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=> ACLU might defend KKK....

ACLU might defend KKK....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 14 2012, 23:38:40 (UTC)
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...this is the kind of thing that makes the United States great....unfortunately it is one of the very few things that do that any more....and it's something that would make Maggie's head explode; how can you defend the rights of people whose views you loathe? She doesn't understand "principle"...like a lot of other ideas she can't fathom...the ACLU is protecting all of us from government control....there is no merit in granting free speech rights to those you agree with...why wouldn't you? But, it takes a sublime understanding of the rights to free speech to defend it for everyone.....



International Keystone Knights of the KKK wants to adopt stretch of Georgia road
The state has denied the group's application
The ACLU is considering whether to help the group
The civil rights group says there is precedent allowing for Ku Klux Klan participation

(CNN) -- Having been denied participation in Georgia's adopt-a-highway program, a local Ku Klux Klan chapter has turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for help. And the civil rights organization may represent the group.

"We are considering next steps and whether or not we will support the group," said Debbie Seagraves, executive director for the ACLU of Georgia.

"We know this is unpopular," she admits, but if her organization helps the International Keystone Knights of the KKK, it is not because it agrees with their beliefs. It will be based on legal precedent and a legal view of whether the KKK's freedom of speech has been violated.

In a nearly identical case in Missouri in 2005, a court ruled that the state discriminated against the KKK by denying it participation in a program open to all organizations.

"It's clear and understandable that the message of the KKK is offensive and hurtful to many people, but when you cede the power to the state to decide whose speech is objectionable, we give it up," Seagraves said.

The Klan chapter wants to clean a stretch of Georgia State Route 515 in Union County and filed its application on May 21. It was rejected on Tuesday.

...if they do go ahead and win the right to keep a stretch of highway clean...let's all go and take turns shitting on it....give them something they understand.



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