RECENT REPORTS
THE COLUMBIA PAPER - What Hate-Watch Report says it needs now is for us to bear witness. The group asks that we not avert our eyes when the threat of hate is embraced as the route to power and fear is used as the tool to maintain it. Become vigilant. Remain involved. - Parry Teasdale, Editor
WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN THE COMMUNITY
WLM_NEW_YORK from December 2021 through October 2022
October 23, 2022, 'stop white flight' banner hung off a Berkshire Spur bridge.
October 2, 2022, antisemitic propaganda tossed in yards throughout Chatham & Ghent - bags of beans filled with hate...
May 14, 2022 'stop white replacement banner' hung off Berkshire Spur bridges...
February 11, 2022, dozen WLM_NEW_YORK extremists on the Village Green in Woodstock...
January 14, 2022, small group holding a white supremacist banner at a Village square in Chatham...
January 4, 2022, video of a “meet-up” in North Greenbush…
December 2021, stickers on park benches, parking meters, utility poles and road signs in Hudson and Stockport…
WLM_NEW_YORK - 'white replacement' banners - May & October 2022
Left - Oct 23
Right - May 14
Berkshire Spur
Town of Chatham
WLM_NEW_YORK - bags of beans filled with hate - October 2, 2022
Several residents within the Village of Chatham found these sandwich bags filled with beans and white supremacist literature in their front yards... beans were used to give weight to the bags so they could be thrown from a passing car.
WLM_NEW_YORK - assemble at Woodstock Green - February 11, 2022
About a dozen white supremacists staged assembled on Woodstock’s village green on Friday, February 11, holding a “White Lives Matter New York” banner and brandishing signs with slogans such as “Anti-racist = Anti-white” and “Stop White Guilt.”
WLM_NEW_YORK - assemble in Village of Chatham - January 14, 2022
"Look closely at this photo. If you were shown a picture of three people standing at the Village gazebo in front of a burning cross dressed in white robes with pointed white hoods, well, what would be the difference?" - Chatham resident
WLM_NEW_YORK - meet-up in North Greenbush - January 3, 2022
Hate-Watch Report received this report on January 3rd:
"Most of the video is taken in the Rensselaer Technology Park in the Town of North Greenbush. The signs they are vandalizing are trail markers for a waterfall trail. The entrance to the trail is next to the parking lot for one of Regeneron's buildings - which can be seen in the background toward the end of the video.
WLM_NEW_YORK - recruiting stickers - Winter 2021-2022
Two stickers found in
Kinderhook
January 23, 2022
Two of several
stickers found in
Hudson, Valatie
and Stockport
December 18 and 21
Defacement of BLM Sign - Copake/Ancram - June 2, 2021
Report from local resident: "Someone put up this altered BLM poster on Route 7A on the road between Copake and Ancram. It is not just defaced. It was taken, then altered by painting over the "black", letting it dry, and then painting "white" over it, then taken and nailed up by the side of the road."
Q-anon (?) sign along Niverville Road - March 6, 2021
Is it Q-anon?
"donate-your-organs-in-Wuhan" or
Is it anti-immigration?
"getha-phuk-outa-r-country"
Or, is it just to be obnoxious and hateful?
In the past year, this and similar signs have been nailed to trees around Chatham Center, Malden Bridge and Old Chatham.
And, along CR 21 going west from Valatie - April 4, 2021
B.C.L.D.D.
BIDEN CHINA LOVERS
and DEMOCRATS for the DEVIL
PATRIOT FRONT IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
City of Hudson
August 23, 2021
401 State Street
photo - left
City of Hudson
August 10, 2021
Dog Park
photo - right
Hamlet of Germantown - August 6, 2021
Church & Main
photo - left
Hamlet of Germantown - August 9, 2021
Maple & Main
photo - right
Village of Chatham
May 5, 2021
Park Row & Kinderhook
photo - left
Town of Germantown
May 11, 2021
Palatine Park
photo - right
Town of Germantown - July 3, 2021
Palatine Park
Village of Chatham - February 17, 2021
Park Row in front of the old Masonic Lodge
scan of sticker - left
Village of Philmont - February 2021
Two stickers along Main Street
Read LOCAL NEWS about PATRIOT FRONT recruitment efforts - including placing stickers and posters throughout the Hudson Valley.
OATH KEEPERS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
Statewide Leadership & Local Membership (2009-2021)
Just five years ago - in 2017 - Columbia County was home to the leadership of the New York Oath Keepers.
At that time, the leader of the New York Oath Keepers was Town of Chatham resident, the late John Wallace, who was also the Chair of the Town of Chatham Republican Committee.
Oath Keepers Rally for Hudson City Police - August 2016
"Chief, even though you participated and are thanking the attendees, I'm glad to hear you are not endorsing the Oathkeeper rally and the political rhetoric behind it."
"It would have been easy to mistake your behavior as supporting the organization and the text that the event organizers publicly posted." - Michael Chameides, Supervisor 3rd Ward
CONSTITUIONAL SHERIFF MOVEMENT
Far-Right Militancy in County Sheriff Departments
The movement formed around an organization called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is a phenomenon rarely, if ever, seen in the United States - a concerted, long-term effort to recruit law enforcement officers into the broader anti-government Patriot movement.
- Southern Poverty Law Center -
LOCAL FLAGS DISPLAYED IN THE COMMUNITY
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