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Related: About this forumShould The KKK Be Labeled As A Terrorist Group?
AskROF: Why hasnt the KKK been declared a terrorist group? Or put on the terrorist watch list?
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Should The KKK Be Labeled As A Terrorist Group? (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Mar 2016
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Without a doubt. I find them and their fellow white supremacist groups like the Aryan
Cleita
Mar 2016
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raging moderate
(4,305 posts)1. Yes.
Yes.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)2. What else could they be called.
In my mind, hate groups=terrorists. That is all.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)3. Without a doubt. I find them and their fellow white supremacist groups like the Aryan
Brotherhood and other swastika tatooed, hood wearing types to be very much like the IRA or ISIS, if you will, in how they operate and think. They should be considered subversive groups in the very least and terrorist if they start blowing things up and killing people.
canuckledragger
(1,642 posts)4. They ARE a terrorist group.
That's the purpose they were created for in the first place, and their actions since then prove it.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)5. I really thought they were.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)6. Hate Map | Southern Poverty Law Center.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)7. I can't believe they and the hundreds of other hate groups in the USA haven't been officially
declared terrorist groups.
There is a strong history of terrorist acts by the KKK certainly.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)8. Usually such delays in
identifying are brought about by elected folks who have skeletons in their closets, some of which are not yet dead.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)9. Sad but true.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)10. KKK should be obliterated by Homeland Security