White Supremacy And Homegrown Terrorism Pose A Growing Threat In The US

Members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement hold flags as they salute and shout “Sieg Heil” during a rally in front of the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Photo: Mel Evans/AP

The recent explosion at an NAACP chapter in Colorado has brought back memories of past violence directed toward the national civil rights group by members of domestic hate groups — a segment of the population that experts warn is on the rise.

By Sean Nevins|MintPress News

The first thing Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), thought of when she heard about the explosion outside the NAACP office in Colorado Springs last week was Walter Leroy Moody Jr.

Beirich, an expert on extremism in the United States, told MintPress News, “It’s not the first time that the NAACP’s been targeted for domestic terrorism – I can’t be sure that that’s what it was, but I thought of Walter Leroy Moody, who bombed an NAACP office in Savannah, Georgia, in 1989.”

Moody was found guilty of killing federal appeals Judge Robert Vance and Robert Robinson, an NAACP attorney in Georgia, with two separate mail bombs in 1989. During his trial in 1991, Moody told the court that the Ku Klux Klan assembled and mailed the bombs that killed Vance and Robinson.

Moody is currently serving several consecutive life sentences at the Holman Correctional Facility, and at almost 80 years old, he is the oldest inmate on Alabama’s death row.

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