A white supremacist site has
blood on its hands, according to a new report.
Stormfront.org is linked to close to 100 killings in the last
five years, the Southern Poverty Law Center found.
The SPLC said ten murderers had
links to Stormfront.
It’s pretty clear that websites like Stormfront are breeding
grounds for people who are just enraged at their situation, it’s there that
people find the reasons their lives aren’t as they had hoped and Stormfront
helps them find the enemy that is standing in their way – whether it be Jews,
African Americans, immigrants and so on,” Heidi Beirich, report author and a
director at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project told the Guardian. “Unfortunately
it’s not very surprising that people who live in this kind of stew of violent
racism eventually pick up a gun and do something about it at some point.”
NBC News reports that Frazier Glenn Cross, the man
accused of killing three people at two Jewish community sites in suburban
Kansas City on April 13, was barred from Stormfront because of disagreements
with the site’s founder.
The report calls Stormfront the “murder capital of the
Internet.” SPLC’s research shows the site typically only gets about 1,800
visits a day, half of which are people outside the U.S.
But the site has a core group of very active users, and
Stormfront’s “bias-related murder rate” accelerated significantly after Barack
Obama became president, the report found.
Earlier this week, CNN reported that, in America, people who follow
far-right wing ideologies have been responsible for more killings than Islamic
extremists since September 11.
CNN notes that, according to a count by the New America
Foundation, “right wing extremists have killed 34 people in the United States
for political reasons since 9/11″ whereas “terrorists motivated by al Qaeda’s
ideology have killed 21 people in the United States since 9/11.”
