"KKK a PEACEFUL ORGANIZATION, has done 'a lot of good'."

[Bluebear]

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - The defense rested Monday in the trial of a former Ku Klux Klanman in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers after a former mayor testified that the white-supremacist group was a "peaceful organization."

Harlan Majure, who was mayor of this rural Mississippi town in the 1990s, said Edgar Ray Killen was a good man (Note: As opposed to John Kerry, who as we know was branded by Lynne Cheney as NOT a good man.) and that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion.

Majur said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.

"As far as I know it's a peaceful organization," Majure said. His comment was met with murmurs in the packed courtroom....

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=215117&nid=104

[skooooo]

1. Right.....

It's just the "liberal media" that have painted this erroneous picture of the KKK in peoples' minds.

[NorCalDem]

6. Of course,

That and the burning crosses, rampant bigotry and hate crimes. Other than that those, it's all the liberal media's fault.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Well, if you're a white supremacist, I'd say that might be your opinion.

Depends on your perspective.

From my perspective, the KKK is a violent, hate-based group of ignorant racists who serve no other purpose except to highlight the incredible things one human can do to another.

[luvLLB]

3. KKK in S.E, Texas..........Peaceful??? I think not.!

When Black families attempted to move into the all-white town of Vidor, south of Jasper, three years ago, Klansmen terrorized them with death threats. Hale and his Human Rights Commission, which has powers to prosecute, brought several Klansmen to trial in 1995. A witness told the court of one incident in which three hooded Klansmen showed
up at a Black Woman's newly rented apartment in Vidor and told her, "Get your Black babies out of here or else".

The Klan retaliated by attempting to murder Hale and Texas Attorney General Dan Morales, who was also investigating the Klan's incitements in Vidor. Police arrested a parolee who had been hired by the Klan to carry out the murder and he was returned to prison.

Hale charged that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camellia KKK are the most active in east Texas. Charles Lee, head of the Knights of the White Camelia KKK, argues that there is such a thing as "positive violence".

He was among the Klansmen tried in 1981 on charges of intimidating Vietnamese fishermen in Galveston Bay. The court later ordered Lee to shut down Klan paramilitary schools that offered weapons training in east Texas.

[hobbit709]

4. RIGHT!!!!!!

And Hitler really loved Jews. If you believe that, not only can I sell you a bridge, but I'll throw in a couple of monuments and some teeth you can leave under the pillow for the tooth fairy.

[DrDebug]

5. Didn't you read the stuff of no tinhat foil anymore

They are just people who like to dress up :sarcasm: and not raving lunatics filled with vengange and hatred.

[EC]

7. Well, then the next time they throw the KKK and Byrd

reference in our faces we can just point to this and say, but I thought you believe it's a good thing?


Freaks...

[Gemini Cat]

8. Some things are just to stupid to comment on:

Majur said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.

He's either rock stupid or he's brain dead. One or the other. The evil stupid brain dead fuck!

[baby_mouse]

9. Really? PHEW! Sigh of RELIEF!

Cos, it was SUCH a puzzler.

I'm certainly glad that that issue's been resolved! KKK, in fact, does not = BAD, but = GOOD all along! And there was me trundling along labouring foolishly under the misapprehension that lynching was a BAD thing! Cool!

Does that mean we get to lynch them peacefully, too?