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Fred ONeill

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5. Here's the SPLC report on a recent British Documentary ...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:27 PM
Jun 2014

... that covered the April 26 Klan rally in Parkersburg's Mountwood Park ... https://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/06/13/west-virginia-klan-leader-claims-returning-military-will-help-them-train-for-the-upcoming-battle/ ... There was absolutely no mention of this in the local media until June 10th (although extremely toxic posts turned up in The Marietta Times back in February from some local blowhard Klucker calling himself "Buckeye Brutus" who bragged about his "night-riding" activities with local cops). Let's not have any silliness about the "free speech rights" of these dangerous nitwits. They are serious about armed insurrection. They issue thinly-veiled threats toward minorities. They corrupt their own children. They used a popular public facility for their crummy gathering, and they MAY have been supported by local law-enforcement officers like "Oath-keeper" Wood county Sheriff Ken Merritt (who has, in the past, been investigated for corruption) ... "Free speech does not mean that one has a right to falsely shout 'fire!' in a crowded theater." ~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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