Neo-Nazi Group Granted Permission to Adopt Delaware Highway
Neo-Nazi Group Granted Adopt-A-Highway Under 'Freedom Party' Title
Delaware's Department of Transportation recently approved a neo-Nazi political party's participation in the "Adopt-A-Highway" program.
The two signs sponsored by the group reading "Freedom Party," span Cedar Grove Road's two-mile stretch west of Lewes. These signs serve as the third attempt by neo-Nazi couple Edward McBride III and Katelyn McManus to sponsor a highway.
McBride initially issued an application in summer 2011, requesting that the sign read "National Socialist Freedom Movement Nazi Party."
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Delaware's DOT denied the request, stating: "DelDOT denied the use of the words 'Nazi Party' on a state Adopt-A-Highway program sign because the agency chose not to associate the state with the term and its generally understood philosophy of advocating the denial of civil rights," DelDOT's Director of Public Relations Geoff Sundstrom told The Christian Post Monday in an emailed statement.
According to Sundstrom, DelDOT offered to put McBride's full name on the Adopt-A-Highway sign, but he refused. He then requested that the sign read the abbreviated "NSFM888 Nazi Party," and DelDOT once again refused due to the use of the word "Nazi."
"DelDOT reserves the authority under its program guidelines to edit names requested for use on state Adopt-A-Highway signs," Sundstrom confirmed.
McBride's wife, Katelyn McManus, then submitted an application from the same home address, requesting the sign read simply "Freedom Party." Permission was granted.
According to the Delaware Online News Journal, McBride, 24, and wife McManus, 23, believe white Christians should be the sole race in the U.S. Their beliefs, however, do not exclude them from volunteering their time to keep the highway clean.
"As long as a group files a report three times per year detailing their clean-up efforts they are able to remain in DelDOT's program indefinitely," Sundstrom affirmed.
Similarly, in 2010, the Nationalist Socialist Movement, which refers to itself as America's Nazi Party, adopted a section of Colorado's 85 Highway.
"We're here. We're active. We're doing good things," spokesman for the Nazi party Neal Land told KCNC in 2010.
