Heather Heyer’s death in the middle of the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, may be getting national attention at the moment, but her murder by a Nazi-loving extremist is just the latest in a string of attacks and murders that mark the rising violence of American fascists.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, two tech engineers from India, liked to go to a bar in Olathe, Kan., after work. One evening there in February, they encountered Adam W. Purinton, a 51-year-old white man, who questioned their immigration status and hurled racial slurs at them. ...
Mr. Purinton was kicked out of the bar but came back a short time later, angry and armed. He shot both men and then shot another man, Ian Grillot, who tried to catch him.
These aren’t personal disputes. They’re not robberies gone wrong or arguments that got out of hand. They are planned attacks based on the idea of killing blacks, immigrants, and Muslims. And they’re the biggest terrorist threat to Americans of all races over the last 16 years.
In addition to the assaults and murders that are happening, the FBI and other agencies have stopped several attacks by white extremists before they could complete their racist plans. But extremists aren’t backing away. In fact, the fascist response to Charlottesville … is to plan more Charlottesvilles. Because they think the violence and death in Charlottesville was just great.
Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda following the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured
Murders by white extremists are happening across America.
James Harris Jackson, a white man, traveled from Baltimore to New York City in March with the goal of killing black men, investigators said. Soon after he arrived, he fatally stabbed one, Timothy Caughman, 66, with a sword in Midtown Manhattan. ...
Jeremy Joseph Christian flew into a rage when he saw a young woman in a hijab on a commuter train in Portland, Ore., and began yelling anti-Muslim insults at her and her friend. When other passengers intervened, he pulled out a knife and slashed their throats.
And American Nazis are planning to bring more hate and violence to cities and towns across the country.
The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose appearances sometimes stoke unrest, is seeking permission to speak there next month. …
A neo-Confederate group has asked the state of Virginia for permission to rally at a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond on Sept. 16, and other events are likely.
And the West Coast is far from immune.
With violence sparked by neo-Nazis in Virginia raising tensions across the U.S., white nationalists are planning rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley later this month.
The chaos, injuries, assaults, and murder that the world witnessed in Charlottesville are exactly what these extremists want. They’re trying to create an atmosphere that allows them to spread blame—as in Donald Trump’s “many sides” statements—to justify state-sponsored violence to augment their movement.
Heimbach, who said he was pepper-sprayed during the melee in Charlottesville, called the event Saturday "an absolute stunning victory" for the far right because of the large number of supporters who descended on the city to decry plans to remove a statue of Lee.
Hundreds of white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and others were involved, by some estimates, in what Heimbach, leader of the Traditionalist Workers Party, called the nation's biggest such event in a decade or more.
The violence of Charlottesville has the smell of blood in the air, and the Nazis really, really like it.
A neo-Nazi website that helped promote the gathering said there will be more events soon.
"We are going to start doing this nonstop. Across the country," said the site, which internet domain host GoDaddy said it was shutting down after it mocked the woman killed in Charlottesville.