Here's a very long list of KSS' exploits.

And it would be nice if all of the people defending KSS and Keith Carney on here respond to these charges rather than using rhetorical arguments. I guarantee that none of them will. Most likely the response will be "leftists aren't from philly" or "I have black friends," as so far been the kind of response by KSS supporters.

Of course, many people on the left understand that racism isn't just the guy with swastika tattoos and jack boots. Racism has many different forms: personal, institutional, veiled etc. and nazi boneheads are only the most overt and extreme representatives. And yes someone can be racist and still have black friends, co-workers even spouses. It isn't simple, there aren't just racists and non-racists and if you talk to any leftist that has educated themselves on the matter (and who may have more important things to do than sit at a computer and debate obscure extremists on the internet) they will acknowledge this.

Also, the above name is "anonymous" because as you'll see, KSS has a history of brutal violence against people who oppose them. They're all too proud to boast about how violent they are (Bood as well) outside of one of their pseudo-intellectual arguments. So this writer doesn't want to get beaten to death by fascist thugs.

(from the anti-defamation league's website http://www.adl.org/racist_skinheads/states/pennsylvania.asp#group2.)

Keystone State Skinheads (KSS)
A well-organized, well-established and increasingly violent group that formed in early 2001 in the Harrisburg area. The original impetus for the group's founding was a melee that took place in York, Pennsylvania, in late January of that year, when several hundred racist skinheads were attacked by anarchist groups at a rally sponsored by the World Church of the Creator (now known as the Creativity Movement). Over the next two years, KSS transformed itself from a mainly Harrisburg group to a network of seven regional crews that had members from every major city in the state and associates in New Jersey and Maryland.

KSS has a total membership that numbers around 70. Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Altoona have large chapters, while the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton-based chapter is fairly small, with other KSS chapters falling somewhere in the middle. In early 2003, KSS began to capitalize on its growing prominence by conducting a series of concerts, first in Harrisburg, and then in a series of venues across the state. In late September 2003, Hammerskin Nation allowed KSS to help coordinate Hammerfest, which was held in Pennsylvania. By the beginning of 2004, KSS had become the largest group in the northeastern U.S., and its members had committed numerous bias attacks and other violent crimes. The KSS have very close ties to the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), including a number of dual memberships.

September 2008: On September 7, Philadelphia police officers arrested Keystone State Skinhead Andrew Boyle at a Philadelphia bar for being in possession of a knife. A summary trial is scheduled for December 1, 2008. At the time of his arrest, Boyle was out on bail awaiting trial on another matter. Boyle, along with co-defendants and fellow Keystone State Skinheads Keith Carney and Doug Caffarella, and Atlantic City Skinhead Vincent DeFelice, are charged with assault and conspiracy in the alleged attack of another skinhead outside of a Philadelphia bar in 2007. DeFelice is currently incarcerated in New Jersey on an unrelated matter, but the trial against Boyle, Carney and Caffarella is scheduled for late November 2008.

July 2008: More than a year after a co-defendant pleaded guilty to double murder charges, a fellow racist skinhead followed suit at his hearing on May 23, 2008, in Florida. Charles Marovskis, 29, recently from West Pittston, Pennsylvania, but originally from Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty to two federal charges of second-degree murder in connection with the 1998 beating death of two Florida homeless men. On March 7, 2007, co-defendant and fellow racist skinhead Kenneth Hoover, 34, also from Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to the same charges. Both were arrested in Pennsylvania in early 2007, where they were members of KSS. Hoover entered a federal plea agreement in which he cooperated with the "investigation and prosecution of other persons" who participated in the attack, and in return, the State Attorney's Office did not seek the death penalty against him. While living in Florida, Marovskis and Hoover, along with co-defendants James Robertson and Corey Hulse, were members of the racist skinhead crew Blood and Honour. In 1998 the four men allegedly committed the murders as part of a race war, with the goal of killing anyone they considered inferior, and to increase their status within the movement. Robertson, who is serving time in a federal prison for a murder conviction, pleaded not guilty on June 23, 2008. Hulse remains a fugitive. The body of one victim, a 62-year-old man, was discovered under a highway overpass. He had been beaten and stabbed in the eye with a tire iron. The second victim, a 44-year-old man, was killed with an ax and later found in the woods. The homeless are a common target of attacks by racist skinheads, primarily because they are vulnerable and usually defenseless targets. In March 2007, three members of the Indiana-based Vinlanders Social Club, a racist skinhead organization that helped raise funds for Marovskis after his arrest, were themselves arrested in Indiana for allegedly assaulting a homeless man.

April 2008: A wave of anti-Semitic and racist fliers and incidents of vandalism has plagued towns throughout Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the first four months of 2008. The Keystone State Skinheads posted racist fliers throughout neighborhoods and hung a banner promoting their white supremacist ideology over a highway in early April. In a separate incident, a local 18-year-old girl faces charges for spray painting a synagogue and vacant building with swastikas and anti-Semitic language, including words that the Nazis used to describe Jews during the Holocaust. In January 2008, KSS members posted racist fliers throughout Wilkes-Barre that suggested that the presence of minorities in the community will lead to "Drugs, Crime, Graffiti, Trash-Covered Streets," as well as "gangs and violence." In a post and photos on the KSS Website, the group claimed responsibility for the fliers. Two months later, in late March 2008, two teenage girls allegedly targeted Congregation Ohav Zedek, a Wilkes-Barre synagogue by spray painting a star of David, swastikas and defamatory language on its doors, including the words "abschaum," German for "scum," and "Juden," German for Jews, which was written on the yellow stars that Nazis forced European Jews to wear during World War II. KSS members were not involved in the synagogue vandalism. On April 2, a swastika and the words "Hitler was right" were found spray painted on a vacant building owned by an Ohav Zedek member, the day before a community ceremony to remove the anti-Semitic graffiti from the synagogue. The next day, April 3, following a tip given to police by a local teenage male two days earlier, authorities arrested Nora Rynkeiwicz, an 18-year-old resident of Factoryville, and an unidentified 17-year-old teenage female for the acts of anti-Semitic vandalism against Ohav Zedek and the vacant building. Rynkeiwicz, out on bail after a brief prison stay, faces charges of institutional vandalism, criminal mischief, ethnic intimidation, and criminal conspiracy. In a search of her home on April 1, police reportedly found spray paint cans, which they believe were used to deface the buildings. The 17-year-old, who claims minor participation in the vandalism, will be charged in a juvenile court. Rynkeiwicz espouses a neo-Nazi ideology, according to friends and her MySpace page, which reportedly included swastikas, the words "WHITE SOLDIERS," and Hitler listed as a hero. Just days later, local newspapers reported sightings of racist fliers in Pittston, Shickshinny, and Port Griffith, all towns in Luzerne County. The individual responsible for the fliers remains unknown; however, the KSS website was printed at the bottom of them. The KSS reappeared on April 6, when a banner saying "PRESERVE OUR HERITAGE" and promoting the KSS Web site was found hanging from a bridge over a Wilkes-Barre highway. Photos on the group's Web site reveal KSS members creating an identical sign and similar banners. The captions beneath the photos say, "Activism in Wilkes-Barre."

January 2007: Keystone State Skinhead members Todd Clair Sager and Edward Locke were sentenced to 21 months to 10 years and 33 months to 10 years respectively for their involvement in a March 2005 bar fight. Both men pleaded guilty to a variety of aggravated assault charges stemming from a fight in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, in which Locke stabbed two men upon the orders of Sager. Earlier that same afternoon, the two were seen harassing a mixed-race couple in the same bar while Sager spoke about being a leader for the Keystone State Skinheads. In addition to their prison sentences, the presiding judge ordered both men to refrain from any associations with white supremacists - both inside prison as well as outside when they are released.

April 2003: Two associates of the Lancaster Keystone State Skinheads were arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats for making racist and threatening comments to three black patrons in a Lancaster-area bar. The two men are also tied to the Lancaster/York chapter of Eastern Hammerskins.

March 2003: Three KSS members, Keith Carney, Steve Monteforte, and Steve Smith, were arrested in Scranton for beating a black man, Antoni Williams, with stones and pieces of pavement. Smith and Monteforte pleaded guilty to ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats, with Monteforte receiving a year's probation (which was suspended), and Smith receiving a sixty-day sentence and probation. In January 2004, Carney received a one- to three-year sentence, a much harsher ruling, attributed to his failure to fulfill the probation requirements of a conviction for a December 2001 incident in Philadelphia when Carney posted racist fliers on a Vietnam Veterans memorial.

September 2002: Three Greensburg-area KSS members, Todd Sager, 25, Jason Hayden, 27, and Christopher Keough, 20, beat a former member, Christopher Morosko, 25, who refused to return his KSS “colors,” the jacket emblems worn by members. The three pleaded guilty to assault on March 3, 2003, and were all released for time served.

June 2002: Robert Gaus, a KSS founder, and KSS members Douglas Sonier and Joseph Hoesch, were arrested by police outside the Suburban Diner in Feasterville, near Philadelphia, for assaulting a man who asked them to stop throwing food at his table. The victim was struck several times and left on the diner’s floor. All three pleaded guilty to a charge of simple assault and were given suspended sentences.

I went down to the LAVA zone, and the @-Space tonight looking for someone I could reasonably discuss this matter with. I found a lady at the LAVA zone who was reasonably polite given the circumstance, though she didn't really know about the attack on the statue and didn't come off as she was lying.

Whoever she was (she wouldn't say), I thank her for her willingness to at the very least discuss a touchy subject in an abrupt manner.

I went down to these places because I don't think the majority of the local far left community here in philly agrees with vandalizing public art. I think that most likely whoever did is related to the One Peoples Project, which does not appear to be as directly integrated with local leftist efforts as it likes to make itself out to be.

DLJ comes off as a Agent Provocateur working for some one, most likely the ADL. I recommend everyone on here to read the snitch culture book.

I would just like to see the statue cleaned up. Whoever did it, just clean it off and let the matter rest.