I should add that it isn't only John Day that's up in arms, but all of the surrounding towns, including the one I live in which is a mere 51 miles away. We have enough rasict rednecks round here, we don't need the AN too
This, at least, is good news. Like Fred Phelps and his ilk, they attract a level of attention that it completely disproportionate to their actual numbers. Still, that's about 100 too many, IMHO...
I lived in Hayden (the town in Idaho where they had their headquarters) for a year. The local community college turned their HQ compound into a park. Idaho seemed pretty well suited to their cultural tastes. Hey, maybe you'll get a park if you host them for a while!
*chuckles* I like to kill two birds with one stone. When I get contacted by Nigerian scammers, one of my favored techniques with them is to pretend to fall for their crap and give them white supremacists phones numbers with bizarre names. I wish I could see the look on their faces when people with heavy African accents and barely understandable English call up and ask for "Mr. Cuhn Luvher". Edit: I see I am having some effect...he has a new phone number for me to pass out! http://www.aryan-nations.org/contact.htm
well the people have decided that they won't sell their land to him, the resturaunts won't serve them ect....hopefully they'll all die in a fire