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Insane Clown Posse to march on Washington

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 26 July 2016

Amazingly, that whole thing with Insane Clown Posse trying to get their fanbase – known as Juggalos – removed from the FBI’s list of dangerous gangs in the US is still ongoing. And their latest plan to get this done is to march on Washington.

You might say that gathering together a lot of people deemed to be a threat to society and then telling them to walk towards the centre of government isn’t such a great idea, but that’s because all the lists you’re on are super boring. Also, gathering is what Juggalos do, and possibly what caused this problem in the first place.

Speaking at the annual Gathering Of The Juggalos festival, the duo’s Violent J told fans, according to Detroit News: “In 2017, the weekend of 17 Sep, we need you. We’re gonna do a fucking march on Washington. They call the Juggalo World a movement, right? Well, let’s move! We are going to explain to the world who the fuck we really are”.

Quite why they’re planning this march fourteen months in advance isn’t entirely clear – though after five years of battling the FBI gang listing, maybe they’ve just lost their sense of urgency. What do we want? The declassification of our core fanbase as a “loosely organised hybrid gang”. When do we want it? Ah fuck it, whenever.

J also said that they would host a picnic and play a free show for juggalos at Jiffy Lube Live in nearby Bristow, Virginia the same weekend. Though despite this and his forthright intro, his speech then sort of tailed off a bit, with him admitting: “We don’t know what’s going to happen. We could totally embarrass ourselves, and there could be 25 people”.

As previously reported, ICP have been involved in ongoing litigation against the FBI since their fans were included in its National Gang Threat report in 2011. The duo’s lawsuit was dismissed in 2014, but was reinstated on appeal last September.