<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"Most people don't know that we don't just oppose the Jews and the <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>negroes</SPAN>," he said. "We also oppose sexual predators and drugs of any kind."</SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Too bad they don't also oppose ignorance and stupidity, but then again,<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> they wouldn't be the Aryan Nations would they.</SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>SANDPOINT</SPAN> - It's unlikely that any other Bonner County sheriff candidate spent their Friday night like Shaun <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN>.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>At his compound just outside Priest River, <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> and other family members of the northern Idaho <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Ku</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Klux</SPAN> Klan <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>klavern</SPAN> held a get-together that included a nighttime cross lighting. <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN>, 33, is also tied to the Aryan Nations and Church of Jesus Christ-Christian. He has participated in racially-charged <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>Kootenai</SPAN> County protests.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>According to <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN>, cross lighting, more commonly known as cross burning, often provokes strong
reactions from most people. Given that fact, the ceremony is generally conducted in private within the compound once a month or so.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"Generally, for a cross lighting, it's extremely rare we'd let any media there at all," he said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>However, after discussing the matter with his family and associates, the group agreed to allow outside observation for the ceremony. <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> said the evening was meant to express both camaraderie and religious devotion.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The evening began like many a family picnic elsewhere in the country. Group members barbecued and enjoyed a congenial meal with one another. Afterward, <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> called <SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>everyone's</SPAN> attention to speak for about a half-hour on the racial, political and social groups they opposed. Finally, once darkness fell, the evening
concluded by setting a wooden cross afire.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>That particular action, <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> predicted, would be the source of much misunderstanding.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>"Mainstream society looks at cross lighting as a symbol of hate, but it predates the Klan by hundreds of years," he said. "We look at it more as a religious symbol."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>According to <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN>, the religious component of the ceremony dates back to back to Scottish origins, when clan members used it as a means of communication. He also saw it as a pointedly Christian symbol, a representation of Jesus Christ's light spreading to the rest of the world.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>However, the <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>Ku</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>Klux</SPAN> Klan of the early 20<SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>th</SPAN> century effectively erased any
other associations in the public consciousness when they appropriated cross lighting as a tool of terror and coercion.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>According to Brenda Hammond, secretary for the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force, the continued use of cross lighting is a matter of grave concern.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"It shows the need for the human rights task force has not gone away," she said. "Many of us on the task force have really regretted Bonner County's reputation for harboring racism when the vast majority of us don't think like that."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Despite the unpopularity of his racial views, <SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> is soldiering on with his sheriff's candidacy. On Monday, he participated in a candidates forum at the Blanchard Community Center. He continued to insist his <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>Ku</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>Klux</SPAN> Klan ties would not impact his performance
as sheriff or make him susceptible to racial profiling. Instead, he would focus on tough stances regarding drugs and alcohol.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"Most people don't know that we don't just oppose the Jews and the <SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>negroes</SPAN>," he said. "We also oppose sexual predators and drugs of any kind."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-24 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> added that if he had his way, perpetrators of sexual crimes would be hung immediately.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>As for the cross lighting and his other white supremacist links, <SPAN id=misspell-25 class=mark>Winkler</SPAN> admits that those who oppose him for his viewpoints probably won't come around. Given that likelihood, he's not worried about alienating potential supporters.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"I think at this point, whoever is going to disagree with me will keep on disagreeing, and those who agree with me will keep on agreeing,"
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