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The university has asked students and faculty to ignore the situation. There have been deaths and injuries and these marches in other places. Supposedly the Nazi group will have some members in the crowd trying to stir **** up and start violence/a riot.
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A national Nazi group is planning a five-hour march in downtown Columbia next weekend to "protest the promotion of Marxism by the University of Missouri," according to the group’s parade permit.
The National Socialist Movement, based in Minneapolis, claims to be America’s largest and fastest-growing Nazi group. Missouri Unit Leader Steven Boswell said he organized the March 10 event because the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, the campus’ immigration research center and university system President Elson Floyd are "are promoting the destruction of the United States."
"The University of Missouri has the No. 1 journalism school in the country," Boswell said. "They produce Marxist reporter after Marxist reporter after Marxist reporter. They never have a Nationalist come out of there or anybody that is willing to speak the truth."
Boswell said MU’s immigration research center, the Cambio Center, and the journalism school’s bilingual newspaper, Adelante!, are promoting Mexican immigration, which the group considers an ongoing invasion of the United States by Mexico.
"I’ve never met the outgoing president personally," Boswell said of Floyd, "but from what I understand, he’s a Marxist."
University of Missouri spokesman Scott Charton bristled at Boswell’s statements. "I will not dignify such vile, repugnant, ignorant statements with a comment," he said.
Columbia Police Department approved the group’s permit application on Feb. 20. "As much as we abhor such groups," Police Capt. Brad Nelson said, "the First Amendment guarantees their right to espouse their beliefs."
National Socialist Movement members in October 2005 sparked a four-hour riot in Toledo, Ohio, during a march they said was intended to protest gangs and rising crime. Businesses were burned and bricks were thrown at police.
Nelson said Columbia residents should ignore the Nazi group next weekend because its goal is to incite violence from counterprotesters. "My primary concern is they will succeed, and the counterprotesters or audience members will commit acts of violence, which will unfortunately result in the police having to take action," he said.
The march will take place between noon and 5 p.m. and the permit estimates participation by 20 to 50 people. Boswell said in an interview, however, he isn’t sure how many members of his group will attend.
The group, which shares beliefs with groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Skinheads, advocates among other things requiring all non-white U.S. citizens to leave the country, by force if necessary.
Mary Ratliff, president of the Missouri chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she is incensed that groups such as the National Socialist Movement still exist in 2007.
"Our African-American young men and women are in Iraq giving their lives for this country," she said. "When we have these racists groups parading around, actually protesting our very existence, it’s very disturbing."
The march route will include Elm Street between Seventh and Hitt streets; Hitt Street between Elm and University Avenue; University Avenue between Hitt and Ninth streets; and Ninth between University and Elm, according to the parade permit application.
The National Socialist Movement, based in Minneapolis, claims to be America’s largest and fastest-growing Nazi group. Missouri Unit Leader Steven Boswell said he organized the March 10 event because the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, the campus’ immigration research center and university system President Elson Floyd are "are promoting the destruction of the United States."
"The University of Missouri has the No. 1 journalism school in the country," Boswell said. "They produce Marxist reporter after Marxist reporter after Marxist reporter. They never have a Nationalist come out of there or anybody that is willing to speak the truth."
Boswell said MU’s immigration research center, the Cambio Center, and the journalism school’s bilingual newspaper, Adelante!, are promoting Mexican immigration, which the group considers an ongoing invasion of the United States by Mexico.
"I’ve never met the outgoing president personally," Boswell said of Floyd, "but from what I understand, he’s a Marxist."
University of Missouri spokesman Scott Charton bristled at Boswell’s statements. "I will not dignify such vile, repugnant, ignorant statements with a comment," he said.
Columbia Police Department approved the group’s permit application on Feb. 20. "As much as we abhor such groups," Police Capt. Brad Nelson said, "the First Amendment guarantees their right to espouse their beliefs."
National Socialist Movement members in October 2005 sparked a four-hour riot in Toledo, Ohio, during a march they said was intended to protest gangs and rising crime. Businesses were burned and bricks were thrown at police.
Nelson said Columbia residents should ignore the Nazi group next weekend because its goal is to incite violence from counterprotesters. "My primary concern is they will succeed, and the counterprotesters or audience members will commit acts of violence, which will unfortunately result in the police having to take action," he said.
The march will take place between noon and 5 p.m. and the permit estimates participation by 20 to 50 people. Boswell said in an interview, however, he isn’t sure how many members of his group will attend.
The group, which shares beliefs with groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Skinheads, advocates among other things requiring all non-white U.S. citizens to leave the country, by force if necessary.
Mary Ratliff, president of the Missouri chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she is incensed that groups such as the National Socialist Movement still exist in 2007.
"Our African-American young men and women are in Iraq giving their lives for this country," she said. "When we have these racists groups parading around, actually protesting our very existence, it’s very disturbing."
The march route will include Elm Street between Seventh and Hitt streets; Hitt Street between Elm and University Avenue; University Avenue between Hitt and Ninth streets; and Ninth between University and Elm, according to the parade permit application.
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