[Editor's Note: This item was forwarded by Rick Stanley. This story betrays the essense of the new Police State in America. This man has broken no laws. It's not against the law to have handguns, rifles, shotguns, knives, or ammunition in your home in any state in America assuming you are not a convicted felon. It's not against the law to possess literature that is racially bigoted or expresses ethnic hatred towards another group. It's not against the law to have a doll with a noose around its neck, flak jackets, or a Hitler doll. This is America. These things are not against the law because they are allowed by the US Constitution and its Amendments. Those who violate the Constitution are breaking the law. The West Islip, NY police have broken the law by arresting a man who is within the law. The fascist violation of our constitutional rights by police anywhere in America must be stopped...Ken Adachi]

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May 28, 2003

(Rick Stanley Note: MAN ARRESTED BY POLICE...courtesy of DANIEL KING: NO MATTER HOW "unapproved" ONE'S LITERATURE MIGHT BE... DO POLICE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ARREST SOMEONE WAS HAS NOT COMMITTED ANY CRIMES, BECAUSE POLICE DO NOT LIKE WHAT LITERATURE PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE IN THEIR HOMES??? Or, have the 1st & 4th Amendments to the Constitution been SUSPENDED? )

KKK Member Arrested

Police find firearms, hate literature in his West Islip home

By J. Jioni Palmer Staff Writer

May 26, 2003

A school janitor from West Islip was arrested after police seized firearms, hate literature and other racist paraphernalia, including a black doll with a
noose around its neck, from his home, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Sunday.

James Donato Jr., 34, of 856 Bay Shore Ave., identified by police as an active member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested Friday afternoon at John Quincy Adams Primary School in Deer Park, where he works as a custodian. Donato's arrest came shortly after Suffolk County police detectives assigned to Spota's office, acting on a tip from an informant, executed a warrant at his home. Authorities said they raided Donato's home when they knew he would be at work to avoid a possible armed confrontation.

Police found one shotgun, four pistols, eight rifles, nine semi- automatic rifles, dozens of knives, blackjacks and brass knuckles and more than 3,000
rounds of ammunition at Donato's home.

Donato, who could not be reached to comment Sunday, pleaded not guilty to two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon at his arraignment Saturday in District Court in Central Islip. He is free on $2,500 cash bail.

Besides the weaponry, police found gas masks, flak jackets, a noose, an Adolph Hitler doll, a copy of "The Aryan Coloring Book," a Ku Klux Klan hood with robe and business cards that read: "You have been visited by the Ku Klux Klan, and the next time will not be a social call."

"When you see this you realize we really do have a long way to go" to eliminate racism and bias, Spota said Sunday at a news conference in Hauppauge.

Spota said his office's investigation into Donato is continuing and federal law enforcement agencies also have been notified.

Spota said Donato admitted being an active member of the Ku Klux Klan, having attended meetings in upstate Walden, N.Y., and on Long Island.

As proof of Donato's membership, prosecutors displayed a certificate proclaiming him a "member in good standing in the church of the American
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," and holding the title of County Klexter, which denotes a person who handles security at Klan meetings.

Another Klan proclamation cited Donato's excellence for "outstanding achievement in spreading hatred."

Police Commissioner John Gallagher said he was repulsed by Donato's "cesspool of hate," particularly given this weekend's observance of Memorial Day.

"It is a denigration of what they [U.S. veterans] gave their lives for," Gallagher said. "This is what he gives back?"

In a statement to police, Donato, a tenth-grade dropout from West Islip High School, said his racist attitudes began as a child growing up in Queens, where
he says he was bullied by black children in the neighborhood."I began to get a kind of anger toward black people because they treated me
bad," he told police.

He harbored these feelings for years without an outlet, but that changed several years ago, he told police, when a documentary about hate groups
prompted him to join the Klan.

There was no answer at Donato's home in West Islip, which he shares with his elderly father, James Sr., 70.

A sticker on the door with a gun pointed at visitors read, "If you are found here tonight you will be found here tomorrow."

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