Cannon: Idaho’s “far right” is phantom menace

Despite the Klan not being in North Idaho for a third of a century, groups like the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force warned locals at the recent United Against Hate event of a “far right" takeover of Idaho.

The problem is that there is no far right — just neighbors who disagree. Yet if you switch the words “hate” with “dissent,” the real aim of anti-free speech groups becomes obvious. When the event’s FBI representative was asked about the relationship between the local task force groups and the FBI, DOJ, and DHS, he said he could not comment on this matter. Meanwhile, BCHRTF is allowed to ask LPOSD students about “human rights issues” in their "school and community.” Where does this information go? How did harmless local organizations end up on the SPLC’s "hate map?" What happened in Ireland recently is telling. 

Ireland doesn’t have a “far right.” In fact, Ireland’s Parliament doesn’t even have a Conservative Party. It was dissolved in 1891. Yet somehow, the far right there rioted after three children and two adults were stabbed. Ireland’s Prime Minister called the protestors white supremacists, hooligans, and far right (sound familiar?). The problem is that the Irish aren’t buying it because there is no far right in Ireland, just like in the United States. The problem is that the Irish are being told (by the EU) to make way for migrants from radically different cultures. 

We need to think about what happens after this shameful globalist moment in western history. What do we do with globalist politicians who sold our countries out to international corporatism? Do we hold trials? Is it treason? What do we do with the complicit corporate media? Trials too? Or simply shun them from polite society? "No one can stop an idea whose time has come.” We should ponder the coming backlash before it lands in our lap.  

DEAN CANNON

Sandpoint