Former Vancouver loser Craig Cobb wants to lure white supremacists to North Dakota

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      Former Downtown Eastside resident Craig Cobb is back in the news.

      According to the Province newspaper, the supposed white-supremacist rabble rouser is trying to persuade fellow white racists to move to an enclave he's purportedly creating in North Dakota.

      I can remember writing articles about this loser back in 2010 when he videotaped antiracist activists who attended an anti-Nazi rally at the Braid SkyTrain station.

      It was a brazen act worthy of condemnation.

      A year earlier, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch news service reported that Cobb had been kicked out of Estonia in 2006 after trying to set up an International Office of White Diaspora in the Baltic country.

      Cobb was also sent packing from Finland after being held in an immigration-detention centre with Africans and Middle Easterners, according to Hatewatch.

      It would be comical if it weren't so threatening.

      After all, Scandinavia produced one of the deadliest white supremacists of the modern era: Anders Behring Breivik.

      In December 2010, Cobb was charged in Vancouver with promoting hatred through his website.

      The RCMP had arrested him the previous June at the Vancouver Public Library.

      Is Cobb a fink?

      I've sometimes privately wondered if Cobb might actually be working for law-enforcement authorities in an undercover capacity.

      It wouldn't be the first time this has happened.

      Grant Bristow turned out to be a Canadian Security Intelligence Service operative who infiltrated the neo-Nazi movement in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s.

      I have no proof that Cobb is another Bristow, but his travelling road show would be a wonderful way for police to entrap hateful racists around the world.

      This suspicion of mine surfaced after I phoned the Mounties in 2010 to inquire about Cobb videotaping local activists.

      The call was never returned. That's unusual in this era of hyper-vigilant police media relations.

      It left me wondering why local cops seemed to be going easy on a man who's been described as a "hard-core white supremacist" and operator of "one of the nastiest hate sites" on the Internet.

      By the time charges were laid in Vancouver, he had already skedaddled across the border into the United States. And he can't be extradited on the charges he's facing here. How convenient.

      If the U.S. DEA can drag Marc Emery's ass across the border for selling marijuana seeds when he was never charged in Canada, it's difficult to believe that all-powerful U.S. authorities would be unable to get Cobb to step foot in Canada.

      So why would I suggest that Cobb might be an undercover agent? Why blow his cover?

      Well, if he's the real deal—a genuinely hateful racist demogogue— then at the very least, I may have planted a seed of doubt in the minds of any racists who read this post.

      That just might make him a little less trustworthy to his friends.

      This graphic was on Cobb's website—but he hasn't been charged for it in the U.S.

      Comments

      13 Comments

      racistindian

      Aug 27, 2013 at 3:35pm

      chinese can have a chinatown without any issues at all, but all hell breaks loose if a white guy wants to have a whitetown and for all the haters, I am brown.

      DavidH

      Aug 27, 2013 at 3:59pm

      The US won't extradite in Cobb's case because white supremacy and hate speech aren't illegal down yonder. He's just a good ol' boy. And y'all can't be offendin' folk like that if ya wanna win an election!

      I'm delighted he's gathering like-minded people in his Nazi Town. The more the merrier. Drones do more damage when the target is concentrated.

      Full Retard

      Aug 27, 2013 at 4:28pm

      Yet another low brow Hater.

      @racistindian Just a guess you about as Indian as my Dog, China Towns exist within diverse Cities and all are Free to visit and shop.

      What this Hater is proposing is an exclusive White only Town complete with Nazi Flag and Hitler worship.

      Only Haters with low IQ go for that shit.

      That picture on his website will get him a personal visit from the Secret Service I hope they at least Tase that coward.

      Michele Baillie

      Aug 27, 2013 at 6:33pm

      @Full Retard:

      Actually Israel is just as exclusive, and I wouldn't call Israeli's dumb.

      DaleVanderMeer

      Aug 27, 2013 at 7:15pm

      Is Charlie Smith a real name or just a dyslexic hack and mental basket case living in his parents basement? This piece of "journalism" is nothing more than canards and slurs laced in opinions. if you want the truth about Craig Cobb, then Google my name (Or "DaleVM") instead of reading this biased and tabloid trash by "Charlie Smith"!

      HumanSoHuman

      Aug 28, 2013 at 7:51am

      @Walter Summerson

      "You must understand that white people are incredibly powerful. I mean, in spite of being a global minority, they commanded empires that ruled the seas and much of the territory of this planet. Without the right-thinking policy of tying white people's hands behind their backs and disallowing them to organize together qua white people, they will simply create another ultra-successful empire."

      Assuming this isn't a troll. OH THE IRONY.

      Whites are OH SO POWERFUL, yet they can't even set aside a little town in the middle of nowhere to be exclusively their domain? What the hell are you smoking?

      G'day

      Alan Layton

      Aug 28, 2013 at 8:39am

      'racistindian' - you're obviously a whitey, and you know nothing about Chinatown, here, or anywhere else in N. America. Chinatown here exists because Chinese people were forced to live there. They were brutally discouraged from living amongst the white population and from owning property outside of the area. Originally they were even forced to live on the south side of Pender street, on the then swampy shores of False Creek. In fact they had to build their businesses and homes on pilings while the 'white' side of the street was high and dry. Chinatown arose from white hatred and it's no wonder that the people down there now are so protective of their land. Try reading some history before making idiotic comments.

      DavidH

      Aug 28, 2013 at 11:30am

      Walter Summerson wrote: "As I understand it, Indian Bands in Canada do this, their reserves are for them alone---the "no tresspassing" signs mean that non-members are not allowed to enter."

      Obviously, you have never visited a native reserve. I have, many times. But because it is their property, and not mine, I always stop to ask if I can cross it. I have never been refused. On most occasions, I get a smile and a wave to carry on.

      Strangely enough, I also do this if I want to cross a white farmer's property. Gasp! Imagine that. Respecting somebody else's property!

      You might be surprised to learn, Wally, that native people are remarkably human. The fact that we have pushed them onto reserves (boundaries defined by us) doesn't change that.

      racistindian...

      Aug 28, 2013 at 12:41pm

      ...a postmodern Oreo cookie