.
The president announced the move at a memorial for members of a Ukrainian organization that fought against the Bolshevik army in 1918.
“I have signed an order to honor all those who participated in the battle for the Ukraine’s independence in the 20th century,” he said.
Among the men to receive the medal will be Stepan Bandera, who led the younger and more radical members of the OUN. Bandera, who is no longer among the living, helped the Nazis to kill Jews hiding in Galicia, then a district of Poland.
In October 2009 Yushchenko honored the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Roman Shukhevych, who also participated in the slaying of Jews during the war. The president said his government would soon award the leaders of the various groups official status.
Yushchenko’s controversial decisions have engendered rage among the Ukrainian public, as well as that of the international community, and the Wiesenthal Institute has been one of his major critics.
The institute has defined the decision as “tragic”, especially as it was made just a few days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Share on FacebookSkinhead admits Obama death plot
Skinhead admits Obama death plot
(UKPA) – Jan 14, 2010
An American skinhead has admitted plotting to kill then-Senator Barack Obama and dozens of other black people in 2008.
Paul Schlesselman, 19, of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, one count of threatening to kill and harm a presidential candidate and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in April.
A co-defendant, Daniel Cowart, 21, of Tennessee, remains in custody.
Authorities described the two as white supremacist skinheads who hatched a plot for a cross-country robbery and killing spree that was to culminate with an attack on Mr Obama, who was then a candidate for president. They were arrested in October 2008 and have been held without bond since.
“Despite great civil rights progress, hate-fuelled violence remains all too common in our country, as illustrated by this unthinkable conspiracy,” said Thomas E Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.
Authorities said that although the two had enough guns to create carnage, they never got close to carrying out their plans. When arrested, Cowart and Schlesselman were staying with Cowart’s grandparents in rural northwest Tennessee.
Much of the evidence against the two was seized by sheriff’s deputies from the grandparents’ home. Items seized from the home included a sawed-off shotgun, a high-powered rifle, a handgun and several swords and knives.
Federal investigators said the two gave statements about their plans, which included shooting at Mr Obama from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedoes and top hats. Prosecutors said investigators were looking for Schlesselman and Cowart on a tip from an informant when the two drove up to the home of Cowart’s grandfather in a car emblazoned with a large swastika on the hood and the slogan Honk if you love Hitler on the back.
Authorities said Cowart and Schlesselman met over the internet where they shared common white supremacist views.
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Detention officer fired for KKK membership
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An Alachua County Sheriff’s Office corrections officer who admitted to being an active member of the Ku Klux Klan has been fired.
According to an administrative investigation report, Detention Officer Wayne Kerschner told authorities that he blogged regularly on a KKK Web site, attended a rally in Tennessee and was an officer of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He said his wife was also a dues-paying member.
Kerschner reportedly told investigators that the KKK was a faith-based group and said he believed in the organization’s ideology.
The report states that Kerschner didn’t want his role in the group to negatively affect the sheriff’s office, saying that he thought he was a “pretty dang fair officer.”
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