-Caveat Lector- HateWatch Updates - http://hatewatch.org For more information visit the HateWatch web site at http://hatewatch.org HateWatch News for August 4, 1999 **Racist Describes Killing Of Gay Man In Alabama** A white supremacist told jurors Wednesday that he and an Alabama construction worker fatally beat a gay man in a crime so brutal that jurors were visibly shaken when they saw photographs of the corpse. Steve Mullins, who pleaded guilty in June to beating to death Billy Jack Gaither in February, testified that he told defendant Charles Butler that he intended to kill Gaither before the evening that they met at a Rockford, Alabama, bar. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990804/ts/crime_murder_1.html **Police brace for neo-Nazi, civil rights confrontation** Police in the nation's capital say they are braced for a neo-Nazi rally and counterdemonstrations scheduled Saturday in front of the White House. U.S. Park Police said Tuesday they expect about 300 people to participate in the American Nationalist Party-sponsored four-block march along Pennsylvania Avenue to Lafayette Park and about 500 counter-demonstrators. http://www.herald.com/content/today/digdocs/072107.htm **NAACP Stokes Flag Controversy** The NAACP, which suggests tourists avoid South Carolina because the Confederate flag still flies over the Statehouse,is prepared to take the fight further. The civil rights group has amassed campaign records to learn which companies have donated money to lawmakers who want the flag to stay.Supporters say the flag represents South Carolina's heritage and honors its war veterans; The NAACP considers it a symbol of slavery and racism. http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990804/V000444-080499-idx.html **Hate Crime Bill Nearing Approval** After several years of lobbying, supporters of a bill to increase the government's power to prosecute hate crimes say they are closer than ever to seeing it passed by Congress and signed into law. Two weeks ago, the Senate approved it without debate and added the bill to its version of a government spending measure for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990804/V000272-080499-idx.html **Players react to Jacobs' Klan gag ** Indians players reacted cautiously when asked about owner Dick Jacobs donning a makeshift Ku Klux Klan hood and carrying a sign saying "How do we get to the Justice Center?" in front of several guests, including George L. Forbes and Wayne Embry, on board his private jet during a flight to the All-Star Game last month. http://www.cleveland.com/sports/pdnews/s04hoyn.ssf **Yosemite: Hate crimes?** Authorities have postponed deciding who will prosecute Cary Stayner for the slayings of three Yosemite tourists, while a relative of the victims said she'll testify today in a congressional hearing on hate crimes. ``I do feel this was a hate crime,'' said Carole Carrington, mother of Carole Sund and grandmother of Juli Sund, who were killed last February along with their friend Silvina Pelosso. ``The man did not know Carole and Juli and Silvina, and the only reason he killed them was because they were women.'' http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/yosemite04.htm **Church members serving time or awaiting trial** The World Church of the Creator was started in 1973 by the late Florida legislator Ben Klassen. 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