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Klan Gets Permit for Gettysburg Anti-War Protest
 The National Park Service has granted the Ku Klux Klan's request to hold a rally and protest the Iraq war at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.Gordon Young of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan obtained the permit Wednesday for about 100 people to participate in a Sept. 2 event at Gettysburg National Military Park. The purpose will be to demonstrate opposition to the Iraq war and to speak on "white unity between the north and south," the permit said. Park Superintendent John A. Latschar said in a statement Monday that the permit was granted in light of rights to free speech and assembly... Young's group and other white supremacist organizations held a similar event last month at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. Musical performances by Prussian Blue and the Dixie Chicks. Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-04 |
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