Not Good News – Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/local/30-nazi-group.txt">Nazi group adds point person in Billings</a> n n<blockquote>Efforts by a white supremacist group to ramp up activism in Montana, including in Billings, have become successful enough to grab the attention of the Montana Human Rights Network. n nThe National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, has established contact points in three Montana cities — Billings, Butte and Libby — and its Butte point person is running for state Legislature.</blockquote> n nDoesn't this just make your skin crawl? Groups such as this that live on hate expanding in the state really bother me. Why here, why now is my question. What is inciting this? Making the public aware and informed is the first defense against this kind of thing and it looks like that is happening here. Let's hope it helps. n nI hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid. Carroll O'Connor