Thread: What does your snowman look like? Man builds KKK snowman.....

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Idaho White Supremacist Builds KKK Snowman

(Dec. 3) -- A self-described white supremacist built a 10-foot snowman in the front yard of his Hayden, Idaho, home. Then he gave it a peaked hood, big black eyes and a stick for arm, with a noose dangling from its bony appendage. Then the cops came.

Mark Eliseuson said he saw nothing wrong with his creation. But his neighbors saw an appalling, racist Ku Klux Klansman and called authorities.


Amber Caldwell, AP

Kootenai County, Idaho, sheriff's deputies told Mark Eliseuson on Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman in his front yard was holding what appeared to be a noose.

Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrived Wednesday and told Eliseuson he had created a public nuisance.

"There's nothing hateful about it that I can see," he told KXLY TV. Asked why his neighbors complained, Eliseuson replied, "Hell if I know. They wanna cause trouble."

Later, Eliseuson and a friend amputated the arm, knocked off the snowman's head and have him a rounded one. He was not charged.

"It's such a message of hate," neighbor Amber Caldwell said, according to The Associated Press. "My kids asked me about it and I had to explain what that symbol means."

Sheriff's Lt. Stu Miller said Eliseuson often flies Aryan flags and describes himself as a white supremacist, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported.

The city of Hayden, in northern Idaho, is not far from the former headquarters of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations group. Neighbors have been enraged before by Eliseuson, according to AP and KXLY reports. On Halloween, he passed out bullet casings after he said he ran out of candy.

Just someone trying to stir up trouble. I think some people thrive on it.

What an idiot. So offensive. Passing out bullet casings for Halloween??

Well wouldnt it be terrible if someone came along at 2am and destroyed it?? terrible terrible.