Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
POMONA - More than 50 members of the National Socialist Movement stepped onto the south side of Mission Boulevard on Saturday afternoon and walked east toward City Hall.
As the members of the neo-Nazi group approached City Hall, more than 300 counter-protesters moved toward the edge of the north sidewalk of the boulevard.
As the neo-Nazi group walked, some members called out: "Out immigrants! Out illegals!"
No sooner had members of the group positioned themselves in front of City Hall than anti-Nazi protesters spilled onto the street shouting names at the group.
A few counter-protesters were flinging orange traffic cones that flew past members of law enforcement but never reached the neo-Nazis.
For about an hour members of the neo-Nazi group gave speeches, periodically hurling insults at counter-protesters, who lobbed insults back.
"Everybody knows immigration is wrong," said Jeff Schoep, commander with the National Socialist Movement.
During what the group characterized as a rally, Schoep said he understood there is an effort to repeal the Dream Act, a pair of Assembly bills Gov. Jerry Brown signed recently that give illegal immigrants access to some financial resources, including state aid, to
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Schoep said Americans shouldn't pay for illegal immigrants' education.
"The American dream is not for illegals. It's for white America," he said.
After speaking to the group, Schoep described the group as a white civil-rights organization that is nonviolent and not a hate group.
Schoep, who heads the Detroit-based group, attributed the nation's economic problems to illegal immigrants.
"They're taking away our jobs," he said.
Pomona was chosen as the site of the rally because "Pomona is a sanctuary city," he said, but added that the group had been in other cities, including Claremont, Phoenix, Los Angeles.
As the rally continued outside City Hall, Jason Hiecke, who identified himself as chief of staff for the neo-Nazi group, shouted, "Get the hell out!"
Counter-protesters responded with a collective "Booooo!"
"Every single one of you out there has an uncle or a brother in prison," he said.
"Nazis go home," people shouted back.
Among the counter-protesters was a woman who held a sign that read, "When did your family immigrate?"
Bun Naa Ngin of Pomona was among some people who stumbled onto the rally and counter-protest.
"This is not what America is about. America is where people come together and become one," Ngin said.
To Ngin the presence of the neo-Nazi members "seems like a cry for help and recruitment of people like them, with that mind-set."
Maria Martinez of Pomona said she was angry and offended to have a group come from outside the city and make her feel unsafe, angry and offended all at once.
"We don't want them here," Martinez said. "We all have the right to live whereever we want."
"I'm not happy about this," Martinez said. "We are all equal. Mexicans, whites, African American - we're all human."
Russell Johnson, a Pomona resident who is a student at Mt. San Antonio College, said he decided to go to Mission Boulevard to see what both sides had to say.
What he found was "there's a lot of hatred still," he said.
"It's time they grow up," Johnson said about the neo-Nazi group. "It's not the 1950s any more."
Tempers became heated among counter-protesters and shouting matches broke out among them momentarily.
"Go over to that side," one man shouted to another who appeared to have views in line with those of the neo-Nazis.
Members of the National Socialist Movement contacted the Pomona Police Department about two months ago about having an event in the city, said Mark Gluba, assistant to the city manager.
No permit was required for the event, Gluba said.
Law enforcement from the Pomona Police Department along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, including about a dozen deputies on horseback, and officers from various agencies in the region were present.
"The law enforcement presence is solely to ensure public safety and to ensure that the First Amendment and constitutional rights of all parties are protected," Gluba said.
No arrests and no injuries were reported.
Police closed Mission to traffic between Garey and Park avenues after counter-protesters went into the street but it reopened once the rally ended.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
N.S.M.Ubber Allis-Sept 3, 2011
Approximately 75 Members of the N.S.M.'s ranks showed up, along with many White citizens from the local community who stood in the audience to hear the message and attend in solidarity.
We arrived at City Hall in West Allis to protes the ongoing racial attacks by Black "flash mobs" that has been going on around the Nation. along with the usual vulgar and hateful picket signs we see our opposition display, not one of them held an American flag, only the NSM and our allies had American flags.
Here is just one email sent to N.S.M. HQ regarding our stand against Anti-White Violence:
I'm a white female who actually doesn't live too far from state fair in WI. I was at your rally standing in front watching as you spoke, I must admit your words were very valid and intriguing. I was with friends and we were there honestly because we thought black people get riled up and start fighting, but I soon realized there was more to it when I was listening to you talk. I was shaking my head, along with the group that was standing around me plus my friends, and agreeing with many of your valid points. I even took a video and uploaded it on youtube so I could post it on my facebook page, I don't know if my title would be politically correct, but I labeled it xxxxxxxxxxxx feel free to take a look. The one main part in the speech that caught my attention was when he was saying your group doesn't hate other races, they just highly support their own. There are a lot of support groups for other races out there and I encourage a white support group to do what they need to do to bring awareness to the white community. Thank you so much for having our back, because in that state fair mob, my moms friend was attacked while walking home eating a desert, a lot of friends of mine dealt with having to help those who were hospitalized, one woman and her small child I heard from one of my friends was rushed to the hospital by his brother who is an EMT, and her daughter died in the ICU. I am proud to be white, and I'm sick of it being seen as a bad thing in other peoples eyes. I was even yelled at by some guy when the rally was done and I was leaving, he thought I was a member and was talking all sarcastic to me telling me to come back next year, he can't wait, then some lady told me to suck her XXXX haha...and all I was doing was walking back to my car, this is the kind of ignorance that pisses me off, but strangely all I could do was laugh and hold my head up knowing I was right and proud of who I was after your speech. I would like to learn more about your group, if you could e-mail me back at xxxxxxxxxxxxx or call me with information at xxxxxxxxx Again thank you so much for sticking up for our community, much love.
And this is what constitutes a "respectable cross-section" of multicultural anti-White-rights protesters:
Why do obese White women insist on chimping out with the knuckle-draggers?!We're definitely gonna need a bigger boat!
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