Posted on 08/06/2005 4:44:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A city council candidate dropped out of the race Friday after it was disclosed that he posted comments to a white supremacist Internet bulletin board more than 4,000 times.
Doug Hanks said the postings were fictional and designed to win white supremacists' trust as he researched a novel he was writing. He said the book was also meant to appeal to white supremacists.
"I needed information for the book and some other writings I was doing," Hanks told The Associated Press on Friday. "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."
Hanks had filed papers seeking the Republican nomination for one of four at-large council seats, but formally withdrew Friday, said county elections director Michael Dickerson.
Hanks' postings over the past three years were first reported by The Rhinoceros Times, a weekly newspaper. In one June 1 posting, he said blacks should be treated like "rabid beasts."
Hanks said his self-published novel, called "Patriot Act," takes themes from "The Turner Diaries" — the racist novel believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
"I saw how successful these 'Turner Diaries' had been and that was the path to take," he told the AP. White supremacists, he said, "have more of a tendency to word of mouth, to say, 'Hey, you ought to pick this up.'"
Republican Mayor Pat McCrory condemned Hanks.
"He's a man of total inner hatred in both his heart and soul, and it doesn't matter what party he's in," McCrory said.
-Eric
What a moonbat.
We should be glad he was ousted BEFORE he was able to smear the party. What an idiot...
Definitely. We're tolerant of loopy politicians around here, but that's just too much.
LOL. Sure does.
I was tracking down some new technology, many years ago. I found it: C U/C ME. (the technology had only been a rumor, thus far). I entered this chat room, expecting to find putergeeks, instead? No one was chatting AT ALL. I kept Im'ng various people, and they'd ask me if I had it turned on? I said "NO, what is it, and I'm here to learn about it"; and they'd shut that window faster than you can snap your fingers. Finally... someone explained to me.... what the technology was "using", and um, what the people were doing in that room...
Talk about going from bad to worse!
You might recall a few years back when in England, some twit moved to abolish the game for children -- Musical Chairs? (Yes, and I do mean Twit.) She said it was a cruel game. Well, reality can be harsh -- that's real. Musical Chairs is a good game, IMHO. But the ways by which some adults play at "Musical Chairs" in re a particular ideology is what stinks.
People begin joining various "groups" in order to not be the one "left out". It's all about the money flow. Once one group in America began getting "preferences" -- everyone else began groups to get their group into the "money spoils" game.
The same twits who prate that the children's game of Musical Chairs is "cruel" will never be the same twits calling "preferential ideologies and practices" a cruel game -- nope. Even twits want into the "spoils game".
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