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.
What is MMM? Mainstream Moonbat Media?
IIRC it was "NOI" goons who trashed the liquor stores.
"Or even when the KKK threw their support to the ATF during the Waco seige.
I wasn't aware of that."
You might want to chack that. That was thrown out there and too convienient.
Nope. The KKK didn't have a single word to say about the railroading of the Duke lacrosse team, which means they don't have anything to say about anything.
MMM = Million Man March. Organized by Calypso Louie.
The KKK's positions are the right ones? You're kidding, right.
"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.
By all means, Deborah, blame it on the nativistic, xenophobic, anti-immigrant {AKA anti-illegal immigration] groups.
Vigilantes Gather in Arizona [The Minuteman Project]
www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supremacy/arizona_vigilantes_40705.htm
Extremists On The Border -- Recent news accounts of the Minuteman Project to patrol the US-Mexico border ...
www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Extremism/20050515-LA+Daily+News.htm
"Nope. The KKK didn't have a single word to say about the railroading of the Duke lacrosse team, which means they don't have anything to say about anything."
Exactly. There is no "KKK" as it's described here. It just does not exist in that capacity.
Blame Reno and Clinton for the Waco fiasco but don't blame the ATF ground troops.They had a job to do and lost a number of men trying to do it.I never felt comfortable with ATF bashing.
Nor do I feel good about the blind love some people-I'm not saying YOU-give Koresh,a "Christian"socialist child molester who was clearly a nutcase par excellance.Sure,Clinton and his gang overeacted terribly but its like blaming the Philadelphia Police for the MOVE disaster in 1985.Yes,they may HAVE been guilty of armed overkill but the real blame should be placed on the MOVE radicals just as the Waco disaster would not have happended without the intransagence of Koresh and his"religious"followers.
And in an another story completely unrelated to this one, Islam is also on the rise in the US....
Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps (D) also has been rallying against the war (protesting at soldiers' funerals).
"By all means, Deborah, blame it on the nativistic, xenophobic, anti-immigrant {AKA anti-illegal immigration] groups."
There is no "it" to blame anyone for. She just printed baseless lies.
"The ADL is a bigger threat to our society than the pathetic, hateful KKK."
I'd agree with that. They also fail to mention any racism from other races.
The nitwits in the "journalism community" will try to tie the Klan to any conservative policy issue they hate. But the fact is that the Klan is part of the Democratic Party's legacy.
Slavery, the Klan, Jim Crow race repression, along with race obsession and a well-deserved race guilt, all are a part of Democratic Party history. Republicans should never get involved trying to defend Democratic Party history, or absolve them of their collective shame. We were the good guys in all of this and we continue to be the good guys.
They keep trying to throw the blame our way. We shouldn't let them or help them.
Hmmm.. I don't think I agree so much with their whole "pure white race" "no mixed marriage" positions...I think my cute little Hispanic/Scotch Irish niece would disagree as well.
Sound like "neo-McCarthyism" or just shameless Yellow Journalism (aka Zogbyism).
My point is that liberals tend to highlight the activities of the Klan only when they suit their needs.
Liberals are silent over agreeing with the Klan on the ATF at Waco and "Jewish masters" leading us to war in the Middle East.
Another FReeper said that the Klan was "right" on illeal-immigration and the 2nd Amendment. Ted Rall is also for private ownership of guns (so he can have one with the Anarchist revolt against whitey and the CEOs comes down), doesn't make any of their justifications "correct".
Yikes.
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