Appalachia

Sometime after the MLK holiday in January, 2014, some really blatant racist comments were posted in The Marietta Times and The Parkersburg News-Sentinel by someone calling himself "Buckeye Brutus" who claimed to be a "neighborhood watch" person saying that he (along with his alleged buddies in local law-enforcement) had been nightly patrolling parts of Parkersburg to "keep out undesirable elements". The Times finally pulled the plug on comments (after the racist troll used 8 different pseudonyms to post his hate-filled junk). There seems to be an uptick of this sort of activity resulting from incendiary talk on local right-wing radio (especially Parkersburg-Marietta WLTP 910) in the wake of the Cliven Bundy stuff in Nevada and Utah ... Do we have to start worrying that something like what happened in Las Vegas last week will happen around here? Wood County Sheriff Ken Merritt (an admitted "Oath-keeper) should be questioned further about his possible role in allowing activity to proliferate that poses a possible threat to the mostly sane and peaceful residents here ...