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Default Pearls Before the Swine


Wed, Dec 13, 2006, 2:17pm (Mike*Marlow) doth
sayeth:
That would be correct. It's the prinicples of the KKK that merit its
dismissal as an organization.snip

You might want to read about some of the history of the KKK.
http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html Here is a partial quote of the very
beginnings. Probably nowhere near what you thought.

In fact the beginning of the Klan involved nothing so sinister,
subversive or ancient as the theories supposed. It
was the boredom of small-town life that led six young Confederate
veterans to gather around a fireplace one
December evening in 1865 and form a social club. The place was Pulaski,
Tennessee, near the Alabama border.
When they reassembled a week later, the six young men were full of ideas
for their new society. It would be secret, to heighten the amusement of
the thing, and the titles for the various officers were to have names as
preposterous-sounding as possible, partly for the fun of it and partly
to avoid any military or political implications.



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