February 1, 2010

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Somebody Call Indiana Jones

highway.jpgBack in October, we reported on a group of gun enthusiasts picking up trash on the highway while packing heat. But NRA members aren't the only ones who want to demonstrate civic pride. White supremacists like clean roadways, too.

According to cbs4Denver.com, a chapter of the National Socialist Movement calling itself the American Nazi Party requested a 1-mile stretch of highway in a suburb north of Denver as part of Colorado's Adopt-A-Highway program. The Colorado Department of Transportation said it felt it had no choice but to grant the request out of fear it would face a free-speech lawsuit if it didn't. A 2001 Supreme Court decision allowed the Ku Klux Klan to adopt a highway in Missouri.

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