KKK group plans rally at Civil War battlefield

[alp227]

Source: Baltimore Sun

A Baltimore-area branch of the Ku Klux Klan plans to hold a rally at the Antietam Battlefield Saturday to protest the country's immigration policies and call for the impeachment of President Obama.

Richard Preston — whose title is Imperial Wizard of the Confederate White Knights — is organizing the event.

"I've talked to a lot of people in the state of Maryland .... and those people are sick and tired of the way this government is going," he said. Preston pointed to immigration policies he says are draining the country's economy, and a foreign policy that has left the U.S. military too thinly stretched.

The Battle of Antietam was fought near Sharpsburg in Washington County on Sept. 17, 1862. It was the bloodiest single-day engagement of the Civil War with 23,000 casualties. The battlefield is maintained by the National Parks Service which has made arrangements to accommodate the protesters and people who are expected to show up in opposition to them, according to ranger Tom Jones.


Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-klan-at-antietam-20130906,0,4956625.story

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What, the Westboro Baptist Church wasn't available?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. "a foreign policy that has left the U.S. military too thinly stretched."

[Iliyah]

2. Imperial Wizard of the Confederate White Knights

Oh my. Further, Blacks should know their place like that one in our WH. Damn those foreigners who are sucking the life out of our country, and our resources for killing "others" in other countries must be sustained.

[Sunlei]

11. no masks allowed anymore, lets see their faces and learn their names.

no hiding no more behind sheets.

[Judi Lynn]

20. They're just so shy. People need to make the first step and break the ice!

They should shake hands, and introduce themselves, show the Klansmen they shouldn't be so skitterish.

[center][/center]

[Sunlei]

22. cool picture!

[Historic NY]

3. Just wait until they have to start picking their own

produce.....wait.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/farmers-looking-for-help-in-immigration-reform/article_ec18c179-69f9-52aa-b607-4ad525fdbfef.html

[struggle4progress]

4. Battle Cry of Freedom

... the Union forever!
hurrah boys! hurrah!
down with the traitors
up with the stars
while we rally round the flag boys
rally once again
shouting the battle cry of Freedom!

we are springing to the call
of our brothers gone before
shouting the battle cry of Freedom!
and we'll fill the vacant ranks
with a million freemen more
shouting the battle cry of Freedom! ...

[tabasco]

8. Always inspiring

Thanks for posting

[freshwest]

34. Never heard this song before. Thanks for posting.

[Berlum]

5. "You lost. Get over it." - America

nt

[JustAnotherGen]

6. +1

[nomorenomore08]

17. +2

Calling these folks fucking idiots would be too kind...

[heaven05]

7. My interest in something like this

will be how many show up and how faux news depicts it. I wonder if rushpig, beckerhead, hanitick, coulture, zimmerman, all in sheets mind you, show up. Just a joke, I think. They have a nerve massing anywhere. Oh for the purist, I know they have the right. Wonder how many of these 'good' amurkins will be carrying concealed weapons under those sheets?

[Gore1FL]

9. So... the KKK is to converge on site where Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own troops.

Any chance of a re-enactment with live ammo?

[Leontius]

12. Jackson was shot at Chancellorsville not Sharpsburg

[Gore1FL]

15. I stand corrected.

Brain fart on my part. I was thinking about the Chancellorsville Confederate Flanking maneuver that knocked Hooker on his ass as soon as I saw "Maryland." Antietem was McClellen. Thanks for the correction. I feel like an idiot!

[Adsos Letter]

32. Except that Chancellorsville is in Virginia...

...and was during the war, too...

[Gore1FL]

37. Obviously, it was during the war.

I knew it setup the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. For some reason I had it in MD.

I though maybe I was confusing it with Brandy Station, but that was in VA too. Obviously, I need to reread some books.

[Adsos Letter]

38. I'm just teasin' ya...

I noted to sunlei that I had recently finished Slotkin's The Road to Antietam. Just so happens that I followed it with Steven Sears' excellent work on Chancellorsville titled, most appropriately, Chancellorsville. It's an excellent read:

http://www.amazon.com/Chancellorsville-Stephen-W-Sears/dp/039587744X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378765696&sr=1-1&keywords=chancellorsville

[Gore1FL]

41. Thanks

It does appear I should be brushing up!

[Sunlei]

10. KKK had nothing to do with the civil war. They rose up after along w/NRA to re-enslave

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/watch/

[Adsos Letter]

33. Well, it did come into being because the South lost the war...

...and, IIRC, it was a Confederate ex-cavalry commander who started it (Forrest? Can't remember...)

It actually does have a certain relevance to Antietam, although I'm not sure any of the sheet-wearing knuckle-draggers are smart enough to realize it: The Federal "victory" at Antietam gave Lincoln the boost in public opinion he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed those people who were currently enslaved in the South) and to continue the war as a war to destroy the institution of slavery, and the southern way of life that slavery supported, rather than as a simple effort to re-unite the country by the reversal of secession.

I just recently finished a book you might find interesting, if you've not already read it:

The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin (2012)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871406659/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1535523722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0871404117&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HWW30TY9Z7PD4WTAZGP

Not trying to be preachy; I just finished the book and thoroughly enjoyed it, so Antietam has been on my mind.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Nathan Bedford Forrest

Ex-Confederate general, reputed founder of the KKK. There is actually a town in Arkansas named after him (Forrest City), and during the '80s at least, the town was living up (or down) to the image of its namesake.

[Sunlei]

36. Thanks that does look like a good book!

[Wolf Frankula]

13. And Here's a Version of Dixie for them.

Away down South in the land of traitors,
Rattlesnakes and alligators,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.
Where cotton's king and men are chattels,
Union boys will win the battles,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.

CHORUS: Then we'll all go down to Dixie,
Away, away,
Each Dixie boy must understand
That he must mind his Uncle Sam,
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.

I wish I was in Baltimore,
I'd make Secession traitors roar,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.
We'll put the traitors all to rout.
I'll bet my boots we'll whip them out,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.

CHORUS: Then they'll wish they were in Dixie,
Away, away,
Each Dixie boy must understand
That he must mind his Uncle Sam,
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.

Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave
Forever o'er the free and brave,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.
And let our motto ever be --
"For Union and for Liberty!"
Right away, come away, right away, come away.

CHORUS: Then they'll wish they were in Dixie,
Away, away,
Each Dixie boy must understand
That he must mind his Uncle Sam,
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.
Away, away,
And we'll all go down to Dixie.


For Lincoln and Liberty.

Wolf

[Baltimore]

19. Baltimore was a Union bastion

The line starting "I wish I was in Baltimore" is based on a misunderstanding fueled by the incident that caused Baltimore to be called "The Mob City," when some Union general did not ask any Baltimorean where Union troops should be billeted. He put them in Hampden, the only pro-secesh neighborhood in Baltimore, where the troops were assailed with rocks and bottles by the locals. I come from Baltimore, as my DU name indicates, and I know well that Baltimore provided huge amounts of ammunition, armaments of all sorts, cavalry horses to the Union Army. One of our most conspicuous city sights is the Shot Tower, where cannon-balls were dropped. When Lee and Jackson marched through Maryland, they made sure to avoid Baltimore by forty miles. Atlanta was brought down by Baltimore -made cannon. I'm always sorry to see this slander on Baltimore. Oh, and by the way, "Baltimore area" means Baltimore County, which has nothing to do with Baltimore, an independent city. Baltimore County, the land of white flight, voted for George Wallace in 1964. It went Democratic for the first time since the 60's in 2012, by 1%.

[KamaAina]

40. Spiro Agnew was once the Baltimore County executive.

'Nuf ced.

As a matter of fact, his daughter was a classmate of Mom's at Towson High School. As was Divine.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

14. Good Grief.....

Just keep repeating.....freedom of expression, freedom of expression, freedom of expression..........

[chelsea0011]

16. Why are they not classified as terrorists and hauled away?

[Posteritatis]

18. They passed the colour test. (nt)

[chelsea0011]

23. Sadly, you may be right. If the Black Panthers had anywhere near the history of the KKK,

you would never see them allowed assembly at this point in time. The KKK has a history of terrorism but are allowed the rights of all.

[RKP5637]

26. +++ 1,000 +++ n/t

[Judi Lynn]

21. They need another group of people there to remind them they lost the war. n/t

[wordpix]

24. PHOTOS - looks like about 5 Klansmen and 6 onlookers showed up

Quite a crowd.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/k_dX1JCm4uK/KKK+Hold+Rally+Civil+War+Battlefield+Antietam/Djd9NsCEXxz

[struggle4progress]

25. "... eight Ku Klux Klan members .. called for a new uprising to oust President Barack Obama ...

.... the hooded speaker ... explained that he did not believe the president is a United States citizen .... the lone person occupying the designated area for counter-demonstrators ... held a sign reading "KKK go away" .... <the leader ... who uses the title Imperial Wizard> ... added that "things for the United States started to go wrong with Lincoln. … He was the first liberal president" ...

Small KKK group holds rally at Civil War battlefield
Group met by heavy police presence despite small size
By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun
6:29 p.m. EDT, September 7, 2013

[Thinkingabout]

27. I hate to say this but the pointed hats must have some function. This group seems to be

From simple reality. They must want themselves to look stupid.

[DebJ]

28. Just reading this now; I was out of town. Too bad.

It would have been fun to get a bunch of people together...get 8-10 cars...and follow them home...
'unmask' them.

[teenagebambam]

29. I live two blocks away

and reading this post (on Sunday night) was the first I'd heard of it. So it didn't make too big a splash locally, I guess.

[MisterP]

30. that's one way to get shot by ghosts...

[dballance]

31. Ummm, So they'll be supporting their own self-deporting

Since they're all descendants (most likely) of illegal immigrants and anchor babies who came to this continent and stole the land from the indigenous people I'm sure they'll be wanting to give it back. They'll have to be for self-deporting themselves and their families back to wherever they immigrated from illegally.

[wordpix]

42. The only history they know is great-great-great grandpappy had a bullwhip

in his hand and was master of the plantation.

[rug]

39. They are going to have their asses handed to them if they show up.