Recently an auction that was to be held in Mason, Michigan, and featured Nazi and KKK auction items was cancelled due to apparent KKK efforts to recruit new members in the area that the auction was to be held. Here's that part of the story.
It was a good decision made for bad reasons.
It's unfortunate that the auctioneers even scheduled the event, which drew very negative international press attention to the area, and was an insult to all the victims of Nazi genocide and KKK atrocities over the years.
It's very appropriate for it NOT to be held since ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by the advancing U.S. 3rd Army are being held in Germany today.
Some 56,000 people were killed at the Buchenwald death camp. Some were worked to death, others were shot, others were killed in sickening medical experiments by Nazi doctors. Here's the story.
THAT'S why the auction in Michigan should have been cancelled. Not because the Ku Klux Klowns put out literature, or because someone who was attempting to pressure the auction to be cancelled produced and distributed some venomous literature which looked like it was KKK material.
The KKK and other white supremacist groups adopted Nazi ideas, symbols and beliefs; they need to be fought aggressively and having a KKK auction is not conducive to accomplishing that.
For Nazi and KKK auctions, rallies and parades to be accepted by mainstream America is a bad precedent and gives a green light to malcontents to come in, have their parades and protests and then to leave the area (that didn't want the auctions and protests in the first place) in worse shape than they found it.
The auctioneer is wondering what to do with the "artifacts." Destroying them seems to be a good solution.
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