The Ku Klux Klan is now recruiting children as well as returning troops from overseas in an effort to build dwindling membership across the United States. They plan to begin military-combat training under the instruction of the troops, according to Barcroft Media.
The Loyal White Knights faction is now officially preparing for a race war. At a rally in a secret West Virginia location, one Klan member said, “We’re going to do something a little different for probably the next couple of years to try to get our men and women ready for the upcoming battle that we’re about to take upon us, and this is something that no Klan has ever done and we’re going to start it. All our boys are finally coming back home from the military, which is good, and we’re getting a lot more military members to join.”
One strategy they are using to enlist children is to drop leaflets and candy in neighborhood driveways and they are also using social media to target teens.
In an interview with a Klan family, one mother said she thinks black and Hispanic students are taking drugs from their parents and selling them to kids at school. She said, “Their parents are so worried about doing drugs than providing for their own children, that’s what I think.”
Leaders of the Klan say that military members will train other members in hand-to-hand combat and survival skills.
Klansman James Moore believes the U.S. will run out of money and that will provide the opening they are looking for to take over. “Black people, white people, we’re all getting tired of the government, and pretty soon you can see the government collapse. And when the government keeps on sending their money over to Israel, and it finally collapses, you can see the Klan take it back and make this nation the way it needs to be.”
Moore added, “We got police officers in the Klan, we got lawyers, we got doctors – your next-door neighbor could be in the Klan, and you’d never know it.”
The KKK has approximately 6,500 members nationwide. As criminologist, civil rights lawyer and Klan expert, Brian Levine points out in the video, the threat of the KKK taking over the U.S. is unlikely, but he warns, “What we do have to worry about is individuals, autonomous selves or duos committing terrorist acts on their own because they get training, they get inspiration and they get know-how from being in the orbit of these hate groups.”
Levine added that the biggest threat comes from individual members trying to make a name for themselves, rather than an army affiliated with the group.
A Klan official stated, “The ultimate goal for myself is to have our membership get to the point where we can affect change through the political system. Right now, our numbers aren’t quite good enough.”
The members are confident their strategy and message will attract new followers.
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