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Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online
ibtimes.com ^ | 11/2/2015 | David Gilbert

Posted on 11/02/2015 8:30:41 AM PST by rktman

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To: M Kehoe; Admin Moderator
naïve,

I didn't do that. "Naïve" is the word.

5.56mm

41 posted on 11/02/2015 9:12:47 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

42 posted on 11/02/2015 9:13:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: M Kehoe
Sheesh.

How annoying.

5.56mm

43 posted on 11/02/2015 9:13:32 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: justlurking

LOL! Is it even possible that ‘anonymous’ got punked? Now THAT would be funny. Now if ed snowden had put it out there. Or is the Polk County FL sheriff office kkk hq?


44 posted on 11/02/2015 9:14:04 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: justlurking
The phone companies are going to be bombarded today with people requesting new telephone numbers.

Leni

45 posted on 11/02/2015 9:16:51 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; rktman
One last one, which I think you'll find amusing:

One of the toll-free numbers is for... (drum roll).....

The Democratic National Committee

Taaa daaaaaaa!

This is a massive troll. I'm guessing there was some form somewhere that you could submit your contact information to the KKK for follow-up, and people figured out they could submit an enemy's info.

It's a variation of the old scam of submitting a subscription card for a magazine of ill repute, and putting the name of someone you don't like.

46 posted on 11/02/2015 9:17:45 AM PST by justlurking
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To: All
The KKK never survived the Blues Brothers anyway...


47 posted on 11/02/2015 9:18:20 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rktman

LOL!

So 100 klaners outed, but no mention of the millions of violent MS-13 gang members or thousands of muslim sleeper cell agents here living on our dime courtesy of welfare?


48 posted on 11/02/2015 9:18:47 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: rktman

It would be sweet if Anon got pwned. I would love to see egg on their faces.


49 posted on 11/02/2015 9:19:24 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: rktman
LOL! Is it even possible that ‘anonymous’ got punked?

Maybe. But, as I posted a moment ago, I think the list itself is just suspect. It's probably from a "contact me" form that anyone could submit a phone/email address.

Or is the Polk County FL sheriff office kkk hq?

Apparently, the KKK has their own phone number. It's on "the list", but I don't know who would be surprised by that.

50 posted on 11/02/2015 9:21:29 AM PST by justlurking
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To: rockrr

"And now for my next impression.......Jesse Owens!"

51 posted on 11/02/2015 9:22:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rktman

The feds will shut them down for outing all of the agents and informants who make up the KKK nowadays.


52 posted on 11/02/2015 9:23:15 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: MinuteGal
The phone companies are going to be bombarded today with people requesting new telephone numbers.

Maybe. But, I think there are enough entries that are obvious trolls, that no one is going to take them seriously.

Although, there may be some idiots that think it would be cute to call the numbers and harass innocent people.

53 posted on 11/02/2015 9:23:35 AM PST by justlurking
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To: rktman

Oh yea, because the KKK is such a threat to our nation.


54 posted on 11/02/2015 9:24:59 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: tioga
A Dem operative opens a fake KKK account listing known Republican on it who know nothing of this. Then as “anonymous” her releases the whole deal to cause a scandal.

If so, it back-fired.

The Democratic National Committee is on "the list".

55 posted on 11/02/2015 9:25:23 AM PST by justlurking
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
HOW SUPERMAN SINGLEHANDEDLY THWARTED THE KU KLUX KLAN

We all know that Superman generally battles evildoers in the fictional city of Metropolis. If you watched the disappointing, overcranked Man of Steel earlier this year, you remember that his nemesis was General Zod.

It’s a little weird to learn that not all of his enemies are make-believe. There was a time when the popular Kryptonian was deployed to sideline a very real threat in the United States: namely, the Ku Klux Klan.

Our story begins with an intrepid young folklorist and activist from Florida named Stetson Kennedy. He noticed that the Klan was experiencing a resurgence—as an example, a few weeks after V-J Day, the Klan burned a 300-foot cross on the face of Stone Mountain near Atlanta (!)—one Klansman later said that the gesture was intended “to let the n*ggers know the war is over and that the Klan is back on the market.”
 
Superman versus the Klan
 
The fiercely committed Kennedy decided to infiltrate the group and expose its secrets. He was quite successful in this—for example, he learned that when a traveling Klan member wanted to find other Klansmen in an unfamiliar part of the country, he would ask for a “Mr. Ayak”—“Ayak” standing for “Are You a Klansman?” The desired response was “Yes, and I also know a Mr. Akai”—“A Klansman Am I.”

When he took his information to the local authorities, he found, much to his surprise, little inclination to act on his findings: The Klan had become powerful enough that even the police were hesitant to take action against it.

Eventually he realized that he needed a different approach. In the 1940s, Superman was a radio sensation—children all over the country were following his exploits ravenously. Kennedy decided to approach the makers of the radio serial to see if they would be interested in an epic “Superman vs. the Klan” plotline. He learned that they were interested in such a thing.
 
Stetson Kennedy under cover
Stetson Kennedy under cover
 
In a funny way, Kennedy’s needs and the needs of the Superman radio writers coincided. Superman had spent the war fighting the likes of Hitler and Hirohito, but in 1946 that was a dead letter, and they were on the lookout for fresh villains.

On June 10, 1946, a Superman plotline began bearing the title “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” The episodes were broadcast daily, so the 16th and final episode appeared on June 25. In the story, Jimmy Olsen is managing a baseball team, but when he replaces his top pitcher with a more talented newcomer, the sorehead kid who has lost his slot ends up in the clutches of the “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” who volunteer to intimidate the “insufficiently American” star pitcher with burning crosses and the like. Jimmy Olsen (of course) takes the issue to Clark Kent, and in short order the Man of Steel is taking on the men in white hoods.

Over the course of about two weeks, the shows exposed many of the KKK’s most guarded secrets, including code words and rituals. The Klan relied a great deal on an inscrutable air of menace and mystery, and the Superman serial stripped the Klan of that mystique utterly. Almost overnight, the Klan’s recruitment efforts began drying up completely.

How successful was Kennedy in his efforts to take down the Klan? In their 2005 hit book Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt called Kennedy “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan.”

There is a much bigger story here than can adequately be covered in a post like this—there’s a great deal of information out there. Stetson Kennedy seems to have been a genuinely remarkable person, and his Wikipedia page lists a lot of resources if you want to learn more. A good resource is Richard Bowers’ Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate.

All sixteen of the Klan-related episodes of the Superman radio serial are on YouTube, complete with innumerable advertisements for Kellogg’s PEP cereal—the first two are linked below, and you know how to find the others. 
 

56 posted on 11/02/2015 9:29:17 AM PST by Bratch
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To: rktman

So, this means that we will know the names of all the local, state, private, and federal agents whose dues keep the klan in operation.


57 posted on 11/02/2015 9:31:21 AM PST by euram
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To: A CA Guy

I hope they publish preferred thread counts.
High counts make for almost silky sheets but
they cost a lot more. Low counts chafe my
skin during long vigils out in the woods,
but they’re cheap. Maybe they’ll tell us if
the Kleagles are really commando under the
cloth. When I tried it... well, skid marks.


58 posted on 11/02/2015 9:37:25 AM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: sparklite2

What if they are sneaky and just sew some Macy table clothes together.
Then they can tell who is too stupid to be there by the ones who show up with patterns in their garments.

In any case, a nasty business.


59 posted on 11/02/2015 9:42:35 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: rktman

It’ll be tough to figure out who is who since almost everyone in the kkk is probably named Bubba or Junior, sorta like Muslims all being named Mohamed, only for rednecks.


60 posted on 11/02/2015 9:42:59 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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