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Sightem: Neo-Nazis On 4th Street

  • Originally posted 1:28 p.m. Sunday

I just saw (1:15 p.m.) a group of about 10 neo-Nazis, men and women, on a 4th Street sidewalk adjacent to the Coeur d'Alene High parking lot (south of Coeur d'Alene Bible Church), waving two large red-white-and-blue flags with swastikas. A couple of women were holding signs with too much print to read on a drive by. But one close-cropped blond male had a sign that said: "If diversity wins, we all lose." He waved. But I didn't wave back. All in all, it wasn't the type of think you'd want to see returning home from church. Or any other time in Coeur d'Alene. However, I wondered why they'd choose that location instead of one with higher traffic, like Sherman Avenue or Northwest Boulevard. Or somewhere near City Park. BTW, I did notice what happened to minorities and the world and Germany when Nazism won out for a decade of so. (AP File Photo)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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