[Vision2020] Racist Fliers Distributed in Southern Idaho

Sat Mar 20 19:51:31 PDT 2010

This particular, specific, singular group of three or four people named "Mullet" may well die out at some point. 

I hope that's due to conversion, not death, but evil and anger have a way of ushering in rage and violence, which is deadly to the object and deadly to the hater.  But the Mullets, et al, will spawn new believers who will be as ignorant, dishonest and possibly willing to engage in violence as those "Aryan men" who first kindled the fire in them.  They will join with other racist groups -- people who maybe have never heard of the Mullets -- and recruit and influence others, who will spew their venom with words and possibly, if not probably, with actual violence or threats of violence to back them up.  

Likely?  Absolutely.  The contentions of the racist right wither quickly under the light of reason and shrivel under the lens of the Scriptures they appeal to.  Racist movements don't draw from the most stable, nurtured, and educated populations; they draw, instead, from people who think they remember better days, better days for themselves or for their forebears, sense a loss of power, and blame with unfettered hatred those around them with skin colors they don't possess, languages only newly heard, last names they don't like, or religious faiths they find scary.  They see the world in ways unsupportable by history, the experience of the majority, any recognized religious faith's teachings, or by a reasoned analysis of culture.  They're angry, scared, quite often today poor, and not well educated.  A Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or Lou Dobbs can set them off easily -- there's no need for a couple of North Idaho brothers named Mullet to do the job.

I grew up in an activist, racism-fighting household; if my memory extends back to when I was 6, then I have 43 years during which I don't recall one racist or racist group committed to and demonstrating principles of nonviolence and peaceful engagement.   Why bother, if you either view "the other" as less than human, your own property, your inferior, or a threat?

Racism "dying out"?  No.

Witness the rise in hate groups since 2008 as tracked by the SPLC -- and the FBI.  Witness the angry blather from some on the radical right -- those who insist that the U.S.' first Black President must be a Muslim terrorist, or who joke that zoos have African Lions and America has a Lyin' African.  Not "racist enough" for you?  Fine.  How about the continued fear that young Black men have when pulled over by cops, especially below the Mason-Dixon line?  Disparities in drug sentencing between blacks and whites?  Or in the death penalty?  How about gangs of Anglo youth going out on "Wetback Patrols" or "Alien Hunting"?  The armed Militiamen "guarding the border" in Southern Arizona?  Immigration department harassment of Latinos in Washington State?  The deplorable conditions of ag-labor camps around the country?  The inequalities between schools that serve a high percentage of non-white students and schools that have mostly Anglo students?  

And yeah -- any harassment of white people, if based solely on the fact that they're white people.

Sorry, Paul.  I know you're a good man, but on this one, I'm afraid you're very much mistaken.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:00:17 -0700
> From: godshatter at yahoo.com
> To: thansen at moscow.com
> CC: kjajmix1 at msn.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Racist Fliers Distributed in Southern Idaho
> 
> 
> Think about it for a minute. These guys are having to resort to handing 
> out pamphlets like the hari krishnas used to do in airports. They are 
> having to resort to this because there is no where outside of a few 
> sympathizer's homes where they can speak their views publicly without 
> being laughed off the stage or getting their asses kicked. And you want 
> to shine the spotlight on them. They're dieing out. Let them die out in 
> peace.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Tom Hansen wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > This next few months (to a year) ought to be most interesting.
> >
> > There is a "re-birth" of Aryans up in Post Falls . . . over in John Day,
> > Oregon . . . and now in southern Idaho . . . not to mention sightings of
> > Confederate flags here in Vandalville over the past year.  They have every
> > right to fly whatever flag "floats their boat"  However, if you remember
> > correctly, Jason Hamilton was linked to the Aryan Nations.
> >
> > So . . .
> >
> > No, Paul.  I am NOT going to sit on my hands.  Nor am I going to ignore
> > and walk away from it.
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >   
> >> This is tragic.
> >>
> >> The Mullets keep coming up in these things, and it worries me particularly
> >> because of the large number of Mexican immigrants living and working and
> >> contributing to life in Southern Idaho.  Violence always follows campaigns
> >> like this.  The idea of "keeping America white" is, of course, as
> >> historically stupid as it is deplorably racist.  The U.S. has never been
> >> "white," and the offense directed at those women and men of color who
> >> helped built this nation and did so under violence, oppression and
> >> injustice most Anglos have never experienced, is staggering.
> >>
> >> Keely
> >> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >>> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:25:32 -0700
> >>> From: thansen at moscow.com
> >>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >>> Subject: [Vision2020] Racist Fliers Distributed in Southern Idaho
> >>>
> >>> Courtesy of today's (March 20, 2010) Spokesman-Review.
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Racist fliers distributed in Southern Idaho
> >>> Aryan leader promises campaign will continue
> >>>
> >>> IDAHO FALLS – A North Idaho man says about 3,000 white supremacist
> >>> fliers
> >>> have been distributed in Southern Idaho as part of an Aryan Nations
> >>> campaign that started March 6.
> >>>
> >>> “It’s our constitutional right to distribute literature, and we will
> >>> continue to do it,” Paul Mullet, of Athol, told the Post Register on
> >>> Thursday. “There will be a lot more.”
> >>>
> >>> Mullet said he is the leader of the group. He has also distributed
> >>> fliers
> >>> in North Idaho.
> >>>
> >>> Barbara Holm, of Idaho Falls, recently received one of the fliers that
> >>> said “join the fight to keep America white.” It was stuffed with two
> >>> peppermint candies.
> >>>
> >>> “I just could not believe that something like that had come to my
> >>> driveway,” Holm said. “I was flabbergasted.”
> >>>
> >>> She said it was the first time she had encountered white supremacist
> >>> material in her hometown.
> >>>
> >>> “I’m also horrified that they can do this,” Holm said. “I think it’s a
> >>> sad
> >>> day for America.”
> >>>
> >>> Idaho Falls Police Department Sgt. Phil Grimes said the flier Holm
> >>> received likely didn’t violate any laws, but an investigation is
> >>> possible.
> >>>
> >>> Mullet last month revealed plans to move the group’s headquarters to
> >>> Oregon’s Grant County, a sparsely populated area 198 miles from Portland
> >>> and 147 miles from Boise.
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >>>
> >>> Tom Hansen
> >>> Moscow, Idaho
> >>>
> >>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
> >>> change
> >>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >>>
> >>> - Unknown
> >>>
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