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Anyone with a flicker of IQ would be repulsed by the content of the Coeur d’Alene fliers. They 
depict a Caucasian woman with the message: “Love your white race.” Think about it. How lacking in common sense or a meaningful life would you have to be to read that vile foolishness and be persuaded to dial the Aryan Nations’ contact number? There’s a certain satisfaction to sticking these clods with littering. But prosecutors no doubt were correct in dropping charges against Paul R. Mullet, Kevin B. McGuire and Todd N. Weston. Mullet, a veteran racist activist, reacted to the decision as if he had won White Supremacist of the Year. “We know we were in the right and that the Coeur d’Alene Police Department wasted time, money and resources … .” Gag me. Mullet is so lucky to live in such a tolerant nation. If being ignorant were a crime, these racist mopes would be doing life without parole/Doug Clark, SR. More here.
Question: Do you understand why it’s necessary under the First Amendment to allow undesireables like Aryan Nations followers to litter your lawn with hate material?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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nic on December 14 at 9:00 a.m.
If they clipped it under my windshield wiper or tucked it between the door and door frame of my house… I could understand. That’s what everybody else does with their political or advertising handouts (with the exception of the CDA Press’ blue bag).
But sticking it in a plastic baggie with a rock to weight it? In my mind… littering.
idawa on December 14 at 9:20 a.m.
I was having lunch with a former co-worker on Saturday here in Seattle and he asked me if I ever get back to Cd’A and then he followed that up with the statement that he hears that the aryans are back, etc… Seems the word about your “little problem” is spreading and that even those without any connection to Idaho at all are noticing.
spokelooneh on December 14 at 10:19 p.m.
That “little problem” with racists never really went away.