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...toward another racial tragedy. Succumbing to peer pressure, Sims had gone along with friends to a segregationist rally that day--and now he was holding a revolver that his classmate, Michael Lee Farley, 16, had handed him as they rode home on Farley's red motorbike, its small Confederate flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled the trigger. Two bullets hit Virgil in the chest and cheek, hurling him into a ditch as the motorbike sped...
Afterward, Farley, Sims and friends stopped at the offices of the National States Rights Party, a Klan-associated group. Farley bought a mini Confederate flag for 40, and they heard reports of retaliatory rock throwing by angry black youths. A white teenager, Dennis Robertson, while returning from his job, was struck in the head with a brick hurled by a black teen; he would spend days in critical condition before recovering. Upset by the news, Farley headed out. Sims, caught up in the day's emotions, says he "went along for the ride" on Farley's motorbike...
...these things could be corrected if we turned it over to the people, and one of those people is me. And I point my finger at myself: when you see me, I'll be the man in black, one of those responsible. And that kind of became my flag bearer, that song. And I've worn that mantle ever since...
...drill work in terms of toughness and combativeness and mental toughness,” Doherty said. “We preach winning the battle despite the odds. We have a drill called capture the flag where we have one guy find a way to win against three...
...Muhajiroun is typical of the zealous Islamist fringe that targets disaffected young Muslims in Britain. Anti-Jew, antigay and antipornography, the group, founded in London by Syrian-born Bakri, is patient in its approach but extremist in its long-term goals. It wants to see Islam's flag fly over Downing Street in a new caliphate in which Muslims are united in one great borderless state under Shari'a law. The highly active group stages meetings all around Britain on a daily basis and claims to have branches in 30 British cities and offices in 21 countries, including a presence...