Far Right Thugs Go Mainstream

By Glenn Greenwald, AlterNet. Posted July 11, 2006.

The recent 'payback' tactics of right-wing bloggers listing the names and addresses of 'leftist' enemies could mark the beginning of incivil politics.

As is true for many lawyers who have defended First Amendment free speech rights, I have represented several groups and individuals with extremist and even despicable viewpoints (in general, and for obvious reasons, it is only groups and individuals who espouse ideas considered repugnant by the majority which have their free speech rights threatened). Included among this group were several White Supremacist groups and their leaders, including one such group -- the World Church of the Creator -- whose individual members had periodically engaged in violence against those whom they considered to be the enemy (comprised of racial and religious minorities along with the "race traitors" who were perceived to defend them).