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Alabama newspaper editor calls for the KKK's return to 'clean out DC'

Democrat-Reporter's Goodloe Sutton also compared the KKK to civil rights group NAACP and added that the violence unleashed by the KKK was justified

A newspaper in Linden, Alabama published an editorial last week which called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in an effort to block tax hikes in the state, according to reports. The controversial editorial was published on Thursday last week.

Publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper, Goodloe Sutton, confirmed writing the editorial to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday, stating he had written the column asking for the return of the white supremacist hate group.

The Alabama Press Association  (APA) reportedly told the Montgomery Advertiser that although it does not condone the views expressed in Sutton's editorial, it does not have the authority to stop him. 

APA executive director, Felicia Mason, said: "We do not agree with the opinion. However, APA is not a policing agency. We simply have no authority over what our member newspapers publish."