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Klan holds rally at Gettysburg
Yahoo News (AP) ^ | September 3, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 09/03/2006 1:39:29 PM PDT by John Carey

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: freespeech; kkk; klan; kukluxklan
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1 posted on 09/03/2006 1:39:30 PM PDT by John Carey
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To: John Carey

Big surprise. The KKK and the Anti American Left are merely different sides of the same wacko coin.


2 posted on 09/03/2006 1:41:27 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Democrats: Party of Sedition, Segregation and Slavery.)
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To: everyone

Yuck. Wish there had been a counter-demonstration.


3 posted on 09/03/2006 1:42:13 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: everyone

Oh, I see there were a couple. Glad the Confederate guys confronted them. Very good.


4 posted on 09/03/2006 1:43:58 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: California Patriot
Yuck. Wish there had been a counter-demonstration.

There were.

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.

5 posted on 09/03/2006 1:46:40 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: MNJohnnie

The ghosts of the Union Army should have awoken and slayed them all.


6 posted on 09/03/2006 1:49:05 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: SoldierDad

"The ghosts of the Union Army should have awoken and slayed them all."

The ghosts of the Confederate Army would have woken up and helped them. The KKK is the total anti-thesis of what the Southern way was about.


7 posted on 09/03/2006 1:57:52 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: John Carey

At the very least bar these cowards from the Soldiers National cemetery.


8 posted on 09/03/2006 2:00:40 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: swmobuffalo

Good point.


9 posted on 09/03/2006 2:00:41 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: John Carey

e-mail this article to every one you know who is a Democrat.


10 posted on 09/03/2006 2:03:21 PM PDT by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: John Carey

I know the government can't do anything to stop these morons because they have freedom of speech, but are we allowed to just shoot their sorry butts?


11 posted on 09/03/2006 2:06:56 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: John Carey

Did Robert Byrd show up?


12 posted on 09/03/2006 2:09:49 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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The idiot on the Left wins the Lifetime Achievement: Unclear on the Concept Award.

13 posted on 09/03/2006 2:10:27 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: John Carey

Counldn't some of those re-enactor guys accidently shoot them?


14 posted on 09/03/2006 2:11:21 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: John Carey

First an Al Qaeda video spouting Dem talking points and now the klan...


15 posted on 09/03/2006 2:20:56 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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To: swmobuffalo

You couldn't be more wrong . Slavery did not start under the confederate flag . Also for your info 88% of the confederate soldiers who fought in the civil war came from homes that had no slaves or any intrest in the slavery issue . So you are an uninformed ignorant student of American history .


16 posted on 09/03/2006 2:22:21 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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To: MNJohnnie
David Duke, Cindy Sheehan crossbreed.

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17 posted on 09/03/2006 2:24:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: MNJohnnie
Actually I would say they are the same side. Can`t say I know any former KKK member Senators who are Republican who keep getting re-elected over and over and over and over....


18 posted on 09/03/2006 2:25:08 PM PDT by Screamname (A second plane has just hit the second tower, this is a coincidence. - Katie Couric, Sept 11th 2001)
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To: lionheart 247365

You misunderstood that post, read it again.


19 posted on 09/03/2006 2:26:18 PM PDT by rudabaga
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To: lionheart 247365

"So you are an uninformed ignorant student of American history ."

And you don't know what the h*ll you're talking about. Go read my post again.


20 posted on 09/03/2006 2:29:35 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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