Hate has no place in Havre or Montana, alderman

On Jan. 17, 2017, the Havre City Council voted to pass the “Proclamation of Support for the City and Citizens of Whitefish, Montana.” The proclamation, “denouncing hate, bigotry, and intolerance,” served to show Havre’s solidarity with nearly identical proclamations unanimously passed by the Whitefish City Council, the Lewistown City Commission, and the Great Falls City Commission.

The proclamation was drafted as resistance against the Dec. 23, 2016, call by Andrew Anglin for an armed, anti-Semitic “March on Whitefish.” Anglin, publisher of “The Daily Stormer,” a white supremacist website, sai...