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National Alliance leaves calling card
By Matt Phillion / Mphillio@Cnc.Com
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
White supremacist group drops leaflets overnight
Georgetown last week joined a number of area communities that have received flyer drops from the National Alliance, a West Virginia-based white supremacist organization. Flyers were simultaneously dropped in Newburyport and Rowley.
The group has also conducted flyer drops in other nearby cities and towns in the past year, including Swampscott, Danvers, and Hamilton.
A patrolman spotted the flyers early in the morning, and Chief James Mulligan said he and his officers collected them as qui
kly as possible.
Mulligan said he reviewed the flyers for content and found them to be non-threatening, providing only strong political viewpoints.
"We cleaned them all up. My view of it,
an
I was trying to take a middle-of-the-road view
, is that they presented no threat to any class of people," said Mulligan. "They were very tame, very innocuous."
Mulligan said he determined the flyers fell under free speech and the dissemination of the materials was not criminal.
http://www.townonline.com/georgetown/news/...cdo03312004.htm
Originally found on National Vanguard
By Matt Phillion / Mphillio@Cnc.Com
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
White supremacist group drops leaflets overnight
Georgetown last week joined a number of area communities that have received flyer drops from the National Alliance, a West Virginia-based white supremacist organization. Flyers were simultaneously dropped in Newburyport and Rowley.
The group has also conducted flyer drops in other nearby cities and towns in the past year, including Swampscott, Danvers, and Hamilton.
A patrolman spotted the flyers early in the morning, and Chief James Mulligan said he and his officers collected them as qui
kly as possible.
Mulligan said he reviewed the flyers for content and found them to be non-threatening, providing only strong political viewpoints.
"We cleaned them all up. My view of it,
an
I was trying to take a middle-of-the-road view
, is that they presented no threat to any class of people," said Mulligan. "They were very tame, very innocuous."
Mulligan said he determined the flyers fell under free speech and the dissemination of the materials was not criminal.
http://www.townonline.com/georgetown/news/...cdo03312004.htm
Originally found on National Vanguard