Georgia Supreme Court to hear KKK's attempt to adopt-a-highway

[struggle4progress]

Charlotte Norsworthy
Updated Mar 11, 2016

... The lawyer said defending the Ku Klux Klan may seem off-putting, but the matter of defending free speech is more important.

“If you argue for free speech, you argue for all kinds of speech,” he said. “I may have lost some friends by doing this, but it is the right thing to do.”

The International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan attempted to apply for the program in 2012 for a piece of Route 515. A person, family, group, organization, or government agency can adopt and maintain a 1-mile stretch of Georgia highway for the program. If approved for the adoption, the state puts up a road sign with the state seal and the name of the organization or group along the adopted mile. The group is then in charge of cleaning up litter on the side of the highway a minimum of four times a year for two years.

In their application, members of the International Keystone Knights wanted their sign to say “IKK Realm of GA, Ku Klux Klan." However, the Georgia Department of Transportation denied their application ...

http://www.redandblack.com/athensnews/georgia-supreme-court-to-hear-case-from-kkk-s-attempt/article_8765111a-e7aa-11e5-b579-a7cb63896fb0.html

[underpants]

1. The eye holes really make picking up fellow trash tough.

[pintobean]

2. Rosa Parks Freeway in St. Louis.

The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan began fighting several court battles with the state of Missouri after the state disputed its right to sponsor a stretch of freeway in Saint Louis County and Jefferson County, near St. Louis. In March 2001, after a U.S. District Court judge found that blocking the Klan's sponsorship was unconstitutional, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state must erect signs announcing the group's sponsorship. However, the Missouri Legislature later voted to rename the stretch of I-55 the "Rosa Parks Freeway" in honor of the Montgomery civil rights hero who began the Montgomery bus boycott. When asked how she felt about this honor, she is reported to have commented, "It is always nice to be thought of."[2] The Klan were eventually dropped from the scheme on April 4, 2001, on the grounds that for the duration of their sponsorship, they had not once cleaned the freeway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_55_in_Missouri#Sponsorship_controversy

[Lochloosa]

3. Sme may not like this, but they will win. And should.

There are no exceptions in the first amendment the last time I read it.