RECENT RACIST ACTIVITIES
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018


I THINK WHAT THIS WOMAN HAS TOLD IN HER STATEMENT BELOW ON “WHAT SHE BELIEVES,” IS THE WORST PROBLEM WITH RACISM – IT IS VERY LIMITED IN ITS’ INTEREST AREA. THE NEEDS OF HUMANS ARE SIMPLY UNIMPORTANT TO PEOPLE OF THAT TURN OF MIND. THIS IS WHAT HER ESPOUSED LOYALTIES ARE:
“... our Flag the National Anthem and America period end of story....”

“I KNOW MY POSTS AND COMMENTS WERE DISRESPECTFUL TO NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT I LOVE, BUT FAMILIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY,” SHE WROTE. THE POSTS WERE MADE PUBLIC THIS WEEK AS A RESULT OF “AN ONGOING FAMILY DISPUTE,” MALONEY ADDED.” I HOPE THE FAMILIES SHE IS REFERRING TO HERE ARE PRIMARILY BLACK FAMILIES, BECAUSE WHITES HAVE ONLY BEEN HURT BY THE PUBLIC VIEW THAT FOCUSSES ON SOME OF THEIR OWN WHO ARE INSUFFICIENT TO THE TASK OF HOLDING A PUBLIC OFFICE.

THE SUBJECT OF HER “FAMILY DISPUTE” IS PROBABLY RACE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO DOWNRIGHT NUTTY ABOUT THIS ISSUE? I KNOW. I JUST MADE A “DISTASTEFUL, INAPPROPRIATE AND INSENSITIVE” COMMENT ABOUT ANOTHER OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO SO PROUDLY CALL THEMSELVES “CONSERVATIVE,” WHEN THEY ARE ACTUALLY RADICAL RIGHTISTS INSTEAD. AND THAT UNDERGROUND RUMORING ABOUT A COMING CIVIL WAR EMERGED AGAIN HERE FOR THE THIRD TIME I’VE SEEN IN THESE ARTICLES SINCE I BEGAN DOING THE NEWS CLIPS. THIS TIME IT IS COMING FROM A FEMALE ELECTED REPUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDER, AND IT IS WORRYING EVEN IF IT IS A MINOR OFFICE. THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN SIX OR EIGHT NEWS REPORTS OF A RACIAL OR NEOFASCIST COMMENT BY A REPUBLICAN SINCE TRUMP WAS ELECTED. I DON’T EVER VOTE FOR THEM, BUT IF MY MIND WEREN’T MADE UP, THIS KIND OF THING WOULD CERTAINLY REPEL ME.

https://nypost.com/2018/09/02/gop-official-resigns-after-calling-kneeling-nfl-players-baboons/
NEWS
GOP official resigns after calling kneeling NFL players ‘baboons’
By Tamar Lapin September 2, 2018 | 5:08pm | Updated

PHOTOGRAPH -- NFL players kneel during the national anthem, Getty Images

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A racist Republican county official in Pennsylvania has resigned over social media posts in which she called NFL players who protested by taking a knee during the national anthem “baboons” and “ignorant blacks.”

“Tired of these overpaid ignorant blacks telling me what I should believe in. I will tell you what I believe in and that is our Flag the National Anthem and America period end of story,” Carla Maloney, the ex-Republican Committee of Beaver County’s secretary, wrote on Facebook under the name Carla Belich Fueller, local outlet The Beaver Countian reported.

“You don’t like it here go to Africa see how you like it there. We are all Americans not African American not Hispanic American. WE ARE ALL AMERICAN,” she added.

The racist posts were made before Maloney was named secretary earlier this year, Chip Kohser, chairman of the RCBC, told the Beaver County Times.

Most of the comments were made after many of the Pittsburgh Steelers stayed in their locker room for the anthem before their game on Sept. 24, 2017, Kohser added.

“Steelers are now just as bad as the rest of the overpaid baboons… How many men and women have lost limbs or died to protect this country and you baboons want respect,” she wrote in one post. “Let’s see how the baboons get paid when white people stop paying their salaries.”

In other posts, she complained about “reverse racism” in America and predicted another civil war would break out “soon than later.”

In a letter sent Friday, Maloney resigned as both secretary and an elected member of the committee, and apologized for her “distasteful, inappropriate and insensitive social media posts.”

“I know my posts and comments were disrespectful to not only the people that I love, but families across the country,” she wrote.

The posts were made public this week as a result of “an ongoing family dispute,” Maloney added.

Kohser, the committee chairman, said Maloney’s comments “do not reflect the opinions of the Republican party as a whole” — though he admitted knowing about the posts last year.

The Facebook page that Maloney was commenting on as well as pages under her name were no longer available as of Sunday.

Maloney appeared on CNN’s “Van Jones Show” in July after the host visited to talk to supporters of President Trump. She was identified only as a Trump supporter and not as a county committee officer.



BERNIE SANDERS’ FELLOW SPEAKER FROM LAST WEEK, ANDREW GILLUM, IS UNDER ASSAULT FOR JUST BEING WHO HE IS. WHENEVER A BLACK MAN OR WOMAN GETS RECOGNITION AND SUCCESS, THE HYENAS WILL COME AFTER HIM. THE SAME IS APPARENTLY TRUE FOR ANOTHER DONALD TRUMP VICTIM, JOHN MCCAIN’S DAUGHTER. IF YOU CAN’T GET THE MAN, GO FOR HIS DAUGHTER. WHAT COURAGE THAT TAKES !!

NOTE THE INTERESTING AND FRIGHTENING LINKS BETWEEN THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT FAR RIGHT AND RACIST PEOPLE OR GROUPS HERE WHO ARE, SEEMINGLY, RELATED TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE ROBOCALLS AND MORE. I BELIEVE THAT SINCE A STATE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN TARGETED, THE STORY WILL GROW RATHER THAN DIE. LIKEWISE, I FEEL SURE THAT ANDREW GILLUM WILL NOT ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE INTIMIDATED BY ALL THIS.

THE STATE OF IDAHO MAY BE THE CENTER, BUT IT CONNECTS TO THREE OTHER STATES AS WELL. I WONDER HOW MUCH OF A WEB IS FORMED ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY EVEN MORE OF THESE RIGHTIST RADICALS WHOM WE HAVEN’T YET DISCOVERED. IS IT THE BEGINNINGS OF A REVOLUTION INDEED? THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL NETWORK HERE I THINK, AND NOT JUST INDIVIDUALS, ALTHOUGH SCOTT RHODES IS INVOLVED WITH ALL, AND WAS CAUGHT BY THE POLICE PERSONALLY ON CAMERA DISTRIBUTING RACIST VIDEOS. IF HE HAS BEEN DOING IT ALL, THEN HE MAY NOT HAVE ANY LIEUTENANTS; BUT IF IT HAS ONLY BEEN HIM AT WORK, HE HAS BEEN VERY BUSY.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/03/644292095/florida-election-is-latest-target-of-white-supremacist-robocalls
Florida Election Is Latest Target Of White Supremacist Robocalls
September 3, 20181:57 PM ET
Emily Sullivan

PHOTOGRAPH -- Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for Florida governor, speaks Friday during a campaign rally in Orlando.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Racist robocalls targeting Andrew Gillum, a black Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Florida, went to residents throughout the state recently in an apparent attempt to influence voting.

The 39-year-old Tallahassee mayor and upset candidate is the first black nominee from a major party for Florida governor.

The robocall message, obtained by NPR, is narrated by someone pretending to be Gillum. The narrator uses an exaggerated minstrel dialect — featuring phrases like "We Negros" — with jungle noises in the background. The calls end with a disclaimer that they were paid for by The Road to Power, a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic podcast operated by Scott Rhodes of Idaho.*

In Florida, robocalls supporting or opposing non-federal candidates or ballot proposals need a financial disclaimer — as well as a registered agent in the state, which the Idaho-based calls may not be able to prove. The FCC also says that robocalls must "state clearly the identity of the business, individual, or other entity that is responsible for initiating the call" at the beginning of each message — rather than impersonate someone.

The same group is linked to robocalls sent out last week that used the death of Mollie Tibbetts to promote white supremacist messages, according to the Iowa Starting Line. Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, disappeared on a run in July. Her body was discovered more than a month later. The suspect in her killing is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. The Starting Line reports the call said, "If after her life has now been brutally stolen from her, she could be brought back to life for just one moment and asked, 'What do you think now?' Mollie Tibbetts would say, 'Kill them all.'"

Tibbetts' father Rob Tibbetts wrote an op-ed in the Des Moines Register on Saturday, decrying the right-wing punditry around his daughter's death. "Do not appropriate Mollie's soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist," he wrote.

The same podcast has also been linked to robocall campaigns in Charlottesville, Va., Oregon and California, according to Right Wing Watch. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that calls have previously used "the local area code and prefix followed by a four-digit number associated with neo-Nazi rhetoric."

Over a billion robocalls head to landlines and cellphones every month, reports Planet Money. Many of them appear to be from a line that has the recipient's same area code — but are really scammers or spammers "spoofing" their real number using the Internet. Experts tell NPR that it costs around 1 to 5 cents per call.


SCOTT RHODES OF IDAHO* – WHO HE IS AND HOW HE HAS BEEN SPENDING HIS SPARE TIME. OR MAYBE HIS “BUSINESS” LINKS PEOPLE UP TO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY BUSINESS DEAL. AM I BEING RIDICULOUS? I DON’T THINK SO. READ THE FOLLOWING.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc.

“Murder, Inc. (or Murder Incorporated) were organized crime groups in the 1930s and '40s that acted as the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, Jewish mob, and connected organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere.[1] . . . .”


SCOTT RHODES’ BUSINESS IS A SPECIALIZED PUBLISHING COMPANY WITH AN INTERACTIVE WEB SITE SUPPOSEDLY GIVING INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS DECISIONS. SEE:

http://americandiscoverypublishing.com/contact_us.php
Contact Us
American Discovery Publishing, LLC
131 A Stony Circle, Suite 500
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(800) 817-7415

“In a marketplace filled with unverified claims, American Discovery Publishing provides private and corporate consumers with accurate, on-target shopping information. The Web-based information products that we publish are constantly researched and updated to provide buyers with the right information to evaluate products and services. Our mission is to provide the most valuable and relevant product and service information for local consumer and corporate buyers.”

SCOTT RHODES AND SCOTT PLATEK ARE ONE AND THE SAME MAN, WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN FOUR US STATES OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR MORE LINKED TO DISTRIBUTING HATE LITERATURE. THAT IS HARDLY THE PROFILE FOR A JEWISH MAN SINCE ANTI-SEMITISM IS A BASIC PART OF THEIR RANGE OF ATTENTION, BUT ACCORDING TO SPLC AND POLICE AUTHORITIES HE IS LINKED WITH SEVERAL SUCH INCIDENTS.

HE WOULD APPEAR TO BE A POLISH JEW BY ORIGIN, WHO HAS TAKEN AN AMERICANIZED NAME. THE REVERSE OF THAT WOULDN’T MAKE MUCH SENSE TO ME. I DO WONDER WHERE HE WAS BORN AND WHETHER HE OR HIS FAMILY CHANGED THEIR NAME UNDER NAZI PRESSURE; OR PERHAPS MORE LIKELY HE HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD SOMEWHERE UNDER PLATEK. WHICHEVER IS TRUE, IT’S UNUSUAL FOR A JEWISH BORN MAN TO BE A MEMBER OF A WHITE SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS. WHEN I SEARCHED THE NAME PLATEK I FOUND LITTLE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EXCEPT FOR A SITE WHICH DID SAY THAT IT’S A JEWISH NAME, AND ANOTHER WITH A MAP OF CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS WORLEDWIDE. FOR THAT GO TO: https://surname.world/platek, WITH POLAND AND THE USA/ALASKA HAVING THE HIGHEST NUMBERS.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/12/hate-literature-connection-between-idaho-and-virginia
Hate literature connection between Idaho and Virginia
January 12, 2018
Bill Morlin

Police in Sandpoint, Idaho, and Alexandria, Virginia — communities 2,000 miles apart — have identified the same person of interest in the distribution of hate flyers and harassing phone calls.

Although the distribution of flyers and hate speech generally are protected by the 1st Amendment, police are taking an interest because, in both cities, the racist, anti-Semitic literature targeted elected officials and human rights activists.

Hate flyers in Alexandria began appearing last year shortly after white nationalist and “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer was confronted by a Georgetown University professor and later kicked out a fitness center in that community. The professor’s photo subsequently was printed on the hate flyers.

Later, Alexandria’s Mayor Allison Silberberg and several City Council members began receiving racist, anti-Semitic phone calls, the Sandpoint Reader reports. The alternative weekly newspaper first broke the story about the connection between hate incidents in the two cities.

In Sandpoint, photos of the city’s mayor and the president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force were included in hate flyers distributed there last year. Variations of hate handbills were distributed on the front lawns of homes and others were sent via U.S. Mail and email to targeted recipients, police said.

In Alexandria, the mayor received a telephone recording, later determined to be the voice of Adolf Hitler. Police reports say that call subsequently was linked to a Sandpoint business called American Discovery Publishing, linked to Scott D. Rhodes.

SCOTT D. RHODES

When Alexandria police called the number, they were told they had “reached the desk of Scott Rhodes.” Other phone listings further connected the number to Rhodes, the Reader reported.

Alexandria police forwarded to Sandpoint police “copies of several anti-Semitic [and] nuclear weapon flyers” and a handwritten note sent to a public official which said, “You ran a town where they fuck dogs with broomsticks? Get ready for your bombs! We are coming.”

The Alexandria hate flyers varied in style and content from those distributed in Sandpoint. Authorities did not disclose if the same racist groups were identified in both batches.

Rhodes, 48, also is known as Scott Platek, was identified by Sandpoint police after his red Jeep was spotted on surveillance video at the Sandpoint High School on November 30. At the school, police recovered 56 CDs containing racist, anti-Semitic material, according to police reports.

Rhodes, who’s apparently from Connecticut, has lived in Eugene, Oregon, San Francisco, Rohnert Park, California, and Los Angeles. He has no known criminal record. While using the name Scott Platek, he was named in state and federal tax liens filed in California, public records show.

After the CD distribution was captured on video, the Sandpoint School District obtained a trespass order against Rhodes, barring him from school property for one year.

When the order was delivered to Rhodes at a small business suite in Sandpoint, where he apparently operates a publishing business, he denied being involved in distributing the hate CDs or the other literature, the police reports say.

“We have you on camera … getting out [of your Jeep] and putting CDs on several cars,” a Sandpoint police officer told Rhodes.

“No, I don’t think you do, not me,” Rhodes responded, according to a publicly released Sandpoint Police Department report.

“I’d be happy to take your number and have my attorney call you,” Rhodes told the police officers.

“We know it’s you,” a second officer told Rhodes. “We’ve had you on our radar. OK? We know you’ve been handing out the flyers, putting them on the lawns. We know you went to the school. We got you on video … your Jeep, your license plate number.”


SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=PLvY9bdXHfk&has_verified=1
VIDEO -- HATE RISING : White Supremacy in America



THERE IS A NEED TO MODIFY THE CONSTITUTION TO PROHIBIT RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF STALKING, THREATS AND HARASSMENT AS WE FINALLY DID SOME 20 YEARS AGO IN THE CASE OF SEXUAL STALKING AND THREATS. THIS IS AN ATTACK. WORDS ARE MORE THAN MERE SOUND. THEY ARE MEANING, IN THIS CASE SAID WITH THE AIM OF FRIGHTENING THE VICTIM AT THE VERY LEAST, AND THE FORERUNNER TO A PHYSICAL ATTACK AT THE WORST.

INTERESTINGLY, THIS MAN REPEAT’S TRUMP’S SLY CLAIM THAT THE THINGS HE HAS BEEN CONNECTED WITH “ARE NOT CRIMES.” RUDY JULIANI SAID THE SAME THING. WE NEED TO MAKE MORE OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE CLEARLY EVIL, INTO CRIMES. SO MUCH THAT HAPPENS IN THIS COUNTRY IS NEVER PUNISHED – DEPENDING OFTEN ON THE IDENTITIES OF THE VICTIM AND THE PERPETRATOR. AGAIN, I’LL SAY, IT’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TIME.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/14/sandpoint-racist-flyer-suspect-identified/
NEWS
CRIME/PUBLIC SAFETY
Sandpoint racist flyer suspect identified
UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 16, 2018, 4:41 p.m.

By Chad Sokol
chadso@spokesman.com
(509) 459-5047

PHOTOGRAPH-- Scott Rhodes, left, speaks with Sandpoint police Officer Spencer Smith and Detective Mike Aerni, right, on Dec. 1, 2017. Police say Rhodes was captured on surveillance video the previous day distributing racist propaganda CDs at Sandpoint High School. (Sandpoint Police Department)

For more than a year, Sandpoint has been plagued by racist propaganda, including flyers targeting city leaders, CDs left on cars in a high school parking lot and anonymous letters mailed to minorities.

Police now believe they have found a man responsible for some of that, although it’s unlikely the hateful speech will get him charged with a crime.

The same man, Scott D. Rhodes, also has captured the interest of police in Alexandria, Virginia, a home base of influential white supremacist Richard Spencer.

Alexandria investigators asked Sandpoint police for help after Alexandria city leaders began receiving threatening, anti-Semitic phone calls last fall, according to a Sandpoint police report. Investigators determined that one of those calls was a recording of Adolf Hitler and traced the phone number to Rhodes and one of his Idaho-registered business entities.

The Alexandria Police Department’s public information office did not respond to a message seeking comment on Friday, but a spokeswoman told the Sandpoint Reader, an alternative weekly magazine, that the agency was looking into harassing phone calls made to Alexandria Mayor Allison Silberberg and several City Council members.

The Spokesman-Review contacted Rhodes by phone, and he responded in an email. He claimed he had been targeted by local media and “extreme leftists” because of his opposition to refugee settlement in North Idaho and said he might try to sue them for libel. He did not explicitly deny making a call to Virginia.

“There has been an outrageous attempt by two small town papers to mislead readers to infer that I have something to do with actual crimes,” he wrote. “Further, a single phone call to a public office holder, if truly made from my shared offices as alleged, is not a crime if the content was as they describe.”

Rhodes did not respond to a list of specific questions about his involvement in racist propaganda in Sandpoint, much of which has targeted Mayor Shelby Rognstad.

[NOTE: SEE http://www.khq.com/story/35137898/sandpoint-mayor-responds-to-hateful-flyers-distributed-around-bonner-county. YES, SHELBY IS A MAN, AND HE IS ALSO BLACK AND LIBERAL. NO WONDER HE HAS BEEN TARGETED.]

During his 2015 election campaign, robocalls branded Rognstad as a feminist who would purge blue-collar white people from the city. And an email distributed in September showed Rognstad in a Nazi gas chamber with the cartoon Pepe the Frog – a caricature that has become a white supremacist symbol – manning the switch.

Other mailings have targeted Muslims, African Americans, local journalists and members of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force.

Ben Olson, publisher of the Sandpoint Reader, said the onslaught is different from the rise of the Aryan Nations in the ’80s and ’90s, when racist leaders like Richard Butler were outspoken and unabashed.

“It’s a little different thing when you have somebody operating under the cover of night,” Olson said. “It’s created a lot of division and a lot of fear in the community.”

Cameron Rasmusson, the magazine’s editor, said, “I think that a lot of people are really happy that some answers may be coming to light.”

Banned from schools

Sandpoint police say Rhodes, 49, was captured on surveillance video pulling into the parking lot of Sandpoint High School and leaving CDs on the windshields of 56 vehicles on Nov. 30. Each disc was in a protective sleeve labeled “What They Are Hiding From You” and promoted a website that traffics in racism and far-right conspiracies.

The next day, School Resource Officer Spencer Smith and Detective Mike Aerni confronted Rhodes at his office in Sandpoint. Body-camera footage of the encounter was obtained through public records requests and published by the Sandpoint Reader and the Bonner County Daily Bee.

During the encounter, Smith informed Rhodes that police had him on video visiting the school parking lot in his red Jeep and distributing the CDs.

“No, I don’t think you do,” Rhodes responded. “Not me.”

He repeatedly told the police any questions would have to go through his attorney.

During the exchange, the officers informed Rhodes that he also is suspected in a rash of a racist flyers and emails that have been circulating in Sandpoint.

“We know that it’s you,” Aerni said. “We’ve had you on our radar. We know you’ve been handing out the flyers, putting them on the lawns. We know you went to the school. Got you on video.”

Rhodes was insistent. “I’ve never handed out flyers,” he said, “so I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Rhodes is not charged with any crime, as hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. But the police informed him that, per the request of the superintendent, he is banned from all Lake Pend Oreille School District properties for one year. If he sets foot on school grounds, he can be arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge.

In his email to The Spokesman-Review, Rhodes wrote, “The issue the very professional Sandpoint Police Department spoke to me about was not a crime, and I stand by what I have already stated to them.”

Months of harassment

One evening last summer, Lee Hardin, a black man, was returning to his car in front of a sandwich shop in downtown Sandpoint with carryout from a nearby Thai restaurant in hand.

A red Jeep had been parked beside his car, and the driver was making a three-point turn to leave.

“As he pulled off, he screamed the N-word at me,” Hardin, 43, recalled in a recent interview. “I turned around and was like, ‘What?’ ”

Hardin said he shouted back, and the driver repeated the slur while speeding away. “And then I was looking, trying to get his license plate, but I never got it.”

Hardin didn’t immediately report that incident to police. But soon afterward, in mid-August, he held a grand opening for his mortgage-lending business and a photo of him appeared in the Daily Bee.

Soon after that, anonymous letters started arriving at his office in intervals of about a week.

Hardin said each envelope had “weird” handwriting on it and contained a single letter on a sticker one might buy from a stationery or craft store.

The first was an “N,” the second an “I,” the third a “G,” and so forth until the letters spelled out the same racial slur. Hardin was on vacation in Hawaii when his business partner texted him a photo of the last letter to arrive, an “R.”

It didn’t stop there. Around the beginning of November, Hardin said, he began receiving catalogs and magazines addressed to “Stu Pidkune*.”
[*THE GIST OF THIS IS CLEAR, BUT RHODES IS THE STUPID ONE. HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO SPELL HIS SLUR PROPERLY.]

Hardin said he’s sure the letters and the magazines all came from the same person because each misspelled the name of his business. It’s Guaranteed Rate – singular – not Guaranteed Rates.

He turned over all the materials to Sandpoint police and asked the letter carrier to stop delivering all magazines.

According to a police report and court records, a detective showed Hardin a photo lineup, including body-camera images from a July 25 traffic stop in which Scott Rhodes was pulled over in a red Jeep.

Hardin said he’s almost certain Rhodes was the man who shouted at him outside the sandwich shop. And he has little doubt Rhodes sent all those letters and magazines.

Hardin moved to Sandpoint from Chicago in 2007 and lives with his wife and their 2-year-old son. He said he had never experienced such racism in Sandpoint before, and his family has received an outpouring of support from the community.

“I’m not going to let that jade my outlook on the people in this community, because I know it’s just a couple of ignorant idiots that are spewing this hateful information,” he said. “I’m not going to let that run me away.”

Strange retaliation

Rhodes, who is also known as Scott Platek, has lived in Connecticut, Oregon and California, where a number of state and federal tax liens were lodged against him in the 1990s and early 2000s.

He appears to have moved to Sandpoint about two years ago. He was listed as the registered agent for American Discovery Publishing based in Santa Rosa, California. The business was registered in Idaho from May 2016 until its license was canceled in August 2017.

According to its bare-bones website, American Discovery Publishing specializes in “timely and relevant consumer research.” A toll-free number listed on the site repeatedly led to an answering machine, and a message was not returned.

Dates and times on the report were redacted, but Alexandria police Sgt. Wil Salas contacted Sandpoint police late last year. Sandpoint Detective Eric Ryan wrote that Salas emailed him copies of “several anti-semitic/nuclear weapon fliers and a handwritten note” that had appeared in Alexandria.

The note contained a vulgar reference to bestiality, followed by a threat: “Get ready for your bombs! We are coming.”

Ryan wrote that the flyers were not the same as those being distributed in Sandpoint and that the handwriting in the letter did not match the writing on the envelopes addressed to Hardin.

Olson, the Sandpoint Reader publisher, who doubles as a reporter, said he had made several trips to Rhodes’ office to inquire about the CDs, the harassment of Hardin and the call to Virginia, but Rhodes declined to comment each time.

“He said he didn’t want to talk,” Olson said, recalling a visit last month. He said he was able to give a business card to Rhodes, and then, “He kind of shut the door in my face.”

The day after Christmas, Olson received an anonymous card with a bizarre message written on it, and he assumed it came from Rhodes. He said he and magazine editor Rasmusson are trying to discern if Rhodes has any connection to Richard Spencer, Spencer’s think tank in Alexandria or any other sizable racist organizations.

“That’s the one question for me,” Olson said. “He’s being instructed to do that by somebody, it seems. I think it’s pretty weird that Scott Rhodes, here in Sandpoint, Idaho, seems to have a connection to that.”

Olson said he believes that racists make up a tiny yet vocal fraction of the Sandpoint community.

“Sandpoint has no place for racism,” he said.

Correction: This story was changed on Jan. 16, 2018. A previous version misstated when Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad was the target of racist robocalls. The story also has been updated to clarify Scott Rhodes’ affiliation with American Discovery Publishing.

UPDATED: JAN. 16, 2018, 4:41 P.M.

Tags: alexandria, Ben Olson, Flyers, Propaganda, racist, Richard Spencer, Sandpoint, scott d. rhodes, Shelby Rognstad, Virginia


“THE ROAD TO POWER” – NOT RACIALLY CHARGED? WHAT ABOUT HAM-HANDED COMMENTARY, THEN? I GREW UP IN THE SOUTH, TOO, AND I’VE NEVER HEARD THAT PHRASE. WHAT I HAVE HEARD IS “MUCK IT UP.” I THINK THOSE FINE REPUBLICANS ARE JUST TRYING TO DODGE A BULLET.

Episode 789: Robocall Invasion
PLANET MONEY (NPR)

Last week, GOP Florida gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis was criticized for comments some said amounted to racist dog whistling. "Let's build off the success of Gov. Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda," DeSantis said. A spokesperson for the candidate later said the comments were not racially charged.

Gillum told CNN he "will continue to focus solely on the issues that Floridians care about and uniting our state." A spokesperson for DeSantis said the calls were "absolutely appalling and disgusting."

"What I don't want the race to turn into is a race of name calling," he continued. "I want to make sure that we don't racialize and, frankly, weaponize race as a part of the process, which is why I have called on my opponent to really work to rise above some of these things."


WHAT IS THE ROAD TO POWER?

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/230131/the-road-to-power-by-karl-kautsky/9781573924788/
The Road to Power
By KARL KAUTSKY
Category: Philosophy

ABOUT THE ROAD TO POWER

The Road to Power was a highly controversial political pamphlet published in 1909—an important document for the understanding of the Wilhelmine Empire and especially of the German Social Democratic Party and Kautsky’s role in it—and it was Kautsky’s last major attack on the revisionists’ hope for a gradual “growth in socialism” without any drastic changes in the political order. To this, Kautsky opposed his view of the political revolution that he hoped for and predicted as the achievement of parliamentary democracy and of working-class power through parliamentary majority. He believed that the initial democratization of the autocratic empire could be realized peacefully by electoral victories and trade-union political action.

The present edition contains an excellent new translation of Kautsky’s text; a scholarly introduction by John H. Kautsky; the author’s prefaces to three German editions; and the correspondence concerning Kautsky’s conflict with the Social Democratic Party’s Executive Committee regarding publication of his work.


WILHELMINE EMPIRE

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=65
Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
INTRODUCTION | DOCUMENTS | IMAGES | MAPS | EDITOR

Overview: Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914

No period of modern German history has inspired as much controversy as the era bounded by Otto von Bismarck's dismissal from power in March 1890 and the outbreak of war in 1914. During the interwar period, Imperial Germany was the focus of the debate over the origins of the Great War. After 1945, the issue became the place of the German Empire in the historical trajectory towards Nazism. By the 1970s, it had become common to trace the roots of the Third Reich directly back to the manifold tensions and contradictions of Imperial Germany.


I THINK WE SHOULD START CALLING “STAND YOUR GROUND” THE WILD, WILD WEST LAW. MAYBE IT’S JUST BECAUSE OF WHERE I LIVE IN JACKSONVILLE, BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT THREATENED. OF COURSE, I HAVEN’T BEEN GOING AROUND VERBALLY ACCOSTING PEOPLE OVER PARKING SPACES, EITHER, HANDICAPPED OR OTHERWISE. THIS GUY ISN’T SHOWING MUCH OF A CONSCIENCE, AND HE REALLY “HAS A BEE IN HIS BONNET” ABOUT THE HANDICAPPED PARKING SPOTS. THERE HAVE BEEN THREE OTHER INCIDENTS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN CAUGHT DOING THAT SAME SORT OF VERBAL ASSAULT. STRANGE.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-stand-your-ground-shooting-michael-drejka-says-he-wouldnt-change-shooting-markeis-mcglockton/
By ALEX SUNDBY CBS NEWS September 3, 2018, 10:58 AM
Gunman in Florida "stand your ground" shooting says he wouldn't change what he did

A white man facing criminal charges for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in a Florida convenience store's parking lot told CBS affiliate WTSP-TV he wouldn't change what he did but apologized to the dead man's family. Michael Drejka initially wasn't arrested for killing Markeis McGlockton in July because of the state's controversial "stand your ground" law.

Surveillance video shows Drejka appearing to yell at McGlockton's girlfriend for parking in a handicapped spot. McGlockton then shoves Drejka to the ground.

From the ground, Drejka pulls out his gun and shoots McGlockton. "I've had plenty of time to think about it, but as far as changing anything as events ... I don't see, I really, no, not off the top of my head," Drejka told WTSP-TV in an interview at the Pinellas County Jail on Friday.

Drejka was charged with manslaughter nearly a month after the shooting and is being held on $100,000 bond. Florida's "stand your ground" law allows people to use deadly force when fearing "imminent death or great bodily harm" without a duty to try to escape the danger.

"I was very scared," Drejka told WTSP-TV. "I've never been confronted like that or never been assaulted like that, if you will, ever ... It felt like I was tackled or someone hit me from behind with something. I left my feet and slid along the ground before I was able to- but, yes, I was stunned, yeah."

Drejka said he's not a racist and apologized to McGlockton's family. "I'm sorry," Drejka said.

"It's all I can really say to them, and thinking about it would you accept those kind of words from someone? I don't think I would."

Drejka said the way handicapped parking spots are "abused" has been a sensitive issue for him. He described his deceased high school sweetheart and his mother-in-law as handicapped.

"It's always been a hotbed for me," Drejka said. "My whole life has always been looking for a handicapped parking spot, and it's always touched a nerve with me because of the way they're abused and used."

Authorities have said in court documents that Drejka has been in confrontations with three other drivers. Two motorists accused Drejka of waving a gun at them, and a truck driver accused Drejka of threatening to shoot him for parking in the same handicapped parking spot as McGlockton's girlfriend three months before the July shooting.

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