[Catspaw]

OK, fine. When white-supremacist types pop out of their holes the media should take note. It would be nice, though, if the media would tell the entire story. Don’t let the story of Lewiston get lost in reports of demonstrators and counter-demonstrators.

Hale & his group (Matt Hale, the Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator didn't show, being unavoidably detained after his arrest for solicitation to murder in Chicago last week) are good at creating chaos and blurring the issue, to put the spotlight on his group and its recruitment efforts. He's done it in any number of areas, notably York, PA last year and following the shooting spree of his chief leiutant, Benjamin Smith, in 1999. He thrives on the publicity, he thrives on the reaction, he thrives on the media attention. And he's just a pathetic little hate-filled man leading a bunch of losers.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Usually, that type isn't all man either, if you know what i mean. Pathetic creatures, really.

[wbill]

Don't get me wrong.....there's no way in h*ll that I support the bigoted notions of that band of idiots, or anyone like them. I just thought that Neal did a good job of describing what's really going on. The Demonstrations, and counterdemonstrations, made the news. As usual, the news outlets didn't pay attention to what's really going on....just the sensationalism of 'racism in a small town in Maine'.

When I was a kid, the Klan would have periodic rallies in Rumford. A dozen or two Klansmen would show up, and be outnumbered 4 to 1 by reporters. Hilarious.