From MSNBC.com:
'Click here to help,' beseeches former Klansman David Duke
Former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke is making an online appeal for financial support after his arrest in Germany prevented him from speaking at a nationalist gathering.
Burt Steel / AP fileFormer Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke speaks to supporters at a reception in 2004, in Kenner, La. Duke was fresh out of prison after serving 15 months for tax fraud.
The ex-Louisiana state legislator, 61, who was dubbed an “undesirable foreigner” and detained in Cologne before he could address a group called Outside the Network on Friday, said he needs the money to stay in German and wage a battle “for my rights and the rights of the people of Europe to hear me.”
“As much as I would like to, I can’t just go back to Louisiana right now as I have to fight this improper action against me and our brothers and sisters,” Duke, who is now free but reportedly facing deportation, declared on his official website. “The truth is that I and all who stand up for the heritage and freedom of the European and American people… and the right to preserve their identity and unique human rights.”
While most of you will be getting ready for the warmth and love and friendship and family of Christmas, I will be far from home fighting the good fight… Please remember me and this sacred struggle for our people at this beautiful time of year that is such an expression of our exquisite culture and values... I believe you will come through with great generosity, even sacrifice at this time, even with all your personal needs during the Christmas season."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups and fights discrimination cases, describes Duke as the “most recognizable figure of the American radical right, a neo-Nazi, longtime Klan leader and now international spokesman for Holocaust denial.”
Supporters see Duke as a political dissident.
“Because the person being persecuted was a pro-White advocate … his arrest has so far been ignored by the mainstream media, and the U.S. government remains quiet about this too,” wrote James Buchanan, who describes himself as an advocate for white civil rights, on the site Whitelaw Towers.
Grounds for Duke's arrest are unclear. The German embassy in Washington, D.C. directed enquiries about Duke to the U.S. embassy in Germany.
In Germany and several other European countries, laws prohibit hate speech that may incite violence against any racial or religious group and speech that denies or minimizes the Holocaust perpetrated under the Nazis. He was arrested in Prague in 2009 on suspicion of denying the Holocaust and promoting the neo-Nazi movement, and expelled from the country hours later. Duke denied the charges, saying he was there to lecture about Israeli control of U.S. foreign policy.
Duke served as grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. He gave the organization a make-over — shedding the white robes for business suits and arguing that the organization was “not anti-black” but “pro-white” and pro-Christian.” Duke was elected to the Louisiana Legislature, where he served from 1990-1992 before making an unsuccessful run for U.S. president in 1992.
In 2002, he served 15 months in prison term and paid a fine of $10,000 after being convicted of federal tax fraud.
He now travels regularly to Europe touting his books espousing white separatism and opposition to what he views as Jewish control of media, government and financial institutions.
Please, please, please let us hear from all of David Dukes' defenders. I can't wait to be "schooled" by the neo-nazis about how Daveyboy is fighting the good fight.
ReplyDeleteDo you live in the barrio? How about the black ghetto? If not, you must be a racist because you prefer to be around your own kind.
ReplyDeleteChinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, yup, they are all racists because they prefer to be with their own kind.
Go to Texas sometime. The Hispanic Tejanos don't live where the Mexicans live. The Mexicans prefer to be by their own people.
When my grandparents arrived from Germany, they didn't speak English so they lived in Germantown.
Where do Russian immigrants live in New York, or how about the Irish?
Are the Amish racist? How about Mennonites. Mormons? Are these people neo-nazis?
Not from me, Democommie. I've been watching David Dukes for decades, and it would be a relief to see him just disappear. Alas, that's not how it works, and it's up to those of us who know better to keep saying what a fool he is.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how no gun advocate will admit to being racist. I guess there are sites where they do, but around here they're all in the closet.
ReplyDeleteMikeb302000,
ReplyDeleteI hope that you weren't referring to me. If you were, I inivte you to prove your accusation or withdraw it.
Greg Camp:
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that Mikeb302000 was referring to the excresence with typing skilz @2:29 AM.
I don't think you're conciously racist, but considering your fantasies about the marauding hordes that you must protect yourself from (and everybody KNOWS they're mostly blackthugz) I think you might want to reflect on it.
Anonumbnuts wrote:
ReplyDelete"Anonymous said...
Do you live in the barrio? How about the black ghetto? If not, you must be a racist because you prefer to be around your own kind.
Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, yup, they are all racists because they prefer to be with their own kind.
Go to Texas sometime. The Hispanic Tejanos don't live where the Mexicans live. The Mexicans prefer to be by their own people.
When my grandparents arrived from Germany, they didn't speak English so they lived in Germantown.
Where do Russian immigrants live in New York, or how about the Irish?
Are the Amish racist? How about Mennonites. Mormons? Are these people neo-nazis?
There is a big difference between the growth of ethnic neighborhoods during subsequent waves of immigration, and perceived freakish, fact averse arbitrary notions the superiority / inferiority of different groups of people.
Maybe you never got the memo, or full history books, about America being the great melting pot?
Democommie,
ReplyDeleteAs I've said time and time again here, even though none of you seem to believe me, I judge people by their actions.
Greg, if the shoe fits, wear it. Otherwise please spare me your contrived outrage.
ReplyDeleteDo you live in the barrio? How about the black ghetto? If not, you must be a racist because you prefer to be around your own kind.
ReplyDeleteChinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, yup, they are all racists because they prefer to be with their own kind.
yes, I live in an urban area. There is council housing and poverty near my house.
I have lived in "multi-cultural" areas for most of my adult life.
Quite frankly, I am sure that most of you would be very afraid if you had to walk, unarmed, to where I used to park when I lived in Philadelphia.
And the gun carrying crowd used to tell me that wouldn't go into DC when I lived there as well.
So, your point is?
Mikeb302000,
ReplyDeleteContrived outrage? You said that no gun advocate will admit to being racist. You said that here they're all in the closet. Those remarks tell me that you believe all gun advocates to be racists, and so, again, I invite you to prove that.
"You aid that no gun advocate will admit to being racist. You said that here they're all in the closet."
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you're confused. Mikeb302000 said:
"It's funny how no gun advocate will admit to being racist. I guess there are sites where they do, but around here they're all in the closet."
He says that none of the gunzloonz who comment HERE, on this HERE BLOG will admit that they are racists. He doesn't say that they're all racists.
Breathe.
Democommie,
ReplyDeleteYes, those who comment here--surely that was implied, but yes, on this site. I'm a gun advocate you comments on this site. Am I a racist?
My answer is no, but I'm interested in that of others here--if some evidence is given.
Greg, democommie said it well. Your need to be the victim is showing. You thought I was accusing ALL the pro-gun commenters and you in particular of being racist. That's a riot.
ReplyDeleteOne point of clarification is I wasn't talking about the commenters only here on my blog, but on all the pro-gun blogs I read, That's maybe 10,000 commenters all told. Not an admitted racist among them.
Mikeb302000,
ReplyDelete"It's funny how no gun advocate will admit to being racist. I guess there are sites where they do, but around here they're all in the closet."
Your statement that I just quoted is clear. As is your latest followup. Tell me, do you have reason to believe that any of them are racists? Don't say that it's enough that they own or carry guns. By the way, you've tried this predjudiced assertion before in an off-handed remark about white gun owners.
You strike me as a reasonable person, but I do think that you should evaluate your dislike of guns and gun owners. You may deny that you feel that way, but that's the image that you give here. You've called target practice and hunting sick. You've implied that half of us are crazy or criminals in the making. You suggest that we're racist. Could it be that you have a distorted perception of us?
Greg, you sound reasonable too. So I put it to you, having been raised in the United States with its various racial tensions, what do you think is more likely to be true about gun owners, I mean since they're human beings like everyone else.
ReplyDelete1. No racists
2. Many racists
Mikeb302000;
ReplyDeleteWhat three things are a feature in most photos of lynchings?
1.) African americans hanging by the neck.
2.) White people standing around looking proud and smug.
3.) Teh gunz.