🐱 Senate passes measure calling for neo-Nazis to be classified as terror groups

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...alls-for-neo-nazis-to-be-classified-as-terror


The Illinois Senate on Sunday approved a resolution calling for police to categorize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The measure came as a response to Saturday's violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which one person died and scores more were injured.

“It is vital that we stand in total opposition to the hatred, bigotry and violence displayed by the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville this past weekend,” said state Sen. Don Harmon (D), who sponsored the measure.



“They are the heirs to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. We fought two bloody wars in opposition to their ideologies. We must continue to fight those same twisted ideologies today,” he added.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when a man with reported ties to the white supremacist movement drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville. The alleged driver, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, has been charged with second-degree murder in the crash

 

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Forgive me older kiwis if I'm wrong, but weren't the white nationalists of the 80s and 90s actual tangible threats.

I recall watching a documentary on the Aryan Nation... There was a radical group of these tards, known as The Order. They were a group that robbed in broad daylight, boosted armored cars and were fond of assassinating critics. They were stopped finally because their leader dropped a pistol while they were boosting another armored car...

So is Illinois saying we're undergoing a repeat of that?

It's a bit more complicated than that (Aryan Nations had a very specific set of religious beliefs) and some of the militias which exist today have a similar agenda. The original AN fragmented and has become more dangerous in some ways due to that.

That said, there's a danger in labelling mere racists as "literal Nazis". That kind of thinking gave us Ruby Ridge.

 

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...alls-for-neo-nazis-to-be-classified-as-terror


The Illinois Senate on Sunday approved a resolution calling for police to categorize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The measure came as a response to Saturday's violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which one person died and scores more were injured.

“It is vital that we stand in total opposition to the hatred, bigotry and violence displayed by the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville this past weekend,” said state Sen. Don Harmon (D), who sponsored the measure.



“They are the heirs to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. We fought two bloody wars in opposition to their ideologies. We must continue to fight those same twisted ideologies today,” he added.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when a man with reported ties to the white supremacist movement drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville. The alleged driver, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, has been charged with second-degree murder in the crash

You mean Neo-Nazis already weren't classified as a hate and terror group?