Potok disproves his own report
We’ve been hearing for years from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center about the rise of “hate groups” in the country. So in his “Hate Watch” column today we find Potok asking the question “What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?”
This Saturday, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — a once-powerful organization that in 1960 coordinated more than 1,000 simultaneous cross burnings in a frightening display of Southern resistance to desegregation — held a rally in Gloverdale, S.C. It was attended by a single Klansman: state leader Tim Bradley.
Not making an appearance were the 1,000 people from four states that a confederate of Bradley’s had predicted. A promised speech never materialized, only endless rounds of Bradley giving interviews to local reporters while some 100 curiosity-seekers looked on. And the 30 or so Klansmen who Bradley said were headed to the rally that day? Well, they got lost on the way from North Carolina. Bradley kept telling reporters his comrades were about to arrive. But they never did.
So, if Potok’s predictions of racist groups multiplying and gaining strength, and, oh, the connections between hate groups, Tea Party activists and militias were true, wouldn’t the Klan meeting be well-attended? I guess Potok doesn’t recognize irony when it sits on his stupid face.
Category: SPLC
I swear I was just researching this to do a post.
I noted he has 2 KKK groups in SC listed, and 1 dude.
Has anybody wondered why a home-grown, American organization flies the flag of a defeated foreign power? I remember KKK demonstrations on TV, and the narrowed eyes of the grownups when they saw that Confederate flag and the US flag being used.
I suspect there was some feedback to the chuckleheads involved: that’s our flag, and it doesn’t mean that, any more. So they adopted the swastika and added the Nazi flag. There. A US flag plus a Nazi flag – that got the message across. The stars-and-bars don’t get used for graffiti, either. How ’bout that?
I love that they asked for “Public Defenders” (and they thought they could bring down our government), undercover FBI agent, sweet. The simpleton Tea baggers keep missing the point. These are the same whiners that were crying when the McCain/Bailin ticket lost. Now they are crying again because their yelling and screaming (because they are haters not debaters or as others have dubbed them screamers not dreamers) did not stop the health care debate or the bill from passing. They think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something they are not the only ones that are armed and not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. Do not cry when regular people openly laugh at your group when they see on TV that your leaders are Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and your own turn coat Glenn Beck from the LDS. They do more to discredit you group on TV (powerful) than any of comments on the blog sphere.
I take it Montana doesn’t read us much if she is using Oily Titz and Glenn Beck against us.
In other news, Hank Johnson is worried that Montana might capsize due to an increasing load of horseshit.
Montana–meds. Get some. Take them. NOW.
Sorry to post-whore, but I finally pinned my eyes open long enough and got a good enough dose of bleach to read Hannah Montana’s little diatribe. I especially loved the line about how supposedly the right is made of, “haters not debaters.” Is that why the Democrats wanted to try to jam the socialization of our healthcare system through to the president without a vote (i.e., Slaughter rule?) Why Obama consistently pipes in with the, “I won,” comment? Why, when important life-altering legislation comes about, we’re told to just pass it and find out what’s in it afterwards?
Okay, buh-bye, thanks for playing.
Let’s not be too hasty here, Sparky…I mean, you can’t argue with the brilliance of those peaceful “mass-debaters” who showed up to toss eggs at the tea party bus (better tossing eggs than tossing salads, I suppose…but that’s probably at the Nancy Pelosi fundraiser…but I digress). I will give them some credit, they at least threw straighter than Barry at the Nats season opener.
I wonder if he is related to a Dr. Nancy Potok, who is a deputy commerce secretary in charge of something in the cenus bureau. I am wondering because there now seems to be a IT problem with the follow up portion of the census . I know it’s not related to this article but the name just struck me.
“Screamers not dreamers.” That is making the assumption being a dreamer is a good thing. A better description is realists not dreamers. I know that reality is an affront to leftists, but tough luck dreamers.
Dreamer=Unicorn Farts. Nuf said on that.
Oh, and Montana? The one “fringe milita crazy” whose voter history has been revealed was a Democrat. Just full of all that “hope and change”? Or hope and dope?
Dreams from too many huffs on the crack pipe, eh?