Nazis pick up trash in Kansas City, MO

[muman613]

This is truly disgusting news. How do they allow Nazis to operate within this country?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481709,00.html

Neo-Nazi Group Joins 'Adopt-a-Highway' Program
Thursday , January 22, 2009

AP

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  —
A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement has committed to cleaning up trash along a half-mile section of Highway 160 near the Springfield city limits.

Two signs noting the group's membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program went up in October but drew attention only recently when the group picked up litter as part of a gathering in Springfield.

The state says it had no way to reject the group's application. A 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling arising from a similar effort by the Ku Klux Klan says membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program can't be denied because of a group's political beliefs. At the time, the state could reject applications for the program from groups that denied membership based on race or had a history of violence.

"It's a First Amendment thing, and we can't discriminate as long as they pick up the trash," said Bob Edwards, a spokesman for the transportation department's office in Springfield.

The state can deny an organization's application only if it has members who have been convicted of violent criminal activity within the past 10 years.

The NSM Springfield unit decided to take part in the highway project because it wants to clean up the community, said Ariana Glass, a 16-year-old member of the youth division of the group.

"We wanted to prove that we're not out here just to have fun, we want to make the community look good," Glass said.

The group heard both honks of support and jeers when about 30 members and supporters picked up trash Saturday. Greene County sheriff's deputies ticketed one man who group members said became threatening but there were no other incidents, Glass said.

Members of the highway cleanup program are required to clean up trash at least four times a year. Edwards said about 600 groups pick up trash in the 12 counties surrounding Springfield.

Edwards said his department had received only one phone call asking why the National Socialist group was allowed to adopt the highway. Louise Whall, spokeswoman for the city of Springfield, was not aware of the group's action until contacted by the AP, but said the city had no jurisdiction because it's a state program.

Most other states have programs similar to Missouri's. Ten states — Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont — had joined in filing a brief backing Missouri's side in the court fight.


If I knew Nazis were picking up trash along the freeway I would be one to throw crap at them as they worked.

[4International]

"Edwards said his department had received only one phone call asking why the National Socialist group was allowed to adopt the highway."


This just goes to show how utterly SICK, EVIL & TWISTED Kansas city society has become.

[t_h_j]

"Edwards said his department had received only one phone call asking why the National Socialist group was allowed to adopt the highway."


This just goes to show how utterly SICK, EVIL & TWISTED Kansas city society has become.

Its more likely that its a simple ignorance.  How many groups can you name in your area that have adopted a highway?

[mord]

They have groups around here that do that on the roads.I'm sure no neo nazis but i couldn't tell you what groups because i as well as other drivers never pay attention

[4International]

"Edwards said his department had received only one phone call asking why the National Socialist group was allowed to adopt the highway."


This just goes to show how utterly SICK, EVIL & TWISTED Kansas city society has become.

Its more likely that its a simple ignorance.   How many groups can you name in your area that have adopted a highway?

Shalom brother t_h_j,

Simple ignorance? I hope you are correct but I doubt it in this particular case. Neo-Nazis are very easy to spot anywhere. They don't have to be necessarily adorned with WW2-era Nazi uniforms with swastikas but they are very easy to spot by the way they shave their heads, their tattoos and the way they dress. Since that is the case, why was there only one complaint phone call in Kansas? In answer to your second question, like brother mord I don't pay attention to who is picking up litter on the highways in my area [unless they dress like neo-Nazis or Arab muslim Nazis]