Posted on 02/18/2019 7:37:13 PM PST by Simon Green
A small town newspaper in Alabama published an editorial last week that called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to block tax increases in the state.
The editorial was published on Thursday and Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Ala., confirmed to the Montgomery Adviser on Monday that he wrote the column.
“Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again,” the first line of the editorial reads. “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
Sutton writes that Democrats "do not understand how to eliminate expenses when money is needed in other areas."
"This socialist-communist ideology sounds good to the ignorant, the uneducated, and the simple-minded people," he added.
When asked about it by the Montgomery Adviser, Sutton repeated his writings, saying, “if we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off.”
"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.
He defended himself by saying he was “not calling for the lynchings of Americans.”
“These are socialist-communists we're talking about,” Sutton said.
He went on to compare the KKK to civil rights group the NAACP, saying the violence of the white supremacist hate group was justified.
"A violent organization? Well, they didn't kill but a few people," Sutton said. "The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be."
In the editorial, Sutton says the Klan should go to D.C. and "raid the gated communities up there."
"They call them compounds now. Truly, they are the ruling class," Sutton writes.
Sutton has worked at the paper since 1964 and reportedly welcomed feedback in the form of letters or phone calls regarding his editorial.
The Alabama Press Association (APA) told the Montgomery Adviser that while it does not condone the editorial, it does not have the authority to stop Sutton.
"We do not agree with the opinion," said Felicia Mason, APA executive director. "However, APA is not a policing agency. We simply have no authority over what our member newspapers publish."
Can’t cure stupid.
Just guessing, but it reads like a false flag to me.
The KKK was Democrats. His hopes are rather contradictory.
The Terminator is squirming around in molten steel.
Ping to the state list.
Paper probably has a circulation of 6 or something.
i was thinking the same thing.
Some guy paid by soros to invoke kkk to make right look really bad.
He could have easily written the same anti tax message without it, makes no sense
Oops.
Sadly, not a false flag. The paper has a history of racism.
He is the editor of the Democrat Reporter? And he’s calling for a return of the KKK? You can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t.
Interesting times we are living in at this time.
Compare it to jussie’ s rantings.
Stupid...
A false flag? Either that or he’s a damn good troller.
But I suspect he’s a hard-core old-school Democrat. And if he’s been around since 1964 he probably knows a few KKK night riders, if he is not one in the first place. The KKK: the paramilitary wing of the Democrat party.
Does this idiot know that the KKK was a 100% democrat operation?
Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Ala.
Gosh, I guess this means Trump's a racist, right? /sarc
Linden, Alabama — estimated population (2017): 1,936.
How soon until this is national and even international news, another example of the malignancy of Donald Trump’s America?
Either a leftist false flag or an idiot.
On the bright side, it’s about taxes and not race...
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