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>From: worldyouthdc <lunasol at igc.org>
>To: antifadc at yahoogroups.com
>Date: 12/6/01 12:51:16 PM
>
>Long story, made short...
>
>Years ago when I lived in Ohio I helped organize several efforts
>against the Klan when they came to the State House in Columbus
as
>well as attempted to organize locally in SE Ohio (my neck of
the
>woods).
>
>We debated a lot of the same questions: mostly, 'aren't we bringing
>more attention to them by protesting?'
>
>At the time, I agreed that we were being attention to them,
but
>still
>felt it was important to expose them.
>
>One Klan group spoke on the State House steps in Columbus one
year,
>there was perhaps two dozen of them and over a thousand of us
- the
>scene turned from a beautiful display of racial unity against
>bigotry
>to ugliness when some of the sectarian left groups incited violence
>with the cops and Klan.
>
>You can imagine what the local TV media had to say about us.
>
>Anyway... A couple years later the same Klan group was found
with a
>massive amount of weaponry (even by Ohio standards) and were
rounded
>up and arrested for planning to blow up a police station and
>targeting other groups.
>
>Point is, these groups are for real. They may look like a joke,
but
>they are not. Protest is useful if it exposes them to the light
of
>day.
>
>Second point, the sectarian groups on 'our side' fucked up the
whole
>event and ended up making the Klan into free speech heroes!
>
>Whatever reporting we do on this I hope we will have the honesty
and
>journalistic integrity to say who started what and when, if
things
>turn ugly.
>
>Also, since 911 there has ben an intense amount of Anti-Jewish
shit
>appearing on the net, on mailing lists, on message boards, and
>newswires. And this Anti-Jewish shit is coming from Left as
well as
>the Right. This might also be a good time to expose that, as
well.
>
>We live in freaky times.
>
>jonathan
>
>
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