00:09 MEMBER: White power!

GROUP: White power! MEMBER: White power!

GROUP: White power! MEMBER: White power!

GROUP: White power!

00:18 COMM: They're one of the world's most controversial

organisations. Now 60 years since the birth of the African American civil rights movement,

the Klu Klux Klan are on a recruitment drive for new members, including children.

00:37 COMM: With special access to a recruitment

rally at a secret location, we go inside the movement to meet the members and uncover how

they're planning to take up military style training for what they claim is the first

time in their history.

00:49 MEMBER: We're gonna try and move in another

direction with the little white knights and that's starting to arm, train in hand-to-hand

combat and stuff like that for the upcoming battle.

00:58 COMM: Established 150 years ago, the Klu Klux

Klan have long been associated with racism, cross lighting, and even murder. Today the

clan is made up of an estimated six and a half thousand members across the USA, and

they're travelling across America in a bid to attract new recruits.

01:15 COMM: On the evening before their latest rally

we join them in the state of West Virginia on a night ride.

01:21 JOHN: Night ride is an old Klan term. When

the Klan went out on a night ride they went out an patrolled the streets and uh - sort

of vigilante style.

01:31 COMM: Today night rides consist of dropping

leaflets in the local area.

01:35 JOHN: Distributing these flyers for recruitment

purposes, we put them in these bags, we add some rice for weight, toss em out the window

into someone's driveway.

01:48 COMM: Parents like Sam and Amanda, have brought

their young boys, 14-year-old Mike, and 11-year-old Dustin to West Virginia for the recruitment

drive.

01:56 MIKE: I enjoy days like today because I'm

being around people, not disgusting people. Not drug addicts.

02:08 COMM: We spoke the criminologist and civil

rights lawyer, Professor Brian Levin, who believes the targeting of children is consistent

with the Klan's recruitment drive.

02:17 BRIAN: The Klan is aiming for a younger demographic

for a couple of reasons, first, to keep the organisation alive they, the Klan has traditionally

been aimed at a older audience. In addition though, youth provides it with a more relevant

social and political base as well as some technological know-how as well, so that they

can access the internet.

02:41 COMM: And the Klan are now appealing to children

online. Mum Amanda believes racial minorities can have a bad influence on her sons.

02:48 AMANDA: The kids in school, y'know the black

minorities and Mexicans, I think they're taking their parents drugs and bringing them to school

and trying to make money off of it, because their parents are so worried about doing drugs

than providing for their own children. That's what I think.

03:03 COMM: Members of the Klan since birth, the

boys have been regulars to such events, and have even taken part in cross burning rituals.

03:10 MIKE: I do remember lighting by first cross.

03:13 CAMERA: How did it feel?

03:15 MIKE: It felt good.

03:17 COMM: And Amanda wants the boys to have an

active role in the Klan in the future.

03:21 AMANDA: I want them to focus on working on

the Klan and raising more kids. White kids. And show them the values of the Klan.

03:32 COMM: The next morning heavily armed security

teams man the gates as Klan members arrive.

03:39 CAMERA: What is it?

03:40 MEMBER: It's a Remington R1 1911 .45 caliber.

03:45 COMM: They claim members are from a number

of professions.

03:49 JAMES: We got um, police officers in the Klan,

we got lawyers, we got doctors. Your next door neighbour could be in the Klan and you'll

never know it.

03:57 COMM: The rally brings different factions

of the Klan together, including the LOTIE's which stands for Ladies Of The Invisible Empire.

who hold a bake sale.

04:05 LOTIE 1: We go all over the United States

to help families in need, of shelter, food. LOTIE 2: Especially the children, because

they cannot take care of themselves. LOTIE 1: Exactly, and the elderly. Especially.

Especially the elderly.

04:22 COMM: The rally gives members the opportunity

to socialise, and even exchange gifts.

04:27 MEMBER: Well what better to give my imperial

family than a knife rack but, I think I'll make it black, because it's funny. And uh,

it is funny.

04:38 CAMERA: Why has it got a noose on it?

MEMBER: Well, because I had string sitting at the house.

04:43 COMM: As the rally gets underway, Klan Dragons

deliver speeches on their views on race, sexuality and even the media.

04:52 MEMBER: You see this state is a majority white

state and a civilised christian state. Unlike California, where they let the zoo animals

walk free. Anybody who does not believe me, look at Michigan. The whole state's bankrupt.

It's a majority black state. With three murders happening every day.

05:13 MEMBER: Just goes to show you what happens

when you take the n****r out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the n****r.

05:20 JOHN: If I were to push the envelope the just

a little bit more, and I said that I hate f**s, because homosexuality is forbidden by

God's law.

05:28 MEMBER: Praise God for AIDS.

05:31 MEMBER: And these jewish puppets, who want

to sell our ideals just for ratings on some TV show. They will be the first ones to hang

for their sins and then, their sins against God and y'all sins against humanity.

05:46 COMM: WIth the crowd warmed up, one of the

Klan seniors tells the group how they plan to move in a new direction.

05:52 MEMBER: We're gonna do something a little

different, for the next, probably the next couple of years to try to get our men and

women ready for the upcoming battle that we're about to take upon us and this is something

that no Klan has ever done and we're going to start it, all our boys are coming back

home from the military.

06:08 MEMBER: Which is good and we're getting a

lot more military members joining, as we;re gonna start doing military training, now that

we got out marines and army back. They gonna start showing us how to skin and how to survive

off the land. We're gonna try to move into another direction with the little white knights

and that is starting to arm, train, hand to hand combat, and stuff like that just for

the upcoming battle.

06:27 COMM: Whilst the Klan claim their plan to

militarise represents a new approach, Professor Levin argues such tactics have been seen before.

06:35 BRIAN: This is something we've seen throughout

recent decades, where the Klan has gone through cycles where they've armed themselves, gotten

in trouble, them mellowed out and them armed themselves again.

06:46 BRIAN: Their looking at a philosophy of a

race war and arming themselves is one way to telegraph to both their members, and society

at large, that they are relevant.

06:57 COMM: The latest rally only attracted 40 people,

and organisers know they require more numbers to have an influence.

07:04 MEMBER: The ultimate goal for myself, is to

have our membership get to the point where we can effect political change through - we

can effect change through the political system. Right now our numbers aren't quite good enough.

07:20 COMM: But with such small numbers, can the

Klu Klux Klan really have an effect in modern America.

07:26 BRIAN: I think the real danger, does not lie

with the Klan being some kind of widespread army that has tentacles across the United

States. That's not gonna happen. But what we do have to worry about is individuals,

autonomous selves, or duos, committing terrorist acts on their own, because they get training,

they get inspiration, and they get know-how from being in the orbit of these hate groups.

07:49 BRIAN: So do I think that the Klan as a holistic

entity represents a significant widespread threat to the United States? No, however,

loose radicals coming out of that orbit do in fit represent a threat of continuing terrorism,

here in the United States.

08:10 COMM: Despite being low on support the Klan

leaders are confident they can change the political landscape.

08:16 JAMES: Black people, white people, we're all

getting tired of the government, and pretty soon you'll see the government collapse. And

when the government keeps on sending their money over to Israel and it finally collapses,

your gonna see the Klan take it back and we're gonna make this nation the way it needs to

be.

08:32 MEMBER: I wanna thank all of you, God bless

you all and God bless the Klan, white power! GROUP: White power!

MEMBER: White power! GROUP: White power!

MEMBER: White power! GROUP: White power!

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