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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 06:09 AM Aug 2013

Neo-Nazi plans to build an all-white city of racists in North Dakota


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/22/neo-nazi-plans-to-build-an-all-white-city-of-racists-in-north-dakota/


A man living in North Dakota plans to turn his small town into a bastion of white supremacists, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“I didn’t have a clue who the guy was until he showed up. All I know is he bought that house sight unseen, $5,000 cash, and had no idea what it looked like, where it was, other than he knew the directions to get to Leith,” Mayor Ryan Schock told the Hatewatch blog.

Craig Paul Cobb, 61, has been buying up abandoned property in Leith, a town of only 19 people. He has invited other white supremacists to live on his properties and help take over the city.

In a post last year on the Vanguard News Network forum, Cobb said anyone who lives on his property would be required to fly a “racialist banner” — such as a Nazi flag — 24-hours a day. They would also be required to try to “import more responsible radical hard core [white nationalists]” and become a legal resident of the state so they could vote in local elections. He plans to rename the city “Cobbsville.”

“Imagine strolling over to your neighbors to discuss world politics with nearly all like-minded volk. Imagine the international publicity and usefulness to our cause! For starters, we could declare a Mexican illegal invaders and Israeli Mossad/IDF spies no-go zone. If leftist journalists or antis come and try to make trouble, they just might break one of our local ordinances and would have to be arrested by our town constable. See?” he wrote.
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Neo-Nazi plans to build an all-white city of racists in North Dakota (Original Post) eridani Aug 2013 OP
Next step: an airtight dome. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #1
aw, you beat me to it! undeterred Aug 2013 #2
long as it keeps them contained quaker bill Aug 2013 #3
It would also make it pretty easy for one of these............ wild bird Aug 2013 #15
My first thought as well. JoePhilly Aug 2013 #14
I agree but... pipi_k Aug 2013 #17
It's all fun and games until they stop caring who has the conch... Scootaloo Aug 2013 #4
It's too bad they cannot all just meet-up & move together SoCalDem Aug 2013 #5
Get a load of this clown shenmue Aug 2013 #6
Now why would you want to go and pollute such a beautiful place such as Antarctica? wild bird Aug 2013 #16
Because it's filled with blacks running around with their crazy hair styles and wild make-up. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2013 #18
None of them had better be collecting any benefits from the Federal government. If so, it should kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #7
I'm glad he chose N. Dakota! n/t taught_me_patience Aug 2013 #8
Good- let them create their own cesspool Lee-Lee Aug 2013 #9
Leith, ND is about as isolated a place as exists in the US. MineralMan Aug 2013 #10
Excellent news. Plans for the Siege of 'Baggergrad just got a lot easier. n/t DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #11
Oh, this will go over well. RC Aug 2013 #12
One less FEMA camp Uncle Sam needs to build NoPasaran Aug 2013 #13
Legally it may not work treestar Aug 2013 #19
There's one black person there XemaSab Aug 2013 #20
Heil Cobb! GreatCaesarsGhost Aug 2013 #21

quaker bill

(8,223 posts)
3. long as it keeps them contained
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 06:35 AM
Aug 2013

It could be useful to have them all in one well known place. They would be far easier to avoid.

 

wild bird

(421 posts)
15. It would also make it pretty easy for one of these............
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:37 AM
Aug 2013


Not that I would ever want something like that to happen to such upstanding citizens. (snicker)

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
5. It's too bad they cannot all just meet-up & move together
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 06:45 AM
Aug 2013

build their damned fence & hide away all by themselves, instead of infecting every state, every county.... in small enclaves of hate, as the poison politics & progress for the rest of us...

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
7. None of them had better be collecting any benefits from the Federal government. If so, it should
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 08:03 AM
Aug 2013

stop because I am sure they are paying no taxes and breaking all kinds of laws.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
9. Good- let them create their own cesspool
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 09:49 AM
Aug 2013

You know they will end up with a failure of a government and fighting among themselves until they kill each other off.

I would be fun to start passing out leaflets accusing random haters there of having Jewish blood and watching them hate each other...

MineralMan

(146,241 posts)
10. Leith, ND is about as isolated a place as exists in the US.
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:23 AM
Aug 2013

It is in the middle of approximately nowhere. Who would move to such a place? How would they live, unless they had enough money to completely retire. The winters are remarkable for their icy severity.

This moron has just bought himself a place doomed to fail. Everyone moved out of Laeth long ago. It is a ghost town.

This idiot and his equally idiotic friends are welcome to it.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
12. Oh, this will go over well.
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:27 AM
Aug 2013

North Dakota may be a Red State, but it has its limits. I bet he has never had to deal with a hard core conservative, native North Dakotan. Trying to rename that town will be Craig Paul Cobb downfall. He has no idea what he is up against.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
19. Legally it may not work
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:48 AM
Aug 2013

He can't prevent people from entering a public town, so I say a big march through town including every minority under the sun.

It would have to be more like a commune. It would turn out to be a cult.

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
20. There's one black person there
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:49 AM
Aug 2013

As of the census of 2010, there were 16 people, 8 households, and 5 families residing in the city. The population density was 13.0 inhabitants per square mile (5.0 /km2). There were 18 housing units at an average density of 14.6 per square mile (5.6 /km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.8% White and 6.3% African American.

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