This is a weirder story than it appears
In trying to take its message to the streets, the Ku Klux Klan has been ordered to keep white supremacy on the sidewalk.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a Klan chapter's lawsuit against a Missouri town, which enacted a law barring Klan members and others from going into the street to hand leaflets to drivers....
But this took place 2 years ago...
Distributing pamphlets, even with offensive messages, is protected by the 1st Amendment, and when the Klan took its case to a federal judge, the American Civil Liberties Union assisted with the case, as it sometimes does with cases involving the 1st Amendment.
The federal judge slapped the city with an injunction on Dec. 27, 2012, after the law was declared an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. The ACLU hailed that victory in a statement, saying, "Scouts, Little League baseball teams, firefighters, politicians and others will be able to solicit and pass out handbills in the city of Desloge without fear of arrest."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kk...-in-missouri-town/ar-BBhm1E7?ocid=mailsignout
Isn't it strange that the ACLU takes up a case for the KKK to defend them to spread their propaganda, when at the same time, the ACLU defends gay victims of gay crime, when the KKK is one of the most anti-gay groups out there.
In trying to take its message to the streets, the Ku Klux Klan has been ordered to keep white supremacy on the sidewalk.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a Klan chapter's lawsuit against a Missouri town, which enacted a law barring Klan members and others from going into the street to hand leaflets to drivers....
But this took place 2 years ago...
Distributing pamphlets, even with offensive messages, is protected by the 1st Amendment, and when the Klan took its case to a federal judge, the American Civil Liberties Union assisted with the case, as it sometimes does with cases involving the 1st Amendment.
The federal judge slapped the city with an injunction on Dec. 27, 2012, after the law was declared an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. The ACLU hailed that victory in a statement, saying, "Scouts, Little League baseball teams, firefighters, politicians and others will be able to solicit and pass out handbills in the city of Desloge without fear of arrest."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kk...-in-missouri-town/ar-BBhm1E7?ocid=mailsignout
Isn't it strange that the ACLU takes up a case for the KKK to defend them to spread their propaganda, when at the same time, the ACLU defends gay victims of gay crime, when the KKK is one of the most anti-gay groups out there.
