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The Ku Klux Klan KKK — Part 5
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ment of principles that you are going to send me—this written
statement of objectives?
A—Yes, I do.
Q—By what means does your Organization propose to realize
these objectives?
A—Through governmental affairs, the education of ourselves
and the general public as to the trend of Government towards the
left and continuing headlong flight towards Communism.
Q—I understand from this that you mean primarily by educa-
tion, ia this correct?
A—Well, no, of course, after you educate yourself, then we
will vote at the polla to remove such scalawags that propose and keep
proposing legislation to sell ua to the “one world government.”
Q—Does your Organization in any way propose to achieve its
goals by violence, or any means other than the political action that
you are describing?
A-—-No, sir, we do not advocate violence.
Q—Mr. Martin, what protection have you got built into your
organizational structure or procedures to protect your Organization
from pecple who would use the cover of the existence of the Klan
to commit crime?
A—Our Organization actually ig based upon, and its primary
function is by, Committees; such Committees as an Investigating
Committee, and should this violence, or lawbreaking, or crime come
to our attention, of course, this Committee would investigate, and
should we be successful, we would turn the person over to the Law,
or at leust tell the Law who he was so that we wouldn't get the
blame for it. We have gotten the blume for a lot of it in the past
and we hope we can help to stop it. Our prime purpose, of course, is
not toe avoid the blame, but to assist the law enforcement officers in
theiz duties. Aa I have already stated, that's in our Oath that we
should do so, and we do.
Q—Will your furnish our Committee with samples of the liter-
ature and printed materiala used by your Organization? You under-
stand, we don’t expect you to give ua something that you have sworn
to keep secret, but we would like samples to the limit of what you
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