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Timothy Egan
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May 3 - May 18, 2025
At the time, she was too traumatized to go to the police and report a felony committed by one of the most powerful men in the state. And besides, what good would it do? The Kokomo cops were Klansmen. But later, she told investigators her story. “He tried to have intercourse with me,” she said. “He was a beast when he was drunk.”
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They also bombed their own headquarters—and blamed it on Catholics.
They also stormed the capita and called it antifa
Catholics had put up with years of abuse; they’d been called un-American and told they didn’t belong in this country, and certainly not in the state of Indiana. They’d been shunned as dupes of a Roman plot, and slaves of the pope. Now they had their tormentors surrounded, hiding and fearful.
News accounts of the riot would give rise to a story that still lives, that the “Fighting Irish” nickname was forever set by the clash of Notre Dame against the Ku Klux Klan on May 17, 1924.
The Klansman won the primary in a rout. There was no subterfuge, no hidden message; it was all out in the open—a straight choice, “for or against the Klan,” as the Indianapolis Times wrote. “It seems the people want Klan rule,” said Shank, the defeated Republican. “So we’ll give it to them.”
How I felt after the 2024 election
Left behind in Poland were 3.5 million Jews who would be targeted with mass execution in little more than a decade. Also among those denied entry because of restrictions on Jews was the family of Anne Frank.
“I wish to take this occasion to ask just who you are, anyway? You seem to want to be a kind of guardian in general for all of Hoosierdom. I confess that I am not aware of the state of Indiana having created any position of overlord for you.”
Feels like elon musk in our government
evidence, for Stephenson, that people were willing to overlook or outright deny the charges against him.
Like how a convicted felon won office in 2024, amazing what people will ignore when they start worshipping someone
The other goal was to prohibit teaching of evolution. The Klan backed a new law in Tennessee that made it a crime for a public school teacher to explain “any theory that denies the story of Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.”
Banning teachings in schools?
Though the mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they grind.
who had warned against race-mixing and Jewish financial influence,
Funny to take bribes from the KKK but warn against jewish financial influence
Democrats at their annual state meeting vowed to root out every Klansman from their party. Let the Republicans be the standard-bearers of the hooded order.
