Neo-Nazi Group Linked to Murder of British MP Has Long Been Ignored by US Media

[Judi Lynn]

Sunday, June 19, 2016

by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

Neo-Nazi Group Linked to Murder of British MP Has Long Been Ignored by US Media

by Jim Naureckas

The suspect in the murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox had ties to a US neo-Nazi organization, the Washington Post (6/17/16) reports, citing a leading hate group monitor:

According to documents obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the US-based organization that tracks extremist groups, [Thomas] Mair was a longtime supporter of the National Alliance, a once-prominent white supremacist group. In 1999, Mair bought a manual from the organization that included instructions on how to build a pistol, the center said.

Cox was shot by a weapon that witnesses described as either homemade or antique.

The National Alliance was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, an associate of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and the former editor of the magazine National Socialist World. The group was a reorganization of the National Youth Alliance, itself an outgrowth of Youth for Wallace, an organization that came out of the 1968 presidential campaign of segregationist George Wallace. Pierce turned the group, in the words of the SPLC, into “the most dangerous and best organized neo-Nazi formation in America.”

While head of the National Alliance, Piece published The Turner Diaries, a novel that favorably portrays a guerrilla race war and the mass murder of Jews, gays and interracial couples. A chapter that depicts the bombing of an FBI building helped inspire Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people; when he was arrested, McVeigh had photocopied pages of the novel with him in his car, with selected passages highlighted (e.g., “But the real value of all of our attacks today lies in the psychological impact, not in the immediate casualties”). Phone records revealed that McVeigh had called a National Alliance number seven times the day before the bombing, SPLC notes.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/19/neo-nazi-group-linked-murder-british-mp-has-long-been-ignored-us-media

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1. K & R. Much more needs to recognized about the existence of white alliance

organizations, their origins and presence in the US, UK, Europe, South Africa, etc.

June 17, Democracy Now! also covered this tragic story with host Amy Goodman interviewing Richard Cohen of the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center to discuss the white alliance and the influence and activity of white supremacist groups.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/6/17/as_britain_mourns_mp_jo_cox

[Initech]

2. Wow that is very scary.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Follow the money >>>>>>>>>>>>RW support for Racist Hate Groups.