Maybe the shutdown of parts of the federal government isn't all that bad. Turns out, it resulted in the cancellation of a Ku Klux Kan rally that had been scheduled to take place over the weekend in Maryland at the Gettysburg National Park, the Daily News reports.
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The Confederate White Knights of Maryland had been granted a permit to hold a rally Saturday at Gettysburg, a unit of the National Park Service, which was forced to close in the shutdown. As a result, permits for special events like, say, a Klan rally, were canceled.
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