European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine police hold suspected klansmen after fatal shooting at anti klan rally in hard times bring an upswing by David l Langford associated press Kun there was a time when you could Tell a flux Klansman by his pickup it had a gun a cd a Confederate Battle Flag on the front and a George Wallace bumper sticker on the during the civil rights movement of the 1960s he prow led the Back roads of the dynamite was his calling razor Blade castration his Way of discouraging Black men from Messing with White most Rode under the Banner of the United klans of a confederation of splinter Kkt factions organized in 1961 by Imperial wizard Robert the Hawk faced rubber worker from Tusca who soon was Riding around in fancy Continentals and in the House committee on Una Merican activities estimated klan membership at but by then it appeared to be the Public had become fed up with atrocities blamed on if not proven to be the work of the three civil rights workers were murdered near Phila and buried beneath an earthen Black Leader Medgar Evers was gunned Down in Detroit housewife Viola Liuzzo was slain at the time of the Selma March in four Black girls died in the bombing of the sixteenth Street Baptist Church in by the Fri estimated there were no More than Active Kun flux klan but today the klan is on an with an estimated Active Mem Bers in various organizations and an estimated sympathizers As indicated by votes recently Given Politi Cal candidates who Are avowed klansmen and the anti defamation league of Bani which keeps close watch on Ultra righting blames this resurgence partly on economic hard but a real Klansman is not just a disguised Blue Collar worker who is unhappy with affirmative said Irwin director of the leagues fac finding Hes a diehard racist and a but he thrives in a climate where there is general All those klansmen who were around in the 60s Hung up their Robes because they didst see much Prospect of but now that the tide of Public opinion has the Klansman is encouraged to be Active again because he thinks his actions will receive a sympathetic the klan also is spreading out of its bastion in for example two members of the police depart ment were reprimanded last fall for wearing and Selling Kkt medallions while in classes were suspended for three Days at Williams College in in november when a Cross was burned near a Campus building and several Black Stu dents got threatening phone about 130 including 30 klansmen in turned out for an october rally in to hear Imperial wizard Bill Wilkinson klansmen Are concerned about the entire klansmen know their taxes Are going to pay for affirmative action and eventually it affects them even if there int a Damn negro in the whole there have been repeated instances of klan activity on military bases and aboard Navy five military policemen were transferred from fort be cause they were Kkt the Justice department announced last month it was investigating Cross burnings at the Homes of Blacks in pre dominantly White University of washing ton officials also reported that anti Lack literature urging students to join the klan youth corps had been found in v five Kun flux klansmen were indicted in september by a Federal grand jury on charges of harassing Black people in a series of shooting incidents in Detroit and Gary a Security guard from perhaps is typical of the Hans Man of he is a bornand raised Connecticut Yankee who was installed As the states grand at a september weekend rally and Cross burning that Drew a surprising 800 to the Star of the show was Imperial wizard of the invisible knights of the headquartered in Denham he is described by klan watchers As the most militant of the several reigning like his Piscottano says the klan is operating guerrilla Camps in Connecticut where members Are learning to shoot guns for Piscottano said he turned to the klan after losing Faith in a number of righting groups he such As the conservative in fed up with the Way jobs said who claims he was turned Down for a police Job because of affirmative action i was turned Down for a number of jobs by employers who we cant give you a we have to give it to Piscottano also said cuban refugees and illegal mexi can aliens Are eroding the Job opportunities for Ameri can born he claimed that North vietnamese communists planted among Southeast asian refugees Are waiting for a Chance to cause widespread klansmen and other Radical right wingers espousing similar sentiments failed to win Public office in the fall but they collected enough votes to startle civil rights Tom a 42yearold television repairman who is grand wizard of the Kun flux klan of won the democratic nomination for Congress in the 43rd District and got votes in a losing Effort against january 1981 Republican incumbent Clair Burgener in the general who ran on a platform of White supreme tightening Laws against aliens and support of working class said after the this is just another another were going to expand out from the klan base we we can do the very same thing in every congressional Dis Gerald Carlson of a former nazi and Klansman who campaigned in support of Allwhite won the Republican nomination to Congress in a District that encompasses Romulus and Inkster in the suburbs of he got votes in the general election against democratic incumbent Bill who had nazi Harold head of the National socialist party of got votes in an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination As attorney general of North president of the National states rights was convicted in 1980 in connection with the bombing of a Black Church in then turned around and got votes in the race for one of georgias Senate so were were were said the ads we must educate the people As to what these Birds stand Jerry Paul was one of the six klansmen and nazis acquitted of the slayings of five members and supporters of the communist workers party at a death to the klan rally in films shown to the jury showed with a fun Manchu moustache and armed with two pump ing bullets into the body of a demonstrator felled by a the jury decided the defendants fired in self de out on bail in september before the showed up at a klan rally in dressed in a red Robe with a conical he told the what happened in Greensboro is nothing compared to whats to the Dean of the reigning Kluvers is 75yearold James Venable of Imperial wizard of the National knights of the Kun flux who says today Klansman is not upholding Kkt has no knowledge of Hes turned to recruiting in High schools and were trying to get to Venable getting some members a every school and letting them do the John Paul a 39yearold Barber from Lake is one of the More Active grand wizards of Shelton United klans he talks seriously of a patriotic a return to Basic but he turns on his Boyish Grin at Whit Only rallies to say Black is Tan is but Whites still the color of the big Boss the stars and 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