KKK or FBI, which one would you rather have in America?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

A husband and wife chatted as they passed an energy plant in north Texas.

“I hate to be that way, but if it has to be…” the wife said matter-of-factly after she and her husband realized that blowing up the natural gas processing facility would kill many people, including young children at a nearby school.

The year was 1997. The couple belonged a regional extremist group called the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was casing the plant for a Klan operation. Along with two other True Knights, their plan was to build a homemade bomb—like the one used in Oklahoma City two years earlier—and explode it near large storage tanks at the facility. They hoped that the resulting explosion would release a cloud of hydrogen sulfide—so-called “sour gas”—that would kill hundreds of people. The children were just collateral damage.

As grisly as that sounds, it was just the beginning of their plan. The bombing was simply a cover to distract law enforcement while the Klan robbed an armored car of some $2 million on the other side of town. In fact, to add to the chaos and help clear the way for the robbery and getaway, the plot called for detonating a second bomb when law enforcement and first responders arrived at the scene of the explosion.

And the point of the robbery? To raise money to go to war with the U.S. government in the run-up to the millennium, when paranoia among homegrown extremists was rising.

It was no idle talk. “They were building and testing improved explosive devices,” says Special Agent John Fraga, who led the Operation Sour Gas investigation while supervising our North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force and is now the acting head of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center in the FBI Laboratory. “They knew how to rupture the tanks.”

Over time, the Klan has continued to morph and change. Today, it’s a shadow of its brazen, lawless self in the 1950s and 1960s—thanks in large part to the dogged work of the FBI and its partners during that era—but as the Texas case demonstrates, the threat remains.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. "KKK for FBI" - ironic typo kahuna strikes again. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. It's too early and I haven't had my coffee yet. thanks for pointing it out. I fixed it in time

[panzerfaust]

3. True Face of The Klan

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. that's a great graphic addition. thanks

[panzerfaust]

6. Words Fail at times

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. mine certainly fail sometimes; but I'm not the only one that has typo problems

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Here's some "words" from a KKK website:

The IKA is a private Christian organization. In the past the KKK received a Charter from US Congress because of our great moral and good Christian behavior. We will continue to love one another of our own race, culture and future no matter what the devil and his world says about us.

LOL

[madrchsod]

4. the fbi.

[Capitalocracy]

7. Definitely the FBI.

Now ask me about the CIA.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. Instead, let me ask you about the Masad, an agency that hunted down Nazis?

[WhiteTara]

10. we don't have to choose

we have both! What a great country.

It would be wonderful if the FBI got rid of the KKK, but prolly won't.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. you should see their web sites. they read like floower children wrote them

They write of love and peace, nowadays. Still, it's for whites only. The FBI has done a good job of getting rid of domestic terrorism.

[Nikia]

11. Who said that the KKK is better than the FBI

The FBI can have some corrupt elements that may cause injustices in some cases. The whole point of the KKK is to cause injustices.

[bemildred]

14. Neither.

It's like asking "Do you want cancer or HIV?"