Pennsylvania newspapers refer to white supremacist group as ‘white people’s rights group’

[obamanut2012]

By: Pam Spaulding Sunday August 12, 2012 1:29 pm

I love it when newspapers and other traditional media get on indy blogs for having “no editorial standards” and then lo and behold, ish like this blows up. The “problem” started with an story containing an interview with Pennsylvania activist Steve Smith in the Scranton Times-Tribune that failed to mention his long history with the neo-Nazi movement.

Moosic will forbid a white people’s rights group from having a celebration at a borough park Saturday because its leader lied when he applied to use the park, council President Joseph Mercatili said Wednesday.

Borough officials found out the group’s leader, Steve Smith, lied about where he lives when he asked for permission to use Mercatili-Segilia Park for his European American Action Coalition’s third annual European American Heritage Celebration, Mr. Mercatili said.

Even with that, a paragraph later in the article should have given editors a clue about the leanings of the European American Action Coalition:

The coalition’s event included hosting a minor-party presidential candidate who believes the nation is “degenerating” because of the growth of minority populations. The candidate, Merlin Miller, belongs to the American 3rd Position Party, which has been identified by a hate-group tracking organization, Southern Poverty Law Center, as one “initially established by racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule.”

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[The Magistrate]

1. Pennsylvania, Ma'am, In the 1920s, Was Almost As Overrun By the Klan As Indiana

Perhaps the journalist is a sympathizer....

[derby378]

2. Hell, the Klan even recruited some QUAKERS from the Midwest back in those days

And they did it by pushing a "pro-family, pro-America" message in New England and the Midwest and downplaying stories of racial violence such as, for example, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans disfiguring some poor black kid's forehead with acid.

These were the days before Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, and James Chaney. But when the Quakers started to hear about atrocities and injustices in the South back in the 30s, they deserted the Klan en masse. Some chose the Klan over the Quakers, including the father of cult leader Jim Jones.

[obamanut2012]

3. I have never heard that about the Quakers before

Wow.

[lunatica]

4. back to the good old days

[agent zero]

5. hehehe yeah.