KKK Fliers Distributed In Prince William County: Police

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA—For at least the second time in a little more than two months, hate-espousing pamphlets under the imprimatur of the Klu Klux Klan have been found in area neighborhoods, this time in Gainesville and Bristow, according to Prince William County Police.

Most were found in driveways early Sunday morning, and the MO was the same as that used here and across the country the past several years: KKK recruitment pamphlets inside plastic bags weighed down by bird seed.

In Gainesville they were found along residential streets off Lee Highway between Carver Road and Old Carolina Road; in Bristow, Bristow Village No suspicious people or vehicles were reported that night and no specific people appear to have been targeted.

The same thing happened in late April in Triangle, with the fliers touting white supremacy with anti-black and anti-Semitic messages.

Similar incidents have occurred relatively recently in Leesburg, Ashburn and Fredericksburg. The incident in Fredericksburg happened on Martin Luther King Day.

There's little authorities can legally do. Leesburg Police said they received complaints from several people, but inasmuch that there were no threatening messages in the bags, they were protected by free speech. In Frederickburg's incidents, a spokesman said whoever left the fliers could be charged with misdemeanor littering but that's about it.

Several similar incidents have happened across the country, include one last spring in Texas, where recruiting fliers for the Klan were disguised in a bag of candy and distributed to 17 homes in Texas City. Tucked inside the plastic bags of candy was a message written in bold black letters from the Loyal White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan that read: "Help save our race! Join the best or die like the rest" and "Say No To Cultural Genocide."

In August 2016, Gary Monker, who said he is the Exalted Cyclops, or chief officer, in New York of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, told Patch that many people have misconceptions about the organization.

"We're the only organization right now standing up for whites, upholding the second amendment of the Constitution," he said. "We are not a hate group. We are Christian and we're trying to restore America back to what it used to be."

The Klan, though, has long been recognized as one of the most vile hate groups in the United States, judged so by, among others, The Southern Poverty Law Center.

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