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NEW: Suspect Frazier Glenn Cross faces charges of premeditated murder
NEW: Southern Poverty Law Center calls him a "longtime anti-Semite"
Video from a CNN affiliate appears to show the suspect saying, "Heil Hitler"
3 people are dead after shootings at two Jewish facilities, police say
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/13/us/kansas-jewish-center-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
3 killed in shootings at Kansas City-area Jewish centers
By Matthew Stucker and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
updated 11:23 PM EDT, Sun April 13, 2014
(CNN) -- A gunman opened fire at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City on Sunday, killing three people, police said.
Authorities are investigating whether the shootings were a hate crime, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass told reporters.
"It's too early in the investigation to try to label it. We know it's a vicious act of violence. Obviously, at two Jewish facilities, one might make that assumption, but we're going to have to know more about it," he said.
Suspect Frazier Glenn Cross faces charges of premeditated first-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Lt. Craig Buckendahl from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office said.
Video from CNN affiliate KMBC showed a man who appeared to be the suspect sitting in the back of a patrol car and shouting, "Heil Hitler."
Douglass said police are investigating statements the suspect made after his arrest, but declined to provide additional details.
Investigators believe the suspect is affiliated with white-supremacist groups and was involved in previous incidents, such as threats, two federal law enforcement officials told CNN.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, described Cross as a longtime, "raging anti-Semite" who has posted extensively in an online forum that advocates exterminating Jews.
The shootings occurred at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kansas, and at the Village Shalom Retirement Community in Leawood, Kansas.
Authorities arrested the suspect at a nearby elementary school after the shootings, Douglass said. The suspected shooter is not from Kansas and did not appear to know his victims, he said.
A shotgun was involved in the shootings, Douglass said. Authorities are investigating whether other weapons were also involved.
The gunman shot at a total of five people, Douglass said, but two of them were not injured.
The FBI is at the scene working with local authorities, FBI spokesman Joel Sealer said.
Police haven't released the identity of the suspect.
Rabbi Herbert Mandl, a chaplain for the Overland Park Police Department, said the victims included a teenager and an elderly woman.
The shootings, which occurred the day before Passover begins, sound "very much like a hate crime," he said.
"The timing is terrible. The timing is awful," Mandl said. "From what I understand from my contacts, this is a one-person event, and this is hopefully under control now."
The shooting began just after 1 p.m. on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the Jewish community center's parking lot.
The center was packed with young people participating in weekend activities, like auditions for a singing competition and a rehearsal for a production of "To Kill a Mockingbird," CNN affiliates reported.
"This was a community center full of young teens, and they were on lockdown after the shots started," CNN affiliate KSHB reporter Lisa Benson told CNN. "Some of these kids were taken into locker rooms and told to lay on the floor as the shots rang out."
Jeff Nessel told the Kansas City Star he had just dropped his 10-year-old son off at the community center when a staff member told him to get back inside because there had been a shooting.
"We'll keep you on lockdown. You're safe here," Nessel said a staff member told him.
"It's surreal," Nessel told the newspaper. "You don't think it can happen here."
At the nearby Village Shalom retirement home, Amy Rasmussen was helping with her grandmother's laundry when residents were warned by a staff member.
People "were told by one of the staff that it was a tornado warning ... and stay away from the windows," Rasmussen told the newspaper.
As word of the shooting spread, concerned friends and family came to the facility to check on their loved ones, KSHB reported.
The victims
Two of the victims were a grandfather and grandson who were members of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, a U.S. congressman said. Rep. Kevin Yoder told CNN the church's minister announced the news during services Sunday night.
"This has been a moment that stunned us all," Yoder said.
Family members said Dr. William Lewis Corporon and 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood died as a result of injuries they suffered in the shooting at the Jewish community center.
Corporon "cherished his family, and more than anything had a passion for caring for others."
Reat was high school freshman who "participated in debate, theater and had a beautiful voice. Reat had a passion for life, and touched so many people in his young age," his family said.
U.S. President Barack Obama offered condolences to the victims of shootings and their families.
"I have asked my team to stay in close touch with our federal, state and local partners and provide the necessary resources to support the ongoing investigation," he said in a statement released by the White House. "While we do not know all of the details surrounding today's shooting, the initial reports are heartbreaking."
Shooter's motive unclear
The Anti-Defamation League described the shootings as "an unspeakable and heinous act of violence."
"While it is too early to label these shootings as a hate crime, the fact that two Jewish institutions were targeted by the same individual just prior to the start of the Passover holiday is deeply troubling and certainly gives us pause," the organization said. "We have reached out to local, state and federal law enforcement and stand willing and able to offer guidance and assistance to the community if this incident turns out to have been motivated by anti-Semitism."
The ADL said it warned last week of the increased possibility of violent attacks against community centers during the coming weeks, "which coincide both with the Passover holiday and Hitler's birthday on April 20, a day around which in the United States has historically been marked by extremist acts of violence and terrorism."
CNN's Nick Valencia, Janet DiGiacomo, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Don Lemon contributed to this report.
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Suspect in Kansas Jewish Center Shooting Identified as ...
ABC News - 58 minutes ago
Fraiser Glenn Cross Jr., of Aurora, Mo., was taken into custody in the parking lot of an elementary school near the scene of the shootings, law ..
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/former-kkk-leader-suspected-kansas-jewish-center-attacks-sources-n79486
Former KKK Leader Suspected in Kansas Jewish Center Attacks: Sources
By Jonathan Dienst and Pete Williams
The person of interest in custody for the killing of three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas is a Missouri man and former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of antisemitism and racism, law enforcement officials said.
Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73, is suspected of fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus in Overland Park then gunning down a woman at Village Shalom, a retirement community that is several blocks away from the center, law enforcement officials said.
A civil rights organization that tracks hate groups said it has long known about Cross.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says Cross is known to them using aliases — Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Miller — and is the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The center sued Cross in the 1980's for intimidating African Americans, and he has had several run-ins with the law since then, including being accused of violating the terms of a court order that settled the lawsuit.
A profile assembled by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes several anti-semitic statements attributed to Cross.
Police only described the suspect as an elderly man with a beard in a Sunday afternoon news conference.
According to the SPLC, Cross quit high school as a senior to join the Army. In a 20-year Army career he had two tours in Vietnam and 13 years as a member of the elite Green Berets before he was forced to retire because of his Klan affiliation in 1979.
Later he went on to be active in a neo-Nazi group called “The Order” that advocated violence against Blacks and Jews among others, the SPLC said.
He even unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary for North Carolina governor in 1984 and as a Republican for a state Senate seat in 1987, the SPLC said.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, said Cross uses the aliases Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Miller and is the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Cross quit high school and became a member of the elite Green Berets, serving two tours in Vietnam. However, he was forced to retire in 1979 because of his Klan affiliation, according to the SPLC.
Later he became active in a neo-Nazi group called “The Order” that advocated violence against Jews and African Americans, the SPLC said.
During the shooting, he asked people if they were Jewish before shooting at them, witness Rabbi Herbert Mandl told CNN. A total of five people were shot at, but only three were hit.
Some of his more minor offenses include buying or trying to buy advertising time on various Missouri radio stations, including at least one in Kansas City, claiming he was a write-in candidate for the US Senate for Missouri. The ads were extremely offensive to Jews, African Americans, and the federal government, the Star reported.
“We’ve sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks and our media,” one radio commercial said.
That makes TWO former Army Neo Nazi mass murderers in 2 years.
edit: and they both possibly belonged to "the order"
Page had a tattoo on his right arm below his shoulder with the number "838," which Mayo said is a coded symbol indicating membership in the Hammerskins, a skinhead group whose members have been accused of multiple violent crimes, including murders, since the 1980s.
The number 838 corresponds to the letters H, C, H, an acronym for the group's motto "Hail the Crossed Hammers," a reference to the group's logo.
"The tattoo is indicative of membership in the Hammerskins," said Mayo. "Only a member would have that tattoo." The ADL believes that he was a prospective member as recently as early 2011, but that his membership became official in late 2011.
A former soldier, Page, 41, was demoted from sergeant to specialist before leaving the Army in 1998. His body art would have been banned under Army policies outlawing extremist and racist tattoos. In the years following his discharge, Page posted dozens of photos of himself on-line that show the ink on his body.
On the back of his hands, he had tattooed the letters "W" and "P," which Mayo said is an acronym for White Power.
On his left shoulder appeared a Celtic cross, a cross inscribed inside a circle.
"The Celtic cross is a symbol of white pride and is one of most popular symbols for neo-Nazis and White Supremacists," said Mayo. The ADL's web site, however, also notes that the Celtic cross is widely used in other, non-racist contexts, and that "no one should assume" it is being used as a hate symbol unless accompanied by other "trappings of extremism."
Within the circle on Page's arm was the number 14, which corresponds to the number of words in the supremacist motto: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"
The motto, something of a white supremacist "battle cry," was written by David Lane, a member of the terror group The Order, while imprisoned in the 1980s.
Soon after his discharge from the Army in 1998, Page attracted the attention of watchdog groups and eventually the FBI, which tracked the comments he left on white-supremacist message boards like Stormfront.org and the site associated with the Hammerskins.
Queensryche's album mentions these people specifically:
"Operation: Mindcrime"
It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure
A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure
Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign
vAI2QOBMlTA
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Wade Michael Page 2012 :(
The picture I drew before I heard about the 2012 Sikh Temple shooting:
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"THe Order" still alive and well??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_%28group%29
The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen (German for Brothers Keep Silent) or Silent Brotherhood, was a white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984. The Order is best known for its role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg.
The Order was founded by Robert Jay Mathews in late September 1983 at Mathews' farm near Metaline, Washington.[1] Matthews was baptized into the Mormon faith as a high schooler. He formed the "Sons of Liberty", an anti-communist militia mostly made up of Mormon survivalists and bearing little resemblance to the historical organization of the same name. A fundamental goal of The Order was revolution against the American government, which its members, and those of other white supremacist groups, believed to be controlled by a cabal of prominent Jews. The Order was named after, and partly modeled on, a fictional group in William Luther Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries.[2] The Order's goals included the establishment of a homeland (now the Northwest Territorial Imperative) from which Jews and non-whites would be barred. They often referred to the United States federal government as ZOG, an acronym for Zionist Occupied Government. Members of the Order included Randy Evans, Gary Yarborough, Bruce Pierce, Denver Parmenter, Frank DeSilva (AKA Silva), Richard Scutari, David Lane, Randy Duey, and David Tate.
The Order raised money through violent crime. First the robbery of a sex shop, which netted them $369.10.[citation needed] Their later attacks were more effective, including several lucrative bank robberies, as well as bombings of a theater and a synagogue. The Order ran a large[3] counterfeiting operation, and executed a series[citation needed] of armored car robberies, including one near Ukiah, California that netted $3.6 million.[4] Proceeds from these robberies were distributed to various leaders of sympathetic organisations such as William Pierce (National Alliance) and Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (White Patriot Party).[5]
The Order drew up a hit list of enemies, and on June 18, 1984 radio talk show host Alan Berg was murdered in front of his home by Bruce Pierce, assisted by other members of The Order.[6] Berg was number two on The Order's list.[7] Berg's murder and the subsequent trial formed the basis of Steven Dietz's 1988 play God's Country, and also loosely inspired Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio (later adapted into a film by Oliver Stone) and the film Betrayed. A fictional version of the story was also the subject of the movie Brotherhood of Murder.
In December 1984, authorities were able to track Mathews down to a house on Whidbey Island where he refused to surrender.[2] During a shootout, the house was ignited by incendiary flares, became engulfed in flames and Mathews was killed.[2] Mathews is considered a martyr by some white nationalists.[8][9]
Ten members of The Order were tried and convicted under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statutes, and with the help of the testimony of Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who testified against Order members in order to have his own sentence reduced.
In a separate trial, three other members of The Order were tried and convicted of violating the civil rights of Alan Berg.[10] No one has been charged in the murder of Berg. David Lane, the getaway driver for Berg's assailants, was sentenced to 190 consecutive years on the charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and violating Berg's civil rights. He died in prison in 2007.[11] Order member Bruce Pierce was sentenced to 252 years in prison for his involvement in the Berg assassination, and died of natural causes at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex on August 16, 2010. He was 56.[12] Like Matthews, Lane and Pierce are regarded by many white supremacists as heroes, political prisoners and martyrs. In another trial, 14 men were charged with sedition, conspiracy and civil rights violations.[11] Thirteen of them were acquitted, and the judge dismissed the charges against the fourteenth man for lack of evidence.[11] Over 75 men and women were tried and convicted of various charges connected to The Order.[clarification needed]
A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.[13] Richard Scutari, member of the Order, was sentenced to a 60 year prison term in 1986,[14] being removed to USP Marion CMU in July 2008.
...This latest 2014 shooter, Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., testified at a RICO trial re: the ORder.
Ten members of The Order were tried and convicted under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statutes, and with the help of the testimony of Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who testified against Order members in order to have his own sentence reduced.
Mighty strange connections throughout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Glenn_Miller,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity
The Christian Identity movement first received widespread attention by mainstream media in 1984, when the white nationalist organization known as The Order embarked on a murderous crime spree before being taken down by the FBI. Tax resister and militia movement organizer Gordon Kahl, whose death in a 1983 shootout with authorities helped inspire The Order, also had connections to the Christian Identity movement.[6][7] The movement returned to public attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the deadly Ruby Ridge confrontation, when newspapers discovered that former Green Beret and right-wing separatist Randy Weaver had at least a loose association with Christian Identity believers.[8]
No single document expresses the Christian Identity belief system; however, adherents draw upon arguments from linguistic, historical, archaeological and biblical sources to support their beliefs. Estimates are that these groups have 2,000 to 50,000 members in the United States,[9] and an unknown number in Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth.
Christian Identity (CI) as a movement emerged as an offshoot sect of British Israelism in the 1920s and 1930s.[10][11] However, the idea that "lower races" are mentioned in the Bible (in contrast to Aryans) was posited in the 1905 book "Theozoology; or The Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron" by Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, a volkisch writer seen by many historians as a major influence on Nazism.
if CI and the order are one and the same, then CI and the order predates nazism or was contemporary?
kinda scary.
Early years
Christian Identity (CI) has first been traced back to the 1920s to Howard Rand (1889–1991).[17][18]
Rand was a Massachusetts lawyer who obtained a law degree at the University of Maine. He was raised as a British Israelite, and his father introduced him to J. H. Allen's work Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright (1902) at an early age.[19] While Rand's father was not an antisemite, nor was even Rand in his early British Israelite years, Rand first added an antisemitic element to British Israelism in the 1920s. He claimed as early as 1924 that the Jews were not really descended from the tribe of Judah, but were instead the descendants of Esau or Canaanites.[20] However, Rand never claimed that modern Jews were descendants of Satan, or that they were in anyway inferior, he just claimed that they were not the true lineal descendants of Judah.[21] For this reason Rand is considered a 'transitional' figure between British Israelism and Christian Identity, but not its actual founder.[22] However Rand first coined the term 'Christian Identity'.[23] Rand had set up the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America in 1933 which promoted his view that Jews were not descended from Judah, which marked the first key transition from British Israelism to Christian Identity. Beginning in May 1937 there were key meetings between British Israelites in America who were attracted to Rand’s new theory that the Jews were not really descended from Judah. This provided the catalyst for the eventual emergence of Christian Identity, and by the late 1930s the Jews were considered to be the offspring of Satan and were heavily demonised, as were non-Caucasian races.[24][25] William Dudley Pelley, founder of the fascist Silver Shirts movement, also promoted an anti-semitic form of British Israelism in the early 1930s.[26] Links between Christian Identity and the Ku Klux Klan also emerged in the late 1930s.[27]
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Although such eclipses occur with some regularity, today and Tuesday will feature the first in a series of four total eclipses in 18 months, a frequency that Cianciolo said is genuinely rare. After that, Texans won’t get a really good look at a total lunar eclipse until May 15, 2022.
Obviously, not all such eclipses are bloody. The red light occurs because Earth’s nitrogen-based atmosphere filters out blues, leaving reds, which refract around Earth onto the moon. And if conditions are really favorable, it turns anywhere from bright red to rust-colored.
“There’s no way to predict it,” Cianciolo said. The color intensity can change depending on weather systems and other factors, such as whether there have been large wildfires recently.
Jennifer Herber, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department, said she didn’t know of any local data showing that blood moons were accompanied by an unusual volume of mayhem.
“I can ask,” Herber said. “But,” she added, “I’m not sure who.”
Despite his impatience with superstition, Cianciolo said he wouldn’t be shocked if a few gruesome things happen as the blood moon appears above Texas in a couple of days. In fact, statistically, it would be difficult to avoid.
“Certainly somebody’s going to die,” he predicted.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/13/5735389/blood-moon-rising-in-early-hours.html#storylink=cpy
NEW: Suspect Frazier Glenn Cross faces charges of premeditated murder
NEW: Southern Poverty Law Center calls him a "longtime anti-Semite"
Video from a CNN affiliate appears to show the suspect saying, "Heil Hitler"
3 people are dead after shootings at two Jewish facilities, police say
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/13/us/kansas-jewish-center-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
3 killed in shootings at Kansas City-area Jewish centers
By Matthew Stucker and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
updated 11:23 PM EDT, Sun April 13, 2014
(CNN) -- A gunman opened fire at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City on Sunday, killing three people, police said.
Authorities are investigating whether the shootings were a hate crime, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass told reporters.
"It's too early in the investigation to try to label it. We know it's a vicious act of violence. Obviously, at two Jewish facilities, one might make that assumption, but we're going to have to know more about it," he said.
Suspect Frazier Glenn Cross faces charges of premeditated first-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Lt. Craig Buckendahl from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office said.
Video from CNN affiliate KMBC showed a man who appeared to be the suspect sitting in the back of a patrol car and shouting, "Heil Hitler."
Douglass said police are investigating statements the suspect made after his arrest, but declined to provide additional details.
Investigators believe the suspect is affiliated with white-supremacist groups and was involved in previous incidents, such as threats, two federal law enforcement officials told CNN.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, described Cross as a longtime, "raging anti-Semite" who has posted extensively in an online forum that advocates exterminating Jews.
The shootings occurred at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kansas, and at the Village Shalom Retirement Community in Leawood, Kansas.
Authorities arrested the suspect at a nearby elementary school after the shootings, Douglass said. The suspected shooter is not from Kansas and did not appear to know his victims, he said.
A shotgun was involved in the shootings, Douglass said. Authorities are investigating whether other weapons were also involved.
The gunman shot at a total of five people, Douglass said, but two of them were not injured.
The FBI is at the scene working with local authorities, FBI spokesman Joel Sealer said.
Police haven't released the identity of the suspect.
Rabbi Herbert Mandl, a chaplain for the Overland Park Police Department, said the victims included a teenager and an elderly woman.
The shootings, which occurred the day before Passover begins, sound "very much like a hate crime," he said.
"The timing is terrible. The timing is awful," Mandl said. "From what I understand from my contacts, this is a one-person event, and this is hopefully under control now."
The shooting began just after 1 p.m. on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the Jewish community center's parking lot.
The center was packed with young people participating in weekend activities, like auditions for a singing competition and a rehearsal for a production of "To Kill a Mockingbird," CNN affiliates reported.
"This was a community center full of young teens, and they were on lockdown after the shots started," CNN affiliate KSHB reporter Lisa Benson told CNN. "Some of these kids were taken into locker rooms and told to lay on the floor as the shots rang out."
Jeff Nessel told the Kansas City Star he had just dropped his 10-year-old son off at the community center when a staff member told him to get back inside because there had been a shooting.
"We'll keep you on lockdown. You're safe here," Nessel said a staff member told him.
"It's surreal," Nessel told the newspaper. "You don't think it can happen here."
At the nearby Village Shalom retirement home, Amy Rasmussen was helping with her grandmother's laundry when residents were warned by a staff member.
People "were told by one of the staff that it was a tornado warning ... and stay away from the windows," Rasmussen told the newspaper.
As word of the shooting spread, concerned friends and family came to the facility to check on their loved ones, KSHB reported.
The victims
Two of the victims were a grandfather and grandson who were members of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, a U.S. congressman said. Rep. Kevin Yoder told CNN the church's minister announced the news during services Sunday night.
"This has been a moment that stunned us all," Yoder said.
Family members said Dr. William Lewis Corporon and 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood died as a result of injuries they suffered in the shooting at the Jewish community center.
Corporon "cherished his family, and more than anything had a passion for caring for others."
Reat was high school freshman who "participated in debate, theater and had a beautiful voice. Reat had a passion for life, and touched so many people in his young age," his family said.
U.S. President Barack Obama offered condolences to the victims of shootings and their families.
"I have asked my team to stay in close touch with our federal, state and local partners and provide the necessary resources to support the ongoing investigation," he said in a statement released by the White House. "While we do not know all of the details surrounding today's shooting, the initial reports are heartbreaking."
Shooter's motive unclear
The Anti-Defamation League described the shootings as "an unspeakable and heinous act of violence."
"While it is too early to label these shootings as a hate crime, the fact that two Jewish institutions were targeted by the same individual just prior to the start of the Passover holiday is deeply troubling and certainly gives us pause," the organization said. "We have reached out to local, state and federal law enforcement and stand willing and able to offer guidance and assistance to the community if this incident turns out to have been motivated by anti-Semitism."
The ADL said it warned last week of the increased possibility of violent attacks against community centers during the coming weeks, "which coincide both with the Passover holiday and Hitler's birthday on April 20, a day around which in the United States has historically been marked by extremist acts of violence and terrorism."
CNN's Nick Valencia, Janet DiGiacomo, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Don Lemon contributed to this report.
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Suspect in Kansas Jewish Center Shooting Identified as ...
ABC News - 58 minutes ago
Fraiser Glenn Cross Jr., of Aurora, Mo., was taken into custody in the parking lot of an elementary school near the scene of the shootings, law ..
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/former-kkk-leader-suspected-kansas-jewish-center-attacks-sources-n79486
Former KKK Leader Suspected in Kansas Jewish Center Attacks: Sources
By Jonathan Dienst and Pete Williams
The person of interest in custody for the killing of three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas is a Missouri man and former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of antisemitism and racism, law enforcement officials said.
Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73, is suspected of fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus in Overland Park then gunning down a woman at Village Shalom, a retirement community that is several blocks away from the center, law enforcement officials said.
A civil rights organization that tracks hate groups said it has long known about Cross.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says Cross is known to them using aliases — Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Miller — and is the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The center sued Cross in the 1980's for intimidating African Americans, and he has had several run-ins with the law since then, including being accused of violating the terms of a court order that settled the lawsuit.
A profile assembled by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes several anti-semitic statements attributed to Cross.
Police only described the suspect as an elderly man with a beard in a Sunday afternoon news conference.
According to the SPLC, Cross quit high school as a senior to join the Army. In a 20-year Army career he had two tours in Vietnam and 13 years as a member of the elite Green Berets before he was forced to retire because of his Klan affiliation in 1979.
Later he went on to be active in a neo-Nazi group called “The Order” that advocated violence against Blacks and Jews among others, the SPLC said.
He even unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary for North Carolina governor in 1984 and as a Republican for a state Senate seat in 1987, the SPLC said.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, said Cross uses the aliases Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Miller and is the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Cross quit high school and became a member of the elite Green Berets, serving two tours in Vietnam. However, he was forced to retire in 1979 because of his Klan affiliation, according to the SPLC.
Later he became active in a neo-Nazi group called “The Order” that advocated violence against Jews and African Americans, the SPLC said.
During the shooting, he asked people if they were Jewish before shooting at them, witness Rabbi Herbert Mandl told CNN. A total of five people were shot at, but only three were hit.
Some of his more minor offenses include buying or trying to buy advertising time on various Missouri radio stations, including at least one in Kansas City, claiming he was a write-in candidate for the US Senate for Missouri. The ads were extremely offensive to Jews, African Americans, and the federal government, the Star reported.
“We’ve sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks and our media,” one radio commercial said.
That makes TWO former Army Neo Nazi mass murderers in 2 years.
edit: and they both possibly belonged to "the order"
Page had a tattoo on his right arm below his shoulder with the number "838," which Mayo said is a coded symbol indicating membership in the Hammerskins, a skinhead group whose members have been accused of multiple violent crimes, including murders, since the 1980s.
The number 838 corresponds to the letters H, C, H, an acronym for the group's motto "Hail the Crossed Hammers," a reference to the group's logo.
"The tattoo is indicative of membership in the Hammerskins," said Mayo. "Only a member would have that tattoo." The ADL believes that he was a prospective member as recently as early 2011, but that his membership became official in late 2011.
A former soldier, Page, 41, was demoted from sergeant to specialist before leaving the Army in 1998. His body art would have been banned under Army policies outlawing extremist and racist tattoos. In the years following his discharge, Page posted dozens of photos of himself on-line that show the ink on his body.
On the back of his hands, he had tattooed the letters "W" and "P," which Mayo said is an acronym for White Power.
On his left shoulder appeared a Celtic cross, a cross inscribed inside a circle.
"The Celtic cross is a symbol of white pride and is one of most popular symbols for neo-Nazis and White Supremacists," said Mayo. The ADL's web site, however, also notes that the Celtic cross is widely used in other, non-racist contexts, and that "no one should assume" it is being used as a hate symbol unless accompanied by other "trappings of extremism."
Within the circle on Page's arm was the number 14, which corresponds to the number of words in the supremacist motto: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"
The motto, something of a white supremacist "battle cry," was written by David Lane, a member of the terror group The Order, while imprisoned in the 1980s.
Soon after his discharge from the Army in 1998, Page attracted the attention of watchdog groups and eventually the FBI, which tracked the comments he left on white-supremacist message boards like Stormfront.org and the site associated with the Hammerskins.
Queensryche's album mentions these people specifically:
"Operation: Mindcrime"
It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure
A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure
Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign
vAI2QOBMlTA
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Wade Michael Page 2012 :(
The picture I drew before I heard about the 2012 Sikh Temple shooting:
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"THe Order" still alive and well??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_%28group%29
The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen (German for Brothers Keep Silent) or Silent Brotherhood, was a white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984. The Order is best known for its role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg.
The Order was founded by Robert Jay Mathews in late September 1983 at Mathews' farm near Metaline, Washington.[1] Matthews was baptized into the Mormon faith as a high schooler. He formed the "Sons of Liberty", an anti-communist militia mostly made up of Mormon survivalists and bearing little resemblance to the historical organization of the same name. A fundamental goal of The Order was revolution against the American government, which its members, and those of other white supremacist groups, believed to be controlled by a cabal of prominent Jews. The Order was named after, and partly modeled on, a fictional group in William Luther Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries.[2] The Order's goals included the establishment of a homeland (now the Northwest Territorial Imperative) from which Jews and non-whites would be barred. They often referred to the United States federal government as ZOG, an acronym for Zionist Occupied Government. Members of the Order included Randy Evans, Gary Yarborough, Bruce Pierce, Denver Parmenter, Frank DeSilva (AKA Silva), Richard Scutari, David Lane, Randy Duey, and David Tate.
The Order raised money through violent crime. First the robbery of a sex shop, which netted them $369.10.[citation needed] Their later attacks were more effective, including several lucrative bank robberies, as well as bombings of a theater and a synagogue. The Order ran a large[3] counterfeiting operation, and executed a series[citation needed] of armored car robberies, including one near Ukiah, California that netted $3.6 million.[4] Proceeds from these robberies were distributed to various leaders of sympathetic organisations such as William Pierce (National Alliance) and Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (White Patriot Party).[5]
The Order drew up a hit list of enemies, and on June 18, 1984 radio talk show host Alan Berg was murdered in front of his home by Bruce Pierce, assisted by other members of The Order.[6] Berg was number two on The Order's list.[7] Berg's murder and the subsequent trial formed the basis of Steven Dietz's 1988 play God's Country, and also loosely inspired Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio (later adapted into a film by Oliver Stone) and the film Betrayed. A fictional version of the story was also the subject of the movie Brotherhood of Murder.
In December 1984, authorities were able to track Mathews down to a house on Whidbey Island where he refused to surrender.[2] During a shootout, the house was ignited by incendiary flares, became engulfed in flames and Mathews was killed.[2] Mathews is considered a martyr by some white nationalists.[8][9]
Ten members of The Order were tried and convicted under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statutes, and with the help of the testimony of Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who testified against Order members in order to have his own sentence reduced.
In a separate trial, three other members of The Order were tried and convicted of violating the civil rights of Alan Berg.[10] No one has been charged in the murder of Berg. David Lane, the getaway driver for Berg's assailants, was sentenced to 190 consecutive years on the charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and violating Berg's civil rights. He died in prison in 2007.[11] Order member Bruce Pierce was sentenced to 252 years in prison for his involvement in the Berg assassination, and died of natural causes at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex on August 16, 2010. He was 56.[12] Like Matthews, Lane and Pierce are regarded by many white supremacists as heroes, political prisoners and martyrs. In another trial, 14 men were charged with sedition, conspiracy and civil rights violations.[11] Thirteen of them were acquitted, and the judge dismissed the charges against the fourteenth man for lack of evidence.[11] Over 75 men and women were tried and convicted of various charges connected to The Order.[clarification needed]
A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.[13] Richard Scutari, member of the Order, was sentenced to a 60 year prison term in 1986,[14] being removed to USP Marion CMU in July 2008.
...This latest 2014 shooter, Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., testified at a RICO trial re: the ORder.
Ten members of The Order were tried and convicted under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statutes, and with the help of the testimony of Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who testified against Order members in order to have his own sentence reduced.
Mighty strange connections throughout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Glenn_Miller,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity
The Christian Identity movement first received widespread attention by mainstream media in 1984, when the white nationalist organization known as The Order embarked on a murderous crime spree before being taken down by the FBI. Tax resister and militia movement organizer Gordon Kahl, whose death in a 1983 shootout with authorities helped inspire The Order, also had connections to the Christian Identity movement.[6][7] The movement returned to public attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the deadly Ruby Ridge confrontation, when newspapers discovered that former Green Beret and right-wing separatist Randy Weaver had at least a loose association with Christian Identity believers.[8]
No single document expresses the Christian Identity belief system; however, adherents draw upon arguments from linguistic, historical, archaeological and biblical sources to support their beliefs. Estimates are that these groups have 2,000 to 50,000 members in the United States,[9] and an unknown number in Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth.
Christian Identity (CI) as a movement emerged as an offshoot sect of British Israelism in the 1920s and 1930s.[10][11] However, the idea that "lower races" are mentioned in the Bible (in contrast to Aryans) was posited in the 1905 book "Theozoology; or The Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron" by Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, a volkisch writer seen by many historians as a major influence on Nazism.
if CI and the order are one and the same, then CI and the order predates nazism or was contemporary?
kinda scary.
Early years
Christian Identity (CI) has first been traced back to the 1920s to Howard Rand (1889–1991).[17][18]
Rand was a Massachusetts lawyer who obtained a law degree at the University of Maine. He was raised as a British Israelite, and his father introduced him to J. H. Allen's work Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright (1902) at an early age.[19] While Rand's father was not an antisemite, nor was even Rand in his early British Israelite years, Rand first added an antisemitic element to British Israelism in the 1920s. He claimed as early as 1924 that the Jews were not really descended from the tribe of Judah, but were instead the descendants of Esau or Canaanites.[20] However, Rand never claimed that modern Jews were descendants of Satan, or that they were in anyway inferior, he just claimed that they were not the true lineal descendants of Judah.[21] For this reason Rand is considered a 'transitional' figure between British Israelism and Christian Identity, but not its actual founder.[22] However Rand first coined the term 'Christian Identity'.[23] Rand had set up the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America in 1933 which promoted his view that Jews were not descended from Judah, which marked the first key transition from British Israelism to Christian Identity. Beginning in May 1937 there were key meetings between British Israelites in America who were attracted to Rand’s new theory that the Jews were not really descended from Judah. This provided the catalyst for the eventual emergence of Christian Identity, and by the late 1930s the Jews were considered to be the offspring of Satan and were heavily demonised, as were non-Caucasian races.[24][25] William Dudley Pelley, founder of the fascist Silver Shirts movement, also promoted an anti-semitic form of British Israelism in the early 1930s.[26] Links between Christian Identity and the Ku Klux Klan also emerged in the late 1930s.[27]
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Although such eclipses occur with some regularity, today and Tuesday will feature the first in a series of four total eclipses in 18 months, a frequency that Cianciolo said is genuinely rare. After that, Texans won’t get a really good look at a total lunar eclipse until May 15, 2022.
Obviously, not all such eclipses are bloody. The red light occurs because Earth’s nitrogen-based atmosphere filters out blues, leaving reds, which refract around Earth onto the moon. And if conditions are really favorable, it turns anywhere from bright red to rust-colored.
“There’s no way to predict it,” Cianciolo said. The color intensity can change depending on weather systems and other factors, such as whether there have been large wildfires recently.
Jennifer Herber, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department, said she didn’t know of any local data showing that blood moons were accompanied by an unusual volume of mayhem.
“I can ask,” Herber said. “But,” she added, “I’m not sure who.”
Despite his impatience with superstition, Cianciolo said he wouldn’t be shocked if a few gruesome things happen as the blood moon appears above Texas in a couple of days. In fact, statistically, it would be difficult to avoid.
“Certainly somebody’s going to die,” he predicted.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/13/5735389/blood-moon-rising-in-early-hours.html#storylink=cpy