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The Spectacle Blog
ACORN’s rebranding strategy has been tried before. The Ku Klux Klan used it, according to historian Michael Zak, author of Back To Basics For The Republican Party.
Zak writes at BigGovernment.com:
ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from intimidating some bank executives, ACORN does not engage in violence, but like the KKK it has vote fraud as a top priority.
There have been two distinct organizations known as the Ku Klux Klan. The modern-day KKK, with whom most people are familiar, was spawned in 1915 by the Hollywood epic Birth of a Nation, premiered at the White House by a Democrat president, Woodrow Wilson. Cross-burning and other rituals were actually inspired by the movie. The Klan came to dominate the Democratic Party so thoroughly that the 1924 Democratic National Convention was known as the “Klanbake.”
It is not so much this Klan 2.0 that ACORN parallels as the original version. Established in 1866, Klan 1.0 was an affiliate of the Democratic Party during the Reconstruction era. Named for “kuklos,” the Greek word for “circle,” the Ku Klux Klan waged war against the Republican Party in the former Confederate states. Goofy titles for its commanders such as Wizard and Cyclops were intended to disguise the fact that the KKK was a paramilitary organization. In some areas, leadership of the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party were indistinguishable.
Democrats used the Klan to suppress their political opposition, with vote fraud and intimidation and violence. Klansmen aimed at African-Americans, nearly all Republicans in those days, and at white Republicans who tried to help them. Once threatened by the KKK, Republicans could in many cases save their lives only by publicly swearing allegiance to the Democratic Party. According to a southern governor, “Few Republicans dare sleep in their houses at night.”
“The suppression of enough GOP votes could ensure a Democratic victory,” wrote one historian. “There’s no question that Klansmen closely watched the polls” - easy to do before the secret ballot was introduced in the United States in the 1880s. All too often, Republican ballots were not even counted.
Like ACORN, the Ku Klux Klan operated with impunity until Republican politicians and journalists sounded an alarm. In 1869, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKK’s Grand Dragon, ordered the Klan disbanded. Why? The national organization was getting too much attention, so Klansmen would have to soldier on in state-level organizations, such as the Red Shirts in South Carolina and the Men of Justice in Alabama. Nonetheless, most members of these spin-off groups considered themselves to be Klansmen. […]
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Oldefarte| 3.2.10 @ 2:31PM
This guy, Zak, is obviously full of excremment. I am a southerner from birth and never witnessed the outrageous scenerios this described. Sure the Klan existed in the South [and elsewhere], but it's numbers were miniscule and certainly did NOT predominate the southern Democrat Party. That about as moronic as describing all German citizens of 1930-1945 as Nazies! Southerners may be decribed as anti-integrationists, but that does not translate into murderers, and to imply same is simply stupid [and no doubt partisaned liberal fanatisism]. The predominance of the Democrats in the South had nothing to do with the exclusion of Republicans; but simply the fact that conservatism was formerly served by the southern Democrat Party [while the Republican Party was mainly liberal in nature, ie Nelson Rockefeller's et al]. This Zak needs to put his extremist [ie THE CHOSEN ONE] views away since same are nothing but distortion and lies!!!!!
Quartermaster| 3.2.10 @ 3:20PM
The original Klan was started as a joke by three idle former Confederate junior officers when jokeing with each other in the law office waiting room of one of their fathers. The funny names for the officers were part of the clownish atmosphere and general silliness.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was never shown to be the "Grand Wizard" of the Klan, and the Klan had become something its founders never intended, a reaction against the corrupt Republican reconstruction governments. After Hayes was seated as President, the Klan went away because Hayes withdrew the northern Army from occupation of the conquered south. There was no need for southern resistance any longer.
The Red Shorts existed side by side with the Klan, and served much the same purpose in South Carolina. Same with the Men of Justice in Alabama.
Conservatives really need to get a handle on historical truth. You won't accomplish anything if you don't realize that much of what has been taught as history in this country is little more than revisionist lies.
maverick muse| 3.2.10 @ 4:35PM
Good comparison made between ACORN and the KKK, both DNC group think appendages devoted to voter fraud and the corruption of the Judicial Branch to bypass prosecution.
Note well the NY prosecution dropping the ACORN case that "Justice" dismissed subsequent to "Justice" dropping the prepared case against the Philadelphia New Black Panther voter intimidation billy club thugs. Obama's Attorney General Holder was never qualified for that office, has obscene conflicts of interest AGAINST our Constitutional Judicial System, and continually corrupts the AG function, perverting our Judicial System.
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Mike| 3.2.10 @ 6:32PM
Who cares about ACORN? Let talk about Jim Bunning. He is the face of what the extreme right wing really wants to do.
Like what you see?
Andrew B| 3.2.10 @ 8:41PM
By "what the extreme right wing really wants to do", do you mean "hold Congress accountable to the very rules they voted to impose upon themselves?"
Uh, yes, then I like what I see. Or do you believe that the evil Republican minority somehow snuck the paygo legislation thru Congress then somehow compelled President Obama to sign it?
Or do you believe that it was just window dressing, and we are all stupid to believe that politicians should REALLY do what they said?
Mike | 3.2.10 @ 10:45PM
I would love to see an amendment to the Constitution requiring members of Congress to abide by all of the laws they impose on the rest of us.
I'm talking about the folks who would ignore the hard working Americans who lost their jobs and their benefit through no fault of their own to whom Jim Bunning and other right wingers would say "tough luck. Don't you just love the market economy?"
Missy| 3.3.10 @ 7:46PM
There is TARP money available for unemployment benefits--why won't the democrats use it?
Can you say democrat slush fund? Corrupt bastards.
Market economy? Nice try. You Marxist morons have created our outrageously high unemployment rate with your disastrous spending policies--guess you're the ones who don't give a damn about the people. See you on November 2, sucker.
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Tenn Slim| 3.3.10 @ 9:38AM
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RE branding, regardless of the original brander is as common as salt. KKK has done it, early Mudwumps, early Progressive Liberals, Democrats, GOPers, late 20th century Liberals, Carterites, Clintonites, and yes Reagonites, all do this.
So, what are we to think.
1. READ THE D.... history sites on the net. There is more FACTUAL data here than in any late 20th Century text books.
2. Educate your minds. It is not sufficient anymore to simply re gurgitate net sites trash statements. The stakes are simply too high.
3. IF you desire to be free to say what is on your mind, on any FUTURE NET SITE, then for goodness sake, understand the rules. We, the USA Electorate is done and done with the Congressional and OBNA layers of BS.
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Time to get with the reality of the world folks, time is not on our side. The abyss yawns and the USA is fast sliding down the slope.
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