Word: klan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moral ambiguities abounded. In Janesville, Wis., Riley watched as anti-Klan demonstrators violently battled police while Klan members stood peacefully on a hill. "The protesters hit me in the stomach with a can of Coke hurled from 100 ft. away," recalls Mike. "Klan leader Thom Robb is a friendly soul who welcomed us into his home for a spaghetti dinner. He loves his family, but he's looked at the world from upside down for so long that hate has become love and evil has become good...
...Klux Klan leader vows to create "1,000 David Dukes...
...placid town of Janesville, Wis. (est. pop. 52,000), never asked for a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the Klan considered the town, perched on the Rock River, ripe for recruits. So there in the middle of Rockport Park stood a massive burlap-wrapped, kerosene-soaked cross surrounded by Klansmen, and even a few Klanswomen, their robes billowing in the soft breeze. The loud twang of country music mixed with the angry chants of protesters jousting with police a few hundred yards away: "Death to the Klan...
...hose. Eventually the frustrated crowd began to pelt the cops with mud, rocks, bottles and obscenities. The police made eight arrests. For the man whose presence triggered the violence, no outcome could have been better. "Oh, yeah," said Grand Wizard Thom Robb of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "I couldn't have bought this advertising for a million bucks...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) begins to consider inviting David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard who at the time had just announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, to speak at an IOP forum. Duke did not appear on campus this year...