Look Familiar? What Does This KKK Leaflet Circulated in 1964 Remind You Of?

[sheshe2]

Below is the text from a leaflet circulated in 1964 by the racist KKK. It was used as part of the Mississippi Burning trial which begin in October, 1967. The trial involved the murder of three civil rights workers who were shot in the dark of night on a lonely road in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964. The KKK was suspected of being behind it, and in fact, they were. Many convictions were handed out at the conclusion of the trial, as well as some acquittals.

A glance at this leaflet reveals many similarities to a current group of people here in the U.S. – a group that is 90% white, just 1% black, and mostly Christian. And like the KKK, this group often claims to not be affiliated with any political party, as well as being staunchly “Pro-American” and opposed to “any thing, person or organization that is Un-American.”

And of course both the KKK and the group at hand supports the U.S. Constitution. Or at least their interpretation of it.

They are also jointly against communism. Quite often, this modern group refers to our current president as a “Communist.” And while they won’t come out and say it and will completely deny any accusations, there is a racial bent to this group of people as well. There HAS to be a reason, after all, that 90% of it’s members are white, and only 1% are black.



And of course, the “we saved our nation” rhetoric from the KKK flyer sure does sounds familiar. That’s what this current group of freedom fighting patriots believes they are accomplishing as well. Saving the nation from the communist black man in charge, so we don’t all end up in Kenyan concentration camps (wink). They all claim to be of “good moral character” while ignoring the fact that some of their actions, or threatened actions, are treasonous, seditious and could be considered as domestic terrorism.

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Read more:

http://progressivepopulist.org/2014/02/13/look-familiar-kkk-leaflet-circulated-1964-remind/

[The Magistrate]

1. There Is A Straight Line Of Descent, Ma'am, Between The Klan And The Modern Republican Party

At bottom, their rallying cry today is no more than 'This used to be a White Man's country....'

[sheshe2]

2. There is indeed Sir.

What I find amusing about their rallying cry, is that they are wrong.

This use to be Native Americans country. They are either short sighted or uneducated if they believe that it is and was always theirs. They are indeed at the bottom, the lowest creatures in all humanity.

I just posted an OP on a pictorial salute to Native Americans.

Thank you Sir.

[kelliekat44]

4. The Magi doest it again...hammer on the nail! nt

[arthritisR_US]

8. Uneducated and short sighted. I would say

both with a heavy dose of projectionism.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Fear of The Other is used as an excuse for these people's own many failings, sad to see

human beings have brains that have not evolved a defence against brainwashing.

[IrishAyes]

12. Well, first they'd need a brain to start with.

If I had any hearts left to share, you'd get a dozen. Meanwhile, please accept these.

Be careful of the company you keep, though. I used to offer digital discourtesies to any klansman I saw, alone or in groups. If I was driving by a demonstration, I'd bang on the outside of my car door first to make sure I had their attention. If there's anybody they hate to have disrespect them, it's somebody who looks like them racially.

Incidentally, the concept of whiteness has not always been extended to all light-skinned persons of European descent. Most people probably know about the 'No Irish Need Apply' signs of yesteryear. Now most people want to be Irish at least once a year! Can the klan say that about themselves? Hell no. That's one reason I so adore, love, and respect Morris Dees and the SPLC. Their klan busting heroics are legendary. If I hit the world's biggest lottery jackpot tomorrow, I'd give most of it to them. And to the ACLU. Ditto, Sinn Fein. And the Democratic Party. Etc.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Remember in '09 when we weren't allowed to call out Teabagger racism and ignorance??

[IrishAyes]

13. Where? On DU? Tell me it ain't so!

[Blue_Tires]

17. There were just some kool-aide drinkers who constantly said

these were legit people with legit middle-class issues in a poor economy and racism had nothing to do with it, and it was "liberal elitism" to call them out for what they were...

[IrishAyes]

22. Oh, they'll say that as long as they have breath.

I'm glad it wasn't a misguided official DU policy. That would be hard to imagine.

Here in the Bible-Thumper Belt, I've had empty glass beer bottles thrown at me from passing vehicles driven by people who were probably headed to church. I've got eyes and ears in the back of my head, though, and they never made contact. Call it paranoid if you wish, but I always listen to passing cars, especially those approaching from behind. If they slow down and move out of their lane, they're seldom up to any good. I might very well owe my life to that alertness.

[napkinz]

6. put an R next to their names ... not for Republican but RACIST

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[sheshe2]

10. Turns your stomach at the stupidity and

out and out vicious hatred of this President, does it not napkinz.

That graphic for The Bigot Bunch, look at their faces and in their eyes. All you see is the dead zone. No life, no passion and totally void of humanity!

Thanks for posting the truth, napkinz!

[napkinz]

16. what FOX did is most disgusting ... the AUDACITY!!!

Fox News Wants Some Examples Of Tea Party Racism They Say Does Not Exist. So…

February 11, 2014

Last Saturday more than 80,000 people in North Carolina gathered to march in protest of the Republican mission to strip minorities of their civil rights and gut the social safety net for low-income citizens. It was the largest protest march since the peak of the civil rights movement in 1965.

So how does Fox News cover this news-making event? By having Sean Hannity send an African-American Tea Party leader to ambush and embarrass the marchers. How else would Fox do it?

Hannity’s “correspondent” was David Webb, founder of TeaParty365, Fox News contributor, and Breitbart News columnist. Webb landed at the protest with a bag of questions that had nothing to do with the agenda for the march. He harangued the protest’s organizers with off-topic questions (the video of which cut out most the answers). Then he asked a few participants if they thought Obama is a successful president. Most answered correctly that he has been obstructed at every turn by Republicans committed to blocking anything he proposes, even if it was originally a GOP initiative.

However, the feature of the video was Webb asking marchers to give examples of racism by the Tea Party. This is the sort of ambush tactic that serves no purpose other than to create a negative impression of the respondents. First of all, Webb’s video showed him interviewing only four people out of the more than 80,000 who attended the march. Without the uncut footage we have no idea if there were forty others who supplied Webb with bona fide examples of Tea Party racism that he left on the cutting room floor. It’s easy to splice together just the remarks that make his point and discard the rest. ...

Fox Nation even placed a story about this at the top of their website with a sensationalized headline that implied that liberals as a group were unable to cite examples of bigotry in the Tea Party.

read more: http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=11501

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. I was not aware of the "rope" pic.

Shocking.

On a lighter note...the Tea Party founder cannot even spell the N word....ye gods.

[Cha]

7. Asshole-racist-bigoted-KKK-teapubliCONbaggists.

that's all I got to say about 'em.. except to bring these out from my FB page, again, she.

[sheshe2]

15. Dear gawd, it hurts.

How this family carries these indignities, we will never know.

I'll take his honor and dignity any day everyday as opposed to the hate filled uneducated rants from people that are so far beyond salvation that they are unaware that they are but walking husks. Souless.

Cha

[freshwest]

9. VERY familiar. Check out the words of the founder of the John Bitrch Society:

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

John Birch Society

Welch founded the John Birch Society (JBS) in December 1958.[1] Its original membership consisted of only eleven men but Welch's wealth allowed the organization to have a wide impact and sponsor a number of publications. At its height, the organization claimed it had approximately 100,000 members, but its political views limited its ability to form alliances with other groups (even other anti-Communists like Richard Nixon and, to a lesser extent, Ronald Reagan, were denounced by the Society as being too liberal)[citation needed] and diminished its real impact.

In October 1965, William F. Buckley, Jr. denounced Welch in his magazine National Review as promoting conspiracy theories far removed from common sense, and for working with racists like University of Illinois Classics Professor Revilo P. Oliver. (Professor Oliver had been ousted from the Society in a purge of antisemitic and racist members in the early 1960s.)[citation needed] While not attacking the members of the Society, Buckley attacked Welch in order to prevent his controversial views from tarnishing the entire conservative movement. Divergent foreign policy views between Buckley and Welch also played a role in the break. Being in the tradition of an older, Taftian conservatism, Welch favored a foreign policy of "Fortress America" rather than "entangling alliances" through NATO and the UN. For this reason, Welch combined a strong anti-Communism with opposition to the bipartisan Cold War consensus of armed internationalism. Beginning in 1965, he opposed the escalating U.S. war in Vietnam. In the view of the more hawkish Buckley, Welch lacked sufficient support for U.S. political and military leadership of the world.

Welch was the editor and publisher of the monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly "The Review of the News". He also wrote The Road to Salesmanship (1941), May God Forgive Us (1951), "The Politician" (about Eisenhower) and The Life of John Birch (1954). A collection of his essays were also edited into a book "The New Americanism".

In the 1960s, Welch began to believe that even the Communists were not the top level of his perceived conspiracy and began saying that Communism was just a front for a Master Conspiracy, which had roots in the Illuminati; the essay "The Truth in Time" is an example [1]. He referred to the Conspirators as "The Insiders," seeing them mainly in internationalist financial and business families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and organizations such as the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He did avoid the antisemitism, anti-Freemasonry, and anti-Catholicism of other Conspiracy theorists, saying that such prejudices would "neutralize" anti-Communist, anti-Conspiracy efforts. According to one source, Welch converted to Catholicism in the months before his death.[2] As a result of his conspiracy theories, the John Birch Society became synonymous with right-wing extremism, earning satirical blasts from critics ranging from the cartoonist Walt Kelly to the musicians Bob Dylan and Dizzy Gillespie.[3]

Conspiracy theories

"Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as 'always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.' Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal government's role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson 'more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism' ... In the 1960's, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but 'a tool of the total conspiracy.' This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the 18th century, in the 'uniformly Satanic creed and program' of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called 'the Insiders,' the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission."
— Sean Wilentz, Princeton University historian, October 2010 [3]

Welch accused Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower of being communist sympathizers and possibly Soviet agents of influence. He alleged that President Eisenhower was a "conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy",[16] and that Eisenhower's brother Milton was the President's superior in the communist apparatus. President Eisenhower never responded publicly to Welch's claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch,_Jr.

I have underlined the portions that are what David Icke partly, Alex Jones mainly, and Glenn Beck substantially, have parroted to the public and because of this belief system want the federal government to be dismantled.

Almost every theme has been rehashed in RW circles for over half a century. For those on the Left, remove the word Communism and lay off of FDR, Truman and the like, and reduce it to the great conspiracy from ancient days with the names underlined. But the end result is the same.

For a number of people, this is the way the world is and they will do anything they can to make all things fit this reality. There is no arguing with them and Triana has posted some good threads on this, as has Thom Hartmann.

But it resonates effectively. When one is allowed to hear the more quiet talk of the Koch and Christianist groups, this is what they believe. We see it here, repackaged for a new generation of 'truthers and the awakened' who think they have found something deeper and more meaningful than the reality of political life that Democrats deal with and call others sheeple, but they have been led down the garden path and don't know it.

Don't forget, these guys also blamed Justice Earl Warren for empowering blacks and JFK for appeasing Communists. They called for JFK to be arrested for Treason in 1963 in Dallas. RFK said the JBS was part of what killed his brother, and his son said the same groups are destroying our country.

They say the WW2 was a plot by FDR and on and on. These things keep going in a circle.

[sheshe2]

18. That's one circle that I truly wish we could break, freshwest.

I only wish that I knew how.

This circle is strength it's our best tool.

[IrishAyes]

20. Yes, it is indeed.

[sheshe2]

21. Hey Irish.

Thank you

[IrishAyes]

19. Better the Illuminati than the Ignorati.

[freshwest]

23. I gotta agree with that! At least one has style... n/t

[napkinz]

11. back to the future ...

[napkinz]

24. Tea Party "Patriots"

https://www.facebook.com/conservativelogic101

[Whisp]

25. seeing things like that makes me wish a comet would wipe us all out

honestly, there are just too many stupid and ignorant fuckwads to ever to be able to move forward.

[Sissyk]

26. K&R

They are out there, people. And, they are a loud bunch. Let us keep showing their hatred for all to see.