Active U.S. Hate Groups
Hate group activities can include criminal (illegal) acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. Websites appearing to be merely the work of a single individual, rather than the publication of a group, are not included in this list. Listing here does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.
Definitions Of Terrorism
Wikipedia; “
Domestic terrorism in the
United States between 1980 and 2000 consisted of incidents confirmed as or suspected to be
terrorist acts. These attacks are considered domestic because they were carried out by U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.
[1]
The statutory definition of domestic terrorism in the United States has changed many times over the years; also, it can be argued that acts of domestic terrorism have been occurring since long before any legal definition was set forth.
FBI Definition Of Terrorist
According to a
memo produced by the FBI’s Terrorist Research and Analytical Center in 1994,
domestic terrorism was defined as “the unlawful use of force or violence, committed by a group(s) of two or more individuals, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”[2]
USA PATRIOT ACT Definition Of Terrorist
Under current United States law, set forth in the USA PATRIOT Act, acts of domestic terrorism are those which: “(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.“
[3]
Christian – Anti-abortion Violence
Anti-abortion violence, considered a form of terrorism, is often committed in the United States against individuals and organizations that provide
abortions or
abortion counseling. Incidents have included crimes against people, such as murder, assault, kidnapping, and stalking; crimes affecting both people and property, such as arson or bombing; and property crimes such as vandalism. Perpetrators may defend their actions as necessary to protect fetuses, and are often motivated by their Christian beliefs, leading to anti-abortion violence’s identification as
Christian terrorism; it is also associated with
opposition to women’s rights.
Notable incidents of anti-abortion violence include the murders of a number of doctors and clinic staff in the 1990s.
In 1994,
Paul Jennings Hill shot Dr.
John Britton and clinic escort James Barrett to death, also wounding Barrett’s wife June;
John Salvi shot and killed two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols.
As well,
Scott Roeder shot and killed Dr.
George Tiller in 2009 as Tiller served as an usher at church; he had previously been a target in 1993, when he was shot by
Shelley Shannon. The
Army of God, an underground terrorist organization, has been responsible for a substantial amount of anti-abortion violence, including a number of the above murders.
Anarchist – Eco-Terrorism
According to the FBI in June 2008, eco-terrorists and extreme animal rights activists represent “one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today”. They committed over 2,000 crimes and caused over $110 million in damages since 1979, against targets including lumber companies, animal testing facilities and genetic research firms.
[4]
Anarchist – Animal Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a name used internationally by activists who engage in
direct action against persons and/or organizations that the activists perceive are harming animals. This includes removing animals from laboratories and fur farms, and sabotaging facilities involved in animal testing and other animal-based industries. According to ALF statements, any act that furthers the cause of animal liberation, where all reasonable precautions are taken not to endanger life, may be claimed as an ALF action. The group is listed by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security as a domestic terrorist organization.
Anarchist – Alpha 66 and Omega 7
Alpha 66 (still existent) and
Omega 7 (now defunct) were two affiliated
Cuban exile action groups who have carried out many bombings and acts of sabotage. While many of these attacks have historically been directed at
Cuba and the
Castro government, many of them occurred domestically, especially during the period of Cuba-US diplomacy and negotiations in the 1970s known as “el Diálogo” (the dialogue) when powerful anti-Castro figures in Miami attempted to terrorize those in their community who favored a more moderate approach.
Luciano Nieves, for instance, was killed for advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba. WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian lost his legs in a car bomb after he publicly condemned Cuban exile violence. These cases of terrorism were documented extensively in the book
Miami by
Joan Didion. Human Rights Watch released a report in 1992 in which they claimed that the more extreme exiles have created a political environment in Miami where “moderation can be a dangerous position.”
Christian – Army of God
The Army of God (AOG)
[5] is a loose network of individuals and groups connected by ideological affinity and the determination to use force to end abortion in the United States. Acts of
anti-abortion violence increased in the mid-1990s culminating in a series of bombings by
Eric Robert Rudolph, whose targets included two abortion clinics, a gay and lesbian night club, and the
1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Letters sent to newspapers claim responsibility for the bombing of the abortion clinics in the name of the Army of God.
Christian – Aryan Nations
Anarchist – Black Liberation Army
A splinter group made up of the more radical members of the
Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army (BLA) sought to overthrow the US government in the name of racial separatism and Marxist ideals. The
Fraternal Order of Police blames the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers. According to a
Justice Department report on BLA activity, the group was suspected of involvement in over 60 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1980.
Christian – Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was a radical
Christian Identity organization formed in 1971 in the small community of Elijah in southern Missouri, United States.
Anarchist – Earth Liberation Front
Jewish Defense League
Christian – Ku Klux Klan
Communist – May 19th Communist Organization
The May 19 Coalition (also variously referred to as the May 19 Communist Coalition, May 19 Communist Organization, and various alternatives of M19CO), was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the
Weather Underground Organization. The group was originally known as the
New Yorkchapter of the
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), an organization devoted to legally promoting the causes of the Weather Underground.
This was part of Prairie Fire Manifesto change in Weather Underground Organization strategy, which demanded both aboveground mass and clandestine organizations. The role of the clandestine organization would be to build the “consciousness of action” and prepare the way for the development of a people’s militia. Concurrently, the role of the mass movement (i.e., above ground Prairie Fire Collective) would include support for, and encouragement of, armed action. Such an alliance would, according to Weather, “help create the ‘sea’ for the guerrillas to swim in.”
[13]
Christian/Mormon – The Order
The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was an organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984. The Order, a white nationalist revolutionary group, is probably best known for the 1984 murder of radio talk show host
Alan Berg.
Christian – Phineas Priesthood
The Phineas Priesthood (Phineas Priests) is a
Christian Identity movement that opposes interracial intercourse, the mixing of races, homosexuality, and abortion. It is also marked by its
anti-Semitism, anti-
multiculturalism, and opposition to
taxation. It is not considered an organization because it is not led by a governing body, there are no gatherings, and there is no membership process. One becomes a Phineas Priest by simply adopting the beliefs of the Priesthood and acting upon those beliefs. Members of the Priesthood are often called
terrorists for, among other things, planning to blow up FBI buildings, abortion clinic bombings, and bank robberies.
Kwanzaa – Symbionese Liberation Army
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American self-styled, far left “urban guerrilla warfare group” that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence between 1973 and 1975. Among their most notorious acts was the
kidnapping and the brainwashing of the newspaper heiress
Patty Hearst.
Marxist – United Freedom Front
The United Freedom Front (UFF) was a small American
Marxist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally called the
Sam Melville/
Jonathan JacksonUnit, and its members became known as the Ohio 7 when they were brought to trial. Between 1975 and 1984 the UFF carried out at least 20 bombings and nine bank robberies in the northeastern United States, targeting corporate buildings, courthouses, and military facilities.
[14] Brent L. Smith describes them as “undoubtedly the most successful of the leftist terrorists of the 1970s and 1980s.”
[15] The group’s members were eventually apprehended and convicted of conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, and other charges. Two,
Tom Manning and
Jaan Laaman, remain incarcerated today.
Communist – Weathermen
The Weather Underground Organization was a
far left organization active from 1969 to 1975. It originated in 1969 as a
faction of
Students for a Democratic Society(SDS)
[16] composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. The group collapsed shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.
Notable domestic terrorist attacks
Bombing of Los Angeles Times building
The bombing of the
Los Angeles Times on October 1, 1910 killed 21 people.
[17] The perpetrators of this crime were the
McNamara brothers (James and John McNamara), two Irish-American brothers who wanted to unionize the paper. The McNamaras became a
cause célèbre amongst the labor movement in the United States, though their support eroded when they admitted their guilt.
Wall Street bombing
The Wall Street bombing was a terrorist incident that occurred on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York City. A horse-drawn wagon filled with 100 pounds (45 kg) of dynamite was stationed across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan Inc. bank. The explosion killed 38 and injured 400. Even though no one was found guilty, it is believed that the act was carried out by followers of
Luigi Galleani.
Unabomber attacks
From 1978 to 1995,
Harvard University graduate and former mathematics professor Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski – known by the codename “UNABOM” until his identification and arrest by the FBI – carried out a campaign of sending
letterbombs to academics and various individuals particularly associated with modern technology. In 1996, his manifesto was published in
The New York Times and
The Washington Post,
[18] under the threat of more attacks. The bomb campaign ended with his capture.
Attacks by the Jewish Defense League
In 2004 congressional testimony, John S. Pistole, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence for the Federal Bureau of Investigation described the JDL as “a known violent extremist Jewish Organization.”
[19] FBI statistics show that, from 1980 through 1985, there were 18 terrorist attacks in the U.S. committed by Jews; 15 of those by members of the JDL.[13]
Mary Doran, an FBI agent, described the JDL in a 2004 Congressional testimony as “a proscribed terrorist group”. Most recently, then-JDL Chairman Irv Rubin was jailed while awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy in planning bomb attacks against the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and on the office of Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa.
In its report, Terrorism 2000/2001, the FBI referred to the JDL as a “violent extremist Jewish organization” and stated that the FBI was responsible for thwarting at least one of its terrorist acts.[20]
Oklahoma City bombing
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
On August 5, 2012, Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in
Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Page was an American white supremacist and United States Army veteran from
Cudahy, Wisconsin. All of the dead were members of the
Sikh faith.
Southern California shootings
Over several days in early February 2013, Christopher Dorner killed three police officers and a basketball coach, leading to a widescale manhunt and his eventual suicide during a standoff with police.”
Ridiculous FBI list: You might be a domestic terrorist if . . .
Do you pay with cash? Do you try to be prepared for disasters like a good Boy Scout? According to an FBI brochure, then you are suspicious and might be a domestic terrorist. Sadly, this is NOT a joke.
NSA CAUGHT SPYING ON ‘TERRORIST’ PEACEFUL QUAKER ACTIVISTS
Christian Quakers are very clear in their stand to never use violence or killing. They go so far as to refuse to serve in the military in order to avoid killing anyone. So why would these peace loving activists be spied on as a ‘terrorist’ group?
since September 11, 2001, the NSA has been working with local police forces to spy on peace activists. In the case sited, those activists were members of
American Friends Service Committee–the Quakers
Pentagon Caught Spying on U.S. Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activists
No war has been declared but there is an open season on anyone who is on the ‘list’. Der Spiegel exposes a secret program of targeted assassinations via drones, both by bombing and by drone mounted machine guns, of thousands of people. There are innocent casualties, and there is terror on the ground, as these drones circle overhead. Even US citizens have been assassinated this way..
First the US trains, arms and finances the terrorists.. Then it bombs and kills them from the sky with robot drones, but innocent bystanders are termed as justifiable ‘collateral damage’.