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The House met at 9:30 a.m. and was said hateful and racist rhetoric aimed as bandoleer-wearing Mexican nation- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- at Latino immigrants had grown to a alists, tattoo-touting drug smugglers, pore (Mr. CAMPBELL of California). level unprecedented in recent years. and pregnant breeders who must be f The report detailed numerous exam- kept out at any cost. ples of hate crimes, including two men In the second poster, as you can see DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO in Tennessee who were sentenced to out here, Border Patrol 2, as you can TEMPORE prison in December for shattering a see by the second poster the object of The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- window and painting Nazi symbols in a the game Border Patrol is to fore the House the following commu- local Mexican market. Near Houston, shoot Mexican immigrants as they try nication from the Speaker: two white teenagers were arrested in to cross the borders into the United WASHINGTON, DC, April accused of beating a Latino States. Here, again, we are talking June 13, 2006. youth and sodomizing him with a pipe. about hate crimes, attitudes and be- I hereby appoint the Honorable JOHN Days later on Long Island, a white teen havior by individuals. Here, a family is CAMPBELL to act as Speaker pro tempore on was accused of threatening two Latinos being targeted as they rush past a sign this day. with a machete and a chain saw. Police that reads, ‘‘Welcome to the United J. DENNIS HASTERT, say ethnic slurs were used in each case. States.’’ The sign contains the Amer- Speaker of the House of Representatives. We must condemn these kind of acts ican flag in which the stars rep- f and work to promote a unified Amer- resenting 50 states have been replaced ica. Even the President has warned us with a Jewish Star of David, and a MORNING HOUR DEBATES of the dangerous rhetoric being used in small sign that appears below that The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- discussions on immigration. During his says, ‘‘Welfare Office’’ with an arrow. ant to the order of the House of Janu- speech last month he noted, ‘‘America These games are not only obscene, it ary 31, 2006, the Chair will now recog- needs to conduct this debate on immi- incites anger and violence in the nize Members from lists submitted by gration in a reasonable and respective of children and creates attitude and be- the majority and minority leaders for tone. We cannot build a unified coun- havior changes. Psychologically then morning hour debates. The Chair will try by inciting people to anger or play- people begin to think in terms of alternate recognition between the par- ing on anyone’s fear or exploiting the hating anyone of color. And when you ties, with each party limited to not to issue of immigration for political hate people of color, you demonstrate exceed 30 minutes, and each Member, gains.’’ And I state, exploiting it for hate and anger. The fact that the na- except the majority leader, the minor- political gains. tional immigration debate is fueling ity leader, or the minority whip, lim- The white supremists are employing their efforts in is downright scary. ited to not to exceed 5 minutes. sophisticated techniques to spread Border Patrol is one of several racist The Chair recognizes the gentleman their message over the Internet includ- computer games that hate groups are from California (Mr. BACA) for 5 min- ing , chat rooms, and racist and currently offering for sale or download utes. violent video games. And as you can on the Internet. Other games like Eth- f see by the poster out here, Border Pa- nic Cleansing, Drive By 2, and African trol, I recently heard about a racist Detroit Cop were created to further HATE CRIMES game distributed freely on the Internet , anti-Semitic, and other opin- Mr. BACA. Thank you very much, called the ‘‘Border Patrol’’ that en- ions. Mr. Speaker. The topic I want to talk courages players to shoot at immi- These images on poster number three about this morning is hate crimes. As grants as they cross the United States, is Save The Last Dance. This image immigration debate has intensified, as you can see right here. These games contains an altered movie poster. The white supremists, neo-Nazis, and other first surfaced in the year 2002, but have actual film featured an interracial ro- racists have increased their efforts to come up once again and aimed at im- mance between teenagers. As you note spread the racist message. White migration debate. in the version of this poster, the Afri- supremists have not simply expressed The Border Patrol games. In the can-American male is depicted by a go- racist convictions but have urged oth- game the Border Patrol, Mexican rilla. The poster also spreads a tradi- ers and white Americans generally to Americans are incarcerated and pre- tional anti-Semitic attack that blames fight back against perceived invasion sented with disgusting and harmful Jews for controlling the American of white United States by Hispanics stereotypes. The game does not present media and suggests that a film about from Mexico. The rhetoric has grown them as hard-working individuals who interracial tolerance and mutual re- increasingly by radicals, and their suc- come to this country, like any other spect is somehow Jewish propaganda. cess is spreading and has been coupled who has come to this country before, The most obvious message of this post- with a rise in hate crimes across our to build better opportunity. This coun- er is that the way to deal with mem- country. And I state, across the coun- try is built on immigrants, and many bers of minority groups, as well as try. individuals come here for that reason, whites who have relationships with Police reports document a growing not for the reason displayed in this them, is with violence. number of acts of violence by far right Border Patrol display that we have out It only takes one individual with extremists against Hispanics regardless here. hate in his heart to act on these no- of their status as citizens, whether People have come to contribute to tions. For us, that is a very real con- they are profiling them, making re- our country and will continue to come cern as the national discussion on im- marks, creating different kinds of atti- to contribute to this country because migration continues to gain momen- tude and atmosphere and hate. The they believe in America and its prin- tum. We cannot have this debate at the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit ciples and what it stands for. Instead, expense of the safety of immigrants in that fights anti-Semitism and other bi- you can see from the poster that Mexi- our communities and total Americans ases, put out a report last month that can American immigrants are labeled who are here in the United States.

b This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., b 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:32 Mar 24, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\FDSYS\BOUNDRECORD\BR13JN06.DAT BR13JN06 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE 10970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 152, Pt. 8 June 13, 2006 I understand that not everyone in white supremacists have organized a number lovers.’’ In Madison, , in April, Congress agrees with a more inclusive of rallies and protests with anti-immigration members of the neo-Nazi New Order passed vision of the American family or the and anti-Hispanic themes. out literature at an immigrant rights event American dream to be here in the Many of the extremist events have taken at the capitol. place in southern states. There, white su- Even where white supremacists have not United States and to have what every- premacists hope to exploit anti-immigration shown up in person, they have plastered body else has and to build a better life sentiment that has risen as a result of a sig- communities around the country with crude for themselves. Instead of recognizing nificant influx of Hispanic immigrants, pri- anti-Hispanic and anti-immigration fliers. In the needs for real comprehensive immi- marily agricultural workers, into areas of Bakersfield, California, for example, one gration reform, some Republicans have the South that had never before had a sub- community was littered with National Van- viewed this issue to play on people’s stantial Hispanic population. guard fliers that read ‘‘Civilization: One Job fear and exploit the debate for their po- Demonstrations, rallies and other events Mexicans Won’t Do.’’ Residents of Pasadena, litical gains. I hope that people under- taking place in spring 2006 included: Texas, discovered racist fliers that urged In Seattle, Washington, and Las Vegas, Ne- people to burn down the homes of people stand what is going on now and at the vada, members of the neo-Nazi National Van- thought to be illegal immigrants. national level. guard held anti-immigration protests on BORDER VIGILANTE GROUP EVENTS EXTREMISTS DECLARE ‘OPEN SEASON’ ON IMMI- May 20. On its Web site, the National Van- Anti-immigration border vigilante groups GRANTS: HISPANICS TARGET OF INCITEMENT guard declared that day to be a ‘‘day of pro- have also organized anti-immigrant events AND VIOLENCE test against George W. Bush’s plan to de- around the country this spring. The largest stroy America,’’ calling the president’s im- OVERVIEW border vigilante group, the Minuteman migration proposals a ‘‘sellout of the na- As the public debate over immigration re- Project, held a reprise in April of their 2005 tion.’’ In Seattle, neo-Nazis appeared along form has taken center-stage in American vigilante border patrols along the Arizona- Interstate 1–5, displaying signs for motorists politics and public life, white supremacists, Mexico border, and followed up with a cara- stuck in traffic to read. In Las Vegas, white neo-Nazis and other racists have declared van that staged anti-immigration events supremacists held a small rally in front of ‘‘open season’’ on immigrants and attempted across the country. One Minuteman event in the federal courthouse. to co-opt and exploit the controversy by fo- Birmingham, Alabama, was organized by In Keene, New Hampshire, New England cusing their efforts—and their anger—on the Mike Vanderboegh, a former militia leader. members of the Arkansas-based neo-Nazi minority group at the center of the con- At the rally, an attendee distributed copies group White Revolution held a self-described troversy: Hispanics. of Olaf Childress’s racist and anti-Semitic ‘‘anti-invasion’’ demonstration on May 7 to As a result, to a level unprecedented in re- newspaper, First Freedom. Other anti-immi- protest ‘‘the invasion of America by illegal cent years, America’s Latino immigrant pop- gration groups held rallies from Arizona to non white hordes.’’ Members of other white ulation has become the primary focus of Minnesota. supremacist groups, ranging from the Na- hateful and racist rhetoric and extreme vio- Anti-immigration groups have also turned tional Socialist Movement to the American lence—aided, abetted and encouraged by to publicity stunts. The Minutemen, for ex- Front, also showed up. America’s white supremacist and racist hat- ample, declared on May 9 that they would In Russellville, Alabama, members of the ers. start building their own ‘‘border security Alabama chapter of the Indiana-based Na- Spurred in recent weeks by the debate on fence’’ on private property along the border tional Knights of the held an Capitol Hill and the groundswell of grass- with Mexico, unless the federal government anti-immigration rally on May 6, yelling roots activism in support of America’s immi- itself deployed the military or erected such ‘‘Let’s get rid of the Mexicans!’’ National grant community, extremists have become fencing. The Minutemen claimed that they Knights leader Ray Larsen was on hand, tell- increasingly emboldened by, and fixated on, had received nearly $200,000 in donations to ing the crowd that gathered that immigrants the controversy over immigration policy, en- build such a fence. Other border vigilante ‘‘want you out of here because they want couraging their supporters to capitalize on groups have already begun or announced this as their land.’’ After the rally, the the issue by encouraging antiimmigrant ac- similar projects. Klansmen burned a cross in a field outside of tivism, and even violence against all His- town. THE RHETORIC: DECLARING ‘‘OPEN SEASON’’ ON panics. In Montgomery, Alabama, the neo-Confed- IMMIGRANTS While white supremacists have for many erate group and the Co- White supremacists have not simply ex- years attempted to exploit rising anti-immi- alition against together pressed racist convictions, but have urged gration sentiments in the U.S., the level and organized an anti-immigration ‘‘Cinco de each other and white Americans generally, intensity of their attacks against Hispanics Mayo’’ demonstration on May 5. Promoting to ‘‘fight back’’ against the perceived inva- has reached dangerous new highs, with right- the event in his racist and anti-Semitic sion of the ‘‘white’’ United States by His- wing extremists joining anti-immigration newspaper First Freedom, Olaf Childress panics from Mexico. groups, distributing anti-immigrant propa- wrote that he planned to be there, ‘‘maybe The rhetoric in such pronouncements has ganda and holding frequent antiimmigration even with a baseball bat. Already got a grown increasingly radical. ‘‘Beaner Brown rallies and protests. placard in mind: MEX GET THE HELL OUT Supremacist Militias of Latino Communist As a result, Hispanics, regardless of their OF MY COUNTRY.’’ Childress did show up immigrants firmly intend to conquer [the citizenship or immigration status, increas- with such a placard and a baseball bat, tell- southwest],’’ suggested a topic heading on ingly are becoming the targets of hatred and ing a local reporter that ‘‘Jewish suprema- the white supremacist Legion of Saints mes- violence from hardcore white supremacists. cists’’ had a plan to abolish the borders of sage board recently. ‘‘Will White Americans Racists ranging from neo-Nazis to Klans- the U.S. Other signs at the demonstration sit back, watch it happen & let them do it? men to racist skinheads are among the most displayed slogans such as ‘‘multi-culturalism Or will White Americans ‘remember the active anti-immigration activists in the is liberal insanity.’’ In Greenville, South Alamo!?’ ’’ country. Motivating their actions is the core Carolina, the racist Council of Conservative Such voices are unfortunately hardly iso- conviction of modern white supremacist ide- Citizens held an anti-immigration dem- lated. Here are just a few recent examples: ology: That the white race itself is threat- onstration on April 29 in front of the offices Alabaman Larry Darby, a Holocaust denier ened with extinction by a ‘‘rising tide of of Republican Congressman Lindsey Graham, and candidate for Alabama attorney general, color’’ controlled and manipulated by Jews. where they burned Mexican flags and dis- recently stated in a May 3 interview on Ala- This following report examines the recent played signs such as ‘‘More INS, Less IRS,’’ bama Public Television that he wanted Na- record of extreme rhetoric and violence from ‘‘Vote for Pedro to Go Home,’’ and ‘‘I Didn’t tional Guard troops on the border with or- white supremacist groups and their followers Fight in Iraq for Illegal Aliens.’’ ders to ‘‘shoot to kill, absolutely . . . we are that has played out against the backdrop of White supremacists also showed up to at war, we are being invaded by a foreign the immigration debate in America. counter events organized by immigration country, we are at war.’’ WHITE SUPREMACIST ANTI-IMMIGRATION and human rights activists, in particular the James Wickstrom and Frances Farrell, the PROTESTS May 1 ‘‘Day without Immigrants’’ events or- virulently racist and anti-Semitic hosts of White supremacists have taken to the ganized around the country by immigrant the ‘‘Yahweh’s Truth’’ radio program, streets in a deliberate attempt to attract rights activists. In San Angelo, Texas, mem- blamed Jews for the immigration ‘‘invasion’’ publicity and to exploit and co-opt the na- bers of the Empire Knights of the Ku Klux on his May 3 broadcast. Wickstrom claimed tional discussion on immigration for their Klan showed up to counter local events. In that pro-immigrant marches were being or- own hateful purposes. Viewing immigration Dayton, Ohio, half a dozen members of the ganized and financed by ‘‘communist Jews’’ as a ‘‘wedge’’ issue through which they be- neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement ap- and the ‘‘communist Catholic church,’’ and lieve they can foist their racist and anti-Se- peared in Nazi uniforms at a pro-immigra- that Jewish organizations are ‘‘criminal ac- mitic views on the American public, and at- tion march to protest, in their words, ‘‘the complices of these illegal aliens.’’ Farrell tract recruits and attention for themselves, illegal wetback scum and Shabbat goy mud suggested that ‘‘one attack on one of their

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:32 Mar 24, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\FDSYS\BOUNDRECORD\BR13JN06.DAT BR13JN06 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE June 13, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 152, Pt. 8 10971 marches with automatic weapons or even October 11, 2005: ‘‘For years I have been early May, he admitted in a Internet just rifles will put a stop to them and the publicly advocating on my radio show and forum that he and another member of the time’s coming when this is going to happen.’’ this web site, that Mexican illegal aliens be National Socialist Movement had passed out One member of an faction, shot dead as they cross into the U.S. ille- racist fliers in Covington, Ohio, at houses ‘‘Pastor’’ Jay Faber of Pennsylvania, gally . . . I plant the seeds verbally and the ‘‘surrounding a suspected illegal Mexican claimed on April 10 on the Aryan Nations seeds grow in the minds of others . . . I am jobsite.’’ The two neo-Nazis also approached Internet forum that ‘‘I already know they proud to advocate even more killings!’’ workers at the jobsite and demanded to see will not throw one of these stumpy little July 15, 2005: ‘‘I once again advocate ex- identification from them. When workers re- brown beasts out of here, so for the amount treme violence against Mexicans . . . Once fused, Martin allegedly told one of them that of guats in my area, I have at least 10 rounds they’re dead, their heads should be cut off he ‘‘was an illegal, wetback who was stealing of ammunition for each of them.’’ and put on pike poles as a warning to oth- American jobs and . . . spreading disease.’’ Aryan Nations faction leader August Kreis ers.’’ Workers called the police, who told the neo- in October 2005 claimed on his Web site that May 17, 2005, responding to news that a res- Nazis to leave or be charged with harass- ‘‘this infestation of cockroaches need depor- taurant owned by the mayor of Denver had ment. tation or extermination!’’ If legal means of employed an illegal alien who allegedly mur- THE VIOLENCE: GROWING NUMBER OF ‘‘stopping this rising tide’’ were not enough, dered a police officer: ‘‘. . . his policy of af- Not surprisingly, white supremacists have ‘‘then these brown squat monsters should fording sanctuary to other illegal aliens not limited their actions to hateful or even begin to turn up dead all across Amerika . . . makes Mayor John Hickenlooper worthy of violent rhetoric. The past several years have We now have another game animal to add to being killed. I sincerely hope that someone seen a growing number of violent assaults our list of available targets for our favorite takes a rifle with a scope and puts a bullet and attacks by white supremacists against pastime, hunting, and we’ll declare perma- through [his] head.’’ legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants, as nent open season on these dirty wetbacks! May 15, 2005: ‘‘I advocate extreme violence well as Hispanic American citizens. The From what I have heard through the grape- against illegal aliens . . . I think it would be crimes have ranged from vicious vandalism vine the Skinheads and Klans across the terrific to trap them by their ankles in steel to brutal assaults and murders. In most country are more than prepared for this type bear traps then beat them to death when you cases, the perpetrators did not even know of action. I say let’s play by state and see return and find them in the trap . . . Oh, if the victims, but targeted them solely be- which state can claim the most kills and let any American sides with the illegals—like a cause of their appearance. the jewsmedia whores keep score!’’ big mouth politician or a politically correct, Only a minority of hate crimes are com- Oregon National Socialist Movement lead- ass-kissing local sheriff, lawyers, judges, or mitted by ideological extremists, but such er Jim Ramm wrote in June 2005 that ‘‘the the like—it would be a real public service to extremists have committed some of the browner invasion is much like a cancerous kill them too!’’ tumor that should of [sic] been removed. But worst hate crimes in America. The increased ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUPS instead, it was allowed to grow and infect willingness of such white supremacists, espe- other organs . . . as this brown disease rages The violent rhetoric has not come only cially racist skinheads, to attack Hispanics out of control the white patient faces racial from explicitly white supremacist groups, represents a dangerous and disturbing trend. death.’’ but also from members and leaders of anti- Here are some of the hate crimes com- Kevin Strom, leader of the neo-Nazi Na- immigration groups. Anti-immigration ac- mitted by white supremacists against His- tional Vanguard, gave a shortwave radio tivist Fred Puckett, the leader of ‘‘Minute- panics in the U.S. in the past three years. broadcast in June 2005 in which he claimed man of One,’’ was caught on camera in late April 29, 2006, New York. A teenager was that ‘‘These Mestizo invaders are so different April telling an undercover reporter for a arrested in East Hampton, Long Island, after from us that by mixing with them or being local Phoenix television station that ‘‘once he allegedly threatened a Hispanic teenager dispossessed by them we will cease to live, you shoot a couple of these sons of bitches, with a machete and chased a second teenager we will cease to be ourselves or have a place they’ll think twice.’’ with a chain saw while shouting racial epi- to exist to support the lives of our future Perhaps most strikingly, Arizona anti-im- thets. Described by classmates as a skin- generations. And that is the crucial reason migration activist Laine Lawless, who has head, the alleged perpetrator had previously why this invasion must be stopped.’’ been associated with several border vigilante posted to the Internet photographs of him- ‘‘AliisioRex,’’ a member of the neo-Nazi groups and eventually started the group Bor- self posing as a Nazi and adorning a shed web forum , wrote in July 2005 der Guardians in 2005, sent an e-mail in April with swastikas. He and two others, whom po- that ‘‘they are barbarians, they are our en- to a prominent Ohio member of the neo-Nazi lice have allegedly linked to the incident, emies, they want to destroy our civilization National Socialist Movement, Mark Martin, were suspended from school. and we have to fight them. We need to orga- asking him to pass its contents on to his April 22, 2006, Texas. David Henry Tuck. 18, nize better and be more open activists; oth- white supremacist contacts. Martin did so, and Keith Robert Turner, 17, were arrested erwise, I only see race war in the future.’’ forwarding the message to several white su- and charged with aggravated sexual Another Stormfronter, ‘‘Strasser,’’ wrote in premacist forums on Yahoo and Usenet in in the brutal attack of a teenage Hispanic November 2005 that ‘‘White minorityhood on early April, but unfortunately for Lawless, high school student in Houston. The victim a national level is a very real possibility. Martin ignored the part of her message was beaten and sodomized with a plastic pipe How can White folk tolerate this? Do they which read, ‘‘Please don’t use my name,’’ from a patio umbrella, then kicked in the care that most minority populations become and instead forwarded the message in full. head with steel-toed boots. He was left with a cultural hostage? What is the interest in Lawless’s e-mail, titled, ‘‘how to get rid of head wounds and major internal injuries. having their children a minority on a them,’’ urged a variety of intimidating, The victim had bleach poured on him and mestizo dominated campus? Mestizo immi- harassing, and even illegal and violent tac- was burned with cigarettes. Witnesses alleg- gration is going to force White America to tics to intimidate immigrants into leaving edly stopped the attackers from carving make some very important decisions.’’ the U.S., including cutting down the broad- something onto the victim’s chest. Tuck is a Such statements appear routinely on white cast tower for a Spanish language radio sta- self-described skinhead who sports Nazi tat- supremacist Web sites and in white suprema- tion near Phoenix and stealing money from toos. In 2003, at age 14, Tuck and two adult cist literature. illegal aliens. ‘‘I hear the red necks in the white supremacists were implicated in the Perhaps the white supremacist most active South are beating up illegals as the textile racially motivated beating of a Hispanic in explicitly advocating extreme violence mills have closed,’’ she wrote. ‘‘Use your man, according to court records and wit- against Hispanics is racist radio imagination.’’ nesses. The two adults received federal and talk show host Hal Turner. He reserves his Lawless’s suggestions were consistent with state sentences for their role; juvenile most extreme statements to urge violence previous statements she had made, including records are not public in Texas. against illegal immigrants from Mexico: a late March posting to an anti-immigration January 2006, California. Ryan Nicholas May 3, 2006: Following the May 1 dem- Internet forum in which she wrote that ‘‘my Newsome, a member of the Another Order onstrations, Turner posted to his Web site a Southern friend tells me the rednecks in the white supremacist gang, pleaded no contest 145-page ‘‘ethnic cleansing manual’’ that he South just beat [illegal aliens] up. Unfortu- on January 20, 2006, to assault charges in said explained ‘‘in graphic detail why white nately, there are too many of them to use Yuba County. He pleaded no contest to as- people need to prepare to ethnically cleanse that tactic there any more.’’ sault with force likely to cause great bodily this nation and how to do it using force and Earlier, in February, Lawless posted to a injury with a criminal street gang enhance- violence.’’ Texas Minuteman message forum that ‘‘We ment as a result of an August 2005 incident, October 31, 2005: ‘‘Slowly but surely we are need borders to . . . preserve our culture, in- in which he and an associate allegedly as- headed toward the solution that I have been stead of accepting any kind of flotsam and saulted a Hispanic man. advocating for years: kill illegal aliens as jetsam that seeks to float into our terri- December 2005, Tennessee. A Blount Coun- they cross into the U.S. When the stench of tory.’’ ty judge on December 1, 2005, sentenced rotting corpses gets bad enough, the rest will Mark Martin himself seemed willing to Jacob Allen Reynolds and Thomas Matthew stay away.’’ personally engage in intimidating tactics. In Lovett to four years in prison and six

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:32 Mar 24, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\FDSYS\BOUNDRECORD\BR13JN06.DAT BR13JN06 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE 10972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 152, Pt. 8 June 13, 2006 months in prison (and two and a half on pro- Three others involved in the incident plead- malicious harassment as a for at- bation) respectively after they pleaded ed guilty and one was acquitted. Others have tacking a Hispanic male in the parking lot of guilty to vandalizing a Mexican food store in yet to go to trial. a supermarket after asking if the victim was Maryville on May 7, 2005, causing over $17,000 July 2005, California. Four people, three Mexican. While awaiting trial on that in damages. The men allegedly broke win- men and one woman, were arrested in River- charge, he was later re-arrested after alleg- dows and a refrigerator, vandalized a car, side, California, on July 11–12, 2005, charged edly shooting at a police officer in Longview, and spraypainted Nazi symbols on the store. with making terrorist threats with a hate Washington, during a standoff. He still Three others charged still await trial. crime enhancement. Some of the people ar- awaits trial on the alleged crimes. November 2005, Texas. Christopher rested had ‘‘’’ tattoos, according June 2003, California. Two racist Chubasco Wilkins, a prison escapee, was re- to authorities, who also seized a variety of skinheads, Waylon Kennell and James captured on November 5 and charged with white supremacist items. According to po- Grlicky, were convicted in separate trials for murdering three men in the Fort Worth area lice, the suspects drove to a home and chal- the brutal beating of a Mexican migrant during his month-long escape. Wilkins, who lenged several Hispanics there to a fight, worker in San Diego in the fall of 2003. is according to police a self-proclaimed white threatening them and using racial slurs. A Grlicky was convicted of attempted murder, separatist heavily tattooed with a variety of similar episode occurred the next night. Ac- conspiracy, robbery, assault and battery, white supremacist tattoos. including a por- cording to police, the people arrested with a hate crime enhancement. Kennell was trait of Adolf Hitler, is alleged to have killed claimed no particular group affiliation but convicted of assault causing great bodily in- two Hispanic men and one African-American said they were proud to be ‘‘members of the jury and battery with serious bodily injury. man by gunshots to the head. Police are ex- .’’ According to the prosecutor in the case, the amining a possible racial motive. Wilkins May 2005, Arizona. White supremacist two went hunting for a ‘‘beaner’’ to beat and had been living at a halfway house in Hous- Steve Boggs was sentenced to death on May rob. They kicked the victim in the head ton, after being released from federal prison, 13, 2005, for murdering three fast-food work- around a dozen times, including ers in Mesa, Arizona, in 2002 during a rob- and left the house without permission. ‘‘curbstomping’’ him—kicking down on the bery. He had been convicted of three counts November 2005, Tennessee. A federal judge back of the head when the victim’s open of first-degree murder and various robbery, sentenced former Klansman Daniel James mouth is placed against a concrete curb burglary and kidnapping charges. Boggs shot Schertz to 14 years in prison for selling pipe (emulating a scene in the movie ‘‘American the victims, a Native American and two His- bombs to a person he thought would use History X’’). The victim suffered brain dam- panics, then stuffed their bodies into a freez- them to kill Mexican and Haitian immi- age as a result of the attack. er at the store. Boggs wrote to a Mesa police grants. The person turned out to be an un- May 2003, New Hampshire. Aryan Nations detective that he had wanted to ‘‘rid the dercover informant. Schertz, a former cor- member Russell Seace, Jr., of Hampton world of a few needless illegals. I don’t feel rections officer and member of the North Beach, pleaded guilty on May 27 to being a sorry.’’ Another defendant still awaits trial. Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, felon in possession of a firearm as part of a According to prosecutors, the two men were pleaded guilty to making five pipe bombs to plea bargain with the federal government. In members of a small hate group they called be used to blow up a bus carrying Mexican exchange for money, Seace had agreed to kill the Imperial Royal Guard. a Hispanic inmate after he was released, in workers. Later, Schertz expressed gratitude May 2005, Texas. Two racist skinheads retaliation for an alleged attack by the His- that the government had stopped him, but pleaded guilty on May 5, 2005, to a racially panic man on a white prison inmate. said, ‘‘We should have people here who know motivated beating of a Hispanic man in Jan- how to speak English. They are over here il- February 2003, Oregon. A Mexican uary 2003. Douglas Brannan of Hockley and landscaper in Beaverton was beaten with a legally and nothing gets done to them.’’ Mark Fletcher Smith of Spring, both sport- October 2005, California. A Sacramento baseball bat, robbed, and told to ‘‘go back ing many white supremacist tattoos, were home,’’ by a man with a shaved head and a man and two other suspects who allegedly convicted of civil rights violations. The two attacked and injured six people in a hate- coat with ‘‘KKK’’ on it. Baseball bats are one men, and a teenager, had attacked a His- of the weapons preferred by racist skinheads. crime spree at two local parties were ar- panic customer at a gas station, beating him rested in the early morning of October 16, Authorities posted a reward but were unable and kicking him with steel-toed boots until to make an arrest in the crime. 2005. Ryan Marino, 22, posted bail from El he was unconscious while shouting ‘‘border ANTI-IMMIGRATION ACTIVISTS AND WHITE Dorado County Jail later Sunday after being jumper,’’ ‘‘spic,’’ and ‘‘we kill people like SUPREMACISTS charged on four counts of assault with a you.’’ Brannan received a five year sentence deadly weapon with an extenuating cir- and Smith a three year sentence. It is not surprising that the most radical cumstance of a hate crime. He allegedly used December 2004, California. Ten racist anti-Hispanic sentiment is coming from brass knuckles after shouting epithets skinheads from Redlands and Riverside at- white supremacists; however, there are other against Hispanics and proclaiming ‘‘white tacked three Hispanics in the parking lot of groups joining the anti-Hispanic crusade. pride’’ at a home Sunday evening. Party a topless bar on December 29, 2004. According With mounting public awareness and concern attendees later identified Marino, who police to police, they assaulted the men while over illegal immigration in America, the said crashed the parties with the intent of yelling racial slurs at them and identifying issue is also being exploited by extreme anti- ‘‘beating up Mexicans.’’ themselves as members of skinhead groups. immigration activists, some of whom are September 2005, Utah. A federal judge on No arrests have yet been made. reaching out to white supremacists. The September 27, 2005, sentenced Lance November 2004, Wisconsin. Mark Lentz of rhetoric of these activists is largely aimed at Vanderstappen to 20 years in prison for try- Sheldon, Wisconsin, received a three-month Mexicans, not other illegal aliens, and fre- ing to kill a Hispanic man while in a holding sentence and two years of probation, as well quently does not distinguish between Mexi- cell in July 2005 awaiting sentencing for a as 40 hours of community service, after cans and Mexican-Americans. racketeering charge. The victim had stab pleading no contest to a misdemeanor hate This extreme end of the anti-immigration wounds to his neck, throat and chest. In crime. Lentz was the last of four racist movement includes both anti-Hispanic hate court, Vanderstappen, a member of the noto- skinheads to be sentenced for luring a His- groups masquerading as immigration reform rious Soldiers of Aryan Culture white su- panic man outside a bar in Waukesha, then groups as well as vigilante border patrol premacist prison gang, admitted that he tar- hitting him on the head with a bottle and re- groups, who conduct armed patrols along the geted the victim because he was Hispanic, peatedly kicking him. Mark Davis II of Wa- borders of the United States. Several border saying ‘‘I intentionally tried to kill him.’’ tertown earlier received a 31⁄2 year sentence vigilantes have been arrested on weapons Vanderstappen pleaded guilty to attempted and two years of extended supervision, Kasey charges. Casey Nethercott, for example, as- murder. Bieri received an 18-month jail term and sociated with border vigilante groups such as September 2005, New Jersey. Joseph three years of probation, and Jeffrey Ranch Rescue and the Arizona Guard, is cur- Schmidt of Little Egg Harbor received a sen- Gerloski received four months in jail and rently serving a five-year prison term on tence of three years’ probation in September two years probation. weapons charges stemming from a 2003 inci- 2005 after pleading guilty in June to two June 2004, Texas. Ranch Rescue member dent in which he and others confronted and counts of bias intimidation, two counts of Casey Nethercott was convicted by a Texas assaulted two Salvadorans when on ‘‘patrol.’’ aggravated assault, two counts of criminal jury of felony firearm possession in connec- The vigilante border patrol groups have op- mischief, two counts of possessing weapons tion with an attack on two illegal immi- erated for several years but have expanded for an unlawful purpose, and simple assault. grants from El Salvador outside of greatly in the past twelve months, spurred The charges were related to a string of at- Hebbronville, Texas, in 2003. He was sen- on by the media attention given to the so- tacks on minorities, primarily Hispanics, in tenced to five years in prison. The two immi- called ‘‘Minuteman Project.’’ In April 2005, Ocean County in 2003. Schmidt, a member of grants (now in the U.S. legally) successfully Chris Simcox, who founded the Arizona- the white supremacist skinhead group East sued Nethercott and others involved in the based Civil Homeland Defense, a border vigi- Coast Hate Crew, received a light sentence incident for a total judgment of $1,450,000. lante group, and Jim Gilchrist, based in Cali- because he had cooperated with authorities November 2003, Idaho. Aryan Nations mem- fornia, joined forces to create the Minute- in prosecuting other members of the group. ber Zachary Beck was arrested for felony man Project, whose purpose was to gather

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:32 Mar 24, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\FDSYS\BOUNDRECORD\BR13JN06.DAT BR13JN06 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE June 13, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 152, Pt. 8 10973 thousands of volunteers for a month-long Identity preacher James Wickstrom both build a new government and a new way watch for illegal border crossers in Arizona. linked to copies of this game from the front of life? The answer to that question is The project, which was highly publicized pages of their Web sites. In recent months, yes. And we have fulfilled that obliga- among right-wing extremists and white su- the game has enjoyed a resurgence in popu- tion. We have helped them through not premacists, attracted far fewer volunteers, larity, largely due to neo-Nazis trying to many of them armed, during its first week. capitalize on the national immigration de- one, not two, but three elections. It is However, the publicity generated by the bate. Neo-Nazi leader Tom Metzger posted now time for the Iraqi people to stand event resulted in numerous Minuteman the game on his Web site, and other extrem- up and defend themselves. chapters and spinoffs forming across Amer- ists have linked to it and promoted it on There is a general rule of military ica, even in states such as New York, Vir- fringe online discussion groups. engagement that says that you do not ginia, Vermont, and Illinois. These groups Games, music and cartoons are some of the signal to your enemy what you are use the same radical rhetoric: that the methods extremist groups rely on as part of going to do in advance. But there are United States is being ‘‘invaded’’ by Mexi- their efforts to reach a younger audience and exceptions to every rule, and there are cans who must be stopped. to expose them to their hateful ideas and be- That message was clear at a three-day liefs. Cartoon-like Flash games are seen as two exceptions to this rule. Number summit, ‘‘Unite to Fight Against Illegal Im- ideal for this task, because they are small one is that the insurgents in Iraq are migration,’’ held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in and easy to create and share over the Inter- using as a recruitment tool the argu- May 2005. More than 400 anti-immigration net, or enclose in an email message. In re- ment that we have no intention of activists gathered at the event to hear cent years, extremist groups such as the neo- leaving their country and that we are speakers describe illegal immigrants as ‘‘the Nazi National Alliance have also created going to steal their oil. And it is work- enemy within’’ and ‘‘illegal barbarians,’’ more sophisticated video games, such as ing! It is fueling the insurgency. while suggesting that America was ‘‘at war’’ ‘‘Ethnic Cleansing,’’ a game available on CD– As for our friends in Iraq, those who with illegal immigrants and urging people to ROM that also engages in the stereotyping ‘‘take America back.’’ and demonizing of Hispanics. Their aim is to want this new government and new Many of these anti-immigrant extremists attact unsuspecting users to extremist Web way of life, they seem perfectly con- have switched their focus from the border to sites, where they can be exposed to the mes- tent to let our soldiers take all of the day laborer centers, where they photograph sage and goals of the hate groups. enemy fire. The problem with security Hispanics whom they assume are illegal Such games are tools that extremists in- in Iraq is not the system of training, it aliens. This racial profiling has also occurred creasingly use to desensitize people against is the fact that the Iraqis are not step- at fast food restaurants and other businesses acts of violence, to portray hate crimes as ping forward to defend their own gov- where Hispanics are employed across the something to be celebrated, to dehumanize United States. White supremacist and anti- America’s Hispanic population and to draw ernment. government groups continue to express in- attention to their cause using the new tech- So today, Mr. Speaker, my basic dis- terest and take part in these activities, and nologies available to them on the Internet. agreement with the President is this: their rhetoric has become more and more f He says that we should stay in Iraq confrontational. until the Iraqis declare that they are INTERNET VIDEO GAMES TARGET HISPANICS IT IS TIME TO BRING OUR TROOPS ready to defend their own country; and Extremists have shown a renewed interest HOME I propose that we announce a timetable in populating the Internet with links to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- for withdrawal, start withdrawing our video games that target Hispanics, por- ant to the order of the House of Janu- troops, and make our position very traying them not as productive contributors ary 31, 2006, the gentleman from New clear to the Iraqis: If they want this to society, but as objects of scorn, derision York (Mr. MCNULTY) is recognized dur- new government and this new way of and hate. Shoot-to-kill video games such as ing morning hour debates for 5 min- life, they have to come forward, volun- ‘‘Border Patrol,’’ a game created in Flash that is easily accessible on the Internet utes. teer, stand up, and defend it. Mr. through extremist Web sites, have become Mr. MCNULTY. Mr. Speaker, when Speaker, it is time to bring our troops increasingly popular among those opposed to we debated the original Iraq war reso- home. immigration and are widely shared among lution, the administration told us that f extremists in the United States. This has es- Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass pecially been the case as the national discus- destruction, that there were ties be- HATE CRIMES sion over immigration has gathered force. tween Saddam Hussein and 9/11, and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- In ‘‘Border Patrol’’—one of the more pop- that Iraq was within a year of having a ant to the order of the House of Janu- ular Flash games available on the Internet ary 31, 2006, the gentleman from Texas through various extremist Web sites—the ob- nuclear capability. ject is to ‘‘kill’’ caricatures of Mexicans as Fast-forward to the deliberations of (Mr. GONZALEZ) is recognized during they attempt to cross the border and gain the 9/11 Commission. They concluded morning hour debates for 21⁄2 minutes. entry to the U.S. that there were no weapons of mass de- Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise Players control a gun and are charged with struction, no ties between Saddam today to address the House on an im- killing stereotypical Mexicans. Targets in- Hussein and 9/11, and no nuclear capa- portant issue that has already been ad- clude a ‘‘Mexican nationalist,’’ who carries a bility. Mr. Speaker, these votes weren’t dressed by my colleague Mr. BACA, and Mexican flag and a pistol; a ‘‘Drug smug- 8–4 or 7–5, they were all 12–0 that the that is the power of words. And that is gler,’’ wearing a sombrero and carrying a bag of marijuana on his back; and finally a very basis for the war did not exist. all we really have here in this chamber, ‘‘Breeder’’—a pregnant woman who has two When I go back home, Mr. Speaker, and that is to address one another in a small children in tow. Aside from the and my constituents ask me to summa- respectful manner and engage in a good virulently anti-Hispanic themes within the rize where we are in the war on terror, faith debate about the merits or demer- game, it also hints at anti-Semitic myths I tell them this: As we approach the its of any particular issue. such as ‘‘Jewish control’’ of the U.S. through fifth anniversary of the worst terrorist Unfortunately, words can be harmful an image where the border is represented by attack in the history of our country, and they can incite and be counter- a bullet-ridden sign showing an American we have committed hundreds of bil- productive, and to be a disservice not flag whose 50 stars have been replaced by a just to this institution but to the single Jewish Star of David. lions of dollars in Iraq. More important Under this sign, another small sign directs than that, over 20,000 young Americans American people who are waiting for a the Mexicans to a ‘‘Welfare Office.’’ The have either been killed or seriously good faith debate on the important player ‘‘wins’’ when he or she has made 88 wounded going after Saddam Hussein, issue of immigration. kills. The number 88 has significance to neo- who did not attack us, while Osama bin However, this debate has been framed Nazis, who use it as shorthand for ‘‘Heil Hit- Laden, who did attack us, is still alive, in a certain manner, to appeal probably ler’’ (‘‘H’’ is the eighth letter of the alpha- free, planning another attack on our to that rather unattractive underbelly bet). that is out there in society, and that is ‘‘Border Patrol’’ was first created in 2002 country. That, Mr. Speaker, is the very by the now-defunct website ‘‘Zine 14,’’ and definition of failure in the war on ter- bigotry and racism. And that is a true was soon being copied and distributed by ex- ror. We went after the wrong guy. danger. And when I say it is a dis- tremists and others. In March 2003, the neo- But after the invasion, did we have a service to this country, it is beyond a Nazi Aryan Nations group and Christian responsibility to help the Iraqi people disservice. It is going back in time.

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