Whether it's domestic terrorists or foreign terrorists, both hate groups would have preferred a Nazi victory in WWII.
Posted on 02/06/2007 8:33:11 AM PST by Alouette
Ku Klux Klan experiences ‘surprising and troubling resurgence’ in US during the past year due to exploitation of hot issues such as immigration, gay marriage, urban crime, according to report
Ynetnews Published: 02.06.07, 12:37
The Ku Klux Klan has experienced "a surprising and troubling resurgence" in the United States during the past year, an Anti-Defamation League report revealed Tuesday.
According to the report, the white supremacy group has successfully exploited issues such as immigration, gay marriage and urban crime to draw in new members and accelerate activity.
The ADL monitors the activities of hate groups and reports developments to policy makers and law enforcement agencies. ADL Civil Rights Director Deborah M. Lauter pointed to immigration as the key issue stirring up racist sentiments in the United States.
"If any one single issue or trend can be credited with re-energizing the Klan, it is the debate over immigration in America," said Lauter.
"Klan groups have witnessed a surprising and troubling resurgence by exploiting fears of an immigration explosion, and the debate over immigration has, in turn, helped to fuel an increase in Klan activity, with new groups sprouting in parts of the country that have not seen much activity," she added.
A surge in clan activity was identified especially in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The increase in activity was characterized by growing membership, establishment of new groups, increased cooperation with neo-Nazi groups, and new publicity tactics including dispatching flyers, publication over the internet and the launch of an internet-base radio station.
Lauter also noted the changing nature of klan members.
"Although some Klansmen may still hold cross-burnings dressed in robes and hoods, today's young Klansmen are more likely to look virtually indistinguishable from racist skinheads or neo-Nazis," said Lauter.
"Today's Klansmen may be as likely to gather at white power music concerts or socialize at so-called 'unity rallies' with other white supremacists, as to participate in ritualistic cross burnings in the rural wilderness," she added.
"And do they consider non-Latinos as lower than them?"
Yes, read their web site.
La Raza means.."the race".....and they ain't talkin' about whitey.
I haven't heard that one in a loooooong time.
La Raza is just Das Volk with a different accent.
I am not worried about whites becoming a minority. I am only concerned about common sense and conservatism becoming a minority. It is not the wrapper that counts, but what is in it.
Whether it's domestic terrorists or foreign terrorists, both hate groups would have preferred a Nazi victory in WWII.
Sorry - I don't think McVeigh was a KKK'er.
In the early 1920s there were about 250,000 Klan members in my home state of Indiana, about 30% of the native-born Caucasian men in Indiana. In my home county, about one voter in four was a Klansman, as well as both candidates for County Sheriff in several counties, including mine.
Further, the most "destructive" thing I do in terms of this country is drink out of styrofoam.
It was no doubt the influx of enviornmentally-insensitive Hispanics such as yourself that laid waste to the Sahara Forest!
The military activities of Juan Seguin alone would be reason enough for this country to continue the traditions that your family and mine have shared through fire, steel and blood. And those who are earning their citizenship through current military service have taken the first steps in establishing the same great family history for those of their blood who follow them.
I will not let their efforts be cheapened by allowing criminals and fifth columnists to enjoy the same pearl of U.S. citizenship as a part of a cheap political deal.
My guess is that they're counting the Minutemen as a Klan group, both to perjoratively tar the Minutemen as a *hate group* and on orders of their fed.gov handlers looking for a way to slow or divide the Minutemen's growth.
LOL. Complete with hispanic surname in script lettering on the back of a HUGE SUV.
Possible.
True.I think both of us were guilty of"a failure to communicate"
McVeigh was a white supremacist regardless of the brand name on his underwear. If you want to quibble about whether his dues to the invisible empire were up to date in 1995, be my guest.
David Duke was a member of the American Nazi Party before he became a Grand Wizard.
I will quibble - if his dues had been "up to date" or if the KKK had otherwise provided support to this, I don't think the organization would exist any more. Remember, the Federales and the Left would LOVE to use sanctions against something like the KKK against more rational right wingers or RKBA'ers.
The ADL is far more dangerous than the KKK.
just like the ADL to go after some simpletons and not after true terrorists like the Islamists.....
The question is whethger or not McVeigh became a white supremacist organization member on the orders of his government supremacist employers.
Probably one of those Gol-durned furriner names that ends in a vowel, too
There are many reasons why things disappear down the memory hole. If the Clinton Justice Dept. had been warned in advance that the Murrah Bldg. was being targeted by white supremacists from Elohim City (the same group that plotted to blow it up before) and they didn't act on that information to prevent the bombing, what do you suppose the public reaction would be?
McVeigh was really working for Janet Reno....[lol].
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