The Ku Klux Klan's Tactical Shift

[QueEx]

<font size="6"><center>The Ku Klux Klan's Tactical Shift</font size></center>

STRATFOR
October 26, 2005

The American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plans to rally against gay marriage in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 5 -- three days ahead of the Nov. 8 vote on a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Although the demonstration likely will attract more police and counter-protesters than Klan members, it is significant in that it vividly illustrates the new trend among white supremacist groups to adopt causes that appeal to a broader base of Americans.

By focusing on a hot-button political issue such as same-sex marriage -- rather than railing against the evils of the "Zionist-occupied government (ZOG)," which is how the Klan describes the U.S. government -- the white supremacists believe they become much more appealing to the general public. Once the Klan and other such groups establish rapport with a person on the controversial issue, their thinking goes, they can gradually open that person's eyes to the reality of the ZOG, the "evil" Jews and its other core beliefs. These groups claim that Jews are fostering illegal immigration and homosexuality as part of their secret conspiracy to weaken and control the "Aryan race," and figure that a person concerned about these issues will, with guidance, come to recognize "the hidden Jewish hand."

In addition to jumping on the anti-gay-marriage band wagon, white supremacists have participated in anti-immigration rallies and the Minutemen Project. The neo-Nazi National Alliance unit in Las Vegas even has rented a billboard on the Strip that reads, "Stop Immigration: Join the National Alliance." Other units of the organization -- many of which have broken with the National Alliance leadership to join the new group National Vanguard -- have protested in front of Home Depot stores and day labor sites carrying signs that read, "Stop Immigration, join National Vanguard." As we have discussed, National Vanguard and other such groups also sought to capitalize on the looting and unrest in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

The Klan, which has been in Texas since the Reconstruction era and once had a large membership in the state, has not held a protest in the capital since 1983 -- so the rally is noteworthy in that it is occurring at all. This particular Klan group, which is not that well-established in Texas, however, will have trouble drawing more than a few followers. Even established Klan groups face this problem because of the repercussions of being publicly affiliated with the Klan -- and because they will have a hard time finding members willing to hazard the counter-protest that undoubtedly will occur at City Hall. (The Klan had hoped to rally outside the state capitol, but was told it needed sponsorship from the governor or a member of the state legislature).

If the 1983 Klan rally in Austin or the Oct. 15 National Socialist Movement (NSM) rally in Toledo, Ohio, is any indication, the upcoming Austin rally could spark violence. NSM, which calls itself America's Nazi Party, was prevented from carrying out its planned march in Ohio by the violent clashes that broke out between police and counter-protesters. These protesters vandalized businesses and even torched a building. Toledo Mayor Jack Ford was forced to declare a curfew to squelch violence and rioting. In such circumstances, the Nazis actually appear to be the more reasonable of the two groups - which is one of the things the white supremacists hope to gain from such rallies.

Publicity, of course, is another thing. A handful of strangely dressed people protesting in front of City Hall is not major news. A clash between these strangely dressed people and counter-protesters, however, does attract major media attention -- especially if it turns into a riot. In Toledo, the counter-protesters played right into the hands of the white supremacists. Time will tell whether Austinites fall into the same trap.

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[Greed]

i said it once and i'll say it again, white supremacists are kooks.

that second paragraph is a sign of straight insanity.

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>Internal Terrorism Threat</font size></center>

STRATFOR
Stratfor Terrorism Brief
November 11, 2005

Militant Jewish activist Earl Krugel died Nov. 4 in a federal penitentiary in Phoenix, Ariz., when a fellow inmate crushed his skull while the two exercised. The FBI had arrested Krugel in 2001 in connection with a plot to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, Calif., and to attack either a field office of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa -- who is of Lebanese descent -- or the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council. Krugel was serving a 20-year-sentence on a 2003 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of worshippers at the mosque and one count of carrying an explosive device.

The 62-year-old Krugel was a member of the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL), founded by radical American rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968 as an armed response to people and groups perceived as conspiring against Jews. Kahane's 1990 assassination served as the basis for the founding of the Israeli extremist group Kahane Chai.

Over the past 37 years, JDL members have used various tactics to carry out their mission, including plotting to hijack an Arab airliner, bombing the New York office of Soviet airline Aeroflot, throwing a tear gas bomb into the opening performance of the Soviet Moiseyev Dance Company at the Metropolitan Opera, and taking over several buildings whose Jewish occupants were seen as too liberal or lenient with Arabs.

Although the FBI investigation into Krugel's death continues and no details have been released, Krugel most likely was targeted by one (or both) of the two largest groups within the prison population: Muslim converts or white supremacists. Muslim coverts would have wanted Krugel dead because he targeted Muslim symbols and buildings. White supremacists would have wanted him dead because he was Jewish.

The 2001 arrests of Krugel and JDL leader Irv Rubin -- who also pleaded guilty in connection with the mosque plot -- demonstrate that the threat of terrorism from homegrown groups in the United States is real. Although the focus of U.S. counterterrorism efforts is on international terrorist organizations, a wary eye should remain on the internal threat.

Send questions or comments on this article to analysis@stratfor.com.

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>White Supremacist David Duke in Syria</font size></center>

02:29 Nov 24, '05 / 22 Cheshvan 5766


(IsraelNN.com) Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana State Representative David Duke was in Syria on Monday to express solidarity with Damascus.

At a press conference in the Damascus' Rawda Square, Duke said, "I have come to Syria to express my support for the Syrian people.... It's the duty of every free man to reject the conspiracies and threats Syria is exposed to." Duke charged that pro-Israel neo-conservatives in the US are controlling American foreign policy and that "Zionist-controlled mass media" are hiding "the reality of Israeli terrorism against the Arabs."

Attending the press conference were several members of the Syrian parliament, and Arab and foreign correspondents, as well as representatives from Russian academia.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=93548

 

[respiration]

<font size="5"><center>White Supremacist David Duke in Syria</font size></center>

02:29 Nov 24, '05 / 22 Cheshvan 5766


(IsraelNN.com) Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana State Representative David Duke was in Syria on Monday to express solidarity with Damascus.

At a press conference in the Damascus' Rawda Square, Duke said, "I have come to Syria to express my support for the Syrian people.... It's the duty of every free man to reject the conspiracies and threats Syria is exposed to." Duke charged that pro-Israel neo-conservatives in the US are controlling American foreign policy and that "Zionist-controlled mass media" are hiding "the reality of Israeli terrorism against the Arabs."

Attending the press conference were several members of the Syrian parliament, and Arab and foreign correspondents, as well as representatives from Russian academia.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=93548

That is VERY interesting. I'm sure they will come to see him for asshole that he is and all the mindless assholes he speaks for.

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>U.S.: The White Supremacist Movement's Metamorphosis</font size></center>

Strategic Forecasting
By Fred Burton
January 17, 2006

Since Dec. 22, 2006, three white supremacist leaders have been arrested on sex-related charges. Two of them -- Matthew Downing, National Vanguard's Boston unit leader, and Gordon Young, former leader of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and current member of the National Socialist Movement -- have been charged with sexually assaulting minors. The third, Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the National Vanguard organization, has been charged with possession of child pornography and witness tampering.

It has clearly been a hard month for the self-appointed defenders of white virtue.

In the wake of these arrests, and with this being the week Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and legacy, it seems fitting that we take the time to review the state of the white supremacist movement in the United States today, and to look at where it is heading in the future.

The Leadership Vacuum

Since the 9/11 attacks, the white supremacist movement in the United States has undergone a huge change. One of the factors driving this change has been the generational transition that resulted from the deaths of older white supremacist leaders respected within the movement, such as William Pierce and Richard Butler. Their deaths left a leadership vacuum, and with no clear emerging leader to replace them, the movement has seen much infighting and splintering, as seemingly everyone in the movement seeks to be "the fuhrer." The power struggle associated with this generational change is vividly illustrated by an examination of what has happened in Pierce's group, the National Alliance (NA), since his passing.

Until Pierce's July 2002 death from cancer, the NA was a growing group that had gained momentum from Pierce's effective propaganda and stature. As the author of the "Turner Diaries" and "Hunter," Pierce created two of the most revered fictional characters in the white supremacist universe: Earl Turner and Oscar Yeager, who would later inspire deadly real-life imitators in The Order in the early 1980s and Timothy McVeigh in the mid-1990s. The NA's National Vanguard book business and its purchase of the "hatecore" music company Resistance Records ensured that the group had a healthy income, and Resistance also provided the group with access to a steady stream of young potential recruits. This resulted in the Anti-Defamation League in 1997 labeling the NA "the most dangerous hate group in America."

However, Pierce neglected to name a successor from among his lieutenants before he died, leaving a power vacuum at the highest level of the group. Erich Gliebe, who had run Resistance Records, eventually emerged as chairman of the NA, but he proved to be an ineffectual leader who lacked the skills needed to hold the organization together. During Gliebe's tenure, many of the organization's board members, staff members, key leaders and even entire units left the NA.

One of the key NA staff members -- Kevin Strom, who ran the NA's National Vanguard Web site -- led a group of disaffected NA members who attempted to oust Gliebe from the chairmanship in April 2005. When their attempt to topple Gliebe failed, they left the organization and founded a new group called National Vanguard (NV), after the popular NA Web site. Gliebe, whose reputation also was marred by accounts of womanizing and an eventual marriage to a stripper, was finally forced to step down following the failed coup attempt. He was replaced by Shaun Walker; however, Walker proved to be no more effective than his predecessor. Following Walker's June 2006 arrest on charges stemming from bar fights he got into while serving as the NA's Salt Lake City unit leader, Gliebe resumed leadership of the group.

Since its inception, the NV had been taking advantage of the troubles within the NA, and the group had worked hard to recruit former NA members. Members of the NV actively portrayed themselves as the true followers of Pierce's philosophy and legacy. However, while Strom was considered a talented intellectual and a good writer, he did not have the organizational or leadership skills to hold the NV together, and the group soon began to fracture. Strom also was criticized for being lazy, and many people considered him too effeminate to be an effective white supremacist leader. There were even rumors that Strom was a homosexual.

On July 18, 2006, Strom took a leave of absence from the NV, citing "health and family matters." He noted in a statement posted on the NV's Web site that he had made "mistakes" in his life, "sometimes serious ones." Many NV members believed Strom's resignation had to do with his rocky marriage, and they were shocked by the revelation that Strom was arrested Jan. 4 on child pornography charges. His mistakes were clearly more serious than many had realized, although those who had questioned his sexuality certainly felt vindicated. Strom's arrest dealt a particularly hard blow to the organization since it followed closely on the heels of NV Boston Unit leader Matthew Downing's Dec. 22, 2006, arrest on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

The Quiet Campaign

While the NA was imploding, another factor contributing to the change of the white supremacist movement was beginning to gain momentum: the U.S. government's focus on disrupting terrorism and the government's expanded powers under the USA Patriot Act. This focus extended to domestic terrorism, and the government's increased efforts resulted in a string of law enforcement successes against white supremacist leaders. Though this campaign was quiet in comparison to all the press surrounding the government's efforts against jihadist groups, it was nonetheless impressive. Some highlights of this campaign include:

● On Dec. 12, 2002, David Duke pleaded guilty to tax evasion and mail fraud charges and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.

● In January 2003, Matt Hale, leader of the Creativity Movement (formerly the World Church of the Creator -- WCOTC) was arrested for soliciting the killing of a federal judge and subsequently sentenced to 40 years.

● In March 2003, Chester Doles, a convicted felon and Georgia NA leader, was arrested for possession of weapons and sentenced to serve 70 months.

● In February 2004, David Wayne Hull, an imperial wizard in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested and charged with making a pipe bomb. Hull was sentenced to 12 years.

● In December 2004, Anthony Pierpoint -- owner of Panzerfaust Records, a company that distributed neo-Nazi and white supremacist media -- was arrested on drug charges. Panzerfaust Records, once the largest "hatecore" record company in the country, is now out of business.

● On June 8, 2006, NA leader Shaun Walker was arrested in West Virginia, and two other members of the white supremacist group -- Travis Massey and Eric Egbert -- were arrested in Utah. The arrests stemmed from a federal indictment for allegedly conspiring to intimidate minorities. Walker is still awaiting trial.​

The Brown Shirts Return

With the crumbling of the NA, the fizzling of the NV and the arrests of other white supremacist leaders, such as Duke and Hale, the big winner was the National Socialist Movement (NSM). The NSM, which calls itself "America's Nazi Party," is an organization of uniform-wearing neo-Nazis who delight in publicly displaying their regalia and provoking violence, as they did in Toledo, Ohio, in October 2005, when they provoked a riot.

The NSM's public rallies led many white supremacists to see it as the only organization willing to do anything more than "meet, eat and retreat." This perception resulted in the NSM gaining members and momentum. However, that momentum was abruptly halted in the summer of 2006, when a watchdog group publicized the fact that the NSM post office box in Tulsa, Okla., was also being used by the Joy of Satan Ministries, a Satanist organization with sexual initiation rites that also is the parent organization of the very visible "Teens for Satan" e-group. Apparently, the wife of Clifford Herrington, the NSM's chairman emeritus, is the high priestess of the Joy of Satan organization. This revelation that a neo-Nazi leader was married to a Satanist high priestess provoked several weeks of public infighting on several white nationalist Internet sites, which resulted in the fracturing of the NSM as key members left to form new, competing organizations.

In November 2006, the NSM began to regain a little momentum when Gordon Young, the leader of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, traded his white sheet for a Nazi uniform and announced he was disbanding his group to join the NSM. However, Young's Jan. 10 arrest for sexually abusing a minor will certainly cause further damage to the reputation of the NSM, which already is tainted by its connection to the Joy of Satan organization and allegations that Joy of Satan promotes sexual initiation rites for teens.

The NSM's link to Joy of Satan and the accompanying complications, along with the recent NSM and NV arrests, has caused many white supremacists to question the way these organizations' leaders and members interpret the white supremacist mantra known as "the 14 words": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." Such people also are increasingly questioning the need for membership-based groups and their often fatally flawed leaders.

The Metamorphosis

Though white supremacist groups are declining in size and strength, the popularity of white supremacist sites on the Web and the increasing proliferation of the movement's "hatecore" music clearly indicate that their former members remain committed to a common ideology. Such people are not disappearing; they are simply adopting a new organization model.

In the past, membership in an organized hate group was the main avenue for activists seeking extremist literature and like-minded people, but the Internet has turned that paradigm on its head. There are now thousands of anti-Semitic and white supremacist Web sites on the Internet, and adherents also regularly establish their presence on popular Web destinations such as Myspace and Youtube. Increasingly, the Internet is replacing membership groups as the primary way for white supremacists to obtain information and communicate.

Large membership-based groups have been monitored and targeted precisely because they are known entities with membership lists, financial statements and physical addresses. This makes investigating them for illegal activity or suing them in civil court fairly easy. The threat of lawsuits connected to group members' illegal activities, in fact, has forced the membership-based organizations to pressure their members to "keep legal." Such pressure does not exist for anonymous lone wolves who get their information and companionship via the anonymity of the Internet.

Moreover, membership-based groups such as the WCOTC and the NA were not only easier for law enforcement to monitor, but they were also easy for them to infiltrate. For example, an FBI informant who penetrated the WCOTC and became the group's head of security was largely responsible for Hale's conviction. Law enforcement's success in infiltrating white supremacist groups has led many white supremacists to embrace the "leaderless resistance" organizational model. The bickering within and among organized groups and the obvious shortcomings of leaders like Strom, Young, Gliebe, Downing and Herrington are further strengthening this sentiment in the minds of many activists.

This shift toward leaderless resistance conducted by lone wolves and small cells has long been advocated by white supremacists such as former Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam because it makes it far more difficult for law enforcement and watchdog groups to identify radical individuals and monitor their plans and activities. The leaderless resistance model has been adopted by the radical environmental rights movement Earth Liberation Front, which has a Web site but no real membership. The Web site serves to inform and unite, but individuals and small units plan and conduct actions on their own.

As this model is more widely adopted in the white supremacist realm, law enforcement and watchdog groups are going to have to change the way they do business. Instead of focusing the bulk of their efforts on a few high-profile leaders ensconced in well-known compounds, they will have to shift their resources to look for violence-prone radicals on the edge of the movement.

In the long run, this shift in attention to the fringe of the movement could be good for public safety. Most of the truly dangerous people -- such as McVeigh, Joseph Paul Franklin, William Krar and brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams -- have emerged from the anonymous fringe. The real-life aspiring Earl Turners and Oscar Yeagers tend to avoid membership in organizations that could bring them to the attention of the authorities and usually do not have the time or patience for "meet, eat and retreat" activism.

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[flowerchild]

very good read

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>
White Supremacist Gang Gains Clout</font size></center>

Photographs showing neo-Nazi and gang tattoos hang in the gang
unit office at the police station in Buena Park, Calif., Feb. 24, 2007.
The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades
ago as a group of teenage punk rock fans from upper-middle class
bedroom communities in Orange County. Now, it's spreading to other
Western states and gaining power as federal authorities weaken the
Aryan Brotherhood and other established white supremacist gangs
with racketeering charges and other crackdowns. (AP Photo/Ann Johansson)


Mar 4, 7:24 PM (ET)
Associated Press
By GILLIAN FLACCUS

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.

Now, the violent gang that deals in drugs, guns and identity theft is gaining clout across the West after forging an alliance with the notorious Aryan Brotherhood, authorities say.

Police say the gang has compiled a "hit list" targeting five officers and a gang prosecutor - a sign of just how brazen Public Enemy has become.

"They make police officers very, very nervous," said Cpl. Nate Booth, a gang detective with the Buena Park Police Department in Orange County.

Law enforcement officials trace the gang's rise to shifts in the power structure inside prisons.

The Aryan Brotherhood has long been the dominant white supremacist gang behind bars, with the Nazi Low Riders acting as its foot soldiers on the outside for drug dealing and identity theft.

In 2000, officials reclassified the Low Riders as a prison-based gang and began sending its members to solitary confinement as soon as they were imprisoned.

The crackdown hurt the gang's ability to interact with the Aryan Brotherhood, which turned to Public Enemy, authorities say. The alliance was cemented in 2005 when Donald Reed "Popeye" Mazza, an alleged leader of Public Enemy, was inducted into the Aryan Brotherhood.

The pact has increased Public Enemy's wealth and recruiting power, said Steve Slaten, a special agent for the California Department of Corrections.

In the past three years, its ranks have doubled to at least 400, but authorities suspect there could be hundreds of other members operating under the radar. They said heavy recruiting is taking place throughout California and Arizona, and members have been picked up by police in Nevada and Idaho.

"They move around. We find them everywhere," said Lowell Smith of the Orange County Probation Department.

The gang traces its roots to the punk rock subculture in Long Beach in the 1980s. It soon shifted its base to nearby Orange County and in the 1990s began recruiting what police call "bored latchkey kids" - white teenagers from upper-middle class neighborhoods.

Public Enemy is now involved in identity theft. Booth said the gang has gone from swiping personal information from mailboxes and trash to stealing entire credit profiles with the help of girlfriends and wives who take jobs at banks, mortgage companies and even state motor vehicle departments.

Money from those operations is used to fuel its methamphetamine business, he said.

Two months ago, police agencies in Orange County arrested 67 suspected members after learning about the hit list against officers in Anaheim, Buena Park and Costa Mesa. Those arrested in the raid were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of illegal weapons and identity theft, among other things. Police have not released their names or further details because the investigation is continuing.

Booth recalled another case in which a member of the gang fired dozens of rounds at police from a car driven by his girlfriend during a high-speed freeway pursuit. After being arrested, the man was taken to an emergency room, where he grabbed a scalpel and tried to slash a deputy before cutting himself, Booth said.

Authorities worry that Public Enemy is using stolen credit information to learn the home addresses of police and their families. Some officers have gone to court to have addresses removed from those records, Booth said.


http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20070305/D8NLM7300.html

 

[KAS]

IF anybody on this board lives where they live, STOP THESE KIND OF MARCHES FROM TAKING PLACE. this is basically a bunch of terrorists bragging about how they enslaved your great grandparents.

 

[VegasGuy]

I'm still trying to figure out why again, kkk stories are all the rage.

-VG

 

[GET YOU HOT]

I see these clown heads on the daily, i have one word for their so called resurgence, can you say POSER....

 

[QueEx]

I'm still trying to figure out why again, kkk stories are all the rage.

-VG

... because the KKK and other white supremacists are making it the rage ???

QueEx

 

[QueEx]

Bump

I don't want us to forget about these terrorists.

QueEx

 

[QueEx]

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In New Twist - Klan Kills Own Recruit</font size><font size="4">
FBI joins investigation of Klan initiation death</font size></center>

Chuck Foster is charged with second-degree
murder in the woman's death.

Some of the eight suspects tried to conceal
the woman's killing, police said.

Relatives describe Cynthia Lynch as having a
deep need to feel wanted and eager to join
groups.


<font size="3">CNN</font size>
Friday, November 14, 2008

COVINGTON, Louisiana (CNN) -- A woman recruited over the Internet and shot to death during a Ku Klux Klan group's initiation rite felt a need to be wanted and was eager to be part of a group, authorities say family members told them.

Her relatives told investigators that Cynthia Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had never been outside her home state, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department.

But she recently traveled to Louisiana for the Klan initiation ceremony and was taken to a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans. Bonnett and Sheriff Jack Strain gave CNN this account of what happened:

During the rite, members of the Klan group, which calls itself the Sons of Dixie, shaved Lynch's head. When she asked to be taken to a nearby town, an argument began and the group's leader, Chuck Foster, allegedly shot her to death without warning.​

Lynch wanted to leave the campsite because she was homesick, investigators concluded after talking to Lynch's family in Tulsa.

The new details emerged Thursday as the FBI announced it was assisting local authorities.

The FBI's top agent in New Orleans, Louisiana, said the agency usually doesn't monitor specific groups, but will look into whether any federal laws were violated.

"The FBI is working closely with local law enforcement authorities investigating this recent incident," said Special Agent in Charge David W. Welker. He added that the FBI would "aggressively investigate" any leads and urged anyone with information to call the FBI at 504-816-3000

Sheriff's investigators said they received the intitial tip about the killing from a convenience store clerk. Two of the group members went into the store and asked the clerk if he knew how to get bloodstains out of their clothes, Strain said. The clerk told them no, and called the sheriff after they left.

Officials tracked down those two members and arrested them. Authorities established telephone contact with other members of the group who were still at the campsite and let them know law enforcement officials were on their way. They surrendered without incident.

Foster was elsewhere in the woods, but he also surrendered, the sheriff said.

The woman's body was found under loose brush along a road several miles from the campsite.

Foster, 44, is charged with second-degree murder. He remained Thursday at the St. Tammany Parish jail with no bail set, authorities said.

Seven other suspects also remained in jail Thursday, charged with obstruction of justice. Bail for each was set at $500,000.

Sheriff's officials believe other members of the Sons of Dixie helped cover up the slaying for Foster, their leader or "Grand Lordship," Strain said.

The attempt to conceal the killing included some members of the group burning the woman's personal items, Strain said.

On Wednesday, sheriff's investigators searched a house Foster had rented for the past five years in Bogalusa. They found Klan paraphernalia, documents and computer files. Among the seized documents were membership applications, titles and a chain of command for group members

"We recovered various documents out of that home that are giving us an indication of the organizational structure and the organizational guidelines of the group," Bonnett said.

Fred Oswold, chief of criminal investigations for the sheriff's office, said the Sons of Dixie Klan group is small and that most of its members already had been arrested.

"So far we have learned that they were a small group, but they were fairly organized," said Oswold, who said his agency is working with the FBI to learn more about the group.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/13/klan.slaying/?iref=mpstoryview

 

[QueEx]

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I was told to 'kill'

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Witnesses say they were guided by the head of
the Ku Klux Klan to beat and kill a teen. WAVE's
David MacArthur reports.

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[Imhotep]

Very informative...........

 

[owl]

<center>White Supremacist David Duke in Syria</center>

02:29 Nov 24, '05 / 22 Cheshvan 5766


(IsraelNN.com) Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana State Representative David Duke was in Syria on Monday to express solidarity with Damascus.

At a press conference in the Damascus' Rawda Square, Duke said, "I have come to Syria to express my support for the Syrian people.... It's the duty of every free man to reject the conspiracies and threats Syria is exposed to." Duke charged that pro-Israel neo-conservatives in the US are controlling American foreign policy and that "Zionist-controlled mass media" are hiding "the reality of Israeli terrorism against the Arabs."

Attending the press conference were several members of the Syrian parliament, and Arab and foreign correspondents, as well as representatives from Russian academia.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=93548

This is where the alignment of power begins...

 

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[nittie]

Same rules for everybody, adapt or go extinct, Blacks adapted to racism, jim crow, segregation, and everything the system threw at us. Now it's racist time to show us what they're made of, if they can't adapt in 20yrs the only place they will be seen is in museums, with a inscription beneath the statues saying these people once ruled the world, believe it or not.

 

[QueEx]

. . . if they can't adapt in 20yrs the only place they will be seen is in museums, with a inscription beneath the statues saying these people once ruled the world, believe it or not.

When did they ever rule the world ???

QueEx

 

[nittie]

When did they ever rule the world ???

QueEx

A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power.
After the Cold War, the most common belief held that only the United States fulfilled the criteria to be considered a superpower.

 

[dasmybikepunk]

When did they ever rule the world ???

QueEx

....amazing ain't it

Give some of these brothas a couple pamphlets of literature and history changes

 

[GET YOU HOT]

Masters of their own demise...

 

[Chitownheadbusa]

great read
please dont think that all of the Klan are a bunch of angry old men.
i just took a trip to downstate illinois this past weekend...and a lot of them were very openly racist. none of them called me a ni gg er or anything, but it was stil very obvious.

one of the more friendlier cave dwellers told me that the clan was very much alive in ,ost parts of southern Ill.
once he told me that....i took care of my bizness and headed back to the south side of the Chi before sundown....lol.

i was by myself, and i was around a lot of woods..after Obama won... so there u have it.

 

[Mello Mello]

Sly fox. Thats a perfect way for them to gain sympathy from other whites who don't hold such extreme views of hate.

 

[Makkonnen]

fear and ignorance get them members

they should be having a nice little boost in membership around now

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>
Details Emerge On Accused
Louisiana Klan Killer’s History</font size></center>

This photo provided by St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office shows Raymond Foster, the
head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa, La. Foster was booked into St. Tammany
Parish jail in Covington, La., with second-degree murder charges in the death of a woman
in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation
ritual. (AP Photo/St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office)



Black Press USA
by David Holthouse
Special to the NNPA
from the Southern
Poverty Law Center


(NNPA)-Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested Nov. 11 for killing a woman following a backwoods Klan initiation ritual, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001.

Foster, 44, was the founding Imperial Wizard, or national leader, of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Klan faction that formed on January 1, 2001, in Watson, La.

During the next three years, the group developed chapters in three other states while maintaining a low profile with the exception of a single incident in 2003 when a White Knights official in Ohio, Jeremy Parker, drew attention by posting instructions for making a pipe bomb on the Internet in response to a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration.

“Sure would hate to see anything happen,” he wrote.

In 2004, the Southern White Knights had active chapters in Savannah, Ga., Homosassa Springs, Fla., and Marion, Ohio, as well as the founding chapter, which by that time had relocated to Denham Springs, La.

The Southern White Knights disbanded in early 2005. Most of its members–not including Foster—resurfaced later that year as the Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a relatively large Klan group that currently has nine active chapters in eight states, none of them in Louisiana.

The woman Foster allegedly murdered, identified by police as 43-year-old Cynthia C. Lynch, was apparently recruited over the Internet to join Foster’s latest Klan group. Media accounts of the rapidly developing story have variously identified that group as the Dixie Brotherhood and/or the Sons of Dixie.

Hatewatch is unaware of any Klan group by either of those names operating anywhere in the country.

However, last year a new Klan group calling itself the Dixie Rangers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed in Walker, La., about 80 miles from the rural scene of the alleged murder.
It’s unclear at this point if the Dixie Rangers and the Dixie Brotherhood/Sons of Dixie are one and the same.

Law enforcement officials said that Lynch took a bus from her home near Tulsa. Okla., to Slidell, La., where two members of the “Dixie” Klan group picked her up on Friday, Nov. 7, and transported her to a campground near the Pearl River. At least eight members of the Klan group were present, including Foster.

After a series of rites including the shaving of her head, the Klan members took Lynch to a camp on a sandbar that was accessible only by boat. There the initiation continued. St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain told the Times-Picayune the rituals on the sandbar consisted of lighting torches and “running around in the woods.”

By Sunday night, Lynch had reportedly changed her mind about joining the Klan and wanted to leave the camp. This sparked an argument with Foster, who allegedly pushed her down and killed her with a single shot from a .40 caliber handgun.

According to Strain, Foster tried to dig the bullet out of Lynch’s body with a knife before ordering his followers to set fire to her belongings and get rid of her body.

The next morning, Foster’s son, Shane Foster, 20, and another member of the Klan group, Frank Stafford, 21, asked a convenience store clerk in nearby Bogalusa if he knew how to remove bloodstains from clothes. The clerk, who recognized the men, alerted to local sheriff’s office.

Following a rapid investigation, St. Tammany Parish deputies raided the campsite, arresting five Klan members who had fled into the woods. The elder Foster, who initially escaped, turned himself in later that day.

At the campsite, investigators found weapons, Confederate battle flags, KKK banners, five rank-and-file white Klan robes, and one black Imperial Wizard robe. They found Lynch’s corpse in a weedy ditch about a half-mile from the sandbar.

Chuck Foster has been charged with second-degree murder. His son, along with Stafford and five other Klan members—Random Hines, 27; Danielle Jones, 23; Alicia Watkins, 23; Timothy Michael Watkins, 30; and Andrew Yates, 20—were charged with obstruction of justice.

Although the alleged murder of the Oklahoma woman is the first reported murder of a prospective Klan member during an initiation ceremony, it’s not the first reported shooting or other serious injury.

Klansmen, flames, guns and alcohol is a volatile mixture.
For example, on Nov. 23, 2004, a member of America’s Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was accidentally shot in the head during an initiation ritual that involved a prospective member being strung from a tree with a noose around his neck, standing on his tiptoes, while Klansmen shot him with paintball guns. The accidental shooting occurred when one of them decided to scare the initiate (who survived) by firing a real gun in his direction and a wayward paintball altered the shooter’s aim.

David Holthouse is a staff writer for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report.



http://www.blackpressusa.com/News/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=National+News&NewsID=17029

 

[GET YOU HOT]

The leader has Klan activity dating back to at least 2001, he's 44years old. What the hell was he doing all those years and how is it that they just recently('01), picked him up on the hatedar...


wow...

Klansmen, flames, guns and alcohol is a volatile mixture.
For example, on Nov. 23, 2004, a member of America’s Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was accidentally shot in the head during an initiation ritual that involved a prospective member being strung from a tree with a noose around his neck, standing on his tiptoes, while Klansmen shot him with paintball guns. The accidental shooting occurred when one of them decided to scare the initiate (who survived) by firing a real gun in his direction and a wayward paintball altered the shooter’s aim.

 

[QueEx]

GYH,

Do you get the feeling that some of their antics might be comical, if they weren't so real, and so full of hate, and so intended for us?

QueEx

 

[MCP]

America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009


The USA has a new president but an old problem - and nothing typifies it like today’s Ku Klux Klan. The photographer Anthony Karen gained unprecedented access to the ‘Invisible Empire’

These images show members of the Ku Klux Klan as they want to be seen, scary and secretive and waiting in the wings for Barack and his colour-blind vision for America to fail. Anthony Karen, a former Marine and self-taught photojournalist was granted access to the innermost sanctum of the Klan. He doesn’t tell us how he did it but he was considered trustworthy enough to be invited into their homes and allowed to photograph their most secretive ceremonies, such as the infamous cross burnings.


When he talks about the Klan members he has encountered he tends not to dwell on the fate of their victims. Karen’s feat is that he takes us to places few photojournalists have been before, into the belly of the beast. The scenes he presents portray a kinder, gentler Klan. The mute photographs present an organisation that is far less threatening than the hate group of our popular imagination. Consciously or otherwise, his photographs hold our imagination in their grip while doing double duty as propaganda for the extremist right, much as Leni Riefenstahl’s work did for the Nazis.

Today the Klan is a mere shadow of what it used to be and there are at least 34 differently named Klan groups. “They are a fairly low-rent bunch of people, many of whom use their local organisations as a way of raising money for themselves,” says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence
Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.

Photographs of the Klan folk in their hooded regalia aren’t all that rare. The archives of America’s newspapers contain plenty of front-page photographs of lynchings throughout the past century. Three years ago, James Cameron, the last survivor of an attempted lynching died, thankfully of natural causes.

The older generation of Black Americans grew up hearing about Klan lynchings whispered over the dinner table but never mentioned outside the home. At the Klan’s height, around the turn of the 20th century, some 30 to 40 lynchings a year were being recorded. It is believed that there were in fact many more unrecorded deaths, especially in the cotton-growing south where the deaths of black field-hands were often not recorded.

Karen’s photographs show an entirely different side of the far right. He presents a 58-year-old, fifth-generation seamstress he calls “Ms Ruth” and he has photographed her running up an outfit for the “Exalted Cyclops” or head of a local KKK chapter. She gets paid about $140 for her trouble. Karen tells us that she uses the earnings to help care for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, who was injured in a car accident 10 years ago.

Karen’s images of the Klan and its supporters regularly appear on the recruiting websites of the far right. Out of context, the images of hooded Klansmen and their families tell us little of the real story – the inexorable rise in the number of extremist organisations in America.

The number of hate-crime victims in the US is also rising and as America’s middle and working class gets thrown out of work, the hate groups behind the crimes are flourishing. As people lose their homes to foreclosure and, without the benefit of a safety net, find themselves slipping into poverty, there is already a search for scapegoats underway. Immigrants from central and South America have become particular targets as the grim economic times take hold.

Anyone who doubts the capacity of the modern KKK for violence need look no further than the recent case of 43-year-old Cynthia Lynch of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had never been out of her home state before she travelled to Louisiana to be initiated into the Klan. She was met off the bus by two members of a group that calls itself the Sons of Dixie and taken to a campsite in the woods 60 miles north of New Orleans.

There, Lynch’s head was shaven and after 24 hours of Klan boot camp, including chanting and running with torches, she had had enough and asked to be taken to town. After an argument, the group’s “Grand Lordship”, Chuck Foster, is alleged to have shot her to death. He was charged with second-degree murder and is awaiting trial. Just as shocking is that the event happened in Bogalusa, a backwoods Louisiana town that was once known as the Klan capital of the US.

In the 1960s the Klan operated with impunity in Bogalusa and once held a public meeting to decide which black church to burn down next. Local Klan members were suspected of ambushing two black policemen in 1965, killing one and wounding the other. No one was ever tried for the crimes.

Despite all its notoriety the Klan has been a spent force for decades with nothing like the clout it once wielded. At its peak the KKK boasted four million members and controlled the governor’s mansions and legislatures of several states. Since the 1930s the KKK has been in a state of disorganisation and today it probably has 6,000 members. But the economic crisis is swelling their ranks and already, a month after the inauguration of the first black president, the tidal wave of interracial harmony that greeted Obama’s election is starting to recede.

“Things are certain to get worse,” says Potok. “The ingredients are all there: a dire economy that is certain to get worse; high levels of immigration; the white majority that is soon to turn into a minority and a black man in the White House.”

More than 400 hate-related incidents, from cross-burnings to effigies of President Obama hanging from nooses have been reported, according to law-enforcement authorities and Potok’s organisation, which files lawsuits against hate groups aimed at making them bankrupt.

Late last year, two suspected skinheads who had links to a violent Klan chapter in Kentucky were charged with plotting to kill 88 black students. They were then going to assassinate President Obama by blasting him from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedos and top hats. They were never going to succeed, given the huge security net around Obama, but the fact that they had planned such an outlandish attack may be a harbinger of things to come.

“There is a tremendous backlash to Obama’s election,” says Richard Barrett, the leader of the Nationalist Movement, another white supremacist group. “Many people look at the flag of the Republic of New Africa that was hoisted over the White House as an act of war.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...lan-is-alive-and-kicking-in-2009-1625732.html

 

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Re: America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in

Fuck the Klan!!! Aint nobody scared of the Klan. Just think what niggas will do to the klan now if they showed their head.

 

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Not defending the KKK lol but the real problem is America's competitive mindset. If another racial group was in power there would sects who behaved like the Klan. We already see it with gangs, religions, business, message boards, people fight because they are different and there's going to be extremist.

 

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The Klan was never diminished, just pushed it underground, which makes it more dangerous.

The cross burning is going to be you losing your job to get you out of neighborhood or putting you under intense surveillance and stalking you.

 

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