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Hate Groups May Be Deadlier Now, Experts Say
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | March 5, 2005 | Kevin McDermott

Posted on 03/05/2005 4:33:27 PM PST by ajr276

White supremacist groups have been on the decline in the Midwest lately, with key leaders jailed or stepping down and membership in disarray. But experts warn the hate movement could actually become more violent under those circumstances, as angry "lone wolf" extremists take matters into their own hands.

It's a theory that might be tested soon in Chicago, as authorities probe last week's execution-style shootings of the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan H. Lefkow.

Lefkow came home on Monday to find the bodies of her husband, Michael F. Lefkow, 64, and her mother, Donna G. Humphrey, 89, in the basement. Both had been shot point-blank in the forehead. Police reportedly found a broken window and two spent .22-caliber shells.

Lefkow in 2003 had a run-in with white supremacist leader Matthew Hale, a former Southern Illinois University Carbondale law student who was later convicted of attempting to have Lefkow killed.

Among police theories now is that Lefkow's family died at the hands of someone trying to carry out that mission - even without any involvement from Hale, who has been in custody since last year awaiting sentencing on the murder-solicitation conviction...

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hate; lefkow; matthale; whitesupremecy
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To: cyborg

"FReepers are very forgiving (well most are anyway)."


I know I may vehemently disagree with someone on one subject but joke with them on the next.


41 posted on 03/05/2005 7:11:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: ajr276
Matt Hale's an asshole and his peeps may be guilty as hell, but this strikes me like the Tom Wales event. Wales was an US Attorney, but also was a freedom grabber leader.

When Wales was killed(in a likely professional hit), the news pricks blamed the 'gun nuts'. That's died down and they haven't found

A US attorney, much like judges, have a long enemy list. We don't know who is guilty or not.

42 posted on 03/05/2005 7:16:49 PM PST by Dan from Michigan (Living in the reddest county in East Michigan)
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To: cripplecreek
I personally know one "Michigan Militia" member(or at least one militia group in Michigan. I've met a couple of other "militia" members. The guy I know is a good guy, and is a mainstream gun rights activist. He just joins every single gun rights group in existance.

Two others I met were real jokers. They were from the St Clair County area. I believe they called themselves the "Kitchen Table Militia". One 'lady' was wearing tin foil(literally) and her husband was just as wacky. They were Alex Jones types at minimum and fit the Mark Koernke stereotypes.

43 posted on 03/05/2005 7:25:39 PM PST by Dan from Michigan (Living in the reddest county in East Michigan)
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To: ajr276
a former Southern Illinois University Carbondale law studen

Great. Now I'll never be the most famous SIU law school grad.
44 posted on 03/05/2005 7:46:08 PM PST by SalukiLawyer
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To: Dan from Michigan

I get a little irritated when I hear the term "Militia type". I get even more irritated when the "connection" between Mcveigh and the militia is made.

In my recollection the only connection between Mcveigh and the militia lasted less than an hour and was ended by the militia because they recognized him as trouble.

There are nutjobs everywhere of every stripe. John Mohammad was once a bodygaurd with the nation of islam but that doesn't make them all killers even if I do despise everything they stand for.


45 posted on 03/05/2005 7:52:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: attiladhun2

The msm is desperate to get back to attacking Americans. They will never admit that the psychology of hate is not actually seperated by race or religion. it is a mind set that is easily interchangeble. The one thing they all have in common is the death of other humans, whether defined by religion or race. Hate is the ideology, race and religion are the excuse.


46 posted on 03/05/2005 8:34:17 PM PST by marty60
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To: SalukiLawyer
Great. Now I'll never be the most famous SIU law school grad.

LOL!! I can understand the disappointment. Success in law just can't hold a flame to fighting off an extremely large, sexually frustrated cell-mate. :-)

47 posted on 03/05/2005 8:52:01 PM PST by ajr276
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To: cyborg

What profile did it fit? How many white people have gone around in white vans shooting people at random? Is this something I have missed?


48 posted on 03/05/2005 11:24:54 PM PST by calex59
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To: Mill Point

You've got to be kidding. The two aren't even close.


53 posted on 03/06/2005 11:44:16 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: ajr276

ADL Fundraising time again!


54 posted on 03/06/2005 11:45:17 AM PST by sarah_f ( Know Islam, Know Terror.)
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To: bvw

These murders were committed on the anniversary of Waco.

Message sent. Message received.


55 posted on 03/06/2005 11:56:08 AM PST by sarah_f ( Know Islam, Know Terror.)
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To: Mill Point

"One incident, 9/11, and suddenly we are at risk from a horde of Islamic killers."

Just to be compassionate, try not to share that thought with the survivors and families of the dead from the first WTC bombing, the Cole bombing, the embassy bombings, the Madrid the Bali...oh forget it.


56 posted on 03/06/2005 12:07:11 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: broadsword

Yet Another One.


57 posted on 03/06/2005 12:07:59 PM PST by sarah_f ( Know Islam, Know Terror.)
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To: sarah_f

Oh brother! Probably another FR manifestation of the same tired old moronic B-list.


58 posted on 03/06/2005 12:10:26 PM PST by broadsword (You don't deal with a cancer by only dealing with the cells that are painful. Cut them ALL out!)
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To: sarah_f

The Waco BATF raid was February 28, 1993. The Waco FBI massacre was April 19, 1993. These murders occurred March 1, 2005. The dates do not mesh. .


59 posted on 03/06/2005 12:13:15 PM PST by bvw (Team USA!)
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To: ajr276

If I were the investigator in this case I would be asking a lot of questions of Ms. Joan.


60 posted on 03/06/2005 12:15:40 PM PST by Old Professer (A man's conscience is like his garden, it is his and his alone to tend.)
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