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greenman3610 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:45 PM
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Klan rears its hood in my GOP town.

In 1992, this town voted 35% dem. On tuesday, it voted 47% for Obama.
Obviously some people feel threatened.






Daily News/RYAN WOOD While some motorists yelled profanities and others just looked on, Randy Gray, 30, of Midland, stands on the sidewalk along Eastman Avenue near Saginaw Road Wednesday afternoon with an American flag and wearing his Ku Klux Klan uniform. "We have a constitutional right to walk on a public sidewalk dressed anyway we want," Gray said of why he was out walking Wednesday. He added, "I can't allow my country to be ruined, it is not just about Barack Obama, it goes deeper than that." Police said that Gray was exercising his First Amendment right and was not breaking the law.



http://www.ourmidland.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/1353688.txt

As he talked, one woman in a moving car rolled down her window and yelled, "You're living in a world that doesn't exist any more."

Gray was yelled at by several other passing motorists, including one woman who screamed profanities.

Gray said he is a member of the KKK, but would give no further information about the organization or the number of members in Midland County. He has been connected with the KKK previously, submitting several shows titled "This is the Klan," to Midland Community Television in 2005.

He said he wasn't walking the sidewalk just because Sen. Barack Obama won Tuesday's presidential election.

"I feel white people feel more oppressed," he said. "We're basically told as white people we can't have any organizations. We're ruled by communists.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:46 PM
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1. Run that fucker over.
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JustFiveMoreMinutes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:47 PM
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2. For a second I thought that was Todd in his RNC paid for clothes!
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:48 PM
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3. Ugh. I was hoping that wasn't Midland, Michigan.
As a native Michigander, I hate to see this.

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:50 PM
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4. Oh, the poor dear is oppwessed
Goodness, what is this country coming to when a man can't even burn a cross on somebody's lawn anymore? Poor Mr. Gray. He should change his name to White. Lily White. Like his liver.
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B3Nut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:54 PM
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5. "we can't have any organizations....ruled by communists"
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :spray:

Good God, that's hilarious! There you have it folks...concentrated burning stupid on full display for all to see! Indeed, he is well within his First Amendment free-speech rights, reprehensible and breathtakingly stupid as his speech is.

Keep right on flappin' your yap, Mr. Gray...let the world know just how mind-numbingly stupid you and those who follow your ossified, putrescent ideology are. You're becoming more and more irrelevant as the years go by.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:01 PM
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6. Where do you work Mr. Grey?
We certainly do not want to contribute to your support, do we ? :evilgrin:
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:02 PM
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7. The republican base will become more active now.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:06 PM
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9. And they are quite base...
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:04 PM
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8. Looks like membership might have thinned a bit
Don't you need at least two people to hold a hate rally? lol.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:07 PM
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10. To paraphrase Jake Blues of the Blues Brothers.....
Klansmen? I hate Michigan Klansmen....... (motor revs up, Klansman jumps into the river)


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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:08 PM
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11. I woulda yelled something at this racist prick...
Definitely exercising my first amendment in return! :mad:
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:11 PM
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12. dandy.Wow!
Just Wow.I see he is by himself.
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