LafayetteLady
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This isn't off topic, and I don't want to derail the thread with any atheist bullshit.
The church that I used to attend had members that would regularly talk about "evils" in things that made no sense. I would get so angry (angry enough that I no longer attend that church), and I would ask my friend, "how can that not bother you? They are so wrong!" He would agree that they were wrong, but said that he just figured that they didn't know any better. That viewpoint has helped him to continue attending.
What's my point?
I look at these organizations and my friends words about people not knowing any better bounces around in my head. These groups have these beliefs because of ignorance. They really just don't know better. Now I'm not saying they deserve a pass because of ignorance, but if they weren't ignorant, they would know better. Of course, the other option if they aren't ignorant, they are simply hateful human beings.
The worst part about them is that they instill hate in others, in US. Their ignorance, their hatred, gets us so angry that we become filled with hate for them. Now I know many people will deny this, others will embrace the idea. Either way you go, deep down, you know it is true. We hate them. When they start talking about their "beliefs," spewing their rhetoric, we hate them. We want to beat them in the head with a baseball bat in the hope of knocking some sense into their thick skulls.
Isn't that the true evil in the world? That these groups can make people who are otherwise loving, compassionate, empathetic, intelligent, educated, etc. feel such hate, and want to eradicate them from our world. Their goal is to spread hate, to make us believe as they do. They do spread hate, but they spread it to the rest of the world who really don't want to feel that way.
As vincent said, they have the right to march, and charging them more for a permit would create a situation where the price of permits could become prohibitive for any group that someone in charge didn't like. That would not be a good thing.
However, making them pay for the massive amounts of extra security would not be setting the same type of precedent. After all, realistically ANY group that wants to assemble that would require such enormous amounts of security should be responsible for those extra costs. As long as the municipalities show itemized lists of those expenses, they should be paid.
Now, I really like the whole clown thing. I think having some type of circus assembly at the same time could be interesting. Every time one of these idiots opened their mouth to spew more hate, an orchestra could start playing that circus song. In my mind, it shows how much of a joke they are.
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RE: KKK marching in Memphis - 
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But I did find the protest on youtube. It just isn't near as funny as the written article was. 
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