ANONYMOUS TAKES ON THE KKK

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November 13, 2015 (San Diego)—For over a century, members of the Ku Klux Klan have terrified and tormented minorities in the U.S.  Now Klan members are getting a taste of  the fear they havge long dished out.  Anonymous, the noted hactivist, has launched a mission of unmasking—or rather unhooding—members of the Ku Klux Klan.

On Monday the group released identifies of the organization’s members – including four U.S. Senators said to have affiliations with the racist hate group: Dan Coats from Indiana, John Cornyn from Texas, Jon Hardy from Georgia, and Thomas Tillis from North Carolina.

At least one person identified as a KKK member, a Tenneessee mayor, has denied membership in the organization.

On Sunday, Anonymous announced launch of its offensive in a release stating, ““Today we have shut down servers, gotten personal information on members of the KKK, and infiltrated your twitters and websites. And this is just the beginning. On November the 4th we will be having a twitter storm, spreading awareness about the operation. And on the 5th we shall release more than 1000 Ku Klux Klan members names and websites, new and old.”

A second group that calls itself “Amped Attacks” on Twitter announced launch of its “Hoods Off” campaign and claimed that it hacked and took offline many KKK-affiliated websites.

In response, one KKK group tweeted a suggestion to  hold an “anti-Anonymous” protest of the unhoodings of its followers including a march on November 5th.

In turn, Anonymous fired back on Twitter asking why the group was so edgy, adding, “Even ISIS doesn’t cry this much when we wreck them.”


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History of the KKK

The Anti-Defamation League has extensive background info on hate groups.  In its history of the KKK, there is no mention whatsoever of Democrats or any political party founding the Klan.  According to the ADL, Six college students founded the Ku Klux Klan around 1865: http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/history.html?LEARN_Cat=Extremism....

That said, there have been prominent Klan members in both major political parties particularly in the racist south, and the Klan has backed and endorsed people in both partieshttp://news.yahoo.com/study-kkk-helped-republicans-win-201002152.html

In the early days a century and a half ago, it is true that there were more Democrats aligned with the KKK but in modern times that has changed and there are more Republicans aligned with the KKK, and it is the Republican Party that has policies that tend to foster racist and anti-immigrant sentiments.

Fact: It was Democrats who pushed through the Civil Rights movement under LBJ and Republicans who backed segegation.  Republicans have tended to oppose affirmative action and have systematically attempted to enact laws to impede black voters from voting.  Salon has an interesting story on how the Republican party became the white man's party:  http://www.salon.com/2013/12/22/how_the_gop_became_the_white_mans_party/

That is not to say that every Republican is a racist, or every Democrat is not one.  But which party is currently addressing concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement? Democrats.  Which is fomenting hate and mass deporations of folks with brown skin? Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.  While the Republicans have put forth some black candidates including currently Ben Carson, their black candidates' views tend not to align with those of the vast number of African-American people, such as opposing affirmative action and aim to lift people out poverty.

It is also not true that all ACLU members are Democrats. I personally know Libertarians and Republicans who are members and support the ACLU. Let's not forget that the ACLU once represented Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, and supported the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie Illinois (a very unpopular position) as well as championing various liberal causes .  Protecting civil liberties guaranteed by the constitution such as our right to free speech really isn't a left or right issue.

 

 

 

 

 

Who is the KKK

A snippet from Coulter

Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.

(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU’er, but every ACLU’er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)

In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns.

Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “[I]t would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery.

Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.

After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted “Black Codes,” denying black Americans the right of citizenship — such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms — while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.

For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.

The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 — passed at the urging of Republican president Ulysses S. Grant — made it a federal felony to “deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property.” This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress’ authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms.

Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.

But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.

This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.

How’s that “may issue” gun permit policy working for you?

The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence — including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.

A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high — beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.

But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.

Williams’ repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, “Negroes With Guns.” In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.

As the Klan found out, it’s not so much fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.

The NRA’s proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.

In the preface to “Negroes With Guns,” Williams writes: “I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”