HOW these ROTTEN Canadians say that THE klu klux klan WERE Christian ? What A crock of shit !
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June 30, 2024: The Show Must Go On [videos]
Starship Earth: The Big Picture
June 30, 2024
First off, Happy Canada Day to the Canucks for July 1st. There is still a Canada, then? Not for long unless people wake up and take it back from the commies. Enjoy your long weekend, patriots.
Since my Internet was down all day on Friday and we have July 4th Independence Day events this week, I decided to do a post today. Friday was a good day despite the frustration because for some strange reason Telegram still worked so I could get the text portion of the posts—and my grocery bill was precisely $117.00 which I saw as a nod and a wink from the Universe.
Obviously the talk on Friday centered on the first Trump – Biden debate. It was my first “watch party” ever after an update with Capt. Kyle, LTC Riccardo Bosi, and Major Freddy and I must say, it’s a lot more fun that way and great to hear their comments during the breaks in the debate.
What happened with the debate? I’ll tell you: Shit got real. I had no expectations, and wasn’t disappointed.
Obviously the Alliance controls the media and I’ve been pointing that out for a long time when I asked, “Who controls the media? Who REALLY controls the media?” I’ve illustrated countless times the things we’ve seen and heard on the MSM that we would never have done if the cabal were in charge.
We were told that things were going to get crazy and that a lot of major events would all be happening simultaneously. The Plan, you will recall, is “event-driven”, not date-driven. I included the meme below recently because we’ve turned a corner and the White Hats are on a major offensive now to wake the dead.
If you think the release of Julian Assange NOW after all this time was a coincidence, you’re not paying attention.
The debate was REAL-ish—but it was staged. Sarge even told us it was filmed months ago. See below for the link to that update. CNN is under military control. Phil Godlewski told us months ago that CNN would flip. It may have already taken place at that point but other than the odd nugget of truth for the Q army, most wouldn’t pick up on it.
The debate wasn’t about Trump obliterating Biden—although obviously he could have, particularly since Biden is an actor controlled by the White Hats, but that’s not the way they wanted it to go.
The ‘real’ aspect for the normies is more accurately described as “natural”. It’s only the first debate, and it would not be natural or real to the normies if Trump walloped Biden out of the gate. We have to coddle the reticent ones and get them onboard seemingly of their own accord. There is a lot of psychology to this, folks. The military and the Alliance know how to run psychological operations.
The debates will be used to gently get the attention of those with their heads in the sand and help them see the light. This is how Q could accurately say there will be no civil war in America. They know what to do, how to do it, and that it will be successful.
The following was one early Telegram on Friday which accurately encapsulates the debate strategy. If Trump had aced the debate as we know he can and Biden fell down again it would probably alienate the Never Trumpers and others who stubbornly believe they are Democrats or just don’t want to get involved. They would simply tune out.
Personally, I thought it hysterically funny when Biden repeatedly said Trump was lying. If you watched you couldn’t fail to see a drastically different CNN than the past “Lester Holt” performance when you just wanted to rip his face off.
What did you notice about how CNN “acted” tonight?
They actually cut off Fake Biden more than Trump.
Noe once did they “correct” or “fact check” Trump, as they always have in the past.
The questions were equally balanced between both “candidates”
Neither moderator demonstrated any bias towards Trump.
Ga back and watch past debates and how Trump was treated.
These facts alone should further confirm that what you watched was a staged event by a Military-controlled CNN Network.
I do believe that this was mostly a distraction to occupy our time while something else happens or future events are coordinated.
I also believe that this “debate” was designed to target the low-IQ voters, which unfortunately makes up a large percentage of the populace.
Low IQ voters know little about the topics, don’t know who is lying or not, but CAN tell when o e candidate is strong and steady and the other can’t formulate a sentence.
THIS will be the water cooler topic tomorrow for the low IQ voters. All they’ll remember is how Biden couldn’t talk.
By design.
In addition, the White Hats know that people won’t believe the truth until they hear it/see it on television. The cabal successfully programmed the world. Millions have awoken, but we still have a lot of souls to light a fire under, excepting perhaps the 4 – 6% the Q Team told us would be lost forever. The Alliance had to take over the mainstream media so they can “show” the populace the truth and they will now use it to their advantage.
We must keep in mind that nothing has really changed in the major thrust of the Operation. It’s wakeup time for the normies. The average snoozer has to see what is playing out and realize the truth; that their country is under siege and they have to face the reality and come to its aid by becoming an informed voter and a patriot. It’s always been baby steps and we can expect that to continue with a very gradual ramping up until the normies feel the full brunt of ‘The Storm’.
Here is a fantastic rundown by Dave at the News Treason channel which will make it clear for anyone who doesn’t get it. He’s absolutely right on. He then goes on to connect the dots re: the Chevron angle, and more. 51 minutes.
17 At A Glance: Lessons From the Debate
So, who won the debate? Who do you think?
I can’t believe they did this—and would never be able to do it unless they’re White Hats with military clearance. Is that Jr. at the end or am I making shit up?
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Badass Donald Trump’s private plane conducts an authorized low altitude, high speed pass over an airport near Washington D.C. after his winning his debate. #trump #usa #trumpforceone #president #biden #election #debate #military #potus
How do we know the Alliance controls everything? Let us count the ways. For example, my Galaxy Android is now showing “ogle” as an option for sharing data and searches. It used to say Google, where I could choose Gmail, etc.
For those not aware, “Go Ogle” was the original name for the cabal’s search engine that would be used to track and spy on users. They condensed it to Google so we wouldn’t catch on. Now my Freedom Phone says “ogle”. I love it. The Google icon remains the same. Screenshot below.
This is a brief Intel Update from Sarge which begins at the 24 minute mark. He explains more about the military operation evident in The Debate. Click the link to listen on Rumble.
YOU CAN’T HIDE SPECIAL WITH A RANT AND INTEL .SUNDAY JUNE 30TH 2024
The video below is another excellent one with nuggets of truth from Charlie Ward and Pascal Najadi. There was almost zero “talking over” in this and I believe the previous conversation with Pascal and Capt. Kyle was intended to be just what it was; part of The Plan. Good press or bad, it put Pascal in front of a lot of people. Capt. Kyle has a huge following.
Below, Pascal speaks with Mahoney and Charlie on Charlie’s show until the 55 minute mark and for those who fell for the “Pascal’s father worked for the WEF” con, maybe you want to listen to the truth. The cabal didn’t assassinate Pascal’s father for nothing.
We should know by now that when a truth-teller comes out, the cabal will lie, twist the truth, and lie by omission. The three men joke about what the deep state have said about Charlie. I’ve heard all kinds of crap but I know a good person when I see/hear one. Charlie and Pascal are good men—and I’m rarely wrong about someone’s character.
Pascal points out more evidence of the White Hat control when he suggests we go to “this link” [I did the work for you] to see Trump’s emergency action and the fact that Joseph Robinette Biden [not “President” Biden] did a continuance. If the cabal were in charge of Biden, why on Earth would they have him extend the Executive Order?
Pascal and Charlie discuss the fact that Trump’s emergency action nullifies ALL votes and election results—PERIOD. Not only 202o. Chew that cud for a moment.
After the 55 minute mark, Charlie is in Pascal’s home in the Swiss mountains above Geneva in Switzerland.
Pascal breaks out the truth in every podcast he does and reminds us that when the most brutal truths are presented, there will be suicides. Of course, death is not what we’ve been led to believe but it’s painful for those left behind at this point.
One of the valuable things shared in the first portion was that if you have Starlink, you needn’t worry when the Internet goes dark. It automatically locates the satellite. Mahoney explains it’s simple to set up. Video is 1 hr. 40 min. total.
Pascal Najadi & Charlie Ward’s Update June 12: “Urgent Message: Pascal Exposes the Shocking Truth”
Speaking of Starlink, today we’re hearing that SpaceX was given permission to destroy the International Space Station! What they left off is… “by 2030”. They’re going to junk it. It’s not Quantum technology and totally redundant. We don’t need any more fake NASA studio videos of “astronauts” in harnesses pretending to be weightless in “space”, do we?
NASA taps SpaceX to help destroy International Space Station at the end of its life
Think this is staged? Good grief.. the thought police have struck in Britain. No one arrested has any idea what they’re talking about and they’re rummaging through all their private belongings.
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WATCH: UK Police raid homes and arrest 27 Just Stop Oil supporters suspected of planning to disrupt airports this summer.
WH Grampa told us Trump was going to do something before the debate and there were only a few hours left at that point. Is this what he was referencing? “President Trump poised to throw enormous ‘Curveball’ just before debate ..” Or did I miss something?
Mother of Child Murdered by Venezuelan Illegals Left “Shocked” by Phone Call from President Trump Minutes Before He Took Debate Stage
There are so many dots to connect. Trump’s sentencing is slated for July 11, as well.
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There is so much more I could have included but it’s Eli’s dinner time and the pool is calling for my decompression appointment. More next time.
Until then, enjoy the show. ~ BP
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Robert Byrd from West Virginia—a known recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan— leading fellow Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans;.
Politicians who were active in the Klan[edit]
In 2018, The Washington Post reported that, by 1930, the KKK, while its “membership remained semi-secret, claimed 11 governors, 16 senators and as many as 75 congressmen – roughly split between Republicans and Democrats.” The actual names were never released. The Washington Post also reported that the 1924 Democratic National Convention was not called a “Klanbake,” and the KKK did not control the Democratic Party in 1924, contrary to false claims made in the 21st century.[3]
Supreme Court justices
Hugo Black[edit]
In 1921, Hugo Black (D) successfully defended E. R. Stephenson in his trial for the murder of a Catholic priest, Fr. James E. Coyle. Stephenson’s daughter had converted to Catholicism and married a man of Puerto Rican descent, and Coyle had conducted the wedding. Black got Stephenson acquitted in part by arguing to the jury that Puerto Ricans should be considered black under the South’s one drop rule. Black joined the Ku Klux Klan shortly afterwards, in order to gain votes from the anti-Catholic element in Alabama. He built his winning Senate campaign in 1926 around multiple appearances at KKK meetings across Alabama. Late in life, Black told an interviewer:
“At that time, I was joining every organization in sight! … In my part of Alabama, the Klan was engaged in unlawful activities … The general feeling in the community was that if responsible citizens didn’t join the Klan it would soon become dominated by the less responsible members.”[4]
News of his membership was a secret until shortly before he was confirmed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1937. Black later said that joining the Klan was a mistake, but he went on to say, “I would have joined any group if it helped get me votes.”[5][i]
On the Supreme Court, Black wrote the opinion in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Black also wrote the opinion in Everson v. Board of Education, a key case about the separation of church and state.[6] Some have argued that his views on the separation of church and state were influenced by the Klan’s anti-Catholicism.[7][8][9]
Despite his former Klan membership, Black joined the Supreme Court’s unanimous decisions in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), which outlawed judicial enforcement of racially restrictive covenants, and Brown v Board of Education, which outlawed school segregation. Justice William O. Douglas would write years later that at least three (and possibly as many as five) justices were originally planning to rule school segregation constitutional, but Black had actually been one of the four justices planning to strike down school segregation from the beginning of the Brown case.[10]
Members of the Senate[edit]
Theodore G. Bilbo[edit]
Theodore G. Bilbo (D), the U.S. Senator for Mississippi, stated he was a member of the KKK .[11]
Joseph E. Brown[edit]
Joseph E. Brown (D), the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a key supporter of the KKK in his home state.[12]
Robert C. Byrd[edit]
Main article: Robert Byrd § Race
Robert C. Byrd (D), the U.S. senator for West Virginia, a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he later said he officially left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[13] Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate. Byrd later said joining the Klan was his “greatest mistake,”[14] and after his death, the NAACP released a statement praising Byrd, acknowledging his former affiliation with the Klan and saying that he “became a champion for civil rights and liberties” and “came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda”.[15] In a 2001 interview, Byrd used the term “white niggers” twice during a national television broadcast. The full quote ran as follows: “My old mom told me, ‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that. There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I’m going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I’d just as soon quit talking about it so much.” Byrd later apologized for the phrase and admitted that it “has no place in today’s society,” and did not clarify the intended meaning of the term in his context.[16][17]
John Brown Gordon[edit]
John Brown Gordon (D), the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a founder of the KKK in his home state of Georgia.[12]
James Thomas Heflin[edit]
James Thomas Heflin (1869–1951) (D), the U.S. Senator for Alabama, was suspected of being a member of the KKK.[18]
Rufus C. Holman[edit]
Rufus C. Holman (R), the U.S. Senator for Oregon, was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Oregon, serving as an officer in that organization.[19]
Rice W. Means[edit]
Rice W. Means (R), the U.S. Senator for Colorado, was the directing head of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado.[20]
John Tyler Morgan[edit]
John Tyler Morgan (D) (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907, the U.S. Senator for Alabama (March 4, 1877, to June 11, 1907), was the Grand Dragon of the KKK in Alabama.[21][22]
Edmund Pettus[edit]
Edmund Pettus (July 6, 1821 – 1907) (D), the U.S. Senator for Alabama (1896 to 1907), was also a Grand Dragon of the KKK in Alabama.[23]
William Bliss Pine[edit]
William Bliss Pine (1877–1942) (R), the U.S. Senator for Oklahoma (March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931), was a Klansman, according to historian Chalmers[24] and the Eufaula Indian Journal.[25][26]
Non-Klan Senators who received support from the Klan[edit]
Lawrence C. Phipps[edit]
The Klan helped elect Lawrence C. Phipps (1862–1958) (R), U.S. Senator for Colorado.[citation needed]
Owen Brewster[edit]
Republican Owen Brewster (1888-1961) received crucial support from the Klan in his election as Governor of Maine (1925-1929), and went on to become a U.S. Congressman, and then U.S. Senator (1941-1952). In the last position he was a close ally of Joseph McCarthy. Former Maine Republican governor Percival Baxter accused Brewster of having been actually inducted into the Klan.
Daniel F. Steck[edit]
Daniel F. Steck (1881–1950) (D), of Iowa, in 1925, with the help of the Klan, defeated Senator Smith W. Brookhart (1869–1944) (R), a progressive. Because the vote was close, there was a recount, and Steck was the victor. Brookhart contested it. Steck reportedly had no Klan connections, except that he enlisted the Klan’s top lawyer and legislative expert, William Francis Zumbrunn (1877–1930), to secure his seat in the 69th Congress (1925–1926). Earlier, Zumbrunn – with lawyer William Pinkney McLean, Jr. (1872–1937) of Fort Worth – helped seat Klan Senator from Texas, Earle Mayfield.[27]
Frederick Steiwer[edit]
In the 1926 Oregon election, the Ku Klux Klan, under the auspices of The Oregon Good Government League, helped Frederick Steiwer (1883–1939) win the Republican primary by spreading word that it was supporting the reelection of his opponent, Senator Robert N. Stanfield (1877–1945) (R). The effort was fueled by White Supremacist (anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic) groups in Oregon in support of the state’s Compulsory Education Act, enacted in 1922, mandating public education; which would have taken effect in 1926; but the Supreme Court, in 1925, struck it down in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.[28][29]
Arthur Raymond Robinson[edit]
Arthur Raymond Robinson (1881–1961) (R), of Indiana, was, on November 2, 1925, characterized by Time magazine was follows: “The New Man. Arthur R. Robinson is only 44. He is an Indianapolis attorney, a ‘good Republican’ but of no particular political importance. He is said to be a good orator. Against him politically is the fact that he supported Governor Jackson in the last election and so, justly or unjustly, he is considered a ‘Klan man.'”[30]
Frank Willis[edit]
According to historian Chalmers, “the Klan supported Frank B. Willis (1871–1928) (R) [of Ohio] not because it liked him, but because it disliked his anti-Klan opponent, Atlee Pomerene (1863–1937) (D), more.[31]
Members of the House of Representatives[edit]
Clifford Davis[edit]
Clifford Davis (D), U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 9th and 10th congressional districts was an active member in Tennessee.
George Gordon[edit]
George Gordon (D), U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 10th congressional district, became one of the Klan’s first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan’s first Grand Dragon for the Realm of Tennessee, and wrote its Precscript, a constitution setting out the organization’s purpose, principles, and the like.[32][33][34][35]
William David Upshaw[edit]
William David Upshaw (D), U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, was an active member in Georgia.[36]
Governors[edit]
Homer Martin Adkins[edit]
Homer Martin Adkins (D), (1890 – 1964) the Governor of Arkansas, was a supporter of the Klan in his home state of Arkansas.[37]
Bibb Graves[edit]
Bibb Graves (D), (1873 – 1942) was the Governor of Alabama. He lost his first campaign for governor in 1922, but four years later, with the secret endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected to his first term as governor. Graves was almost certainly the Exalted Cyclops (chapter president) of the Montgomery chapter of the Klan. Graves, like Hugo Black, used the strength of the Klan to further his electoral prospects.[38]
Edward L. Jackson[edit]
Edward L. Jackson (R), (1873 – 1954) was the Governor of Indiana in 1925 and his administration came under fire for granting undue favor to the Klan’s agenda and associates. Jackson was further damaged by the arrest and trial of Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. When it was revealed that Jackson had attempted to bribe former Gov. Warren T. McCray with $10,000 to appoint a Klansman to a local office, Jackson was taken to court. His case ended with a hung jury, and Jackson ended his political career in disgrace. There is, however, evidence that Jackson joined the KKK himself.[39]
Clarence Morley[edit]
Clarence Morley (R),(1869 – 1948) the Governor of Colorado, was a KKK member and a strong supporter of Prohibition. He tried to ban the Catholic Church from using sacramental wine and attempted to have the University of Colorado fire all Jewish and Catholic professors.[40][41][42][43]
Tom Terral[edit]
Tom Terral (D), ( 1882 – 1946) the Governor of Arkansas, was a member of the KKK in Louisiana.[44][45]
Clifford Walker[edit]
Clifford Walker (D), (1877 – 1954) the Governor of Georgia, was revealed to be a Klan member by the press in 1924.[46][47]
Federal judges[edit]
Elmer David Davies[edit]
Elmer David Davies (D), a federal judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, was a member of the KKK while at university.[48]
Statewide officials[edit]
Lee Cazort[edit]
Lee Cazort (D), the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, was active in the Klan, and openly endorsed the Klan’s platform.[49][50]
John W. Morton[edit]
John Morton (D), the Tennessee Secretary of State, was the founder of the Nashville chapter of the KKK[51]
William L. Saunders[edit]
William L. Saunders (D), the North Carolina Secretary of State, was the founder of the North Carolina chapter.[52]
Local officials[edit]
A notable number of local officials were also Klansmen, resulting in such as the “reign of terror” inflicted by Louisiana by crony “exalted cyclops”:[53] Bastrop mayor, John Killian Skipwith, known as Captain J. K. Skipwith, and Mer Rouge mayor, Bunnie McEwin McKoin, MD, better known as Dr. B. M. McKoin (and whose surname was variously misreported as McCoin, M’Koin and McKoln in media).[54][55]
John Clinton Porter[edit]
John Clinton Porter (D), was mayor of Los Angeles and an early supporter of the Klan in the 1920s.[56]
Benjamin F. Stapleton[edit]
Benjamin F. Stapleton (D), was Mayor of Denver in the 1920s–1940s. He was a Klan member in the early 1920s and appointed fellow Klansmen to positions in municipal government. Ultimately, Stapleton broke from the Klan and removed several Klansmen from office.[57]
Kaspar K. Kubli[edit]
Kap Kubli (R) Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1923 to 1924[54]
David Duke[edit]
David Duke (D/R), a politician who ran in both Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, was openly involved in the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan.[58] He was founder and Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the mid-1970s; he re-titled his position as “National Director” and said that the KKK needed to “get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms”. He left the organization in 1980. He ran for president in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries. In 1989 Duke switched political parties from Democrat to Republican.[59] In 1989, he became a member of the Louisiana State Legislature from the 81st district, and was Republican Party chairman for St. Tammany Parish.[60]
Allegations of Klan membership[edit]
Warren G. Harding[edit]
The consensus of modern historians is that Warren Harding was never a member, and instead was an important enemy of the Klan. While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and no supporting evidence for the claim. Historians reject the claim and note that Harding in fact publicly fought and spoke against the Klan.
The rejected claim was made by Wyn Craig Wade. He stated Harding’s membership as fact and gives a detailed account of a secret swearing-in ceremony in the White House, based on a private communication he received in 1985 from journalist Stetson Kennedy. Kennedy, in turn had, along with Elizabeth Gardner, tape recorded some time in the “late 1940s” a deathbed confession of former Imperial Klokard Alton Young. Young claimed to have been a member of the “Presidential Induction Team”. Young also said on his deathbed that he had repudiated racism.[61][62] In his book, The Strange Deaths of President Harding, historian Robert Ferrell says he was unable to find any records of any such “ceremony” in which Harding was brought into the Klan in the White House. John Dean, in his 2004 book Warren G. Harding, also could find no proof of Klan membership or activity on the part of Harding.[63] Review of the personal records of Harding’s Personal White House Secretary, George Christian Jr., also do not support the contention that Harding received members of the Klan while in office. Appointment books maintained in the White House, detailing President Harding’s daily schedules, do not show any such event.[64]
In their 2005 book Freakonomics, University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner alluded to Warren Harding’s possible Klan affiliation. However, in a New York Times Magazine Freakonomics column, entitled “Hoodwinked? Does it matter if an activist who exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan isn’t open about how he got those secrets?”, Dubner and Levitt said that they no longer accepted Stetson Kennedy’s testimony about Harding and the Klan.[65]
The 1920 Republican Party platform, which essentially expressed Harding’s political philosophy, called for Congress to pass laws combating lynching.[66] Harding denounced lynching in a landmark 21 October 1921 speech in Birmingham, Alabama, which was covered in the national press. Harding also vigorously supported an anti-lynching bill in Congress during his term in the White House. His “comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.”[67]
Payne argues that the Klan was so angry with Harding’s attacks on the KKK that it originated and spread the false rumor that he was a member.[68]
Carl S. Anthony, biographer of Harding’s wife, found no such proof of Harding’s membership in the Klan. He does however discuss the events leading up to the period when the alleged Klan ceremony was held in June 1923:
[K]nowing that some branches of the Shriners were anti-Catholic and in that sense sympathetic to the Ku Klax Klan and that the Klan itself was holding a demonstration less than a half mile from Washington, Harding censured hate groups in his Shriners speech. The press “considered [it] a direct attack” on the Klan, particularly in light of his criticism weeks earlier of “factions of hatred and prejudice and violence [that] challeng[ed] both civil and religious liberty”.[69]
In 2005, The Straight Dope presented a summary of many of these arguments against Harding’s membership, and noted that, while it might have been politically expedient for him to join the KKK in public, to do it in private would have been of no benefit to him.[70]
It was falsely rumored, in his lifetime, that Harding was partly of African-American descent, so he would have been an unlikely recruit for the Ku Klux Klan.[71]
Calvin Coolidge[edit]
One common misconception is that President Calvin Coolidge was a Klan member,[ii] a claim that Klan websites have spread.[72] In reality, Coolidge was adamantly opposed to the Klan. According to Jerry L. Wallace at the Coolidge Foundation, “Coolidge expressed his antipathy to the Klan by reaching out in a positive, public way directly to its victims: Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, with whom he had good relations—especially so for Irish Catholics—going back long before the rise of the Invisible Empire . . . [and] sought to highlight their positive achievements and contributions to American life.”[73] Ironically, many Klan members voted for the Republican Coolidge in the 1924 presidential election because the Democratic presidential nominee John W. Davis denounced the Klan at the party’s convention.[3]
Harry S. Truman[edit]
Harry S. Truman, the Democratic politician who became president in 1945, was accused by opponents of having dabbled with the Klan briefly. In 1922, he was running for eastern judge, this being the position for one of three court judges in Jackson County, Missouri. His friends Edgar Hinde and Spencer Salisbury advised him to join the Klan. The Klan was politically powerful in Jackson County, and two of Truman’s opponents in the Democratic primary had Klan support. Truman refused at first, but paid the Klan’s $10 membership fee, and a meeting with a Klan officer was arranged.[74]
According to Salisbury’s version of the story, Truman was inducted, but afterward “was never active; he was just a member who wouldn’t do anything”. Salisbury, however, told the story after he became Truman’s bitter enemy, so historians are reluctant to believe his claims.[iii]
According to Hinde and Margaret Truman‘s accounts, the Klan officer demanded that Truman pledge not to hire any Catholics or Jews if he was reelected. Truman refused, and demanded the return of his $10 membership fee; most of the men he had commanded in World War I had been local Irish Catholics.[iv]
Truman had at least one other strong reason to object to the anti-Catholic requirement, which was that the Catholic Pendergast family, which operated a political machine in Jackson County, were his patrons; Pendergast family lore has it that Truman was originally accepted for patronage without even meeting him, on the basis of his family background plus the fact that he was not a member of any anti-Catholic organization such as the Klan.[75] The Pendergast faction of the Democratic Party was known as the “Goats”, as opposed to the rival Shannon machine’s “Rabbits”. The battle lines were drawn when Truman put only Goats on the county payroll,[76] and the Klan began encouraging voters to support Protestant, “100% American” candidates, allying itself against Truman and with the Rabbits, while Shannon instructed his people to vote Republican in the election, which Truman lost.[77][76]
Truman later claimed that the Klan “threatened to kill me,[78] and I went out to one of their meetings and dared them to try”,[79] speculating that if Truman’s armed friends had shown up earlier, violence might have resulted. However, biographer Alonzo Hamby believes that this story, which is not supported by any recorded facts, was a confabulation based on a meeting with a hostile and menacing group of Democrats that contained many Klansmen, showing Truman’s “Walter Mitty-like tendency … to rewrite his personal history”.[80] Sympathetic observers see Truman’s flirtation with the Klan as a momentary aberration, point out that his close friend and business partner Eddie Jacobson was Jewish, and say that in later years Truman’s presidency marked the first significant improvement in the federal government’s record on civil rights since the post-Reconstruction nadir marked by the Wilson administration.[v]
See also[edit]
- 1924 Democratic National Convention#”Klanbake” meme, a false claim
- History of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
- Ku Klux Klan in Canada
- Ku Klux Klan in Inglewood, California
- Ku Klux Klan in Maine
- Ku Klux Klan in Oregon
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Ku Klux Klan in Canada
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The Ku Klux Klan is an organization that expanded operations into Canada, based on the second Ku Klux Klan established in the United States in 1915. It operated as a fraternity, with chapters established in parts of Canada throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. The first registered provincial chapter was registered in Toronto in 1925 by two Americans and a Canadian. The organization was most successful in Saskatchewan, where it briefly influenced political activity and whose membership included a member of Parliament, Walter Davy Cowan
Background[edit]
See also: Slave and free states and Union (American Civil War)
The conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865 resulted in the termination of the secessionist movement of the Confederate States of America and the abolition of slavery.[1] The United States entered a period of Reconstruction, during which the infrastructure destroyed during the civil war would be rebuilt, national unity would be restored, and freed slaves were guaranteed their civil rights with the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments.[2]
In December 1865, six veterans of the Confederate Army established the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.[3]
Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) and Andrew Johnson (1865–1869) undertook a moderate approach to Reconstruction, but after the 1866 election resulted in the Radical Republicans controlling the policy of the 40th United States Congress, a harsher approach was adopted in which former Confederates were removed from power and freedmen were enfranchised.[4] In July 1868, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, addressing citizenship rights and granting equal protection under the law.[5]
The 1868 presidential election victory by Ulysses S. Grant, who supported Radical Republicans, further entrenched this approach.[6] Under his presidency, the Fifteenth Amendment to the constitution was passed, prohibiting federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.[7] This was followed by three Enforcement Acts, criminal codes protecting African Americans and primarily targeting the Ku Klux Klan. It was the third act, also known as the “Ku Klux Klan Act”, which resulted in the termination of the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 and prosecution of hundreds of Klan members.[8]
The release of the film The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith in 1915, glorifying the original Ku Klux Klan using historical revisionism, stoked resentment among some citizens and riots in cities where it screened.[9] The day before Thanksgiving in 1915, William Joseph Simmons and 15 of his friends established the second Ku Klux Klan atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, ceremonially burning a cross to mark the occasion.[10]
Expansion into Canada
In March 1922, an African American man named Matthew Bullock fled North Carolina after the Ku Klux Klan had stated he was a wanted man, accusing him of inciting riots.[11] His brother had been killed by Klansmen, who the Toronto Star reported at the time had “threatened to send robed riders to fetch Bullock and whisk him back to the American south”.[11]
On 1 December 1924, C. Lewis Fowler of New York City, John H. Hawkins of Newport, Virginia, and Richard L. Cowan of Toronto signed an agreement to establish the Knights of Ku Klux Klan of Canada.[12] Funding responsibilities for the provincial organization were split equally among them, and each was a founding Imperial Officer of the Provincial Kloncillum, the governing body of the organization.[12] Fowler travelled to Canada on 1 January 1925 to officially establish the organization.[12] Cowan was the Imperial Wizard (president), Hawkins the Imperial Klaliff (vice-president) and Chief of Staff, and Fowler the Imperial Kligrapp (secretary).[12] They also split the organization’s income equally.[12] Fowler left Canada in 1926.
During the mid 1920s, Ku Klux Klan branches were established throughout Canada. According to historian James Pitsula, these groups observed the same racial ideology but had a narrower focus than those in the United States, primarily to preserve the “Britishness” of Canada with respect to ethnicity and religious affiliation.[11] The Ku Klux Klan of Canada made efforts to distinguish itself from the American organization, which used a “spectacular level of violent criminality” against black Americans and the white Americans who supported them.[13] Hawkins stated at a rally in London that the Canadian Ku Klux Klan was not lawless, that it abided by the laws of the nation, but that it would promote changing those laws it didn’t support or did “not meet the needs of the country”.[13] A 1925 photograph of garbed Canadian Klansmen published by the London Advertiser demonstrated that the Klan robes in Canada differed from those in the United States by including a maple leaf opposite the cross insignia.[13]
One of the most prominent groups was the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada, whose main principles of white supremacy and nationalism required members to pledge that they were white, gentile, and Protestant.[11] Organizers stated that the Ku Klux Klan was a Christian organization with “first allegiance to Canada and the Union Jack”, disqualifying Jews from membership because they are not Christian, and Roman Catholics because of the Anti-Catholic belief that Catholics first allegiance is to the Pope.[14]
Although the KKK operated throughout Canada, it was most successful in Saskatchewan, where by the late 1920s its membership was over 25,000.[11] Historian Allan Bartley states that this success was a result of opposition to liberal Government of Saskatchewan policy established by the entrenched Saskatchewan Liberal Party, which had held power in the province since its inception in 1905.[11]
In 1991, Carney Nerland, a professed white supremacist, member of the Ku Klux Klan and leader of the Saskatchewan branch of the Church of Jesus Christ–Christian Aryan Nation killed a Cree man, Leo LaChance, with an assault rifle. LaChance had entered Nerland’s Prince Albert, Saskatchewan pawn shop to sell furs he had trapped.[15]
Operations[edit]
Although distancing itself from the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, the Ku Klux Klan in Canada was engaged in various campaigns threatening those who didn’t conform to the Klan’s beliefs.[13] It resulted in significant property damage throughout Canada. Although there is little proof,[16] the Klan was blamed for the razing of Saint-Boniface College in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, which resulted in 10 deaths,[13] destruction of the building, and loss of all of its records and its library.
Before the official establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, Catholic churches and property throughout Canada were targets of arson, notably the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City in 1922.[17] These were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan.[17]
Other violent acts associated with the Klan include the 1926 detonation of dynamite at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Barrie.[18][11] The man who placed the dynamite in the church’s furnace room was later caught, and admitted that he did so on orders from the Ku Klux Klan.[19] The Ontario media, politicians and other civic authorities, and religious leaders spoke out against such violence and against the Klan.[17] By the winter of 1926, Klan membership in Ontario was declining.[17]
Westward expansion[edit]
In 1926, American Ku Klux Klan organizers Hugh Finlay Emmons and Lewis A. Scott from Indiana established a Klan organization in Saskatchewan.[17] They spent most of early 1927 travelling throughout the province, establishing local Klan branches and selling memberships for CA$13 per individual.[20] They also spread Klan propaganda and burned crosses, and in July and August 1927 they made another tour of the province.[20]
John James Maloney (left) worked to revive the Ku Klux Klan in Saskatchewan after Hugh Finlay “Pat” Emmons (right) and Lewis A. Scott fled the province with the organization’s money.
Soon after, they fled Saskatchewan with the funds they had raised, leaving the Ku Klux Klan floundering.[20] Hawkins and John James Maloney, a seminarian from Hamilton who denounced Romanism, moved to Saskatchewan to revive the organization.[20][21] Under his leadership, the organization raised over CA$50,000 in membership fees and claimed to have registered over 70,000 members.[20] Fees were set at $15 per member annually.[22] Many of its members were supporters of the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan frustrated with the success of the Liberal Party as a result of strong support from Catholics.[23]
All our troubles, all the sedition, plotting and plans against the national school system are hatched in Quebec.
—Reverend S. P. Rondeau, 10 January 1929[24]
Under the leadership of Hawkins and Maloney, the Klan became increasingly anti-Catholic and anti-French, and campaigned against the separate school system[20] with the slogan “one nation, one flag, one language, one school”.[25] They opposed “crucifixes on public school walls, nuns teaching in public schools, and the teaching of French in public schools”, blaming these issues on Quebec.[26] (The Constitution Act, 1867 guaranteed provincial rights to education and language, protecting minority rights, including those of Catholics and French-speaking citizens.) At a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan on 10 January 1929 at the Regent Hall in Saskatoon, reverend S.P. Rondeau stated that Quebec was attempting to establish Saskatchewan as a second French-speaking province.[24] Newly founded local chapters would announce their presence to the community with a ritual cross burning.[27]
This became an issue in the 1929 provincial election, ultimately resulting in a coalition government led by James Thomas Milton Anderson of the Conservatives after the Liberals failed to form a minority government. The Ku Klux Klan would appear at many election rallies for James Garfield Gardiner, burning crosses.[22] Gardiner accused Anderson and the Conservatives of being associated with the Ku Klux Klan or seeking its support, but never provided proof.[22] Klan membership included Conservatives, Liberals, and Progressives,[27] and the provincial treasurer (“Klabee”) was Walter Davy Cowan, Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Long Lake during the 17th Canadian Parliament from 1930 to 1935.[28] Once they formed the government, the Conservatives condemned the Ku Klux Klan, but their opponents persisted in linking them to the organization until the 1934 provincial election.[22] The Conservative government amended the School Act to ban the display of religious insignia in educational settings, and also amended the provincial immigration policy.[27] The government also terminated recognition of teaching certificates granted by Quebec, effectively halting the recruitment of teachers from that province.[29]
Alberta[edit]
Maloney married Leorna Miller, the daughter of William Willoughby Miller who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Biggar during the 7th Saskatchewan Legislature led by Anderson.[30] In his book Rome in Canada he states that the Anderson government forgot him, and “in their pride and conceit” took credit for much of his effort.[30] Bitter at the rejection, he made visits to Ontario then moved to Alberta in 1930, and spoke at 20 engagements that spring at the request of Orange Lodge Grand Master A.E. Williams.[30] Finding competition against William Aberhart (“Bible Bill”) in Calgary difficult, he moved to Edmonton, which he stated was the “Rome of the West” because of its many Roman Catholic properties.[30]
He restored the Alberta Ku Klux Klan, which had been established in 1923 but was poorly organized and managed. He declared himself the Imperial Wizard, and sent for experienced Klan organizers from British Columbia and Saskatchewan.[30] Travelling to as many as five engagements a day in rural areas to establish Klaverns and collect CA$13 membership fees, the Klan sometimes encountered strong opposition, requiring police protection at Gibbons and Stony Plain, facing a volley of thrown rocks at Chauvin, and prevented from disembarking a train at Wainwright.[30] The Klan carried out the same activities in Alberta as in the rest or North America, although they were somewhat less overtly violent. For example, there was only one tarring and feathering reported in Lacombe during this era, to which the Klan denied involvement. As their main focus in Alberta was to marginalize Catholic, Jewish, and non-Anglo-Saxon white people, they led boycotts of Catholic businesses, targeted francophones with intimidation tactics, and influenced municipal elections to oust politicians they deemed to be “papist sympathizers.”[31]
The Klan celebrated the 1931 election of Edmonton mayor Dan Knott by burning a cross. On three separate occasions, Knott granted the Klan permission to hold “picnics” and erect burning crosses on the Edmonton Exhibition grounds, now known as Northlands.[32] The Klan published a newspaper The Liberator in downtown Edmonton during the early 1930s.[32] Klan meetings were held in the Memorial Hall of the Royal Canadian Legion in Edmonton.[33]
The Ku Klux Klan received its charter in September 1932, but questions about the organization’s funds led to disputes about Maloney’s leadership.[30] On 25 January 1933, he was convicted of stealing legal documents from the office of a lawyer who had opposed incorporation of the Ku Klux Klan, and on 3 February he was convicted of insurance fraud.[30]
The downfall of Maloney was chiefly responsible for the discontinuation of the Ku Klux Klan in Alberta.[30]
Policy and propaganda[edit]
In a letter to the Manitoba Free Press on 8 May 1928, J. W. E. Rosborough, the Imperial Wizard for Saskatchewan, stated that the creed of the Saskatchewan Ku Klux Klan was a belief in Protestantism, separation of church and state, one public school system, just laws and liberty, law and order, freedom from mob violence, freedom of speech and press, higher moral standards, gentile economic freedom, racial purity, restrictive and selective immigration, and pure patriotism.[34] T.J. Hind, the reverend of First Baptist Church in Moose Jaw, stated that one of the purposes of the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan was for the protection of the physical purity of current and future generations.[14]
Klansmen believed that Canada’s immigration policy made it the dumping ground of the world.[14] They falsely stated that of Regina’s 8,000 recent immigrants, only 7 were Protestants.[14] They promoted a “100 percent Canadian” policy to deter the declining influence of Protestant Anglo-Saxon Canadians as a result of increasing immigration from Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, which was primarily Roman Catholic and Jewish.[22]
In October 1927 at a Ku Klux Klan meeting held at Regina City Hall, Maloney said he had received a letter from Plutarco Elías Calles, the President of Mexico, in which Calles stated that Mexico had an illiteracy rate of 80% as a result of the Roman Catholic Church’s control of the educational system over the previous 400 years.[35] (Calles was staunchly anti-clerical, and during his presidency hostility to Catholics and the enactment of the Calles Law resulted in the Cristero War.) Maloney described the Roman Catholic Church as “that dark system which has wrecked every country it got hold of”, and campaigned to radically change Canada’s immigration laws to restrict entry of Catholics.[35] Klan organizers stated that the organization was pro-Protestant and did not discriminate based on political or religious affiliation, but was established to save Canada.[14]
Klansmen stated that the organization did not receive fair treatment from the media, and that they were willing to establish their own news presses to disseminate facts about the organization.[14]
Membership[edit]
In July 1927, a Klan organizer claimed that there were 46,500 members in Saskatchewan.[14] By late 1927, there were 2,300 members of the Ku Klux Klan in Moose Jaw.[35]
Later activities[edit]
Allan Bartley notes that despite the decline of the Klan in Canada in the 1930s, a number of members turned to the emerging Nazi movement before it fell out of favour during World War II.[36][37][38]
The Klan made a brief resurgence between the 1960s and 1980s, amidst the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the adoption of official multiculturalism in Canada. Klan Grand Wizard David Duke made recruitment attempts in Canada, with followers setting up a new Toronto chapter in 1981 led by James Alexander McQuirter. However, McQuirter and his followers were jailed for various criminal activities, leading to another decline in the Canadian Klan.[36][37][38]
In the early 21st century, remnant members later moved to other supremacist groups and on to the Internet.[36][37]
See also[edit]
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