Obama wants KKK to be forced to name its members and supporters after Charleston church massacre

Daily Mail UK ^ | 6/26/15 | Shekhar Bhatia

[Wilderness Conservative]

President Obama is keen to introduce tough new laws which will force the KKK and other extreme right-wing groups to disclose the identities of their members, Daily Mail Online can disclose.

The President discussed the possibility of the new measures when he telephoned Charleston mayor Joe Riley following last week's massacre.

Riley, who is into his 40th year as mayor of the city where nine people were murdered by a self-proclaimed white supremacist down in the AME church massacre, said he and the President talked about how best to set up a national council to act as a watchdog to monitor and report on race hate.

Among the ideas being looked at is legislation forcing extreme right wings groups and violent organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan to provide identities of supporters and members.

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[Wilderness Conservative]

Maybe he's just wants to update his list of Democrat voters.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And by KKK, he of course means the Tea Party.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Let me start his blacklist:

1. Senator Robert Byrd, DEMOCRAT

[Pearls Before Swine]

If he can do this, he can force membership lists of any group to be revealed to the government. Talk about “chilling effects!”

[ataDude]

Uhhhh.... the KKK is a Democrat-founded group. It is LEFT WING.

[A CA Guy]

Obama is following the course of the Nazis real well. Notice he feels no responsibility for fanning race.!

[JimSEA]

Would this membership list be posted next to the membership list of the Communist Party USA?

[VanDeKoik]

Freedom of association?

[barmag25]

Since when is the klan a right wing group?

[Truth29]

I wonder what the definition of extreme right wing groups will be - any group he wishes to harass and intimidate?

[Eddie01]

nailed it

[Essie]

Obama is disgusting. He is using a tragedy to advance his political agenda. He has no shame. He has no character. He has no conscience. He only has his hatred of anything that is decent and good.

[SaveFerris]

Good thing we’re not on the verge of potential economic collapse like Weimar Germany.

Oh...

[SaveFerris]

Never let a crisis go to waste.

And they don’t. Even if it means trampling over those lost.

Benghazi, remember, was “just a bump in the road”.

Unless you were a victim or their families.

[M Kehoe]

President Obama is keen to introduce tough new laws which will force the KKK and other extreme right-wing groups to disclose the identities of their members,

When I was growing up in FL, all Klansmen (and women aux.), belonged to the democRAT party.

How did the Klan become a "right wing," group?

5.56mm

[a fool in paradise]

“Are you NOW or have you EVER BEEN a member of the TEA Party?”

The partisan witchhunt that this administration uses the FBI, IRS, and other government entities to engage in is never discussed by the MSM or academics.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Good idea. Publish a list with party affiliation after the name.

[a fool in paradise]

Hugo Black (D-KKK) Supreme Court Justice (behind the ‘separation of church and state decision because he didn’t like taxpayer money going towards buses for students attending Catholic schools).

[a fool in paradise]

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood being exempted?

[ETL]

Former leader of the SENATE for the (((DEMOCRATS)))
Robert "KKK" Byrd

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html