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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:52 AM Mar 2014

KKK flags fly outside 2 mobile homes

WEST BOCA RATON, Fla. (WSVN) -- It is a sight many do not want to see, but in one South Florida neighborhood, Ku Klux Klan flags are flying outside two houses, and some residents are concerned.

Not one, but two homes in a West Boca Raton neighborhood has flags associated with the Ku Klux Klan in their front yards. The mobile homes, located within a block of each other, west of 441, along Sandalfoot Boulevard, in unincorporated southwestern Palm Beach County, are raising neighbors' eyebrows.

One of the flags was taken down Tuesday night, but the homeowner said he will put it back up in the morning. "You're entitled to freedom of speech as well as I am," said the homeowner as he took down the flags.

Outside one of the mobile homes there is also a sign that says, "Members Wanted." Carolyn Jones lives inside that home. She said, "If you want to join, you join. If you don't, you don't. It's not for everyone, and everyone joins for their own reasons. It's not to be mean or show hate."

No show of hate according to Jones' home, but her home also has a noose outside in the front yard. "There's not burning of the crosses when you join. There's no hate, you know. You don't have to have prejudice or anything else to join. It's none of that. It's nothing about that," said Jones.

http://www.wsvn.com/story/24886433/kkk-flags-fly-outside-2-mobile-homes

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MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Wonder how they'd like it if they woke up to a giant cross burning on their front yard?
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 07:49 AM
Mar 2014

Would the sight of the flames leaping into the dark night put a bit of terror in their hearts? Wonder how they'd like hearing a bit of screeching Yee-Hawing going on beyond the perimeter of the light cast by those flames?

It's not "political speech," they are a racist hate group, pure and simple.

And what's this "Knights" shit? Knights of the round toilet, maybe...bunch of losers...



Who in their right mind puts crap like this up? Twisted assholes.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
3. I saw cross burnings in the seventies
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 07:54 AM
Mar 2014

driving between Titusville and UCF
when I commuted coming home late at night.


SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
9. They have to make terroristic threats ...
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:31 AM
Mar 2014

cause they could never do anything by being smart. All of them are stupid.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
11. Yep. I like the point made below, that they're "self identifying."
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:45 AM
Mar 2014

Kind of like a Quarantine posting on the door!

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
4. I think these flags are great, removes any doubt about the racist assholes who live there.
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 08:12 AM
Mar 2014

If only all racist assholes would self-identify this way, we'd have a better America.

C'mon Rand Paul, get one of these flags for your home, and another for your Party headquarters!

RandiFan1290

(6,237 posts)
5. That's my old neighborhood
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 08:24 AM
Mar 2014

I lived on 228th Lane South for about 5 years as a young punk. It was always a nice quiet place from what I can remember and we never had any problems like this.

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
7. Good
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:07 AM
Mar 2014

These dumb asses always earn extra scrutiny from various law enforcement. It gives them a place to start in racially motivated crime, and crime usually follows these types.

I live in the area of posse comitatus. Those asshats like to post ridiculous rants on their property, they almost always end up in jail.

 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
15. Before we object, we should see if they plan on voting for Hillary.
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:24 AM
Mar 2014

After all, we seem to be celebrating the poll that shows a quarter of Republicans may vote for Hillary in 2016.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024607320

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