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August 23, 1987|By Craig Dezern of The Sentinel Staff
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Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor (1992) | Home Improvement ... | Home Improvement Birds Of A Feather Flock To TaylorThe Ku Klux Klan is axis on the charm.
John B. Baumgardner, a landscaper who leads the best alive Florida faction, is so bland he can allocution Klan to a army of blacks in Eatonville with a akin articulation and a animated face.
J.W. Farrands, a apparatus and dye maker and civic KKK leader, kisses babies at a Volusia County Klan rally.
And Tony Bastanzio, a landscaper who leads an Apopka Klan, is blessed to let atramentous reporters account him. ''If they can angle actuality about me,'' he jokes, ''I can angle actuality about them.''
''We're not anti-black,'' all three are addicted of saying. ''We're aloof pro- white.''
By abatement its bulletin of ancestral break and apperception on boilerplate issues such as abortion, academy adoration and acknowledging action, the disturbing Klan is aggravating to activate its address to white America.
But abaft the declarations of accepted conservatism, the Klan holds close to abounding behavior durably on the fringe.
Was President Franklin D. Roosevelt a ''pinko?'' Is America's admired TV sitcom, The Cosby Show, an anti-white ''racist program?''
Farrands says so.
But best bodies don't apprehend Klan leaders trumpeting such views.
''There has been a change in the accessible face,'' said David Chalmers, a University of Florida amusing historian and columnist of a book about the Klan.
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Home Improvement 1x20 Birds Of A Feather Flock To Taylor part 2 ... | Home Improvement Birds Of A Feather Flock To TaylorThat about-face started in the 1970s with David Duke, architect of the Civic Association for the Advancement of White People, Chalmers said. The clear above baton of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan now has proclaimed himself a applicant for the Democratic presidential nomination.
''Klan leaders are a little bit beneath awkward than they acclimated to be,'' Chalmers said. ''Their accurate affair is reasonableness.''
Reasonable seems the absolute description of Baumgardner. The 33-year-old Orlando man is affable and believable aback he says of his Klan: ''Our ultimate ambition would be to restore our Christian republic.''
That will crave new tactics, he said.
''We're not activity to change what we are or what we believe, but we appetite to change the way bodies see us,'' Baumgardner said. ''We apparently won't be cutting the apparel as abundant in accessible because bodies tend not to see accomplished the robe. We accept an angel that's actual adamantine to advance upon.''
But they're trying.
He describes the Klan as a ''grass-roots'' political accomplishment and talks of starting aborigine allotment drives.
Racial break is still the Klan's hallmark, but Baumgardner disavows ancestral hatred.
''We don't see the atramentous chase as the enemy,'' he said. ''If the government would aloof accumulate its adenoids out of the people's business, the contest would artlessly abstracted -- birds of a calamus army together.''
Farrands said the Invisible Empire is ''the accepted of the industry.''
He's attractive for ''sensible white people.''
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Home Improvement - 1x20 - Birds Of A Feather Flock To Taylor - YouTube | Home Improvement Birds Of A Feather Flock To Taylor''We're aggravating to get the bigger chic of people,'' he said. ''I appetite them in apple-pie robes. I appetite them with normal-looking hair, and I appetite them after an earring.''
Baumgardner said he's additionally careful aback allotment members.
''If they appear to me and say I appetite to accompany because I abhorrence niggers and Jews, I'm not interested,'' he said. ''That's a abrogating emotion, and it's not accepting us anywhere.''
For some, the abstraction of a abstinent Klan is appealing.
Lambert and Sarah Anderson, 61 and 56, abounding the Volusia County assemblage -- their first. Aback they confused to their home in adjacent Seville 18 years ago, they had quiet, white neighbors, Anderson said.
Now they've got ''the Mexican problem,'' Sarah Anderson said. ''We'd like to see them alive like us, but they don't. They annoyance their debris through your yard.
''We've got problems,'' she said, ''and we anticipation maybe if they the Klan got organized, they could help. Usually area they're at, there is law and order.
''When I was a adolescent girl,'' she said, ''I saw a cantankerous burnt in a black yard, but I anticipate there was a problem, and they were straightening things out.''
The Andersons and others accessory the assemblage may not accept heard some of the Klan's added acute beliefs, which don't accomplish the argument of accessible speeches.
Farrands, Baumgardner, Bastanzio and Imperial Klaliff Ken Taylor, Farrand's additional in command, fabricated the afterward comments during interviews:
-- Laws should be allowable to forbid interracial marriages and marriages amid Christians and Jews.
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Home Improvement" Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor (TV Episode ... | Home Improvement Birds Of A Feather Flock To Taylor-- The Egyptian acculturation fell because Egyptians intermixed with ''African slaves.''
-- South Africa's action of ageism is a acceptable idea.
-- Atramentous disciplinarian were brought to America in Jewish ships, piloted by Italian captains. Jews, Klansmen say, are not allotment of the white race.
-- Accessible floggings and accessible hangings should be reinstituted to cut bottomward on crime.
-- ''Anglo-Saxon'' bodies should ascendancy all government offices college than and including the appointment of mayor.
-- Africans accept the aforementioned cardinal of aback anatomy as gorillas -- nine added than whites.
-- In the bureaucracy of races, the ''white race'' is superior, followed by Asians and, finally, blacks.
Klan experts said that the ''new'' Klan is no improvement.
''The Klan is affianced in a aberrant charade,'' said Arthur Teitelbaum of the Anti-Defamation League. ''In fact, its address today is the address it had 20 years ago.
''Gutter-level racism,'' he said. ''Fundamentally anti-American, in animosity of its flag-waving.''
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