Word: klan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes, the people that smile at you are lyin. A man's handshake's his bond. Like his word. I tell you, you know that no member of the Klan shakes with his thumb. Not a single one. You know why there's a Klan? It's so men will remember how to be men. Sometimes people forget how. I'm a member of the Klan. Let me show you something." He took a picture out of his wallet of his wife and daughters. He meant it as a proof that he hadn't been fooling about being much else...
...harmless. He's not just "controversial" or "provoking". He is, instead, a destructive force who should not be lent respectability by colleges and television stations that allow him to speak. His Nobel prize and pseudo-scientific trappings don't make him any different from a Ku Klux klan chieftain--and KKK members don't get many speaking invitations on the Ivy League circuit...
...agency relies heavily on paid informants. Many are poorly supervised and amateurish. But the FBI has been able to get inside countless organizations, including the Mafia, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, and Students for a Democratic Society...
THIS DRASTIC CUT IN information-gathering power might be tolerable if restricted to grand juries, which have often been used to track down political dissidents (as well as to investigate organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan). But the consequences would be more alarming if the privilege were logically extended to its application in the courts. And would we really want Donald Segretti, when summoned before either a jury or a court investigating the Watergate affair, to be able to avoid testifying by claiming that all the facts he knows were generated "in the course of testing his opinions...
Those who don't see this point should think about Birth of a Nation--no matter how one may object to the ideas expressed in the film, the formal (artistic) skill with which it is made has the audience rooting for the Ku Klux Klan to come to the rescue. Try as you will to resist, you cannot help but cheer them on. The principle at work in Birth of a Nation works just as well in Sorrow and Pity...