{"id":8201,"date":"2014-12-22T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2014-12-22T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:28:59","slug":"ku-klux-klan-trying-launch-come-back-targeting-iraq-veterans-recruitment-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Ku Klux Klan Trying to Launch a Come Back, Targeting Iraq Veterans for Recruitment (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cross<\/a>MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA<\/strong> – The Ku Klux Klan, which in recent years has been a shadow of its once monolithic self, has been trying to make a comeback From handing out candy to children, appearing in robes on the U.S.-Mexican border to protest President Obama\u2019s executive action on immigration\u2014even raising money for Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.\u2014it seems Klansman are everywhere, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n

Is the Klan growing?<\/p>\n

This week, Vice published a video report\u00a0on the Klan experiencing a rise in members, in part fueled by a strategy that targets veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

In it, host Rocco Castoro talks with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok about hate group recruitment often being tied to military conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a very high degree of interest on the part of Klan groups in returning military veterans with high end military skills that they think will be useful to them one day,\u201d Potok said. \u201cA lot of these men are coming back traumatized with serious PTSD and other problems. The economy is not good. They\u2019re not getting jobs, so they come home to find a situation that is not very good for them. \u2026 What some veterans find in these groups is family.\u201d<\/p>\n