Anti-Semitic website calls for action in Montana

[Ptah]

Source: The Missoulian http://missoulian.com/

An anti-Semitic website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to "TAKE ACTION" against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a "troll storm" against them.

The story claims the "vicious, evil race" has harmed the Whitefish business of Richard Spencer's mother. It quotes a story from the British newspaper Daily Mail that said Sherry Spencer "said she is being forced to sell a building she owns in the small town because residents are rebelling against her son."

The site posted phone numbers, email addresses, and Twitter handles for the Whitefish residents it alleges are harassing Sherry Spencer, along with a disclaimer that it opposes violence.

Richard Spencer is president and director of the National Policy Institute, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group. The institute is "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world."

Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/anti-semitic-website-calls-for-action-in-montana/article_3b95f7d3-d6f5-5d2d-831c-d2c2cb647010.html

[ananda]

1. Just another example of our worst demons at play.

This is our world now, every damm day.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Attention AG Lynch and Director Comey! This is your wake up call!

Daily Stormer site needs to be taken down for conveying and coordinating threats and advocating violence.

[MADem]

3. Comey crossed over to the Dark Side, I believe.... nt

[Blue Idaho]

21. I wouldn't count on Comey to do anything

I think he's busy at home ironing his white robes for the next KKK rally.

[WhiteTara]

29. I do count on him to do something

Help the racists by not interfering with their actions.

[Blue Idaho]

30. Too Right... nt.

[shadowmayor]

4. Stay classy

The fearful bigots see a big green light following this election to crawl out from under their slimy lairs to go public. The only plus to all of this is we will see who these people are.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. I fear that far too often they will be members of the Dylann Roof Martyrs Brigade.

I do not fancy a life lived in kevlar in order to go buy groceries, or visit the Synagogue, or Church, or take my nieces to the park, or my dog for a walk, or go to the movies, or my local Deli or pub for lunch with a friend.

[shadowmayor]

8. Remember sky-jacking?

When Archie Bunker quipped that the solution to sky-jacking was to arm all the passengers, most of us understood this as a funny joke. Unfortunately, others understood that to be a great idea.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. They live in a fantasy world where gravity and momentum have no effect except on the "bad guys" and

the bystanders who become collateral damage in the shootout deserved to be for "moral" reasons.

[iluvtennis]

12. well said. but under Traitor Trump, thus will be our reality. we all have to be very careful nt

[roamer65]

10. True. Make it much easier to eventually "round them up".

[Shoonra]

14. The Daily Stormer identifies as a "Republican news source"

The Daily Stormer identifies itself as "America's #1 most trusted Republican news source".

Its own article on this reveals that the local Jewish community is so marginal that it doesn't have a synagogue or a rabbi ....

[url] http://www.dailystormer.com/jews-targeting-richard-spencers-mother-for-harassment-and-extortion-take-action/ [/url]

... there is at least one retired rabbi in the town but she earns her living as a writer, and is not retained by a congregation.

So, either it's this small handful of local Jews, or else it's that Richard Spencer has become obnoxious to plenty of the local Christians.

[Ptah]

17. Here's a part of the story: Whitefish pushes back against alt-right leader Spencer

http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/whitefish-pushes-back-against-alt-right-leader-spencer/article_4afeb21d-2a8c-5d2a-a702-9505f79155e5.html

WHITEFISH -- An anti-discrimination group took a step Friday to distance Whitefish from Richard Spencer, at the same time Spencer told the Missoulian he would probably be putting some distance between himself and the ski resort community.

The white nationalist and alt-right movement leader most recently made national news last weekend with shouts of “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!” as he and his followers -- some of whom responded with Nazi-like salutes -- celebrated, in Washington, D.C., the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.

Trump disavowed their support afterward.

Spencer, president of a white supremacist think tank called the National Policy Institute, is often identified in news stories as a resident, or part-time resident, of Whitefish.

“We want to get the message out that we don’t embrace his rhetoric,” Whitefish Mayor John Muhlfeld said after Love Lives Here distributed a news release designed to “counteract the Richard Spencer news coverage and communicate that the community of Whitefish does not ascribe to his views.”

[dembotoz]

5. devils advocate...at times us lefties post similar...good for the goose and all.

please understand i really would like the run em over with my car but alas we at times use similar tactics.

[JudyM]

7. Oh really. We talk about a vicious, evil race, do we?

[Ms. Toad]

19. I think it is pretty rare for lefties to post the twitter account

of a teen, at the oldest, calling him a "scamming little kiki" and encourage folks to "Hit him up and tell them what you think of his whore mother’s vicious attack on the community of Whitefish." (Some people did just that, FWIW).

[Judi Lynn]

20. "us lefties"? No comparison. A "lefty" would know that. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

11. Once "dear leader" is sworn in, you can probably bet

We will see more of these kind of actions from hate groups, who feel that Trump allowed them to operate not in the shadows, but in full Sunlight. They have become embolden and legitimized in their opinion.

[resistance2016]

13. WHY is the Daily Stormer allowed to exist?

The solution is so f'ing simple...

[jmowreader]

15. For the same reason this website is allowed to exist

You DO have the Constitutional right to be a hate-filled asshole. What you don't have is the right to act out on your hate and assholery.

[7962]

16. Thank you.

[onenote]

18. +1

[Blue Idaho]

22. Well, yes and no...

There's Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Fighting Words - direct calls to violent action. Only free speech is protected by the constitution.

[onenote]

24. Wrong

While fighting words - a very narrow category- are not protected, there is no categorical exception to the First Amendment for hate speech. That is the clear import of several SCOTUS decisions including Snyder v Phelps.

[Blue Idaho]

25. Thanks for confirming that not all Speech is protected Speech.

And for correcting me on hate speech.

[onenote]

26. You're welcome.

[shenmue]

23. Sick people!

[Madam45for2923]

27. Hello Electors!! Are you paying attention?

[bravenak]

28. I fucking hate these fucking people