The Year in Hate

Number of Hate Groups Tops 900

As in recent years, hate groups were animated by the national immigration debate. But two new forces also drove them in 2008: the worsening recession, and Barack Obama's successful campaign to become the nation's first black president. Officials reported that Obama had received more threats than any other presidential candidate in memory, and several white supremacists were arrested for saying they would assassinate him or allegedly plotting to do so. Full Story »

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Gregory Kruse
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by Gregory Kruse - Mar. 3, 2009

As an intelligence report it is hard to find fault. Behind the report is a courageous reporter and behind him, the courageous defenders of human rights, including the officials of the SPLC. It shouldn't be surprising that there are hate groups in the world, given the fact that the world itself is a vicious place. The surprising thing is that there are so many people who are struggling to establish a new kind of world in which terror, hatred, and viciousness have all but died out. The only way this could possibly be done is for those who hope for that kind of world to face the danger, experience the terror, and feed the "good wolves" of our nature by supporting groups like the SPLC. This report and the illustration that goes with it helps me to do just that, but I hope I never come face-to-face with one or more of those hateful people.

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