An Open Message To The Klan

[Ghost in the Machine]

Your message of hate and intolerance is sickening, and it is destructive to our Nation as a whole. You're an embarrassment to yourselves, your wives, your children and your community, as well as to the Country.

You wave the flag of our Nation and the Cross of Jesus Christ as your banners, but you don't understand the ideals and principles of either.

You lack the moral conviction, and intestinal fortitude, to stand out on your own and spout your hate. You hide under sheets and draw your power from your gang. The only courage you have is of the liquid variety that comes in the cheapest bottle you can find. In short, you're cowards. Period. You act like big, tough guys when you're with your gang, but when caught alone, you cower down. You're nothing more than an illiterate, drunken redneck who beats his wife and/or child/ren, but you cower down and piss yourself when you're stood up to and challenged by a man.

Future generations are being harmed by the hate that you teach. You should be barred from being within 100 yards of any child anywhere. You should also spend some time educating yourselves and catching up to the year 2008. You're nothing more than throwbacks from the 1800's and early 1900's. Our world has changed, please try to keep up...

My advice to you is to not start a war that you don't want and can't win. In fact, you've already lost. Blinded by your own hate and ignorance, you've failed to realize that there's a new brand of intolerance being preached. It's a message of intolerance for people like YOU, who try to divide our Country and keep racial turmoil alive and kicking. We're white, black, asian, latino, hispanic, christians, jews, catholics, protestants, democrats, republicans, rich, poor, middle class men *and* women. Most of all though, we're tired of people like you. Watch your asses. I may be a Liberal, but it ain't of the 'tree hugging pacifist' variety...

Go trade your sheets in for some text books, they'll serve you better..

[lame54]

1. O.k o.k. I'll change

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. It *can* be done, people *can* change...

MARYVILLE - At 6-feet-9 and 350 pounds, Jim Tull would be hard to miss, even if he weren't tattooed all over with fearsome symbols and messages of - to put it mildly - ethnic intolerance. To say that he dominates a room profoundly understates the situation. But a conversation with him reveals an apparent seam of gentleness that is sharply at odds with his outward persona. Tull talks about God and about the cable-channel storyline that has brought him from what he says was a life of hate and crime to a total submission to the will of the Lord.



His former world was one populated by some pretty unpleasant people, he says, people who would willingly - eagerly - violate all of the Ten Commandments; people Tull says he has to watch out for every day because, "I know too much."

Jim Tull's former life was that of president of the East Coast chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood, a "secret society" that espouses hatred of minorities and holds seditious beliefs about who should be running the country and, for that matter, who should be living in it. Tattooed on Tull's skin, from the top of his shaved head down, are colorful words and images that validate his claim to 17 years in what he calls "The Brotherhood."

His story is one of a man who has seen both extremes of humanitarianism's spectrum. His words indicate who he is. His skin indicates who he was, and if his saga is not true, he has undergone a lot of pain to create a myth. Tull readily acknowledges his past as both a member and leader of The Brotherhood and an association with a motorcycle gang known for its cruelty and criminal activity. He declines to name the biker group out of concern for his personal homeland security.

http://www.jimtullministry.com/

Just sayin'.....

:hi:

Ghost

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Stories from Boone County AR

where there is an active Klan group masquerading behind a "church". They decided one year to do a mass mailing to the residents of the county, and took their stuff into the post office at the county seat. They requested that the postal worker put on stamps, "...but not them LOVE stamps!". The postal worker complied. Every piece of hate literature that was mailed out carried the Martin Luther King commemorative stamp on it.

They learned, and after that, put their own stamps on their obscene tirades. Last one they mailed out condemned the county's largest employer, an international trucking company, because of their tolerance policy. The Quorum Court (County Board of Commissioners elsewhere) passed a resolution condemning the mailing as misrepresenting the feelings of the majority of citizens in the county. Every one of the Judges on the Court were re-elected.

Last year, we had a worker who is a Boone County native. Before working with us, he delivered building supplies. He found out he had to deliver supplies to the KKK group in Zinc. Oh, he delivered them, all right--by unstrapping the lumber and then gunning the engine and driving off. Seems this group really ticked him off because he has nieces of mixed race.

[Ghost in the Machine]

5. KKK = Kooky Klown Klan

They *need* to be ridiculed every time they show their faces in public...

They're nothing more than an embarrassment....

[AlinPA]

4. I expect to see a rapid growth in KKK membership when Obama is nominated. RNC

would welcome it and maybe throw a few bucks their way for sheets.

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. The more they expose themselves, the easier it is to identify them..

Their marches should be confronted, and they should be stripped of their hoods in public, so people know who they are.. they're cowards who hide under sheets... expose them to their communities for who they are...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Actually, in rural communities, everyone knows who they are

At least that is the way it is in Boone County Arkansas. It's sort of hard to go unnoticed when you call a pest control company to come spray your ants and then refuse service because the technician who comes is Italian/Native American and is "too dark". And since that Italian/Native American is a very popular fellow in town, with lots of buddies, you can guess how THAT snub went over. Boss said we would refuse to work for that crew ever again. I know of electricians around town who won't either--they used to share an office with us, and the owner of the company, a native of the area, said those KKK folks were an embarrassment. Realize that every one of the folks I'm talking about are working class whites, and many proudly call themselves "rednecks".

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. I live in a small, rural community myself... the 4th smallest county in the State of Tennessee

... the members are *only* known by other members. They keep their identities hidden behind their hoods. There might be one or two who are very open about their own affiliation, but the rest of the membership remains covert...

I do everything I can to expose and shame them... I'm not afraid of them, I've taken some of them out of this world before... they're not as big or bad as they *think* they are...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

18. Good for you

I do know that there are different factions of the KKK and similar hate groups around--this one in AR wants publicity, and regularly gets it.

[boilerbabe]

26. I hope they don't expose themselves..ick. n/t

[fascisthunter]

8. Interesting... I See the Opposite

The "Boogeyman" will be put to bed on a presidential level, which will have a very positive impact on this nation as a whole in regards to racism. No magic.... just part of an American experience.

A long hard fought experience that is starting to overwhelm racism and those fostering it. The planet is only so big as populations around the World begin to migrate and intermingle.

[arcadian]

7. I just saw two redneck kids driving up and down the highway with a confederate flag.

They must have done several 5 mile loops up down our local highway here. Big confederate flag waving from the bed of their pick-up truck. I wonder if the Obama candidacy has anything to do with this display? The jokes on them, their jacked up 4x4 probably cost them $75 to gas up and they are just wasting it driving around like that. Idiots.

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Probably the children of proud GOP parents...

I've taught *my* children to accept *everyone*, regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Make your judgement of each person individually by their own words and/or actions...

We need to stamp out hate and ignorance.

[Marrah_G]

10. You think the KKK reads DU?????????

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. Do *you* think *anyone* who has ever been addressed in an 'open letter' on DU actually reads DU???

I don't really give a damn if they read it or not, honestly. I'm sure some freepers, or contards from that other site, read threads here. In fact, I *KNOW* they read threads here...

This'll get spread, trust me...

[RedCappedBandit]

11. Love > hate

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Do not pardon my language, FUCK YEAH GHOST!!

Any deserved stomping of these moral degenerates gets a shout O loudness and an AY bloody well men sir.

They thrive in the dark and hide behind a decency that does not exist.

*full twisting ^5*

:pals: :yourock:

[Ghost in the Machine]

19. Thank you, Salmon...

"They thrive in the dark and hide behind a decency that does not exist."

That should be in a sig line...

:pals:

[wildbilln864]

16. k&r! nt

:patriot:

[Ghost in the Machine]

24. Thanks wildbill....

:patriot:

[spanone]

17. tough guys who hide under masks?.....pussies, i'd say

the klan is an american embarrasment

[KamaAina]

22. In "Fried Green Tomatoes", all the women knew which men were in the Klan

they went to all that trouble to put on the sheet and hood -- and never bothered to change their shoes.

Aside: The Klan was all-male until about the '70s, when a "progressive" Grand Dragon granted women the dubious privilge of Klan membership. His name? David Duke.

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. Yep, you get it... n/t

[NashVegas]

20. Yeah. They're All Reading DU Tonight

WTH?

[Ghost in the Machine]

21. See Post #13, so I don't have to repeat myself ...

Thanks

Ghost

[boilerbabe]

25. www.splcenter.org

Check out the Southern Poverty Law Center www.splcenter.com
They track and try to prevent and eradicate hate crimes, descrimination of all kinds, etc. They track a lot of the hate groups here. Do report any incidents that you are aware of to them. Not only do they monitor these groups, but they often take action. It's time for me to go nighty night, am losing typing capability here...

[Ghost in the Machine]

27. Thanks for the link...