Klan holds rally at Gettysburg (War Reenactors Counter-protest!)

Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 9/3/2006 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

Klan holds rally at Gettysburg

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos as they stood behind barricades at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Gordon Young of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan also called Saturday for the U.S. to pull its troops out of Iraq and use them to patrol the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration.

The World Knights obtained a permit in July for the two-hour demonstration. The National Park Service granted it under the group's First Amendment rights to free speech.

Several groups counterdemonstrated. Park Service spokeswoman Katy Lawhon said there were no major incidents; one man was cited for entering a restricted area carrying a rainbow flag.

Confederate re-enactors from Virginia protested the Klan's adoption of the Confederate battle flag as an emblem and its claim to be a continuance of the Confederate cause.

"These guys don't stand for anything I stand for," said Tim McCown of Jefferson, Md. "And it's time we disengage our flag from what they stand for."

Representatives of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans also came to protest the Klan's efforts to identify with the Confederacy. In a nearby park, churches and other groups held a Unity Day rally.

Gettysburg resident Steve Alexander, 52, shouted himself hoarse from the barricades, calling the Klansmen cowards and worse.

"I'm sick and tired of this," Alexander said.

More than 150 law enforcement officials patrolled the event, which drew about 200 spectators, some of whom echoed the Klan's calls while others jeered their rhetoric.

Young's group and other white-supremacist organizations held a similar event June 10 at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md.

[Pyro7480]

Counter protesters of the 37th Texas Cavalry, Bob Harrison, left, Tim McCown, center and Helaine Hainson stand with heads bowed as Members of the World Order of the Ku Klux Klan, rear, hold a protest rally at the Gettysburg National Military Park Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006 in Gettysburg, Pa. The 37th Texas Cavalry conducted a Confederate reenactor military protest against the KKK at the event. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)

[Pyro7480]

I thought you might like to see this.

[Parley Baer]

This should warm Senator Byrds heart.

[shankbear]

Klan Klown Krowd. These a-wipes are a forgotten relic.

[Kimmers]

I know I would be standing with the counter-protesters....

[AGreatPer]

I live about 30 miles from Gettysburg. There is a pocket of these cooks that live in central PA and virginia.

They just won't go away. Fortunately, this will get little to no coverage. Everyone knows they are deminishing in numbers.

[Past Your Eyes]

Do you suppose Sheets put in an appearance?

[righthand man]

thanks for the picture
DIXIE PING

[Past Your Eyes]

Gettysburg is one of our favorite places to visit. Have they voted on that casino yet? When we were there last spring there were signs for and against all over the place.

[Hacksaw]

Gettysburg is one of our favorite places to visit.

Which reminds me it is proably time for a weekend road trip there before it gets too cold.

[MikefromOhio]

I used to live in Waynesboro.

I wonder if the Klukkers came from the area just to the north of Waynesboro?

That is the area they kept coming from when they'd come into towm to make asses of themselves....

[Stonewall Jackson]

Go Texas Cav!

Two of my ancestors served in McCord's Texas Cavalry (aka the Frontier Cavalry or the 46th Texas Cavalry), and I think that one or more of their cousins served in the 37th Cavalry (Terry's Cavalry or Terrell's Cavalry).

The Klan had a rally here in Elizabethtown, Ky last summer, but only seven of them came compared to about two hundred counter-protestors.

[CertainInalienableRights]

About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos ...

Gordon Young of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan also called Saturday for the U.S. to pull its troops out of Iraq and use them to patrol the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration.

Interesting how much the Klan shares with the Left - treating people by race, religion and/or sexual orientation rather than as individuals, pulling out of Iraq, commandeering symbols of others for nefarious means, not to mention Sheets Byrd. They're more alike than either the Klan or the Left would like to admit.

[AGreatPer]

"I wonder if the Klukkers came from the area just to the north of Waynesboro?"

You nailed it. Yep the same clowns. Also, some coming in from McConnelsberg in those hills west of Chambersberg.

It's the same people over and over again. It's getting old already.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

Well the gene pool ain't exactly deep in that area.

[AGreatPer]

A few years ago I went to a Blue Grass Music Festival in McConnelsberg because I like that kind of music once in awhile. I couldn't believe it when a Klan meeting broke out in one of the picnic areas.

If you recall, there is only one company in McConnelsberg, it is JLK Industries. I knew every one of them from doing business with the company. I mean, these guys make great lift trucks, but they are as backwoods as you get.

You can't even get a radio station that doesn't have country or religion on it. BTW, I heard this on the radio, honest; They will save your sould if you send in $3.

[onedoug]

"I hate Pennsylvania nazis!"

[lionheart 247365]

Kluckers can kiss my grits .

[SengirV]

Drove right past this yesterday and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

[Paleo Conservative]

War Reenactors Counter-protest!

Perhaps they could perform a bayonet charge against the Klan?

[Valin]

Ku Klux Klan It's such a shame when cousins marry

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Ku Klux Klan It's such a shame when cousins marry<<<

Are you implying the KKK is a 'descendant' of English royalty?

[El Gato]

The 37th Texas Cavalry conducted a Confederate reenactor military protest against the KKK at the event.

It's really too darn bad that those reenactors couldn't have conducted their protest with Minnie balls and black powder.

[El Gato]

Do you suppose Sheets put in an appearance?

If the Klukers were hooded, he may have. Who'd know?

[brwnsuga]

It is a shame that the Klan still exists.

[stainlessbanner]

Great picture of the counter demonstration at G'Burg.

Thanks 37th Texas Cavalry - great job!

[stand watie]

may God BLESS & keep the honorable,gray-clad, lads of 37th Texas.

you are fighting the GOOD FIGHT against EVIL, just as our ancestors did a century & a half ago.

otoh, then there's the GARBAGE in robes/hoods. i have a really HOT place that they can go.

free dixie,sw

[Pyro7480]

God bless, stand watie. :-)

[stand watie]

TU.

free dixie,sw

[miliantnutcase]

This is getting idiotic. There's like 10 of those idiots left still wearing their bed sheets, yet there is such sensationalism everywhere they go. A few weeks ago we had mexican illegals tearing down the US flag in protests, spewing hate toward America. Now the day has come when places are leaping to promote educated black people, and we have thousands of Farrakhan's and Nagins still bitching about how oppressed they are.

[LeoWindhorse]

"About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos "

what about fundamentalist muslims? these guys are behind the times on whom they choose to hate I guess.

[stand watie]

since "the kluxers" are brain-DEAD, i'm NOT surprised.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

"as for me & my house", we will continue to fight the klan (as my grandfather & father did for 75 years or more) until there are NO kluxers anywhere.

that will be a LONG time, imVho.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

or with a 6# Napolean, loaded with "fluff"!

free dixie,sw

[Colt .45]

I got something for the hooded punks! Its called a 155mm loaded with a flechette round!

[TrogdortheBurninator]

There's a big difference between Nazis and KKKers. White supremacy is just a common factorial.