Posted on 08/14/2010 9:56:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Three arrests, no violence at National Socialist rally
By Matt Lakin
Knoxville News Sentinel
Updated August 14, 2010 at 10:23 p.m.
Swastikas flew on the courthouse lawn Saturday as National Socialists marched through downtown for a rally against illegal immigration.
"This is part of our Stand in The South," said Jeff Schoep, commander of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement. "It's about the survival of America."
About 50-60 members of the NSM made the march from Market Square to the courthouse on Main Street, past heckling from more than 100 counter-protesters and surrounded by 400-500 police.
"Nazis, go home!" the hecklers shouted.
"We are home," came the reply.
The march began around 3 p.m. and wrapped up just before 5 p.m. with three arrests, Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
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They need those swatiskas shoved .... well you can guess where.
did our entire congress show up?
I hate Tennessee Nazis.
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The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, has been shot and killed by a sniper at a shopping centre in Arlington, Virginia.
Minutes after the shooting a "captain" in Rockwell's Nazi party, John Patler, 29, was arrested and charged with his murder.
[snip]
Speaking tonight Mr Koehl told reporters the murder suspect, John Patler, had been expelled from the Nazi party in April this year for "Bolshevik leanings".
From the BBC Archives
I don’t know why people are celebrating, the nazi dudes were arrested for just exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, and the counter-protester was arrested for being in the wrong side of the protest, according to the article.
Sounds like some citizens whom I likely virulently disagree with got hassled for no reason.
Just because Nazis are against illegal immigration doesn’t make illegal immigration right.
From the longish Hayek quote that is on my FR profile page, speaking of between-the-wars Germany, before Hitler took power:
“The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related.”
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