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Look, I took the effort to read some of your other comments in the forum, and see that you are in Tom Davis's district, as I am, so my guess is that you don't really know David Duke very well.

I am from Louisiana. I lived in Baton Rouge near the LSU campus when he was a student at LSU.

I've known David Duke since 1969 or so. He used to speak at Free Speech Alley at LSU when my mother went there. He was preaching a message of racial segregation, and anti-Semitism. He believed then that blacks are inferior, that they should not be able to live in white neighborhoods or marry white people. He believes that the law should prohibit this.

He was the Grand Wizard for the KKK. The KKK threw him out for stealing from them. Do you know what the KKK stands for?

He then started a White Power organization. Do you know what White Power means?

Did you read what I wrote about my husband and I seeing him and some of his friends dressed as Brownshirts at a screening of Triumph of the Will? Do you know what Brownshirts are (Nazis). Do you know what Triumph of the Will is (a movie about how wonderful the Nazi party is.)

If you are a fan of the Nazis, I hope you are lying about working for Tom Davis, because he doesn't need Nazi sympathizers.

Thanks for responding. My point about Duke is not that nazis are great, or that racism is a good thing; I was merely pointing out that having beliefs that garner the label "right-wing extremist" are far more serious nowadays, in the eyes of most voters, than the commission of actual crimes. Duke, no matter how despicable you or I may think he was in a brownshirt or a white hood, has never even been accused of commiting a real crime, as far as I know. He appears to be guilty of putting his foot in his mouth many times and of making a fool out of himself in the past with his participation in nazi-worshiping activities. Edwards, on the other hand, had no real beliefs or principles, and did indeed engage in criminal behavior. I was making a comment on how our society now prioritizes things, and how the perspectives of most citizens have changed dramatically, especially since the birth of the Civil Rights crusade.