Do the St. Augustine Record and Local Politicos Still Support Hate Speech?

In 1964, the ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD published hate speech, including advance announcements of KKK meetings. The Record ran the names and addresses of the courageous young people who were desegregating our local schools, thereby empowering the KKK and John Birch Society to stalk, intimidate, blacklist and fire their family members. Never has the St. Augustine Record, or its current owner, MORRIS PUBLISHING, ever apologized for this hate. In sharp and marked contrast The Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader has not only apologized for its racist, reactionary coverage – it ran articles detailing what really happened there, which the Herald-Leader never covered at the time.
In 2005, County Commissioners voted to allow an anti-Gay hate rally at our World Golf Village Convention Center, while the St. Johns County Sheriff's office threatened two local women with arrest for posting information about the event and inviting protests.
Look for more hate speech in today’s ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD, on the 43rd anniversary of the murder of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The RECORD printed a lying Ann Coulter column about President Barack Obama, one that portrays “liberals” as treasonous, and pretends that all “liberals” favor the government’s actions in Libya.
The ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD long published a hate website, called “Talk of the Town,” on which bigots spewed racist, sexist, misogynist and anti-Gay epithets (32 pages of hate when United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. ordered Rainbow flags flown on our historic Bridge of Lions on June 7, 2005).
Some local politicians showed lack of research, or poor judgment, by giving significant encouragement to hate, including posting, both anonymously and under their names, on hate sites later operated by MICHAEL GOLD f/k/a “MICHAEL TOBIN,” who operates Historic City News and Shamefulpeople.com, and long operated plazabum.com, which was a forum for cyberbullying and cyberstalking.
Last week, the RECORD, acting as a bullet in the bigots’ gun, carried prominent articles bearing my name, without affording me an opportunity for full and fair comment. I reckon the RECORD still prints hate speech. See RFK’s speech (below), which expresses my thoughts on the issue.