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Source: Reuters
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida | Tue May 8, 2012 6:32pm EDT
(Reuters) - Ten alleged members of a white supremacist group training near Orlando and Disney World for a "race war" have been rounded up in a series of arrests in central Florida, authorities said on Tuesday.
The arrests were based on evidence from a confidential informant who infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization known as the American Front 17 months ago, according to an arrest affidavit.
"The American Front (AF) is a military-styled, anti-Semitic, white supremacist, skinhead organization and is known as a domestic terrorist organization," the affidavit said.
It said the group's alleged local ringleader, Marcus Faella, 39, had been "planning and preparing the AF for what he believes to be an inevitable race war" and had stated "his intent ... to kill Jews, immigrants and other minorities."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/08/us-usa-florida-skinheads-idUSBRE8471EN20120508
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Faux Newz is still worried about the three non-violent people that make up the New Black Panther Party. Faux loops the same footage over and over again and it's always the same 3 people. At what point will Faux viewers realize they've been had?
NavyDavy
(1,224 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Thanks for the link.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)They would find near friendlies around here with all the right-wing thinking that goes on around here.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)they probably wouldn't have picked these people up.
How far along do they have to get in the process before their voting rights get revoked?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)check it out!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)rppper
(2,952 posts)lots of open area in volusia, brevard, orange and flagler counties where these "camps" are set up.....
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)But, there are racists everywhere, and I still say I've met more North of the MDL than when I lived in Central FL.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)The eleventh and latest defendant arrested in Osceola County's round-up of suspected white supremacists posted $500,000 bond late Tuesday rather than remained jailed in the Florida panhandle, records show.
Verlin Lewis, 40, turned himself at the Washington County Jail and was released after posting his bond on charges of teaching others to cause injury or death to further civil disorder, conspiracy and showing prejudice while committing a crime
The round-up began Friday in Holopaw when the Osceola County Sheriff's SWAT team executed arrest warrants at a home owned by Marcus and Patricia Faella, leaders of the American Front's Florida chapter. The white supremacy group is linked to neo-Nazi skinheads, according to an arrest affidavit.
American Front members are accused of conducting firearms training for a race war and trying to make ricin, a toxin classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-09/news/os-skinhead-arrest-no11-osceola-20120509_1_white-supremacists-arrest-warrants-race-war