Morning Briefing: 'Hunting Permits' Target Hispanic-Owned Businesses in Iowa
Morning Briefing: 'Hunting Permits' Target Hispanic-Owned Businesses in Iowa
Multiple Hispanic-owned businesses in the north central Iowa town of Hampton were targeted with 'Illegal immigrant hunting permit' stickers.
Morning Briefing: In Hampton, Iowa, local law enforcement is reportedly “investigating after racist signs were taped to multiple Hispanic-owned businesses in the north central Iowa town,” and the signs read: "Illegal immigrant hunting permit. No bag limit. Tagging not required. Trump 2024.”
Larry Sailer, the chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, said does not believe the stickers “reflect the views of Republicans or Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.”
The signs were identical to stickers that were sold at a convivence store in Eaton, Colorado in 2013, and similar to sticker displayed by an employee of the Georgia Department of Driver Services in 2015.
In Phoenix, Arizona, the Deer Valley neighborhood was reportedly targeted with pamphlets “full of racist rhetoric, antisemitic remarks and conspiracy theories,” and appeared to have been distributed by White Supremacist neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League (GDL).
In Putnam, Connecticut, there were reportedly several “hand-painted signs around the area” promoting Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, which has announced an increase in their distribution efforts and lists Connecticut among its ‘top ten’ states for such activities.”
In Stamford, Connecticut, local law enforcement is reportedly “investigating after white supremacist and antisemitic vandalism was found at the Academy of Information Technology & Engineering.”
In Funk, Nebraska, White Supremacist propaganda was reportedly “dropped in some driveways of Funk residents,” and the pamphlets were apparently distributed by members of the White Supremacist neo-Nazi group Aryan Freedom Network (AFN).
A bomb threat reportedly “disrupted Breakthrough Theatre’s New Play Festival, and the Winter Park venue’s owner attributed the incident to a false assumption the festival featured drag queens.”
In Portland, Oregon, Worth Briggs is facing “attempted murder and hate crimes charges after prosecutors accused him of bursting into a rage and beating a transgender woman so severely that responding officers couldn’t distinguish the woman’s features.”
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Jason Wilson writes that “a former US air force survival expert with militia and Christian nationalist connections is running survival and live-fire combat trainings in remote locations throughout the Pacific north-west, boasting on his website that the training incorporates trained law enforcement officers, ‘church security’ operatives, and current and former US military members. Michael Patrick Caughran’s new training business, American Reconstruction Concepts (ARC) shows organizational and personnel continuities with an earlier organization that explicitly offered ‘biblical training on war’ to young people. That organization, Team Rugged, was directly connected with both a neo-Confederate pastor and a former Washington state legislator who has advocated for Christian nationalism, who a state house investigation found to have participated in ‘domestic terrorism’. Meanwhile, Caughran’s recent history as a USAF trainer raises questions about the extent to which his Christian nationalist and survivalist activities overlapped with his enlistment.” [The Guardian]
Zack Beauchamp writes that “modern neopatriarchy begins from the opposite fear; the concern is not communist collectivism, but liberal individualism. The neopatriarchs believe we live in an age where people prioritize self-actualization and fulfillment above all else. Young adults, they argue, live in extended adolescence, lost in some combination of video games, drugs, and casual sex; as they age, raw hedonism is replaced by single-minded foci on money and career. According to neopatriarchs, this liberal social model fails men and women alike, funneling them toward a spiritually empty existence that all but guarantees disappointment and depression, and it fails society by discouraging the production of children who are quite literally required if the country is to have a future. (Immigration, needless to say, is not seen as an acceptable solution.) The solution, for neopatriarchs, is to return to the past.” [Vox]
Ruth Graham writes that “Promise Keepers gathered in Tulsa, Okla., at a very different moment for evangelicals — with less decisive answers to those questions. Headed by a new young chief executive, the group is leaning into partisan politics where it once eschewed them, and equipping men to do battle not only with their own spiritual weaknesses but also with a secular culture that speakers portrayed as uniquely hostile… Founded by a former college football coach in the 1990s, Promise Keepers was once one of the largest and most influential evangelical ministries in the United States. Men at revival-style events in stadiums across the country committed to seven promises, including obedience to God and commitment to one’s marriage. Though it has held other smaller gatherings over the years, its profile declined drastically after the 1997 event, essentially fading into a relic of the Clinton era. Now, the group is trying for a resurrection for the Trump era. New ideas include downplaying the organization’s previous emphasis on combating racism and building relationships across racial boundaries.” [The New York Times]
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I have the perfect solution for racism in America and elsewhere! Mandatory 2 year stint in the Peace Corps for young men and women. Like many countries who require military service, the Peace Corps would establish a broader frame of reference for young people and reduce isolationism and tribal thinking.
Don't give a shit what Larry Sailer has to say. This is the GOP - racist, neo-fascist, bigoted bullies who channel their insecurity into violence and intimidation. If he's not on board, then he needs to denounce his party and rejoin humanity. Otherwise he's along for the ride, whether he likes it or not.