Breaking Hate- Anyone watching?

[tulipsandroses]

So Jeff just said - He wants out because "I see a lot of violence coming"

I know the episode just started - don't know how serious he is But that sentence struck me.

What did he expect? They were not meeting for tea and crumpets. So now that you have people that are actually willing to be more than provocative - willing to actually commit mass murder based on what Jeff and others have been teaching. He wants out? I just don't know what he expected all these years. That it would just be rallies for shits and giggles? Nothing " serious" would ever happen"? People were not going to get hurt or die based on this rhetoric?

Still watching. I hope he changes and works to help others change but that just struck me.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yep, lots coming I suspect which is why we need to be UNITED behind ANY democrat.

If only people would agree with

VOTE

BLUE

NO

MATTER

WHO

[onecaliberal]

2. I'm watching

[aikoaiko]

3. Who is Jeff?

[CanonRay]

4. Can we have a little reference please?

[tulipsandroses]

5. He is the subject of tonight's episode

He's a nazi that says he wants to change his ways.



Some background from SPLC

[link:https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jeff-schoep|

Background
Jeff Schoep claims he realized he was a Nazi in the fourth grade, when he read Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. At 19, he went public, joining the National Socialist American Workers Freedom Movement, a minor neo-Nazi group founded in 1974 in South St. Paul, Minn., by Robert Brannen and Cliff Herrington, both former officials of the American Nazi Party of the 1960s.

Schoep tried to invigorate the aging hate group by distributing literature, organizing rallies and recruiting younger members including unaffiliated racist skinheads in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. As a result, he was soon a rising star on the neo-Nazi scene. In 1994, Schoep was invited to speak at the Aryan Nations World Congress in Idaho, a key neo-Nazi venue where he shared the podium with white supremacist heavyweights like Louis Beam, J.B. Stoner, and Neuman Britton.

In 1994, Schoep took over the National Socialist American Workers Freedom Movement, renaming it the National Socialist Movement, after the group's leader, Cliff Herrington, stepped down. Schoep, then only 21, had been a member since at least his later teens. Herrington hoped Schoep would be able to revitalize the group and attract younger members. Schoep did reach out to other groups, including the Klan, and created a special NSM Skinhead Division that offered discounted memberships to Skinheads for just $35.

Schoep is also known for focusing on recruiting children — specifically, 14- to 17-year-olds who Schoep says are taught military skills and how to become a "more effective warrior" in NSM's Viking Youth Corps. Parents might want to proceed cautiously, however. In 2004, Indiana authorities posted a photograph of that state's NSM leader, John Edward Snyder. Snyder had been recently released from prison for rape and other sex charges and banned from having any contact with children.