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When a group of Blacks tried to march through white Forsyth County, Georgia they were countered with the stars and bars. At Ku Klux Klan rallies from Maine to Mississippi, you'll see it as the symbol of white supremacy...
Issues passionate and human and difficult surge up against the Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American television cop show: there comes a moment of denouement when the detective, triumphant but sardonically obedient to the Miranda decision, snaps the cuffs on a suspect and growls, "You have the right to remain silent. You have the right...
Seven of the 15 are already serving prison terms for previous convictions. Louis Beam Jr., 40, a onetime Texas Ku Klux Klan organizer, is still at large. The other seven were arrested last week. They include two of the nation's best-known preachers of Hitlerite philosophy: Aryan Nations Leader Richard Butler, 69, and former Michigan K.K.K. Chief Robert Miles, 62. If convicted, the defendants face maximum prison terms ranging from ten years to life...
There is a rub however. Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
Opponents of the Ku Klux Klan have long tried to stop its racist activities. Last week an all-white jury in Mobile may have finally done it. In a civil suit against the United Klans of America arising from the 1981 murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various...