Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns and rejects the ongoing pattern of violence and hate that it sees involving extremist events, as well as protests of extremists. A coherent society must reject violence at all such events, before and after such events, and by those participating and those protesting. Those leading such events and those leading protests of such events must take responsibility for condemning such violence without exception.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty does, has, and will continue to condemn and reject the hate of white supremacism, white nationalism, and Nazi ideologies that express reject our shared Universal Human Rights, reject human equality, reject the dignity of others, and that have longed been involved with violence and murder in pursuit of global aims of hate against others. The public must always remember the role of white supremacy in slavery of blacks in America, and the long history of white supremacist persecution and violence against black Americans, which it took a generation to work to change. The public must also always remember the role of Nazi ideology in The Holocaust that murdered 6,000,000 Jewish people, as well as others: people of color, handicapped, gay, Christians, women, Muslims, and groups of other nationalities / ethnic backgrounds. We have challenged such white supremacist, white nationalism, and Nazi ideologies including terrorist violence by such extremists in the United States, including the recent murder of Heather Heyer and injury of 19 in Charlottesville, Virginia by Neo-Nazi supporter James Alex Fields, Jr. using a vehicle, and other attacks we have seen, including the 2009 attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Over the years, R.E.A.L. has been a target of threats of violence, hate, and harassment by white supremacists and Nazis, and we continue to get such harassment today. But R.E.A.L. does not respond to hate with hate. We continue to offer an outstretched hand of human rights and compassion, not an upraised fist, to those who are lost, to find their way back to the family of human rights and dignity for all.
Once again, in Gainesville, Florida, we have seen white nationalist public violence, with an attempted homicide by white nationalist extremists supporting an event by National Policy Institute (NPI) white nationalist speaker Richard B. Spencer. A fringe extremist figure since 2009, Richard Spencer’s white supremacist events have been drawing violent individuals and violence over the past nine months in venues across the United States. Richard Spencer has failed to provide any public statement condemning the acts of his white nationalist supporters in this attempted homicide. Richard B. Spencer is president of the NPI, a white nationalist lobbying and activist group based in Alexandria, Virginia, and as R.E.A.L. reported in early 2010, manages an online blog called “Alternative Right” to provide a digital venue for white nationalist ideologues. Since 2009, R.E.A.L. has peacefully protested Richard Spencer and his fellow fringe white nationalists for their rejection of our shared universal human rights.
After the latest Richard Spencer speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville, three white nationalist and Neo-Nazi extremists were arrested in Gainesville, Florida, and charged with attempted homicide, after one of them shot a handgun at a crowd of protesters, reportedly hitting a building. There were no injuries and a bullet from the rifle struck a building. The extremists were all from Texas and traveled to Florida to participate in unrest surrounding a white supremacist speaker at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The Gainesville police identified the men arrested as: (1) Tyler Tenbrick, 28, of Richmond, Texas, (2) Colton Fears, 28, of Pasadena, Texas. (3) William Fears, 30, of Pasadena, Texas. Tyler Tenbrick reported fired the handgun, and the two Fears brothers reportedly urged him to shoot at a crowd of protester. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) stated that it had been previously monitoring the activities of the three men arrested as white supremacists, including documenting their activities with extremist groups Vanguard America, Patriot Front, neo-Nazi Aryan Renaissance Society, and support for Richard B. Spencer’s “Alternative Right” blog (aka “Alt-Right” blog).
Among the white nationalist extremists, the Chicago Tribune reports that William Fears was part of the Charlottesville, Virginia extremist event and previously was involved in violence there: “he came to Charlottesville equipped for violence – and found it. He threw and took punches.” William Fears was reported previously arrested for aggravated kidnapping and criminal trespass.
The Gainesville police state that “Tenbrink is a convicted felon and faces additional charges of possession of a firearm by convicted felon” and that [a]t least two of the three have shown connections to extremist groups.” The Gainesville police state that: “The three remain in the Alachua County Jail. The Fears brothers are under $1M bond and Tenbrink under a $3M bond.” After the shooting, the white nationalists fled in a silver jeep, but were identified by their license plate and arrested 20 miles outside of Gainesville, Florida. “Units from Alachua Police Department, High Springs Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol conducted a high-risk Felony stop on the vehicle at the 405 Mile Marker of Interstate 75 North and took the three into custody.” The Chicago Tribune reported that “all three men have attended white supremacist events.”
White nationalist shooter Tyler Tenbrink is arrested and handcuffed by Florida Highway Patrol troopers Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
According to the Gainesville, Florida police report: “an investigation revealed they engaged in an argument with another group of people that turned violent with gunfire.” “Shortly before 5:30pm, it was reported that a silver Jeep stopped to argue with a group of protesters and began threatening, offering Nazi salutes and shouting chants about Hitler to the group that was near the bus stop. During the altercation, Tenbrink produced a handgun while the Fears brothers encouraged him to shoot at the victims. Tenbrink fired a single shot at the group which thankfully missed the group and struck a nearby building. The suspects then fled in a silver jeep.”
Individual police reports for the suspects further details the altercation which led to this attempted homicide. The attack was off the University of Florida campus at a nearby bus stop on Archer Road in Gainesville. The attack happened after the white nationalist extremists reportedly harassed and shouted at a group of “six to eight protesters” at the bus stop, and one of the protesters being harassed used “a baton to hit the rear window” of the white nationalist’s vehicle. The police report states the white nationalist Tyler Tenbrick emerged with a handgun, with co-defendents threatening to “kill them” (victims at bus stop), and Tenbrick fired a shot “which missed and struck the business” behind the person they threatened.
Scene of Attempted Homicide in Gainesville by White Nationalists (First Coast News – FCN)
According to the Gainesville, Florida police, “The victim (“VIC”) “was sitting at the bus stop located at 3315 SW Archer Road immediately following the Richard Spencer speaking event which occurred nearby on the University of Florida campus. The containing the defendants pulled up to VIC’s location and one of the passengers began yelling Hail Hitler and other chants at VIC. An argument ensured and VIC used a baton to hit the rear window of DEF’s vehicle. The VIC said the vehicle pulled away approximately 10 feet and then quickly stopped. DEF (Tenbrink) emerged from the vehicle and produced a handgun. CoDEF (C. Fears) and CoDEF (W. Fears) were yelling at both VICS, “I’m going to f***** kill you.” CoDEF (C. Fears) and CoDEF (W. Fears) were also yelling, “kill them” and “shoot them.” DEF (Tenbrink) fired a single shot at VIC, which missed and struck the business directly behind VIC. The DEFs jumped back in the vehicle and fled eastbound on SW Archer Road.” “A traffic stop was conducted and the vehicle was occupied by 4 males and a firearm was also located. VIC was tranported to the location of the suspect vehicle traffic stop and positively identified DEF (Tedbrink), CoDef (C. Fears) and CoDef (W. Fears) as the subjects who threatened him. VIC stated that DEF (Tedbrink) was the person who fired the shot. VIC also stated that CoDef (W. Fears) to be the subject who emerged from the passenger side and yelling at them.”
Reuters andother mediahas interviewed the white nationalists from Texas, prior to their involvement in in the attempted homicide. Reuters stated that “Reuters journalists spoke with Tenbrink and Colton Fears ahead of the Spencer speech on Thursday,” and that Tyler Tenbrick described himself as a “white nationalist” looking to preserve his “way of life,” and he was also interviewed by the Washington Post that reported Tenbrick was there to the white supremacist slogan of the “14 words” related to the future of white race. The attack took place after the event and protest was over, and the white nationalists and protesters had left the University of Florida Gainesville campus.
In addition to these three individuals arrested, two others were arrested by the police in connection the Richard Spencer speech at the University of Florida, bringing the total arrested to five. The other two arrested were: Sean Brijmohan, 28, of Orlando, Florida for Carrying Firearm on School Property (who reportedly was working for a media group), and David Notte, 34, arrested for Resisting Officer without Violence.
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, white supremacist speaker Richard Spencer held a speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, which was attended by about 20 white nationalist and Neo-Nazi supporters of Spencer. The less than 2 dozen white nationalist supporters were protested by 2,500 protesters outside the University of Florida Phillips Center conference hall were the Spencer speech occurred, as well as many more protesters who gained access to the “ticket only” event, which Spencer was having at the University of Florida. The protesters mostly shouted down Spencer.
While the majority of the protests were non-violent, there were a number of “violent confrontations,” including at least one beating by protesters of a man outside the event, and reporting of other violent confrontations on social media. Twitter and other social media showed photos and videos of “Anti-Hate” protesters chasing, threatening, and punching individuals, with one video showing a crowd of protesters laughing and cheering as one white nationalist was sprayed with pepper spray, before led away by the police. The University of Florida Alligator reported: “Other Spencer supporters were also surrounded by people shouting expletives and ‘Nazi scum’ as they followed them to police barricades. Some urged the crowd not to become violent. The swastika-wearing man was shoved by multiple protesters, and witnesses saw a protester punch him in the mouth.” Reuters reported that: “There were a few scuffles on campus that left five people with minor injuries, the university said in a statement.”
After one white nationalist surrounded by a crowd of “Anti-Hate” protesters was posted on Twitter, who reportedly was spit in his face, Miami WSVN’s Craig Taylor asked the person capturing the video of they could air the video. But as Twitter users attacked the video as “poorly acted Nazi street theater,” WSVN’s Craig Taylor replied “see what you’re talking about. Likely won’t be aired,” and replied “We’ve considered this and didn’t deem it as newsworthy as other stuff we’re getting.”
R.E.A.L. rejects the continuing pattern of normalizing such public violence by any extremist individuals. Violence is not the answer. There is no “acceptable or justifiable violence” in beating people in the street, in attacking vehicles, in shooting at and attempting to murder our fellow citizens. While people may have strong views in rejecting the ideology of others, violence is not the answer and cannot be acceptable as part of any political activity, free speech activity, or protest activity. R.E.A.L. continues to call for those involved in white nationalist activities to denounce violence by their supporters and R.E.A.L. continues to call for those involved in protests against white nationalists to denounce violence by protesters. Such violence and hate are NOT acceptable means of advocacy for human rights, equality, liberty, and freedom of our fellow human beings.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty calls for human rights-based, peaceful protests and debates to challenge the anti-human rights views and hate of white nationalists, white supremacists, and Neo-Nazis. The answer to hate is not other hate. The answer to anti-human rights views is not rejecting human rights of security by acts of violence. Wrong is wrong.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty offers consistent, non-political leadership for peace-based human rights activism to challenge extremist and other anti-human rights views by tyrants, dictators, terrorists, and other enemies of our shared human rights.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty stands ready for peaceful debate or protest to extremist leaders. Our message has and will remain a consistent focus on our shared universal human rights. We offer an outstretched hand, not an upraised fist to urge all to support our universal human rights for our fellow human beings. Choose Love, Not Hate – Love Wins.
R.E.A.L. sends its sympathies and prayers for all of the victims of violence and hate in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 and 12. R.E.A.L. calls for the American public to reject the forces of hate and violence, and condemn the ideologies of Nazi and white supremacist extremism.
R.E.A.L. has challenged Nazi anti-human rights extremist movement, since our founding, and has widely reported on the extremist views of these groups, including repeated acts of terrorism by some Nazi terrorist groups. R.E.A.L. has reported on the “war of ideas” with Nazis, as well as white and racial supremacist groups for many years. As a result, R.E.A.L. has regularly been the target of Nazi hate and death threats. To be specific, R.E.A.L. and its leadership has been the target of threats by members of National Vanguard Nazi Party, Stormfront, and other Nazi and white nationalist organiations for over a decade.
The Nazi slogans, images, that we have seen from attendees at a recent white nationalist movement in Charlottesville, Virginia event and subsequent riots have become normalized for too long, when they need to be viewed as unacceptable.
As we saw on the night of August 11 and then again on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, groups such as the Vanguard America (VA) white nationalists marched to the Nazi chant “Blood and Soil,” which was popularized by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany “Blut und Boden.” In Adolf Hitler’s time, this was ideology was linked to German racial purity and control over “its borders,” while at the same time Nazi Germany sought to take over the borders of other nations.
In the case of the American group “Vanguard America (VA),” they seek to make the United States of America as an exclusively white nation. The Vanguard America movement seeks to create an America that “is to be a nation exclusively for the White American peoples who out of the barren hills, empty plains, and vast mountains forged the most powerful nation to ever have existed.” Vanguard America is a member of the multi-state “Nationalist Front (NF)” Neo-Nazi organization. It is one of many other Nazi groups in the U.S., including the “National Vanguard” (formerly “National Alliance”) that is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Vanguard America group is not unlike other Nazi “Vanguard” groups, which have threatened R.E.A.L. for many years. The “Vanguard America” group also promotes vile anti-Semitic remarks and hate ideologies including posters titled “Beware the International Jew.”
With the violence and the death of a counterprotester Heather Heyer, in Charlottesville, Virginia, it appears we now add it to this list of infamy. The police have charged James Alex Fields, Jr. of Ohio, who has been charged with held on suspicion of second-degree murder, and malicious wounding, and vehicular attack which led to one death and 19 injured.
Heather Heyer, Victim Killed in Nazi Supremacist Terror Automobile Attack in Charlottesville
Photographs in Charlottesville linked Mr. Fields to the Vanguard America group. The Charlottesville police chief indicated that the vehicle attack was “pre-meditated.” The FBI is investigating what many consider to be a terrorist attack. James Fields is scheduled to be arraigned on August 14, 2017.
James Alex Fields, Jr. (2nd from Left) with Vanguard America group – Charlottesville, Virginia
At the Charlottesville riots, a total of 34 were injured in violence and riots by Nazis, Anarchists, and other members of the public. Violence must continue to be rejected by all of those legitimately in support of our shared Universal Human Rights.
For years, R.E.A.L. has challenged the normalization of Nazi images and rhetoric, which many media found years ago to a source of mockery, including the Washingtonian and Vox. R.E.A.L. asked Benjamin Freed with the Washingtonian, if he planned to revisit the impact of such normalization of Nazi imagery, in the context of the tragedy at Charlottesville, and was told “no.” Others in human rights have told me that challenging the normalization of Nazi slogans and normalization of Nazi hate symbols were “not their fight.” They continue to fail to grasp that the ormalization of Nazi images and hate are wrong. Those who claim Nazi slogans and Nazi images are “not their fight” have been and continue to be WRONG. We work to support Human Rights for all people, of every race, every religion, every gender, every identity group.
But unlike some foreign media, who claim that the hate and violence we saw by Nazis and Anarchists in “Charlottesville is America everywhere,” R.E.A.L. knows this is not true. Such marginal anti-human rights extremists are a threat, but we must never forget that they are a fringe minority of the American public, who live peacefully in a diverse nation, who respect law and order, and who respect the human rights and Constitutional rights of their fellow Americans.
We challenge this threat by condemning and rejecting the normalization of Nazi, fascist, and anti-Human Rights views and ideology. As we have stated with other terrorist threats, the “front line” to fighting such threats begins with a “war of ideas,” not adopting our OWN extremist violence tactics in the street (which we have seen too often).
Charlottesville, Virginia – August 12, 2017 Riots
We challenge this threat by continuing to use peaceful means to reject such ideologies of hate, not encourage public violence, and not empower such hate-mongers.
But most importantly, we work to promote SHARED human rights, not replacing one extremist view with another, and not believing a different shade of authoritarian hate and violence will achieve progress.
Don’t be deceived by those who think Hate and Violence will stop Hate and Violence.
Be smarter than that.
Lead with your HEART, not your Hate.
R.E.A.L. is not, and will not, be AFRAID of white supremacists, fascists, and Nazis. We reject the view that we can promote human rights through our own version of hate and violence. We call for all people to release the hate in their hearts.
As you see violence fail, don’t forget to remember you saw real courage succeed.
We don’t need an upraised fist.
We can challenge any extremist view. We don’t need an upraised fist, but an outstretched hand.
On October 1, 2015, a terrorist who actively and publicly was a supporter of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorist organization and collector of Nazi icons, who called himself “ironcross45” murdered 9 individuals and wounded 10 individuals at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. The victims of the terrorist attack were: Lucero Alcaraz, 19; Treven Taylor Anspach, 20; Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18; Quinn Glen Cooper, 18; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59; Lucas Eibel, 18; Jason Dale Johnson, 34; Lawrence Levine, 67 (teacher); Sarena Dawn Moore, 44.
October 1, 2015 – Victims of Terrorist Attack on Umpqua Community College
Limited news reporting on the terrorist attack has minimized information regarding the terrorist’s objective, as a local effort to avoid “glamorizing” the attack. However, Twitter reports indicated that Christians were targeted by the terrorist.
Stacy Boylan, identified by CNN as the parent of a wounded student, said the killer asked ” ‘Are you a Christian?’ ” He then asked Christians to stand and said, “‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second.'”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) published a Twitter report on the focus of the attack on Christians on October 1, 2015. Due to a news blackout on the terrorists’ objective, little other information has become available.
Twitter Report on Terrorist “IronCross45” Targeting of Christians in Roseburg, Oregon Attack (Twitter)
R.E.A.L. has additional information regarding friends of the terrorist, including those who shared his support for the I.R.A. terrorist campaign. The British-American terrorist came to the U.S. from the United Kingdom as a child, and previously lived in Torrance, CA before moving to Oregon. In both California and in Oregon, the terrorist had “friends” who shared his support and praise of the I.R.A. terrorist campaign, including a government employee involved in a public safety agency in Torrance, California. Due to the news blackout on the terrorist’s motivation, this and other information is not being explored.
However, we have multiple reports of the terrorist’s calling out people for their Christian faith and also specifically asking if they were Catholic Christians in some cases, before the terrorist murdered them.
In addition, the National Church Shooting Database recorded a total of 139 shootings in churches between 1980 and 2005. In all, 185 people died, including 36 children.
R.E.A.L. rejects all acts of terrorism as a violation and attack on our shared universal human rights of life, security, dignity, and all other human rights. R.E.A.L. notes that those terrorist attacks targeting people of a specific identity group, religion, or other affiliation, also is an attack on those shared universal human rights as well.
R.E.A.L. has learned that on August 13, 2015, there was a vandalism attack on over 30 cars and homes with Anti-Semitic messages, Nazi swastikas, and “KKK” painted by the vandals. The hate extremist attacked cars near Jewish synagogue in San Antonio.
mySanAntonio reports: “A Jewish community on the North Side woke to widespread anti-Semitic vandalism Wednesday morning that included spray-painted swastikas, “KKK” lettering and other hateful slurs. “(We are) saddened and outraged,” said Howard Feinberg, a board member of the Rodfei Sholom Congregation, located near Northwest Military Drive and Huebner Road. “When we were finishing our morning prayers around 7 a.m., we became aware that in the neighborhood around our synagogue, there was a lot of graffiti of the anti-Semitic and racial nature.” More than 30 cars and homes were tagged with hateful graffiti sometime overnight, according to the San Antonio Police Department. An anti-Semitic crime has not been reported in San Antonio in the past two years, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a national group that tracks such incidents.”
The terrorist responsible for the Lafayette, Louisiana killings, identified by police John Russell Houser, of Phenix City, Alabama, is associated with White Supremacy and Nazi ideologies and groups. John Russell Houser, aka “Rusty Houser,” shot to death Mayci Breaux, 21, who died at the scene, and Jillian Johnson, 33, who died later at a nearby hospital. In a terror attack on a Lafayette, Louisiana movie theater, he also injured 9 others, and when his efforts to escape failed, he took his life.
John R. Houser, identified by police, as Terrorist in Lafayette, LA Attack
The Anti-American terrorist John R. Houser (aka Rusty Houser) referred to the United States as “this filth farm called the US. “ The terrorist John Houser stated that he was a graduate of Faulkner University, had owned his own business, and had made radio appearances. The white supremacist terrorist viewed that “upper class whites” were every much an enemy as African-Americans, gay, and Jewish people.
WAFB Confirms John Houser from Phenix City, Alabama
However, Rusty Houser states about the Nazi group “I found their website. The videos told me that this is a legitimate effort to solve problems.The leaders of the group are in fact leaders.Intelligent,well spoken,and exercising good faith.” Rusty Houser then urges readers to support White Supremacist groups: “Type in WHITE POWER GROUPS and you get mag articles about their never ending claims of racism, and no information of how to find White power groups you might want to join.” In addition, some media have noted his flying Nazi Swastika Flag on his bar in Georgia.
R.E.A.L. has learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has also done research on John “Rusty” Houser, and states that the Lafayette Terrorist had made other references to his support for Adolf Hitler. SPLC reports: “He sang the praise of Adolf Hitler many times, saying ‘Hitler is loved for the results of his pragmatism,’ last January on the website stateofmind13.com.”
Lafayette Terrorist John “Rusty” Houser Praised Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler – 6 Months Prior to Terrorist Attack (Screenshot State of Mind)
Consistent with the ideologies of other white supremacist groups, Rusty Houser also wrote about how African-Americans have “a lower learning ability. ”
Rusty Houser Defends Nazi Group (Screenshot of Debate Politics)
Nazi Rusty Houser was an active supporter of the Nazi Golden Dawn group’s New York branch. The New York branch of the Nazi Golden Dawn, which he sought to urge an alliance of people against “blacks, upper class whites, and misfits.”
Nazi Terrorist Rusty Holder Writings on “Golden Dawn” Nazi New York Website (Screenshot: Golden Dawn NY)Terrorist Rusty Houser Promotes Nazi Group’s Goal of Expansion (Screenshot: Golden Dawn NY)
His pro-Nazi and White Supremacist goals was to ally with people in other nations to create a shared extremist force against African-Americans and others, and promoted hatred against homosexual individuals.
Terrorist Rusty Houser Promoted Hatred against African-Americans and Jewish People on Nazi Web Site (Screenshot: Golden Dawn NY)Terrorist Rusty Houser Called for Unity of Russia and United States in Nazi Racial War (Screenshot Golden Dawn NY)
John R. Houser also used the Twitter Account JRustyHouser to promote the hate group Westboro Baptist Church, which this terrorist called “the last real church in America.”
Terrorist John Houser Promotes Hate Group “Westboro Baptist Church”
fter Nazi white supremacist terrorist John “Rusty” Houser was killing innocent people in a Lafayette, Louisiana movie theater, white supremacists with the Stormfront hate group were calling for MORE killings – specifically targeting African-Americans. Stormfront white supremacists from Lafayette, LA and other parts of Louisiana have sought to organize “white nationalist” movements in the area.
Stormfront white supremacist member “WhiteIsRight88” wrote calling for murders against African-Americans “they should take their frustration out on negro night clubs and negro infested street corners. Those are the places that need shooting.”
Stormfront White Supremacist Racist Hate Group: Message After Lafayette Attack Calls for Attacks Against African-Americans (Screenshot)
This white supremacist also wrote “lets just hope and pray the individuals he killed were some negroes.” (The numbers 88 is a code in the white supremacist world symbolizes their racist support for Adolf Hitler as “Heil Hitler”.)
Stormfront White Supremacist Racist Hate Group: Message After Lafayette Attack Prays “He Killed Some Negroes” (Screenshot)
Another white supremacist member “beast9” wrote “If you are going to go out go out big and take dozens with you. Pick your targets well… Make it count.” He also writes “I am ready” with his gun.
Stormfront White Supremacist Racist Hate Group: Message After Lafayette Attack Calls for Terrorists to “Take Dozens With You” (Screenshot)Stormfront White Supremacist Racist Hate Group: Message After Lafayette Attack Calls for Racists to Have Guns (Screenshot)
Hitler and his white supremacist Nazi organization murdered over 1.5 million children. But this Nazi war against our vulnerable children was not the end of such crimes against humanity, which continues today. Is there any Evil darker in the human imagination than child genocide and moral corruption?
If we stand in support of the rights of our vulnerable children around the world, then we must also stand in defiance of those who would abuse them, torture them, and murder them, even in the face of those who would “normalize” such criminal terrorist groups, ideologies, figures, and their symbols which have attacked our children, and have led the genocide against our fellow human beings.
People of conscience must ostracize and forever condemn, without question, those cowardly terrorists, who would murder OUR CHILDREN, as well as their ideology and symbols. We cannot “normalize” them as “acceptable.” We cannot make terrorist child-killers into “comic figures” or “Internet memes.”The Nazi Absolute Evil DEMANDS our Absolute Rejection.
We must reject such Nazi terrorists, their leaders, and their symbols, involved in the worst crimes against humanity – attacking the most helpless among us – our children.
Children Awaiting Execution by Hitler’s Nazi Einsatzgruppen — Mobile Killing Units
During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis murdered an estimated 1.5 million children, which included 1.2 million Jewish children, as well as 300,000 non-Jewish children. The Nazi war on children also included Hitler’s plans to exterminate disabled children under his “T4” program, where he sent 5,000 disabled children believed to be going to hospitals to be poisoned, starved, or gassed. Such killings of helpless children began in 1939 and continued through the war.
Hitler’s Nazis Murdered Over 5,000 Disabled Little Children
Hitler’s Nazi concentration camps murdered children from 1941 through 1944, when Allied troops started liberating camps in 1945. Jewish and Non-Jewish children from Germany and occupied territories were put on to “resettlement” trains for their extermination. Trainloads of children and their mothers, were rounded up, and sent to such Nazi death camps. Frequently, children were killed when they arrived at the death camps, particularly those who were too young to be used in slave labor. Children healthy enough to do labor were often worked to death. Some children died from disease in the appalling conditions of the concentration camps.
Jewish Children in Hitler’s Nazi Death CampPolish Children Sent to Hitler’s Nazi Death Camps in Germany – Never to Return
In the Auschwitz concentration camp, some children were medically experimented on, including experiments on child twins, by the Nazi monster Joseph Mengele.
Children Held in Auschwitz for Death and Medical Experimentation
Some children, such as Anne Frank, were hidden for a while or rescued. But teenager Anne Frank and her family was eventually arrested by the terrorist Nazis in 1944 and taken to Auschwitz and eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died from typhus.
In Anne Frank’s diary, the teenage child wrote from her hiding place before her capture: “In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see long lines of good, innocent people, accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, ordered about by a handful of men who bully and beat them until they nearly drop. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death.”
Anne Frank Memorial at Remains of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
In popular culture, we prefer to hear of the stories of the few thousands that were rescued of these children, but our conscience cannot bare to look at the 1.5 million children who were murdered by Nazis. We make this mistake at the peril of allowing history to repeat.
Yet even this horror of murdering 1.5 million children was not enough for the Nazis, whose war on children continues today.
After the defeat of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi ideology has continued to live on among Nazi white supremacist groups throughout Europe, the United States of America, and around the world. These advocates of this absolute evil use the “normalization” by those who no longer remember such Nazi atrocities against children to deny that such crimes against humanity exist. They leverage the effort by those who portray their Nazi racist idols with “gentler” views as “humane” or “comic” views, not as the monsters that who murdered such helpless children.
This “normalization” process of Nazis as something other than immoral terrorists against humanity aids in the Nazi ongoing recruitment effort, helping them make Nazism more “acceptable” in twisting the minds of young people to accept their racist, white supremacist goals. Combined with the global ability of collaboration through the Internet’s World Wide Web, Nazi recruitment has resurfaced in the 21st century, especially in the past 10 years.
The deliberate failure of unquestioning moral condemnation to such immoral Evil being taught to new generations has led to more killings of our children, as well as Nazis teaching indoctrinated children to be killers.
Last year, in April 2014, one such Nazi in the United States of America shouted “Heil Hitler,” after he murdered a 14-year old little boy in Kansas City. The child victim of the Nazi terrorist attack was a Boy Scout named Reat Griffin Underwood. It would have been his birthday in May. He would have turned 15 years old. But an American Nazi murdered this child who trying out for a singing role in a play at the Kansas City Jewish Community Center and killed his grandfather, and another woman taking care of her elderly mother. By the way, this little boy was a Christian. But Nazi terrorists don’t really care when they murder our children. All of our children, of all faiths, of all races, are targets for these enemies of humanity.
Kansas City: Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered by Nazi Who Shouted “Heil Hitler”
This boy’s only goal was to sing, but an American Nazi terrorist silenced his voice forever. You can watch as this child sang the Star Spangled Banner of America, singing of the “Home of the Brave.” But will the American people be brave enough to DEFY Nazis and their terrorist symbols, which have murdered SO MANY CHILDREN?
In Gilbert, Arizona, another child was murdered by a Nazi from the “National Socialist Movement” group (which was part of Confederate Flag protests on July 18, 2015 in Charleston, SC). Nazi terrorist J.T. Ready murdered this 2 year old baby, Lilly Mederos, her mother, and another man. Do we not have the moral integrity to defy and reject those who murder babies and the symbols of their terrorist cause?
Arizona: 2-Year Old Girl Lilly Mederos Murdered by American Nazi Member of National Socialist Movement
In Skokie, Illinois, a 10 year old girl Kelley Byrdsong watched her African-American father get gunned down in the street by a Nazi white supremacist Nathaniel Smith, as part of a racist shooting spree across two states, killing Won Joon Yon, a Korean-American college student on the campus of Indiana University, and wounding six Orthodox Jewish men in nearby West Rogers Park, two African-American men in Springfield, a Taiwanese man in Urbana and another African-American man in Decatur, Illinois.
Illinois: 10-Year Old Kelly Brydsong with Her Father – She Saw Her Father Killed by Nazi White Supremacist in Street
In the most recent June 17, 2015 terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina, we remember the nine African-American victims of Nazi/Confederate Dylann Roof, but those victims left behind children who lost their fathers and mothers, including Reverend Clementa Pinckney, whose young daughters were hiding under the church bench in Emmanuel AME church, during the Nazi terrorist attack.
Charleston, South Carolina – Clementa Pinkney’s Family Mourns their Loss
The “tolerance” and “normalization” of the Nazi ideology and white supremacism has resulted in real victims with names and faces. It is not just some “theoretical” issue, but a human rights issues with tragic consequences that destroy our children’s lives. It is NOT “JUST HISTORY.” When we fail as a society to shame, reject, and denounce the symbols of Nazi terrorism, we see children and their parents DIE.
Nine African-Americans Murdered in Terrorist Attack on Charleston Church by Nazi/Confederate Dylann Roof
But if there was a fate worse than death, perhaps it is in our society’s silence in defying Nazism and its symbols, so that the the merchants of racist hate can corrupt the minds and the souls of our children.
In R.E.A.L.’s human rights campaign to challenge white supremacy and Nazism, we have seen numerous images of children posing for Nazi campaigns, which we will not share with the public. The images of such children posing to make Nazi salutes is something that should repulse all people of conscience, but due to the years of “normalization,” such Nazi indoctrination of children has continued for decades, idolizing Adolf Hitler. This has included recent reports in Europe of the Nazi Greek “Golden Dawn” society teaching young children to chant “Heil Hitler.”
The corrupted children who are led to believe that Nazism and its symbols are acceptable and good, go on to lead twisted lives that damage themselves and our society.
March 2015: Children and Young People in London Synagogue Under Attack from Nazis Outside the Building
In the United States, this also leads to the twisted amalgamation of Nazism and Confederate ideologies, which are used to teach children to hate and commit violence against African-Americans and others. This included those who taught young Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman their Nazi white supremacist ideology, and who then attacked African-American churches, before they were put in prison for a terrorist plot to kill 102 people in church.
American Nazi Terrorist Daniel Cowart Attacked African-American Churches, Plotted to Kill 102
We have also seen how such indoctrination taught Dylann Roof to become a terrorist, in his attack on the Charleston, South Carolina church killing 9.
Nazi / Confederate White Supremacist Dylann Roof Killed 9 in Charleston, SC
There are consequences in our society when we fail to speak out, defy, and reject Nazism and its ideology, and when we allow the “normalization” of Nazi figures like Adolf Hitler and its symbols to be viewed as something other than the Absolute Evil they are. Some think we can reduce the horrors of this by laughing at it, but then as now, those adults who failed to take such terrorist threat seriously let OUR CHILDREN PAY THE PRICE. We can and we MUST do more to protect our children from the Nazi ideology and reject the “normalization” of Nazi figures and symbols as “acceptable.”
Perhaps in a society which increasingly has contempt for human life, these horrors against our children may have limited impact on society. But for those who think we can afford NOT to judge the Nazi ideology of white supremacist hate and its architect Adolf Hitler, as anything less than immoral Evil which must be condemned in every case, I urge them to LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THESE CHILDREN.
Helpless Children Pay the Price for Unwillingness to Defy Nazism
Can they look into the eyes of these child victims and tell us how we should not be concerned about the racist hate images, ideology, and symbols of Nazism? Can they look into the eyes of these children and tell us that we can “laugh” at “satire” on the immoral monster Adolf Hitler?
Our eyes are the windows to our souls. Can your soul look at the eyes of children murdered by German Nazis and modern Nazis and accept that we must DEFY Nazi white supremacism and its symbols, without question and without exception?
If NOT, we pray for YOUR soul, and that you find your conscience as a human being.
Our relativist society has to learn to SAY “NO” to the enemies of human rights and those who commit atrocities against children. We must, in every case, in every situation, SAY “NO” to the racist and immoral hate images of Adolf Hitler and Nazi white supremacism.
Adults must be responsible to walk up to the face of Evil against our children and our fellow human beings, and stare it straight in the FACE. We must tell the proponents of Evil and their symbols – “HOW DARE YOU.”
Our responsibility for our shared universal human rights is not just only in holding each other’s hands during the good times. Our responsibility for equality and liberty demands that we LOCK ARMS TOGETHER and DEFY SUCH EVIL against human rights – and TELL IT: NO. NOT ONE STEP FURTHER.
NOT ANOTHER CHILD’S LIFE.
NOT ANOTHER CHILD’S FAMILY.
NOT ANOTHER CHILD’S SOUL.
We must be responsible for equality and liberty, if not for our own, at least for our children’s sake.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is calling for activists to join one of a three night protest in the Washington DC suburb of Olney, Maryland. This is to continue R.E.A.L.’s protests against the Olney Theatre Center’s “Hitler Musical,” in rejection of the racist ideology of Nazism which has attacked the world, caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews, 2 million women, 1.5 million children, and millions of others (including 26 million from Russian and former-Soviet nations). Nazis have performed and continue to perform in terror attacks around the world and in Washington DC, including recent murders of African-Americans (see R.E.A.L.’s previous report). We cannot “normalize” Adolf Hitler and Nazi images as “acceptable.” We cannot make terrorist symbols of racism, torture, and mass-murder into “comic figures” or “Internet memes.”
If you find racism, white supremacy, and the symbols of such hate repulsive, and for white Americans – shameful, it is not enough to be repulsed and ashamed. We don’t have the luxury to simply do nothing. “Silence is unforgivable.” Your actions make our shared history. We need you to ACT.
In-Person Protests: R.E.A.L. is calling for activist protesters to join us on the sidewalk at 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD, in front of the Olney Theatre Center. This week, we will hold these protests on the sidewalk on Friday July 24 (7-8 PM) and Saturday July 25 (7-8 PM), and the afternoon of Sunday July 26 (1-2 PM).
Please join us one of these nights. It is just for one hour. If you can come, please email R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm at usa@realcourage.org, so R.E.A.L. can keep a tally of planned protesters to keep the local police updated. We will chant “No, No Nazi.” Protest signs will be available. (IMPORTANT NOTE: You CANNOT PARK at 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, but park across the street in the school parking lot for Our Lady of Good Counsel High School at 17301 Old Vic Blvd, Olney, MD 20832)
If you are in the Washington DC area, this is only 19 miles from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which was attacked by the Nazi Von Brunn, where he murdered African-American security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns.
Email Protests: R.E.A.L. is calling for activist protesters around the world to send a message to the Olney Theatre Center that you find the racist hate image of Adolf Hitler and Nazi swastikas to be repugnant, and call for the immediate end of this attack on the dignity of our community. You can email the Olney Theatre Center by contacting: Public Relations Manager Heather Andrews (hlatiri@olneytheatre.org), Director of Production Dennis A. Blackledge(dblackledge@olneytheatre.org), Managing Director Deborah Ellinghaus (debbie@olneytheatre.org), Artistic Director Jason Loewith (jason@olneytheatre.org), and the Olney Theatre Center’s Board President Jennifer Kneeland (JKneeland@linowes-law.com), and actor Michael Kostroff (auditionpsych101@gmail.com).
Fax Protests: R.E.A.L is calling for activist protesters to also send fax messages to 1-301-924-2654.
Twitter Protests: R.E.A.L. is urging activist protesters to contact to share your views on Twitter to the Olney Theatre (@OlneyTheatre) at https://twitter.com/OlneyTheatre
R.E.A.L. also urges protests to ask those funding this theater, such as the Washington DC-based FTI Consulting, to withdraw their financial support as production sponsor for this “musical.” Please contact their public relations lead Nicole Madison (nicole.madison@fticonsulting.com, 212-850-5647).
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Why Protest Adolf Hitler and Nazi Imagery?
R.E.A.L. rejects the obscene and racist public imagery of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi swastikas as repulsive, and as an attack on our community’s dignity from the same symbol of white supremacist racist hate as the Confederate Flag. But it is more than a rejection of such a symbol of racist hate, it is also a rejection of an ideology of terrorism which continues to attack the United States and the world TODAY. It is not simply a “historical” enemy of humanity; Nazi terrorism remains a near and present danger to people today.
The Olney Theatre Center’s argument is that they are doing a musical, called The Producers, which they view as a comedy. The Washington Post calls it a “Hitler Musical caper,” and the Olney Theatre has mocked R.E.A.L.’s protests to the Washington Post saying that R.E.A.L. does not enjoy their “Hitler Musical,” as much as he did. Olney Theatre Center tries to justify this as “comedy,” but even 1940 comedianCharlie Chaplin wrote: “Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”
In the Olney Theatre’s “Hitler Musical,” its performers sing for Adolf Hitler, his racist “Master Race.” The musical calls for the public to “Come and join the Nazi Party!” They view their efforts as “satire.” R.E.A.L. views this performance as disrespect for the history and the continuing suffering of humanity against the Nazi terrorist ideology of racist hate.
During our previous protests, members of the theater have come out to harass and mock R.E.A.L’s protest, including false portrayal of their identity. We believe such dishonesty demonstrates the character of this production. One harassing member, questioned about the Holocaust, told R.E.A.L. that satire and humor should be used to address the Holocaust and that we should find the Holocaust humorous, at a time when racist Holocaust-deniers around the world mock the killing of 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazis.
Hitler and Nazis were also the murderers of 2 million women (including a death camp specifically for 50,000 non-Jewish women), 1.5 million children (including 5,000 disabled children), between 70,000 – 300,000 disabled adults, 2 million non-Jewish Ukrainians, another 9 million Russian soldiers killed, 11.7 non-Jewish Russian and Russian territory citizens, (a total estimated 26 million killed in former Soviet nations), and the Nazi killing of many others: non-Jewish women, other Europeans, gays, disabled, children, people of African descent, and numerous others. Within the United States of America, 400,000 soldiers died fighting Hitler and his Axis powers. Millions of soldiers in the Axis powers died fighting to stop Hitler and Nazi ideology.
The Nazi ideology was not just an enemy to Jewish people. The Nazi ideology was an enemy to the WORLD. The WORLD recognized such an enemy against ALL PEOPLE, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in 1948, stating its rejection of such atrocities because the “disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.” OUTRAGED THE CONSCIENCE OF MANKIND – not laughing at such “barbarous acts.”
But what R.E.A.L. has seen, and the public knows, is the repulsive, racist nature of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi ideology, which did NOT END with the war-time defeat of Adolf Hitler, with Nazi terrorism continuing against our nation and the world today. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist Nazi ideology has attacked men, women, Jews, Muslims, gays, Christians, African-Americans, Asians, the disabled, and continues to be a terrorist threat in the United States of America and around the world. Our children, women, and minorities are murdered in this country by Nazi terrorists, while others think this is a joke.
Nazi terrorism in the United States and around the world has grown as “normalization” of such Nazi images of racist hate continue to grow and become “acceptable.” Unlike 1968, this is not a few Nazi extremists, but using the Internet, Nazi extremist gangs are becoming a growing global network of Nazi hatred and racist violence, including regular murder and torture. “The Producers” fails to recognize that while audiences laugh at the idea of past Nazis, present day Nazi commit regular acts of terrorism: synagogues are attacked, churches are attacked, African-Americans are killed, children are murdered, women are killed, and gay men are being kidnapped, raped, and killed by Nazi terrorists. These Nazi terrorists are enabled to recruit others in such ideologies of hate, aided in part by the “normalization” of such symbols of hatred.
The normalization of such racist hate symbols and figures continues to erode our shared stance on human rights and dignity, as the United States of America knows all too well with the racist Confederate flag and symbols. 150 years after the end of the Civil War, Americans continue to fight the struggle to defy public symbols of such racist hate, as the Confederate flag. Maryland actors in this “Hitler Musical” argue their view of satire disempowers such symbols, while they sing for Hitler and the Nazi Party, but as Americans have seen 150 years later, perceived satire on the white supremacy Confederate symbols of hate only normalized this, making it “acceptable” for television and films. The terrorism behind such racist hate symbols has continued unabated, and while white Americans shrugged (or God Forbid laughed), African-Americans continued to pay the price with their lives, their human rights, and their dignity. We must defy racist symbols of hate by rejecting their public display with our own free speech.
The racist hate ideology of Nazism did not die or end with the monster Adolf Hitler but has continued throughout Europe and United States, including attacks in Washington DC, murder of Maryland citizens, and attacks and killings of minority houses of worship and African-Americans and other minorities in recent years.
It may seem universal for people of conscience to reject and denounce the hate imagery of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, but inaction and silence is not taking a stand. All that symbols of hate need to become “normalized” in society are for good men and women to DO NOTHING. Just like it took Americans 150 years to start taking down the Confederate flag — the same Confederate racist flag which is used publicly in Europe in those areas where the Nazi swastika flag is illegal.
I am asking you to take a moment of your time to stand to defy a symbol of racist hate which should be repugnant to every person of conscience. For those in the DC area, surely isn’t one hour of your time worth standing against the obscenity of Adolf Hitler?
Hitler’s white supremacist ideology is not an attack on just one group of people. The Nazi white supremacist terrorist ideology is an enemy to most of the world. The Nazi terrorist and anti-human rights crimes against human beings across the world inspired the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, signed by the world’s nations. We cannot stand for universal human rights, and shrug our shoulders at this criminal white supremacist ideology.
At the funeral of Maryland’s Stephen Johns, murdered by a Nazi terorist at the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Dr. John McCoy said: “Silence is not a safe response in the face of racism, sexism, or any of the other isms in this world.” “Silence is unforgivable for those who call themselves children of God or even civilized.”
Silence is unforgivable.
We have seen what SILENCE has wrought.
Hitler’s Nazi Germany: Concentration Camps of Jewish People for Extermination
— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War against Jews – killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, before the Allied defeat of the terrorist Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, liberating the remaining last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp. The horrific crimes against humanity by the Nazis against Jewish people are breathtakingly horrific. Throughout Germany, Adolf Hitler promoted the apocryphal Anti-Semitic hate screed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” to promote popular hatred and distrust of Jewish people. By 1938, this hate campaign led to an attack on Jewish synagogues and shops throughout Germany and Austria in the Kristallnacht campaign. In 1933, Hitler began establishing his concentration camps. Hitler began rounding up Jewish people and people for concentration camps. Jewish people were beaten, whipped, tortured, starved, and killed. The Nazis used medical experimentation on their bodies, and mutilated them. In 1939, Jewish people were marked with a yellow badge to indicate that they were Jewish. From 1939 to 1941, Hitler’s Holocaust of the Jewish people took on a broader focus with his invasion of Poland and other nations. By 1942, Hitler pursued a “Final Solution” for genocide against Jewish people by poison gas centers and concentration camps, with bodies burned in mass crematoriums. In response to Hitler’s crimes against humanity, the United Nations and the nations of the world banded together on December 10, 1948 to develop a UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) – to agree around the world that all people, of all identity groups, all religions, would have a universal measure to be protected from genocide. In 2000, this was reaffirmed by world nations in the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum of the Holocaust, which states “the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” of “genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism and xenophobia.” Nazis continue to attack Jews around the world, defacing synagogues, killing Jewish people, and plotting terror attacks on them, such as the attack on the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2014, the Kansas City Jewish Community Center was attacked by a Nazi terrorist. Nazi terrorism against Jewish people in the United Kingdom continues to increase, including attacks on synagogues and Jews on the street. In June 2014, Nazis attacked a crowd of Jewish people on the street, hurling rocks, flares at them, and stabbing one Jewish man. In March 2015, a Jewish synagogue in London was attacked by Nazis in the streets calling “we will kill you,” with 20 members in the synagogue desperately trying to defend themselves with chairs, books, anything to stop the Nazi attack on the synagogue. In May 2015, Nazis marched on Downing Street in London, calling for the end of Jewish people in London.
African-Americans Murdered by Nazis (USHMM Attack, Charleston Attack)
— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War on people of African descent and African-Americans. Hitler’s Nazi regime had a war on those African people living in Germany or the nations it occupied with its white supremacist terrorist forces. As the USHMM has reported, Hitler’s Nazis imprisoned, oppressed, and ostracized people of African descent. They lost their jobs, some were sterilized, some were sent to Nazi concentration camps, including African-Americans. At the concentration camps, they were subjected to extreme brutality and medical experimentation; many were worked to death. An African-American U.S. military unit participated in the liberation of one of the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi war on people of African descent, similar to the Confederate and American slave masters, did not end with the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Nazis in Europe and America continue to target people of African descent for oppression, violence, and murder. In the United States, this has included Nazi terror attacks on African-American Christian churches, by terrorists such as Daniel Cowart, and more recently in South Carolina by Dylann Roof, a Confederate terrorist who was a participant on a Nazi website. Dylann Roof murdered nine African-American Christians during a prayer meeting. R.E.A.L. has previously reported that 180 houses of worship are targets of arson in America every year. We have also reported on the killing of Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns, an African-American security guard, by Nazi James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. On Nazi/Confederate hate sites such as Stormfront, African-Americans are the constant targets of hate and praise and support for terrorist attacks on them.
Christian and Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered in Nazi Terror Attack in United States in 2014
— Nazi War on Christians. There were many extremists in Nazi Germany among Christians, including extremists in clergy who were part of the Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign. But the history of Nazi oppression of Christians is often forgotten both in history and in current day reality, especially when viewed in the historical light that the Nazi goal was to destroy Christianity. Hitler’s Nazis persecuted Christians who defied them and who stood for Christian values in Germany. Aggressive anti-Church radicals like Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler led a take over of churches in Germany (the Kirchenkampf), forcing them to reject any Christian values that the Nazi party would not accept. This led to struggles among both Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches which were occupied by the Nazi racial supremacists. Jesuits were attacked and Catholic properties were taken over by the Nazis. Clergymen were sent to concentration camps, and Nazi Himmler sought to end the “principle of Christian mercy” among the German people, which was part of a long-term goal to end Christianity in Nazi Germany. As part of war criminal trials, the United States Organization of Strategic Services (OSS) developed a document on “The Nazi Master Plan” to destroy Christianity in Germany. As Nazi Baldur von Shirach wrote “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement.” Nearly 2000 Polish Christian clergy were sent to the Nazi concentration camps. The Jehovah Witness religious adherents were singled out for oppression and sent to concentration camps. The attack on Christians by the Nazis did not end with Adolf Hitler or WWII. The continuing Nazi racist ideology remains focused on rejection and terrorism of Christianity around the world. In April 2015, this included a Nazi terrorist bombing at Orthodox parish of Saint Vladimir in Marzahn-Hellensdorf, near Berlin. In the United States, this has included efforts by Nazi terrorists to attack African-American churches, such as Daniel Cowart’s attack in Tennessee and Dylann Roof’s attack in Charleston, where he murdered 9 African-Americans. In April 2014, a Nazi terrorist killed three Christians in Kansas City, who were preparing for a play, including a 14 year old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood (a Boy Scout), his grandfather, and another woman. As R.E.A.L. has investigated in the USA, Nazi terrorists view the end of Christianity to be a priority for the goals. Therefore, Nazi terror attacks on Christian churches fits within their ideology. Stormfront Nazis post that their racial identity is their only religion. Christians have a particular responsibility both as victims and the historical responsibility of those extremists with white supremacists to protest and reject Nazi and Hitler.
Nazi Arson Attack on Tennessee Muslim Mosque – Burning it to the Ground
— Nazi War on Muslims. As R.E.A.L. has repeatedly reported, Nazi individuals and groups targeted minority Muslims in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. As reported recently in Arizona, mosque protesters included Nazis among armed protesters in the crowd. In Tennessee, Nazi terrorists who were members of the “Aryan Alliance” firebombed the Islamic Center of Columbia, south of Nashville, after they painted Nazi swastikas on it; Michael Corey Golden got 14 years in prison, and his fellow Nazi terrorists were convicted and imprisoned. Anti-Muslim extremists on Stormfront Nazi site regularly use racial supremacist ideology in their basis to call for ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In the United Kingdom, in March 2015, Nazi swastika flags were flown in the British streets of Newcastle as part of extremist anti-Muslim campaigns, and in Newcastle, Nazi swastikas were defacing mosques. In the United Kingdom, Nazi Ian Forman were jailed for 10 years in a twisted plot to blow up mosques across the Merseyside, UK area. Nazi Ian Forman spoke of his admiration of Adolf Hitler; the judge who convicted him stated that his activities “were a continuation of Nazi warfare.” In Europe, this has included recent Nazi attacks and swastika defacing on Muslim mosques in Dormagen, Germany, in Leipzig, Germany, in Vienna, in Tyrol, Austria, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Provins, France (outside Paris), at a mosque construction site in Meaux, France. We have reported on similar Nazi group activities against mosques in Denmark and throughout Europe. In Australia, Nazis have attack Muslim mosques in Perth, Australia; Nazi attacks on mosques have included the Nazi terror group C18 that fired gunshots into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque. After the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muslim leader Asma Hanif stated “Someone who will demonstrate hate like this will do it in any community.” “Whether it was the Holocaust or slavery, the only reason it prevailed is because it was tolerated. We have the right and the authority to end it.”
Nazi Oppression of Homosexuals in Concentration Camps – Wore the Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle)
— Nazi War on Homosexuals. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis attacked homosexuals, using a special Gestapo branch to order police to develop “pink lists” on homosexuals all over Germany. The Nazis then arrested 100,000 homosexuals for imprisonment, and also sentenced gay men to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps identified prisoners wearing a pink triangular patch (rosa Winkel) on their uniforms. They were beaten, abused, tortured, killed, and their bodies were mutilated, including castration of hundreds. At the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Hitler’s Nazis performed medical experiments on homosexuals’ bodies as part of their monstrous torture on other human beings. Nazi terrorism against homosexuals did not end with their idol Adolf Hitler. Nazi terrorist groups continue to target and attack LGBT individuals and groups as part of the Nazi ideology. A Russian Nazi terrorist group used a popular social network to lure in gay teenagers, then kidnap them, bully, and torture them, making videos of their humiliation to share on the public Internet. Threats and targeting of homosexuals by Nazi terror groups within the United States and Europe remains a common theme within the goals of groups.
Greece: Nazi Terrorists Murdered Pakistani Shehzad Luqman
— Nazi War on Asians and Pakistanis. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis may have had allies in imperial Japan, but it is often forgotten that the Nazi and Axis war on Asians included attacks on Chinese and Philippines, including the torturing and raping of thousands of Philippine women. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist racist views were that Chinese people were considered as “untermenschen,” or “sub-human.” The modern European and American Nazi adherents have used their white supremacist ideology to spread hatred against Pakistani and other Asian people, as part of their racist views. In the United Kingdom, this has included regular Nazi attacks on Pakistan immigrants, and crowds of Nazis in the streets of London screaming and taunting Pakistan people. In Greece, members of the Nazi party “Golden Dawn” stabbed a 27-year old Pakistani man Shehzad Luqman to death, with two Greek Nazis getting a life sentence for the murder of the Pakistan man. Over 70 of the Greek Nazis have been under investigation in connection for murder and belonging to a criminal group. Modern-day Nazi racist white supremacists view Asian and Pakistan people as “untermenschen” even today, and Pakistanis in Europe are regularly targeted for attack by Nazis.
Disabled Child – one of the Victims of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Mass Murder of Disabled
— Nazi War on Disabled. Adolf Hitler’s racial supremacy included the killing of disabled individuals as being inferior to his racial master race. This included the murdering of 5,000 disabled children and also the development of a program to murder 70,273 disabled adults. In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi team encouraged parents of children with disabilities to bring the children to specialty pediatric clinics. But what Hitler actually had the Nazi hospitals do was to murder the disabled children through lethal drugs or starvation. When the Nazi child-killing program began, it was initially designed to murder infants, but the Nazis then increased the murder program to kill children up to 17 years of age. The “T4” program for adults created six installation of gas chambers for disabled adults throughout Germany, killing over 70,000 such disabled adults. The Nazis also murdered disabled patients in hospitals in mass shootings, as well as “gas vans” to murder disabled people in their occupied territories. An Italian study has shown that the Nazis killed up to 300,000 disabled individuals.
Prisoners at Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany stand near barbed wire in 1945 (Source: Daily Mail/ Gamma-Keystone, Getty Images)
— Nazi War on Women. In addition to the Nazi war on Jewish women, Adolf Hitler built a separate Nazi concentration camp designed specifically for non-Jewish women at Ravensbrück, which was situated about 50 miles north of Berlin. Approximately 130,000 women were sent to this women’s concentration camp, 50,000 of which were murdered (gassed, shot, starved), including 2,500 women killed in Hitler’s gas chambers in one weekend. As reported by Sarah Helm, the Nazi attack on women included every walk of life: doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes, members of the resistance. Women were worked to death, and those who became too ill were selected for extermination by being shot or sent to the gas chambers. The Nazis conducted medical experiments, including testing new ways to kill women, freezing them to death in the snow, and letting dogs rip into the women. They sexually abused the women with rape and infected some women with bacteria to experiment on their bodies, including “syphilis being injected into the spinal cord.” After Adolf Hitler, the Nazi terrorist war on women has continued, with Nazi violence against women around the world and throughout the United States, including the well-publicized rape attacks by Nazis in Massachusetts, Nazi rapist in Arlington, Virginia, and child molesters among Nazi leaders. The amoral Nazi ideology to prey on those they view as vulnerable leads them to such hate of women. The Nazi war on women has included the murder of African-American women by Nazis in the United States, including the recent terror attack in Charleston, South Carolina where six African-American women were murdered by terrorist Dylann Roof (a poster with the Nazi Daily Stormer group).
— Nazi War on Children. Hitler and his white supremacist Nazi organization murdered over 1.5 million children. But this Nazi war against our vulnerable children was not the end of such crimes against humanity, which continues today. Is there any Evil darker in the human imagination than child genocide and moral corruption? If we stand in support of the rights of our vulnerable children around the world, then we must also stand in defiance of those who would abuse them, torture them, and murder them, even in the face of those who would “normalize” such criminal terrorist groups, ideologies, figures, and their symbols which have attacked our children, and have led the genocide against our fellow human beings. We must reject such Nazi terrorists, their leaders, and their symbols, involved in the worst crimes against humanity – attacking the most helpless among us – our children.
Children Awaiting Execution by Hitler’s Nazi Einsatzgruppen — Mobile Killing Units
During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis murdered an estimated 1.5 million children, which included 1.2 million Jewish children, as well as 300,000 non-Jewish children. The Nazi war on children also included Hitler’s plans to exterminate disabled children under his “T4” program, where he sent 5,000 disabled children believed to be going to hospitals to be poisoned, starved, or gassed. Such killings of helpless children began in 1939 and continued through the war.
Hitler’s Nazis Murdered Over 5,000 Disabled Little Children
Hitler’s Nazi concentration camps murdered children from 1941 through 1944, when Allied troops started liberating camps in 1945. Jewish and Non-Jewish children from Germany and occupied territories were put on to “resettlement” trains for their extermination. Trainloads of children and their mothers, were rounded up, and sent to such Nazi death camps. Frequently, children were killed when they arrived at the death camps, particularly those who were too young to be used in slave labor. Children healthy enough to do labor were often worked to death. Some children died from disease in the appalling conditions of the concentration camps.
Jewish Children in Hitler’s Nazi Death CampPolish Children Sent to Hitler’s Nazi Death Camps in Germany – Never to Return
In the Auschwitz concentration camp, some children were medically experimented on, including experiments on child twins, by the Nazi monster Joseph Mengele.
Children Held in Auschwitz for Death and Medical Experimentation
Some children, such as Anne Frank, were hidden for a while or rescued. But teenager Anne Frank and her family was eventually arrested by the terrorist Nazis in 1944 and taken to Auschwitz and eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died from typhus.
In Anne Frank’s diary, the teenage child wrote from her hiding place before her capture: “In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see long lines of good, innocent people, accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, ordered about by a handful of men who bully and beat them until they nearly drop. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death.”
Anne Frank Memorial at Remains of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
In popular culture, we prefer to hear of the stories of the few thousands that were rescued of these children, but our conscience cannot bare to look at the 1.5 million children who were murdered by Nazis. We make this mistake at the peril of allowing history to repeat.
Yet even this horror of murdering 1.5 million children was not enough for the Nazis, whose war on children continues today.
After the defeat of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi ideology has continued to live on among Nazi white supremacist groups throughout Europe, the United States of America, and around the world. These advocates of this absolute evil use the “normalization” by those who no longer remember such Nazi atrocities against children to deny that such crimes against humanity exist. They leverage the effort by those who portray their Nazi racist idols with “gentler” views as “humane” or “comic” views, not as the monsters that who murdered such helpless children.
This “normalization” process of Nazis as something other than immoral terrorists against humanity aids in the Nazi ongoing recruitment effort, helping them make Nazism more “acceptable” in twisting the minds of young people to accept their racist, white supremacist goals. Combined with the global ability of collaboration through the Internet’s World Wide Web, Nazi recruitment has resurfaced in the 21st century, especially in the past 10 years.
The deliberate failure of unquestioning moral condemnation to such immoral Evil being taught to new generations has led to more killings of our children, as well as Nazis teaching indoctrinated children to be killers.
Last year, in April 2014, one such Nazi in the United States of America shouted “Heil Hitler,” after he murdered a 14-year old little boy in Kansas City. The child victim of the Nazi terrorist attack was a Boy Scout named Reat Griffin Underwood. It would have been his birthday in May. He would have turned 15 years old. But an American Nazi murdered this child who trying out for a singing role in a play at the Kansas City Jewish Community Center and killed his grandfather, and another woman taking care of her elderly mother. By the way, this little boy was a Christian. But Nazi terrorists don’t really care when they murder our children. All of our children, of all faiths, of all races, are targets for these enemies of humanity.
Kansas City: Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered by Nazi Who Shouted “Heil Hitler”
This boy’s only goal was to sing, but an American Nazi terrorist silenced his voice forever. You can watch as this child sang the Star Spangled Banner of America, singing of the “Home of the Brave.” But will the American people be brave enough to DEFY Nazis and their terrorist symbols, which have murdered SO MANY CHILDREN?
In Gilbert, Arizona, another child was murdered by a Nazi from the “National Socialist Movement” group (which was part of Confederate Flag protests on July 18, 2015 in Charleston, SC). Nazi terrorist J.T. Ready murdered this 2 year old baby, Lilly Mederos, her mother, and another man. Do we not have the moral integrity to defy and reject those who murder babies and the symbols of their terrorist cause?
Arizona: 2-Year Old Girl Lilly Mederos Murdered by American Nazi Member of National Socialist Movement
In Skokie, Illinois, a 10 year old girl Kelley Byrdsong watched her African-American father get gunned down in the street by a Nazi white supremacist Nathaniel Smith, as part of a racist shooting spree across two states, killing Won Joon Yon, a Korean-American college student on the campus of Indiana University, and wounding six Orthodox Jewish men in nearby West Rogers Park, two African-American men in Springfield, a Taiwanese man in Urbana and another African-American man in Decatur, Illinois.
Illinois: 10-Year Old Kelly Brydsong with Her Father – She Saw Her Father Killed by Nazi White Supremacist in Street
In the most recent June 17, 2015 terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina, we remember the nine African-American victims of Nazi/Confederate Dylann Roof, but those victims left behind children who lost their fathers and mothers, including Reverend Clementa Pinckney, whose young daughters were hiding under the church bench in Emmanuel AME church, during the Nazi terrorist attack.
Charleston, South Carolina – Clementa Pinkney’s Family Mourns their Loss
The “tolerance” and “normalization” of the Nazi ideology and white supremacism has resulted in real victims with names and faces. It is not just some “theoretical” issue, but a human rights issues with tragic consequences that destroy our children’s lives. It is NOT “JUST HISTORY.” When we fail as a society to shame, reject, and denounce the symbols of Nazi terrorism, we see children and their parents DIE.
Nine African-Americans Murdered in Terrorist Attack on Charleston Church by Nazi/Confederate Dylann Roof
But if there was a fate worse than death, perhaps it is in our society’s silence in defying Nazism and its symbols, so that the the merchants of racist hate can corrupt the minds and the souls of our children.
In R.E.A.L.’s human rights campaign to challenge white supremacy and Nazism, we have seen numerous images of children posing for Nazi campaigns, which we will not share with the public. The images of such children posing to make Nazi salutes is something that should repulse all people of conscience, but due to the years of “normalization,” such Nazi indoctrination of children has continued for decades, idolizing Adolf Hitler. This has included recent reports in Europe of the Nazi Greek “Golden Dawn” society teaching young children to chant “Heil Hitler.”
The corrupted children who are led to believe that Nazism and its symbols are acceptable and good, go on to lead twisted lives that damage themselves and our society.
March 2015: Children and Young People in London Synagogue Under Attack from Nazis Outside the Building
In the United States, this also leads to the twisted amalgamation of Nazism and Confederate ideologies, which are used to teach children to hate and commit violence against African-Americans and others. This included those who taught young Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman their Nazi white supremacist ideology, and who then attacked African-American churches, before they were put in prison for a terrorist plot to kill 102 people in church.
American Nazi Terrorist Daniel Cowart Attacked African-American Churches, Plotted to Kill 102
We have also seen how such indoctrination taught Dylann Roof to become a terrorist, in his attack on the Charleston, South Carolina church killing 9.
Nazi / Confederate White Supremacist Dylann Roof Killed 9 in Charleston, SC
There are consequences in our society when we fail to speak out, defy, and reject Nazism and its ideology, and when we allow the “normalization” of Nazi figures like Adolf Hitler and its symbols to be viewed as something other than the Absolute Evil they are. Some think we can reduce the horrors of this by laughing at it, but then as now, those adults who failed to take such terrorist threat seriously let OUR CHILDREN PAY THE PRICE. We can and we MUST do more to protect our children from the Nazi ideology and reject the “normalization” of Nazi figures and symbols as “acceptable.”
Perhaps in a society which increasingly has contempt for human life, these horrors against our children may have limited impact on society. But for those who think we can afford NOT to judge the Nazi ideology of white supremacist hate and its architect Adolf Hitler, as anything less than immoral Evil which must be condemned in every case, I urge them to LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THESE CHILDREN.
Helpless Children Pay the Price for Unwillingness to Defy Nazism
Can they look into the eyes of these child victims and tell us how we should not be concerned about the racist hate images, ideology, and symbols of Nazism? Can they look into the eyes of these children and tell us that we can “laugh” at “satire” on the immoral monster Adolf Hitler?
Our eyes are the windows to our souls. Can your soul look at the eyes of children murdered by German Nazis and modern Nazis and accept that we must DEFY Nazi white supremacism and its symbols, without question and without exception?
It is not enough to support our shared universal human rights. We must also have the shared responsibility and activism to defy anti-human right campaigns, to challenge racist groups that reject these shared human rights, and to defy racist images of hate.
To people of conscience, to people with any human dignity and respect for your fellow human beings, whether you associate with any of these identity groups targeted by Nazis or not, we must stand to defy and reject the racist symbol of Nazism in Maryland.
It is an obscene insult to those who have suffered from such racist hate, to use this monster who led and who continues to inspire such worldwide terrorism, as a comic figure, while people in so many different identity groups, have died, suffered, and continue to face tragedies in the United States of American and around the world.
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated: “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
As they have their free speech, we must also exercise our free speech, and condemn without qualification, this “Hitler Musical” in Olney, Maryland.
Since our founding, the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s campaigns for human rights and dignity have also included our opposition of white supremacist racist symbols from Nazis and Confederates.
We have directly challenged and opposed the efforts of such groups to develop recruits around the world, the United States, and particularly in the Washington DC area. Within the United States, we view the Nazi and Confederate white supremacist amalgamation to be the primary threat to American human rights. During much of the world’s history, this white supremacy has also been the primary threat to world human rights.
Nazi White Supremacy Racist Hate: The Common Enemy to All, Young, Old, White, Black, Men, Women, Healthy, Disabled, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Gays, and people of any identity group. It’s Not Your Problem? YES It Is.
Why Protest Adolf Hitler, Nazi, and Confederate Imagery?
R.E.A.L. rejects the obscene and white supremacist racist public imagery of Adolf Hitler, Nazi swastikas, and Confederate Flag and monuments. These symbols of white supremacy racism are a rejection to our Universal Human Rights, contempt for the American Constitution, human dignity, and our national security. These are symbols of the very enemies of civilized human beings. We reject, renounce, defy, and will PROTEST the efforts to “normalize” such symbols of racist hate within our communities and our nation, as well as on the Internet, media, stage, art, and publications.
The white supremacist images and views of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis are nothing other than an offense to all civilized human beings, the very essence of human Evil itself.
In this posting, R.E.A.L. will focus on the historical and ongoing threat of the Nazi white supremacist enemy to humanity. We completely reject such artificial terms as “Neo-Nazi” as somehow different from the German Nazi party. They are not. The white supremacist ideology of Nazism remains the same, regardless of the nationality, just as it was with the Axis powers. Efforts to distinguish Nazis versus Neo-Nazis on technical historical views shows a lack of understanding for the white supremacist ideology, its purpose, and its CONTINUING GOAL to subjugate the people of the world to these white supremacists. Nazism did not end with Adolf Hitler, and we see the continuing terrorist violence and abuse of Hitler’s Nazi ideology around the world today.
Nazism is not simply a “historical” enemy of humanity; Nazi terrorism remains a near and present danger to people today.
Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist Nazi ideology has attacked men, women, Jews, Muslims, gays, Christians, African-Americans, Asians, the disabled, and continues to be a terrorist threat in the United States of America and around the world.
The normalization of such racist hate symbols and figures continues to erode our shared stance on human rights and dignity, as the United States of America knows all too well with the racist Confederate flag and symbols. 150 years after the end of the Civil War, Americans continue to fight the struggle to defy public symbols of such racist hate, as the Confederate flag. The terrorism behind such racist hate symbols has continued unabated, and while white Americans shrugged (or God Forbid laughed), African-Americans continued to pay the price with their lives, their human rights, and their dignity. We must defy racist symbols of hate by rejecting their public display with our own free speech.
The racist hate ideology of Nazism did not die or end with the monster Adolf Hitler but has continued throughout Europe and United States, including attacks in Washington DC, murder of Maryland citizens, and attacks and killings of minority houses of worship and African-Americans and other minorities in recent years.
It may seem universal for people of conscience to reject and denounce the hate imagery of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, but inaction and silence is not taking a stand. All that symbols of hate need to become “normalized” in society are for good men and women to DO NOTHING. Just like it took Americans 150 years to start taking down the Confederate flag — the same Confederate racist flag which is used publicly in Europe in those areas where the Nazi swastika flag is illegal.
Hitler’s white supremacist ideology is not an attack on just one group of people. The Nazi white supremacist terrorist ideology is an enemy to most of the world. The Nazi terrorist and anti-human rights crimes against human beings across the world inspired the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, signed by the world’s nations. We cannot stand for universal human rights, and shrug our shoulders at this criminal white supremacist ideology.
At the funeral of Maryland’s Stephen Johns, murdered by a Nazi terorist at the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Dr. John McCoy said: “Silence is not a safe response in the face of racism, sexism, or any of the other isms in this world.” “Silence is unforgivable for those who call themselves children of God or even civilized.”
Silence is unforgivable.
We have seen what SILENCE has wrought.
Hitler’s Nazi Germany: Concentration Camps of Jewish People for Extermination
— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War against Jews – killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, before the Allied defeat of the terrorist Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, liberating the remaining last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp. The horrific crimes against humanity by the Nazis against Jewish people are breathtakingly horrific. Throughout Germany, Adolf Hitler promoted the apocryphal Anti-Semitic hate screed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” to promote popular hatred and distrust of Jewish people. By 1938, this hate campaign led to an attack on Jewish synagogues and shops throughout Germany and Austria in the Kristallnacht campaign. In 1933, Hitler began establishing his concentration camps. Hitler began rounding up Jewish people and people for concentration camps. Jewish people were beaten, whipped, tortured, starved, and killed. The Nazis used medical experimentation on their bodies, and mutilated them. In 1939, Jewish people were marked with a yellow badge to indicate that they were Jewish. From 1939 to 1941, Hitler’s Holocaust of the Jewish people took on a broader focus with his invasion of Poland and other nations. By 1942, Hitler pursued a “Final Solution” for genocide against Jewish people by poison gas centers and concentration camps, with bodies burned in mass crematoriums. In response to Hitler’s crimes against humanity, the United Nations and the nations of the world banded together on December 10, 1948 to develop a UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) – to agree around the world that all people, of all identity groups, all religions, would have a universal measure to be protected from genocide. In 2000, this was reaffirmed by world nations in the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum of the Holocaust, which states “the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” of “genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism and xenophobia.” Nazis continue to attack Jews around the world, defacing synagogues, killing Jewish people, and plotting terror attacks on them, such as the attack on the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2014, the Kansas City Jewish Community Center was attacked by a Nazi terrorist. Nazi terrorism against Jewish people in the United Kingdom continues to increase, including attacks on synagogues and Jews on the street. In June 2014, Nazis attacked a crowd of Jewish people on the street, hurling rocks, flares at them, and stabbing one Jewish man. In March 2015, a Jewish synagogue in London was attacked by Nazis in the streets calling “we will kill you,” with 20 members in the synagogue desperately trying to defend themselves with chairs, books, anything to stop the Nazi attack on the synagogue. In May 2015, Nazis marched on Downing Street in London, calling for the end of Jewish people in London.
African-Americans Murdered by Nazis (USHMM Attack, Charleston Attack)
— Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War on people of African descent and African-Americans. Hitler’s Nazi regime had a war on those African people living in Germany or the nations it occupied with its white supremacist terrorist forces. As the USHMM has reported, Hitler’s Nazis imprisoned, oppressed, and ostracized people of African descent. They lost their jobs, some were sterilized, some were sent to Nazi concentration camps, including African-Americans. At the concentration camps, they were subjected to extreme brutality and medical experimentation; many were worked to death. An African-American U.S. military unit participated in the liberation of one of the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi war on people of African descent, similar to the Confederate and American slave masters, did not end with the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Nazis in Europe and America continue to target people of African descent for oppression, violence, and murder. In the United States, this has included Nazi terror attacks on African-American Christian churches, by terrorists such as Daniel Cowart, and more recently in South Carolina by Dylann Roof, a Confederate terrorist who was a participant on a Nazi website. Dylann Roof murdered nine African-American Christians during a prayer meeting. R.E.A.L. has previously reported that 180 houses of worship are targets of arson in America every year. We have also reported on the killing of Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns, an African-American security guard, by Nazi James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. On Nazi/Confederate hate sites such as Stormfront, African-Americans are the constant targets of hate and praise and support for terrorist attacks on them.
Christian and Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered in Nazi Terror Attack in United States in 2014
— Nazi War on Christians. There were many extremists in Nazi Germany among Christians, including extremists in clergy who were part of the Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign. But the history of Nazi oppression of Christians is often forgotten both in history and in current day reality, especially when viewed in the historical light that the Nazi goal was to destroy Christianity. Hitler’s Nazis persecuted Christians who defied them and who stood for Christian values in Germany. Aggressive anti-Church radicals like Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler led a take over of churches in Germany (the Kirchenkampf), forcing them to reject any Christian values that the Nazi party would not accept. This led to struggles among both Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches which were occupied by the Nazi racial supremacists. Jesuits were attacked and Catholic properties were taken over by the Nazis. Clergymen were sent to concentration camps, and Nazi Himmler sought to end the “principle of Christian mercy” among the German people, which was part of a long-term goal to end Christianity in Nazi Germany. As part of war criminal trials, the United States Organization of Strategic Services (OSS) developed a document on “The Nazi Master Plan” to destroy Christianity in Germany. As Nazi Baldur von Shirach wrote “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement.” Nearly 2000 Polish Christian clergy were sent to the Nazi concentration camps. The Jehovah Witness religious adherents were singled out for oppression and sent to concentration camps. The attack on Christians by the Nazis did not end with Adolf Hitler or WWII. The continuing Nazi racist ideology remains focused on rejection and terrorism of Christianity around the world. In April 2015, this included a Nazi terrorist bombing at Orthodox parish of Saint Vladimir in Marzahn-Hellensdorf, near Berlin. In the United States, this has included efforts by Nazi terrorists to attack African-American churches, such as Daniel Cowart’s attack in Tennessee and Dylann Roof’s attack in Charleston, where he murdered 9 African-Americans. In April 2014, a Nazi terrorist killed three Christians in Kansas City, who were preparing for a play, including a 14 year old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood (a Boy Scout), his grandfather, and another woman. As R.E.A.L. has investigated in the USA, Nazi terrorists view the end of Christianity to be a priority for the goals. Therefore, Nazi terror attacks on Christian churches fits within their ideology. Stormfront Nazis post that their racial identity is their only religion. Christians have a particular responsibility both as victims and the historical responsibility of those extremists with white supremacists to protest and reject Nazi and Hitler.
Nazi Arson Attack on Tennessee Muslim Mosque – Burning it to the Ground
— Nazi War on Muslims. As R.E.A.L. has repeatedly reported, Nazi individuals and groups targeted minority Muslims in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. As reported recently in Arizona, mosque protesters included Nazis among armed protesters in the crowd. In Tennessee, Nazi terrorists who were members of the “Aryan Alliance” firebombed the Islamic Center of Columbia, south of Nashville, after they painted Nazi swastikas on it; Michael Corey Golden got 14 years in prison, and his fellow Nazi terrorists were convicted and imprisoned. Anti-Muslim extremists on Stormfront Nazi site regularly use racial supremacist ideology in their basis to call for ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In the United Kingdom, in March 2015, Nazi swastika flags were flown in the British streets of Newcastle as part of extremist anti-Muslim campaigns, and in Newcastle, Nazi swastikas were defacing mosques. In the United Kingdom, Nazi Ian Forman were jailed for 10 years in a twisted plot to blow up mosques across the Merseyside, UK area. Nazi Ian Forman spoke of his admiration of Adolf Hitler; the judge who convicted him stated that his activities “were a continuation of Nazi warfare.” In Europe, this has included recent Nazi attacks and swastika defacing on Muslim mosques in Dormagen, Germany, in Leipzig, Germany, in Vienna, in Tyrol, Austria, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Provins, France (outside Paris), at a mosque construction site in Meaux, France. We have reported on similar Nazi group activities against mosques in Denmark and throughout Europe. In Australia, Nazis have attack Muslim mosques in Perth, Australia; Nazi attacks on mosques have included the Nazi terror group C18 that fired gunshots into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque. After the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muslim leader Asma Hanif stated “Someone who will demonstrate hate like this will do it in any community.” “Whether it was the Holocaust or slavery, the only reason it prevailed is because it was tolerated. We have the right and the authority to end it.”
Nazi Oppression of Homosexuals in Concentration Camps – Wore the Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle)
— Nazi War on Homosexuals. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis attacked homosexuals, using a special Gestapo branch to order police to develop “pink lists” on homosexuals all over Germany. The Nazis then arrested 100,000 homosexuals for imprisonment, and also sentenced gay men to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps identified prisoners wearing a pink triangular patch (rosa Winkel) on their uniforms. They were beaten, abused, tortured, killed, and their bodies were mutilated, including castration of hundreds. At the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Hitler’s Nazis performed medical experiments on homosexuals’ bodies as part of their monstrous torture on other human beings. Nazi terrorism against homosexuals did not end with their idol Adolf Hitler. Nazi terrorist groups continue to target and attack LGBT individuals and groups as part of the Nazi ideology. A Russian Nazi terrorist group used a popular social network to lure in gay teenagers, then kidnap them, bully, and torture them, making videos of their humiliation to share on the public Internet. Threats and targeting of homosexuals by Nazi terror groups within the United States and Europe remains a common theme within the goals of groups.
Greece: Nazi Terrorists Murdered Pakistani Shehzad Luqman
— Nazi War on Asians and Pakistanis. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis may have had allies in imperial Japan, but it is often forgotten that the Nazi and Axis war on Asians included attacks on Chinese and Philippines, including the torturing and raping of thousands of Philippine women. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist racist views were that Chinese people were considered as “untermenschen,” or “sub-human.” The modern European and American Nazi adherents have used their white supremacist ideology to spread hatred against Pakistani and other Asian people, as part of their racist views. In the United Kingdom, this has included regular Nazi attacks on Pakistan immigrants, and crowds of Nazis in the streets of London screaming and taunting Pakistan people. In Greece, members of the Nazi party “Golden Dawn” stabbed a 27-year old Pakistani man Shehzad Luqman to death, with two Greek Nazis getting a life sentence for the murder of the Pakistan man. Over 70 of the Greek Nazis have been under investigation in connection for murder and belonging to a criminal group. Modern-day Nazi racist white supremacists view Asian and Pakistan people as “untermenschen” even today, and Pakistanis in Europe are regularly targeted for attack by Nazis.
Disabled Child – one of the Victims of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Mass Murder of Disabled
— Nazi War on Disabled. Adolf Hitler’s racial supremacy included the killing of disabled individuals as being inferior to his racial master race. This included the murdering of 5,000 disabled children and also the development of a program to murder 70,273 disabled adults. In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi team encouraged parents of children with disabilities to bring the children to specialty pediatric clinics. But what Hitler actually had the Nazi hospitals do was to murder the disabled children through lethal drugs or starvation. When the Nazi child-killing program began, it was initially designed to murder infants, but the Nazis then increased the murder program to kill children up to 17 years of age. The “T4” program for adults created six installation of gas chambers for disabled adults throughout Germany, killing over 70,000 such disabled adults. The Nazis also murdered disabled patients in hospitals in mass shootings, as well as “gas vans” to murder disabled people in their occupied territories. An Italian study has shown that the Nazis killed up to 300,000 disabled individuals.
Prisoners at Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany stand near barbed wire in 1945 (Source: Daily Mail/ Gamma-Keystone, Getty Images)
— Nazi War on Women. In addition to the Nazi war on Jewish women, Adolf Hitler built a separate Nazi concentration camp designed specifically for non-Jewish women at Ravensbrück, which was situated about 50 miles north of Berlin. Approximately 130,000 women were sent to this women’s concentration camp, 50,000 of which were murdered (gassed, shot, starved), including 2,500 women killed in Hitler’s gas chambers in one weekend. As reported by Sarah Helm, the Nazi attack on women included every walk of life: doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes, members of the resistance. Women were worked to death, and those who became too ill were selected for extermination by being shot or sent to the gas chambers. The Nazis conducted medical experiments, including testing new ways to kill women, freezing them to death in the snow, and letting dogs rip into the women. They sexually abused the women with rape and infected some women with bacteria to experiment on their bodies, including “syphilis being injected into the spinal cord.” After Adolf Hitler, the Nazi terrorist war on women has continued, with Nazi violence against women around the world and throughout the United States, including the well-publicized rape attacks by Nazis in Massachusetts, Nazi rapist in Arlington, Virginia, and child molesters among Nazi leaders. The amoral Nazi ideology to prey on those they view as vulnerable leads them to such hate of women. The Nazi war on women has included the murder of African-American women by Nazis in the United States, including the recent terror attack in Charleston, South Carolina where six African-American women were murdered by terrorist Dylann Roof (a poster with the Nazi Daily Stormer group).
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It is not enough to support our shared universal human rights. We must also have the shared responsibility and activism to defy anti-human right campaigns, to challenge racist groups that reject these shared human rights, and to defy racist images of hate.
To people of conscience, to people with any human dignity and respect for your fellow human beings, whether you associate with any of these identity groups targeted by Nazis or not, we must stand to defy and reject the racist symbol of Nazism, those promoting Nazism, and those involved with Nazi organizations.
As Nazi white supremacists and those who seek to “normalize” their racist images have their free speech, we must also exercise our free speech, and condemn such racist symbols of Nazism and Adolf Hitler, without qualification, as immoral symbols of racist hate against all of mankind.
It is the position of the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L) that the growing national commitment to eliminate symbols of white supremacist hatred in public areas, must include the Confederate Flag and monument, as well as the racist symbols of Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
While patriotic Americans across this nation are turning their back on the white supremacy symbol of hatred, racism, and slavery of the Confederate flag, you would imagine more of the American people have developed a determination to stand up against such symbols of hate. The “normalization” of the racist image of that universal monster against humanity, Adolf Hitler, is a disgrace and a racist attack on the human rights of all human beings – of every religion, every race, and every identity group. We must Never Forget.
You would think that the message “Take It Down” is being heard by many of the white Americans in this nation.
Yet less than 20 miles from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, a Maryland suburb’s theater group has decided that this is the best time to do a production of the musical “The Producers,” described by the Washington Post with a headline “Hitler musical caper rides again in the ‘The Producers’ at Olney.”
Hitler… musical… caper….?
The obscenity of the words together is beyond description.
But that’s the Washington Post entertainment section, even in 2015. The argument rationalizing such obscenity as entertainment cannot outweigh our concerns for the future and our responsibility to defy the legacy of racist hatred that Adolf Hitler has left.
Washington Post describes Olney Theatre Center in Maryland showing “Hitler musical caper” (Screenshot: Washington Post)Olney Theatre Center Refers to its “Hitler Musical” on Twitter
While our nation is under attack by white supremacist terrorists from Confederates and their Nazi allies, the Olney Theatre Center (OTC) in Olney, Maryland suburbs of Washington DC has decided now is a good time to have a “satire” with the hate symbol of Adolf Hitler, and a musical number to Adolf Hitler. The Olney Theatre Center board president, attorneyJennifer Kneeland, defends this “Hitler musical caper,” because she states to us that this is “a satire,” which “has been well-received by our community and praised.”
The concept that the hate image of Adolf Hitler and his swastika is somehow less offensive than the despicable Confederate flag demonstrates the failure of Americans to understand the history behind the monster Hitler and his disciples’ twisted involvement with the white supremacy movement around the world and (as we have seen from recent terrorist attacks) within the United States.
It is a repugnant idea that we should need to remind any Americans of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi “racially superior” crimes against humanity in the olocaust murder of 6 million Jews, 2 million non-Jewish Ukrainians, another 9 million Russian soldiers killed, 11.7 non-Jewish Russian and Russian territory citizens, (a total estimated 26 million killed in former Soviet nations), the Nazi killing of many others: non-Jewish women, other Europeans, gays, disabled, children, people of African descent, and numerous others. Within the United States of America, 400,000 soldiers died fighting Hitler and his Axis powers. In the former Soviet countries, He stands alone as one of the most notorious symbols of racial hatred not only in the past century, but in all of human history, as truly an ENEMY OF MANKIND. But the most important fact remains, Nazi murders continue in the United States of America and around the world today.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in December 10, 1948, after the atrocities of Hitler and his Nazi acknowledges to the WORLD that”disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.”
Americans would certainly like to believe that the violence and crimes of the Nazi ideology died with the Mass Murderer Hitler and the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, a war where over 400,000 American soldiers gave their lives – nearly the same amount of American patriotic soldiers who died in the fight a century earlier against the Confederate forces of slavery. Many from American families fought and died to fight against the mass-murderer Adolf Hitler as well as the criminal Confederate forces of slavery.
These Americans were not just inconvenienced. They did not just lose some money. They paid the ultimate sacrifice – willing and knowingly – to defy such forces and symbols of racist hatred, mass-murder, and violence. Is our weakness how we honor their sacrifices?
B’nai B’rith International Understands that We Must Defy Symbols of Racist Hate
The cruel reality has been for many years, that the Nazi ideology continues to attack and spread in this and other nations, and its criminals of hatred continue to take the lives of Americans. In league with their Confederate white supremacist brethren, it now takes on a heightened threat to African-Americans in this nation.
Nazi terrorism in the United States and around the world has grown as “normalization” of such Nazi images of racist hate continue to grow and become “acceptable.” Unlike 1968, this is not a few Nazi extremist, but using the Internet, Nazi extremist gangs are becoming a growing global network of Nazi hatred and racist violence, including regular murder and torture. “The Producers” fails to recognize that while audiences laugh at the idea of past Nazis, present day Nazi commit regular acts of terrorism: synagogues are attacked, churches are attacked, African-Americans are killed, children are murdered, women are killed, and gay men are being kidnapped, raped, and killed by Nazi terrorists. These Nazi terrorists are enabled to recruit others in such ideologies of hate, aided in part by the “normalization” of such symbols of hatred.
Our nation saw such a terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009. I know that this particularly well, because I had been assisted by the only victim of that terrorist attack, an African-American man from Maryland named Stephen Tyrone Johns.
I had the opportunity to assist in April 2009 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) reading of the names of those who were killed in Adolf Hitler’s crimes against humanity. This is done on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in the Hall of Remembrance with an eternal flame which flickers to remember those who Adolf Hitler had murdered. On the wall is a quote from Deuteronomy, which I have mentioned before, “I call heaven and Earth to witness this day; I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse, choose life – that you and your offspring shall live.”
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum – “Choose Life”
When we choose racism and when we decide that it is not “our responsibility” to challenge racism that we WITNESS, we don’t “choose life,” but we abandon our moral accountability for life not just for others, but also for ourselves.
As I am not Jewish, I thought I might felt awkward in my role to help in the reading of the names, but it was clear that the readers shared our conviction that such CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY should never be forgotten, and people read the names from all races, religions, ethnic groups. I could see the compassion in the hearts of a young Asian girl who teared, and an African-American girl whose tears ran down her face as she REMEMBERED – NEVER AGAIN.
Genocide is an open wound on the human soul, and only our joint determination to defy such criminals and those who would trivialize their crimes will allow the wound to begin to heal.
Leaving the museum, I was helped out by a young African-American man who was a security guard, Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns.
Terrorist Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns (Photos: Left – AP, Right – USHMM)
I recognized his photograph in the news, two months later, when a white supremacist with the twisted hybrid of Confederate and Nazi ideologies named James Von Brunn attacked this USHMM in our nation’s capital. The terrorist Von Brunn murdered African-American security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, whose only crime was to try to open the door for the man. His death managed to slow the terrorist enough to alert the other guards to stop the terrorist Von Brunn.
Nazi-Inspired Terrorist James Von Brunn Attacked U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was FULL of young schoolchildren, during Nazi white supremacist James Von Brunn’s terrorist attack. If he had not been stopped…
The whitestream media failed to call this the “terrorist attack” that it was. It is a source of never-ending shame to these great United States of America that when an African-American is killed, somehow our media can’t find its way to call that a “terrorist attack.” Days after the attack, Nazis and white supremacists were openly praising Von Brunn’s terrorism, and the story was readily forgotten by the local press. R.E.A.L. continued to report on this, while the local media moved on.
Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns was buried in Maryland. His funeral was held at the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Fort Washington. Prior to the funeral, the church received threats from white supremacists, but Pastor Grainger Browning Jr. stood his ground in his eulogy to Stephen Johns.
Ebenezer AME Pastor Browning said that “the same hate that created slavery was the same hate that caused the Holocaust.”
It is the same hate and the same common enemy to the human race of every color and religion.
We have seen such Nazi-led and inspired terrorism in the United States over the past 20 years. In recent time, this included the Oklahoma City terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 (the day before Hitler’s birthday celebrated by such Nazi terrorists) on the Oklahoma City federal building by terrorist Timothy McVeigh. The terrorist was inspired by the Nazi Turner Diaries and his Nazi terrorist co-conspirators, who murdered 169 Americans including 19 babies and children killed in the day care center there.
Timothy McVeigh’s Terrorist Attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building
Nor would it be the last Nazi-inspired terror attack we would witness. R.E.A.L. reported that Stormfront member Daniel Cowart shot the windows out of a Tennessee church and with his Confederate terror co-conspirator Paul Schlesselman, he plotted the terrorist attack on another African-American church, planning to kill over 100 as well as assassinate Barack Obama. Their initial target was to kill 88 African-Americans. Why 88? The number “88” in white supremacist world stands for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler.”
Convicted Terrorist Daniel Cowart with Swastika Tattoo and Rifle (Photo: Inquister)
Just Like Maryland Theater Singing for Hitler – Nazi White Supremacist Terrorist Daniel Cowart and White Supremacist Singing for Adolf Hitler (Source: SPLC)
We have seen other connections to terrorist attacks by Nazis in this country, linked to the white supremacist Stormfront group, including Wade Michael Page, and Stormfront members’ support for terrorist attacks on the U.S. Pentagon and an IRS building in Texas, as well as praise by Stormfront members for the terrorist attack by Dylann Roof. (The FBI is finally beginning to investigate this Stormfront organization.)
Stormfront Member and Terrorist Wade Michael Page Killed 6 Sikhs
In June 2015, we saw the terrorist attack by Dylann Roof killing 9 African-American Christian worshipers during a Bible Study meeting at the Emmanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. The whitestream media refers to it as a “shooting,” rather than a terrorist attack, but those with a conscience know exactly what it was.
Charleston White Supremacist Terrorist Dylann Roof Believed to be Part of Nazi Web Site
An analysis of the terrorist Dylann Roof’s “manifesto” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) shows that it is likely that the white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof was a regular user named “Aryanblood1488” on the Nazi forum “The Daily Stormer.” Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack on the Emmanuel AME church left 9 dead during a prayer session; the killer murdered them simply because they were African-Americans.
Once again, Maryland’s Ebenezer AME Pastor Grainger Browning Jr. was at a funeral for victims of a terrorist attack at the Charleston Emmanuel AME church, but this time it was for a fellow pastor and eight other African-American worshipers.
Just as Nazi Daniel Cowart attacked African-American churches and Dylann Roof’s recent terrorist attack on the Charleston African-American churches, so we have seen numerous other attacks on African-American churches, as well as synagogues, mosques, and diverse houses of worship. The same racist hatred follows in these attacks including a reported three arson attacks on African-American churches in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, and suspected in South Carolina. 180 uncontrolled deliberate arson fires are set to destroy American houses of worship every year. The attacks on African-American churches may officially be viewed as “isolated incidents,” but we know better. We don’t need a court of law to know the truth.
Racist Hatred and Terrorism Continues to Attack African-American Churches and Other Houses of Worship
No, racist hate is not “history.” It remains a near and present danger to the American people, their freedoms, and their lives.
Adolf Hitler is and has been a symbol of hatred not just to the Jews he targeted in his twisted Holocaust, but also to African-Americans and anyone who failed to meet his white supremacist “racial purity” terrorist model of seeking a twisted cause of “racial hygiene,” which continues today. Adolf Hitler, the swastika, and the Nazi ideology remains a symbol of global racist terrorism, in cases that we have repeatedly seen in the United States of America.
These despicable figures and symbols of Nazi racist hatred in public facilities is just as much a symbol of racist hatred as the Confederate flag in defense of white supremacy. The United States Department of Justice is responsible for enforcing the law to prevent racist from using methods of intimidation to people due to their race, religion, etc. in public facilities under the 1968 Civil Rights Act. This is described in federal law 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), which includes public theaters and places of entertainment, as described in 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)(f). We will actively call upon the Department of Justice to enforce this law.
We know too well here in Maryland about the terrorist hate and violence spawned Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideology. Maryland citizens have paid the price with their lives by those inspired by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideology, such as Maryland terrorist James Von Brunn. Our citizens’ blood is on the mass-murdering hands of Adolf Hitler and his disciples of hate. Americans in Olney have faced threats from such Nazi racist disciples of the mass-murderer Adolf Hitler.
Maryland’s Stephen Johns will not be remembered by enough people as a courageous hero in African-American history; like all of us, he will be too quickly forgotten, even by his neighbors in Maryland, and those who should know better. But his sacrifice will not be forgotten here by those who are Responsible for Equality And Liberty. He will never be forgotten in our hearts and our prayers. The lesson to defy white supremacist Nazi terror in our midst will also never be forgotten.
R.E.A.L. Volunteers Remember the Terrorist Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
After the attack on the Washington DC USHMM, the white supremacist hate group VDARE organization held a rally with Patrick Buchanan in McLean, Virginia. VDARE’s Peter Brimelow had praised Nazi terrorist James Von Brunn as an “intelligent man.” R.E.A.L. was there to protest VDARE in McLean, in Baltimore, and other locations. White supremacists then sought to have massive recruitment campaigns in our nation’s capital, and as history shows that did not happen. We challenge and defy such white supremacist across the nation and the world, as nothing less than an ideology of terrorism.
R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm urges passing motorists to let VDARE know how they feel about racism
Responsible for Equality And Liberty also makes this promise. We will defend every city and every nation from these racist monsters, to the best of our volunteers’ ability. Patriotic Americans will defy racists and symbols of racism wherever they go.
But to those promoting racism and with the symbols of racist hatred, know this. You will not succeed in the Washington DC area without our DEFIANT PROTEST. There has been more than enough racist filth smeared on our nation’s capital in our life times. From Freedom Plaza outward, we will defy those with the ideology and symbols of racist hatred. The blood of Stephen Johns and the bullet holes in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was the moment we had to say ENOUGH.
We will continue to defy white supremacist organizations and their ideology of racist hatred, and their enablers. Those promoting the symbols of racial hatred and violence will find the defenders of human rights and dignity are stubborn and persistent. After all, it is the least we can do.
In protection of Americans at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Stephen Johns gave his LIFE. Surely we can be inconvenienced. Surely we can find the time and the energy to defy Nazi white supremacist hatred. Surely we can find the room in our lives to tell those who think Adolf Hitler is a joke, how WRONG THEY ARE.
R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm at Protest in Front of Olney Theatre Center. Prior to Protest, theater called to police to try to stop protest
So to my fellow patriotic Americans and friends in human rights, Responsible for Equality And Liberty is inviting to join us in Maryland to protest the Nazi symbols which represent racist hatred. We contacted the Olney Theatre Center first; we pleaded with them to reconsider. They stand by their “comedy satire” on the racist mass-murderer Adolf Hitler, while the victims of the latest terror attack have just been buried, and burned down houses of worship are in ashes.
We urge you to contact the Olney Theatre Center and let them know you don’t think Adolf Hitler is “funny.” You can let them know on Twitter at @OlneyTheatre. You can see their postings of how they think Adolf Hitler is “funny,” and one actor thinks it is a joke to “see what the fuhrer is about.” This normalization of a racist, mass-murderer and a SYMBOL of Racism is what we must REJECT.
Some of those publicly “favoriting” such mocking comments like “see what all the fuhrer is about” are conservative “Ace of Spades” blog writerGabriel Malor (screenshot) and Brandon Ambrosino (screenshot). Baltimore dancer (who apparently works on this show) Brandon Ambrosino claims to write for the New York Times, Atlantic, Time, etc., but really does VOX blog articles. Brandon Ambrosino spent 30 minutes arguing with me at the July 11 protest claiming that when theater goers enjoy Racist Hate symbols like Hitler, we shouldn’t protest Hitler events. After all, he argued – if there are more people singing for Hitler than those protesting, shouldn’t those singing for Hitler be right? The efforts to “normalize” racist symbol Adolf Hitler are in direct contradiction to America’s rejection of the racist symbol of the Confederate Flag. Americans respecting human rights know the difference between RIGHT and WRONG.
We need you to urge them to end the scenes in the Olney Theatre presentation about Adolf Hitler and the twisted “comedy” of “Springtime for Hitler.” They will tell you it is a satire. They will tell you it is their artistic freedom. They will get Mel Brooks and theater reviewers to defend how “funny” it is. Mr. Brooks, actors, and comedians have a right to their personal twisted sense of humor. But when symbols of racist hatred are displayed in public areas, mocking the tragedies the world has suffered, they need to take their sense of “humor” elsewhere.
TELL THEM “ENOUGH.”
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi swastika belong in the same trash can of history with the Confederate Flag and Confederate monuments.
Maryland, our nation, and the world has paid with enough blood, enough tears, and enough misery that we have a right to defend the human dignity of all those who have suffered in American and around the world from these racist mass-murderers and monsters, should not be trivialized and made into “comedy.” Enough.
The Olney Theatre Center is located at: 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832. It’s telephone number is: 301-924-4485, and the fax number is: 301-924-2654
Let actors Jason Graee and Michael Kostroff know that you just don’t think that the racist monster Adolf Hitler is “funny.”
To those of you in the Washington DC area, we will be holding public protests on the public street outside the Olney Theatre Center. For more information, contact us at usa@realcourage.org. We will keep the local police informed to ensure safety and protection. We held protests on July 11 and July 12. At our July 12 protest, theater goers screamed curse words from their automobiles. One theater goer came up to me and told me that he thought that the Holocaust “was funny.” I urge those who cannot protest to pray for these individuals.
As we MUST defy the Confederate Flag of white supremacy, racism, slavery, and hate, so we MUST also defy the symbols of racist Nazi ideology and the monster who inspired the death of so many Jews, so many people, so many children, so many families, and also certainly so many Americans – even in the Washington DC area, and continuing today.
We MUST DEFY this…. EVIL to all of humanity.
Behind the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance, it reads: “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the thing your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children to your children’s children.”
We will Never Forget, Maryland.
America, we must continue to work together for all people of all religions, all races, and all identity groups.
NEVER AGAIN.
That is why we MUST be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
