2016-10-06 Canada: KKK Recruitment Drive in BC

[Rev.Cambeul]

If Creators want the same MSM exposure, it's up to them to distribute in their local area. Liaise with our Global Office to acquire custom local variants of flyers and other distributable materials.




Someone Has Started a KKK Recruitment Drive in BC

Rachel Browne | Vice News | 6 October 2016

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone-has-started-a-kkk-recruitment-drive-in-bc

Extract: Flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan found outside dozens of homes in Abbotsford, Mission, and Chilliwack, British Columbia this week are stoking fears about a rise in white supremacy.

The flyers, some of which were dropped off in clear plastic bags containing white rice, declare: "Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan! Yes! White Lives Do Matter!" and "We Must Secure the Existence of Our People & A Future for White Children."

They also state a phone number for a "Klan Hotline" with a North Carolina area code and a URL to the KKK recruiting website. According to Global News, it's believed the flyers are being tossed out of a car window in the middle of the night, a recruiting tactic referred to as "Knight Riding" long used by chapters in the US.

This week, police in Albany, Georgia reported that similar "recruiting bags" containing a poster and white rice were found at a number of homes. It follows a string of similar deliveries this month in neighbourhoods across the US — from California to Pennsylvania. Authorities have not been able to determine whether it's part of a concerted national effort.

Over the last year, KKK groups across the US have multiplied, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's report on hate groups.

The KKK took root in Canada around the 1920s, especially in Ontario, BC, and Alberta, but the movement had trouble recruiting members and dissolved quickly over the next decade. Other groups and political parties with white supremacist goals would later emerge across the country such as the Heritage Front and World Church of the Creator.

Mission local Ken Rothe told Global News he couldn't believe when he woke up to find the poster on his driveway. "It's disgusting to be honest," he said. "I'd like to think in Canada this stuff doesn't go on, but here it is right in front of us."

It's still unclear who delivered the posters, and if it's the work of an official KKK group, but local police forces and the RCMP are investigating and have sent the packages out for forensic testing.