It鈥檚 not often that hate crimes end so poetically. But two recent stories offered up nearly perfect 鈥 even comic 鈥 portrayals of justice at work.
The Intelligence Report is the nation's preeminent periodical monitoring the radical right in the U.S.
The Intelligence Report is the 澳彩开奖's award-winning magazine.聽The biannual publication provides comprehensive updates to law enforcement agencies, the media and the general public. Subscribe here.
It鈥檚 not often that hate crimes end so poetically. But two recent stories offered up nearly perfect 鈥 even comic 鈥 portrayals of justice at work.
Kevin W. Harpham, the would-be terrorist who intended to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade last year in Spokane, Wash., has been sentenced in federal court to 32 years in prison.
Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by 50% in 2010, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the incendiary rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called 鈥淕round Zero Mosque鈥 in New York City.
A Pensacola, Fla., clinic at the epicenter of anti-abortion violence for nearly 30 years was firebombed and destroyed by a homeless man in January.
In the first case of its kind, a federal grand jury in Cleveland on Dec. 20 indicted 12 Amish people on hate crime charges for cutting the hair and beards of other Amish men and women, a form of religious degradation they allegedly viewed as punishment.
A collection of quotes regarding race and hate
Last November, the FBI arrested four men in Georgia, members of a militia group who were accused of a wide-ranging plot to attack cities and blow up federal buildings.
For the third year in a row, the American radical right expands dramatically, led by the antigovernment 鈥楶atriot鈥 movement.
The swelling 鈥渟overeign citizens鈥 movement lost a leader when LeRoy M. Schweitzer, 73, died of apparently natural causes at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo., on Sept. 20. He was serving a 22-year sentence for crimes related to the longest police standoff in U.S. history.
An alleged plot by members of a Georgia militia is only the latest to target law enforcement officials for death.
Subscriptions to the Intel Report are free to law enforcement, journalists, and others.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.