White supremacists have been increasingly active and vocal over the last few years, which has led Justing Beights to develop a way of drowning them out: clowns playing accordions.

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That's right: according to The Spokesman-Review, Beights is seeking a permit to stage a demonstration featuring a small group of accordion-playing clowns who will perform outside the Idaho home of Scott D. Rhodes. Rhodes is suspected to be the mastermind behind a spate of anti-Semitic robotic calls sent to thousands of phones in the United States.

As The Daily Progress reports, the robocalls support the appeal of the 14th Amendment, which grants black people citizenship, along with civil and legal rights.

Beights became aware of the calls once they reached Charlottesville, Virginia, where he works. As you know, Charlottesville played host to 2017's Unite the Right rally. Beights originally planned to demonstrate against white supremacy by holding what he called the “Festival of the Schmestival,” an inclusive party to combat the rally's 2018 sequel with joy. His permit was denied, however.

“We were going to have a celebrity dunk tank, and a giraffe, and a Huey Lewis and the News tribute band teed up for it,” said the 43-year-old. “It was just going to be a fun, ridiculous event that we were trying to hold in place of a bunch of white supremacists with tiki torches coming into our town again.”

Shortly after plans for the festival fell through, Charlottesville was hit with the racist robocalls. The calls end with a URL, a site on which Rhodes posts racist, white supremacist podcasts. Rhodes has attacked those in the press who have linked the calls to him but hasn't denied being their architect.

That was enough for Beights, who decided protesting outside of Rhodes' home would be an excellent way to spread a message of love.

“He targeted my hometown, so I said okay, if he wants to use his First Amendment rights to spread his ridiculousness, then I’ll use my First Amendment rights to spread my own ridiculousness,” said Beights. “And you know what, why not do it in front of his house for as long as possible? Because if he’s going to torment my friends and neighbors and their homes and businesses with his stupid s**t … if he wants to get into a stupid s**t competition, I’ll win that every day.”

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