Marshall News Messenger Published on March 31, 2008
The United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Monday confirmed holding a meeting in Harrison County on March 1 and apparently take exception to having been associated with neo-Nazis in a recent editorial in The Marshall News Messenger.
"We are not associated with any neo-Nazi groups, that includes National Socialists, Aryans, skinheads, any of them," said a man who identified himself as "Forest Lee," an officer of the local group, in a telephone interview Monday afternoon.
"Lee" called The Messenger in response to an editorial which appeared in the Sunday edition of The News Messenger. The editorial included four pictures said to have been taken during a March 1 Klan rally in Harrison County. The editorial writer pointed out that in one of the pictures "Klan members are using the Nazi salute."
"Lee" contends that the salute is not "Nazi" but is, instead, "an old Klan salute that dates back to 1915."
Before "Lee" called Monday afternoon, an anonymous caller to the newspaper on Sunday left a messageexplaining the difference between the "Klan" and a "Nazi" salutes.
Identifying himself only as being from "the United White Knights," the Sunday caller also said, "We do not associate with any type of neo-Nazi whatsoever. You will never find any type of neo-Nazi flag or paraphernalia in anything we do."
