There's government openness, and then there's government openness -- like for instance the Cecil County Government building in Elkton, Maryland, which will be the meeting place for a Ku Klux Klan group today; the Confederate White Knights will be renting the building's Elk Room so they can gripe about immigration and make plans for the impeachment of Barack Obama. This is the same group of White Power Rangers whose plans to hold a rally at the Gettysburg National Military Park back in October was ruined by the government shutdown, so the poor pointy-heads are probably pretty delighted to find something open for a change. Imperial Wizard Richard Preston told the Cecil Whig that the group had a few simple items on the agenda

“Barack Hussein Obama is an illegal president. He needs to be removed from office. We also want ‘Obamacare’ shut down. It’s against citizen’s rights.”

“On top of that, we want the laws toughened on immigration. We’re flooded with illegal immigrants and our people can’t find jobs.”

We're guessing that the stench of burning crosses may have something to do with that.

Law enforcement will be on hand to keep an eye on things; the FBI notified Maryland State Police and said that between 40 and 200 people might attend the meeting, either of which would be a pretty monumental increase from the dozen or so Klansmen who showed up when the group held its rescheduled Gettysburg rally in November.

Cecil County Director of Administration Al Wein said that the county had to rent space to the group, because First Amendment; Imperial Whizzer Preston seemed a bit awed by the prospect of being under a roof for a change:

This is our first time as a meeting," Preston said. "We usually do rallies."

Preston also explained that his Klan group is all new and modern, and nothing like your fusty KKK of old, because they don't like Neo-Nazis or the National Socialist movement. Despite the group's requirement that members be "100-percent heterosexual of European heritage and neither Muslim, Jewish, Communist or Satanist," Preston insisted, just like every other Klan leader we've ever heard, that the group is not about hate, not at all:

"Just because we're a certain way in our group, doesn't mean we hate other groups," Preston said. "I think the people that do come will be surprised."

We're betting that he also wonders why it's OK that there's a black history month, but no such thing as a white history month.

[Cecil Whig via RawStory]