Pennsylvania, “The Keystone State” sits in the center of the “Iron Pipeline”

The “Iron Pipeline” refers to the nearly unrestricted flow of firearms purchased in states with lax gun laws along the I-95 Corridor from Florida to Maine. The guns are used by criminals in states with stronger gun laws. 

Pennsylvania, “The Keystone State” is also a traditional primary location for White Nationalist/racist extremist groups that sometimes indulge in terrorist activity.

I witnessed the look of raw panic and people calling out that, “the cops are here” and quick exits from the parking lot when State Troopers visited the flea market/auctions in northwest Montgomery County. Northwest Montgomery County is by the way an alleged major hot spot for White Nationalist/Skinhead and drug trafficking/drug growing and manufacturing, notwithstanding the “tony” suburban areas there. Some of the drugs sold to the children of parents with six figure incomes in Northwest Montgomery County wind up financing MontCo’s White Nationalist/Skinheads.

If you take a scenic drive on Rt-23 in Chester Counties northern tier you might see a few “Stars and Bars” Confederate Battle Flags flying in front yards. Stop at one of the flea market/auctions in Chester County and you might see a guy with a KKK baseball cap looking for recruits. The White Nationalist/Skinheads mostly look among down and out young white men for recruits. Maybe because they saw the election of a Black President as an opportunity to expand their base, the Keystone Skinheads changed their name to a more family friendly “Keystone United”. 

A scenic drive in Southern Chester County will take you near to Cecil County, Maryland, where local KKK and Nazi groups are very active.

Over in Berks County; in Reading, PA the KKK famously had a headquarters building and decade long "Race and Reason" show on Berks Cable TV, and “White Forum" show on BCTV hosted by Longtime KKK leader Roy E. Frankhouser Jr.

See:

Longtime KKK leader Roy E. Frankhouser Jr. of Reading dies

Klansmen operating in Parkesburg, PA were arrested and later convicted:

"Residents may not have noticed them, but they were here when they set off pipe bombs, test-fired machine guns and taught bomb-making classes.

They blended right in

‘They look like us. They sound like us. They are us,’ said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr., assigned to coordinate investigations and prosecute cases with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Before international terrorists took the spotlight, there were men like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, a domestic terrorist executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, for the attack that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds more

‘To effectively combat terrorism, whether international or domestic, what you need are human sources -- spies, informants,’ explained Hogan. ‘They need to penetrate into the terrorist organization on a long-term basis.’

Obtaining such inside information was critical in convicting David Wayne Hull -- a self-declared Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who operated a "cell" in western Chester County -- of a number of weapons charges, witness tampering and a charge of instructing others how to use a pipe bomb in furtherance of a federal crime.”

FROM:

Klansman faces sentencing on weapons, bomb charges

Published: Friday, February 25, 2005

By GINA ZOTTI

Chester County is in the geographic center of extremist activity on the Atlantic Seaboard. A domestic terrorist event here is as likely here as in Arizona. The “Iron Pipeline” makes the instruments of death for a terrorist event readily available.