Invisible Empire? Racist Police And The KKK's 2014 Nationwide Recruiting Drive | Breitbart Unmasked

Matt Osborne is a fellow blogger over at Breitbart Unmasked asks a very important question. ",,,but what about the extremists wearing badges?"

The Missouri KKK has turned the shooting death of Michael Brown into a recruiting drive and threatened to use violence, but 2014 was already a story of extremists trying to enlarge their organizations. Beginning with a fizzled militia event on the National Mall and graduating into nativist anti-immigration actions during the Summer, this year of reactionary politics also reportedly saw a nationwide recruiting effort by the Ku Klux Klan.

After an initial burst of growth with President Obama’s inauguration, the nation’s oldest and best-known white supremacist movement suffered declining participation in recent years as its agenda was largely sublimated into Republican politics. The once-great ‘invisible empire’ was in need of fresh membership.

One sign of their efforts this year is the uptick in news reports of KKK recruiting flyers. Klan recruiting flyers were already being reported around the country before the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since late July, they have shown up in Havre County, Montana, Karrick, Pennsylvania, Hamilton, Ohio, East Texas, Harris County, Texas, Springfield, Indiana, Eunice, Louisiana, Bentonville, Arkansas, Union County, Florida, and elsewhere.

But ever since the killing of Michael Brown, the Klan has consciously nationalized around the defense of white supremacy in American policing, and the largest Klan organization in that state has risen to national prominence. In late October, flyers from the Missouri Klan organization turned up in Prattville, Alabama.

Invisible Empire? Racist Police And The KKK's 2014 Nationwide Recruiting Drive | Breitbart Unmasked