Posted on 04/15/2014 3:39:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As a former Klan leader is charged with killing three in Kansas, the frayed white supremacy group is trying to attract new members. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates the number of hate groups in the U.S. has risen from 602 in 2000 to 939 in 2013
The Ku Klux Klan was once a major force in America, with a membership of nearly 4 million that regularly included mayors, chiefs of police and other grandees of segregated regions, especially in the South and Midwest. Its been decades since the Klan held that sort of mainstream sway, but Sundays deadly rampage at two Jewish community facilities in Overland Park, Kan. serves as a reminder that the nations best known white supremacy organization has not completely disappeared.
Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, of Aurora, Missouri, is led to a police car after his arrest following shooting incidents which killed three people at two Jewish centers on Sunday in Overland Park, south of Kansas City, Kansas in a still image from video April 13, 201
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“The KKK Tries to Make A Comeback”
Let’s rewrite the headline:
The Democrat KKK Tries to Make A Comeback and Time Loves It
The KKK began after the Civil War as an “insurgent” terrorist force. To hear it in the terms the Left used to describe Iraq, the Civil War was waged for 100 years.
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