God Bless The Ku Klux Klan Analysis

MILLERSBURG — While offensive to some, local law enforcement officials say their best advice to residents is to simply ignore and pitch what appears to be white supremacist propaganda that is making its way around Holmes County.

Last week, the Millersburg Police Department and Holmes County Sheriff's Office received several calls from residents concerned about fliers, packaged into ziplock baggies with candy, discovered in local lawns.

The printed materials calls on readers to embrace white pride and the white culture. Critical of illegal immigrants and all other races, the fliers provide phone numbers and the web address for the East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire. One bears the phrase, “God bless the Ku Klux Klan.”

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And, while Estill acknowledges “it does fall under free speech,” and falls short of crossing the line to illegal, he and Graciella are organizing a response.

He cites Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who in the 1927 Whitney v. California opinion, wrote, "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

To that end, he said, they are crafting a written statement “to be circulated among the good people of Holmes County … to say this is disgusting and deplorable and we don't tolerate this type of behavior.” They hope to get the support of local civic organizations, church groups, governments and law enforcement “to show the unity of the community in opposition to this.”

The materials, he said, are just as likely to have come from within Holmes County as from