Citizens for a Better Helena

Citizens for a Better Helena is a group which claims to be "intended to keep the residents of informed on issues coming before their town council",https://www.facebook.com/groups/1673398616266313/ but is in fact a hate group that regularly shares articles and content authored by nationally recognized extremists and hate groups, many with prominent ties to recognized white nationalists. Organized by Jim Butterball Buterbaugh (of ) and Gina Satterfield, this group has become a hotbed for members of the Helena, Montana and surrounding area's anti-immigration movement. Other local pages closely tied to this group include The American Security Rally of Montanahttps://www.facebook.com/1amer2secur/?fref=ts and Montana Citizens against Terrorism Both Foreign and Domestic.https://www.facebook.com/Montana-citizens-against-terrorism-both-foreign-and-domestic-1693340960921002/?fref=ts
==Background==
Founded in 2016 by anti-immigrant activists Jim Buterbaugh and Gina Satterfield, Citizens for a Better Helena has served to advocate and promote content authored by nationally recognized hate groups and extremists, racist bloggers, and other anti-immigration wingnuts. The primary focus of this movement has been to impede the resettlement of refugees of war, who happen to be Muslim, into Montana.http://helenair.com/news/local/helena-rally-promotes-acceptance-of-syrian-refugees/article_dcf0f449-16c5-5f07-9620-dbb77294da95.html Gina Satterfield routinely participates in organized rallies, protests,http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2016/02/22/rally-urges-syrian-refugees-montana/80782054/ and speeches.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RftJKBSJgwY Most of these functions are founded upon fears invoked by debunked stories, tabloids, inaccurate statistics, conspiracies like the New World Order, and ultimately religious intolerance.
Like many other anti-immigration hate groups, Citizens for a Better Helena hides their religious intolerance under the thin guise of patriotism. Articles and content promoted by this group are almost exclusively limited to scare quotes, with plenty of content by:
#Refugee Resettlement Watch,https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/07/13/lauded-racist-groups-refugee-resettlement-watch-founder-ann-corcoran-moves-further-right founded by extremist Ann Corcoran, a popular figure among white nationalist and racist websites and blogs. Racist groups that regularly share Corcoran’s work include the white nationalist group "Council for Conservative Citizens" and racist website VDARE.
#Bare Naked Islam,https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/bare-naked-islam-a-hub-for-the-deranged-right-wing-cognoscenti an anti-Islam hate blog with a very racist reader and fan base that was briefly shut down by Wordpress for policy violations. Catholic apologist Robert Spencer has defended the website Bare Naked Islam, as well as defending open calls to Muslim genocide. The site is so extreme not even Debbie Schlussel could stand it.http://www.debbieschlussel.com/45728/bare-naked-islam-karma-nutjob-who-called-me-terrorist-supported-cair-lawsuit-v-me-gets-website-removed-by-cair/ 
#Pamela Geller,https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/pamela-geller a prominent extremist and figurehead of anti-Islam ideologists. Her website has been the source of many debunked conspiracy theories, ranging from "Obama is a Muslim beholden to Islamic overlords" to "Obama is the love child of Malcolm X."
#FrontPage Magazine,https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/godfather founded by anti-black and anti-Muslim neoconservative conspiracy theorist, David Horowitz. Horowitz is often touted by the racist and white supremacist communities.
#Shoebat.com,https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/08/26/new-report-details-funding-sources-behind-anti-muslim-fearmongers led by Walid Shoebat, a self-titled "peace activist", Obama birther, and fraud who charges thousands of dollars to give fear-mongering anti-Islam speeches. Notable statements by Shoebat's son Theodore include "hopes that future President Trump will turn the US into a "Christian Supremacist" society and execute Muslims."
#ACT! For America,https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/acting-out a prominent anti-Islam movement and source of extreme hate speech. ACT! For America is led by Brigitte Gabriel, described by the New York Times as a "radical Islamaphobe" and by publicists as "extreme". Gabriel's hate lies against the religion of Islam itself, not just "radical" Islam.
==In its own words==
==External links==
*Account at Facebook
==References==
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