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movement itself, Duke, nevertheless, carried the Klan message of racial preservation to more Americans than any other Klan leader of the 1970's.

Resigning from the office of Imperial Wizard in 1980, Duke was succeeded by Don Black, Alabama Grand Dragon. This polite, soft-spoken Southerner has a sincere and earnest manner about him that makes few enemies. Educated and possessed with the ability to express himself well, many expect the Knights under his able leadership to become a major force for the armies of freedom to contend with in the 1980's.

As always, there were several new Klans formed by local leaders or by breakaway groups during this period. Klans abound across the nation with no affiliation with others except a common desire to smash the enemies of freedom. Rather than deploring this multi-faceted approach, decentralization should receive the support of thinking Klansmen. In this age of the all seeing, all-knowing superstate, a single organization would only make it easier for the government to destroy the Klan. It is the very diversity of the Order that will insure its survival into the 21st Century.

Only the Best

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1980's must exist on the principle of quality over quantity. The unobtainable illusion of numberless masses marching behind the banner of the Ku Klux Klan must be compared with the facts of reality. With the culture distorters' stranglehold on the means of communication, the vast majority of the White Race will, as a result of their cultural brainwashing, oppose the Klan and any other racial movement, despite the fact that it is not in their interest to do so.

It is then pure fantasy to imagine the Klan as a broad-based political movement that will obtain the numbers requisite to effect peaceful political change. Indeed, peaceful change in an amount sufficient to place this country once again in the hands of White men loyal to the ideas of the Founding Fathers, is no longer possible. There should be no doubt that all means short of armed conflict have been exhausted. When the men of today have the courage of those who stood at Lexington and Concord, this country will be returned to its rightful rulers. Not Before.

Guerilla Theater

This does not mean, however, that some political activity should not be engaged in - quite to the contrary. Political involvement, either openly or sub rosa, is an excellent means for exposing our view to the public and recruitment of new members to our ranks. These activities should be viewed for what they are - an auxiliary to the Klan's primary objective which is to utterly destroy the enemies of our Racial Nation. Political activities by the Klan are, as the former Grand Dragon of Michigan Robert E. Miles so aptly named them, "guerilla theater," and nothing more. The "plot" must be carefully planned; each actor must know his part, and the "scenes" meticulously rehearsed. Such "stage productions" have been carried on with great success by Grand Dragons Tom Metzger in California, Bob Miles in Michigan, and Louis Beam in Texas, among others.

A Return to the Beginning - The Fifth Era

It must be remembered that the Ku Klux Klan was never intended by the founders to be anything more than an instrument for forcibly reestablishing White control on the political structure of the South. Then, as now, the government was in the hands of villains determined to destroy the way of life of the people who had created this nation. Then, as now, the law was perverted and used as an instrument to oppress the citizens. Then, as now, the government became the controlling point from whence enemies sought to destroy White people. Then, as now, the Constitution became a dead document, scorned by the traitors who ruled. Then, as now, the courts became an organ of despotism, used first to financially break and then imprison those who oppose the tyrants. Then~ as now, the police power of the state was abused and used for spying, intimidation, terror, and finally - murder.

As these evil men used force and violence to suppress the people of the South - so were they met by the men of the Klan with force and violence. As they sought to intimidate with overwhelming numbers by light of day - so were they met with overwhelming , numbers by dead of night: continued next page---