<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of <i>KHQ</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/36306926/police-investigate-racist-flyers-found-in-sandpoint">http://www.khq.com/story/36306926/police-investigate-racist-flyers-found-in-sandpoint</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><h3 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police investigate racist flyers found in Sandpoint</span></font></h3></div><div>SANDPOINT, Idaho - "Whenever you hear messages of hate they are not welcome here,” Lynn Bridges said.</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force came together, not as a group, but as neighbors and friends watching out for one another.</div><div><br></div><div>“We believe in working for a community where everyone feels safe and where every person is treated with dignity,” Bridges, the President of the BCHRTF said.</div><div><br></div><div>The task force says more racist fliers from the website, the Daily Stormer, appeared in Sandpoint several days ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Even for those accustomed to seeing graphic images say the fliers are extremely disturbing.</div><div><br></div><div>Harkening to the Holocaust, the images depict people being shoved inside ovens.</div><div><br></div><div>One flier even shows Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad inside a gas chamber.</div><div><br></div><div>Task force members say enough is enough.</div><div><br></div><div>"We will continue to stand for the values that unite us,” Mayor Rognstad said.</div><div><br></div><div>Idaho Governor Butch Otter has now gotten involved.</div><div><br></div><div>A statement from Otter was read by Tony Stewart, one of the founding members of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations.</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no room for hatred in our beautiful state, end of quote from Governor Otter,” Stewart read.</div><div><br></div><div>The hate fliers started to circulate Sandpoint in April, targeting several people including Rognstad and several members of the local media.</div><div><br></div><div>Sandpoint police say they are looking into the fliers, anyone who receives one or has been victimized by one is urged to report them immediately.</div></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>