
Fliers encouraging people to join the Ku Klux Klan were anonymously delivered over the weekend to homes in several communities in western Southampton Town, including Westhampton Beach and Quogue villages.
Village authorities confirmed this week that the recruitment fliers were found in driveways, inside bags containing rocks to help weigh them down, on both Saturday and Sunday. Southampton Town Police did not return calls this week asking if the fliers were also found in its jurisdiction, though sources say similar materials were discovered in the hamlet of Westhampton and the Village of West Hampton Dunes.
In a press release issued on Monday, Westhampton Beach Village Police said two people, both of whom live on Beach Lane, contacted them after receiving the fliers. On Tuesday, Quogue Village Police reported that an officer on routine patrol spotted five of the fliers left in the driveways of homes on Old Country Road.
No other reports have been filed in either village, though those receiving the fliers might not have called police since, technically, such action is protected under freedom of speech.
The flier criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement, and then invites people to join the KKK. It also includes a North Carolina phone number, the hotline for the Loyal White Knights of the KKK.
Alison Akant, a 60-year-old resident of Manhattan who visits Westhampton Beach in the summer, said someone delivered one of the fliers in her driveway around noon on Sunday. She was one of the two village residents to file a report with police.
“We’re very upset,” Ms. Akant said. “People are concerned. I wonder what the community is going to do and how they are going to react.”
In a prepared release, Westhampton Beach Village Police note that the placing of fliers at the end of driveways is not a crime, regardless of the message contained within. “However,” the released continues, “the throwing of bags on private property can be portrayed as littering in the village code. The Westhampton Beach detectives are investigating these incidents.”
They have also forwarded a copy of the flier to the Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes Unit.
The recent KKK recruitment effort is not the first of its kind targeting Southampton Town. Similar fliers were found on at least two different occasions last year in Hampton Bays, and that effort was eventually linked by authorities to Douglas Munker, a self-described klansman who lives in the hamlet. Those fliers typically contained anti-gay and anti-minority messages, and also encouraged interested parties to join the KKK movement.
Mr. Munker was arrested after he was caught posting KKK recruitment fliers containing anti-immigration and anti-gay messages near an ATM at the Capital One Bank in his hometown. He later pleaded guilty to littering after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.
Staff writer Greg Wehner contributed to this story.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
And yes, Hampton Bays plays into this because it wasn't all that long ago that Southampton Press reported on a resident there who was a defiant Klan member.
This has nothing to do with Donald Trump and his hair or Hillary Clinton and her Emails.
Forget it. Hit the beach. They're nothing.
Seems to me that the area these flyers have reached is now quadruple.
Just a thought.
Please pay attention to what is really going on.
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FLOOR BATTLE...
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Jeers for Pelosi at California Breakfast...
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SARANDON: DNC 'DISGUSTING'...
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Hillary = disgusting.
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Donald Trump = lying sack of ****
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"The devil you know may be better than the devil you don't want to know?"
Trump is not qualified to be President. His private sector experience does not substitute for Clinton's vast -- if imperfect -- public service.
A pretty simple equation if you can open your eyes and mind.
Choose your bully wisely!
Because 4 years is a long time.
The following message, posted on July 25th, has vanished from this thread, as has the message to which it referred. There was no red "violation" notice - - - they both just vanished (although, unlike censored messages to date, my post [and, I assume, Preliator Lives'] remain archived in the "My Comments" section of our accounts.)
What's going on? Your censorship policy is deplorable but at least it has been overt up until now. Have you hired an intern who channels ...more Stalin and "disappears" people?
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"to Preliator Lives:
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"And Hillary has embraced Black Lives Matter which is turning into a terrorist organization, she celebrates their chants about killing cops."----------------------------------
There are a lot of cognitively challenged, fanatical Right-Wingers on this forum but you really are at the head of the pack.
Every word of your post is a despicable, blatant LIE.
Why, I ask again, do you Nutters continue to spew this nonsensical garbage? Seeing your usernames at the foot of your posts is a notice to all that what precedes it is defamatory fiction."
Pathetic.
It is brought to your attention that the editors of the Press are now surreptitiously censoring you, and - - - rather than do something sensible and responsive - - - like PROTESTING THEIR AUTOCRATIC MANIPULATION - - - you knock yourselves out over a lame political analogy.
You are the lemmings of consciousness. All one ...more needs do is hoist a balloon with Hillary's face on it to distract you and you can be walked over a cliff (which is precisely what The Donald is doing.)
Total nears 2,300 for year in Obama's hometown
Black lives matter to seemingly everyone but black men in the inner city.
Chicago. With some of the TOUGHEST Gun Control in the U.S.?
Obama ? - Silence.
Hillary ? - Silence
TRUMP 45.6
HILLARY 44.7
CNN ORC 7/22 7/24 Trump 48 Hillary 45
CBS News 7/22 7/24 Trump 44 Hillary 43
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"RCP AVERAGE TRUMP + 9"
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Your extreme Right-Wing illiteracy is showing.
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NEVER HILLARY CORRUPT B*
We were screwed it really was corrupt and now everyone can see it.
Sanders loyalists bash Hillary nomination, clash with police...
MSNBC Maddow: I Found Top Part of Clinton's Speech 'Shocking and Rude'...
What a joke shes done !
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"MSNBC Maddow: I Found Top Part of Clinton's Speech 'Shocking and Rude'..."
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You, and all the extreme Right-Wing "news" manufactories (like breitbart) are misquoting Ms. Maddow. You can find her comment at around 1:20 on the video clip on the MSNBC site. Clearly, she said "shocking and WIERD" (referring to her opinion that the Hilllary's speech wasn't feminist enough.) But, since "rude" indicates ...more that the speaker so described was offensive - - - as in insensitive and discourteous - - - and "wierd" just means strange - - - breitbart falsely reported the speech - - - and breitbart's fellow propaganda sites all climbed aboard the false representation - - - as did all the enthralled Right-Wing zombies who worship at The Donald's altar.
Like yourself, 27dan.
Mainstream, objective media reported her correctly. (One wonders if the Right-Wing propaganda sites will issue a correction. [Not really.])
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"not true i encourage everyone to go to those sites a judge for yourselves"
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Please, please do, readers. I have supplied the clearest instructions to locating the video that the mad Press censors will permit.
See for yourselves how fanaticism has destroyed objective perception in the extreme Right-Wing. For it, ideology trumps reality every time.
"Breitbart News Network is a politically conservative American news and opinion website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart." and "The Drudge Report is a politically conservative ...more American news aggregation website."
TCM - you can personally disagree, but it's generally accepted that both these websites lean pretty darn far to the right!
As of Jul. 14, 2016.USC/L.A
Hillary Clinton 40.1% Donald Trump 47.4%