Article in UK newspaper demands a local response ... [View all]
Sunday, June 8, 2014 an article appeared in The London Daily Mail about an April 26 Ku Klux Klan rally (+ cross-burning and alleged "combat training for armed resistance "
in Mountwood Park near Parkersburg ... Here is the link - http://tinyurl.com/ptrlq8a ... So where was our local media while this was happening and why do we have to read about it in a British newspaper? The Marietta Times just got around to mentioning the April rally in today's (June 10) paper! How does this fully illustrated article written by someone named "Liam Miller of Parkersburg" make more reasonable Appalachian citizens look in the eyes of the nation and the world? We no sooner get done dealing with a slanderous depiction of Marietta, Ohio in the right-wing NYC publication , The City Journal when THIS hate-filled event is put into the spotlight ... If the good people of Wood County don't want to be portrayed as something out of the film "Deliverance" they might want to tell their County Commissioners, Board Members at Mountwood Park, AND Wood County Sheriff Ken Merritt that they are not too pleased with this kind of recognition ... FYI - A News-Sentinel article from February 1, 2013 quoted Sheriff Merritt as signing an "oath" saying that he would "refuse to enforce any federal laws" banning or regulating assault-rifles ... In today's Times article, Merritt says that he is okay with Klan members toting guns in a public park ... The UK Daily Mail article also contains a bizarre "form" that children and their parents can sign to join the "Kid Knights Klub"! What's up with this???? Comedy writers at SNL or Stephen Colbert couldn't make up crap like this! ~ Fred O'Neill, Marietta, Ohio
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