being a white supremacist is not a bad thing. >> and according to allgier, being a white supremacist's white supremacist prison gangs. >> you've got sackensaw, forthright, k.b., and those dudes aren't white supremacists. they're not part of a white supremacist. they were started by people who were rats and p.c. cases. >> the interesting thing about curtis was he claims he's not in a gang. he's not a gang member. he's just a white supremacist, a skinhead. and he thought there was a really, really severe difference. >> i'm no part of them. i have never been a part of them nor will i ever be a part of them. those dudes, in my mind, are weak and lame. they're not white supremacists, nor will they ever be. >> and at that point, one of the officers leaned into my ear and said if you use that, he is going to get attacked. he is going to get stabbed. >> while inmates like allgier are completely aware that talking about gangs could put them in peril, it is a risk they have taken time and time again when interviewed on "lockup." >> we knew theoretically that sound bite might put him in danger,

officials believe that a growing religious might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray one of the leaders at wabash denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture more dominant over another or a religion. believers believe that our religion is fine and yours is fine. >> guy ratliff who has been practicing the religion for several years here says there is pun group is not welcome. >> few we found out that someone was a child molester he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. ratliff who uses another accepted pronunciation of the group's name defended the fact that some members have swastikas on their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. i don't have nothing against uncle adolf but he took something from my religion which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civilizations. they had a swastika in persia way before national socialism came along. >> his comments disturbed murray who let him know how m

a front for white supremacist gangs. members have been allowed to hold services at some prisons, but wabash has banned such gatherings. >> the white supremacy gang members are using services to have their gang members within the services itself. it's been quite disruptive at these other facilities. >> murray denies any ties to right supremacist gangs and has decided to file a grievance to appeal the ban on asatru group meetings. >> it is not a gang. it does not promote gang mentality or any criminal elements at all. it's a religion based on virtue and knowledge. >> the ban also hasn't stopped murray from recruitinglatest, w >> marks has been teaching me about what the hammer means, what the different gods and goddesses are. >> jones who also denies being a white supremacist came to wabash three years ago at age 18. he was sentenced to six years for burglary. >> i was hanging out with the wrong people and i strung out on drugs and broke into a house and took a tv and bunch of other little items like a tattoo gun, took them

for instance, if they belong to some sort of white supremacist gang, hispanic gang, asian gang. >> been diagnosed with an std? >> no. >> ever had sex with an iv drug user? >> no. >> each inmate is given a thorough medical screening to determine their medical history and prevent the spread of disease. the inmates will spend most of their first day in this holding cell, named the library after its former purpose. it's here the inmates will have their first prison meal. >> a lot better than where i just came from, that's for sure. >> i thought it would be a lot better. after the population started getting worse and worse, the food started getting worse. >> randy russell is no stranger to usp. he first came in at the age of 15 and did 17 years on a robbery charge. >> randy, it's not good to see you. okay? >> now, randy is back on a parole violation, leaving behind a wife and four children. >> one time i thought i was going to come back, i asked my wife, i said, should i run? she goes, well i'm not going to make that call. but she goes, but you can't take me with you. if i'm not with my wife

groups now i'm not accusing operate at risk of being a white supremacist i don't think that's true but the reality is is that these i.p.o.'s originated in a group of posse comitatus in the one nine hundred seventy s. in the night. a he. sed it's. i'll ask have to say they essentially are we that god gave america the right manner and therefore because it's relationship between god and man no man can kind of stand between that and test their idea for instance that the government can't tax you but the government can't tell you that you've got a driver's license and kinds of other things the government supposedly tend not to when in the old when a posse and a lot of sovereigns refer to work team amendment citizens which is a kind of core concept of sovereigns what they're really talking about is the idea that the map the people in america among others look black people were made citizens by the fourteenth amendment which is to say they were mate citizens by an act of man as so as to iraq as opposed to an act of cuts and what that means is that black americans having accepted citizenship fr

a peaceful town in ohio is turned upside down when two brothers, admitted white supremacists, with criminal records, roll into town with guns blazing. february 15th, 1997, wilmington, ohio. state police trooper john harker is on highway patrol. with 11 years on the force's drug interdiction unit, harker has been involved in some of the riskiest and most high profile arrests in the state. >> we worked in southwestern ohio with the intention of apprehending folks engaged in criminal activities, felony activities, drugs, stolen property, that type of enforcement. >> trooper harker's day starts like any other, he pulls over a driver going under the speed limit and whose 1977 blue chevy suburban is missing a front license plate. >> so i had to call the patrol post in wilmington and have a dispatcher run that. the license plate did match, at least the appearance of that vehicle, but that it was expired. >> but for now this seems like it will be nothing more than a routine traffic stop. >> good afternoon, gentlemen. a visual scan of the vehicle as i walked up appeared that they were doing construc

. >>> in duluth, minnesota, a group of white supremacists confronted on the steps of city hall.hey planned to speak out again by a campaign launched by city groups but they didn't get their chance to speak. >>> x-ray shows just how lucky a 3-year-old oregon girl was. she's is recovering after swallowing 37 tiny magnets. it took surgery to remove all of them. the toy magnets are known as bucky balls and only used by adults. yeah, bill knows. >>> early beautiful scene as the iditarod dog sled race continues day and night. more than half of the competitors have competed more than 200 miles of mushing but still a long way to go before making it to gnome. some decided to keep pushing on instead of camping for the night at checkpoints. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is meteorologist bill karins with a look at the forecast. >> feel they can do that in the great lakes and northeast this morning. feel like they could take the dogs out and mush. it's a cold morning. temperatures are about as chilly as they get for this time of year, especially areas that ha

what tune of this white supremacist who supposedly hacked into his twitter count, facebook, email? what do know about this? >> we do not know anything. we know he is ignorant and just as ignorant as the black list of who put out bounties on people. these are in our people that are divisive. there are a whole group people united to gather in justice across all races, nationalities, and political affiliations. we cannot let people defied and distract from what really happened. this is about the evidence that will be presented, the factual evidence. >> natalie jackson, thank you for being with us, local co- counsel for trayvon martin's family, founder of the women's trial group. she is speaking to us from orlando, florida. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we take a trip through history, look at trayvon's martin case and the story of emmett till, 14-year old african-american in mississippi who was lynched. we will speak with a woman who was taught by emmett till's mother. stay with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music bre

. >>> in duluth, minnesota, a group of white supremacists confronted on the steps of city hall. the group had planned to speak out against an anti-racism campaign launched by city officials, but community groups were there and they blocked any counterprotests. >>> x-ray shows just how lucky a 3-year-old oregon girl was. she's is recovering after swallowing 37 tiny magnets. the toy magnets are only meant for use by adults. >>> finally, an eerily beautiful scene as the iditarod dog sled race continues day and night. more than half of the competitors have competed more than 200 miles of mushing but still a long way to go before making it to nome. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> not bad weather for the race. earlier this winter, it was a nightmare. luckily, that's why the race is this time of year, i guess. we're actually not going to start in alaska. we're going to start out in the middle of the pacific, where probably the worst weather in all of the united states is occurring. we've h

. >> stephen: in the bell curve you cited researchers and research that was funded by white supremacists groups. >> come on. i know what you are referring to but stephen. >> stephen: you had 17 researchers contributors to the racist journal and 13 scholars who are grant recipients from the pioneer fund which was established and run but nazi sympathizers. >> in a 980 page book with 1500 citations and the authors you are talking about include some of the most eminent and respected psycho÷ú matricians. >> stephen: psycho -- >> matricians. i can't tell how hard it is after 17 years to see this nonsense brought up again. >> stephen: i think it's refreshing following this book you are writing a book that contains no black people in it whatsoever. it's extremely refreshing. >> let's face it. it made life a whole lot easier to do it that way. >> stephen: i find just hanging out with white people a lot easier, too. those lower class white people, are they giving white people a bad same in because the white people who are prosperous, who have the values of white people, like marriage, the product

you know, really this was a white supremacist nation before the civil war north and south. whites regarded -- most whites regarded blacks as racially inferior, including lincoln who wanted freed blacks to be resold in africa and central america because they couldn't live as equals to whites, and he's an abolitionist. many were very kond sending. their view was blacks were too dossile to fight for freedom and leave it to us benevolent whites to care of this issue for you. brown completely rejected them. among those he saw support from was frederick douglas. he meets with harriet tubman. he lived his believes in a quiet, astonishing way. as to the white support, the secret six, i believe one of my favorite parts of the story in an area where there's a little room for humor, they were really par local radicals. they were very wealthy businessmen mostly in the boston area who funneled brown money and guns. they fed it to him at salons in new england and brown dines with thoreau and emerson. alcott calls brown the manleyest man they've ever met. they're intoxicated by this. it's

. >> there are white supremacists in idaho who are being infiltrated right now by the fbi. >> there are, unfortunately in the last several months and years we've seen violence not coming from other communities, but look, without commenting on what i think is the heinous heinousness of the surveillance that's happening. it has legs and chris christie and others didn't seem to be aware of the scope and is something troubling and. >> jon: you may be the first panelist to use the word heinousness. and moving on. al al alan dershowitz, that white house staffers held meetings on campaign strategy and dershowitz plans to make it an issue for president obama's reelection. aj rosen berg responded on his twitter feed, quote, best way to tell dershowitz to hell, one, picket his classroom or two, tell your friends to follow me on twitter. judy? >> well, you know, it's just such a self-congratulatory message from that man. look, this is a problem for media matters. alan dershowitz is a leftist, self-declared democrat who voted for barack obama and he says that the man that media matters has hired to

radical distinction between an extreme right wing neo nazi terroristic violent hitler worshipping white supremacist far right and populist politicians are so loosely called who have grave misgivings about the degree to which a national community can absorb. estimate minorities especially ethnic minority is from a very different religion and culture and how that second group are not to be conflated with me or not says they are and they are raising the legitimate concerns about about the how you run a multicultural society and similarly on the only on the far right and can't is not part of the far right there is a very grave danger of confusing islam with islam is a noun islamism is indeed an integral part of islam it does use fundamentalist references to aspects of islam scripturally to justify its hatred and war against the west but it is an extraordinarily small minority faction within islam in the in europe that is drawn towards this so i just think we've got to sort of really make use our responsibility as part of the elites of society as elite because we're articulate and we have the time and l

what professor ward talks about is, you know, what were, what were white supremacists saying in the '40s and '50s? how were they seeking to hold back what became the civil rights revolution? and it's a very fine book, and i've derived a lot of knowledge, a lot of information and knowledge from reading it. >> host: and another book you are currently reading, "body and soul: the black panther party and the fight against medical discrimination." >> guest: yes. well, um, alondra nelson who is a very distinguished professor at columbia university has written a new book about the black panther party. one of the things that i like so much about this book is that it presents the black panther party in a light that's unusual. and, you know, when you say black panther party, people immediately think of race, they think of leather coats, they think of people brandishing guns, they think of fiery rhetoric, and they don't think of -- and that's it. that sort of exhausts, you know, the knowledge base of those people when they think, when you evoke the idea of the black panther party. well, this boo

. >> gerald ritchie, a member of the white supremacist gang, the saxon knights doesn't believe such harmonyetween blacks and whites is possible. >> we're two different beings from head to the toe, from root to crown. and we're not compatible. we are not compatible. the only time a white dude is compatible with a black dude in a cell is, a, if he's a tag, or, b, if he wants to be black. that's the cold, hard truth about it. people are going to watch this on the news and hate me for it. believe that. >> and prison officials believe racial pride might have contributed to a recent assault that landed ritchie in the secured confinement unit. >> what you see here is you'll see ritchie, and there's another guy, a guy out here, and basically they're just hanging out. they already know what's playing. i mean, it was premeditated. >> the men are waiting for a black inmate to exit his cell. >> he's immediately met by ritchie, who was standing at his door, waiting for the door to be open. and he assaults him and chases him around with another -- this guy here is just kind of being a spectator at this p

, they're probably a little more rural than urban, than, for example, hate groups, which are white supremacist all over the country. the midwest has seen a lot of them, the southwest has quite a few of these groups. it's a pretty widespread phenomenon, and oftentimes these are people who were involved in the militia movement back when clinton was president in the 1990s who have returned to the fold after an eight-year hiatus under a bush. but 1,274, that's the highest number of anti-government groups we've ever counted. >> i want to ask why. before i do this, i want to play this from 2009. >> you are new to mithe militia. >> reporter: it's getting more worried. >> how many of you are worried about the constitution right now? >> reporter: worried as in the sense that it's not being followed. >> so the why? why the explosive growth, heidi? >> reporter: well, there's basically two factors that have driven the anti-government groups up. one is the bad economy. that always adds to any kind of extremism you have. >> how so? >> reporter: i was going to say the bad economy tends to drive people into e

right now our probably most radical group is our white supremacist group, specifically the aryan brotherhood. i say they are the most radical because typically if there's an incident that an assault has occurred in, most of the time you'll see aryan brotherhood behind that. but that goes hand in hand with drug trafficking and extortions and intimidations. they are into all of it. the aryan brotherhood is a very structured, very, very structured. and they have bylaws, pledges, oaths and decrees, just like any other organization has. they believe in the expansion of the white race. christopher genrich is a confirmed aryan brotherhood member. >> i've been down eight years now, down for business murder, 13 counts. we were basically burglarizing veterinarian clinics for special k and pcp, stuff like that. >> since his incarceration in wabash valley, genrich has been involved in many fights with staff and other inmates. >> say i want to get into a fight with somebody. there's a problem i have with one of his brothers or whatever. we can make it to, all right, he's going to shake me down, and i'm g

. >> the nazi low riders is a white supremacist gang formed in the '60s. membership can only be achieved by killing someone, and death is the only way out. >> the bgf is the black guerilla family. >> the black guerilla family is the only recognized black prison gang. street gangs like the crips and bloods are merely regarded by prison officials as disruptive groups. but the most notorious gang in the california prison system is called the mexican mafia. >> the mexican mafia is known as m.a., la m.a. they will be recognized by the eme, which is the spanish letter m. >> the mexican mafia was born in california prisons in the mid 1950s. its members, who swear allegiance for life, are mostly mexican-americans from southern california. among gangs, the mexican mafia is considered the most disciplined and powerful within the california prison system. >> if you are an active gang member or an active hispanic within the group, you are expected to be up at 6:00 in the morning when they go to the exercise yard together. they do exercises together in cadence. that's

. >> the ex-leader of a white supremacist gang faces a whole new reality. >> if i'm ever put in general population i'm as good as dead. >>> when we visited the special management unit at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, we were struck by how different it felt from the rest of the facility. >> this is where the killers, rapists, the most violent offenders are housed. and when you get up there, it has a very different feel than other areas of the jail, and that's because there's an eerie silence. and the reason there's an eerie silence, as opposed to other segregation units, is because the inmates are housed behind double sets of doors. this is as close to a hannibal lechter cell environment as you can get. they don't even leave for recreation. they just open one of the interior sliding doors and they walk out and they have their 45 minutes of recreation each day, and then boom. right become into the cell without ever interacting with another inmate. so it has a very ominous feel when you walk through the special management unit. and this is the path that i took when i went t

just in 1998 we had the dragging death of james bird in texas by white supremacists.e months later, october 1998, matth matthew shepard was targeted because he was gay and left on a fence in wyoming. where african-americans have been denied is well documented in american history. but gays and lesbians, up and down the board, are being denied equal protection under the law. particularly as we started out this segment, when it comes to marriage equality. >> let's talk about that. the new poll shows this huge change in voter opinion with more people supporting gay marriage than ever before in the u.s. 49% to 40%. that's a total reversal from 2009 where 49% opposed. as we see this surge forward and quickly as it is, now in eight states where you can get married legally in this country, maryland being the latest. you can't do it until 2013. but when we talk about how fast this is advancing and then you draw the correlations, you are getting a lot of kickback from the african-american community. i'm seeing it on twitter. a lot of people reaching out to you today saying hold

if i see swastikas in there, my clues tell me white supremacist, so that tells me a little about them, is he a drug addict? so i take all that into account before i look, depending on what i'm investigating. >> this was just a routine cell search. this time, nothing suspicious was found, but that's not always the case. >> as you see here, we have a wide variety of weapons that have been discovered here at folsom. they go all the way from the big type of weapons all the way down to the slashing type of instruments. they'll roll newspapers up. they'll actually make real crude type of darts that are dipped in feces and urine and are shot at staff. we see these bottles here that are taped up together. one of the things that they do here is they secrete things in their rectums. the individual that had these bottles was actually trying to stretch his rectum up to be able to smuggle in some dynamite into our institution. >> another way weapons can get into prison is through the mail. while officers cannot read personal letters, they do have a right to inspect them for illegal items. >> revie

white supremacist, bikers, bank robbers but he said he went up there with the black and latino guys? and he said yes. they said what were they doing? he said, a play. they said what did you do about it? he said well, they give me a part. afpak we became the only diverse group, the multicultural group, and were able to use that conversation through the art to talk about those things that i had a 15 years ago in the panther party, to talk about class struggle, to talk about the fact that oppression in this country means business. the slavery of african slaves didn't happen just because white folks didn't like black folks. but because he was an abundant pool of labor. the first slaves in this country were indentured servants. but there was an expiration date, the time would run out, he would be free. thing of native americans who said no, we live here, i don't think the. so you had this abundant pool of labor and you that racism that the marketing strategy for oppression. and from then until now, from the founding fathers, from the first stock in trade on wall street, african slaves, an

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whether it was the dragging death of james byrd by three white supremacists in 1998.... >> it is a story.. or the brutal torture that same year of 21-year-old matthew sheppard because he was gay.... >> it was a brutal attack on migrant farm workers. >> reporter:... most of the nearly 10,000 hate crimes documented every year involve violence or a threat of violence. >> on count 8.... >> reporter: until this. >> ...sexual orientation guilty or not guilty? >> guilty. >> reporter: 20-year-old dharun ravi has become the latest to-convicted of bias intimidation or hate crimes. in his case targeting his gay college roommate tyler clementi. what makes this case so unusual is that the weapon was a camera on ravi's computer. in september of 2010, ravi used his web cam to twice spy on his roommate when clementi brought another man into their shared dorm room for a sexual encounter. ravi later tweeted his friends about what he had done. "i saw him making out with a dude." and later even invited his friends to watch. "people are having a viewing party with a bottle of bacardi and beer." >> guilty. >>

i was guy surrounded, white supremacists, bankers, bikers, bank robberies. they said you enough that the black and latino guys. he said he had. they said well, what was the doing? he said a play. it's about what did she do about it? he said well, they gave me a part. [laughter] we became the only diverse group, the multicultural group and were able to use the conversation to talk about those things i learned 15 years ago in the panther party, to talk about class drug, to talk about that depression in this country as a business that african slaves didn't happen because white folks didn't like black folks, but because he was an abundant pool of labor. the first place in this country were indentured servants, but there is an expiration date, their time would run out. they would be free. then you have native american said no, we live here. i don't think so. see how this abundant pool of labor and racism that became the marketing strategy for oppression. and from then until now, from the founding fathers, from the first stock being traded on wall street and from

not want to talk about it in the same way we do not want to talk about the fact that there's a white supremacistments in the republican party. if we're going to be honest about these issues, we have to be honest about who is supporting the republican party and the profile of their voters. host: rachel rights in -- rachel writes in on facebook. we did have a call earlier on our show this morning who said he also believes ron paul can appeal to women. what do you think? caller: we have a saying. brown made very clear that this is a man's world, but it would not be nothing without a woman or girl. women need all the respect and need the help that they can get with their bodies. some of them cannot even pay for a lot of the tests they need done. i want people to understand, just like james brown said, it would not be nothing without a woman or a girl. thank you. host: other stories in the news. the supreme court takes on health care law next week. c-span will be covering that as best we can. we'll be talking about that during washington -- we'll talk about that during "washington journal" next week.