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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Westboro Baptist To Protest Sandy Hook Victims' Funerals, Hackers Get Even

Soon after a Westboro Baptist leader announced plans to picket funerals of Sandy Hook shooting victims, a hacker group posted their personal information online.

The leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, an extremist organization that is known for picketing soldiers' funerals in protest of gay marriages - which they believe is the cause of everything evil  - announced on Twitter Sunday it would picket funerals of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Soon after the announcement that they would be "singing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing judgement," msnNOW  reported that Hackers collective Anonymous posted church members' contact information, including phone numbers, addresses and e-mails, online. According to an article on GlobalPost.com "it is unclear if they will actually be present, as the hate group is known for planning pickets and then not showing up, as they did after the Aurora…

Monday, August 13, 2012

Rise in Hate Groups Includes Lehigh Valley Extremists

Extremist groups are on the rise as the presidential election heats up.

As Lehigh Valley Sikhs fear for their safety following a deadly attack at a temple in Wisconsin, a group that tracks hate groups says extremism is on the rise as the presidential election heats up. The American radical right grew explosively in 2011, a third consecutive year of growth that has swelled the ranks of extremist groups to record levels, according to a new report issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a national non-profit civil rights group based in Alabama. Anti-government “Patriot” movement groups led the expansion, according to SPLC. While the SPLC is used as a resource by the FBI, the organization has met with criticism for expanding its definition of hate crimes. The SPLC's "hate" map includes 34 extremists …

Elsa

9:57 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The 60's are full of protest songs. Country joe and the fish exercised their freedom of speech and this is not a "hate" crime.   more ›

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