Federal judge allows KKK to leaflet in SE Mo.

Friday, December 28, 2012

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group has won a preliminary injunction allowing it to pass out literature in the streets in an eastern Missouri city

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK were likely to prevail in their challenge to a Desloge (duh LOHZH) ordinance banning people from soliciting in the streets. The Klan claimed the ordinance violated its First Amendment right to free speech.

City officials say the 1999 law was meant to prevent people from going into the streets to solicit funds from motorists. The American Civil Liberties Union sued, saying the law also prevented groups from passing out handbills.

City Attorney Joe Goff says the city plans to rework its ordinance in a way that still would prohibit soliciting in the streets.

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wow 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Geeeeez...ok let em hand out their stuff...just keep it of my car and we're fine. I can walk by these folks and don't have to accept the leaflet's...so it's all good. They get to stand around and carry a bunch of paper's...those who want them can accept the information, those that don't...do not have to accept the stuff. Now please, let's stop giving these KKK member's so much attention....it's almost 2013 and I'd like to think enough of us common sense folks have grown so beyond what the KKK and all these other hate groups represent.

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