Posted on 01/31/2005 10:56:28 AM PST by jb6
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - The American Nazi Party has volunteered to pick up trash along a quiet stretch of rural road in Oregon state, causing an uproar after getting a sign placed there crediting its work.
The issue has flared up in the same week that world leaders and aging survivors gathered in the Polish town of Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp.
"American Nazi Party" reads the sign, which is part of the "Adopt-A-Road" program, a widely promoted U.S. scheme encouraging local groups to clean up road litter in exchange for recognition on small signs.
The sign, located on a quiet stretch of road near Salem, Oregon, also lists the initials "NSM," which stands for the National Socialists Movement, another white supremacists group.
Marion County officials say there is nothing they can do about the Nazi litter pick up because barring the group from the program would violate its First Amendment free speech rights.
"I myself have gotten at least 30 complaints," Dan Estes, the senior policy advisor to the Marion County Board of Commissioners said. "We knew there was going to be a great deal of public outcry." The Ku Klux Klan "adopted" a stretch of road in Missouri. After several legal battles, U.S. courts ruled that attempts to block the white supremacist group from the litter program was a violation of its free speech.
Neither the American Nazi Party nor the National Socialists Movement immediately responded to attempts to reach them.
The Oregon county put up the two signs at a cost to taxpayers of about $500, Estes said. If the signs are destroyed, the sponsoring organization must pay for replacements.
Any group sponsoring a litter pick-up must clean the roads twice a year. They must be a recognized organization, but it is usually a Boy Scout troop or civic organization.
The democrats are actually doing something about the enviroment?
I remember reading a newspaper story ages ago about a Ku Klux Klan gang who did the same thing. Apparantly, lots of people drove out of their way to dump particularly foul rubbish on the klansmen's section of highway.
Hay, now that's an idea.
Yeah, but they're only picking up White trash.
Thought they were outlawed in the US as a political party. No?
Wow I will remember to keep my cat litter on hand if any such group does that here.
Not as far as I know, but they and the communists should be.
What a little bizarre about this is that 'Nazi' is merely a German abbreviation of the German phrase fot National Socialist (correct me if I'm wrong). Is the American Nazi party too ignorant to know what the English translation is?
They (and the commies) are clearly anti-constitutional, but I guess that doesn't lead to a ban. Strange.
Talk about propaganda on the part of the writer here. I've seen Planned Parenthood Adopt-a-Highway sponsorships, restaurants, corporations... I haven't seen much in the way of scout troops or "civic organizetions" but now that the American Nazi Party is involved in their community, we have to throw a fit.
Didnt the same thing happen with the KKK in Missouri? I recall the MO Dept of Transportation assigning them the Rosa Parks Freeway to clean or maybe the legislature changing the name of the road they picked. Sounds too perfect, I better check snopes...
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Must be nazis.
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More logic from the folks who brought you:
1. Forced busing
2. "Randolph has two Daddies
3. Abortion saves life while preserving the quality of life.
4. Self-Esteem
5. No Tolerance
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That was a stretch of I55 just South of I270 and North of Butler Hill Road. They fought it in court, won and got to put up a sign. As soon as the sign was up, it was stolen. This happened several times. Eventually they started staking out the sign and caught a guy climbing over the fence from an Apt. complex. Upon questioning, he admitted the thefts and said that he did it because the signs were 'hateful'. He was white. MoDot refused to replace the signs on the grounds that after so many it was the KKK's responsibility, and they weren't picking up the trash. Eventually that stretch of I55 was renamed Rosa Parks Highway.
A Nazi sign on a public highway equals drive by target practice.
Nazi is taken from Nationalsozialistische.
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