KKK Leader Glenn Miller Runs For Missouri SENATE SEAT

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"They're crawling out from under the rocks everywhere. In Missouri, white supremacist Glenn Miller has declared his candidacy for the United States Senate, vowing to "reach every nook and cranny in the state" in his quest for votes and launching a new campaign web site at the URL whty.org. His opponents include Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan, and his last try got him around 40 votes or so, but hey, any excuse to spread a little hate among friends, right?

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<http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/kkk-leader-glenn-miller-runs-missouri-senat>


Miller isn't your ordinary run-of-the-mill Klansman either. From Southern Poverty Law Center, 2004:

<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/winter/theyre-back?page=0,2>



One of the first white supremacists to use paramilitary tactics with his North Carolina-based hate group — the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later morphed into the White Patriot Party — Glenn Miller went on the lam in 1986 after mailing a letter to 5,000 people calling for "total war" against the feds, blacks and Jews.


Miller had also violated a court order, stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, prohibiting him from continuing to operate a paramilitary organization. After a nationwide manhunt, authorities tear-gassed him out of a mobile home in Ozark, Mo.


But Miller served only three years in prison, largely because he testified against 14 leading white supremacists in a 1988 Arkansas sedition trial. Among other things, Miller told the court that the late Order founder Robert Mathews had given him $200,000 in stolen money to finance the White Patriot Party.


To kick off his campaign, he's running a series of vile anti-Semitic ads hosted on the white supremacist site Vanguard News Network.


This is what happens when the dog whistle sounds among the wingnut contingent. Sure, they're not all racists, but they know how to stir up the ones who are violent, evil and malevolent.


I'm amazed Miller is qualified to be a candidate for the Senate. Doesn't a felony conviction disqualify him?

[fascisthunter]

1. The GOP's True Colors...

[Segami]

6. Sunlight...the best disinfectant.

[SoCalNative]

2. Nope. Felony convictions don't disqualify one from seeking office

[MadHound]

3. Cool, he'll split the conservative vote in two

There are a lot of people in Southern Missouri who will vote for Miller over Blunt. Especially after Roy's boy fucked over the state.

[ClarkUSA]

4. His candidacy will weaken Blunt and the GOP in MO in the long run by firing up sane Dems & indies

Teabaggers will flock to him, I'm sure.

[951-Riverside]

5. We already have our own version he's called Sen Robert Byrd. n/t

[TheWraith]

7. No. Not even close.

Byrd joined the Klan when he was 24, in 1942, and dumped them within a few years. He's repudiated them and everything they stand for in the subsequent decades, frequently apologizing for it.

[951-Riverside]

10. Oh, he didn't join the clan he founded his own chapter and as for apologizing...

The 770-page book is the latest in a long series of attempts by the 87-year-old Democratic patriarch to try to explain an event early in his life that threatens to define him nearly as much as his achievements in the Senate. In it, Byrd says he viewed the Klan as a useful platform from which to launch his political career. He described it essentially as a fraternal group of elites -- doctors, lawyers, clergy, judges and other "upstanding people" who at no time engaged in or preached violence against blacks, Jews or Catholics, who historically were targets of the Klan.

I wouldn't call this an apology.

The rest:

In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.

As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.

The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html

[pintobean]

8. "reach every nook and cranny in the state"

I suggest he start on the near north side of St. Louis City.

[bridgit]

9. Ah, and why not? Between Mizzoorah's native son: Rush Limbaugh, and this dangerous bigoted bagger...

Missouri becomes very well positioned to go from The Show-Me State to The Show-Me How Bat-Shit Crazy You Are State!

[The Midway Rebel]

11. Nope. The honor of that title belongs to California

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map

[bridgit]

12. Even by *your* link that distinction belongs to Texas, though per capita I am quite sure...

The tinier even crazier states are holding their own rather well where a state a fraction the size of Calif is able to log 36 but thanks for using Google Maps

[The Midway Rebel]

13. I did not use Google maps, nor do I need Google maps

to show me that my state holds no monopoly on hate and bat-shit-crazy.

[bridgit]

14. Well then good for you, not your myopic approach to matters just...in general

[The Midway Rebel]

15. or stupid

...just sayin'.

[Telly Savalas]

19. "and his last try got him only 40 votes or so..."

So this guy and the 40 people who voted for him are more representative of the state of Missouri than the other 6 million or so people who live here? How does that work?

[bridgit]

20. You tell me, maybe it has something to do with how they won't eat each other like we do

:eyes:

[aikoaiko]

16. Who knew?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv_PoZ2iP0&feature=related

[MajorChode]

17. I was kind of hoping he would team up with Buddy Holly and get the band back together

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

18. I like Glenn Miller, I really wish this fella would change his name,

http://popup.lala.com/popup/360569471896520675

A little special treat, w/ Ella Fitzgerald when she was about 18 or so.