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White supremacy paper turns up in driveways again, disgusts residents

ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Someone went house to house leaving copies of a white supremacist newspaper in Attleboro and the neighborhoods are outraged.

Dozens of people from at least three streets found the paper in their driveway Friday morning and not one person we spoke with is happy about it.

With stories about former president Barack Obama being Jewish, and a headline that says "it's time for white people to stick together."

The Crusader bills itself as "the premier voice of the white resistance” and the Ku Klux Klan.

“I only looked at the front page and I said, ‘this is crazy,’” Attleboro Joe Aguis said.

Aguis found the tabloid rolled up and in a plastic bag at the end of his driveway this morning.

He has lived on Marlise Street for more than 30 years and he's never seen anything like it.

“Totally surprised someone would even think of that,” said Aguis.

Neighbor Joe Gomes says he immediately tore it up and threw it in the trash.

“I kind of read through the paper, through the plastic it came in and I saw it said, ‘whites have to stick together’ and knew right away what is,” said Gomes.

The paper is published in Harrison, Arkansas and it lists its website as KKK.com.

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By phone, publisher Pastor Thomas Robb said there are readers all over the world.

“We have lots of people order quantities of papers, usually they're members, but sometimes non-members order extra quantities of our paper and distribute them,” said Robb.

The same thing happened last November in the town of Milford.

Copies of the crusader were left in one neighborhood and then weeks later in another.

Residents there had similar reactions to the ones in Attleboro.

At least one resident contacted the Attleboro police. There is little officers can do because the paper is a protected form of free speech.