The KKK is clearly a sick organization. There's no justifying the Klan's ideology. However, in the "Land of the Free", ignorant, hateful organizations are protected by the Constitution. But, apparently, the 1st Amendment means little to the Charleston County Sheriff's Office (SC), which is currently investigating the local KKK chapter because someone has been
distributing organizational literature around town.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating
the distribution of Klu Klux Klan literature in the Forest Lakes Area of
West Ashley.
Deputies have collected numerous pieces
of literature as evidence, and they are now encouraging residents who
discover this literature on or around their property to discard it,
Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Stanley said.
The fliers were from the Traditionalist American Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan. The faction’s literature also has been seen
recently in other tri-county cities and it showed up this spring in West
Ashley’s racially diverse Pierpont neighborhood.
It
is unclear what authorities can do to prevent such mail drops or punish
the people responsible. Stanley said that the Sheriff’s Office isn’t
pursuing charges against the distributors but that the agency’s
investigation is still in its infancy.
Nice choice of words,
Post and Courier. Punish the people responsible? Punish them for what? Having a controversial ideology? It's one thing if they were trespassing. But is having a controversial ideology a crime now? This is a slippery slope, folks. If
the student loan bubble bursts while the
"explosive" inflationary effects of QE and ZIRP are realized and the economy gets really bad--and it might--and
people start standing up to the state, will the state "punish" us because we share an ideology it finds controversial? Will we not enjoy 1st Amendment protection?
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