U.S. white supremacist videotapes anti-Nazi rally in New Westminster
White supremacist Craig Cobb (above) posted video of himself and antiracist demonstrators on the Podblanc Web site, which is viewed by many extremists.
Antiracist activists at Braid SkyTrain station show up on white pride Web site
On his site, Craig Cobb has an avatar depicting U.S. president Barack Obama with a gun to his head.
A significant figure in the American white-supremacist movement was videotaping people who attended a March 21 antiracism rally at the Braid SkyTrain station in New Westminster.
Craig Cobb posted the footage on the Podblanc video-sharing Web site, which is soliciting donations by mail to his address on East Pender Street in Vancouver.
According to a 2007 report by the U.S.-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, Cobb has been active in the World Church of the Creator, White Revolution, and other neo-Nazi groups. He has distributed copies of a racist tabloid called the Aryan Alternative and was “the first person to prominently post the home address of a federal judge whose husband and mother were later murdered there”. The SPLC stated that the killer was not connected to racist groups.
In a 2009 report, the SPLC maintained that Cobb had been deported from Estonia and Finland. He went abroad to create an "International Office of White Diaspora".
“He promotes violence on Podblanc, which he founded in April 2007,” the SPLC stated. “Keith Luke, a mentally disturbed young man in Brockton, Mass., who in January allegedly murdered two black immigrants and attempted to murder a third, told police he was inspired by white supremacist web sites such as Podblanc.”
The SPLC’s director of research, Heidi Beirich, told the Georgia Straight by phone that Cobb has been on her organization’s radar for a long time.
“Craig Cobb is a hard-core white supremacist who has been involved in the movement in multiple countries,” Beirich said. “Podblanc, which he runs, is one of the nastiest hate sites on the Web, hands down.”
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Video: Vancouver antiracists protest at site of rumoured white pride march
Photos: Vancouver antiracists protest no-show neo-Nazis at Braid Station
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Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a foreign national is inadmissible on security grounds for “being a danger to the security of Canada” and for “being a member of an organization that there are reasonable grounds to believe engages, has engaged or will engage” in espionage or subversion against a democratic government, institution or process.
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On what date did Cobb enter Canada?
What is his status here? Visitor, temporary worker on a visa, or landed immigrant?
Has a copy of this article been sent to the Immigration authorities?
Rod Smelser
here are two articles about him
http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2009/08/looky-who-wants-to-come-to...
http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2009/08/looky-who-wants-to-come-to...
Charlie Smith
In 2000 Ken Silverstein wrote a piece on the SPLC in Harpers, at that time, Silverstein pointed out, the SPLC was “the wealthiest civil rights group in America,” with $120 million in assets. In May 2009, Alex Cockburn wrote the following in Counterpunch: "As of October 2008 the net assets of the SPLC were $170,240,129, The merchant of hate himself, Mr. (Morris) Dees (CEO of the SPLC Franchise), was paid an annual $273,132 as chief trial counsel, and the SPLC’s president and CEO, Richard Cohen, $290,193. Total revenue in 2007 was $44,727,257 and program expenses $20,804,536. In other words, the Southern Poverty Law Center was raising twice as much as it was spending on its proclaimed mission. Fund-raising and administrative expenses accounted for $9 million, leaving $14 million to be put in the center’s vast asset portfolio."
Groups like the SPLC, (like most large enviro groups), serve a clear function: allowing liberals to feel good about themselves, as though they are doing something to change the world. In fact, they are vehicles for self-promotion for people such as Dees. Politics is about confronting the powers that be, not chasing minor figures at Skytrain stations.
seems like totally missed the mark with this article: it is about a well-known white supremacist who is now living in vancouver. someone who promotes hates and violence.
why are you making this about the SPLC? or 'liberals'? or the straight?
what does it matter what the SPLC does or what vancouver activists are doing - this article is about a hateful bigot.
i hoped that for once, with such a clear example of racist hate, people would take this seriously.
i'm really disturbed that this is what you got from the article.
The white pride parade was going to happen; I saw the event pages PERSONALLY on several websites.
If they didn't show up, that means the protest was a success, not arbitrary.
But golly there’s Jason as well referring us to Which Way for Western Man over on another Georgia Straight article (http://bit.ly/c1FkJc).
And the whole gang’s fingers must be developing calluses from pressing the “agree” and “disagree” buttons in such quantity over at the first article (http://bit.ly/9pfVOp).
Heck, Alex Linder said it best: “Right now Whites ARE getting the job done on the Internet. We dominate any message board that allowed comments, and quickly reduce the System hacks and pseudo radicals to sputtering and then suppression. ... Comments sections, no matter the stripe of the publication, show the readers always to the White side of the editors.”
My oh my I guess racial holy war really is catching on in Vancouver.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-southern-poverty-law-center-bunches-in-w...
Calling Bronstein aka Trosky "a famous revolutionary" is like calling Hitler "a famous nationalist." As the head of the Red Army following the western bank funded Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Empire, Bronstein was responsible for the mass murder and enslavement of tens of millions of innocent Russians for the crime of being "bourgeoise."
Thanks for reminding me to connect the dots, the point of the references to the SPLC is that there are people who make good money inflating non-existent threats, just ask the 9/11 conspiracy kooks.
These Cobb sightings bring to mind the many Elvis sightings, and probably signify some deep cultural phenomenon, but politics they ain't. The right wing is not a threat, the dead centre, i.e. the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Democratic party, Republican party, is the threat.