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kpete

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Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:44 AM Aug 2012

Don't Call it Terrorism [View all]

Don't Call it Terrorism
by BooMan
Tue Aug 7th, 2012 at 01:55:21 PM EST

In 1920, at the Republican National Convention, the party promised to pass an anti-lynching bill. They followed through on that promise in 1921 and passed a bill through the House of Representatives. Southern Democrats in the Senate filibustered the bill, and it died. In August of 1925, more than 50,000 Klansmen marched on Washington DC. Here's a picture of how that looked:



http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/7/135521/8491
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/KKK_march_on_Wahington_DC_Pennsylvania_Avenue_1925
I never heard of a Klansman who thought Napolitano was an appropriately Anglo-Saxon name.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/07/fox-news-analyst-sikh-temple-massacre-not-domestic-terrorism/

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