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to discontinue all federal funding<br />
to Planned Parenthood.<br />
Days after the Colorado massacre,<br />
anti-abortion activists<br />
were openly blaming Planned<br />
Parenthood for causing people<br />
to attack it. “Violence is never<br />
the answer, but we must start<br />
pointing out who is the real culprit.<br />
The true instigator of this<br />
violence and all violence at any<br />
Planned Parenthood facility<br />
is Planned Parenthood themselves,”<br />
Adams County, Colo.,<br />
state Rep. JoAnn Windholz wrote<br />
in a statement published Dec. 1<br />
by The Colorado Independent.<br />
“Violence begets violence. So<br />
Planned Parenthood: YOU<br />
STOP THE VIOLENCE <strong>IN</strong>SIDE<br />
YOUR WALLS.”<br />
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.)<br />
disagreed. In a statement issued<br />
following the spate of arsons, she<br />
wrote that “toxic rhetoric directed<br />
at Planned Parenthood has dangerous<br />
consequences. It sends a<br />
signal that using violence to close<br />
clinics and intimidate healthcare<br />
professionals and women is ‘OK.’<br />
It is not.”<br />
According to the National<br />
Abortion Federation, there have<br />
been 11 murders, 26 attempted<br />
murders, 42 bombings and 182<br />
arsons aimed at abortion clinics<br />
and providers since 1977.<br />
[ END OF AN ERA ]<br />
Key Holocaust Denier<br />
and Anti-Semitic<br />
Publisher Dies at 89<br />
Willis Carto, one of America’s earliest<br />
and most outspoken Holocaust<br />
deniers and the founder of<br />
numerous radical-right political<br />
organizations and publications,<br />
died in his home on Oct. 26. He<br />
was 89.<br />
Carto, who had become less<br />
active in recent years due to old<br />
age, was for decades a key figure<br />
on the radical right and, early in<br />
his career, had significant contacts<br />
with lawmakers. In 1978,<br />
he founded America’s first major<br />
Holocaust denial outfit, the<br />
Institute for Historical Review<br />
(IHR), a pseudo-academic organization<br />
that once offered a $50,000<br />
reward to the first person who<br />
could prove Jews were gassed at<br />
Auschwitz, then refused to pay the<br />
Holocaust survivor who provided<br />
documentary evidence. Decades<br />
earlier, in the 1950s, he founded<br />
Liberty Lobby, a political organization<br />
that billed itself as conservative<br />
and anti-communist but in<br />
fact promoted white supremacist<br />
and especially anti-Semitic views.<br />
Carto supported former<br />
Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s<br />
1968 presidential campaign, coauthoring<br />
a pamphlet, entitled<br />
“Stand Up For America: The<br />
Story of George C. Wallace,”<br />
which heralded the arch-segregationist<br />
governor as the only<br />
candidate capable of beating<br />
“blacky” and the supposedly<br />
AP IMAGES/THE KANSAS CITY STAR/JOE LEDFORD<br />
ing to use a weapon of mass<br />
destruction, told an undercover<br />
agent he was waiting<br />
for a “green light” from Allah<br />
to carry out a suicide attack.<br />
He said he was inspired by Al<br />
Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden and<br />
Anwar al-Awlaki.<br />
OCT. 9<br />
A long-haul trucker and former<br />
seminarian at the anti-<br />
Semitic Society of Saint Pius X<br />
(SSPX), a “radical traditionalist”<br />
Catholic religious order,<br />
was arrested in Menomonie,<br />
Wis., and extradited to Coeur<br />
d’Alene, Idaho, to face felony<br />
charges of raping two underage<br />
boys. Kevin G. Sloniker,<br />
30, reportedly admitted to<br />
molesting a total of nine boys<br />
and is suspected of sexually<br />
abusing at least eight more.<br />
In 2005, Sloniker was reportedly<br />
expelled from an SSPX<br />
seminary for being mentally<br />
unstable after he tried to circumcise<br />
himself.<br />
NOV. 5<br />
A Lexington, S.C., judge sentenced<br />
August Byron Kreis III,<br />
61, a former Pennsylvania<br />
leader in white<br />
supremacist groups<br />
including the Ku Klux<br />
Klan, the Posse Comitatus<br />
and the Aryan<br />
Nations, to 50 years in<br />
prison for one count<br />
of criminal sexual<br />
conduct involving an child<br />
and two of committing lewd<br />
acts on a child. “I will always<br />
hate the Jew,” an unrepentant<br />
Kreis, who once proposed an<br />
anti-Jewish alliance between<br />
Al Qaeda and the Aryan<br />
Nations, said at sentencing.<br />
NOV. 10<br />
A judge in Johnson County,<br />
Kan., sentenced former Ku<br />
Klux Klan leader and White<br />
Patriot Party founder<br />
Frazier Glenn Miller<br />
Jr. to death for murdering<br />
three people<br />
at two Overland Park<br />
Jewish centers in April<br />
Miller 2014. Miller, 75, said he<br />
shot his victims — all<br />
of whom were Christian<br />
— because he wanted to<br />
kill Jews before he died. In a<br />
related case, John Mark Reidle<br />
of Aurora, Mo., faces up to 10<br />
years when he is sentenced for<br />
acting as a straw buyer for the<br />
weapon Miller used.<br />
NOV. 12<br />
An Akron, Ohio, man was<br />
arrested after allegedly using<br />
social media to call for support<br />
of the Islamic State<br />
in September. Terrence J.<br />
McNeil, 25, was also accused<br />
of posting the addresses of<br />
dozens of military personnel<br />
on a Tumblr account, telling<br />
readers to “[k]ill them in<br />
their own lands, behead them<br />
in their own homes, stab them<br />
to death as they walk their<br />
streets thinking that they<br />
are safe.”<br />
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