Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to 'clean out D.C.'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Montgomery Advertiser

Melissa Brown, Montgomery Advertiser
Published 5:27 p.m. CT Feb. 18, 2019 | Updated 7:05 p.m. CT Feb. 18, 2019

The editor of a small-town Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling for "the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again" against "Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama."



In this photo from Advertiser archives, Democrat-Reporter Publisher Goodloe Sutton reviews an article in 2015 about the paper moving to a new location. (Photo11: Alvin Benn/Special to the Advertiser)


Goodloe Sutton — who is the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama — confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday that he authored the Feb. 14 editorial calling for the return of a white supremacist hate group.

"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off," Sutton said.

. . .

Asked to elaborate what he meant by "cleaning up D.C.," Sutton suggested lynching.

"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.

Read more: https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/02/18/alabama-newspaper-ku-klux-klan-to-night-ride-again-linden-democrat-reporter-goodloe-sutton/2910436002/

[bluestarone]

1. NO FUCKING WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO FUCKING WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[More_Cowbell]

2. Even aside from the topic, that's some pretty poor writing

"This is the same so what used when Democrats got us into World War I and World War II."

Huh?

[Chellee]

30. He inherited the paper from his father.

It really shows. You don't get to be in position like his, with skills like his, without a lot of nepotism.

[Leghorn21]

3. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.

Okay, but you’ll be first in line, right, Brother Sutton?

[guillaumeb]

4. What year is it in this part of Alabama?

Does he know that the American south lost that war?

[c_junk]

18. Sure he does...

That's why he wants to reactivate the guerilla army and try again

[guillaumeb]

20. Welcome to DU.

Tea Partiers did say that they wanted to take back Amerikka.

To 1850.

[demosincebirth]

28. Over half of the the South never stopped fighting the war. It's bred into them

[guillaumeb]

62. It is so ridiculous.

A refusal to accept reality, which, it occurs, also describes many Trump voters.

[iluvtennis]

5. Un-fkn-believable

And the occupant of the white house is responsible for all of the racial discord in this country. November 2020 can't get here quick enough

[Blue_Adept]

9. There's been a serious increase in this kind of stuff since 2008. Trump is a symptom, not the cause

[PupCamo]

6. the Klan were freed slaves?

I'm confused

[oldsoftie]

17. New one on me.

[deurbano]

26. The more conventional version of history was based on Fake News.

[walkingman]

7. There is hell and there is another place below hell.

I hope all the good Christians who support this abuse of their fellow man understand that they will be held accountable for their actions - that includes voting for those that support these policies.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Does this mental midget even know what "to night ride" means in the South ??

Christ on a pogo stick !!!!!

[kwolf68]

10. Hold on

Did I stumble into a fucking time warp?

[Dem2theMax]

11. I think I woke up in the wrong country today.

There are no words. I am speechless at this.
Sutton is pure evil.

[regnaD kciN]

51. I've been feeling that way for over two years...

...this is just another data point.

[Dem2theMax]

52. Yes, actually I have felt that way for the past two years as well.

Sadly, I will never be able to forget going to bed on Election night, hoping against hope that the polls were wrong, and that I would wake up in the morning with a new President Clinton.

It's like we're living in Bizarro world, only it's a whole lot worse.

[LiberalFighter]

12. He is a pos.

[paleotn]

13. Bull Connor still lives....

and Alabama hasn't changed one bit. It's a pity Thaddeus Stevens and radicals weren't able to properly reconstruct the south.

[dalton99a]

14. Democrat-Reporter (Linden, Ala.) Feb. 14, 2019 editorial

written by its publisher Goodloe Sutton

[TwilightZone]

23. He's a complete moron.

He makes Trump look intelligent.

Well, maybe not....

[NYC Liberal]

27. "The same so what used when Democrats got us into World War I and World War II"

Unintelligible word salad. And this was printed in a newspaper.

[TwilightZone]

34. The editor needs an editor.

Though, that's the least of his problems.

[Srkdqltr]

25. Democrats in the Republican Party ??? WTF??

There is no word strong enough for this stupidity. The man is deranged.

[Polybius]

29. Democrats got us into the wars in the Middle East?

Has he ever heard of both Bushes?

[Chellee]

31. Maybe those are the Democrats in the Republican party.

[murielm99]

40. The Middle East War?

Which war? Did I miss a war?

[kwassa]

55. Slaves borrowing their former master's robes?

This is so stupid it is almost entertaining.

[oldsoftie]

15. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Douche

[JudyM]

58. LOL!

Your post made me laugh out loud, glad I’d already finished my coffee.

[CTAtheist]

16. Should be pretty easy to arrest him for that.

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Text-book case of inciting violence.

[jberryhill]

32. What textbook would that be?

[Duppers]

46. Could have meant Law-"Text-book *case of* inciting violence

Don't ya think?

[onenote]

57. Not per any legal textbook I've ever seen.

Not even close.

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. oh my god

[Evolve Dammit]

21. What an f'in maroon. Wow.

[salin]

22. Reference this story whenever someone suggests that this is 2019 and things like this don't happen.

We know it still does - but there are ignorant folks, desperately clinging to their cognitive dissonance and biases, who are in deep, deep denial. This is a hard story to explain away, even for the cultists.

[Frances]

24. I spent the first 6 months of my life in Linden AL

The editor of the local paper in a neighboring county did not support Trump in 2016. It will be interesting to see his response to the Linden editorial. I know he won’t be in favor of the Klan

[Aristus]

33. And we're supposed to be nice to these fuckheads and not 'tar with the same brush'?

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, ALABAMA!

[BootinUp]

35. Holy F! Thanks Trump!

[YOHABLO]

36. I'd say typical small town 'shit for brains' comment. Oh the South shall rise again. (so they think)

[spike jones]

37. n/t

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[Judi Lynn]

49. Have never seen that happen! Very worthy action. n/t

[Elwood P Dowd]

38. Along with the other lies, he claimed that Democrats eliminated the military draft.

That happened under Nixon. I was a draftee in the Army when they started transitioning to an all volunteer force (1970-72). They called it VOLAR.

[Progressive Jones]

39. I would be more than happy to help defend the United States against

a bunch of Confederate traitors.

[Stuart G]

41. Small Town...very small..pop 2000. probably once a week.

Small town hack, looking for national publicity..and he got it. Remind you of anyone?

[House of Roberts]

42. Linden is west of Montgomery, and west of Selma,

actually closer to Meridian, Mississippi.

I had to look at the map, but I live in Huntsville, so I'm not close to there.

[DFW]

43. Is turnabout fair play?

Asking for purely academic reasons, you understand........

[jmowreader]

44. Goodloe, bless your heart

Don't you know how hard it is to keep a newspaper going in Alabama when all your non-white customers cancel their subscriptions?

[Pepsidog]

45. Why gives this nut job attention.

[Duppers]

47. 😵😡 I badly want to rub some southern faces in..

..this shit.

[SKKY]

48. Good! Excellent! Let's get all these dip shits out in the open...

...so they can be dealt with accordingly.

[sakabatou]

50. Ugh

[exboyfil]

53. I think Southern Mississippi might want to retract that induction

https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/who-is-goodloe-sutton-alabama-publisher-writes-kkk-editorial-credited-with-bringing-down-sheriff.html

In 2007, Goodloe and Jean Sutton were inducted into the University of Southern Mississippi Mass Communications and Journalism Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Suttons received the Distinguished Alabama Community Journalist award from Auburn University.

https://www.usm.edu/school-of-journalism-and-media-studies/alumni/goodloe-and-jean-sutton

[Cold War Spook]

54. Isn't illegal to threaten to kill members of Congress?

This man belongs in prison.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

56. Speaking of living in the past, that looks like a Graphite Power Macintosh G4 on his desk.

512 Pixels, On the Power Mac G4



Mac Systems: Apple: Power Macintosh G4

Power Mac G4



The "Graphite" Power Mac G4

The Power Mac G4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1999 to 2004 as part of the Power Macintosh line. Built around the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors, the Power Mac G4 was marketed by Apple as the first "personal supercomputers", reaching speeds of 4 to 20 gigaFLOPS. This was the first existing Macintosh product to be officially shortened as "Mac", and is the last Mac able to boot into classic Mac OS.

The enclosure style introduced with the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) was retained through its entire five year production run of the Power Mac G4, albeit with significant changes to match Apple's evolving industrial design and to accommodate increasing cooling needs. The G4 and the enclosure were retired with the introduction of the Power Mac G5.

Believe it or not, when they're running OS X 10.4, they're still functional online, as there is a browser for Power PC that is updated several times per year:

TenFourFox





TenFourFox 12 running under Mac OS X Tiger.

TenFourFox is a web browser for Power Macintosh computers, based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine. It is a port of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X to retain compatibility with the older architecture and older versions of the operating system, and to add PowerPC-specific optimizations for improved performance. The project was started after Mozilla announced that it would not release Firefox 4 for PowerPC versions of OS X. Like Firefox, it includes compatibility with a wide range of addons, Acid2 and Acid3 compliance, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 features; however, it also includes JavaScript just-in-time compilation, custom builds for specific PowerPC processor families, and AltiVec acceleration of key media codecs. The primary maintainer is Cameron Kaiser.

The project shares administration with Classilla, a fork of Mozilla Application Suite for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 8.6.

You read that right. You can still go online with Mac OS 8.6.

[FeatherFox]

59. WTH?

Does this man really believe this? Is he only doing it for his few minutes of "fame" (infamy).
Please, someone interview him, and ask him why he has said what he has said.

[Paladin]

60. For those keeping track: It's currently 2019, not 1956.

What a waste of oxygen and shriveled skin that evil old man is.

[EarthFirst]

61. I wouldn't swerve if this motherfu*ker was crossing the road...

I would; however put it in reverse of course to “check on him...”