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Serenasailor
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 430
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 08:45 pm: | 
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SHARPSBURG, Md. - A Ku Klux Klan group plans to hold a rally June 10 on the grounds of the Antietam National Battlefield, site of the bloodiest one-day clash of the Civil War, an organizer and a park official said.
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Battlefield Superintendent John W. Howard said Tuesday the National Park Service approved the white supremacist group's application for a permit to use the park to exercise its free speech rights.
"It would be very difficult to find a reason why a First Amendment permit would be denied," Howard said.
Gordon Young, Imperial Wizard of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, estimated in his application that about 100 people would attend the rally at the nearly 3,300-acre park.
Howard said the park service would establish separate areas for news media and counter-demonstrators. Park Service police would be aided by state and local law enforcement in providing security, he said.
Nine Klan members marched in an event the group held in nearby Sharpsburg in 2004. Young said at the time that he chose to rally in his hometown partly because of its proximity to Antietam, to honor fallen Confederate soldiers.
On Sept. 17, 1862, more than 23,000 men on both sides were killed, wounded or reported missing at the western Maryland battlefield.
The Confederacy's failure to achieve a clear victory at Antietam gave President Lincoln the political strength to issue the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the South.
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Mony
Newbie Poster
Username: Mony
Post Number: 9
Registered: 02-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 09:21 pm: |
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This is bizarre. Under the guise of free speech, they, the authorites, are letting these yoyos parade up and down on a battle-field on which many soldiers died. It would be particularly laughable to see them in their clown outfits. Only in America. |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 318
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:08 am: |
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The first amendment covers freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.No constitutional provision is required to assure you the right to agree with the majority opinion or your rulers.You can stand up in public and agree with the most brutal of totalitarian dictators in any country in the world.The first amendment is intended to protect the rights of those expressing opinions that either the rulers or the majority of the populace find objectionable.It is a good thing that these hateful troglodytes can assemble and regurgitate their bigotry and I support their right to do so whole-heartedly, just as they are required to allow me the same right to express what I think about their malicious hissy fit. |
Va_sis
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Username: Va_sis
Post Number: 69
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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Perhaps it's not as bizarre as you'd think, Mony.
Think about it.
The Klan was supposedly born out of the boredom of Civil War vets that tried to boost morale in the South by spreading cheer & merriment. It didn't take them long to turn evil & violent.
Those asses are simply parading in the name of their "brethren". |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2132
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 02:25 pm: |
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Va_sis:
Yeah. A lot of their ancestors bought the farm there--a warm and delicious thought. They're going to cry there in their dresses.
Here's hoping they'll all get food poisoning and croak on the spot, the sheet wearing rats! |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2133
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 02:26 pm: |
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Wonder if Bush will show up? |
Mony
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Username: Mony
Post Number: 10
Registered: 02-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 07:44 pm: |
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I fully undersand that to most Americans, the constitutional right to freedom of speech is sacrosanct. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Klan created to keep the former slaves in their 'place'? Espeacily after Reconstruction began after the civil war? The Klu Klux Klan's political power has also waxed and waned since its' inception. For those in the know, how are these miscreants viewed today? Are they percieved as a threat or as a laughable bunch of clowns? Is the extent of any influence they may wield dependant on the particular parts of the country they are in? Thanks in advance.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2140
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:20 am: |
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A couple years ago a cell of them operating here in Missouri was arrested and convicted of plotting to dynamite several government offices and assasinating several targets, including black officials and black local talk show host Liz Brown. They had got as far as drawing up plans, getting the bombs and firearms.
Around here they are active. Not long ago my mother and her church group put on a program in my home town of Centralia Illinois. They were warned to get out of town before sundown because the klan was holding a cross burning on the outskirts. Several hundred people attended.
They are not what they were even in the 60's but they are out there and no joke.
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