[Vision2020] Racist Group Leaves Fliers on Lawns

[bear at moscow.com]

Tom,

They are here and they have every right to be heard and I'm glad they are out in the open.
Now, 
having said that, these kooks need to be confronted and challenged where ever they can be!

You really need to read their web site to understand just how far these folks are willing
to go! 
(http://www.aryan-nations.org/about.htm)

I especially liked looking at the page on printing their leaflets. Typical propaganda.
They have 
taken a scintilla of fact, and encrusted it with their spin on it - so you can't deny the
small fact 
without looking like you're "pro". 

For instance, in the flyer titled "How Can This Happen", under the photo of the burning
Twin 
Towers (which has nothing to do with the verbiage in the flyer), they list  the amount of
money 
given to the country of Israel since 1949, a verifiable fact. They then twist this into
"....... Israel 
is sucking money from tax paying Americans to fuel the Zionist juggernaut". 

I'm NOT pro Israel, but that doesn't make me anti-jewish! Do I like what is happening
between 
Israel and Palestine, NO! But I am no more ant-jewish because of that than I am
anti-eastern 
orthodox because of the way the Russians treat Georgia! Confusion is a key to good 
propaganda with an ignorant populace. In this case, they equate a country, Israel with a
religion 
and race. Not all Israelis are Jewish! Not all Palestinians are Moslems!  But, if you can
find a "hot 
button" that is easily confusing, it makes the miss understanding work for you!



Wayne,
AKA Bear, aka spineless coward *S*









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> Courtesy of today's (April 18, 2009) Spokesman Review.
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> Racist group leaves fliers on lawns
> CdA neighborhood targeted for recruitment
>  
> Residents of a north Coeur d’Alene subdivision awoke Friday to find racist 
> fliers on their lawns, distributed as recruitment letters by Aryan 
> Nations, a white supremacist group.
> 
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> 
> White supremacist fliers were dropped in front of homes in a subdivision 
> in Coeur d’Alene early Friday morning.
>  
> http://tinyurl.com/SupremacistFlyer
> 
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> 
> “I saw Aryan Nations and put it in the trash,” said Garvin Jones, who 
> lives in the neighborhood southwest of Atlas Road and Prairie 
> Avenue. “What’s wrong with these people? Give me a break. I bet if you 
> went back in their family history, not one is 100 percent white.”
> 
> Jones and dozens of his neighbors found the fliers on their lawns, inside 
> baggies that also held small rocks. 
> 
> They depicted a girl asking her father what he did during the “revolution” 
> and asking “Where have all the White people gone daddy?” and “Why did 
> those dark men take mommy away?” The fliers were signed “Aryan Nations, 
> Church of Jesus Christ Christian,” and listed a post office box and a Web 
> site. The group’s address is listed as “Couer d’Alene, Idaho.”
> 
> The Aryan Nations Web site lists Jerald O’Brien and Michael Lombard as 
> the “pastors” who have taken over after longtime leader Richard Butler’s 
> death in September 2004. 
> 
> O’Brien said area residents can expect the dissemination of “a lot more” 
> fliers and said “like-minded individuals will respond and seek 
> membership.” He said the election of President Barack Obama has served as 
> the “greatest recruiting tool ever.” He said he had “several handfuls” of 
> members in Coeur d’Alene.
> 
> The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations – which has fought the 
> Aryan Nations for decades – condemned the flier distribution and offered 
> its services to anyone who was threatened or harassed.
> 
> “It’s bound to be a small group of people trying once again to bring hate 
> into the community. They don’t have anywhere to operate from except a post 
> office box,” said Tony Stewart, a spokesman for the task force. People in 
> the community, he added, “will reject it as they have in the past. Anyone 
> who feels intimidated should take comfort in the fact that the people are 
> here for them, and we are here for them.”
> 
> Several residents of the neighborhood that received the fliers were 
> interviewed for this story, but most of them asked not to be named out of 
> fear of retribution. All of those interviewed expressed shock, disgust or 
> anger at the fliers. At least two called the police. One caller was a 22-
> year-old white woman who has a 4-year-old African-American son.
> 
> “My son’s black, so it’s not OK,” said the woman, who asked only to be 
> identified as Chelsee B. She said she was afraid to let her son play 
> outside. Coeur d’Alene Police Department Sgt. Christie Wood said no 
> investigation would be conducted, because the distribution of fliers is 
> protected as free speech under the First Amendment. She added, however, 
> that targeting people for harassment based on race is a crime and should 
> be reported.
> 
> Stewart said hate speech is protected, but hate crimes are not. He 
> encouraged any member of the public with concerns about racial harassment 
> to contact the task force at (208) 765-3932.
> 
> The Aryan Nations was effectively bankrupted on Sept. 7, 2000, when a 
> Kootenai County jury returned a $6.3 million verdict against the 
> organization, its founder, Butler, and three former members. The verdict 
> in the civil trial found that Butler and his organization were guilty of 
> gross negligence in appointing security guards who carried out an assault 
> against two people driving past their property. 
> 
> When Butler lost his 20-acre compound near Hayden Lake as a result of the 
> outgrowth of a civil suit in 2000, millionaire racist Vincent Bertollini 
> bought Butler a home in Hayden. It served as the Aryan Nations 
> headquarters until Butler’s death in 2004.
> 
> A new Alabama location for the “Aryan Nations World Headquarters” was 
> posted on the group’s Web site soon after Butler’s death. A splinter group 
> set up shop in Pennsylvania.
> 
> O’Brien, however, said the “world headquarters” of the organization is now 
> in Coeur d’Alene in a location that is “membership privileged information 
> only.” He acknowledged that he lives in a home on the east side of 
> downtown Coeur d’Alene that regularly flies two white supremacist flags.
> 
> Newspaper files show O’Brien marching in a neo-Nazi parade in Coeur 
> d’Alene in July 2004 and joining in a skinhead rally that drew eight 
> people outside the Spokane County courthouse in June 2007. O’Brien has a 
> large swastika tattoo on his scalp.
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>   
> "So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to 
> have fun doin' it.  Lord, let your laughter ring forth.  Be outrageous, 
> ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can 
> produce.  And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer 
> joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it 
> was."
> 
> - Molly
> Ivins
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