White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today)

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/25/joe-moore-white-robes-broken-bandages-kkk

FBI informant’s book predicts far-right violence: ‘we should be afraid’
Joe Moore, who for years investigated the Ku Klux Klan, issues a chilling warning for the 2024 election and beyond

Edward Helmore
Sun 25 Aug 2024 08.00 EDT

America’s fraught 2024 election could be hit by far-right violence, warns a high-profile FBI informant who spent years infiltrating the Klu Klux Klan in a new book.

Joe Moore spent a decade tasked with infiltrating KKK chapters in Florida to investigate enduring ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization, an assignment that included disrupting a murder plot by a trio of Klansmen who worked as prison guards.

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Moore’s extraordinary tale has been told previously – both as an Associated Press story in 2021 corroborated using court records and trial transcripts, and as a documentary, Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK, but Moore’s new account comes with an immediate political message.

The foreword is written by the Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, who last week described his experience during the January 6 riot to Democratic conventioneers in Chicago. In the book, Raskin describes the “mobilization of domestic violent extremist groups to act as the frontline shock troops in the assault”. Moore, Raskin writes, “shows how the KKK remains a central entry point and organizing force for violent white nationalism in America”.

… more … estimate 20% law enforcement are klan or klan adjacent)