Nazi road signs ripped down day after report: NAZIS ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY, SIGNS STOLEN

I live in Salem and I hate what the white supremacists stand for and support. I have been a very conservative Republican since 1951. This has nothing to do with the Nazis in Germany during WWII. This is a local skinhead group that couldn’t even spell American on their application. It may even be a single individual not supported by any group.

If you support not allowing their signs, then you won't mind the Democrats in power here in Oregon denying my Republican signs. You must also support the Democrat sympathizer’s defacing and stealing my “W” signs last election.

Remember, “When they came for me, there was no one left to defend me.” It is free speech covered by the First Amendment. If they break the law, then deal with them. Never deny anyone the right to free speech. Grow up and learn what it means to be an American.

Does anyone here know what the "NSM" means?

National Socialist Movement

Nazi Low Riders

New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

The National Socialist Movement

The National Socialist Movement is the second largest neo-Nazi group in the country, trailing only the National Alliance. While some neo-Nazi organizations prefer blazers to brownshirts, this Minneapolis-based hate group is a throwback to the 1960s-era American Nazi Party, from which it descended: members wear Nazi uniforms and openly display swastikas to a degree unusual even among white supremacists. This explicit Nazi imagery apparently has not hurt its stature or standing on the racist right; in recent years it has grown considerably in membership and influence, with dozens of chapters across the country. Part of the reason for the group's growth has been its appeal to racist skinheads and other young white supremacists, who join in NSM activities ranging from literature distribution to armed paramilitary training.

Leader: Jeff Schoep
Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN
Founded: 1974 by Robert Brannen and Cliff Herrington
Publications: NSM Magazine
Other Media: Web site, literature distribution, conferences and rallies
Ideology: Neo-Nazi; NSM calls for a "greater America" that would deny citizens to Jews, nonwhites, and homosexuals.
Composition: Mostly young, including racist skinheads; the group also has older holdovers from George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party of the 1960s.
Connections Ties with various Klan, racist skinhead and other neo-Nazi groups.
Significance: One of the most explicitly "Nazi-like" neo-Nazi groups, emulating the uniforms and paraphernalia of the Third Reich. It has a vaguely paramilitary structure, with military ranks for its members.

Origins

Like most neo-Nazi groups active in the United States today, the National Socialist Movement traces its roots back to the 1960s and George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, the first well-established neo-Nazi organization in America. After Rockwell's assassination in 1967, a variety of neo-Nazi factions sprang up from the disorganized and fractious remnants of the ANP. One such group was a small neo-Nazi group started by two former Rockwell stormtroopers, Robert Brannen and Cliff Herrington, in 1974. Operating under the dubious name of the National Socialist American Workers Freedom Movement, it was tiny and its influence did not extend much beyond its headquarters in South St. Paul, Minnesota.

During the 1970s, Brannen suffered multiple strokes and was succeeded by Herrington in 1983. Herrington (born 1947) ran the group for over a decade, by which point it had expanded to only a handful of chapters outside of Minnesota. Before 1993, when Herrington and a fellow member showed up, in Nazi uniform, at a Minnesota legislative committee hearing to protest a proposed gay rights bill, the local media was largely unaware of their group's existence. However, by the mid-1990s, the group's presence, at least in the Twin Cities, was well-known, especially since some of its members enjoyed wearing their Nazi uniforms in public.

In 1994 Herrington stepped down from command (though he remains an active member) in favor of his much younger second-in-command, Jeff Schoep. Schoep, born in 1973, had been active in the group from an early age and was much more able to appeal to racist skinheads and other young white supremacists and racists. He made his first splash in 1998 when trying to host a major white supremacist event. Prominent neo-Nazis such as Allen Vincent and Thomas Metzger endorsed Schoep and his group, by then renamed the National Socialist Movement. Vincent said that Schoep had "great bloodlines" and predicted he would be able to unite the different white supremacist groups in the United States and make Minneapolis-St. Paul the "national headquarters" for the white revolution.

Structure

The NSM is paramilitary in structure; its members claim to be lieutenants, sergeants, and other military ranks. One of the most openly Nazi-like of the various neo-Nazi groups in the United States, its members frequently wear uniforms patterned after those of the Third Reich. Jeff Schoep, the head of NSM, is its "commander," and the various chapters of the groups are termed "units." In just a few years, the NSM has grown from a few chapters to dozens. However, most of its chapters are quite small, and many tend to be very short-lived. In 2004, it has between 100 and 200 members and hangers-on in 38 chapters.

Not only is the NSM paramilitary in structure, but its members also engage in armed paramilitary training. In 2000, one of its Ohio members began offering weapons and other military training at a farm in that state, and NSM members from several states attended. In issues of its various periodicals over the years, the NSM has advocated weapons training for whites and has published the recipes for explosives such as fertilizer bombs.

Units Claimed by NSM (as of 7/04):
California (1) Colorado (2) Florida Georgia Indiana (2) Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas (4) Kentucky Louisiana Maine Michigan Minnesota (2) Nebraska	Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey (1) New Mexico North Carolina (2) Ohio (3) Oklahoma Pennsylvania (1) South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin (2)

The membership of the NSM tends to be young; many of its members are current or former skinheads. However, the NSM also still has a number of older members, such as "Wild Bill" Hoff, whose neo-Nazi involvement stretches back to the 1960s and George Lincoln Rockwell.

Ideology

Openly worshipful of Hitler, the NSM is one of the more explicitly neo-Nazi groups in the United States. However, like other neo-Nazi groups, it is not a clone of the Third Reich, but has been Americanized and modernized. Its platform calls for an all white "greater America" that would deny citizenship to nonwhites, Jews, and homosexuals. The NSM reserves most of its vitriol for Jews and immigrants; it is crudely racist and anti-Semitic.

Like other neo-Nazi groups such as the National Alliance, the NSM has worked to capitalize on perceived anti-immigration sentiment in America, holding or participating in various anti-immigration rallies around the country. In August 2003, for example, the NSM staged an anti-immigration rally at the state legislature in Indianapolis, Indiana, to protest the rise in Hispanic immigrants in Indianapolis. "They are dragging down the economy and stealing jobs…making a lot of Americans feel like second class citizens," Schoep told reporters.

Unlike its main rival, the National Alliance, the NSM actively works with other white supremacist groups ranging from racist skinheads to the Klan to White Revolution. As early as 1993, Schoep claimed to be the leader of the "United Patriot Front," a group he envisioned would unite the Klan, the Posse Comitatus, and other racist groups. The NSM has held numerous "unity rallies" designed to bring various white supremacist factions together. One of its more recent occurred in Topeka, Kansas, a state with an active NSM membership, in the summer of 2002. There some 21 marchers and dozens of sympathizers from a variety of extremist groups faced off against hundreds of angry counterprotesters. Schoep, waving a noose, yelled to the crowd that he came to Kansas "to speak the truth for my race, my people, my nation." In 2003, the NSM and White Revolution, a new group headed by former National Alliance member Billy Roper that is also interested in "white unity," participated together at a number of events.

Has this sign shown up in your bedroom?

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The bigger point is that the Adopt-a-Highway program is public and not private, and that even if it was private, it might be subject to idiotic anti-discrimination laws.

The system has to be challenged by a group with a name like "STRAIGHT GUYS AGAINST AIDS INFECTED FAGS" in order to expose the flimsiness of the current laws.

LOL Boy I wish. Long Island has skinheads, especially where industries have closed down and moved.

I was teasing you. On the initial thread you posted and predicted that the sign would disappear.

You took a guess that it would end up in some teen's room.

Yeah I know. I was just trying to imagine the same thing being done here. It'd never happen.

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I weep as I write. Oh the humanity.

I won't be able to sleep tonight knowing the Nazis don't have a sign.

I have been spending my tearful, bleak days writing page upon page of depressing poetry and country song lyrics since reading this article.

If the theives had a sense of irony they would have just spray-painted a swastika on it.

You said: The 1st amendment lets me say that. It also lets them say what they want -- hate filled or not. As long as it is not a call to violence then I must protect their right to express themselves, abhorrent as I may find their message.

From someone else's post:

He predicted the governorship of V A by 1966 and the Presidency by 1972. Once he attained the Presidency, he planned to exterminate all "treasonous Jews" through methods used by Hitler's Nazis, banish all African Americans to Africa and mend the United States Constitution to conform to Nazi whims.

Unless they've since made their platform much more PC than this description, it sounds like a call to violence to me- this is insurrection. At the least it's an effort to instigate a riot and at the most, mass murder.

Shouting "fire" in a crowded movie theater or making loud jest about bombs while in line at the airport isn't technically a call to violence; yet doing so can get you some time in the cooler as it's not seen as a part of your right to free speech.

The system has to be challenged by a group with a name like "STRAIGHT GUYS AGAINST AIDS INFECTED FAGS" in order to expose the flimsiness of the current laws.

You are 100% right. Sauce for the gander should be available in every possible flavor.

Even as I defend some, I must admit that all non-violent thoughts are welcome.

You are right. The American Nazi Party must have the right to adopt a Highway (If it is legally recognized)It's not a question to agree or not with their crazy ideas, but they must have the same right of everybody else.