User blog comment:The Deadliest Warrior/Ku Klux Klan vs. Gestapo/@comment-2218058-20110826013438/@comment-2218058-20110826210439

Most of those attacks by the klan were caused by extremist members who did that on their own time without the ok of the higher members of the klan. You don't understand how it works, the national klan authorizes all organized activities and the more violent ones are those who do not really belong with the national organizations. They aren't terrorists, they things they did may have been bad but most of the members of the klan never would think to do any of the terrible things done by more extreme members. When it was started in Polaski, Tennessee in 1861 it was a purely social ordeal. All organizations can succumb to corruption. The kkk was one of them, do not make them out to be something they're not.