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Last month a similar protest took place at Antietam/Sharpsburg and went down with no problems. My biggest concern is that again, an unpopular demonstration will cost the town needed funds that will go to extra security instead of municipal maintenance.
tomh- Point taken. It's a shame nuts need to provoke and torment and bedevil upstanding citizens and the tax-paying public. And prevent our finite resources from being used in more worthy fashion. It's just that this issue managed to hit a number of my bugaboos; namely the inequal application and perception of our 'rights', just what those rights are and mean, and whether these 'rights' exist at all or at least in the mind of the ranter demanding or exclaiming them. Grrrrr, makes me see red the whole lot of these miserable creatures, and not just the Klan.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
Here's the latest on the KKK demonstration scheduled on the battlefield. A CS Cavalry re-enacting unit has obtained a permit to counter-demonstrate, and their proposed action is a classy way to make a statement.
Re-enactors to turn backs on the Klan
The Evening Sun
By ANGIE MASON
For The Evening Sun
The 37th Texas Cavalry plans to send the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan a loud message by saying very little.
When the cavalry gathers Sept. 2 to counter the Klan's protest at Gettysburg National Military Park, re-enactors dressed in Confederate garb will march and turn their backs on the Klan in "true Confederate military style," said Bob Harrison, first sergeant with the cavalry.
"We want to do something that sticks into a lot of minds," Harrison said.
For that I'd cheerfully buy a uniform and join the 37th Texas Cav.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Good for the Texas Cav!!!!! I'd gladly suit up and fall off of a horse for that cause.
Maybe some of those famed Gettysburg battlefield ghosts will show themselves to the clansmen and turn a portion of their lilly white costumes a few different colors. I'd say the colors, but you get the point.
Bart
__________________ "Thank You....Noooo."
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III M.A.S.H. 4077th
Hey....I understand the blood boiling stuff, but it's alright. The more they gather, the bigger fools they appear. THey are outdated and they can't think of any other way to get publicity. After all, you can not deny that Forrest founded the group, and likely killed many blacks himself. Let the idiots protest and have fun. I personally will be laughing at them and I think many if not most others will join me. They are RIDICULOUS and I don't take the KKK out on history...but I also admit up here, we think the KKK is just a whacked out group of Southerners who can't get over the deletion of slavery from our system.
Nowadays, quite a number are whacked out Northerners, as well.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Nowadays, quite a number are whacked out Northerners, as well.
Ole
Boonville, Indiana, the Warrick Co. seat, is about 15 miles east of here. Up until the '50s it was a hotbed of Klan activity, right on the courthouse square; torches, hoods, and all. Idaho is notorious for some white supremacist groups. Racism, ignorance, and intolerance know no boundaries, as they are alive and well both above and below the Mason-Dixon line.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Boonville, Indiana, the Warrick Co. seat, is about 15 miles east of here. Up until the '50s it was a hotbed of Klan activity, right on the courthouse square; torches, hoods, and all. Idaho is notorious for some white supremacist groups. Racism, ignorance, and intolerance know no boundaries, as they are alive and well both above and below the Mason-Dixon line.
Terry
They were active around Vincennes in the early 1990's when I went to school there.
Actually, this isn't the first time the 37th has protested the KKK's use of the battleflag in their racist demonstrations. I know of at least one other time in Biloxi, MS, in Nov. 2002. http://www.37thtexas.org/html/restore.html
Other Southern heritage groups have publicly protested the KKK's use of the battleflag claiming that the Klan's racist values misrepresent what the battleflag stands for.
Mr. H.K. Edgerton, a black man, former president of the NAACP, Asheville, NC Chapter, is active in the Son's of Confederate Veterans and speaks publicly in defense of the battleflag and he denounces the Klan. http://www.geocities.com/tnudc/edgerton.html
It's been an ongoing battle for Southern heritage defenders to keep the Klan distanced from them. People see the Klan with a battleflag and automatically categorize them in with all Southerners who support the flag.
Rose
__________________ "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names".--J.F.K.
The War Between the States established... This principle that the Federal Government is, through its courts, this final judge of its own powers.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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