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By Newsone.com / January 21,2012 In 1981, a lawyer tried to subpoena Ron Paul to testify in the trial of Don Black, a Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan who would later go on to found the white supremacist, neo-Nazi website, Stormfront.  Black was charged along with two other Klansmen with planning to violently overthrow the small Caribbean country of Dominica in what they called "Operation Red Dog."  While a judge refused to subpoena Paul, Don Black would come back to haunt him many years Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A lawyer who allegedly helped finance the foiled plot to overthrow the government of Dominica killed himself after being smeared by "a con man, a liar," a former Ku Klux Klan leader said Monday. J.W. Kirkpatrick, 61, a Mephis lawyer, was found dead in his car Sunday along a highway in Earle, Ark.  The coroner ruled the death a suicide. During last week's trial of three men accused in the Dominica scheme, the plot's admitted ringleader, 32-year-old Michael Perdue, said Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS, June 20— Two of three mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the tiny republic of Dominica in the Caribbean were found guilty today of conspiracy and violation of the Neutrality Act.  A jury of seven women and five men deliberated more than 11 hours before returning guilty verdicts against Stephen Don Black, a 28-year-old Ku Klux Klan leader from Birmingham, Ala., and Joe Daniel Hawkins, 37, a longtime Klansman from Jackson, Miss. Both were found not guilty of violating five firearms statutes. Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS, June 17 -- A grandiose plan to invade the small island nation of Dominica, overthrow its Government and set up profitable industries, including a cocaine-processing plant, is unfolding in Federal District Court this week as a prosecutor questions Government witnesses. The leader of the invasion plan had hoped to leave the east Caribbean island after five years with $3 million to $5 million in profits from various enterprises, according to the testimony of John L. Osburg, special Read more [...]

Wolfgang Droege a white supremacist who spent three years in prison for attempting to overthrow the government of Eugenia Charles in Dominica, was reportedly shot dead in a suburban Toronto apartment on April 14, 2005.  Droege who once led the neo-Nazi Heritage Front was found dead after police responded to complaints of gunshots at a Scarborough apartment building Wednesday afternoon. Read more [...]

Two of three mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the government of the tiny Caribbean island nation of Dominica are found guilty of conspiracy and violation of the Neutrality Act.  Stephen Don Black, a prominent Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader, and Joe Daniel Hawkins, a Klansman from Mississippi, are found guilty of the charges.  Both are found not guilty of violating five firearms statutes. The plot began in 1979, when the neighboring island country of Grenada was taken over by a Read more [...]

Date:  October 04, 2006 Brief:  Tull:  Tell us about coup rumours A VETERAN PARLIAMENTARIAN wants Government to "open up the archives" and let the people know what happened during the Sydney Burnett-Alleyne's attempted coup in 1976. Speaking at the second annual Tom Adams Memorial Lecture at Sharon Primary in St Thomas recently, St George MP Louis Tull said it was time to let the people of Barbados know exactly what happened during the more turbulent events of the Adams administration. "I Read more [...]

By Anita Lee - McClatchy Newspapers BILOXI, Miss. — George Malvaney says he shed his Ku Klux Klan membership and his abortive career as a mercenary by the time he walked out of federal prison, never looking back, two days before his 23rd birthday in July 1982. Today, Malvaney is a key player in the protection and cleanup of Mississippi's shoreline as oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon well. He works daily with Gulf Coast mayors and supervisors, Read more [...]

The prospect of ending up in prison was never very far from the thoughts of the white supremacists.  In most cases, however, charges against them rarely concerned racial matters or Canada’s anti-hate laws (the Zundel and Keegstra cases have been the main exceptions).  Instead, the charges involved various illegalities such as theft and assault that were often by-products of their racist orientations.  White supremacists viewed themselves as political prisoners, the victims of a legal order (‘jewdicial’ system) weighted against them.  Yet they sometimes regarded (or rationalized) imprisonment in a positive light. Read more [...]

By The Washington Times Sunday, October 5, 2008 BAYOU OF PIGS By Stewart Bell John Wiley & Sons, $24.95, 272 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN WEISMAN In March 1979, Grenada’s prime minister, Eric Gairy, flew to New York for meetings at the United Nations.  In his absence, a London-trained Grenadian lawyer named Maurice Bishop, “six feet, three inches tall with a big smile and big ideas, part of the generation of students deeply moved by Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution,” staged a coup.  Read more [...]