Well, now we know why the Brownshirts are having a party downtown on Saturday.
I usually avoid seeking out quotes from professional commenters who actually send out press releases offering their comments. But I did read this one, and as a result I know that the Nazi rally Saturday is apparently to celebrate the Führer’s birthday!
And I didn’t get him a thing… Anyway, since Hitler’s actual birthday is Friday, I guess these are sort of slacker Nazis, who can only be troubled to goose-step on weekends.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bill Nigut
SE Region DirectorADL EXPERTS AVAILABLE
FOR REACTION TO SCHEDULED
NEO-NAZI RALLY IN COLUMBIA, SC
Atlanta, GA, April 19, 2007…The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will have experts available for comment on the planned anti-immigrant march and concert by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement scheduled for Saturday, April 21 in Columbia, South Carolina. The rally is part of a weekend of NSM events marking the birthday of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Based in Minneapolis, MN, the National Socialist Movement (NSM) is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic group and one of the most active neo-Nazi organizations in the United States. Members of the group attend rallies in full Nazi uniform and regalia and call for ridding the country of Hispanic and other non-white immigrants and minorities.
The NSM is scheduled to hold its “national meeting” in Columbia on Friday, April 20, followed by an anti-immigrant rally and white power music concert on Saturday. April 20 is Hitler’s birthday and is a date traditionally used by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups to perpetuate Hitler’s legacy of hate and to promote their message of anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry.
“White supremacists have long sought to use Hitler’s birthday as a means to spread anti-Semitism and racism and to draw attention to themselves and their message of hate,” said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director. “While this group operates on the fringes of society, their dangerous and racist rhetoric about immigrants, Jews and other minority groups should be taken seriously.”
The group claims that the rally will be attended by Klan members and other white supremacist groups from across the country. Like other extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the NSM has seized on the national debate over immigration to recruit new members to their cause.Additional background information on the NSM is available on the League’s Web site at National Socialist Movement. (http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/The_National_Socialist_Movement.asp)
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world’s leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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Meanwhile, it’s looking LESS likely that C-SPAN will be covering the rally Saturday, although apparently that hasn’t been decided for sure — according to the same indirect source I used before.
I guess I’ll just have to go down and see it myself…
How predictable is this becoming…anti-smoking, anti-skinhead and anti-confederate flag.
Gees…am I bored.
So would you feel better if I came out FOR Hitler?
Apparently, you think I’m a “liberal,” which is a laugh. Check it out — I’m citing the ADL. Don’t you have to be a little antiSemitic — or at LEAST anti-Israel — to be a “liberal” these days? Or is that just for European liberals? I can’t keep track. Maybe that’s why avoid labels.
I AM for our involvement in Iraq, which I consider to be a liberal position, but nowadays, people who don’t want to surrender are called “conservatives,” Lord knows why.
I think it’s because people think you have to like Bush to support the war effort, because so many folks are incapable of thinking outside the partisan-dichotomy box. Which means they don’t know how to explain me. For that matter, how do you explain Bush? He’s increased domestic spending more than anybody since Lyndon Johnson, and he’s a “conservative?” People who call themselves “conservative” prefer HIM to McCain? How does that work? How do they reconcile it?
Truth is, they can’t. I just don’t see how people who believe in the whole left-right thing manage to put one foot in front of the other and get through the day, it’s all so tangled up.
If we would never allow al Qaeda to hold a rally to spread their hate in this country, why must we continually allow the Nazi, KKK and skinheads?
The only difference between them is that al Qaeda would like to harm ALL Americans while the Nazi, KKK and skinheads would only like to harm SOME Americans.
And have you noticed how al Qaeda wears hoods and claim that all they do is in the name of God? Looks and sounds a lot like the KKK, huh?
There is a lot more Brownshirt Behavior exhibited on college campuses, by those who call themselves “liberals” and “progressives”, when they attempt to shout down or even physically attack public speakers who challenge their political philosophy.
Intelligent people can focus on the huge social problems created by the organized criminal effort to pack over 20,000,000 illegal aliens into America.
Lots of people oppose this crime wave. Just because a handful of Nazis want the laws enforced does not make the laws bad, nor the 80% of Americans who also want the laws enforced to be wrong. Nor does it make them all Nazis.
It does say something about those “liberals” or whatever who try to use such cheap smear tactics.
Here we go again.
It makes me very sad and angry that once again national as well as local headlines will bring the wrong kind of attention to our city and state as well as adding fuel to the debate over a flag that has no history with these Nazis except that they have chosen to use it to help their idiocy.
Especially when the bad publicity being brought to our state is caused by a bunch of low-life no-lifes that have no business in our state at all.
Take it home, low-lifes, and pollute your own back yards. What a freak show.
Has anybody here ever seen "American History X?"
That was awesome. Painful, but awesome.
The only thing about the Rally that bores me is the constant, mindless, and barely discernable drivel that these filthy antis and Communist agitators keep on screeching. The NSM, as well as the other Supporters of the Rally today, are brave and loyal people. That is much more than I can say for you flunkies.
The South Carolina League of the South, which says it seeks to advance the culture of well being of South Carolinians, plans its own parade to oppose the neo-Nazi’s message of racial hatred.
“We oppose race hatred and we believe that South Carolinians should all oppose race hatred wherever it rears its ugly head,” said Jim Hanks, chairman of the South Carolina League of the South.
Hanks, whose group supports flying the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, said members will carry South Carolina flags.
This was also the anniversary of the Waco Massacre.