We reported, on Thursday, how someone had distributed white supremacist flyers in Lexington’s Kenwick neighborhood, flyers contained in baggies, using rice to weigh them down enough not to be swept away by the wind. The Lexington Police Department was investigating, with Lt Dan Truex stating that the LPD were “very interested in identifying” “who possibly left those flyers,” yet, at the end of the Lexington Herald-Leader’s report, the Department spokesman was either unable or unwilling to specify just what actual crime had been committed or what charges the distributor of the flyers might face.
Now, thanks to a tweet from my good friend and occasional website pinch hitter, William Teach, I found this from WRAL News:
Hundreds of anti-semitic flyers distributed in at least 5 north Raleigh neighborhoods overnight
Hundreds of anti-semitic flyers appeared in at least five north Raleigh neighborhoods overnight.
Sunday, August 6, 2023 | 11:12 AM EDT | Updated 4:14 PM EDT
Hundreds of anti-semitic flyers appeared in at least five north Raleigh neighborhoods overnight.Anti-Semitic flyers distributed in Raleigh. Photo via WRAL News. Click to enlarge.
Someone really needs to educate the WRAL intern that subtitles are supposed to be significantly different from the main headline! 🙂
The flyers link to a website to an organization called Goyim Defense League, which is currently tracked as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law.
While I have exactly zero support for the so-called Goyim Defense League, telling me that the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center — the name of which WRAL got slightly wrong — classifies an organization as a “hate group” doesn’t impress me in the slightest. The SPLC has similarly trashed Moms 4 Liberty, a group trying to protect children from the far-left transgender agenda, even though the ‘transgender’ lobby are trying to impose control of people’s speech.
One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, discovered a multitude of fliers left on neighbors’ driveways while taking an evening walk in Fairfax Hills. Just three minutes away, another woman reported more hate flyers in her own neighborhood of Hickory Hills. Just a few more minutes away, another neighbor near North Hills reported finding one of the flyers.
North Ridge also woke up to anti-semitic flyers in their driveways. According to neighbors, there’s a notable Jewish population in North Ridge due to its walkable distance to the Orthodox Synagogue on Falls of Neuse Road. The synagogue appears to be very close to all of the neighborhoods targeted.
Unlike the Lexington situation, in which the white supremacist flyers were distributed in the heavily white, as in 89.9% white, Kenwick neighborhood, the Raleigh incident was somewhat close to a Jewish neighborhood. Nevertheless, unless an actual threat was communicated, it should be protected speech.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said a person caught distributing these flyers could be charged with ethnic intimidation if the it contains a threat.
That’s a Class 1 misdemeanor, meaning someone convicted of that crime could face up to 120 days in jail.
Unlike the Lexington flyers, which, from the single image I could find of them, simply directed readers to a website, the Raleigh flyers shown in the WRAL report had a much larger variety of things printed. However, in the admittedly limited views shown, I could see no actual threat. Rather, the flyers made fanciful and stupid claims about Jews, including a reference to the long-debunked Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the creation of Russian anti-Semites around 1902-3, a time in which Tsar Nikolai II was still an absolute monarch. Laughably, the Raleigh flyers date the Protocols as 1897, before they were written. No one with any knowledge of this stuff who isn’t already anti-Semitic is going to swallow this junk.
Anti-Semitism is a serious problem, but the way to fight it is not to restrict the freedom of speech and of the press. If you find anti-Semitic, or in the Lexington case, white supremacist garbage, just pick it up and throw it in the trash.
As a member of (((The Tribe))) myself, I am more concerned about such investigations than I am about the content of the offending leaflets themselves. There was once a time when the ACLU defended the right to distribute such material, including Jewish lawyers defending Nazis marching in Skokie IL.
But that was then, and this is now, and we have the spectacle of the Michigan House of Representatives passing legislation that would provide for five years in prison for “intimidating” someone. I’m sorry to say this was brought to you by state Rep. Noah Arbit and AG Dana Nessel (both homosexuals, I might add). I am appalled and embarrassed to call them fellow Tribe members. A shonde for the goyim, as my grandmother used to say.
Should this obscenity become law, no doubt it will be selectively enforced, since the “right not to be offended” is held only by a handful of newly privileged groups.
Mr 370 wrote:
In other words, being homosexual is more important to them than being Jewish! That’s not too terribly much of a surprise, as both President Biden and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have demonstrated to us, numerous times, it is far more important to them to be Democrats than it is to be Catholic.
Yes, and I’m sorry to say this, as I have in all too many places in similar contexts, but if Hitler were non-white, American Jews would be fighting for first place in line for the camps. I’m glad at least that those of us in Israel have their heads straight about the existential threat.
I had the privilege of visiting Jerusalem for 2½ too-short days last November. Beautiful place; I’d love to go back.
By the way, fellow Tribesman NC Dem AG Josh Stein is equally on board with all of this, so next year’s gubernatorial race should be quite interesting as it is shaping up to be between him and GOP black lt. gov Mark Robinson. Pass the popcorn.