Ku Klux Klan asks for permit to demonstrate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A Ku Klux Klan group has asked for a permit to demonstrate in support of Augusta National Golf Club's right to an all-male membership, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. "We intend on making speeches and picketing for the right of the Augusta National Club to include only members of their choice regardless of race, religion, sex or creed,'' said J.J. Harper, identified by the newspaper as the imperial wizard of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Augusta National spokesman Glenn Greenspan distanced the club from the group that made the permit request Thursday. "As a result of the controversy created by political activists, a number of organizations, some of them extreme, have sought to voice their political views,'' Greenspan said. "Anyone who knows anything about Augusta National Golf Club or its members knows this is not something the club would welcome or encourage.'' The golf club has been under pressure from Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, to admit a woman. Burk has said she will seek a permit to demonstrate during the Masters tournament in April. "(Augusta National) should not be shocked by the KKK's endorsement,'' Burk told the newspaper. "They have behaved in a manner that attracts this type of support. They are going to have a real circus if this goes on. "If I was Augusta National, I would spare my golfers, my members, my patrons, the city and citizens of Augusta, and the tournament all the trouble by simply opening membership immediately to women or announcing a plan to do so in a reasonable amount of time.'' The Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has requested an application for a permit to demonstrate in support of Burk at the Masters in April. Col. Gary Powell of the Augusta-Richmond County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday he had received permit requests from Jackson's group and from an unidentified man from Maine who supports Augusta National. A group called "WAMB,'' or Women Against Martha Burk, wants to demonstrate in support of the club in downtown Augusta on April 6, the Sunday before the Masters. Martha Burk, the KKK, Jesse Jackson, and the WAMB all picketing in the same area. Now if ever a reality show begged to be produced!
They will all get the permits. In this horsesh!t PC world we live in these days idiots like Jesse The Racist Jackson and K the racists KK all get to have a say. And since they are extreme they both get press.
The Augusta City Council just passed something making it harder to get permits, I believe. Of course, I could've dreamed about it since I can't find anything about it.
I was thinking the same thing nothing blows ya credibility like having the KKK on ya side Rocket River
Hey, I'm a Mac user and I don't like the PC world either, but we all have to live together, all of us, Mac's, PC's and even the sad little Unix folks. I consider all computer users my brothers even if I am the oppressed minority. I may not like that you PC users dominate the computer and technology world, but I am more than willing to defend your right to hardware, software and equal internet access. Can't we all just get along?
Ewww! Mac!!! Actually I'm a Mac guy in the studio and have learned to be, um, what's the word when you go both ways?
You are bi-platform? You know any hot bi-platform babes who want to bare their hard drives. Oh, mama.
Who else thinks Martha made a little call to the KKK and convinced them to come out and give bad publicity to Hootie? Or perhaps she enlisted the help of Jackson to draw out the KKK? Either way, it stinks (stinks!)
