Some stories just need no introduction, like this one, because the lead paragraph sort of says it all:
A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block and requiring the posting of a bond.
The Nationalist Movement filed the federal lawsuit Dec. 14 and is seeking a temporary restraining order to keep the town from interfering with the Learned, Miss.-based group’s “Jena Justice Day” rally. Group officials claim the town’s rules violate their 14th Amendment rights to due process.
The planned Jan. 21 march is in response to the thousands who rallied on Sept. 20 in Jena in support of six black teens who have become known as the “Jena Six,” and against what they claimed was disproportionately harsh treatment of blacks by prosecutors. […]
“When a group of, say, minorities or homosexuals want to have a parade, they aren’t usually required to put up a bond or pay for police or pay for cleanup,” said Barry Hackney, a spokesman for the organization.
The ordinance, Mayor Murphy McMillin said, has been in place for “many, many years.” All seven of the organizations that participated in the September rally [for the Jena 6] complied with all the guidelines, town officials said.
There were no reports of arrests or vandalism after more than 20,000 rallied in support of the Jena Six.
Gee, if I wasn’t such a fair and balanced person, I might say that these white supremacists are asking for special rights to which others aren’t entitled. But then, what’s a good, intimidating white empowerment rally without a few guns on hand to keep the black riff-raff in their place? Let the minorities stick to the constitutional prescription of a right of “peaceful assembly” set forth in the First amendment since they seem to believe so much in non-violent action.
These poor persecuted white people, on the other hand, clearly need their guns for protection when they march down the streets of a predominantly white Louisiana town. God knows what could happen to them if they didn’t have their hand guns and semiautomatic rifles for protection from the hordes of the predominantly white citizens of Jena as they march chanting their white power slogans. Because if it’s one thing George Bush’s America has taught us it’s this: conservative wingnut white people shouldn’t have to play by the rules (of law) if they don’t feel like it. So why should The Nationalist Movement (caution: images and text at that link may be mind bogglingly stupid, and thus not appropriate for anyone with an IQ over that possessed by box turtle) have to obey a lousy city ordinance that everyone knows was put in place to protect whites from thuggish minorities, and not vice versa?
I mean, really. What’s this country coming to when good white folks have to apply for a permit to march, and can’t even carry their carry guns openly while they do it to intimidate black people? In a Southern town no less! Next thing you know someone will say lynching is illegal, and then where will all those poor white folks be, alone in an ever growing sea of black and brown people just waiting to rape, rob and pillage the good honest people who belong to organizations such as — well, such as The Nationalist Movement?
Power to the (White) People!
Because, God knows these poor persecuted real Americans sure don’t have enough power already.
