Are the authorities too easy on white supremacists in the US?

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Excerpts from an article from the BBC. It concernes that old KKK dude who killed three ppl in the Midwest.

Michael German, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who once infiltrated extremist groups, said FBI training materials emphasise the rights of some white supremacists and right-wing militias, but not of other extremists.

Under the first amendment Americans are allowed to say hateful things - with exceptions. If you order someone to commit murder, you can be prosecuted. Otherwise free speech, even when ugly and offensive, is a fundamental right in the US.

In an FBI presentation, agents raised the issue of "First Amendment-protected activities" when discussing white supremacists, German said, but not when talking about supporters of "eco-terrorism" and Islamic extremism.

Meanwhile agents have "designated environmental-rights extremists as the number-one threat", he said, though members of right-wing groups kill more people.

Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the FBI, said: "We don't target groups for who they are. If you want to be a white supremacist - legally there's nothing wrong with that.

"What we're concerned about is breaking the law."

- He posted on extremist sites about the need to "kill all" Jewish people and collected names of kosher restaurants, according to authorities.

- He was the founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

- He pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in 1987 and agreed to testify against others in exchange for a reduced sentence. He served three years in prison.

Miller was the founder and leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan


Local Mayor: ''I Kind of agreed with him on some things''

Local store owner:

"He's very nice, very reasonable," said Walker, who used to see Miller around town, adding that he did not hide his views. "He thinks Jews run everything. I don't know where he comes up with that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27448720

 

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Yeah because some of those kkk are politically connected no fbi agent wants to loose his job... Also they're white...

 

[RatherUnique]

White supremacist groups in general are a lot of hyperbole and posturing. They put up a show but don't really kill or blow anything up. They know that would bring hell down on them so they talk about shyt like imaginary race wars and stuff.
The ones in the U.S are like puppies compared to the European ones (especially Eastern Europe.)

(White Prison gangs like A.B are different story all together though.)