Subject: Hate and Extremist Groups

• The Pitch: Now Klan-Free

  October 5, 2007

• Trouble at the Uptown

  December 13, 2007

• Foundation of Roeder's anti-government beliefs explained

  Writing at the Huffington Post, author and Kansas City resident Leonard Zeskind describes the origins and tenants of the Freeman, an anti-government movement with which Scott Roeder, the suspected murderer of abortion provider George Tiller, felt a connection.The author of the new book Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, Zeskind explains that the being a Freeman consists of more than just an aversion to taxes and registering vehic

  June 2, 2009

• A Story Every KC Punk Should Read

  Recently, our sister publication, The Riverfront Times, ran a cool and interesting feature by writer Ben Westhoff on the Missouri Ozark punk scene in the early 90s and thereabouts. Titled "Anarchy in the Ozarks: Who'd have guessed there used to be a hardcore punk scene in the backwaters of Missouri?" , the story tells of the (mis)adventures of bands such as U$MC and the Ded Bugs in towns like Springfield and Joplin and at places like the Looney Bin and the Commercial Club. If those names mean an

  January 23, 2009

• Best Reading by an Author We Want to Hang Out With

  October 9, 2003

• Kansan: UG Commissioner calls Star reporter a 'Klansman'

  Mark WiebeI've met The Kansas City Star's Mark Wiebe. He covers the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities, and he does a pretty good job. He's hammered the BPU in his columns -- and rightfully so. Wiebe seems like a pretty good guy, so I'm shocked why anyone -- let alone a Unified Government commissioner -- would call him a "Klansman."  But the Kansas City Kansan reported today that UG Commissioner Nathan Barnes labeled Wiebe a Klansman in front of a couple of reporters at a meetin

  March 10, 2009

• Not Exactly Skinhead Spam

  May 18, 2006

• Highway patrol to libertarians: We're sorry

  Bob Barr = Not a terrorist after allNo sooner did I finish writing about the controversy surrounding a Fusion Center report linking Libertarians to extremist groups, the issue has apparently been resolved. According to a new release from the Missouri Libertarian Party this morning, the director of the Department of Public Safety issued a contrite statement apologizing for the political group's inclusion in a law enforcement backgrounder on militant separatists. Read the statement after the jump.

  March 24, 2009

• Scott Wenzel, Knoxville, Maryland

  November 30, 2006

• Bye-bye, Bear

  May 10, 2007

• Hate-watch group tried to bump Kris Kobach from congressional testimony

  Kris KobachLast year, officials from the Missouri State Highway Patrol received training from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gave them the authority to conduct immigration investigations and detain undocumented migrants. Where do local cops get off executing immigration law? Well, in 1996 Congress passed a law with a provision called 287(g) that opened the door for county and state officials to take a class, sign an agreement and essentially become a local arm of ICE. That progra

  April 7, 2009

• Who says public officials won’t say what they’re really thinking?

  March 19, 2009

• My Secret Life in the Klan

  A voyage into hate groups reveals a lonely existence for those who support all things white.

  September 27, 2007

• Springfield Nazis get punked by the Jewish Community Relations Bureau

  via the Springfield News-Leaderfrom an NSM siteThe Springfield, Missouri, chapter of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, thought it would be cute to adopt a section of highway along West Bypass between Sunshine and Farm Road 142. MoDOT allowed them to put up a sign along the road bearing the group's name, and members posed with it, Seig Heil-ing and whatnot (pictured). Afterward, they went home, put on their swastika-print jammies and drifted off to thumb-sucking sleep, sec

  June 3, 2009

• Springtime for Hitler

  What, you’d expect visiting Nazis to have dinner at a barbecue joint?

  May 12, 2005

• The Converted

  Francine Prose waxes poetic about the human condition.

  April 7, 2005

• White Open Spaces

  What’s the matter with Kansas? Nothing, if yer a self-lovin’ he-man.

  March 10, 2005

• All's FAIR

  Kris Kobach loads up with anti-immigration ammo.

  September 23, 2004

• Hard Cell

  The feds want to bring down a deadly prison gang, and crimes in Leavenworth are exhibit A.

  April 29, 2004

• He Speaketh

  Bryan Brown decides to talk.

  May 15, 2003

• Nuclear Waste

  It's up to Ben Affleck to save the world, and that's The Sum of All Fears.

  May 30, 2002

• AC Blows Hot Air

  Anal Cunt's pitch-black satire can be difficult to digest.

  June 7, 2001

• Bona Fide

  Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer.

  January 11, 2001

• Skin deep

  Following another successful Streetpunk festival, the event's organizer describes how he continues to battle the public's misperceptions about skinheads.

  June 8, 2000

• StreetPunk 2000: The Midwest Oi! Fest

  El Torreon -- Saturday, May 27, 2000

  June 1, 2000

• Social Alarm

  May 21, 2009

• Ronald Reagan's 'Backdoor Socialism': Studies in Crap reveals The Counterfeit Candidate

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​The Counterfeit CandidateAuthor: Kent H. SteffgenPublisher: National Issues, Las VegasDate: 1976Discovered at: Mission Hills estate saleThe Cover Promises: "Legalized abortion, forced school bussing, women's lib, sex education in the schools, freeing of the criminal, overtaxation, doubl

  July 30, 2009