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Saturday, 21 April 2007
Nazis rally at the State House
"Hey, look at the flag, guys!" said the cheerful young Nazi as he and his fellow Brownshirts march in rough order past the Confederate soldier monument on the State House lawn.
It seemed to make him feel at home. He sounded pleased, excited, childlike -- in marked contrast to the determined effort of his uniformed cohorts to seem grim and scary.
Shortly thereafter, his comrades ranged themselves at the top of the first tier of steps of the South Carolina Capitol, right in front of George Washington's statue. Various commands were barked to get the guys with the uniforms ranged all along the plateau looking out at the thin, curious crowd -- commands, and casual insults cast off to the right at the exuberant knot of counterprotesters chanting, "Peace, love" and the like.
It was a beautiful spring day, one day after the Fuehrer's 118th birthday, and no one seemed to be 
having a bad time. Everybody was doing what they had come to do. Yeah, the atmosphere was uglier than what you would normally expect on such a beautiful day -- you can feel that in the video -- but I was braced for worse, so it was a pleasant afternoon by comparison to expectations.
The crowd was more or less divided into fourths:
- The Nazis had come to stand looking determined, with their leaders screaming defiantly into a
microphone in a way that no doubt thrilled them -- I gathered they don't get out to do this sort of thing much, and they were making the most of it. - The "peace, love" folks were really getting into it, obediently staying behind their barricade. There was no want of enthusiasm on their part; one could not reproach them with that. But one got the feeling of a routine. You know, this weekend the Nazis, next weekend the Iraq war (which the Nazis are also against -- they want the troops brought home to defend the border from Mexicans) again. As a photographer from The State observed to me: "Oh, there's that lady again. I see that lady everywhere."
- The cops were out in some force, in all sorts of riot gear -- city cops, SLED, Highway Patrol, the
usual Protective Service folks. Mostly, they just stood on post waiting for trouble that didn't come while I was there. (The rally was halfway over before they asserted themselves in any way -- forming a file between the National Socialists and onlookers, making those of us with cameras move back. For the first couple of speakers, we were up there amongst 'em.) - Then there were the gawkers. Professionals like me, and quite a few hobbyists, many with much better cameras than mine. Some were there to grumble and occasionally shout at the Nazis, but everybody just kind of stayed in their own spot.
Anyway, the speakers eventually got around to praising the Confederate flag -- saying how brave and
wonderful South Carolinians were for flying it on behalf of white people everywhere -- and slamming the Hillary Clintons and such who criticize it.
But once the speakers settled into their putative reason for being there -- to speak against illegal immigration -- I got bored (you can hear that kind of stuff any day), decided I'd been out in the sun enough, and headed back to share my video with you.
That's coming up momentarily.
Posted by Brad Warthen at 02:34 PM in Nazis in South Carolina
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The big "equality"... I paid over 1000 dollars for the US government to come here, just because I wanted to came here legally. And I'm legally here. The mexicans just walking cross the border without paying. Is that equality I paid, but they doesn't? Is that equality they has free school, free health care, but I have no?
I'm LEGALLY here, and I'm against the illegals. I don't want the illegals here, because they are criminals.
And I'm sure you hate the NSM is against the WAR. You want to tell to everybody the "nazis are evil", but that is enough hard, if they are not, and they just talking against the crime, drugs, war, etc.
Posted by: Somebody | Apr 21, 2007 8:02:06 PM
I'm sorry if it's such a drag to have to see "that lady" protesting again, it's just that there aren't very many people around Columbia who are actually willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to protesting injustice where they see it. Would you have preferred she stayed home?
Posted by: JimT | Apr 21, 2007 8:50:59 PM
Brad...
are u not working very hard to make this small handful of people....important?
They are nothing.
Most of the people in this state are good people. ignore these people.focus on the good.
Posted by: chri | Apr 21, 2007 9:14:48 PM
A Southern heritage group also had about a dozen members out, one carrying a Confederate flag, to show their opposition to the Nazi group.
"While they may have a right to protest, we've got a right to protest them," said Larry Salley of the League of the South, which supports flying the Confederate flag at a Civil War monument on the Statehouse grounds. "Southerners black and white have more in common with each other than we do with these Yankee scum.
"And we stand against any organization whether it's the Nazi party or the NAACP who tries to turn Southerners, black and white, against each other."
Salley said most of the people marching with the neo-Nazis were not from South Carolina. A look at some of the license plates on the members' cars parked near the start of the parade route showed many were from Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and South Dakota.
Posted by: Jim Hanks | Apr 21, 2007 10:05:46 PM
This is what the Associated Press reported: 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
Posted by: Jim Hanks | Apr 21, 2007 10:10:30 PM
Press Release
LoS Demonstrates against Nazis
Columbia, SC 21 April 2004: The South Carolina League of the South is 100% against Race Hatred of every kind. In keeping with this policy, the South Carolina League of the South is staging a symbolic counter-protest against the Nazi Race-Hatred March today, Saturday, April 21, 2007. Our protest began at 11:30 AM at the corner of Gervais St. and Main St. where we are expressing our contempt for National Socialism.
We are demonstrating against an ugly, alien and thoroughly discredited notion that attempts to use Race, Religion and Ethnicity as bogus wedges to weaken South Carolina. The good citizens of South Carolina have everything to gain through mutual love and respect and yet everything to loose should the race haters gain influence and power.
Race hatred must not, and will not, thrive in our State because we repudiate it. We strike the single blow that hatred can not withstand. Through love for our brother and sister South Carolinians we turn our backs on the messengers of hate and we repudiate their message.
Neither outside critics nor professional agitators have the power to turn South Carolinians against themselves. We oppose all Race Hatred, both the Nazi variety and the NAACP variety. We will not allow either of these vicious attacks on South Carolina’s citizens to go unopposed. We, the South Carolina League of the South, defend our proud and noble heritage. We attempt to live up to the high standards of duty and courage set by our noble ancestors. We will never abdicate our right as South Carolinians to unite in common self defense.
Though the majority may choose to remain aloof from the scene, safe at home while Nazis march, yet we of the South Carolina League of the South choose a different course. Nazis must be forced to realize that hate is unwelcome in South Carolina
The South Carolina League of the South is of and for all South Carolinians.
The South Carolina League of the South fully concurs and supports the following resolution, H3924.
Posted by: Jim Hanks | Apr 21, 2007 10:25:43 PM
Heil Hitler...I beleive in 98% of what you say...but I beleive we must kill many of this white trash...lazy ...that disgrace our Arayan Forfathers..
Posted by: joe seifert | Apr 22, 2007 12:33:30 AM
ON THE NAZIS BIRTHDAY...I WANT TO SAY HE WAS RIGHT...LOOK AT THE AMERICAN CESSPOOL...WITH THESE MEXICANS TAKING OVER...AND THESE WORTHLESS NIGGARS...THAT JUST KEEP ON RIOTING...LONG LIVE THE ARAYAN BROTHERHOOD...EXTERMINATE THESE SUBHUMANS..
Posted by: ADOLF HITLER | Apr 22, 2007 12:41:21 AM
America has non-white problem... when will White America wake up and take back our country that was built by whitemen?.We can see what non-whites do to a country they live in they destroy it!, America is a becoming a cesspool!!!
Posted by: henchy | Apr 22, 2007 3:19:14 AM
I'm European, and believe me, if the USA would be able to get those niggers out, back to Africa, those vagina-eyed asians back to Asia and all hispanics down to the south, it would be a miracle. Don't start saying you should eliminate some whites too, because you'll only weaken your own position. And a weakened position is suicide. Heil Hitler!
Posted by: johny cash | Apr 22, 2007 6:39:15 AM
When this group of nazis say that Jesus was not a Jew, exactly what Bible are they looking at? WAKE UP AMERICA! This is 2007. There should not be any racial issues whatsoever. Leave the nazi crap in WWII. There is so much racial tension in today's society. We shouldn't be concerned with color of skin, we should be concerned with the percentage of people that have AIDS, HIV, the poverty percentage or something that can help be prevented. We need to focus on how to better America, not how to make the intelligence level go down. You nazis shouldn't be saying "Heil Hitler," or "Heil Commander!" You should be saying " THANK YOU JESUS FOR SPARING MY SOUL!"
Posted by: Refuse Stupidity | Apr 22, 2007 8:27:49 AM
Oh, and did Hitler die so that any of you could live? I THINK NOT! A JEW died for you. Get your facts straight people.
Posted by: Refuse Stupidity | Apr 22, 2007 8:29:13 AM
It is deeply depressing to think that ANYONE could don a Nazi uniform for ANY reason, but to propagate such vile, disgusting hate for another human being defies my ability to rationalize such behavior.
Ignorance was bliss in Columbia on Saturday when the Neo Nazis marched to the State House. Among their flags was the Confederate battle flag, case and point as to why the call to remove it from the grounds of our capitol bears merit. Adopting the flag as a banner for a hate group who represents white supremacy is testament of their lack of knowledge of the flag's history. They have no right to misrepresent its history in such a way. If they were really trying to piss off the black community, why didn't they adopt the African-American flag with its red, green, and black stripes? That ought to do it.
Instead they only fueled the fire to have the flag removed from the State House grounds.
When I think of all of the Americans who lost their lives in World War II fighting Germany and the mad man Hitler, I simply cannot fathom what would make a grown man want to put that same uniform on and parade down an American street.
May God have mercy on their souls and deliver them from their ignorance.
Posted by: Mike Anderson | Apr 22, 2007 10:16:44 AM
"the mad man Hitler" - Hitler started a war. Who else? Bush? Yes. Israel? Yes. Almost every country on the World... I see bunch of mad man in the politics, sometimes they yells like crazies "we must help the israelis with money and weapon!!!". Man, think about it, the US gives YOUR tax money for the Israeli wars, and the US soldiers dies for Israel, not for the US.
Terror danger in this country? Guess why: because the leadership is serving Israel, and the arabs are angry because this. Think about it!
Watch the police wanted websites! What do you see? Think about it!
Although I'm not sure you can see the truth...
Posted by: Somebody | Apr 22, 2007 11:25:41 AM
To "Somebody," I'm sure Hitler and the Nazis had some good plans to help the people of Germany out. I'm sure Hitler seemed like a good person with strong beliefs. HOWEVER, this does NOT change the fact that millions were killed because ONE man thought that one race was superior to other races. Regardless of taxes and the way they are handled here in America, we cannot discriminate according to race. Race has nothing to do with taxes, honestly. I, my friend, am concerned that YOU cannot see the truth.
Posted by: Refuse Stupidity | Apr 22, 2007 2:29:36 PM
OK, Folks.....heres how it is. It seems like there is a double standard here.
I find it quite ironic that the majority of the people protesting the NSM are 1st amendment supporters also.
The NSM , as I understand it obtains valid parade permits every time it marches. They seem to go a legal route to say what they have to.
It seems unfair to judge them. They say what they want....and what they believe.
Everyone seems to think that malcolm x was some sort of hero. But in the begining he was a racist. He hated Whitey. But now somehow in todays world we view forced multiculturalism as the way to go. That ideal is going to strip the guts out of all cultures. That would make everyone the same....
well...maybe what the Nazis have to say isnt all bad....But god forbid any of these professional protesters would ever relax their ever flapping lips long enough to listen....they may realize that their message is not so different of the one the nazis are trying to get through....
Another problem with our culture today is that we are spending way to much time squinting to see the similarities in all men when we should first open those squinted eyes and deal with the obvious differences.....ALL RACES AND CULTURES...with no exception ....throughout history...have fought over racial or cultural obvious differences.
Political correctness only goes so far as to spare the feelings of the few...what it really does...it creates a multitude of verbal "washes" and eventually becomes the ultimate deception.
So....my point in close...before you go to protest. Try making sure what you are protesting is truly wrong. You should stand behind any man who has values, and is against real social injustices such as crime, war, and social degredation caused by drugs and the message that most rap ....or crap as i call it carries
Posted by: FluidDruid | Apr 23, 2007 9:16:29 AM
Typical. More pissing and moaning about the poor Jews. It's the Jews, lest we forget, that consider themselves "God's chosen race" so to complain about we National Socialists having a superiority complex is more than just a little hypocritical, is it not? When talking about the "holocaust" liberal revisionists always refer to the 6 million Jews that were killed, at the same time conveniently forgetting the 5 million others that perished, makes you wonder, doesn't it? If you ask me the Jews should be thankful for the Final Solution, without it they wouldn't have returned to Palestine to wage their wars of "self-defense". To accuse Nazis of hatred and bigotry is obscenely hypocritical, as it is a pillar of leftist ideology to throw around allegations of racism to anyone opposing open discrimination of whites in the US.
Posted by: Marcus | Apr 23, 2007 12:46:38 PM
Marcus writes:
"If you ask me the Jews should be thankful for the Final Solution ...."
and
"To accuse Nazis of hatred and bigotry is obscenely hypocritical ...."
Do you people actually believe the vile, contradictory nonsense that you spout?
Posted by: bud | Apr 23, 2007 3:33:26 PM
bud is a brainwashed lemming just like the rest of jewy America. Just because your family is a mongrel group doesnt mean all whites families are. It is people like bud that are going to ruin this country.
Posted by: bud-lite | Apr 24, 2007 10:58:56 PM
I believe you, "bud-lite", were referring to the mix of races when you said 'mongrel'. However, your narrow mindedness and just plain stupidity allowed you to think that Bud wrote that, when in all actuality Malcolm wrote that. Congrats! You are officially a moron.
Posted by: Refuse Stupidity | Apr 25, 2007 6:32:18 AM
I'm an Ivy League educated forensic anthropologist and I can assure you that race (for the sake of this debate "race" defined as subgroups of Homosapien) does indeed exist. If I am brought nothing but the skull of a human, I (and any other anthropologist on the planet) will be able to determine the race of the individual.
Whether it fits with your rather naive egalitarian world-view or not, there are scientifically proven measurable physical variations in bone structure between human subgroups.
Posted by: Vanguard News Network | Apr 25, 2007 7:55:28 AM
"Of course bone structure is different." At least your limited intellect allowed you to process that much truth.
Yes, it's quite obvious that blacks have had a long-standing affinity with the Confederate Battle Flag. lol. Are you insane, sir?
Posted by: Vanguard News Network | Apr 25, 2007 12:33:42 PM
So you live in a fantasy land where the Confederate Army was a multi-racial egalitarian one? Roflmao.
You are delusional.
Blacks are attempted to erase all vestiges of the Confederacy, at every level, and yet in your fevered mind, they are marching arm and arm with the "It's not HATE it's heritage" cowards..lol
Posted by: Vanguard News Network | Apr 26, 2007 5:30:58 AM
I'm quite sure you are "done with this", as your position in the debate is untenable.
Race is real. Ignore it if you wish. It's time White Americans start looking out for their collective best interest. Every other race has myriad organizations that work exclusively for the betterment and promotion of their group interest. Whites are the only group who are actively discouraged from doing so.
Have you never wondered why "Black Pride" or "Latino Pride" is A.OK, in fact encouraged, but ANY sort of White expression of racial pride or solidarity is vilified?
I am seeing a nascent movement of middle class Whites towards a White identity.
Not these clowns waving Swastikas to be sure, but it is palpable. "White Guilt" has ran it's course.
American Whites are tired of non-White crime. Tired of subsidising third world immigrants who invade our land by the tens of millions unchecked and overwhelm our schools and social infrastructure.
American Whites grow weary of the blatant main stream media double standard that pervades every broadcast. Remember the Duke non-Rape case? Remember the media frenzy over this "crime"? Candlelight vigils, coach fired, Lacrosse season cancelled, public proclamations on "diversity", etc. Young White men accused of kidnapping and sexual assault charges. All a lie.
Now, compare the coverage of THAT story or the more recent Imus feeding-frenzy with the story of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome.
Never heard of either of them? Google their names if you have a strong stomach.
The reason Channon Christian's case is not on a 24 hour loop on CNN like the Duke case was or Imus, is because it reveals some very ugly racial truths about America. Truths those who run the media don't want you to hear.
But hey, just keep deluding yourselves that all the hatred that non-Whites have for Whites will magically assuage itself the day they become the majority population in North America. You do know that day is coming, right?
If you want an example of a Black run city, check out Detroitiscrap dot blogspot dot com. If you wish to wonder at the majesty of a black run nation, Google Liberia.
Do you think things will be better or worse than they already are here in America when the Blacks and Mexicans take over? They are not "assimilating" that's a myth.
You people better wake up.
Posted by: Vanguard News Network | Apr 26, 2007 10:07:30 AM
Antoneyo, you got owned.
Posted by: General Lee was Black? | Apr 26, 2007 2:24:46 PM
