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Re: White activism at Philadelphia in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:14 am

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White nationalist posters scattered on poles in Northern Liberties

Thursday, August 1, 2019 4:28AM
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- One sign read "Nationalism is Nature."

Another "Reject White Guilt."

A third read, "Stop the 3rd world invasion of America. Build the wall, deport them all."

The white nationalist slogans were found scattered and posted on various light poles and traffic signs on 2nd Street in between Fairmount Avenue and Brown Street.

They were first spotted by Amy Sweeney's husband Wednesday night.

Sweeney said, "There was one that said "blood and soil" and that freaked me out because I pulled it up and it immediately went to Nazi propaganda."

We're not naming the group who took credit for posting them, but Sweeney has an idea of why the group chose this neighborhood.

"We are organizing the 2nd St. Festival that we do every year that's going to be on Sunday," said Sweeney.

She says this part of town is about bringing all people together.

"We love our neighbors. It doesn't matter if you're gay or straight, white or black, you know it does not matter," Sweeney said.

White nationalist posters scattered on poles in Northern Liberties. Bob Brooks has more on Action News at 11 p.m. on July 31, 2019.

So when she realized just how many there were, she and some friends got to work taking them down.

Amy said, "I pulled at least 15, my husband pulled two. My neighbor Julia found two or 3 of them."

Philadelphia police are investigating.
At least part of their message ("Stop the 3rd World Invasion" and "Deport them all") is fairly straightforward.

I'm sure the low-or-no standards that Sweeney advocates will include pedophiles, animal abusers of the bestiality variety, and continuous non-White on White rapes when the Jews tell her to believe that too.
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Re: White activism at Philadelphia in the news

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White nationalist posters scattered on poles in Northern Liberties

Thursday, August 1, 2019 4:28AM
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- One sign read "Nationalism is Nature."

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At least part of their message ("Stop the 3rd World Invasion" and "Deport them all") is fairly straightforward.

I'm sure the low-or-no standards that Sweeney advocates will include pedophiles, animal abusers of the bestiality variety, and continuous non-White on White rapes when the Jews tell her to believe that too.
Attention gadflies! Another story on this event, but at a website that allows DISQUS users and others to comment. https://www.phillyvoice.com/northern-li ... tionalism/
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Re: White activism at Fairbury NE in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:16 pm

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Neo-Nazi leader operating in Nebraska


By Mason Mauro |
Posted: Fri 11:11 AM, Aug 02, 2019 |
Updated: Fri 12:22 PM, Aug 02, 2019

BEATRICE, Neb. (WOWT) -- Racial propaganda found across the Omaha-metro area last week has left neighbors on edge, and asking where it's all coming from.
6 News reporter Mason Mauro, left, talks with neo-Nazi leader Gerhard Lauck of Fairbury, Neb., on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (WOWT)

A 6 News investigation traced some of the recent hate speech back to a notorious neo-Nazi leader who lives in Fairbury, Neb.

“Today, white people are supposed to be ashamed for being white and this nonsense,” neo-Nazi leader Gerhard Lauck said.

A cartoon caricature of a law enforcement officer tossing a Mexican man over a border wall discovered on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Omaha. A “missing person” flier for lost “white identity” found near Aksarben. Business cards scattered around the University of Nebraska Medicine reminding people “It’s Okay to be White.”

A recent crop of what many in Omaha believe is the rise of a white nationalist movement in the metro.

“We’d get maybe one incident report every month or something like that. Now, if we don’t get two or three every week, it’s unusual,” said Scott Kurz of the Anti-Defamation League Plain States.

Kurz said reports of racial, cultural, and sexual discrimination are spiking across the country and in the Heartland in the years since the 2016 presidential election.

“The past three years, there’s been a steady incline of incident reporting in our office, and national numbers are a lot higher than they are locally,” Kurz said.

But a neo-Nazi leader, operating in the shadows of the corn stalks, will not rest until the Big Red state is painted white.

“We believe in race and nation. We believe in the survival of all white nations and of our race,” Lauck said.

Lauck thrives on hate. A self-proclaimed “race nationalist” — the label itself a political veil for a racist.

“If you mean that I identify with my own people and put their interests first, then I am a racist,” Lauck said.

The home-grown Husker and University of Nebraska-Lincoln dropout created a neo-Nazi organization at 19-years-old and spread white supremacist propaganda on American soil before working underground in Europe.

Once regarded as the largest peddler of neo-Nazi hate speech in the United States, the 66-year-old bigot isn’t out of the white-washing game.

“Something on that scale, someone who has gotten attention for those kinds of things is living in our backyard,” Kurz said.

After a four-year stint in a German prison, Lauck spewed slurs on the internet, moving print propaganda to digital discrimination on a “censorship-free” web hosting service.

A URL linked to one of his websites was displayed on the card found at UNMC. It’s just one of the hundreds of white nationalist sites he claims to support.

“If the white man stands up and takes control of his country again, they’ll say, ‘Okay, the other guys are coming here and causing trouble. We’ll get rid of them.'”

“So you don’t think non-white people should be able to live and work in The United States?” 6 News reporter Mason Mauro asked.

“Not in large numbers,” Lauck said.


“And that’s not a racist statement?“ Mauro asked.

“No,” Lauck said.

Lauck and his followers take credit for supplying Nazi propaganda found in Free Little Libraries in the Dundee neighborhood in July 2018.

He disputes any involvement with the racist fliers found near Aksarben and on UNO’s campus last week, but approves of the messages they present.

“Stuff like this is hate speech?” Mauro asked Lauck.

“That’s not hate speech. They’re making fun of illegal immigrants, a criminal illness. They’re making fun of them,” he said. “It’s kind of insulting, I agree with you there, but so what? It’s political propaganda.”

This white supremacist sickness festering in Eastern Nebraska is a threat the ADL says it needs to stomp out before it spreads, but it’s not just a battle against the “Farm Belt Fuhrer.” The ADL sees it as a war against nationalist behavior coming from the president.

“When you see anybody behaving that way with that kind of rhetoric, or allowing that kind of rhetoric to happen... When something happens, and a crowd will start chanting something or doing something — to not immediately staunch the flow of that, enables that bad behavior,” Kurz said.

“If you take a look at his some of his core messages and values, it resonates with a large number of people,” he said.

An ancient evil, rising once again, with accepting Nebraskans there to meet it — and defeat it.

“We won’t just get one report that his one instance happened; we’ll get a bunch of reports. The community immediately responds and says, ‘Hey, no. We’re not having this,’” Kurz said.

6 On Your Side found, according to FBI national statistics in 2015, there were over 6,800 discrimination cases. That number increased by 16% through 2017, including the 2016 election cycle.
Instead of the usual one-sided agitprop, we get to hear from an ostensibly pro-White view here in this piece.

Mr. Lauck's position about having non-Whites in America "not in great numbers" is a compromising position. Whites should never compromise the racial integrity of our gene pool, not now, not in the future, not ever.
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Re: White activism at Tonawanda IN in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:31 pm

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Tonawanda Police unsure who left flyers promoting Indiana KKK rally
By Nick Lippa • Jul 31, 2019

Flyers for a Ku Klux Klan event in Indiana on August 31 were found in Tonawanda and North Tonawanda Monday morning. Police in both areas said five residents found the flyers in zipped plastic bags, weighed down by rice.

Three of the residents received the flyer on Main Street. Town of Tonawanda police captain Fredric Foels says this is the first time he has come across something like this in the area.

“Why these particular three houses? I have no idea. Why the street? I have no idea,” Foels said. “It was just one of these things where these people found these things and called us.”

Police report the group on the fliers is the Honorable Sacred Knights, a KKK chapter in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. They are headquartered in Madison, Indiana according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s national catalog of hate groups.

Foels said three of the flyers were found on Main Street.

“It was kind of baffling to these residents because they had no clue why they were thrown on their front lawns. We went and picked them up and bring them back to the station. But unfortunately nobody saw anybody toss it or throw it or place it there,” Foels said. “We’re sort of at a stalemate with how they got there”

According to a New York Times report, the Knights tried to hold a rally May 25 in Dayton, Ohio, where nine KKK supporters showed up next to nearly 600 protestors.

Foels said the flyer included a phone number and an email address.
Who cares how the flyers were delivered or what "witnesses" saw in regards to who was doing the distributing? Why is this a police matter in the first place? No illegal activity is alleged here, is someone trying to imply that there has been??

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Re: White activism at Murfreesboro TN in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:52 pm

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White supremacist flier found in downtown Murfreesboro

Jul 26, 2019 at 10:00 am by Michelle Willard
This actually freaks some people out. But then, some people aren't playing with a full deck.
This actually freaks some people out. But then, some people aren't playing with a full deck.
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A flier for a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist group was found in downtown Murfreesboro Thursday night.

Stating "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Victory," the flier is from Patriot Front, a splinter group of Vanguard America. The propaganda was tacked to a light pole at corner of North Spring and College streets.

In addition to the failed white supremacist rally in October 2017, fliers for other Neo-Nazi groups have been found on MTSU campus.

Patriot Front formed a few weeks after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group espouses the same hateful and xenophobic rhetoric, but cloaks it in patriotic symbolism in an attempt to make it more palatable. White nationalist groups like Patriot Front have rebranded themselves in the imagery of Americana in order to create a more marketable image for their dedication to creating an all-white nation.

According to its "manifesto," Patriot Front embraces white supremacy, antisemitism, fascism, and a racist version of American nationalism.

Patriot Front frontman Thomas Rousseau led protesters from Vanguard America, including Alex Fields Jr., the Ohio man who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Fields killed Heather Heyer and injured others. He was recently sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder and nine counts of malicious wounding.
Why Murfreesboro?

Groups like Patriot Front, Vanguard America and others target college campuses in an attempt to lure in students who are then encouraged to engage in real-world activism on college campuses.

Since 2017, fliers for Vanguard America and Idenity Evropa have been found on MTSU campus. Identity Evropa has been rebranded as "American Identity Movement" in an attempt to distance itself from the fall out of the Charlottesville rally.

Perhaps they think they can find a willing audience in Middle Tennessee. In 2018, Tennessee ranked No. 2 on a list for states with the most hate groups. We had 37 hate groups for the 5.6 per million people living here, but when adjusted for population, Tennessee ranks higher than all other states.
What great news from Tennessee! Whites in other states need to get active and catch up to climb in rank.
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Re: White activism at Bellingham ID in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:00 pm

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Ferndale Police investigating signs promoting white supremacist ideology

By Robert Mittendorf
August 05, 2019 01:46 PM, Updated August 05, 2019 11:44 PM

Ferndale Police are investigating posters linked to a national hate group that were placed downtown two weekends ago — possibly during the Old Settlers Grand Parade.

“If somebody is putting up these flyers in our town, we want to know who they are and why,” Ferndale police and city spokesman Riley Sweeney said in an interview with The Bellingham Herald.

Ferndale resident Ryan Reilly said in an interview with The Herald that he saw at least four flyers for the Patriot Front posted on utility poles at intersections along Main Street as he was leaving the parade on the afternoon of July 27.

“I tore it down,” Reilly said. “I’m sure it was somebody in town for the parade.”
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A float in the parade was photographed flying the Confederate flag, an incident that sparked concern last week.

Many people defended the Confederate flag in comments on the story at The Bellingham Herald’s page on Facebook last weekend.

Others decried the image as racist, and the story had more than 850 comments, reactions and shares.

Both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League — organizations that that track hate groups, bigotry and anti-Semitism — have the Patriot Front on their watch lists.

“Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said at its website.

A post at the ADL website called the Patriot Front a racist, anti-Semitic organization.

“Patriot Front is a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it solely to them,” the ADL said.

Reilly said one of the posters that he saw took that viewpoint, claiming that American Indian lands weren’t stolen from their native inhabitants.

“It’s finally gotten here. Ferndale can’t hide,” Reilly said. “After what happened in El Paso over the weekend, this is even more dangerous.”

A gunman linked to anti-immigrant racism killed 22 people and wounded more than two dozen more on Saturday in El Paso, Texas, according to news reports.

Reilly said that another of the posters said “Keep America American.”

In an email, Sweeney said Ferndale is “one of the most demographically diverse” parts of Whatcom County, and city officials denounce the politics of hate.

“Ferndale is a welcoming community to all people, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or country of origin,” he said. “We stand united against racist, xenophobic groups that promote bigotry and hatred. Our county has an ugly history of racism and that is why it is more important than ever to speak out and say with absolute clarity that Ferndale rejects white nationalists and anyone who wishes to divide us by prejudice.”

Read more here: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/l ... rylink=cpy
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Re: White activism at Evansville IN in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:30 pm

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White Supremacist Flyers Left on Cars at University of Southern Indiana
By WKU Public Radio News • Aug 7, 2019

The University of Southern Indiana is investigating a series of white supremacist flyers left on cars at the school’s campus in Evansville.

The flyers were found Tuesday on U.S.I.’s campus, and asked the question, “Proud to be white?” A school spokesman confirmed the flyers, and said U.S.I.’s public safety division is looking into it.

The Evansville Courier & Press reported the flyers contained a QR code that connects to the website for a group called The Creativity Alliance.

That organization is white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigration and calls itself a “church.”

The group’s website says its golden rule is, “What is good for the White Race is of the highest virtue. What is bad for the White Race is the ultimate sin”.

A recent report from the Anti-Defamation League said the distribution of white supremacist propaganda on college campuses increased nationwide for the third straight year, with Kentucky recording the second-highest number of incidents in the nation.
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Re: White activism at Bloomington IN in the news

Post by Jim Mathias » Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:57 pm

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All they want to do is help watch the neighborhood
All they want to do is help watch the neighborhood
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‘This can’t happen’: Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers disturb residents
By Annie Aguiar
Published Aug 5, 2019 5:40 pm

When Annalia Hopper saw the flyer, she screamed.

An image of a Ku Klux Klan member pointed out from the paper at the 22-year-old IU student, a reference to the Uncle Sam recruiting poster. In bold letters, it read: “Honorable Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Neighborhood Watch.”

“Do your part to keep white communities safe and report all suspicious activity!” the flyer read. “You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake!”

The flyer was one of multiple found Monday morning in the driveways and parking lots of Bloomington residences, a discovery that has left many feeling disturbed and unsafe.

The flyer Hopper saw was found on North Dunn Street, where Hopper lives in an apartment building with her 21-year-old boyfriend Dylan Miller. Both Hopper and Miller said they are white.

“It’s just a terrible, terrible, terrible thing,” Hopper said.

Miller walked out to his car at 7 a.m. to get a pair of shoes for work. He saw a zip-close bag containing two Tootsie Pop lollipops and a flyer next to the car, but didn’t see what the flyer said until he got another look. After bringing it inside and showing Hopper, he got dressed and walked around the neighborhood looking for more before going into work.

“It literally makes me want to cry,” he said.

A phone number and an email were listed at the bottom of the flyer. Calling the number leads to the pre-recorded recruitment voice message for the Honorable Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which offers information on how to join.

“If it ain’t white, it ain’t right,” the voice message ends. “White power.”

Some have questioned whether or not the flyers are real, but a KKK member confirmed to the Indiana Daily Student they were genuine.

Nicole Noble, the Imperial Klokan/Chief Investigator for the Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana, said she didn’t know who exactly distributed the flyers but confirmed they were KKK materials.

“All that flyer says is to report suspicious activity,” Noble said over text. “What’s the issue?”

The Bloomington Police Department is currently investigating the flyers, and a City of Bloomington press release urges residents to report any more flyers by calling the BPD office number at (812) 339-4477.

“Hate has no place in Bloomington, and public safety is a top concern,” said Mayor John Hamilton in the release. “Residents who find additional, similar material or have any information about it should contact our police department.”

Miller said when he initially called BPD to report the flyer, a BPD office employee laughed at him. She reportedly said the flyers weren't illegal, so the police weren’t going to do anything about it.

BPD declined to comment, pending an investigation. Miller and Hopper said they did speak to police again later, after multiple reports of the flyers had garnered attention.

Bloomington resident Brant Moriarity said two families on his street on the south side found the flyers in zip-close bags containing candy in their driveways this morning. The families, who have contacted police but are not going public at this time, both have adopted black children.

“It makes me think they were being watched,” he said. “It’s quite disturbing.”

The flyer was posted to Facebook earlier today by No Space For Hate Bloomington, an organization denouncing and protesting hatred and white supremacy. Abby Ang, an IU Ph.D. student and lead organizer of the group, said August is recruitment season for the KKK as students return for the semester.

However, Ang said tensions this summer surrounding allegations of white supremacy against farmers’ market vendor Schooner Creek Farm and national concerns have led to a heightened response.

“Because of the white supremacist shooting in El Paso this weekend and because of the community tension around the farmer’s market, people are very much alert to increases of white supremacy happening,” she said. “Everyone is justifiably nervous. We don’t want something like Charlottesville or that kind of shooting to happen here.”

Ang said No Space for Hate Bloomington is discussing distributing their own flyers with positive, inclusive messages in response.

After seeing the flyer this morning, Hopper said she had a panic attack and has been anxious all day. Miller said he was distracted at his job today thinking about the flyer, unable to function.

When he got off of work, Miller rode his bike around town looking for more flyers to get rid of, and some of his friends did the same. He said he wants to do anything he can to counter a KKK presence in Bloomington.

“This can’t happen,” Miller said. “In this day and age, it doesn’t need to happen. We don’t even feel safe.

Additional reporting for this story was done by Ellen Hine.
Screaming. Crying. Unable to function. Anxious all day. I don't blame the police for laughing at these people over a flyer!

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Re: White activism at Murfreesboro TN in the news

Post by Will Williams » Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:32 am

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White supremacist flier found in downtown Murfreesboro

Jul 26, 2019 at 10:00 am by Michelle Willard
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A flier for a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist group was found in downtown Murfreesboro Thursday night.
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Perhaps they think they can find a willing audience in Middle Tennessee. In 2018, Tennessee ranked No. 2 on a list for states with the most hate groups. We had 37 hate groups for the 5.6 per million people living here, but when adjusted for population, Tennessee ranks higher than all other states.
What great news from Tennessee! Whites in other states need to get active and catch up to climb in rank.
37 hate groups in Tennessee, according to the wonderful civic-minded queers, Jews and other non-Whites at the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC claims that three of those hate groups" are in my Upper East Tennessee Johnson County, a rural county with just 20,000 of the state;s 5.6 million residents. What a crock o' crap. :?

One of those three was some Klucker ex-con who started his own one-man "hate group" in the Butler community that never got off the ground, fizzled, and is defunct. Another is Sacred Truth Ministries, a one-man operation that sells Christian books.

Then there is the dread National Alliance "hate group" -- that's me, my wife and a helper -- because we also sell books and CDs from here. There is no "group." In fact the SPLC spends a lot of it tax-exempt half billion endowment insuring that we have little funding and that no one will join with us, because "who wants to be associated with a 'hate group'?" It's stated goal, according to SPLC spokespersons is to "destroy" the National Alliance.

So, in the second most active state for "hate groups" according to the SPLC -- Tennessee, with 37 -- three of those, or nearly 10% are here in Johnson County. And people actually believe that crap because, after all, "SPLC "is a law center."
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Re: White activism at Chattanooga TN in the news

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With tweet, white nationalist group establishes presence in Chattanooga

by WTVC, Sam Luther

Friday, August 9th 2019

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WTVC) - A white nationalist group that has recently re-branded itself as the "American Identity Movement" (AIM) tweeted earlier this week three photos of its stickers on various landmarks in downtown Chattanooga. As of Friday, the stickers have since been removed.

AIM used to be known as "Identity Evropa," a group that was involved with the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in the summer of 2017. The group is currently facing a lawsuit over their role in the deadly rally. The AIM website currently says, "AIM is a growing, active movement defending our nation against mass immigration and the scourge of globalism." It's "Latest News" section contains posts with titles such as "Dying of Whiteness."

Since the re-branding, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors groups such as these, the group "has attempted to frame their views in ways that appeal to mainstream conservative audiences." The SPLC continues, "The group’s rebrand offers further cover to smuggle white nationalist views into mainstream politics."

The AIM Twitter account has posted photos of its brand in other cities, including at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Leesburg, Virginia, and Richardson, Texas, and many others.

AIM made its presence known in Tennessee earlier this year, with a conference convened by it and other white nationalist groups in Nashville.

White nationalist and white supremacist groups have been the source of a new focus on domestic terrorism by the FBI, in the wake of Saturday's deadly shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. (Law enforcement officials have been hesitant to definitively link the El Paso shooting to the suspect’s alleged anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic writings, but they are investigating the attack as domestic terrorism and a possible hate crime).

The FBI recently requested proposals for a “social media early alerting tool” that would help proactively monitor terrorist threats online. The bureau also wants full access to suspects’ social media profiles across multiple platforms.

“The FBI needs near real-time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions,” the request states.

Not everyone agrees that should be the FBI's focus, however. Earlier this week, Fox News Channel opinion host Tucker Carlson called white supremacy "a hoax." In response, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said "He has used his platform to push out prejudice. I think it's disgusting and I don't think it deserves a place on a major news network."

NewsChannel 9 reached out to city leaders in Chattanooga about the AIM tweet. Wade Hinton and Alison Lebovitz, co-chairs of the Council Against Hate, shared the following statement:

"We're confident that these stickers and the organization they represent are not indicative of how most Chattanoogan's feel and who we are. Chattanooga welcomes people from all walks of life, backgrounds, and cultures to live, work, and thrive in our City."

To learn more about the Council Against Hate, or how to get involved or to report incidents, visit cha.city/againsthate.

We also reached out to AIM today to see if they'd answer a few of our questions. We have not heard back.

This is a developing story and will be updated.
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