Are the KKK your local trash collectors?

cato2 · 01-31-2005, 23:27

I know this is legal....but it just seems wrong to me to allow this. Will they be cleaning up in their outfits?

Quote:

U.S. Nazis Adopt a Road, Pick Up Litter, Get a Sign

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.Sometimes you take the good with the bad. Wonder how well this would go in a retirement community in Florida?

"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.

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scott.voigt · 01-31-2005, 23:30

Wow... I always though of the local KKK as trash... not a bunch of guys that pick it up.

conlor · 02-01-2005, 10:36

Would they let a National Pedophelia Assc participate? They need to set limits.

cato2 · 02-01-2005, 17:10

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Originally Posted by conlor

Would they let a National Pedophelia Assc participate? They need to set limits.

Good question, just where do they draw that line? Apparently they do not.

JohnRN · 02-01-2005, 19:38

Who knows? Maybe they'll pick up the trash and drop themselves off into the truck at the end of it

And no, I don't agree with banning them either...

Woodmonkey · 02-01-2005, 20:50

This is Oregon, and Portland at that. They will say that the KKK/Nazi Party has freedom of speech and refuse to allow the Boy Scouts into schools because that private organization does not allow practicing gays and Atheists.

I agree with my son, John, though. They are legal so should be included even though I hate what they stand for.

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