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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:32 PM
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Little known fact - Contra Supporter/Racist was part of an attempted coup
Don Black announced in 1985 that he had created the "Nathanial Bedford Forrest Brigade" under KKK auspices to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. He said the 120-man unit would engage in psychological warfare to foster anti-government sentiment and would provide "a civil action unit to promote a stable economy".

However it's not known to many people that 4 years before that Black and several of his allies attempted to take over the island of Dominica.

Operation Red Dog was the code name of a planned invasion of Dominica by Ku Klux Klan leaders Don Black (U.S.) and Wolfgang Droege (Canadian) and former Dominican prime minister Patrick John. The invasion was meant to restore John to power and to transform the island into a white supremacist nation.

On April 27, 1981, Black, Droege, Larry Lloyd Jacklin and seven other men were arrested by U.S. federal agents in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag. The incident was later dubbed the "Bayou of Pigs".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Black_%28nationalist%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog

Think that the Far Right isn't willing to win at ANY cost?

Think that Racists don't have any power?

If you said "No", then you better think again.
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:38 PM
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1. Black and White issue.
I just think it's hilarious that the avowed racist is named Black. Pricelss.
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:55 PM
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2. This is news to me. Bannana Republicans and their Bannana Republics!


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