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TexasTowelie

(112,495 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 12:48 AM Feb 2017

Officials in North Dakota town see no way to block white supremacist Cobb from buying old church

NOME — This 62-person hamlet in Barnes County is facing a question other sleepy North Dakota towns have already grappled with: What should be done when white supremacist Craig Cobb is trying to move in?

Cobb, aka Paul Craig Cobb, has already tried to turn the towns of Leith and Antler into enclaves of white supremacists. Now, it’s believed he started last week to move into the former Zion Lutheran Church in Nome, about 70 miles southwest of Fargo.

At a meeting of the Nome City Council on Sunday, Feb. 5, Mayor Bruce Storhoff said he’s heard Cobb intends to buy the old church, which is currently zoned as a residence and not a gathering place. However, the sale is not yet complete, and the county recorder’s office has not registered it, Storhoff said.

“As a governing body, we really don’t have a leg to stand on just to not let him in if that sale goes through,” the mayor said, adding that Cobb would have to do something illegal before officials could intervene.

Read more: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/officials-in-north-dakota-town-see-no-way-to-block/article_d4c40ada-7a83-547c-8fda-941a94b6711d.html

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Religious freedom HassleCat Feb 2017 #1
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Religious freedom
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 01:06 AM
Feb 2017

The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh took over the town of Antelope, Oregon and terrorized the locals. His police force carried submachine guns and hassled the locals, trying to drive them out. They poisoned the salad bar at a restaurant in The Dalles, Oregon. It was difficult to stop them because they were a "religious" group. Similar stupidity occurred with white supremacist "churches" in rural Idaho. All for religious freedom.

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