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Remember the good old days, back in the 1990s, when the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) was still claiming to be a non-racist, if conservative, group? That was when then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was still trying to defend his ties to the CCC in the aftermath of an revealing the virulent racism at the core of the group. By 2000, the CCC had relaxed a little, letting its ideological hair down with a Web posting advertising South Carolina鈥檚 鈥渨hiter beaches鈥� (the state was being subjected to a tourism boycott by the NAACP) and, in a final display of let-them-think-whatever-they-damn-want-to insouciance, an essay calling blacks a 鈥渞etrograde species of humanity.鈥� But still, CCC officials soldiered on, telling anyone who would listen that theirs was a mainstream group and that those who criticized it were the real haters. Even as , the CCC struggled to remain relevant.

Now comes Larry Darby, the of the CCC鈥檚 Alabama Capital Region. The man is not an advertisement for the CCC鈥檚 alleged moderation.

For years, Darby was a lonely atheist in hyper-religious Alabama, denouncing religion every time he could get a TV camera pointed his way. He supported the legalization of marijuana. Then, in late 2005, he , the world鈥檚 leading Holocaust denier, to central Alabama, billing him as an 鈥渆xpert鈥� on World War II and 鈥渇ree speech.鈥� Running (unsuccessfully) for state attorney general the following year, he said the Nazi Holocaust 鈥渘ever happened,鈥� the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be repealed, and segregated schools should be reinstated. He suggested that martial law be imposed and troops stationed on interstates to deal with 鈥渋llegal aliens.鈥� He traveled to a May 13, 2006, rally in New Jersey held by the neo-Nazi group, National Vanguard, to , including David Duke. A photograph from the rally show a smiling Darby arm in arm with infamous .

All this might have left Darby in the political wilderness in most places. Not so the Alabama CCC, which liked Darby just fine 鈥� once he renounced his atheism, that is, and announced that he鈥檇 been unexpectedly reborn as a right-wing Christian.

Now, Larry Darby and the CCC are marching together off into the future. Most recently, Darby sent letters to two Alabama newspapers, the and the . In them, he accused the newspapers of being a 鈥渇ifth column鈥� because they opposed English-only driver鈥檚 license testing. He said they were promoting the 鈥渄isintegration of Alabama鈥檚 Anglo-Celtic society.鈥� He charged that Alabama and America generally are 鈥渦nder the thumbs of international bankers鈥� and sundry 鈥渆conomic vampires and slavers鈥� (read: the Jews). And then, in a curious last thought, Darby offered up this conundrum: 鈥淚s it coincidental that Karl Marx鈥檚 ideas appeared in New York newspapers as early as 1861, when Abraham Lincoln abandoned republican government and diverted the ship of state to its present course?鈥�

Good question, Larry. We鈥檒l be thinking about it.