Posted on 09/03/2006 1:09:50 PM PDT by 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.
I thought you might like to see this.
This should warm Senator Byrds heart.
Klan Klown Krowd. These a-wipes are a forgotten relic.
I know I would be standing with the counter-protesters....
They just won't go away. Fortunately, this will get little to no coverage. Everyone knows they are deminishing in numbers.
Do you suppose Sheets put in an appearance?
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.
Which reminds me it is proably time for a weekend road trip there before it gets too cold.
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....
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.
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.
LOL
Well the gene pool ain't exactly deep in that area.
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.
Kluckers can kiss my grits .
Drove right past this yesterday and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Perhaps they could perform a bayonet charge against the Klan?
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