Thanks to Derry for sending this in to add to our Free Speech debate of the other day.
BRIGHTON, Colo. - A local Nazi group says it's helping tackle Colorado's highway trash problem by adopting a section of road to keep clean.
Along Highway 85, the Chapter of the National Socialist Movement, which calls itself America's Nazi Party, is participating in a state Adopt-A-Highway program - complete with a road sign.
The white supremacist group will be responsible for picking up trash on a one-mile stretch of the road.
The Colorado Department of Transportation says it allowed the highway adoption because the group's lawyers say it could violate free speech if they denied the request.
"Our initial inclination was to deny their application, then we got legal guidance," Stacey Stegman, a department spokeswoman, said. "We looked at what has gone on in other states. We talked with the Anti-Defamation League and found out that we really had no ground to deny them.
"We were considering denying them based on the fact that there could be a potential for violence, not that there was," Stegman continued. "And so right now, we are giving them the benefit of the doubt."
Cpl. Neal Land, a spokesman for the movement, says his group stands for "white rights" and "purity of race" and should be allowed to clean the highway.
"Definitely, I want people to know we're in the state, we're active in this state, and most of all, we're doing good things in this state," Land said. "We're not a group that's out there selling drugs, running guns. We don't support any illegal activity of any sort."
1 comments:
As it's Colorado and they're neo-nazis, will they only be picking up white trash from the roadside? I didn't realise dumping kitchen appliances was such a big problem there.
And has a study been undertaken to see exactly how much of a problem is in that particular section of road, and whether this is relatively more deserving than other sections?
Neo-Nazis are clearly going soft: once was the time when they advocated littering as a crime punishable by beating, or in serious cases when it was 'undesirable' political material transportation to isolation camps or summary execution.
Neo-nazis! Gawwww!
Next they'll be doing outreach work with different cultural groups to help them set up their own chapters of racial segregation and purity. And after that it'll be "you keep to your street, I'll keep to mine", followed by "OK, we'll have dinner on Friday, but I'm not eating any fried chicken and grits"... gotta love them ideological purists, they're just so consistent!
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