Mo. neo-Nazis join `Adopt-A-Highway' trash cleanup

[The Straight Story]

Mo. neo-Nazis join `Adopt-A-Highway' trash cleanup

By MARGARET STAFFORD – 22 hours ago

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement has committed to cleaning up trash along a half-mile section of Highway 160 near the Springfield city limits.

Two signs noting the group's membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program went up in October but drew attention only recently when the group picked up litter as part of a gathering in Springfield.

The state says it had no way to reject the group's application. A 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling arising from a similar effort by the Ku Klux Klan says membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program can't be denied because of a group's political beliefs. At the time, the state could reject applications for the program from groups that denied membership based on race or had a history of violence.



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[MyUserNameIsBroken]

1. The section the KKK got after that court case

Was then renamed the "Rosa Parks Memorial Highway" by the Missouri Legislature, showing even a stopped clock is right twice a day. :)

[NeedleCast]

2. I predict a sharp rise in motorist on pedestrian vehicle accidents in this area

[MadHound]

8. You would be wrong in that prediction

This is Springfield, SW Missouri, home to John Ashcroft and other fun little neo-Nazis. A very, very conservative area, home to the the World Headquarters of Assembly of God churches and Baptist Bible College(Falwell's alma mater) among many other very interesting institutions.

I lived there for a few years and it was hell on earth. There is a small, very small group of liberals and progressives in the area, but they either keep very much to themselves or move away rather quickly.

Just a few years back a young black man was found, hands tied behind his back, hanging by his neck from a radio tower. This young man, who had been dating a white girl, was declared to have committed suicide. That's Springfield for you.

[KamaAina]

3. Remember the scene in "Canadian Bacon" where the laid-off workers took their trash to Canada?

Here, you wouldn't even need a boat!

[treestar]

4. Doesn't make sense that they can't deny a group that denies

membership based on race. Presumably a Nazi group denies membership to nonwhite members.

[Lars39]

5. Now they can have their picture in the paper.

Identify these cretins.

[Renew Deal]

6. It doesn't seem right that a group with lower equality standards than the government

should be allowed to participate in a government project.

[Renew Deal]

7. _

[TheWraith]

9. Do the same thing they did when this happened with the Klan.

Name the highway in question after a civil rights leader. The KKK ended up being committed to picking up trash along the Rosa Parks Highway.

[Rebubula]

10. At least...

...they are not Illinois Nazis.

I hate Illinois Nazis

[Hugabear]

11. Let us know when they plan to do their cleaning. We can drive by and throw trash at them

Trash picking up trash. Imagine that.