A street in Oregon has been sponsored by the Nazi Party as part of a volunteer litter clean-up programme.
“County officials say they were legally advised that excluding the organization would violate a constitutional right to free speech. Their choices, they said, were: allow the group to join the program, remove all of the signs from the program or refuse the group and risk a lawsuit.”
Arguments from both sides are compelling. I’m inclined to side with the outraged residents but the free-speech aspect is a tough one to get round.
Free speech trumps all. If they have a right to exist as a group, they have a right, as any private org would, to take advantage of a state program set up for groups. In my opinion, they should take the cue of some other state and name the road after Rosa Parks (or Golda Meir, or somebody that the Nazi party wouldn’t be too excited about being associated with).
I agree with Bob. It’s the only stylish way to handle things. Let the Nazis march, let the nazis clean. But make damn sure they look like fools doing it.
If recent history is indication, it’s not likely. When the USSC forced Missouri to allow the Klan to participate in the program, the Missouri legislature changed the name of that stretch of highway to the Rosa Parks Highway. The Klan never bothered to do anything and were dropped from the program almost immediately. It’s just a way for the Nazis to try and get some attention. The best thing for Oregon to do would be to approve their participation and have the Oregon legislature change the name to the Elie Wiesel highway or something. They’ll leave in short order.
No, they’d leave the white trash alone. They’d round up the non-white trash and burn it.
But like the aforementioned Klan PR stunt if they did go ahead and actually clean the place up I’m sure there’d be plenty of RVs dumping greywater and pickups full of fertilizer “accidentally” dropping their loads on that stretch of asphalt.
A few abandoned cars towed and dropped off, perhaps some roadkill, make them work for their little sign.
