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( Pratl co - to disband and directed klansmen to burn-their robes and hoods. — a General Forrest was the nw insman, whether cloaked and hoodcec , } nembers of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, or skulking in anonymity as members of a sham organization, "The Anti-Communis= Christian Association", or brazenly resorting to violence on the open streets of Bogalusa, are a “fearful conspiracy against society .. . fholding] men silent by the terror of [their acts]and=2 /f{their] power for evil". As early ag 1968 General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the firat and only Grand Wizard of the criginal Invisible Empire, dismayed by mounting, uncontrollable violence laid to the klan, ordered the klan 3 ty we a Confederate cavalry hero, 4 man without fear and, certainly to most Southerners, a man beyond reproach. He announced that he would dissociate himself from all klansmen and cooperate with public officials and the courts in enforeing law and order. put the founders of the Invisible Empire had sown dragon's teeth. . . . . The evil that led General Forrest to disband the original Ku Klux Klan was its perversion of purposes by undisciplined klans led 4 by irresponsible leaders. The evil we find in the Original Knights ‘of the Ku Klux Klan is an absolute evil inherent in any secret order holding itself above the law: "the naturaltendency of all such organizations .. . to violence and exine." As history teaches, and as the defendants’ admissions and the proof demonstrate in this @ase, violence and crime follow as the night the day when masked men conspire against society itself. Wrapped in myths and misbeliefs which they think relieve them of the obligations of ordinary citizens, klansmen pledge their first allegiance to their Konstitution and give their first loyalty to a cross €i+ebmepby in flames. 7 1 None of the defendant klansmen is a leader in his community. a group, they do not appear to be representative of a cross-section of the community. Instead they appear to be ignorant bullies, callous of kw ete eee ee ee