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Racist Drops Out of Council Election

By TChris, Section Elections
Posted on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 08:28:15 AM EST
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Doug Hanks abandoned his race for a city council seat in Charlotte after a newspaper revealed that Hanks posted more than 4,000 comments to a white supremacist website over a three week period. Hanks, who had been seeking the Republican nomination, claims he was merely posing as a racist to research a novel he's writing. Hanks found inspiration for his novel in The Turner Diaries, "a racist novel by William Pierce that begins with a truck bombing of FBI headquarters as part of a war against the government."

Hanks says he isn't a white supremacist, but was trying to target the novel to white supremacists to improve sales. That subtle distinction is undermined by Hanks' other antics:

Hanks, who describes himself as a contractor, minister and conservation officer, was active in a debate last winter over whether a Confederate battle flag would be allowed to fly over a public cemetery in Charlotte. In January, he scaled a flagpole and reattached the flag.

Republican Mayor Pat McCrory calls Hanks "a man of total inner hatred in both his heart and soul." Maybe that's the angle Hanks should have played:

VOTE HANKS: A Man of Total Inner Hatred.

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    Racist Drops Out of Council Election | 9 comments (9 topical)
    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#1)
    by MikeDitto on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:00 PM EST
    That's 190 comments per day. I don't think even our most active commenters come even close. That must have been some novel...

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:00 PM EST
    well said Mike. The Turner Diaries is an interesting read, although basically propaganda, it has been suggested:
    The suicide mission to bomb the Pentagon at the end of the book is eerily similar in some people's minds to the suicide bombing of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 by members of Muslim extremist group Al Qaeda. It has been suggested by some that the book only serves as a model of how a local grass-roots movement can overthrow a powerful and tyrannical central government, and that this has led to some groups that do not even agree with the white separatist/supremacist movement using it as a model or blueprint for revolution.
    Link

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#3)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:00 PM EST
    i just read the article. it stated, quite clearly, that he made 4,000 posts over a three year period, or an average of 3.65 per day, not 190. while that doesn't change the pertinent facts, let us not slide down the slope of distortion and misinformation, as our "conservative" bretheran have. that way lies disaster.

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#4)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:00 PM EST
    Well, hell, ppj beats that posting frequency. Maybe he's going to "write a book," too.

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#5)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:00 PM EST
    I see. I guess that bit with the flagpole was research, too.

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:01 PM EST
    The KKK, CCC, Republican party BOND continues its ugly retrogression. Racism is unamerican.

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#7)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:02 PM EST
    Most republicans are not rascist (snicker) but most rascists are republican...

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#8)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:02 PM EST
    No rascism involved when the 'race' is sub human, by definition not a race. Thank god for giving us, god, language, Gonzales, and Enemy Combatants.

    Re: Racist Drops Out of Council Election (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:02 PM EST
    Well he may not be a racist but what's just as bad is that he's a greedy, evil, hate monger. He wishes to make money off of other people's hattred.

    Racist Drops Out of Council Election | 9 comments (9 topical)