Mark Potok
Mark Potok
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.
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You often see these groups spring up in response to demographic changes. Some people feel threatened, and they look for a group to blame.
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It is simply ludicrous to describe animal rights and eco-terrorism as the No. 1 threat.
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I don't mean to diminish their activities. They've caused huge property damage and there is very little question they will kill someone these days.
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This case could have been made 36 years ago. ... (The FBI) knew what had happened,
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Is Bill White the next David Duke? Out of the question. He will never rise to that level,
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I think this is a major area of international law that has yet to be settled.
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The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.
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It has become the propaganda venue of choice, ... It allows Klansmen who a few years ago could reach only 100 people with a poorly produced pamphlet to reach an audience in the millions.
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It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.
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I don't think there's anything thus far to suggest a hate crime.
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People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.
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They always claim to be larger and more powerful than they really are,
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Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.