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Related: About this forumNow, PBS WETA *NEW AMERICAN NAZIS, Frontline, ProPublica
WETA Schedule, Nov. 20, More & WATCH PROGRAM ONLINE: https://weta.org/tv/program/frontline
*ATOMWAFFEN group and white power activism special focus; George Lincoln Rockwell, WWII veteran and founder American Nazi Party and others. Documenting Hate: New American Nazis, Coming Soon From ProPublica and Frontline. We investigate a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. Military. By ProPublica, Nov. 12.
Documenting Hate, Tracking Hate Crimes and Bias Incidents: In the wake of the deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, ProPublica and Frontline present a new investigation into white supremacist groups in America in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. https://www.propublica.org/article/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis-coming-soon-from-propublica-and-frontline
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Documenting Hate, An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery.
Some experts and former officials see the case as part of a larger pattern, evidence that federal agencies are understaffed and out of position in confronting the threat of white supremacist terrorism even as the FBIs latest report shows a spike in hate crimes for the third straight year. By A.C. Thompson, Nov. 20, 10:45 a.m. EST.
This story was co-published with Frontline PBS. It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida. One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air mattress. A handgun was stuffed in a holster on the dead mans waist. The other body, clad in a black T-shirt and shorts, was slumped back on a futon, a shattered and bloody iPhone on his lap. A police investigator would later write that the two men had been shot multiple times at close range with an assault rifle.
There were some obvious clues that this was no ordinary double homicide. Tacked to the wall near the bodies was a large black-and-white flag bearing the insignia of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, Adolf Hitlers elite paramilitary unit. On a nearby shelf was a black Stahlhelm, the distinctive helmet worn by Nazi soldiers during World War II. There were multiple copies of Mein Kampf and a prominent place was reserved for The Turner Diaries, the infamous novel of race war in America that has inspired generations of terrorists, among them Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. A framed picture of McVeigh sat on a dresser...
MORE, https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery
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Now, PBS WETA *NEW AMERICAN NAZIS, Frontline, ProPublica (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Nov 2018
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Thanks for reminding me. I had thought it didn't come on until 10:00 p.m.
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2018
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,601 posts)1. Thanks for reminding me. I had thought it didn't come on until 10:00 p.m.
It's also on channel 22, WMPT.
One nit to pick: George Lincoln Rockwell was a veteran of WWII.
{edited, 9:56} Coming on now, Charlottesville.
Make America Great Again.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)2. TY, GLR was WWII, US Navy. 2nd time I've written WWI by mistake lately.
Very good program, our country has a growing white terrorist problem absolutely.
brewens
(13,620 posts)3. This scene with Brando playing Rockwell surprised me when I watched Roots: The Next
Generations a couple years ago. If I'd ever heard he played that part, I had forgotten all about it. I think I only caught a couple episodes when it originally aired.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)4. Thanks for posting, Brando did a good job.