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Ex-Louisiana KKK chief arrested in Prague: police

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PRAGUE (AFP) — A former US Ku Klux Klan chief was arrested Friday in a Prague restaurant while he was on a speaking tour here, Czech police said.

Former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana-founded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, was arrested on suspicion of promoting movements seeking the suppression of human rights, police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky told local media.

The arrest, in a tourist area of picturesque old Prague, took place in "quite confused" circumstances, said David Janda, the head of an anti-extremism unit of the city's police force.

Janda said Duke -- who had been due to give three lectures in the Czech Republic -- was guarded at the restaurant's entrance by militants belonging to a known far-right group "Narodni Odpor," which means national resistance.

Duke, a US citizen, is suspected of denying or approving of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, according to the CTK news agency. This crime is punishable by up to three years in prison in the Czech Republic.

Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer and Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocab had each expressed disapproval of the visit earlier in the week.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by a group of US Civil War veterans from the defeated Confederacy, a group of southern states that upheld slavery and maintained African Americans were inferior to whites.

It is notorious the world over for terrorising black Americans through lynchings, cross burnings and other hate crimes.

The group enjoyed a peak membership of about five million in 1925, including politicians and even a member of the US Supreme Court.

But the Klan went into virtual bankruptcy as early as the late 1920s and since the late 1970s, its membership has varied between 3,000 and 6,000.

the kkk originated in Illionis and that was its strong hold read you history....

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It amazes me that the KKK still exists. As for Duke, can't seem to muster up much sympathy.

Looks like they let him go:

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DPA , PRAGUE
Sunday, Apr 26, 2009, Page 6
Czech police said yesterday they had released David Duke, former leader of US extremist group the Ku Klux Klan, and ordered him to leave the Czech Republic by midnight.

On Friday, police charged Duke with the hate crime of supporting and promoting movements suppressing human rights.

Duke had planned to give talks this weekend in the capital as well as in the country’s second-largest city of Brno. He is visiting the Czech Republic at the invitation of local neo-Nazis to publicize the translation of his 1998 memoir, My Awakening.

Contrary to earlier statements, the state attorney yesterday decided against asking the court to keep Duke in custody, police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky said.

While police could have held Duke for 48 hours without court’s consent, they decided to release him as he had already been questioned, the spokesman said. Upon release, the Czech Republic’s immigration police ordered him to depart the country yesterday.

Police said they charged Duke for allegedly denying the Holocaust in a translated book he had come to promote.

“In his book he is promoting views that show signs of denying the Holocaust,” Mikulovsky said.

Denying that the systematic mass murder of Jews and other minorities by Nazi Germany took place is a hate crime in the Czech Republic punishable by up to three years in prison.

Earlier this week, Prague’s Charles University banned a lecture by Duke for a class on extremism. The university said it canceled it out of a fear that it could have been attended by neo-Nazis.

Political activities of Czech far-right groups have been on a rise in recent months, including provocative marches through Roma ghettos.

Duke, 58, is a white supremacist and a supporter of racial segregation. Aside from being a former chief of the Ku Klux Klan, he had served as a lawmaker in the Louisiana’s House of Representative and unsuccessfully ran for US president.

He forgot that when we americans leave the country that the same freedoms of speech and action may not apply in other countries

You're not allowed to yell "fire" in a crowded movie house.

true shooter

There was no Holocaust




*waiting*




...hmmm, nothing happened

The original Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tenn., on Dec. 24, 1865, by six former Confederate army officers who gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos (“circle”).

http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=214116

I can't stand what they believe in but they do have a right in this country as long as laws aren't broken. from my understanding he was charge with what was written in his book...not yelling fire in a crowded place

The kkk give me the creeps. Actually so does Duke.

i'm with you there

Germany and Austria and Poland and I guess the Czechs have a history of bringing criminal charges against authors who write denials of the Holocaust years later when the come into the country

(I was just kidding with the "There was no Holocaust" thing)

I got what you were saying

David Duke.......................................makes me puke..eeeeuuuuwwwwwww

Kat

I'm sorta with you there, rose. The point is that you do not have unlimited freedom of speech to say anything, anywhere anytime.

That's why everyone was lookin' at me funny

Not OK for David Duke but, what the Panthers and Brown Beret stand for is cool?