KKK'S PITTSBURGH RALLY DRAWS ANGRY PROTESTERS.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times About 50 members of the Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan (k  ' klŭks klăn), designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used and assorted other supremacist su·prem·a·cist n. One who believes that a certain group is or should be supreme. supremacist a person who advocates supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group. groups staged an hourlong rally Saturday, angering thousands of onlookers who screamed at them and occasionally threw stones from behind an enclosed viewing area. In large measure, the rally was peaceful. Pittsburgh police Chief Robert McNeilly said that four officers were hurt, including one who was hit in the eye with a rock, and that three people in the crowd were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. . For the Klan members and their colleagues, many wearing white robes and some hoisting flags with swastikas, the appearance on Saturday was an unqualified public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most coup even if their message was roundly repudiated: Rarely have such groups had such a backdrop as a major northern American city. At the end, one Klan member, Brad Thompson Bradley Joseph Thompson (born January 31, 1982 in Las Vegas, Nevada), is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals. He is 6'1 and weighs 190 pounds. He went to college at Dixie State JC in Utah. He made his major league debut on May 8, 2005. of Auburn, Ind., thanked everybody, ``even the protesters.'' ``You helped us exercise our First Amendment rights,'' Thompson said. Despite the unusual setting, the ideas expressed by the Klansmen were as old as the Klan itself, as one speaker after another denigrated African-Americans, Jews and other minorities. ``The solution is white revolution,'' said a man introduced as National Wizard Jeff Barry. Mayor Thomas Murphy, who watched the rally from a distant open terrace, said later: ``I never felt such revulsion for anything in my life as I saw today.'' Most of the Klan members obscured their faces, either with pointed hats or sunglasses. One who did not was the rally's chief organizer, C. Edward Foster of Walston, Pa., who is grand dragon of the Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Foster, who has been active in Klan activities throughout western Pennsylvania, is known to human rights groups as someone whose language has been so fiery that other Klan members have disassociated from him. |
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