{"id":3353,"date":"2008-09-24T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:22:04","slug":"racist-literature-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"Racist literature in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/election2008\/2008-09-23-anti-obama_N.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">USAToday<\/a> reports that some white racists distributed hate literatire in one neighborhood in New jersey this week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roxbury Mayor Tim Smith said the fliers were dropped off at about 25 to 50 of the township&#8217;s 8,000 homes. He said nothing like it had happened before in the community of 26,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sickened by this,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not at all representative of our community. I want the world at large to know we&#8217;re not that kind of community \u2014 this is a place where people take care of each other and nobody cares where you&#8217;re from or what you look like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The flier shows unflattering photos of Obama, including a doctored one making him look like Osama Bin Laden, above text that reads: &#8220;Black Ruled Nations most unstable and violent in the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait. 50 fliers? And it makes national news? Yeah, shocking. So I went to the website of this &#8220;League of American Patriots&#8221; (you can &#8220;Google&#8221; it, I don&#8217;t link to those freaks) and they tout their membership at &#8220;nearly&#8221; 20 people. Yeah, they said &#8220;nearly&#8221;. How nearly we can only guess.<\/p>\n<p>In the USAToday article the Southern Poverty Law Center is quoted as an expert on the organization, yet a search of their website turns up not one reference to the organization. Even their map of New Jersey which counts 34 racist actions in New Jersey doesn&#8217;t mention the organization and the only background on the League of American Patriots that the SPLC offers USAToday is taken directly from their website. Some intelligence organization.<\/p>\n<p>A blog about the group (which I also won&#8217;t link to) claims it&#8217;s sole mission is to attract Kevin Alfred Strom back into &#8220;the movement&#8221;. Turns out that Kevin Alfred Strom is a former racist currently rotting in prison for possessing child pornography. Boy that&#8217;s a real feather in your cap if you can entice a child pornographer into your group, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>In fact their website had 41 visitors on when I was there &#8211; that&#8217;s roughly double their membership and it was probably all journalists. The USAToday also said that phone calls and emails weren&#8217;t returned. So ya know, I wonder if this is even a real racist organization. We all remember the countless incidents of false racist attacks, the Black professor who hung a noose from her own doorknob, the Adam Kokesh incident on GWU where he passed out anti-Muslim literature claiming to be a product of the conservative student organization. Apparently Kokesh even distributed his literature further and wider than this group in New Jersey, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not shocked that USAToday and AP would run with a story before they have all of their facts (depending on an SPLC intern reading off of the internet over the phone as corraboration), but this certainly isn&#8217;t worthy of national attention that an organization of &#8220;nearly&#8221; 20 people distributed less than 50 leaflets in some obscure New Jersey community. Are there racists in the US&#8230;certainly. Is that why Obama will lose the election in November&#8230;hardly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that some white racists distributed hate literatire in one neighborhood in New jersey this &hellip; <a title=\"Racist literature in New Jersey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3353\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racist literature in New Jersey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}