- Edgar Steele
Edgar J. Steele is an attorney and author from northern
Idaho .Notable cases
He defended the
Aryan Nations in a lawsuit, which he ultimately lost. [cite news |title= Leaders of Aryan Nations Found Negligent in Attack |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E7DC1339F93BA3575AC0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |work=The New York Times |date=2000-09-08 |accessdate=2008-04-08 ] In another case Steele challenged Idaho's "hate crime " laws in defending Lonny Rae, a man who had been charged with malicious harassment for shouting the pejorative word "nigger " at areferee during a high school football match. He claimed that the law breached the constitutional right tofree speech under theFirst Amendment . Rae was cleared of this charge but sentenced to seven days imprisonment forassault . [cite book |title=Opposing Hate Speech |last=Cortese |first=Anthony |coauthors=Delgado, Richard |year=2005 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=0275984273 |pages=pp 21-23 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z0_9MKrF8owC&pg=PA22&dq=%22Edgar+J.+Steele%22+%2Battorney&num=100&sig=hpEjfvqZQ4NZIZaFc5gTE0QxEwE#PPA24,M1 ] He has also worked as a spokesman forPrussian Blue . [ [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/10/30/2005-10-30_pop_twerps_from_heil_can_t_c.html Pop Twerps From Heil Can'T Carry Tune ] ]He is the author of the book, Defensive Racism: An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences, which examines the differences in the races of the world aside from skin colour and questions the motives of political correctness. [http://www.defensiveracism.com]
He states on his website that:"Two types of people will pick up this book because of its title, those who support racism in some form and those who oppose racism in any form. Both will be surprised to find something here for them.Only the true racist who hates others irrationally, based solely upon skin color, will go away empty handed."
The
Southern Poverty Law Center in the United States listed Steele as a prominentanti-semite [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=40 to Watch | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=208 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2008-09-02 | language = ] .References
External links
[http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/steele.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=steele ADL profile]
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