So jury deliberations in the Derek Chauvin trial start April 19, do they?
... that’s quite the unfortunate date.
I’m going to just put in a small request for the federal government to hold off on all “Anglo-Saxon” KKKaucus announcements, statements on proposed gun control measures, appointments of Waco veterans to ATF, and so on and so forth until May.
[can’t blame a girl for asking.]
April 19-20 are dates of some relatively key significance on the calendar of white people violence.
One of my favorite @LA_Kings_67 stories from his Neo-Nazi Nonsense days is how he assaulted a cop — so the police department (his words) “kindly invited me to leave the county and never come back."
We just found a 1985 letter from his probation officer and it’s hilaaaaarious.
Failure to report will “result in your being brought back to Trinity County. You don’t want this and neither do I, but I don’t have a choice in the matter and you do.”
Best part?
@LA_Kings_67 is Facebook friends with that cop now.
No joke, you should follow @LA_Kings_67 (for many reasons - I’m biased, but still).
His Neo-Nazi Nonsense stories are MODERN CLASSICS of the genre.
Did I ever tell you the one about the Aryan Nations Pastor and the Neo-Nazi lawyer who have been suing the absolute shit out of each other for the whoooooole past decade (over what, I still can’t really tell)?
Because THIS one is...a thing to behold.
This might be my favorite legal document of all time.
“THE BIBLICAL & MORAL CASE FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF LAKE COUNTY OHIO AND, IF NECESSARY, OF THE STATE OF OHIO”
[the county isn’t even the party he’s counter-suing.]
Anti-racists have such conflicting attitudes over former Neo Nazis and ex fascists.
I’ve been die-hard, actively anti my whole life, targeted personally since I was a kid, etc., so I understand much of the skepticism and cynicism, but —
I want to say something real quick.
Some of the most committed, generous, and helpful people fighting white supremacy today ARE formers.
Yes, treat disavowal / disengagement claims with caution, demand accountability in word as well as action, and no one is required to forgive, but know this:
I often see all formers treated as:
1) inherently untrustworthy and beyond redemption even if their help is accepted
2) scientific “specimens” by researchers and academics - like their sole purpose is to be studied as useful oddities