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In reply to the discussion: Almost 100 hate-crime murders linked to single website, report finds [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Some of the most violent hate crimes come from people involved in these hate groups. They use their sites to recruit people and organize meetups. At the meetups, they organize their gun running, drug running, and plans for more hate crimes. I've been reading about this stuff for years.
The Intelligence Report, on the SPLC site, is a treasure trove if you want to know more about the history of these hate groups and the kinds of things they do and the kinds of crimes they commit routinely. Some of the worst ATF related violations are heads of these hate groups on down to their newest members.
They keep it just loosely knit enough that they get away with it, but mainly they use their web sites to recruit and get together to plan their crimes. They are highly dangerous and work in cells just like any other terrorist organizations. The FBI and ATF have been sitting on the information about these groups for ages now and not doing very much about them. That so many in our government refuse to say domestic terrorism speaks volumes about that "invisible empire" concept. Every once in a while, they will arrest one if they threaten a judge or something, but otherwise, they just let them keep committing their crimes.
Our military is chock full of these hate groups too. Some of them even recruit at Fort Bragg. Fayetteville, NC is a hot spot for those hate groups as are the five states the join at the western tip of NC. Indiana is another area that is a hotbed of hate groups. They are all over, but they get away with it more in those areas, from what I have read through the years. Those are the places to go if the feds ever want to get off their asses and really have a war on domestic terror, or even acknowledge that it exists. But, for some fucked up reason, "cough* invisible empire *cough*, they never do.