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| Far More People Claim Alien Abduction Than KKK Membership |
| 2016-03-02 |
| [DAILYCALLER] When Donald Trump failed to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke on CNN Sunday, the notorious racist group suddenly became one of the major issues of the campaign cycle. Fellow Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has skewered Trump’s dithering response and the media has been relentless in its covering of the controversy. Some, like Rush Limbaugh, have even speculated that the reason the Republican front-runner wavered on denouncing the Klan is because he didn’t want to alienate any of his supporters. While there is a lot of present concern over the Klan, the group is in reality incredibly small and irrelevant. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the KKK only boasts about 3,000 members. To put this in perspective, far more people believe they have been abducted by aliens than claim allegiance to the Klan. Hundreds of thousands of Americans believe they have been taken by extraterrestrials. One support group for alien abductees says it receives 1500 reports per year of involuntary UFO contact. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 I would not know when Duke left the KKK but I know he continued to openly profess the same general beliefs he did when he was in it for many more years afterward (he probably does still, but since he's not running to be governor of my state anymore I don't have to listen.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-03-02 10:52 |
| #4 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the KKK only boasts about 3,000 members. 2000 of them being on the FBI payroll. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-03-02 08:46 |
| #3 ...the notorious racist group suddenly became one of the major issues of the campaign cycle. 'Suddenly' without planning or prior knowledge eh ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-02 05:34 |
| #2 David Duke was born in 1950. He joined the KKK in 1974, at age 24. He left the KKK in 1980 - at age 30. For more than 35 years, he has had nothing to do with the KKK. Robert Byrd was born in 1917. He joined the KKK in 1942, at age 25. He left the KKK 1947, at age 30. How much closer of a KKK "career" profile can you get? I guess only Democrats can be "rehabilitated" by the passage of time. Others - like David Duke - not so much. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2016-03-02 04:33 |
| #1 I expect "the K's" have been probed as well. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-02 03:11 |