COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
While the Klu Klux Klan is a nasty and rather ridiculous
organization, as a source of evil in today's world it is minuscule, almost
non-existent.
They were once a true national organization in America, as
was the NAZI-like Bund organization, but today they are few in few places and
virtually unseen.
It seems to me almost a distraction from our many far more
terrible events in the world to spend time on what today is a kind of goofy
club for people with various degrees of mental problems.
Actually, it might be said that the modern KKK almost serves
a slightly beneficial purpose in bringing such people together into one
organization rather than let them all go their various ways, and that
organization today is thoroughly penetrated by government agents, a task the
creepy FBI of J. Edgar Hoover in his heyday scrupulously avoided. After all,
Hoover wouldn’t even employ black agents.
On the measure of threats, the KKK today is close to
non-existent.
Hate and twisted minds will never cease to be until science
either re-engineers the human brain or replaces it with robots.
You must always take account of perspective in such social
phenomena. America's militarized local police alone kill between 1,000 and
1,500 citizens every year, injuring several times that number.
Americans murdering Americans has ranged over recent decades
between 25 and 40 thousand each year. By the way, roughly half of that murder
is black-on-black in America's dreadful ghettos.
The President of the United States signs off regularly now
on death-squad killings. Thousands have died this way with no charges, no
trial, and no voice, drones and computer operators being the only difference
from the old Argentine junta dropping people out of helicopters.
America killed more than a million people in Iraq and pretty
much destroyed one of the Mideast's most advanced and promising lands. It would
have become a true democracy before too long under prosperity and a growing
middle class. Today it is divided wreck.
America and its friends have created a living hell in Syria
by supplying, training, and infiltrating lunatic factions into a beautiful and
once relatively peaceful land, killing 200,000 and seeing millions of refugees
created, refugees they do not even try to help.
Libya is a flaming wreckage today thanks to America and its
spineless European associates.
And only four decades ago, America walked away from a true
holocaust it created in Vietnam, 3 million dead from napalm and carpet bombing
and fragment bombs and land mines and countless tons of Agent Orange.
Its blundering interference in Cambodia saw a neutral
government fall and another million innocents die in the Killing Fields.
America’s quasi-colony in the Middle East just killed 2,200
people including about 500 children using American weapons, and that after a
previous slaughter of about 1,200, and still they blockade the poor survivors
and make weekly threats.
There are many more statistics I could cite, but truly the
KKK is about as important as slipping on a banana peel as a source of genuine
danger.
