NAZIS, ANTIFA FACE OFF IN PHILLY FOR LEIF ERICSON DAY

Yep, the Keystone State “Skinheads” tried again this year in Philly, and antifa were there to say hi. This outing is the sixth annual one for the KSSholes, and we have no problem making it harder for them each year.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA – For the sixth consecutive year, a local group of neo-Nazis attempted to gather at the statue of Viking explorer Thorafinn Karsefini on Boathouse Row to celebrate what they have called the “Leif Ericson Day Celebration”, but in what has become a traditional event, antifa were there once again this year to oppose them.

About 20 members and associates of Keystone State “Skinheads” (KSS, a/k/a Keystone United), who organized the event led by member AJ Olsen, marched from nearby Fairmount Park, and down Kelly Drive where the statue is located, only to be met by 15 antifascist activists, commonly known as antifa, who were waiting for them at the statue. After nearly a half-hour of shouting back and forth, the neo-Nazis went back into the park followed by antifa who waited until they actually left the park before leaving themselves. The Nazis then went to an undetermined location for an afterparty where others who did not want to participate in the Boathouse Row rally waited, among them Luzerne County Republican Committeman and KSS founding member Steve Smith.

“They went on to make unintelligible speeches on a megaphone about the plight of ‘White Europeans,’” a story on the Philly Antifa blog read. “Well, they might have been more intelligible if Antifacists weren’t shouting them down with chants of ,THIS IS OUR COMMUNITY – NAZIS OUT’ and ‘DEATH, DEATH, DEATH TO THE NAZIS – POWER, POWER, POWER TO THE PEOPLE’ as well as general heckling and insults. It wasn’t long before they had clearly had enough and packed up their side show and headed back to their cars under police protection.”

One of the neo-Nazi supporters, Heidi McCarty of Williamsport, PA wore a T-Shirt reading “Don’t Shoot, Officer. I’m White!” She came with her fiancée Patrick Rogers and friend Elizabeth McGill.

For the first time the Florida-based white power crew the Hated were openly represented by two members, Michael and Laura Leager of East Lansdowne, PA. Representatives from the white supremacist political party American Third Position, who’s website says that it “exists to represent the political interests of White Americans,” also were in attendance. Two years ago they were the sponsors of the event after KSS fell apart. Ever since that year their numbers have been minuscule. This was only the second public outing for KSS this year, the first one being the concert in Lebanon, PA last month featuring bands that once featured Wade Page the Hammerskin Nation member that killed six worshippers in Wisconsin In August.

KSS and their supporters vowed at the rally to have another Leif Ericson Day event next year. Upon saying at the end of this year’s event that they will return, antifa chanted, “So will we!”

PHOTOS (Right-Click and save to enlarge)

We will have more shortly.

	Michael and Laura Leager of East Lansdowne, PA with DLJ. The Leagers are wearing shirts from their crew the Hated.
	Some of the KSSholes as they try to hold their rally at the Thorafinn Karsefeni statue.
	Holding the flag is Patrick Rogers out of Williamsport, PA. The ogre to the right of the photo wearing glasses is his friend Elizabeth McGill.
	Heidi McCarty of Williamsport, PA is the baby momma of Patrick Rogers, and she is not too fond of this picture getting a lot of attention. Maybe next time she won’t wear effed-up shirts like this.