[M. Espinola]

Whenever the issue of the Klan comes up the Lost Cause crowd drags out the same World War I era photos with the Klansters wrapping themselves in the American flag.

Right after World War II returning southern Blacks realized it was time to stop existing in state of fear. Many, after being overseas during the war became fully cognizant of just how horrible the repressive segregated South was and began departing "Dixie" by the hundreds of thousands, while others started demanding their rights as American citizens, like voting.

The Klan countered in many respects and reverted to the Civil War banner being that it represented slavery to them and they flown the Rebel flag ever since. Resulting from Klan ideologies of hate being identical with neo-Nazis, when today's hate rallies are staged each grouping of depraved thugs always displays their favourite banners.

The other relevant point was to demonstrate the swamp rats Klan members of today do not run around with the American flags (unless desecrated!) but are promoters of a new "old South" as the photo documentation clearly depicts.

[cowboyway]

Resulting from Klan ideologies of hate being identical with neo-Nazis, when today's hate rallies are staged each grouping of depraved thugs always displays their favourite banners.

So, Mr. Espinola, based on your passionate statements and your captioned pictorial post of modern day Klansman, are you suggesting that I am a racist because I fly a Confederate Battle flag on my property?

BTW, I'd be willing to bet that most of those pictures that you posted were taken north of the Mason/Dixon line.

I saw a documentary on the History Channel this week about the Klan and the FBI in the 50's and 60's. The documentary went into some of the Klan activities and how the FBI eventually infiltrated the Klan.

I thought it was interesting that, during the civil rights movements of this period when the Southern Klansman were at their most active, that the membership rolls of the Klan were only 10,000. (after FBI infiltration the membership dropped dramatically)

Using an estimated population of 25 million people for the 11 states of the former Confederacy, that means that only 0.00004 percent of the Southern population were Klan members.

Now to hear you South haters and bashers, we were all running around in hoods, burning crosses, hanging black men and bombing churches.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Klan II of the post World War II era was the "Yankee Klan" where we'll see the Stars and Stripes with the pointy hoods.

But I doubt many people associated with Klan I of the 1860s and 1870s had much use for our American flag.

And in the Klan III of today, It seems from photos lile those displayed that esteem for our Stars and Stripes at the best ranks far behind that for the Reb flag and Hitler's rotten rag of atrocities.