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...news. One of the tapes showed soldiers of the elite Airborne Regiment at Petawawa, Ontario, a base 115 km northwest of Ottawa, participating in vicious and racist hazing rituals in 1992. In one scene a black recruit crawled across the ground, with symbols declaring ``I love the Ku Klux Klan'' daubed in excrement on his back. Another soldier was shown being forced to eat urine-soaked bread. The second tape depicted Airborne members in Somalia in 1993, where they were serving as U.N. peacekeepers. Asked to describe his tour, one soldier told the anonymous interviewer, ``I think it sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACISM IN THE RANKS | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...fusillade of criticism from Democrats. In 1986, Jeffrey had written that the junior high school program in question contained "no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan." Moving quickly to avoid a prolonged, Clintonian embarrassment, Gingrich fired the professor the same day the evaluation came to light, though an assistant of Jeffrey's claimed the Speaker had known about her views on the program before he hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week January 8-14 | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

Patriots claim to be motivated differently from other fringe groups that have sprung up in America and taken up arms. The Ku Klux Klan, for example -- born as a social club and quickly evolving into a militia, recruiting members through appeals to patriotism -- still thrives on hatred of blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics and foreigners. The moribund Posse Comitatus, a militant group based in the Farm Belt, wanted to wipe out the tax collectors. The patriots, by contrast, have a more generalized fear of Big Government, which they say is rapidly robbing individuals of their inalienable rights, chief among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriot Games | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...will admit that in these statements Dr. Elders did not endorse teaching masturbation; she only suggested it. So whenever a Ku Klux Klan member wants to go out and do some evil, all they have to do is sound contemplative and say, "Perhaps we should go out and assault some African-Americans...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Finally, Elders Fired | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...taken the nation into dubious terrain. America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cure for Racism | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

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