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Homeowners Outraged After Ku Klux Klan Members Leave ‘Get Out The Vote’ Fliers Across Alabama Town

Some Alabama homeowners are outraged after the Ku Klux Klan left fliers around their town. The hate group is trying to encourage people to go vote in the election and join the Klan.

Several people who live in St. Charles Place neighborhood of Madison tell KTLA sister station WHNT they found baggies full of rocks and paper in their driveway Sunday morning.

The message said in part, “Black Lives Matter Black Panthers are telling followers to kill white people and police officers.”

Many in the neighborhood said they were disgusted, but didn’t want to go on camera for fear of retaliation.

“This is pretty standard tactics for that particular Klan group. They’ve been fliering all over the sate. They were in Wichita last weekend. This is a pretty common practice for Loyal White Knights,” said Heidi Beirich with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Beirich tracks hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery.

“It breaks my heart that people receive this kind of material, but unfortunately, this is the Klan using its First Amendment rights. So, they have every ability to do this.”

Beirich tells WHNT her agency doesn’t know of any violent situation involving the Klan.

There are eight Ku Klux Klan organizations in Alabama. the Southern Poverty Law Center estimates there are up to 6,000 Klan members nationwide.

San Diego Parents Get Letter Criticizing Them For Raising Kids In ‘Tiny’ Home

A letter criticizing two San Diego parents over the size of their home is going viral after the couple posted the note on Facebook.

Mike and Kelly Brüning, the parents of two boys, ages 2 and 4, and have lived in the same two-bedroom Mission Beach condominium for nearly nine years, according to KTLA sister station KSWB in San Diego. The neighborhood is built on a strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay, and the Brünings are just steps from the sand.

The letter addressed to “Mike and Kelli” was typed by someone only referring to themselves as the area’s zip code “92109.” When they opened it, they were surprised by what they read

The couple posted the letter on Facebook Tuesday with a message of their own:

“Now… this place just got interesting. We received this in the mail today … not everyone in 92109 is solid. Sometimes harassment comes (in) simple forms.”

Friends and family who have watched the boys playing happily on the beach and in the water quickly commented on the Facebook post.

“Wow who has the right to tell you that? Kids grow up in big cities, in small apartments, in poor or rich countries and they turn out just fine. Having the beach and your playground is luck. I wish I grew up in a small place by the beach just like that,” one person commented.

“Silly. Tell them the beach is bigger than any yard in America. And way better,” another wrote.

“Cowards… not even a return address … just like most to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong,” someone else posted.

The parents assume the unidentified sender was a neighbor due to their misspelled names appearing on the front of the envelope.

Rachel Milstein Goldenhar, a licensed clinical psychologist in San Diego, reviewed the letter and offered guidance to parents who receive unsolicited advice:

Unfortunately parents have been judging each other for thousands of years. It’s easy to be a critic. It’s much harder to be a good parent. Part of parenting is that other people will judge your decisions. In parenting, it’s important to stay grounded and focused on what your goals and values are for your family and not focus on what others think.

WOW! Who has this kind of time on their hands?!

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Review: Amanda Knox: Did She, Or Didn’t She?

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I haven’t written in a while. Maybe it’s because I’ve been busy, maybe it’s because I haven’t found anything I wanted to write about. But that quickly changed on Friday when Netflix launched its new documentary: Amanda Knox.

Before I watched the documentary, I knew a little about the death of Meredith Kercher, the arrests of Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, Patrick Lumumba and Rudy Guede, the media attention, the two separate trials and the acquittal.

So based on that small amount of information, I assumed that Knox and Sollecito were innocent, Lumumba got caught up in something he had no knowledge of, and Guede was the person who took Meredith’s life.

After watching the documentary, I’m not so sure.

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