ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUP SAYS THEY 'KNOW NOTHING' ABOUT THE RACISTS AT NOV. 14 RALLIES

On Nov. 14, we were so busy chasing after David Irving, this thing slipped by. Then again, it is STILL slipping by a lot of folks. Only Faux News covered the anti-immigration Tea Parties that took place that day, and they only did it the next day. In addition, a video of folks from the ANSWER Coalition and the anti-immigration side duking it out at the rally in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida has gone viral – until someone innoculated YouTube with a copyright infringement complaint. Alas, that’s not all the press this day will get, because we are on the story. That means some of our neo-Nazi buds made an appearence. The guy in the picture is a little baby Nazi college student named John Hilton, and he was at that Ft. Lauderdale rally. As you can see from the picture, he is down with the National Alliance, and if he was the only one we came across that day, he will be one too many. We want to thank William Gheen from Americans for Legal Immigration PAC for taking the time to make his position clear regarding the presence of Nazis at these rallies. We are not too keen on his notion that somehow anti-racist groups are complicit in their appearence just so they can call the lot of them racist, but let’s just say we will agree to disagree. If anything we can be sure of is the fact that no one is saying they want them around. So why the hell do they keep showing up?

One People’s Project

Prior to the underreported anti-immigration “Tea Party” rallies of Nov. 14, a moderator for the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront posted what he said was an open letter to Stormfront posters, including David Duke from William Gheen, the President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). In it, he told them that their presence in those rallies is not welcome, to underscore a fact. “Our website says clearly that these events on Nov. 14 are for those who ‘share our non-violent and non-racist multi-ethnic and bipartisan support for secure borders and immigration enforcement,'” Gheen reportedly wrote. “THAT CLEARLY EXCLUDES YOU, Mr. Duke, and you as well, Stormfront.”

When the date approached however, despite threats in the letter that should they appear, organizers will ask police to make them leave and “we will launch new initiatives that show the public how your white nationalist outfits are assisting the SPLC and ADL in their efforts to malign any American standing up against illegal immigration as a racist,” White nationalists played a major role in several of the rallies held in a number of towns across the country, particularly the one in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where a videotaped fight between anti and pro immigration activists that Gheen himself has promoted to show how the other side is violent.

ALIPAC reportedly planned the rallies a month ago when Rep. Luis Gutierrez announced plans to introduce a comprehensive immigration-reform bill next month, a move that anti-immigration groups have painted as introducing an amnesty bill for undocumented workers. According to ALIPAC, there were rallies in over fifty towns across America. Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists did not just participate in the rallies however. In some cases they were the ones organizing and in many of those rallies were the ones comprising of the majority of the participants. In fact it is so much the norm that Gheen’s reputed open letter to Stormfront has been seen either as too little too late at the very least, or an attempt at plausible deniability at the worst.

True to his word, Gheen attempted his aforementioned “initiative” by suggesting that at the rally in Phoenix, Arizona, a rally Gheen later said was organized by a Hispanic woman named Anna Gaines where neo-Nazis unfurled racist banners at the event, they were assisting anti-racist groups to undermine their efforts. “We are looking into this incident to determine if these caricatured racist clowns with a rebel flag and picture of Hitler on a towel were actually racists dumb enough to assist the pro-Amnesty crowd or if they saboteurs on the payroll of the pro-Amnesty George Soros groups,” Gheen wrote.

But Phoenix was not an aberration. In Dumont, NJ, Ron Bass of United Patriots of America used his regular Saturday outing against a day labor site as his contribution to the day. Bass has of late been openly promoting a white nationalist agenda, emailing to supporters materials from the racist National Policy Institute and the Council of Conservative Citizens and making declarations that “It’s time that White America breaks out of the Civil Rights jail that we have been herded into many years ago.”

In Hazelton, Pennsylvania, Daniel Smeriglio and his Voice of the People USA used the day to hold their first event in over a year, the last one being a rally in defense of the six white youths who beat a Hispanic man to death in Shenadoah, PA. Smeriglio dismissed the idea that there are racist motives to his rally, saying “It’s not a race issue. And for those who use that against us, constantly, consistently, they have no argument. They’re tired, they’re old and they’re pathetic.” he said.

The same can be said about his denials, however. Smeriglio, who once referred to Ron Bass as a “mentor”, has associated with known white supremacists in the past, and has allowed them to speak at the podium during his events. The white supremacist crew Keystone United are a regular staple at his rallies, and their members are prominent in the news video of Smeriglio’s Nov. 14th rally, which ironically, Smeriglio’s denials of racism can be heard. Steve Smith of Keystone United, who is in the video, posted it on Stormfront to illustrate, in his words, “how White Nationalists should act at a Tea Party rally.”

Then there is Ft. Lauderdale. There, the ANSWER Coalition put out a call for supporters of immigrant rights to come out and oppose the anti-immigration rally being held that Saturday. According to a participant who spoke with One People’s Project, some on the anti-immigrant side went across the street and antagonized the ANSWER group several times until finally things exploded with fists flying. The entire scuffle, in which no arrests were made, was captured on video which both sides have shown to their supporters. In a statement released by ANSWER, and according to several people that were in attendance, there were shouts of “White Power” coming from the all-white anti-immigrant crowd, as well as a sign that read “Spay and Neuter Your Mexican”. A photograph of a person holding that sign reveals something else – the URL written on the bottom for the white supremacist National Alliance.

The person holding that sign in the picture is John Hilton, a college student at the Coconut Creek, FL campus of Broward College that from some accounts has been trying to make a name for himself as the campus Nazi. According to those accounts, he is responsible for forming a student organization called the “Euro Club” that once it was learned that it was in many respects a white supremacist group was squashed by deans of the school. Hilton was at David Irving’s speaking engagement at the Ritz Carlton where a Volksfront member got into a knife fight with someone from the Confederate Hammerskins, and he reportedly fancies himself an associate of April Gaede, the neo-Nazi stage mother to Lamb and Lynx Gaede, the twins of the singing duo Prussian Blue.
He reportedly posts on Stormfront under the name “Azureflames”, where his signature encourages his people to move to Kalispell, MT, which is where the Gaedes reside. Hilton also said in another posting that he and a friend was organizing another rally for the following weekend, but no information regarding that rally has come out. Meanwhile, “Azureflames” posted the video from the first rally in Ft. Lauderdale until it was removed by YouTube citing copyright infringement. “The Nov 14 Rally in Ft Lauderdale was great until Illegal Alien Amnesty Supporters (mostly non-whites) started attacking us!” Azureflames wrote. “One ghetto thug wearing an x-large white t-shirt and baggy pants kicked one of the Tea Party members. Muds are always causing violence!”

In two emails to One People’s Project, William Gheen said that he will look into the concerns regarding the aforementioned incidents, but took issue with the idea that ALIPAC knowingly worked with white supremacists on Nov. 14. “Our Ft. Lauderdale event was organized by Danita Kilcullen as is clearly displayed at www.againstamnesty.com,” he wrote. “Our site makes it very clear that only people that share our non violent and non racist solutions to illegal immigration are welcome at our events and each organizer agreed to uphold those standards at our events of Nov. 14.”

In regards to Dan Smeriglio’s Hazelton rally, Gheen said he had spoken to him on Nov. 23 about the white supremacist issue. “Dan Smeriglio called me yesterday, he wrote. “I asked him about the skinheads and he denies any involvement with them and says they were not present at his event. If you (One People’s Project) have any evidence that Dan lied to me, I want to see it as I would not associate with Mr. Smeriglio if he lied to me or worked with racists. Dan said that when the news crews were there early on in the day his crowd was fairly small, that he knew all the people there, and that none of them were associated with the racist groups in the area.”

In the Spring, Gheen says there will be other events that will be sponsored by ALIPAC, and there will be efforts by the group to “decrease the chances that radicals on the right or left provide political ammunition for unscrupulous groups to attack the civil liberties of all Americans using their limited attempts to be at our events.” ALIPAC will publicly denounce fascism, communism, racism, and will ensure that in interviews, the ALIPAC website and in speeches to be made at all events there will be a denouncement of not only illegal immigration, but leftist and far right groups that do not stay away from these events. “We will also launch a new national campaign to defend the civil rights of all Americans that are being abused by being labeled as racists or nazis by pro illegal alien groups which is creating a level of intimidation that can cause a person to lose their job or suffer physical assaults due to that kind of defamation,” he wrote. “Any group or individual that would defame and malign non racist Americans needs to be fought as many American civil rights groups once fought the KKK.”

Meanwhile back on Stormfront, someone named “Buzz”, who claims to be in the Army, posted the following: “Someone should tell this servile dolt (Who, I’m sure cc’ed this to his black/brown friends) that we’ll continue to infiltrate his grand little old party and in the end, after we succeed, will remember spinless (sic) little worms like him.”