Posted on 08/24/2015 12:59:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After white supremacist Craig Cobb tried and failed to start a whites-only enclave in the tiny North Dakota town of Leith, he set his sights on another community: Antler, population 20-something.
But establishing a presence in the town, just a few minutes from the Canadian border, has proved difficult for Cobb.
Last month, he says, he bought $10,000 worth of property in the town's center from Jim Lozensky, who until recently was an Antler resident.
The sale included an old bank and two nearby residential lots. Cobb wanted to turn the bank into a church for his racist religion, Creativity Movement, which teaches the superiority of white people. The residential lots would be for church members to settle and start a new community together.
He also planned to change the town's name to "Trump Creativity," or "Creativity Trump," in honor of Donald Trump, who Cobb admires deeply.
Needless to say, "Some of the citizens aren't happy with the situation," said Steve Watson, the sheriff of Bottineau County.
Luckily for them, the properties are going to the city, rather than to Cobb, Mayor Bruce Hanson said.
Lozensky, the property seller, "took a down payment from Cobb on the property, and the city made an offer also," said Hanson. Lozenksy decided to sell to the city.
It cost the city about $35,000 to take over more than 20 of Lozensky's properties, Hanson said.
Cobb, meanwhile, complains that he still has not received a deed to the property. He says the seller wants to reimburse him, but "I don't want the check. We want our church."
Cobb said Lozensky backed out of their deal because of pressure from Antler residents, a claim Hanson denied.
However, the mayor did admit that "people were kind of upset" about Lozensky, who recently moved away from Antler. Lozensky declined to comment for this story.
Hanson acknowledged that the city bought the property to keep out Cobb, who lives in nearby Sherwood. "We don't want the guy in town," Hanson said. "I mean, who does?"
Cobb said he and others in his church are "not trying to rule over other people at all."
But he indicated that his intent is to bring in enough people to outnumber the town's voting population, which he estimated to be 20 people.
Hanson said Cobb targets small towns for that reason. "It's not about democracy," Hanson said. "It's not about the American way."
Cobb said his community, if realized, would not exclude nonwhites.
So would he welcome black people?
"'Welcome' is a strong word," he said. "We understand that they have a legal right."
Residents of Leith recently attended an Antler town hall meeting to explain what happened in Leith, which Cobb tried to take over in 2013. He gained national attention for the failed effort.
Hanson says the real driving force for Cobb is just that--media attention.
"That's the bottom line with Craig Cobb. ... If I was you, I'd just ignore the guy."
What an idiot.
Where are the stories about the homicidal maniacs supporting Obama? Or the kill the whitey blacks supporting Obama?
Guilt by a distantly interested nutball is a dirty leftist taftic, nick. I thought you were so invested in pure as the wind driven snow conservatism that even Cruz isn’t palatable.
Tsk tsk
I suspect a leftist street theater operation.
Tactic
It would be a lot easier to fight this kind of arrogance if other races weren’t buying into it in the form of the soft self bigotry of low self expectations. If you have 3 races wailing like broken records about how they are victims, the 4th race has an easier excuse to pat itself on the back.
God, who blesses without partiality, doesn’t come in “colors.” However, racial pride does.
I didn’t say Trump was guilty or in any way responsible.
It’s a shame that new feller had an accident with a wood chipper, eh, Marge?
What three races are wailing that the are victims?
Not a nice guy but not an idiot. He is experiencing North Dakota Nice up close and personally. This state is filled with a bunch of mean spirited radical leftists. Don’t let the Republican lable on the state government fool you.
Here we go. The media is so completely dispicable. Report this 1 small idiot but play down the evil racist black people who are killing whites and cops. Pathetic.
What sort of cockamamie question is that.
Slander by false association.
No, it’s pretty much as the article states it. It’s been going on for a long time.
I wonder, though, since supremacy means exceeding all others, how White Supremacists explain higher IQ scores for Japanese, for example, than for whites.
Do you not think there are thousands of blacks and browns who are out to rob, kill, and steal from whitey? It’s no secret, Nick. And many of these lovely people are Obama people.
When you address the racist venom toward whites by/of the CBC, Ebony magazine, Black Panthers, LaRaza, Telemundo, Jamie Foxx, Spike Lee, Louis Farakkan, Jeramiah Wright, and the Obama themselves, maybe I’ll listen to your one or two so-called white racists. Don’t forget the racist affirmative action laws, and ‘hate crime’ legislation, k Nick?
And don’t even try to associate this with Donald Trump.
Good catch... “Ahhhhh! all they know how to do is study!”
It’s ridiculous to either crow your race up, or to pessimize it down. Let it be as much as it can be invested in the Lord, which is what the Creator intended.
Are we going to be treated to one white supremacist Trump supporter per day until our morale improves?
The Slimeballs in the press are at it again.
A simple question. For example, are Asians doing that?
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