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Maraya1969

(22,478 posts)
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:38 PM May 2018

Police just arrested 57 white supremacists in huge criminal bust

Source: Washington Press

Nearly five dozen white supremacists representing six different known neo-Nazi groups in Texas have been arrested for running a massive meth and extortion ring, a federal court just revealed.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas unsealed indictments Tuesday against members of the Aryan Circle, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Peckerwoods, the Soldiers of Aryan Culture, and the Dirty White Boys.

The arrests and indictments come after a years-long federal investigation. Charges include everything from drug trafficking to kidnapping and paint the portrait of a vast criminal network that’s been “engaged in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and other illegal narcotics throughout the Northern District of Texas and elsewhere,” the indictment reads.

The charged white supremacists “used firearms and physical violence to further their drug trafficking activities,” according to the indictment, which was first obtained and reported by Sebastian Murdock of the Huffington Post.

Read more: https://washingtonpress.com/2018/05/02/police-just-arrested-57-white-supremacists-in-huge-criminal-bust/

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Police just arrested 57 white supremacists in huge criminal bust (Original Post) Maraya1969 May 2018 OP
Build the wall, dammit dalton99a May 2018 #1
All the way around Texas, not just the Mexico border lagomorph777 May 2018 #6
If Mexico paid for the wall keithbvadu2 May 2018 #19
Lol! lunatica May 2018 #37
Sorry, but... kag May 2018 #41
Texas is really "occupied Mexico" DBoon May 2018 #29
No shit. That's what I thought... MountCleaners May 2018 #48
The "Peckerwoods"? knightmaar May 2018 #2
Peckerwoods and Dirty White Boys lapfog_1 May 2018 #10
"Dirty White Boy" orangecrush May 2018 #65
Peckerwood GeorgeHayduke May 2018 #67
Racists and criminals. C Moon May 2018 #3
Too Easy hueymahl May 2018 #76
Only the best people NRaleighLiberal May 2018 #4
Aw, SWEET!! Leghorn21 May 2018 #5
All supporters of republican Dirty Donny* I would bet Achilleaze May 2018 #7
Who is the Washington Press? mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #8
Things that make you go "hmmmm" lapfog_1 May 2018 #13
Right. It's an invented "news" site. There is no Washington Press. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #14
Privacy.co.com is service that hides actual contacts. Not many real journalism outlets need it. . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2018 #21
It is being reported on several news sources now including the Daily Beast Maraya1969 May 2018 #17
I posted the article from the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday before dawn. TexasTowelie May 2018 #55
Thank you. I recalled having seen (though not read) your post from a day earlier. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #56
Sorry, I hate when that happens Maraya1969 May 2018 #58
The story is real, but it broke 2 days ago. Eugene May 2018 #33
MediaBiasFactCheck rates this site borderline extreme left. Hortensis May 2018 #54
It was the least I could do. mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #57
wish I could recc this DBoon May 2018 #74
Someone methed up................ Throck May 2018 #9
AAHHHHH!!!! Maraya1969 May 2018 #18
They Thur did! lunatica May 2018 #38
Maybe Mexico should rethink paying for the wall central scrutinizer May 2018 #11
When will 45 tweet about "some fine people" being arrested? AJT May 2018 #12
My thoughts, exactly. And ready the Pardon Pen erronis May 2018 #34
I got a dollar that says Trump won't talk about this. BadGimp May 2018 #15
But.. but it was supposed to be those drug running Mexicans with their procon May 2018 #16
About 60 less Twitler supporters to not vote for him in 2020 kimbutgar May 2018 #20
Yup, that's the culture they're trying to save from extinction. Peckerwoods dealing in drugs, Nitram May 2018 #22
57? I Guess They Thought The Cops Wouldn't Ketchup To Them! nt smb May 2018 #23
I don't relish responding to this, but,, MGKrebs May 2018 #36
They just couldn't cut the mustard jmowreader May 2018 #45
Maybe in heinzsight they can reflect upon their poor choices. miyazaki May 2018 #69
The Master Race, Y'All! 47of74 May 2018 #24
Peckerheads... Penisbrains!!! longship May 2018 #25
Trump voters atreides1 May 2018 #26
'Police Round Up White Supremacists'. Aristus May 2018 #27
"Lane rammed police cars with his SUV. A police officer shot Lane ONCE" dalton99a May 2018 #30
meth, the drug of Nazis DBoon May 2018 #28
Meth also given to American troops keithbvadu2 May 2018 #43
Yes Meth, marketed in Nazi Germany as "Pervitin", the miracle wonder drug appalachiablue May 2018 #44
That's how a good idea gets even better! dchill May 2018 #62
K&R Scurrilous May 2018 #31
What? old guy May 2018 #32
Soooo...Trump supporters are METH DEALERS..... Bengus81 May 2018 #35
Wait for Trump to call them "good people" NastyRiffraff May 2018 #39
Personally, I'm waiting for him to just grant pardons. Amimnoch May 2018 #40
White gangs! Scary! Sophia4 May 2018 #42
Some are good people Soxfan58 May 2018 #46
Check out their photos Sam McGee May 2018 #47
Wow. That's really fucked up. Ilsa May 2018 #61
Have to keep the bloodline pure, you see. christx30 May 2018 #77
this guy barbtries May 2018 #73
Such nice people. louis-t May 2018 #49
How these people think they are better than anyone is beyond me n/t TexasBushwhacker May 2018 #50
Caucasian version of MS-13....sorry if that was mentioned...didn't notice it dameatball May 2018 #51
That's why I always said "tweaker torches" referring to the Tiki torches Trump troopers brewens May 2018 #52
There goes a portion of trump's base Gothmog May 2018 #53
How does "the Wall" help with this? Are these some of the 'good people' from Charlottesville? salin May 2018 #59
Cops and Hells Angels Mopar151 May 2018 #60
Federal Court? ashling May 2018 #63
They could find a lot more at this address: tclambert May 2018 #64
YES!!!!! ailsagirl May 2018 #66
What a revelation! BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #68
Their leaders are already doing hard time Mopar151 May 2018 #71
I'm sure they're some "very good people" Dopers_Greed May 2018 #70
too bad Walter White isn't around any more. joe_stampingbull May 2018 #72
Report: the crime scene was free of any supremacy. n/t Orsino May 2018 #75

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
7. All supporters of republican Dirty Donny* I would bet
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:43 PM
May 2018
* aka Comrade Casino, republican "family-values role model, and Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts)
8. Who is the Washington Press?
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:43 PM
May 2018
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
54. MediaBiasFactCheck rates this site borderline extreme left.
Wed May 2, 2018, 06:47 PM
May 2018

Factual reporting rating is "mixed." People not used to checking these things should keep in mind that hiding spins and disinformation among truths is critical to deluding anyone who isn't actually demented. Strictly for those who wish they had their own left-wing Lou Dobbs.

Thanks for checking, Mahatama.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts)
57. It was the least I could do.
Wed May 2, 2018, 08:21 PM
May 2018

I work in downtown DC. I know what the local news sources are. There is no Washington Press. It does not exist, at least not as a news source. It is no more than a johnny-come-lately news aggregator that takes stories that have appeared elsewhere days earlier, strips the name off the original author and actual news source so that they get no credit for the work they have done, and then runs the story as its own. Another fake is the Washington Free Beacon.

The internet is getting littered with these news aggregators that add their own particular bias to every story that appears in them. If we keep normalizing them, then we should expect Trump and his policies to be in place for a long, long time.

Stop normalizing them. Please. It is well past the time to be complacent when we read "Pope Endorses Trump," or "Hillary Too Frail to Climb Down Flight of Stairs." We can say "no more." We can't stop this malicious and anti-democratic (with a small-d) charade everywhere, but we can stop it at DU.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

mahatmakanejeeves

erronis

(15,241 posts)
34. My thoughts, exactly. And ready the Pardon Pen
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:56 PM
May 2018

Gotta keep those "fine folks" out of jail.

Maybe they can be deputized by DHS/ICE and can do their mayhem "legally".

procon

(15,805 posts)
16. But.. but it was supposed to be those drug running Mexicans with their
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:57 PM
May 2018

cantaloupe calves and the scary illegal alien families, not them good old Texas neo-Nazi white boys. Maybe instead a border fence along Mexico, we need a border fence around Texas to keep the drug dealing white supremacists walled in.

Nitram

(22,791 posts)
22. Yup, that's the culture they're trying to save from extinction. Peckerwoods dealing in drugs,
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:23 PM
May 2018

kidnapping, and extortion. Such a glorious and noble history!

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
27. 'Police Round Up White Supremacists'.
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:33 PM
May 2018

So...a recruiting drive then?

Going to give them badges and guns?

"Listen, son, if yer gonna kill Negroes, you should at least git paid fer it, amirite?"

dalton99a

(81,452 posts)
30. "Lane rammed police cars with his SUV. A police officer shot Lane ONCE"
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:37 PM
May 2018

and Lane was gently admonished:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/57-indicted-in-white-supremacist-meth-and-kidnapping-scheme

When police arrested Lane again in November, he rammed police cars with his SUV, according to a criminal complaint. A police officer shot Lane once, believing him to be reaching for a gun in the SUV. After Lane was treated and transported to a jail, he had an ominous conversation with officers.

"Hopefully there won't be a next time," a police officer told him, according to a transcript included in the complaint. "Stop getting into trouble."

"Yeah," another officer said, "you might not survive the next time."

"You might not, either," Lane said.


DBoon

(22,356 posts)
28. meth, the drug of Nazis
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:34 PM
May 2018
...Mr. Ohler fell back on his interest in sleuthing during the five years it took to research and write “Blitzed.” Through interviews and documents that hadn’t been carefully studied before, he unearthed new details about how soldiers of the Wehrmacht were regularly supplied with methamphetamine of a quality that would give Walter White, of “Breaking Bad,” pangs of envy. Millions of doses, packaged as pills, were gobbled up in battles throughout the war, part of an officially sanctioned factory-to-front campaign against fatigue.


https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/books/high-on-hitler-and-meth-book-says-nazis-were-fueled-by-drugs.html

Book looking at drug use in the 3rd Reich, particularly massive use of amphetamines

appalachiablue

(41,127 posts)
44. Yes Meth, marketed in Nazi Germany as "Pervitin", the miracle wonder drug
Wed May 2, 2018, 03:21 PM
May 2018

that fueled the Blitzkrieg. Also known as 'Bennies' for Benzedrine. Pervitin was widely given to German housewives and workers for 'energy', also soldiers and pilots. Causing dependency, addiction, health breakdown. Same as today.

These Neo Nazi White Supremacists in Texas are staying in step with the Reich, all the way.

old guy

(3,283 posts)
32. What?
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:42 PM
May 2018

57 repub members of the state legislature arrested..... oh wait ...... never mind. Just wishful thinking.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
61. Wow. That's really fucked up.
Wed May 2, 2018, 09:43 PM
May 2018

I guess this creature wonders why women shun him? Who would want to screw that? Seriously, how do you get or stay excited doing someone like that?

christx30

(6,241 posts)
77. Have to keep the bloodline pure, you see.
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:51 PM
May 2018

If no woman will sleep with you, no chance of accidently sleeping with some of mixed race. He wins there. The rest of humanity wins by having this person not reproduce.

Mopar151

(9,980 posts)
60. Cops and Hells Angels
Wed May 2, 2018, 09:32 PM
May 2018

According to Hunter Thompson, they are "2 sides of the same coin". This bunch seems to be symbiotic with the prison system.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
68. What a revelation!
Wed May 2, 2018, 11:03 PM
May 2018

And here we thought that white supremacy was just a harmless pastime.

Fuck me. These people are SOOO evil. I am a very strong social liberal. I believe people have all kinds of natural rights that should not be fettered, as long as no one else is harmed. As a....I can't say "result", because my views evolve somewhat from time to time....anyway, I think that the so-called "soft drugs" are fairly benign, and no one's business but that of the user.

Blah blah blah. Cut to the point.

I strongly believe that the world would be far better off if all the methamphetamine and its cousins, as well as cocaine, were do disappear from the planet. Someone struggling with heroin addiction is in a far better place than a committed meth user.

The people that create and traffic this poison are doing evil. That, in this case, they are also neo-Nazis??? They don't need to be breathing the same air we do. Prison for natural life.

Mopar151

(9,980 posts)
71. Their leaders are already doing hard time
Thu May 3, 2018, 09:09 AM
May 2018

Arayan Brotherhood started in prison. Many of the actions taken outside prison are directed from within, and the low-level "outside" people are often extorted into taking action with threats against people "inside".

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