Idahoans Commemorate MLK Jr. Day

It was Martin Luther King Jr. - Idaho Human Rights Day at the Capitol, where tea party activists outside decried federal spending while those inside who were honoring the slain civil rights leader listened to a Holocaust survivor's words.

The mid-January holiday was for a second year also a tea party rally date in Idaho. Inside, people listened to Mariachi bands and gospel singers. And they heard Rose Beal talk about being an 11-year-old Jewish girl in Hitler's Germany and how her family died in Europe's concentration camps. Outside, a crowd of 250 heard speakers slam Washington, D.C., urge a return to the gold standard, and extol the virtues of a :Christian nation." Inside, Beal told 300 people how "this great country with all

its opportunity never disappointed me."