Skins Posting Pro White Flyers In N.E PA

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White nationalism fliers Controversial posters that first appeared in Pittston have spread to Shickshinny​

Documents generate indignation
SHERRY LONG slong@timesleader.com

SHICKSHINNY – More anti-multiculturalism fliers similar to the ones that appeared in Pittston earlier this week have been found posted on trees and utility poles in Shickshinny.

AIMEE DILIGER/The Times Leader

This comes just days after 18-year-old Nora Rynkeiwicz was arrested for vandalizing a Wilkes-Barre synagogue.

The black-and-white posters, which indicate white people should defend their heritage by fighting multi-culturalism, seem to be distributed by the Keystone State Skinheads, because its Web site and logo appear on the bottom of the fliers. An email seeking a response from the group was not received before deadline.

Borough officials and NAACP leaders are outraged :rant::rant::tantrum::tantrum:at the postings. They vow to not let any hate group win.

Shickshinny Mayor Beverly Moore first learned about the fliers from her husband, who spotted them around the borough earlier this week.

“I was livid that someone would put something like that up because of the content and what it implies,”��”�� Moore said.

She encourages everyone who spots the posters to throw them in the trash; and, while many are doing just that, the posters seem to keep reappearing.

As soon as the papers are torn down, someone or a group of people, whom the mayor calls cowards, come during the night to repost them.

“They are cowards. If they really represent this great respect for themselves and their plight, why are they doing this in the middle of the night?”��”�� Moore said.

In her 11 years as mayor, she said she’s never seen any hate fliers posted.

Moore contacted the utility companies and was told they would be willing to file charges against the people posting the fliers.

Ron Felton, :pimp: president of the Wilkes-Barre chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the postings have caused him to consider hosting an anti-hate rally to “demonstrate to these hate groups that we are not going to put up with the hate they are trying to spread.”��”��

Felton commended Moore for taking a leadership stance in battling the people who are posting the documents.

Moore supports the idea of such a rally. Every elected official must take responsibility to ensure what is being posted in their communities is appropriate, she said.

The posters state multiculturalism destroys the uniqueness of different groups by serving as a weakness.

But Felton strongly disagrees with that.

“We are strengthened by our diversity,”��”�� he said.:rolleyes::no2:
 
Phila. Human Relations Commission Probes Racist Fliers

The Philadelphia Human Relations Commission is looking into race-baiting posters that have surfaced in the wake of the murder of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. But the focus is less on the posters than those who might be affected by them.

The posters from the group that calls itself "Keystone State Skinheads" show pictures of white police officers killed in the line of duty and the black suspects in each case. The wording blames what it calls "dangerous minorities."

Nick Taliaferro, executive director of the Human Relations Commission, says its response is more like outreach than investigation:

"We are not policemen. We don't go out and try to arrest people. What we do is try to proactively engage the community in ways that will resist that type of poisonous engagement of an otherwise very decent community. You won't find better people than you will find at Shiller and Almond Street."

Taliaferro says the commission will look to see if the law was broken and if the poster had any effect beyond creating upset.
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Speech Police Investigate Posters

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Probe of racist flyers sought

State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas (D., Phila.) yesterday requested an immediate investigation by state Attorney General Tom Corbett into the recent distribution of racist flyers in neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Scranton.

Last week, the flyers, posted by a group calling itself Keystone State Skinheads, were deemed "repugnant" but still legal by the city Commission on Human Relations.

"They might have the right to freedom of speech," Thomas said of the skinhead group yesterday, "but when that speech is designed to incite and encourage violence, it goes beyond the protection of the First Amendment."

The flyers featured photos of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski and three other white police officers killed in the line of duty, along with photos and racially charged statements about the black men charged in the deaths.

The flyers appeared in Port Richmond - where Liczbinski was shot to death this month while trying to apprehend bank robbers - and nearby neighborhoods.

Thomas said what prompted his action was when the mother of a young African American girl came to him with a flyer that the child had just picked up in her school.

"She literally cried in my office," Thomas said. "It outraged me that they were passing out these flyers in schools."

Thomas also asked Corbett to place Keystone State Skinheads on the state's list of hate groups, if it is not already there. "We want them to stay on the attorney general's radar screen," he said.
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W. Curtis "Uncle" Thomas
 
Philadelphia Enquirer

Skinheads say flyers tell truth

This is in response to the May 29 article "Probe of racist flyers sought."

Pennsylvania State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas is quoted as saying this about the Keystone State Skinheads: "They might have the right to freedom of speech, but when that speech is designed to incite and encourage violence, it goes beyond the protection of the First Amendment."

What exactly is it in the flyers that KSS has produced that incites and encourages violence? The flyers merely alert residents to the very real problem of black violent crime and what it has done to a lot of cities all across Pennsylvania and the United States. According to the FBI uniform crime reports, blacks commit over 50 percent of all homicides while c
omprising just 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Thomas should be seeking pragmatic solutions to the rising black violent crime rate, instead of wringing his hands over a factual flyer. Philadelphia has one of the highest murder rates in the country, yet Thomas seems to care more about trampling on the constitutional rights of the Keystone State Skinheads.

Steve Smith

Regional director
Keystone State Skinheads
Scranton
heretic_voices@hotmail.com

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