On Nov 30, 4:23 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Greg Dempsey
> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
> Subject: [DailyKos] *? 2 ALL: DAVID DUKE ARRESTED IN GERMANY, FACES
> DEPORTATION - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
> To: Greg dempsey <gregdemp...@sti.net>
>
> <http://i.huffpost.com/gen/420375/thumbs/r-DAVID-DUKE-ARRESTED-large57...>
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> Hi Team!
>
> *? 2 ALL:
>
> DAVID DUKE ARRESTED IN GERMANY, FACES DEPORTATION -
>
> <http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlXlw_Y_FdQ-Y3eZXjJTd_vdnwFY...
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> John Rudolf reports:
>
> "David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, white supremacist and
> Louisiana politician, was arrested and taken into custody in Cologne on
> Friday, prior to a planned speech to a right-wing extremist group, German
> police said Monday.
>
> "The statement by the Cologne police department said that Duke, 61, is
> 'obliged to leave German territory without delay.' In a message on his
> website, Duke said he had been released from jail and requested financial
> assistance from his followers to fight the deportation.
>
> "'To fight this case will cost a lot of money, time and effort,' he wrote.
>
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> "The arrest appears to be tied to Duke's expulsion from the Czech Republic
> in 2009, following his detention there on suspicion of denying the
> Holocaust, a crime in many European countries, including Germany. The
> Cologne police statement said that Duke 'was not entitled to stay in
> Germany' because of a travel ban against him in another, unspecified
> European country.
>
> "Duke, a former neo-Nazi who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. presidency in
> 1988 and 1992, served a year in prison in 2003 and 2004 after pleading
> guilty to tax fraud and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in
> donations from supporters to pay gambling debts.
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>
> "Since his release from prison, Duke has traveled and lectured widely,
> including a 2006 appearance at a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran,
> Iran. The conference featured numerous speeches denouncing the Holocaust as
> a 'myth.' At the conference, Duke voiced support for discredited, fringe
> scholars imprisoned in Europe for denying the use of gas chambers against
> Jews during the Holocaust.
>
> "In the United States, Duke continues to speak regularly at gatherings of
> prominent right-wing groups and writes for Stormfront, a leading
> white-supremacist website."
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>
> David Duke arrested in Germany, ex-Klan leader faces deportation - what
> are your comments?
>
> Greg Dempseyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
> Voice of the People
>
> ======
>
> John Rudolf
> huffingtonpost.com
>
> First Posted: 11/29/11 02:21 PM ET Updated: 11/29/11 02:29 PM ET
>
> ...The Cologne prosecutor's office did not respond to a request for comment
> about Duke's arrest. A woman who answered a phone number on Duke's website
> confirmed the arrest but declined to be identified.
>
> In the statement on his website, Duke said that German authorities had
> arrested him in order to silence his "message of heritage and freedom."
>
> Germany has struggled recently with a resurgence of nationalist groups,
> some which have been tied to violence against minorities and immigrants.
> Several days before Duke's arrest, German prosecutors announced a new
> investigation into a neo-Nazi gang tied to eight murders, including six
> Turkish immigrants and a police officer. The group, which had escaped
> detection for over a decade, is also suspected in attacks in Cologne and
> Duesseldorf that injured more than 30 people, mostly immigrants and
> foreigners.
>
> "We all have a responsibility to ensure that extreme-right, nationalistic
> and anti-Semitic groups and networks are not able to again come together,"
> Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German justice minister, said in a
> statement, according to the Associated Press.
>
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