KKK group plans rally at Civil War battlefield - baltimoresun.com: A Baltimore-area branch of the Ku Klux Klan plans to hold a rally at the Antietam Battlefield Saturday to protest the country's immigration policies and call for the impeachment of President Obama.
Richard Preston — whose title is Imperial Wizard of the Confederate White Knights — is organizing the event.
"I've talked to a lot of people in the state of Maryland .... and those people are sick and tired of the way this government is going," he said. Preston pointed to immigration policies he says are draining the country's economy, and a foreign policy that has left the U.S. military too thinly stretched.
The Battle of Antietam was fought near Sharpsburg in Washington County on Sept. 17, 1862. It was the bloodiest single-day engagement of the Civil War with 23,000 casualties. The battlefield is maintained by the National Parks Service which has made arrangements to accommodate the protesters and people who are expected to show up in opposition to them, according to ranger Tom Jones.
In 2006, another outfit, known as the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, held a similar rally at the battlefield. The group was met by a similarly sized counter-protest, and a heavy police presence.
