Racist attorney claims free speech after police investigate KKK fliers in Virginia
For the past several months, residents in a Virginia community have been growing concerned over KKK recruitment fliers appearing in their neighborhood.
Last October, “White Power” fliers were attached to bags of Halloween candy and dropped off in the Loudoun and Leesburg neighborhoods.
Residents are concerned because the the hateful KKK messages haven’t stopped appearing since.
The KKK flier’s crude message states:
“The Blacks say Black Pride, The Latinos say Brown Pride. There is nothing wrong with us saying White Pride” and urges resident to “Join today. Call the hotline, The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.”
And while police have been looking into the distribution of the fliers, to address the concerns from residents, that investigation isn’t sitting well with white supremacists.
KKK argues freedom of speech
Jason Robb, who claims to be the Chief Counsel for the Knights Party Committee that “engage in literature distribution, including in Virginia,” said that he was “not aware if this particular literature distribution was distributed by my clients.”
Robb also reportedly said that he had been “disturbed” by the fact that the police were stepping in to investigate the fliers.
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“It is my hope that the both the sheriff’s office as well as the police department are aware of this protected right of individuals under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to distribute literature in such manner,” Robb wrote in a letter to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department, Leesburg Police Department and Jim Plowman, the Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney.
Robb claimed to have written the letter to “ensure that the Constitutionally protected rights that individuals have in distribution of literature associated with The Knights or any other organization are not infringed.”
The NAACP responds
Phillip Thompson, Loudoun County chapter president of the NAACP, said that free speech is one thing, but people still have a right to be concerned about hate groups.
He explained to local station WUSA9 that it was different than, say, the NAACP putting out fliers because, “NAACP doesn’t have a history of putting people on trees. We don’t have a history of running cars in to people. We don’t have a history of threatening to kill and actually doing that. Intimidation. We don’t tell our members to go into churches and shoot up people.”
Thompson went on to say that he was concerned that Robb’s letter indicated that the KKK wanted to establish more of a foothold in the area and planned to distribute more than just fliers.
