Evidently, there are still some rabid Klansmen in Mississippi.

[Maddy McCall]

Day before yesterday, when I was at the Killen trial, the Neshoba County SWAT team unloaded from a van and marched in formation to various spots around the town square.

Get this. It was shift change. Law enforcement officials were expecting the Klan to riot after the verdict. From what I heard, there were even sharpshooters deployed on rooftops around town. :scared:

Tomorrow is Killen's sentencing day. Again, security will be really tight because, again, Klansmen will be there. (They have been there since the trial began, but they aren't so easily to identify, because, like my kiddo said, they don't have their dunce hats on.)

Everyone knows that, no matter how Killen is sentenced, it will be a "life imprisonment" sentence for him, because he's 80 years old. It's going to be an exciting day on the town square tomorrow. I'm debating just going on home tomorrow morning, because I don't want to put myself in danger.

Let me say, though, that the Klan in Mississippi is TINY now. One "Klavern" of the Klan marched in my hometown several years ago--and there were maybe four men, and four women (and a couple of children :scared: ) But there's a more organized group of "white nationalists" led by Richard Barrett, who's been at the courthouse every day during the trial. Those are the ones who concern me.

[youspeakmylanguage]

1. The Southern Poverty Law Center has done so much to dismantle...

..and drive underground the white supremacist movement.

IMHO, Morris Dees is truly an American hero.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Yes, he is.

[Saphire]

3. there are rabid KKK in southeast texas as well....

[Maddy McCall]

5. What gets me is that, these days, the wives and children wear the hoods...

and bathrobes. Freaky, it is.

[ceile]

9. I've driven through...

but never stopped. Scarey!

[warrens]

4. There's a whole BUNCH of red states lousy with them

They call themselves Aryan Nation and White People's Council and shit, but it's the same guys. You know, the base of the GOP.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Yeah, the Aryan Nation is all over the US, though, and in Blue States.

[Shell Beau]

8. I think they are in all states. Fortunately, they are a dying breed.

[GOPisEvil]

10. They're in blue states, too.

Trust me. Visit Southern Illinois sometime. :scared: I've been there; I know.

[Patiod]

16. My dad's uncle was in the Klan - upstate Pennsylvania

was a hotbed of Klan activity during the depression. Mines were closed, no jobs.

What was "funny" (if you can call it that) is that there weren't any black folks around, and most of the members were Catholics, who would have been run out of Klan groups further South.

But poverty + ignorance + hopelessness + religious insanity = trouble

[Shell Beau]

18. So whose yards did they put the burning crosses in?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

21. I'm from East Central Illinois

A hillbilly-type who sat in front of me in my high-school civics (of all places) invited me to a Klan rally once. (This was in 1993.)

I politely declined. And thanked my lucky stars when I went back to my honors classes next period.

I'm still not sure why he thought that I would be interested in attending a Klan meeting with him.

[Shell Beau]

7. They were supposed to protest this past year at the state fair.

Luckily I didn't see one and it didn't scare anyone away. Screw those hate-filled POS's!

[Maddy McCall]

12. That was Richard Barrett's "White Nationalist" organization.

They were going to have a booth set up, and Killen was going to be there.

Ironically, some Kluckers are blaming Barrett for Killen being convicted--saying that the stink about the Killen booth at the state fair is what resulted in Killen's conviction.

Idiots, all.

BTW, if you've never visited Barrett's website, you must. www.nationalist.org.

Barrett is so crazy that even die-hard segragationists in the 1960s disavowed him. Yet, at the trial, guess who the one Mississippian was that the media interviewed. No wonder people all over the USA think that we're rubes here.

[Shell Beau]

14. Why would they pick someone like that when

they are well aware of what other people already think of this state? That type of crap just adds fuel to the flame!

[Archae]

11. We used to have the Posse Comitatus.

They used to have a compound here in WI.

Really rabid anti-gov't and anti-Semite.

[Kraklen]

13. Who do you think keeps voting for Trent Lott?

C'mon, now.

[Shell Beau]

17. Well to be fair, they're are not that many of them here.

It is the other idiots who keep voting for Lott!

[Maddy McCall]

19. Just like in almost every other state, the incumbent wins reelection.

Word is, though, that Mike Moore may run for Lott's seat in the next election, and Moore will squash him.

[Shell Beau]

20. I think Lott is history! He has gotten

too big for his britches and his mouth has gotten bigger.

[Archae]

15. Nowadays...

The old White Citizen's Councils have become the Council of Conservative Citizens, and southern politicians like Trent Lott and Bob Barr give speeches for them.

Same old views, just different name.