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03-13-2007, 01:31 PM
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How proud I am to live here....
The so-called "T" of Pennsylvania, especially south central where Chambersburg is located is recognized as very conservative, sorta a mini "Bible Belt" if you will, the Klan has always operated here, when I worked at the juvenile center we were picketed by them several times...scumbag cowards in their sheets and hoods. In today's local newspaper, front page, is an article interviewing the local Grand Scumbag and indicating that "increased activity" is planned for this summer...marches in Gettysburg and possibly right here in Chambersburg. The PA chapters have had increases in membership due to a disbanding of some MD chapters due to the arrest of their Grand Pervert on sex charges (forcing oral sex by a juvenile). Their issues are "mixed marriages" anything related to gays and illegal immigration (which gains an ear in these parts). I was thinking about leaving this area in the spring but if I'm still here this summer....! I don't like calling folks names and I respect freedom of speech but these folks get under my skin and make it crawl....maybe I'll go to their rally and ask their opinion of Wiccans!
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03-13-2007, 03:28 PM
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There are good people here too, Somer! And the part it bold is sort of refreshing to hear, we don't get that kind of emotion out of you too often.
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I'm like evil, I get under your skin Just like a bomb that's ready to blow 'Cause I'm illegal, I got everything That all you women might need to know
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03-13-2007, 04:47 PM
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Sure, there are good folks everywhere....it's just the Klan is a bit personal for me, I saw far too much of them in the 60's. Also, my dad was raised by an uncle who was a Klan member...my dad was forced to deliver papers after school and then come home to a cold supper and sleep with his brother in a barn...he quit school after the 8th grade...meanwhile this guy never worked a day in his life but had money (to care for dad and his brother) and spent his days drinking and burning crosses...sorry but the Klan to me is manifestation of pure evil.
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03-13-2007, 10:04 PM
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Ah, my homeland... how you remind me sometimes of why I left.
 Sorry you're dealing with them, Somer. There's a reasonably large population of Wiccans in south central PA, if that's any consolation. Probably more than there are KKK'ers.
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03-13-2007, 10:15 PM
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That's true...but no consolation!
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03-13-2007, 10:29 PM
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Somer,
Never new the KKK was that bad there in C-Burg, Always thought it was a nice quaint town with little problems when I was passing through on my way to visit friends in McConnellsburg which I do a couple times each year. Here in the Lehigh Valley with gangs from NYC trying build a foundation here and also we have Neo-Nazi who are causing problems trying to spread hatred
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03-13-2007, 11:27 PM
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I was born and raised in Waynesboro, my dad lived in Detroit until his parents both died when he was very young and he was shipped to his uncle in Chambersburg with his older brother. The Klan has alway had a foothold in Franklin, Adams and Fulton counties, also in Washington and Frederick counties in Maryland along with the western areas of Md (Cumberland area). My dad was always "faithful" to his family but he hated the Klan, I recall in junior high I was looked down upon cause I hung with two black friends, high school wasn't as bad but then we only had two black kids in my class (65) among over 400 students. When I joined the movement and spent all my free time "down south", I ran into lots of Klan...never very friendly! I was lucky...called lots of names, kicked and punched a few times and wore condiments and hot coffee but nothing worse...still, they left an impression that has lasted a lifetime!
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03-14-2007, 06:14 AM
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 best thing to do about them is ignore them, if they are only talking to each other, and have no audience, they'd have no one to show off to. that would have to get boring after a while. just think if they got no attention, no press, no media coverage, etc. can't get your message out if there's no one to hear it. tempting as it would be to go and harass them, it wouldn't do anything except raise your own blood pressure.
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03-14-2007, 11:42 AM
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Well, it's been a long time but my SDS training rears it's head in this type of situation....I can't help but remember the lessons of the past and quotes like, "all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing" (good women too). The masses in Germany ignored the Nazis and we know how that turned out! The problem with evil is that it never just goes away!
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03-14-2007, 04:51 PM
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i find it hard to believe they exist, neo nazis as well. but too many try to find a place to fit often, too often they find that place in a group like these-where you try to feel superior by making others somehow seem inferior.
and somer, i know what you mean--but i don't think the klan is what was meant--an evil such as the german govt under hitler, yes. the govt has power, so you have to try to curb that--but i don't think the klan has power unless you give it a voice. how better for them to get that voice then by being shown on the six o'clock news? i just think there's more then one way to fight evil, in their case i think the best thing is to let them march alone, and have no one to hear them. you can't get your message across if there is no one to hear it.
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