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Quantifying "Hate"
Freedom; Posted on: 2008-05-13
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"In other words, the more American you become, the more criminal you
become."
Oklahoma long has been a "hotspot" for extremist activism, according to a
national watchdog, and the latest data on the rise of such groups
throughout
the U.S. and in Oklahoma continue to be worrisome.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks trends in hate movements,
has
found that the number of documented hate groups operating in the U.S. has
grown 48 percent since 2000, up to 888 last year.
The increase is attributed to illegal immigration issues and is most
notable
in three border states: California, Arizona and Texas.
What's more, the 888 total for the most part does not include an estimated
300
anti-immigration groups classified by SPLC as "nativist extremist," formed
in
the last three years to harass and intimidate immigrants.
Mark Potok, a Tulsa native who is director of the SPLC Intelligence
Project,
said the center attempts to ensure the hate groups it documents are true
organizations, even if small. "We make an effort not to list a man, his
dog
and his computer," said Potok.
Extremist groups documented as active in Oklahoma in 2007 included;
Six Ku Klux Klan groups, five of which are associated with the largest
national group, the Brotherhood of Klans, and one associated with the much
smaller Bayou Knights; the Klan groups operated out of Atoka, Cement,
Coalgate, Hinton, Moyers and Shawnee (the Bayou chapter)...
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