Last weekend, this segment highlighted the article in the Daily Inter Lake in which neighbors peacefully protested hate. Later in the week, major newspapers and other blogs picked up the story as well.  Good for Montana, our media, and fellow bloggers.  However, we were not the only ones to track the story.  MOTTO's admin stat package provides search engine hit information, and the brave Montanan who lead the neighborhood walkthrough (and named in the Daily Inter Lake and media reports) is apparently a search engine topic.  Weekend Coffee has been hit several times a day thanks to a search for the ladies name.  Her name & the article coverage now appears in several hate and racist blogs covering what they see as an "anti-white" story.

Politically, we know a position may not be popular with folks from differing political viewpoints, while others worry that blogging may affect employment, etc. Now, we also have to worry about hate mongers tracking anti-hate.  It is to be expected in the internet age that certain stories will be tracked by kooks. 

But the scary thing is that an ordinary citizen doing the right thing for her, her family, and her community is the subject in a search engine, most likely from the hatemongers. Now there is not much MOTTO can do about the the kooks searching for courageous Montanans like the Kalispell neighbors, however, MOTTO will be posting the "stop hate" image on our sidebar.  Should a hatemonger find this site from any search, they will see the image.  I quietly call on my fellow bloggers to do the same, with this image or any other. 

The image is from PBS and their "not in our town" segment.