Huffington Post, “A Couple Dozen Neo-Nazis Got The Red Carpet Treatment From DC Law Enforcement”
WASHINGTON — Fewer than two dozen white supremacists received a private train car and a police escort as they traveled into the nation’s capital on Sunday, a year after one of their own killed a counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, by driving a car into a crowd. When the small band of neo-Nazis approached a park […]
Westword, “Online Fundraiser Defends Alleged Capitol Hill White Supremacist Will Planer”
Another passage casts Planer as a defender of old-fashioned American values: “Will was one of the 18 Sacramento Spartans who braved the 20-to-1 odds, death threats, and explicit law enforcement stand-down order to take a stand. He took a stand with the conservative families who had been bludgeoned and bloodied only weeks prior for merely […]
Mother Jones, “The Long History of ‘Nazi Punching'”
Anti-fascist groups like Anti-Racist Action, Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, and the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation fought back. Their members advocated “direct action” against white supremacists, eschewing legislative efforts in favor of physically preventing Nazis from organizing, distributing literature, and speaking in public. To their supporters, these groups merged the moralism of America’s abolitionist tradition […]
The Daily Beast, “Anti-Islam Bigots Fail to Provoke in Phoenix,” May 30, 2015
Anti-Islam Bigots Fail to Provoke in Phoenix by Rebekah Zemansky, The Daily Beast, May 30, 2015 They gathered under the watchful eye of wary law enforcement and the mosque’s neighbors, both curious and anxious: armed participants for a “Muhammad Cartoon Contest,” members of the mosque’s community and their partners and masked members of the local […]