GOP Candidate Hosts Cross Burning Event

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**Ahtman**

Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist in Idaho running as a Republican for Bonner County sheriff, is defending his recent cross burning ceremony, after having invited members of the media to attend the event last week.

"Mainstream society looks at cross lighting as a symbol of hate, but it predates the Klan by hundreds of years," Winkler told the Bonner County Daily Bee. "We look at it more as a religious symbol."

Winkler went on to claim the ritual has Scottish roots dating back hundreds of years, but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and his candid admissions of racial and religious prejudice suggest that the decision to burn the cross may take inspiration from a more recent and ugly practice.

"Most people don't know that we don't just oppose the Jews and the negroes," he said, according to the Daily Bee. "We also oppose sexual predators and drugs of any kind."

While Winkler has claimed that he wouldn't allow his personal beliefs to guide the way he would act as sheriff, his position on sexual predators is admittedly more severe.

The Associated Press wrote:

He has framed his campaign around the message of cracking down on methamphetamine producers and sex offenders, telling people at a candidate forum this week he favors immediate hangings for those convicted of being sexual predators.

Winkler is one of the remaining members of a diminished, but still active, Aryan Nations presence in Idaho. Democratic state Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb, the first black woman to serve in Idaho's state legislature, faced numerous racist attacks from the KKK and other white supremacist groups during her campaign.

Brenda Hammond of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force says Winkler's political presence is an embarrassment to the rest of the county.

"It shows the need for the human rights task force has not gone away," she told the Associated Press. "Many of us on the task force have really regretted Bonner County's reputation for harboring racism when the vast majority of us don't think like that."

Oh Idaho, you so silly.

**purplefood**

Drugs of any kind?
So...
Paracetamol?
And the racist stuff is bad as well...

**dogma**

Tylenol: Pain Reliever, or Gateway Drug?

**Frazzled**

Ahtman wrote:
Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist in Idaho running as a Republican for Bonner County sheriff, is defending his recent cross burning ceremony, after having invited members of the media to attend the event last week.

"Mainstream society looks at cross lighting as a symbol of hate, but it predates the Klan by hundreds of years," Winkler told the Bonner County Daily Bee. "We look at it more as a religious symbol."

Winkler went on to claim the ritual has Scottish roots dating back hundreds of years, but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and his candid admissions of racial and religious prejudice suggest that the decision to burn the cross may take inspiration from a more recent and ugly practice.

"Most people don't know that we don't just oppose the Jews and the negroes," he said, according to the Daily Bee. "We also oppose sexual predators and drugs of any kind."

While Winkler has claimed that he wouldn't allow his personal beliefs to guide the way he would act as sheriff, his position on sexual predators is admittedly more severe.

The Associated Press wrote:

He has framed his campaign around the message of cracking down on methamphetamine producers and sex offenders, telling people at a candidate forum this week he favors immediate hangings for those convicted of being sexual predators.

Winkler is one of the remaining members of a diminished, but still active, Aryan Nations presence in Idaho. Democratic state Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb, the first black woman to serve in Idaho's state legislature, faced numerous racist attacks from the KKK and other white supremacist groups during her campaign.

Brenda Hammond of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force says Winkler's political presence is an embarrassment to the rest of the county.

"It shows the need for the human rights task force has not gone away," she told the Associated Press. "Many of us on the task force have really regretted Bonner County's reputation for harboring racism when the vast majority of us don't think like that."

Oh Idaho, you so silly.

And people make fun of the South...

**Melissia**

Isn't Idaho south?

Certainly it's agrarian.

*dons flame retardant suit*

**LoneLictor**

I have relatives from Idaho. In my opinion its one of the worst states, right down there with North Carolina.

**Melissia**

But is it lower than Jersey?

**daedalus**

I'm confused. Multiple things really, but the first thing that comes to mind: How are these people allowed to exist, like, in the open and stuff?

**Kovnik Obama**

God this is bad. I mean this is horrible bad. I think I wouldn't mind resorting to violence if we were about to elect a gak-brain like this.

And by the way, the KKK as (or used to have) a large following in the Prairies of Canada. Any more North, and you'll start feeling the effect health-wise

And just like this. What would be the bad states? I mean those that even Reps and Dems can agree that you aren't safe there?

**Melissia**

The Texas-Mexican border is generally considered unsafe at times, especially any towns that are on both sides of the border. There were even stories of execution style killings in the middle of a freeway on OUR side of the border at one point a couple years ago.

**ShumaGorath**

Winkler went on to claim the ritual has Scottish roots dating back hundreds of years, but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and his candid admissions of racial and religious prejudice suggest that the decision to burn the cross may take inspiration from a more recent and ugly practice

hundreds of years, but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and his candid admissions of racial and religious prejudice suggest

but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard

Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard

**CT GAMER**

Shocking...

**djones520**

I just want to know if anyone here believes that the beliefs and actions of this one person in anyway constitutes the beliefs of the GOP as a whole?

**daedalus**

I'd like to hope people are more reasonable than that.

**Frazzled**

djones520 wrote:I just want to know if anyone here believes that the beliefs and actions of this one person in anyway constitutes the beliefs of the GOP as a whole?

ONly if the Democrats having a grand dragon as a US senator for 80 bazillion decades means the same. . .

**LoneLictor**

djones520 wrote:I just want to know if anyone here believes that the beliefs and actions of this one person in anyway constitutes the beliefs of the GOP as a whole?

Nope.

No one's said that so far and hopefully no one will (besides the obvious trolls).

**HonorHarrington**

Frazzled wrote:
djones520 wrote:I just want to know if anyone here believes that the beliefs and actions of this one person in anyway constitutes the beliefs of the GOP as a whole?

ONly if the Democrats having a grand dragon as a US senator for 80 bazillion decades means the same. . .

Strom went pro and joined the GOP...

**dogma**

HonorHarrington wrote:
Strom went pro and joined the GOP...

To be exact, 39 years with the GOP, and 10 with the Democrats, with the switch being driven by Goldwater's position on civil rights.

Though Fraz is probably talking about Byrd.

**Kovnik Obama**

dogma wrote:
HonorHarrington wrote:
Strom went pro and joined the GOP...

To be exact, 39 years with the GOP, and 10 with the Democrats, with the switch being driven by Goldwater's position on civil rights.

Though Fraz is probably talking about Byrd.

What the frak?? You mean you actually have KKK's in office?? At the Senate??

I'm starting to lose all hopes in you guys, honestly. I mean, it's one thing to have corrupt and mobster politicians, everyone has those. But this is hateful criminals we are talking about. Frak...

**Amaya**

Yes we do. I'm pretty sure they are Grand Dragon Imperial Wizards or whatever the feth they call themselves as well. You've got to admit, they do a great job with the comically grandiose supervillian titles.

**dogma**

Kovnik Obama wrote:
What the frak?? You mean you actually have KKK's in office?? At the Senate??

I'm starting to lose all hopes in you guys, honestly. I mean, it's one thing to have corrupt and mobster politicians, everyone has those. But this is hateful criminals we are talking about. Frak...

Had, both are dead, though I'm not sure if Strom was ever actually in the KKK, though he did oppose the CRM.

For its worth, Byrd had been in office since 1953, and Strom had been in since 1956; so they were certainly throwbacks.

**CT GAMER**

djones520 wrote:I just want to know if anyone here believes that the beliefs and actions of this one person in anyway constitutes the beliefs of the GOP as a whole?

This is a political thread in Dakka off-topic: common sense is never a requirement nor is rational debate.