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Oklahoma woman’s death prompts look at ‘home-grown’ white supremacist set

 
BY RON JACKSON and JOHNNY JOHNSON   
Published: November 13, 2008

Slaying victim Cynthia C. Lynch appears to have been enticed into the Louisiana bayous of St. Tammany Parish for an initiation by a "home-grown Klan group,” a national expert on extremist groups told The Oklahoman on Wednesday.

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Group found on MySpace

While parish officials aren’t sure what Internet site or online chatroom Cynthia Lynch used to set up a meeting with the white supremacist group, several members did maintain MySpace pages and a MySpace group. The group page boasted 28 members, but only 14 were listed on Wednesday.

The fledgling "White Pride” MySpace group, moderated by a Chuck Foster, is populated by a couple dozen people from various states who have posted three topics in the last year, all of which are racially charged and contain profanity and incorrect grammar.

"There is a lot of (expletive) going on today in this world mainly in america. our white people are getting pushed around by the jews, (racial slur) and the miedia and i’m sick of it! we need to stand up and stop this before it gets out of control its happening everywhere in our schools, streets, store’s even our homes and our white children are being taught (expletive) beside’s what their sopposed to learn,” Foster writes in the first MySpace post in October 2007.

The "White Pride” group on MySpace features some Oklahomans, including "Steven” from Cleveland and "Jeremiah” of Broken Arrow.

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Mark Pitcavage, director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, said he is surprised by how little is known of the Bogalusa-based group, the Sons of Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Lynch’s death will likely change that unknown status.

Raymond "Chuck” Foster, 44 — the group’s self-proclaimed imperial wizard — is jailed on suspicion of shooting the Tulsan to death during an initiation in the deep bayous along the Pearl River.

"There are over 40 different Klan groups in the United States, ranging from small, single-chapter groups to large, multichapter groups in several states,” Pitcavage said.

"Nobody’s ever heard of this group before. We track extremist groups all over the country. Even our New Orleans office hasn’t heard of these people. This group was completely off the radar screen.”

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said the group recruited Lynch over the Internet to participate in the initiation, and expected her to return to Oklahoma to recruit other new members.

Cathy Glaser, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the League has noticed that a "lot of anger and resentment” has been expressed online since Barack Obama was elected president.

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