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Ex-KKK Wizard Duke In Sandpoint Today

Posted by DFO

Sept. 4, 2010 10:03 a.m. • 35 comments

In the Bonner County Bee, reporter Keith Kinnaird reports that David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, will be in Sandpoint today seeking support for a possible presidential campaign (see Aug. 28, Aug. 31 items on Duke Web site). Apparently, Duke posted the announcement on his official website that he will speak on “white civil rights” at America’s Promise Ministries as part of a nation wide tour to discuss “the critical issues facing America and the world and the possibility of entering the Republican primaries for president of the United States,” the Bee story said. Laura Bry, president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force learned about Duke’s visit while checking a social networking site. “It’s all over Twitter,” she told the Bee. More here.

Question: Why would Duke go to Sandpoint to gauge support for his presidential candidacy?

35 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

bayviewbob on September 04 at 6:59 a.m.
Maybe be bought into the media’s hype about the area?
Soaf on September 04 at 7:50 a.m.
Sounds like just another average everyday teabagger rally.
Sisyphus on September 04 at 9:06 a.m.
Isn’t Sandpoint Wasilla south?
Walkabout on September 04 at 9:08 a.m.
Soaf: Yes, of course, because all tea partiers are racist just like all Muslims are terrorists!
Bent on September 04 at 9:15 a.m.
Nice one, Walkabout!!!
Soaf on September 04 at 9:20 a.m.
Yes, of course, because all tea partiers are racist — Walkabout

Couldn’t of said it better myself! Thanks Walkabout!
Soaf on September 04 at 9:23 a.m.
And BTW Walkabout, it’s “Baggers”,,,,, not “partiers”.
Sisyphus on September 04 at 9:42 a.m.
Excellent point walkabout. Folks oughta watch perpetuating negative stereotypes based on race or religion. Oh wait, tea baggers aren’t a race. They have strong racial diversity among their ranks. Or do they? (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA7GvNYAVyY&feature=player_embedded

I can’t imagine why Duke thinks now is a time his supremacist message would resonate.

/sarcasm.
kamm on September 04 at 10:02 a.m.
He’s probably hitting all the ‘safe’ places so his polls will show his popularity. Polls are so reliable, you know.
sue on September 04 at 10:27 a.m.
No, Sis, Sandpoint is not Wasilla south. Bonner county on the other hand….

Love how some will still say that it’s the media hype that perpetuates the myth. America’s Promise Church (doesn’t that sound like a church Sarah Palin would form?) apparently has actually invited the ku klux klan’s grand wizard and actual racist to speak. That’s more than hype and more than a myth, much as I’d like to think otherwise.
bumblebeetuna on September 04 at 10:51 a.m.
Some people just don’t want to be helped. Stupid yokel racists fall into that category. Donating any money to the Duke campaign is the equivalent of lighting your money on fire. I love North Idaho and am saddened by idiot racists.
ZestD on September 04 at 10:58 a.m.
I won’t say messed up things haven’t happened elsewhere in my time on earth, but it was a Sandpoint fellow who told me to “go back the the rez, you f’ing prairie n*gger.”
Sisyphus on September 04 at 11:33 a.m.
ZestD, that’s just demoralizing …for all of us. ]

Sue, aren’t $arah’s parents from Sandpoint? Wasn’t $he born there? That was my reference. I thought Sandpoint WAS in Bonner County. Do you mean Boundary County or the environs around Sandpoint? Out of what town is that militia based? Just doing research.
sue on September 04 at 12:30 p.m.
Palin was born in Sandpoint, and Sandpoint is the county seat of Bonner County. I’ve always felt that the city of sandpoint is far less radical, right-wing speaking, than the whole of the county. And I’m a natural born native local of Sandpoint. America’s promise church, not sure if it is categorized as a militia, but it is on the outskirts of sandpoint, maybe just inside the city limits.
whiteamerica88 on September 04 at 12:31 p.m.
I actually support David Duke for Pres. David stands by his beliefs. He’s no John McCain, a big fake who will say and do anything to get elected. What you see is what you get with David Duke.
Gary D Rhodes on September 04 at 12:50 p.m.
You progressives here are a bunch of hate-filled bigots.

You Soaf, Sis, nic, sue, et al, will not fill my eyes with your viscous hate-filled screeds again.

Bye-bye
Sisyphus on September 04 at 1:03 p.m.
“viscous hate-filled screeds”—yes it does tend to stick.

I don’t hate anyone. I’m just holding the mirror up so you can see in. The image you see is not my responsibility.

Enjoy your weekend.
bcnqrgd on September 04 at 1:20 p.m.
I think David Duke would be a great republican presidential candidate!
Soaf on September 04 at 1:45 p.m.
You Soaf, Sis, nic, sue, et al, will not fill my eyes with your viscous hate-filled screeds again.

Bye-bye — GDR

And that sound you hear folks is the sounds of clicking heels headin’ for the door.

BTW Sis,,,,,,,,, well said….

:-)
Dazzeetrader1980 on September 04 at 1:51 p.m.
Key phrase is “from” Sandpoint. Pallin was born there 15 years go ( two generations)….. kind of a stretch to tie that family to anything but the lake.

Tea partiers have one thing driving them: reduction of taxes.
Nothing about them screams or hints racism. Silly attempt to try that. Blacks generally favor Obama (90%)…but we don’t call them racists. If the tea partiers don’t like taxes ( such as they are)…fine. Don’t try to shift focus just because people of color aren’t joining them in droves. Who joins is the “joiners” issue not the tea party’s.

20 years ago, I’d say N Idaho was fertile for the seeds Duke sews. That’s the only reason he’s showing up.He’s just so WRONG to think things are the same. Even then, it was a small percentage of imported goofs who got the attention. N Idaho ran them out. Ray Butler is dead….so is their movement except for a few still lingering goofballs.

Duke has a right to speak and there is a right to listen. Doesn’t anything but that. Even liberals would say he has that right….or at least they should. In my view Duke’s a pig so I won’t go listen to this batch of illogic. Nothing to learn. He’s an incompetence oaf….but his small group hides in the shadows….where they should be. Every once in a while, they emerge for their beatdown and they go home to wherever. Such is life in America.
brentandrews on September 04 at 2:44 p.m.
ZesD, that’s awful. Yet - the fellow in Sandpoint only reflects in a grunting-and-gesticulating sort of way his government’s continuing racist policies against Native Americans in many areas. I recently read ‘American Indians and the Law’ by N. Bruce Duthu, a Houma Indian, and besides being a good legal primer it’s a fine call to arms providing numerous ways we can counter racist policies, particularly by supporting tribal sovereignty and the tribes’ right to self-rule. One of Duthu’s recommendations is that every elementary school child be taught the history of bloody conflict with the tribes, and particularly what Indian sovereignty means. The book - and perhaps hope - is available here: http://www.amazon.com/American-Indians-Law-Penguin-Library/dp/0670018570
Stickman on September 04 at 3:44 p.m.
Sarcasm never seems to work in print. I learned my lesson long ago.
nic on September 04 at 4:34 p.m.
Sue nailed it. This has nothing to do with Sandpointers being a bunch of inbred racist window lickers (they’re not). It has nothing to do with the tea party or them being nothing but moronic haters of ethnic diversity (they’re not). The only reason David Duke is coming to Sandpoint is the America’s Promise Ministries - which, ironically - has values that are opposed to traditional American ideals, hold promises only to white supremacists, and defiles the word “ministry.”
nic on September 04 at 4:37 p.m.
“You progressives here are a bunch of hate-filled bigots.”

I thought name calling was verboten around here. Hmmm. Guess I was wrong.

“You Soaf, Sis, nic, sue, et al, will not fill my eyes with your viscous hate-filled screeds again.”

Ah, yes… our hate-filled screeds are vastly different than GDR’s hate-filled screeds.

“Bye-bye”

Sweeter words were never spoken.
jdanmike on September 04 at 6:19 p.m.
any of your mindless statements have been lost on me over the past 2 plus years blurking—if you leave— that sound is not hearts breaking!!!
Stickman on September 04 at 7:14 p.m.
I like that jdanmike: good stuff.
kamm on September 05 at 2:37 a.m.
Is he really gone? Is he just teasing us? His comment sounds like transference if I remember my Abnormal Psych.
Shark on September 05 at 3:36 p.m.
Ah! Sisyphus - After reading many of your comments over the past several months and noting the substance contained within I am beginning to understand why your boulder must be getting larger and heavier with each post.
Stickman on September 05 at 4:26 p.m.
Another great post Shark, I liked it.
Stickman on September 05 at 4:41 p.m.
Okay nic, bye bye.
nic on September 05 at 7:28 p.m.
Why you saying bye-bye to me, Stick? I’m not going anywhere. Gary’s the one that stomped off (this time).
Stickman on September 06 at 9:32 a.m.
Sorry nic, I read the post wrong. I apologize. Sometimes I read too fast or misinterpret what was said. That was the case here.
fortboise on September 06 at 2:27 p.m.
I prefer thixotropic screeds to viscous ones. Something that rewards a good squeeze.

As for David Duke running for President, you go boy! Love to see it. How perfect would it be to have the KKK ensure Obama’s re-election.
kamm on September 06 at 4:56 p.m.
@fortboise
Ha ha! I just go it. Viscous vs thaxotropic. You have a sharp eye!

@Sisyphus
I reread your post re: ‘viscous hate filled screeds-yes it does tend to stick’ I totally missed it the first time around; you are quick with a comeback. I could never be that subtle.

BTW My neice is ‘totally’ into ‘totally’ and it’s rubbed off on me-totally.
pleasethinkamerica on September 08 at 11:40 p.m.
@ Mike White: And I’m willing to bet that you would chill with these “Minute Men” who feel they are serving their country. You would also promote anything that would prevent another nationality from entering into the United States, regardless. But Duke makes me puke. For you to support him shows that you would welcome his biased and distorted view of other nationalities. But he wouldn’t have a chance at the seat. He doesn’t meet the qualities of an Anti-Christ either. At least that dude would be welcoming and tolerant. SMH

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