Backers cheer Duke as he heads to prison
Let's see; he defrauded his supporters, and yet he still has supporters? Are these folks allowed to breed?
BIG SPRING -- Cheered on by a small group of backers, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke turned himself in to a federal prison Tuesday to start a 15-month sentence for mail and tax fraud.
"It's a nice day to meet the grand wizard," said Sarah Peterson, 17, of Big Spring, who was part of a group of about eight people who waved signs that read "Duke for President" and "Free David Duke."
Duke, who was driven to the entrance of the federal prison facility in a champagne-colored Jeep, did not appear to acknowledge the group.
"I have this agreement with the federal government, and I'm fulfilling it," Duke said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press on Monday from his Mandeville, La., home. "My feelings are you've got to do what you've got to do."
Duke, a former state representative in Louisiana who ran for governor and the U.S. Senate about a decade ago, was sentenced in March to 15 months in prison and fined $10,000 for bilking his supporters and cheating on his taxes.
OK, will someone please remind me why forced sterilization is NOT a good idea? Thankfully for these folks, being criminally stupid is not in fact a crime....
