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INTERESTING LINKS
Blazak's Blog
Watching the Wheels
https://watchingthewheelsdad.net/author/blazakr/
Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crime
https://oregoncahc.org/author/blazakr/
2015 MLK Bell in Stone Mtn
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/living/stone-mountain-mlk-tower-feat/index.html
Origin of Bell at Stone Mountain Park
https://www.stonemountainpark.com/Activities/History-Nature/Carillon
"The daily concert from our 732-bell Carillon is one of the true joys of Stone Mountain Park. The Carillon was donated by our friends at Coca-Cola after being exhibited in the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. The Park's carillon has been played by Mabel Sharp for over 30 years."
Supreme Court Rules that Odinists in Prison have Religious Rights
even though they are probably racist
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/01/politics/supreme-court-rules-in-ohio-prison-case.html
Thor's Hammer Allowed on Military Gravestones
https://www.fastcodesign.com/1672968/how-thors-hammer-made-its-way-onto-soldiers-headstones
2015 Odinist Inmate Plot in Virginia
The Killer Kindred (EK)
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/killer-kindred
Measure 11 approved in Oregon
https://multco.us/dcj-juvenile/common-laws/measure-11
A State of Mind; Perspectives on Gangs in Oregon
By Traci Ray in 2016
https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/16apr/gangs.html
Rise of the Alt Right
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/alt-right/549242/
Randy Blazak is a PhD from Emory University with a specialty in hate crimes. Specifically he studied racist skinheads (he doesn't say just "skin heads" because you can shave your head without being a racist). He's a professor of sociology at PSU where his intro class is opening people's minds, and a professor of criminology at OU.
His talk for the Freedom From Religion Foundation on 1/15/18 was entitled "With Odin on Our Side; The Role of Religion in Right Wing Extremism." I didn't understand why he said Odin in the title until the end of the talk, but it has to do with the fact that an ancient Viking religion is being propagated in our prisons as a cover for white supremacist gangs. I'm going to take the information from his talk and put it in chronological order, and flesh it out with links to articles around the web, trying to make sense of the times.
At the end of his talk Blazak summarized that there are two profiles for violent haters; sociopaths, and lower level thinkers. Sociopaths, or more specifically people with antisocial personality disorder, have no qualms about injuring or killing others because they have no conscience. These are the people we need to imprison long-term. Lower level thinkers are simply regular folks who joined the cause because they were alone and needed to belong. They weren’t philosophical about it, they were simply vulnerable. These are the people that we need to help.
( Timeline behind cut, links in next postCollapse )Like many Hollywood products, there is not a great deal of substance to this movie beyond what you see in the preview. But there is some. It is a redemption story of a man who is tortured inside and finds a way to make it right. And it toys with important issues, like gang violence, racism, aging, war, patriotism and religion. Eastwood's acting brings humor to all this hard stuff. Clint Eastwood growls and snarls better than just about anybody. The snarl shown above is the face he made when his son wanted to talk about putting him in an old folk's home--on his birthday. I don't plan to go see it again, but I do think it's worth seeing once. Four stars.
( pictures from the flick and a review of the etiologies of hemoptysisCollapse )
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