NO-SHOW NAZIS TRY AND SAVE FACE WITH MEAGER LEIF ERICSON 'CELEBRATION'

We are based in the Northeast, and we gotta tell you, being antifa out here is boring. All the Nazis are afraid of us. We chase them away everytime they show up. They have to sneak around just to have a simple show, or need someone to guard bathroom doors in clubs whenever nature calls. That results in few public white supremacist events being held around here. But along with that comes some comedy, because they also don’t like being made to look bad. So even though they didn’t have their Leif Ericson Day Celebration during Columbus Day Weekend as they have in year’s past, they still had to have something, especially since we posted that video of them being a no-show this year. So they threw something together – and we know it was thrown together, because they didn’t even educate themselves on who the statue is supposed to be depicting! That’s part of the comedy in the story that you need to read to believe. Now no antifa opposed the event, but there’s a good reason for it. We didn’t know it was happening. Hell, judging from the paltry crowd in this pic, not too many on that side knew it was happening.either! You can thank American Third Position for that. Of all the crews out there, A3P is scared of antifa the most. You don’t hear about their events until after they happen, and that’s because they only seem to tell the folks around them. That works for us because it keeps their numbers down, but being as they were the ones sponsoring this year’s Leif Ericson outing we now have another question:  Where the hell is Keystone United? Word on the street is that they are done, but that remains to be seen. Thing is, so are they, and with Uprise moving to Baltimore last August, their website not being updated, their forum not being fixed, and now this, sometihng tells us that word on the street is truth. All of this leads to one thing: This sad affair that took place on Saturday shows that the local neo-Nazis have something to prove. Unfortunately for them, all they have seemed to prove is how effective antifa is against them! If they allowed us to make them look that stupid…

One People’s Project

PHILADELPHIA, PA–Two weeks after the actual Leif Ericson Day – which was also the same time a video was released ridiculing the first no-show in three years of a group of neo-Nazis at a Viking statue along the Schuylkill River – associates went to that statue to hold what they said was their annual Leif Ericson Day Celebration. It was a smaller event than in years past, last year’s event being met with opposition by antifa who stood at the statue, and the organizers claim to be from a different organization than the one that normally sponsored the event.

According to the website of the white supremacist group American Third Position (A3P), “dozens of supporters” on Saturday stood at the statue of Thorafinn Karlsefeni, the Viking explorer who in c. 1010 came to the New World with three ships and 160 settlers and built a colony in what is now Newfoundland. Local A3P member Charles Dickenson and the event organizer who calls himself “Felix Bauriedel” – although it is not certain that is his real name – were among those who addressed those that attended. Despite the article’s claims of dozens of supporters attending, the

accompanying photograph only shows sixteen persons gathered around the statue. In the photo they held up an A3P banner which read “Expell All Illegal Aliens”, which was ironic given the fact that after three years, Karlsefeni and his fellow settlers were ran out of their colony by the indigenous people to that land.

The Leif Ericson Day Celebration has been an event held at the statue since 2007 by Keystone State “Skinheads”, who would later rename themselves Keystone United. This was the first year that American Third Position sponsored the event, but although some past attendees were present, Keystone United did not make a formal presence. In fact, other than a New Year’s Eve get-together in Harrisburg, PA, last year’s Leif Ericson Day event was the last time anyone has seen the organization. That event in particular brought out antifa who stood at the statue while neo-Nazis representing not only Keystone United but also the Vinlander Social Club (VSC) and Volksfront particpated in what ultimately became an abbreviated ceremony that those antifa disrupted. The local alternative weekly Citypaper covered the event last year.

In recent months, Keystone United’s presence has been diminished overall. Their website has not been updated since February, and it’s forum has been in disrepair since early summer. Their annual concert Uprise, which normally took place at the beginning of the year, did not take place, but something called “Independent Artist Uprise”, which included all of the original Uprise’s sponsors except Keystone United was held in Maryland in August. A posting to a thread about Keystone United inquired about their status in July, but no one responded until September, and that was just to say there are “still active members”.

One of the more prominent members of Keystone United was Keith Carney, who was also until this year the main organizer of the Leif Ericson event. He has been seen at various shows in Philadelphia and New Jersey, but those shows have been fewer and fewer after one too many altercations with antifa attending the same shows. At one show he even needed someone to stand guard as he went to the bathroom. According to some sources, however, Carney is not just concerned about antifa. Reportedly he has also fallen out of favor with his old comrades, who are now shunning him not only because his ego might have rubbed them the wrong way, but also because of rumors that he is a government informant. Reportedly, members of Keystone United are now moving to other crews, particularly VSC, whose NY/NJ contingent is one of their strongest. Steve Smith, a founding member of Keystone United, is now active as a member of A3P, holding a European American Heritage Celebration in Moosic, PA in August under their banner. A recent article on A3P’s website notes that Smith still claims to be a “Regional Coordinator” of Keystone United, according to one recent newspaper article.

When the Leif Ericson Celebration took place in other years they were publicly announced, but A3P’s fears of antifa prevented any public announcents from being made. “No one ever said we were not going to do it we just never said when,” one poster to Stormfront who also still claims Keystone United wrote. “No cops, no anti’s, no problems.” Still, the timing of last Saturday’s event has been seen as curious, to say the least. Leif Ericson Day falls on or around Columbus Day weekend, which is why the annual event took place at that time. In fact, Leif Ericson Day fell on that Saturday. Instead of a group of neo-Nazis convening around the statue two weeks ago, no one bothered to show. As a precaution, the organizers of an annual boat race that the Leif Ericson event disrupted each year blocked off the Karlsefeni statue with
orange tape and placed a video camera and a tent in that spot. The fact that the event did not take place a year after the first time antifa disrupted it was lampooned in a YouTube video posted days afterwards.

Despite the fact that some of this year’s attendees have attended this event in the past, no one has corrected American Third Postion’s reporting of the statue where the Leif Ericson Celebration was held being that of Snorri Thorfinnsson, Thorinn Karlsefeni’s son, who is considered the first Ethnic European born in America. Signs and even a plaque on the staute itself reads that it depicts Karlsefeni.