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Monday, January 25, 2010

Hitler Squad Adopts a Highway

A Denver area, Hitler-loving, National Socialist Party group gets its name on a road sign in an adopt-a-highway drive. It only had six members but is now gaining more. A church group is its partner in promising to pick up trash. Mainstream paper now covering, including Wash Post. USA Today blog has a good update here.

When the Nazi's first applied for the stretch of highway just south of Bromley lane in Brighton, the Colorado Department of Transportation called to say thanks, but no thanks.

But the law, it turns out, was on the Nazi's side.

"Courts around the country have allowed white supremacists to sponsor highway signs," says Anti-Defamation League Director Bruce DeBoskey. So although the Anti-Defamation League couldn't be more opposed to the Nazi movement, it advised the state to put the application through.

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