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BATF Arrests “White Supremacists” in Illinois It looks like the government is taking advantage of the corporate media hype generated over the James von Brunn Holocaust museum story. In David Junction, Illinois, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Special Agent and local authorities have arrested Dennis and Daniel Mahon, twins said to be white supremacists in violation of federal firearms laws. “Authorities say twin brothers were arrested following the search of a northern Illinois home, where agents recovered assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material,” reports the Associated Press. No other details are provided. So-called “assault weapons” (usually semi-automatic carbines or rifles) ammunition and white supremacist material are protected by the Bill of Rights, specifically the First and Second Amendments. The story will likely feed into the corporate media news cycle and build upon the propaganda now used to portray “rightwing extremists,” largely consisting of gun owners who support the Constitution and are characterized as “antigovernment,” as a portentous threat and possibly violent and dangerous. KKK Out of Nowhere: Washed Up Racist Group Distributes Hate Fliers David Edwards and Stephen Webster The Raw Story June 25, 2009 Editor’s note: It is interesting we have heard virtually nothing about the KKK — documented to have been heavily infiltrated by the FBI since the 1960s — in the recent past, but all of a sudden they have become active again, peddling their anachronistic racist nonsense now that “white supremacists” have become a threat according to the government. A collection of black homeowners in a Tennessee town are upset and fearful after the Ku Klux Klan targeted their neighborhood with hate-filled fliers, dropped on their lawns in the dead of night. The fliers, which call for whites to secure the future for “white, Christian children,” denounce interracial marriage and homosexuality, along with calling for an end to “white discrimination.” Complaints to the police in Greeneville, Tennessee did not help. In an interview with local news channel WJHL, Greenville police officer Terry Webb said that the fliers, perceived by residents to be threatening in nature, “possibly” rise to the criminal level of littering. However, he claimed, it’s their First Amendment right to advertise racially-motivated hated on a person’s doorstep.
“The Devil is busy and (the KKK) talk about being Christians, how can you say you’re a Christian displaying all this hatred,” homeowner Leroy Ripley told the station. “Littering, are you kidding me?” jeered CNN’s Kyra Philips during a Thursday segment. “Here we are in 2009. We have a black president, gay leaders, successful interracial marriages. We have come a long way, folks. Still, in this country, you can spew hate, make innocent black residents fearful to come out their doors and all these punks get busted for is littering.” This video is from CNN’s Newsroom, broadcast June 25, 2009.
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