|
KKK -
Jul 27, 2010 20:26:42 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Jul 27, 2010 20:26:42 GMT -8
First Klan 1865–1874Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen. - Historian Elaine Frantz ParsonsIn effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life. - Historian Eric Foner The second Klan: 1915–1944Director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation glorified the original Klan. Much of the modern Klan's iconography, including the standardized white costume and the lighted cross, are derived from the film. Its imagery was based on Dixon's romanticized concept of old Scotland, as portrayed in the novels and poetry of Sir Walter Scott. The film's influence and popularity were enhanced by a widely reported endorsement by historian and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The second Klan arose during the nadir of American race relations, in response to urbanization and industrialization. Massive immigration from the largely Catholic countries of eastern and southern Europe led to friction with America's longer-established Protestant citizens.The second Klan adopted a burning Christian cross as its symbol. No such crosses had been used by the first Klan, but the burning cross became a symbol of intimidation by the second Klan. The Klan spread from the South into the Midwest and Northern states. It also arose in Canada, where there was a large movement against Catholic immigrants. The third Klan: 1950s to present These recent membership campaigns have been based on issues such as people's anxieties about illegal immigration, urban crime and same-sex marriage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
|
|
|
KKK -
Aug 1, 2010 23:46:25 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Aug 1, 2010 23:46:25 GMT -8
... October 3, 1924 Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention June 12, 1929 First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country August 17, 1937 Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation June 24, 1940 Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it "Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight." August 8, 1945 Republicans condemn Harry Truman's surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." September 30, 1953 Earl Warren, California's three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education ... www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/
|
|
|
KKK -
Sept 9, 2010 9:02:55 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 9:02:55 GMT -8
|
|
|
KKK -
Sept 9, 2010 11:41:41 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 11:41:41 GMT -8
Was the Oklahoma City Bombing an Act of the KKK in its role as the Militant Arm of the Knights of the Golden Circle an Order Formed from Illuminati Members of Scottish Rite Freemasonry? Posted by Biochemky on Monday, April 05, 2010 4:37:27 AM Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City occurred on April 19, 1995. One year before this incident took place, Martin Keating, the brother of Oklahoma’s Governor, Frank Keating, published a book entitled “The Final Jihad”. In Keating’s book, a man named Tim McVeigh blows up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Keating’s book is dedicated to the “Knights of the Secret Circle.” It is known that the Ku Klux Klan derives its name from the Greek word “kuklos” (κυκλος) which means cycle or circle and the English word “clan”. According to Alex Jones, the Knights of the Secret Circle and the Knights of the Golden Circle are what high-level members of Ku Klux Klan call themselves. Sources other than Alex Jones also say that the Knights of the Golden Circle became the group now known as the Ku Klux Clan. Some sources say that the Ku Klux Klan is the military arm of the Knights of the Golden Circle. A poster on the website DavidIcke.com stated that the “Knights of the Secret Circle” is a moniker that refers to an Illuminati group. Well, all of these sources could be correct. This is because Freemasonry is an Illuminati group AND evidence exists that a major figure in Freemasonry is known to have founded the Knights of the Golden Circle, a group that allegedly became the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate General Albert Pike is the figure associated with Freemasonry referred to above. Pike’s contribution to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was that he composed the ritual of the order and he presided as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the group from 1859 until his death in 1891. Interestingly, a sculpture at C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Virginia has the following text encoded within an engraved cipher: “It’s buried out there somewhere. Who knows the exact location? Only WW knows. “ Supposedly, what is referred to in the cipher as “buried out there somewhere” are the secret caches of treasure which together represent the vast fortune of the Knights of the Golden Circle. The treasure was put into caches when the group had to go underground. Knowledge of the whereabouts of the caches was hidden in a series of complex ciphers that are waiting to be reclaimed by initiates when the time was right. Regarding the identity of 'WW', this individual could be president Woodrow Wilson, former C.I.A. chief William Webster, or William Walker, a Knights of the Golden Circle member who took seriously the aim of the group to take over regions of Central and South America and managed to take control of the country of Nicaragua and proclaim himself president. obamashiddenagenda.blogtownhall.com/2010/04/05/was_the_oklahoma_city_bombing_an_act_of_the_kkk_in_its_role_as_the_militant_arm_of_the_knights_of_the_golden_circle_an_order_formed_from_illuminati_members_of_scottish_rite_freemasonry.thtml
|
|
|
KKK -
Nov 3, 2010 7:20:18 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Nov 3, 2010 7:20:18 GMT -8
|
|
|
KKK -
Jan 12, 2011 9:34:02 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Jan 12, 2011 9:34:02 GMT -8
|
|
|
KKK -
Feb 17, 2011 18:37:22 GMT -8
Post by clone on Feb 17, 2011 18:37:22 GMT -8
Barbour refuses to condemn proposal to honor KKK leader Thu, 2011-02-17 15:40 By P Anne Battiste, crossposted from The Gazette (At South Mississippi). Mississippi’s Governor and 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate, Haley Barbour, finds himself once again in the hot bed of racial controversy. Politico’s Kaise Hunt 2/15/11 post at 6:43 PM EST (Updated: 2/15/11 10:29 PM EST) revealed, “In the latest racially charged incident in his home state, Haley Barbour on Tuesday [February 15th] drew fire when he refused to condemn a proposal honoring a Klu Klux Klan leader and Confederate general on a state license plate. ‘I don’t go around denouncing people. That’s not going to happen,’ Barbour, who is considering a run for the White House in 2012, said when asked about the plate, the Associated Press reported. ‘I know there’s not a chance it’ll become law.’ The state NAACP has denounced the proposal from the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who went on to become an early leader of the KKK. Forrest, a Tennessee native, is revered by some as a military genius and despised by others for leading an 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tenn. www.bridgethegulfproject.org/node/260
|
|
Orange Order of Canada
Guest
|
KKK -
Dec 25, 2011 9:50:06 GMT -8
Post by Orange Order of Canada on Dec 25, 2011 9:50:06 GMT -8
KKK Alive and Well: History of the Klan in Central Alberta Relevant Today [Prairie Books Now -- Spring, 2001] by Polly Washburn In Provost, Alberta in 1990, an Aryan group holds a rally, complete with a burning cross and KKK members in full regalia. A history teacher and administrator on the verge of retiring is struck by the picture and decides to investigate the history of the KKK in Alberta. In his research, Dr. William Baergen found that this area had been practically untouched. "It is a dark part of our history that no-one wants to trumpet," he explains. "But it's a part of our history that, if we want to do away with discrimination, we have to understand." Baergen, who was a school superintendent and taught at Red Deer College, believes it's important for students to learn about this aspect of Canada's history. "Understanding the origins of racial and religious discrimination in Alberta in the 1930's helps us understand our own attitudes today." While the Klan as it existed then may be gone, he says, "discrimination lives in right-wing politics today, not only in the extremist groups, but in moderate groups too, and ourselves." While there were several items of interest in the Edmonton archives, Baergen found that he had to make a special request to access them. These included photos of the Klan in session in Edmonton; a KKK membership application form; the Kloran (a book of procedure); names of charter members; an audited financial statement of the Klan; and copies of the periodical published by the leader of the Alberta KKK. "The archives were rich in resources that no one had used," he says. The pictures of the Klan in session, for example, had never been published before. In the archives Baergen also discovered that Alberta writer Fran Fraser had begun researching the Klan in the late 1960s, but was discouraged by threatening letters. Fraser's daughter gave Baergen access to her work. The biggest single contribution Baergen feels he made in his four years of research in this area was an extensive detailing of Alberta newspaper accounts of and editorials about the Klan at that time. The book, the first publication of the Central Alberta Historical Society, goes beyond the history of the KKK in the early 1930's. Baergen also details the political negotiations during the establishment of the prairie provinces, and the origins of the Orange Order in Canada. For Baergen, the Orange Order's unofficial connection to the KKK was the most surprising aspect of his research. As one Klan organizer is quoted in the book, "You don't need the Klan here. You have the Orange Lodges." A few members of the now low-profile Orange Order have written to express their displeasure at Baergen's associating the Orange Order with the KKK. As Baergen notes in the book, however, the Orange Order "was not the only organization so inclined" at that time to express anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, anti-French views. He also points out that while there were Klans in other provinces, only Alberta granted them an official charter. Baergen details the life of John Maloney, who became the Klan's regional leader. In addition to Maloney's legal and financial troubles, Baergen establishes that the Klan failed to take root in Alberta due to a sharp decline in immigration, the establishment of separate schools, and the onset of economic depression and war, which were more tangible threats. Baergen feels his work is important. "I don't believe art or literature is worth doing unless it challenges people. Others write or paint to soothe. I do it to challenge." The Ku Klux Klan in Central Alberta William Peter Baergen Central Alberta Historical Society Pb 360 pages, $24.95 ISBN 0-9292123-10-7 www.positronstudios.com/portfolio/writingclips/archives/baergen.htm
|
|
|
KKK -
Jul 7, 2012 8:22:52 GMT -8
Post by Scottish clans on Jul 7, 2012 8:22:52 GMT -8
Why does the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses? June 18, 1993 Cecil replies: The Scottish apparently originated cross-burning, but it was your friends in the mass media who helped sell the idea to the KKK--media being somewhat broadly construed here to include novelists and filmmakers. You think media complicity in the more disreputable aspects of pop culture is a recent phenomenon? Uh-uh. Try 1810. Eighteen-ten was the year the Scottish romantic writer Sir Walter Scott, a great admirer of ancient Scottish traditions, first brought the "fiery cross" to modern attention in his poem The Lady of the Lake. In the poem the cross is set ablaze on the hilltops to summon the Scottish clans. Scott's work was especially popular in the American south, where much of the populace was of Scotch-Irish extraction. www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1038/why-does-the-ku-klux-klan-burn-crosses
|
|
|
KKK -
Aug 10, 2012 7:15:47 GMT -8
Post by 14 words on Aug 10, 2012 7:15:47 GMT -8
|
|
|
KKK -
Aug 18, 2012 10:19:13 GMT -8
Post by 88 wizardy dragons on Aug 18, 2012 10:19:13 GMT -8
|
|
|
KKK -
Jan 26, 2013 5:17:14 GMT -8
Post by york on Jan 26, 2013 5:17:14 GMT -8
Invisible Empires, Art Gallery of York University oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2013/01/25/ku-klux-klan-banners-hang-at-york-university/Bowen says the premise of Invisible Empires is to reflect on how her ancestors’ belongings were burnt to the ground in Alberta after migrating from Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma to escape lynchings and Jim Crow laws. “Most people build on this idea of Canada being a haven for blacks—the whole Underground Railroad and all of that history, which is real,” says Bowen, “but there are also these other histories about black treatment in Canada that don’t get brought forward.” The banners outside are reproduced from a 1925 KKK mail order catalogue. Inside the exhibition are KKK archival materials in visual, audio, film and even textile forms, which are presented without any context so viewers can assign their own meanings and thoughts to what’s in front of them. The walls are hung with pages from a 1911 petition against the immigration of blacks in Western Canada and framed newspaper clippings from 1964 that document the integration of American school systems. The Ku Klux Klan of Canada Oath and Allegiance and Oath of Secrecy documents can be viewed. There are also two mannequins dressed in recreated KKK robes. theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere/?page_id=1510German Ku Klux Klan founded by state’s intelligence agency 1 November 2012 The close links between the state and the Ku Klux Klan raises new questions about possible links between government agencies and the right-wing terrorists of the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Plenty of overlap has been discovered between the KKK and the NSU. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/11/bade-n01.html
|
|
|
KKK -
May 9, 2013 16:34:21 GMT -8
Post by AZ on May 9, 2013 16:34:21 GMT -8
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says it's an HONOR to be compared to KKK www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0oWhite Supremacist Sheriff Joe Arpaio was on Lou Dobbs 11/12/2007. He describes his comparison to the Ku Klux Klan as "an honor." DOBBS...how do you react to that? ARPAIO: Well you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it's an honor. It means we're doing something. DOBBS: Just so the right people are doing it. Right. July 24, 2012 Ariz. sheriff backtracks on praise for KKK www.pressherald.com/news/Ariz-sheriff-back-tracks-on-KKK-support.html
|
|