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reply posted on 16-10-2005 @ 03:53 PM by GradyPhilpott
Whatever else you might say about the Black Panthers, they certainly were violent criminals. Read just a little about David Horowitz's experience with the Panthers and you get a very good inside picture of what these thugs were really like. The links below also provide a little insight into this "benevolent" organization.



Horowitz's intellectual seduction by Newton constitutes some of the most fascinating pages in Radical Son. Newton made Horowitz his confidant, took him to glitzy parties and published his essays in the Panthers' official newspaper. When Newton asked him to raise money for a new Panther school in Oakland, Horowitz eagerly obliged by creating a tax-exempt foundation that eventually netted more than $100,000 for the project.

Attaching himself to the Bay Area Panthers in 1974 was, it turns out, a colossal mistake: Their heyday was over, and the leadership had become increasingly violent and deranged. The educator Herbert Kohl, who was then involved in several Panther education projects, warned Horowitz that Newton was abusing cocaine. ("He had a cold," Horowitz replied.) Uncomfortable being a white man in the upper ranks of the Panther hierarchy, Horowitz attempted to recruit qualified blacks to replace him, so he invited Troy Duster, a sociologist at UC-Berkeley, to meet Newton. But Duster was suspicious of Newton's mercurial behavior and fled. Horowitz then denounced Duster as something of a bourgeois "Uncle Tom." "I must have been insufferable," Horowitz says, reflecting on his younger self.

On July 22, 1974, Huey Newton shot a young prostitute, after which he fled to Cuba. "I should have left [the Panthers] then," Horowitz says. In fact, many of his black friends in the party did depart at that very moment--a turn of events that enraged Newton's successor, a striking, charismatic and voluble young woman named Elaine Brown, who, according to Horowitz, said the party was under attack and "the rats were leaving the ship." Horowitz says he felt trapped. When Brown asked him to recommend someone to oversee the party finances, he suggested Betty Van Patter, a 42-year-old bookkeeper who had worked at Ramparts. Van Patter, who was white, eagerly accepted the position. On December 13, 1974, she vanished. A month later, her body, with a massive head wound, was discovered in San Francisco Bay.

It is a case, according to veteran Panther-watcher Kate Coleman, that has "haunted the Bay Area left for two decades." A lengthy investigation by Coleman revealed that Van Patter had discovered questionable activity--rackets, dope, prostitution--at a Panther-run bar in Oakland called the Lamp Post and had reportedly complained about it to Brown, who then fired her.

Van Patter's death plunged Horowitz into "a really clinical depression," he says today. "For a good year, I woke up in tears every day because of Betty." What inspired the guilt was not simply that he'd recommended Van Patter to the Panthers but that he'd been too frightened to warn her about the dangers she faced. But he was in a bind: Van Patter, delighted to be employed by the Panthers, was completely enamored of Brown and wary of Horowitz, whom she did not trust. So he let her proceed with the job.

"Today I can't even justify it," he says wearily. "I have no idea why I did it." Horowitz and I are seated in his office. The room is tense and completely silent, except for the sound of his hand nervously striking the table. His voice, normally firm and confident, sinks to a barely audible mumble.

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reply posted on 16-10-2005 @ 04:21 PM by Odium
GradyPhilpott, if you read up on many of the claims made against the Black Panthers they were never proven, in fact Huey P. Newton was acquitted of the murder and that is how the legal system works. Innocent until proven guilty and I am afraid, he was found innocent.

Most of what, George Jackson, did he did while in prison and many of the Black Panther's denounced his actions. I do believe in Huey P. Newton's 73 book he peaks about him.

Assata Shakur, was attacked by the State. In fact, she had 6 false crimes pushed against her by the F.B.I. and New York Police, which the court accepted as being false and being a set up.

Bobby Seale served his time, even though the charges and the majority of time in prison was due to the fact he was rather vocal in court.

Mutulu Shakur is in the appeal courts.

Pete O'Neal was tried for "transporting a gun across state lines".

Bobby Hutton was shot to death by the Police in a fire fight.

Geronimo ji-Jaga's conviction was overturned and is thus not guilty.

Angela Yvonne Davis was found not guilty.

Eldridge Cleaver was sentanced for assault and also had left the BP, the rape charges/convictions happened prior to joining the BP.

Richard Held is responsible for the deaths of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and was never convicted of a crime.

H. Rap Brown's actions were wrong and I do believe they have been denounced by Bobby although there is still a lot going on with his recent case.

Elaine Brown has never been convicted of a crime.

Mumia Abu-Jamal's case has so many problems with it, it isn't even worth the light of day however he never was put to death and is still in custody waiting for the trial to be over.

GradyPhilpott, I find it laughable you would push half of those links across when it is widly accepted a vast majority of the charges against the Black Panthers was because of the Government/F.B.I. campaign to 'remove' them. In fact, look at their actions towards people like "Fred Hampton" and then wonder why the Panther's shot at Police officers.

It's a little bit of common sense. If the Police were not killing them, for no reason, if the F.B.I. has not caused friction between the United Slaves and the Panthers and if they had never set out to destory the "Rainbow Coalitiion" there would be tens of people still alive. It is just a shame, still to this day people claim that people like Huey killed that woman when a court has found otherwise.

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reply posted on 16-10-2005 @ 05:03 PM by Odium
Yes, writing letters to the United Slaves claiming you are a member of the Black Panther's and they are going to kill one of your members, is part of the line of duty. In fact, the actions of the F.B.I. in reguards to the Black Panthers had them found guilty in a Civil Court and they have been made to pay massive damages to former members, as well as several Police forces also being found guilty of their actions.

www.icdc.com...


"Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that...the Bureau conducted a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association, on the theory that preventing the growth of dangerous groups and the propogation of dangerous ideas would protect the national security and deter violence."
www.icdc.com...

In fact, I really like the memo between the San Francisco agent and Hoover, where he could find no involvement and well...Hoover made it nice and clear if he wanted his job, to find "evidence".

COINTELPRO, was not legal and resulted in a lot of violence between the Police and the groups they targetted. [Not just blacks.]


reply posted on 16-10-2005 @ 07:06 PM by Nygdan
Where did they call for the destruction of other races or peoples?

They're nazis. Not merely racists or KKKers even, they're nazis, what do you think they are going to do if they ever get in charge??
no matter how righteous they think they are. They are freaking insane.

Preposterous. These men are nazis, they aren't some mutant 'nice nazi' version of the party, they've looked at the history of the nazi party and said, 'now these guys knew what to do and had the cojones to do it'.
The scum who rioted are no better, and most of them were gangbanging cowards

The criminals who rioted are far better than the nazis.
They looted and attacked innocent people?

You had stated that 'white people don't riot', which, plainly as evidenced in those cities, is untrue. The people rioting and rampaging there destroyed property and violently clashed with the police.
Well, I sure don't see you equally condemning them today

You don't see anything I do anywhere outside of this board, and we're not even talking about anything outside of this thread, since this thread is about a nazi rally, I'm condemming the nazis.
full metal
Hmmm, maybe the Neo Nazis hace a point?

No, the nazis do not have a point.
This whole thing originally stemmed from my asking Nygdan if he wishes to equally clobber those who promote violent, hateful gangsta rap (not all rap is hateful), as he wishes to clobber those who promote hateful white supremacy and segregation, and if so why he supports hateful violent gang members acting violently because a small handful of hateful non-violent white supremecists wished to have a stupid march and what makes one hate more preferable to another. He never answered.

What are you talking about? I answered you and said have clearly stated that what the rioters were doing was illegal. For my own part, I really don't give a dam about a bunch of people rampaging when the nazis have a rally in their town, I'd think that the nazi rally is the disturbing thing here, not that a counter-protest turned violent.
The March by Whites to stand up for Whites that are being terrorized by street gangs is called "hate".

Bull#. The nazis weren't standing up for anyone, they're using the 'anti gang violence' theme as a front for their rally. The nazis are not the good guys here.
Nazis are bad people but they proved a pretty big point. although their creeps they didnt go and set houses on fire and bust ambulances windows and rob gas stations

How nice of them. Those nazis sure are good kids, those damned blacks are animals eh?



reply posted on 16-10-2005 @ 10:18 PM by 27jd
Originally posted by Nygdan
They're nazis. Not merely racists or KKKers even, they're nazis, what do you think they are going to do if they ever get in charge??


They're NOT nazis! They're neo-nazis, a bunch of uneducated, redneck punk racist kids of mixed origins who have white skin and stole the nazi symbol for their own little gang . Most of them are not pure aryan and would be put to death under Hitler's plan. They would never be in charge, any more than the bloods or the crips would be. You just don't get it. And I find it pretty funny that you seem to be saying the KKK or even just run of the mill racists are acceptable, when the KKK commited far more violence against blacks than the real nazi party did.


Preposterous. These men are nazis, they aren't some mutant 'nice nazi' version of the party, they've looked at the history of the nazi party and said, 'now these guys knew what to do and had the cojones to do it'.


They didn't look at crap. They're all followers and most of them will grow up, meet a few decent black folks, realize how stupid they were, and feel like idiots that they ever felt the way they did. Once again, they are not part of the nazi party, it has been dead for decades.


The criminals who rioted are far better than the nazis.


Oh, I see, so you are admittedly biased as to which scumbags you approve of, and murderous, drive-by shooting, crack dealing, thieves are okay in Nygdan's book. But misguided young white kids who feel backed into a corner by all the minority gangs and feel the need for safety in numbers, just as the gangs do, deserve to be "clobbered" and shot, because Nygdan can't seem to differentiate between racists who stole a symbol, many of whom are probably jewish, and the extinct nazi party of Germany.


You had stated that 'white people don't riot', which, plainly as evidenced in those cities, is untrue. The people rioting and rampaging there destroyed property and violently clashed with the police.


How many innocent bystanders did they beat nearly to death? How many businesses did they smash into and loot? I guess I should have said that white people don't riot for the same reasons, and in the same manner. It doesn't excuse when they do it, but I'd be willing to bet that in the riots you referred to, the whites wouldn't see a lone black dude, jump him and throw bricks at his head. I'd also be willing to bet they didn't destroy any ambulances coming to assist the wounded. Correct me if I'm wrong.


You don't see anything I do anywhere outside of this board, and we're not even talking about anything outside of this thread, since this thread is about a nazi rally, I'm condemming the nazis.


You've already seemingly stated that gangbangers are okay in your book, or at least they're more okay than neo-nazis. I think they're all scumbags, only the gangstas broke the law, the nazis didn't.
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