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Proud Boy recruits reveal the group revels in the glorification of rape and murder: report

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In interviews with USA Today’s Will Carless, three men with ties to the Wisconsin chapter of the far-right Proud Boys confessed that they expected something more along the lines of a drinking club when they joined up — only to find the organization riddled with racism, homophobia and some members glorifying murder and rape.

According to 40-year-old Army veteran Daniel Berry, a friend at a Wisconsin VFW recommended the Proud Boys to him by pointing out, “The group was vocal in its support for then-President Donald Trump, whom Berry had voted for. They called themselves ‘Western chauvinists’ and said they welcomed true men. That sounded about right for Berry, who considers himself a dyed-in-the-wool patriot,” so he checked them out and sent them an email.

What he found later — after being invited into a private chatroom — disgusted him. Continue reading.

Alleged hate groups get tax breaks as registered charities

Three years after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the groups allegedly involved in inciting violence at the event has been granted tax-exempt status as a charity. And it’s not the only organization viewed by some as a hate group that is receiving financial benefits from the federal government in the form of an IRS tax exemption, a CBS News investigation uncovered.

A CBS News search of IRS tax-exempt charities revealed that 90 white supremacist, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ groups are registered as tax-exempt charities with the IRS. This includes groups such as the one formerly known as Identity Evropa and others associated with the Unite the Right rally, as well as the Council of Conservative Citizens, which inspired white supremacist Dylann Roof to open fire on a Charleston church in 2015, killing nine Black church members.

That day in Charlottesville still haunts Liz Sines, who narrowly escaped injury when a car deliberately plowed into a crowd of counter-demonstrators, killing Heather Heyer. Continue reading.

Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace

The following article by A.C. Thompson and Darwin Bond-Graham was posted on the ProPublica website October 19, 2017:

They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities.

RAM member Ben Daley (center) attacks an unidentified woman at the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Jason Andrew for Splinter)

It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.

About two dozen white supremacists — many equipped with helmets and wooden shields — were battling with a handful of counter-protesters, most of them African American. One white man dove into the violence with particular zeal. Using his fists and feet, the man attacked one person after another.

The street fighter was in Virginia on that August morning for the “Unite the Right” rally, the largest public gathering of white supremacists in a generation, a chaotic and bloody event that would culminate, a few hours later, in the killing of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was there to protest the racist rally. Continue reading “Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace”

Republican Jewish Coalition breaks with Trump on Charlottesville, asks for ‘greater moral clarity’

The following article by David Nakamura was posted on the Washington Post website August 16, 2017:

President Trump discusses the violence, injuries and deaths at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville as he talks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Aug. 15, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

A major Jewish political coalition that has long supported President Trump and stood by him through other controversies broke with him on Wednesday over his response to events last weekend in Charlottesville, imploring him to more forcefully reject Nazis and other white supremacist groups.

The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Trump to “provide greater moral clarity in rejecting racism, bigotry, and antisemitism,” in a joint statement from Chairman Norm Coleman and executive director Matt Brooks.

The one paragraph statement represented another sign that Trump’s supportive comments of some participants in the Unite the Right rally over the weekend has fractured political support from some of his closest allies. Trump’s business manufacturing advisory council disbanded Wednesday after a number of chief executives and other members announced their resignation in protest of his remarks, and some high-profile Republican leaders on Capitol Hill criticized the president. Continue reading “Republican Jewish Coalition breaks with Trump on Charlottesville, asks for ‘greater moral clarity’”

Trump didn’t call out white supremacists. He was rebuked by members of his own party.

The following article by Kristine Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website August 13, 2017:

President Trump condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” in addressing the riots in Charlottesville on Saturday, when hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members who planned to stage a rally clashed with counterprotesters.

“The hate and division must stop. And must stop right now,” Trump said, reading a prepared statement at his resort in Bedminster, N.J. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.” Continue reading “Trump didn’t call out white supremacists. He was rebuked by members of his own party.”