By Kriesgberichter
A Night at the Ritz: White Supremacists, a Knife Fight and a Holocaust Denier
Posted in Extremist Crime, Holocaust Denial by Larry Keller on October 29, 2009
In what may be the latest sign of simmering tensions in Florida between two prominent racist skinhead groups, two men suffered knife wounds this week during a speech by Holocaust denying historian David Irving at a luxury Palm Beach County hotel.
Irving spoke to about three dozen invited guests in a conference room he booked at the Ritz-Carlton hotel south of Palm Beach. During his talk on “decoding the Nazi message,” two men, Christopher Nachtman and John Kopko, stepped outside to argue and one of them pulled a knife, police say. A fight ensued. Furniture was broken and a carpet was bloodied. Both men were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment of knife wounds. No charges have been filed yet.
Irving is a longtime Holocaust revisionist. In 2000, he sued Emory University professor and Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt for libel in his homeland of Britain, after she accused of him of deliberate falsification. A London court declared Irving a pro-Nazi anti-Semite and “active Holocaust denier” and ordered him to pay all court costs. In 2006, he was imprisoned in Austria after pleading guilty to telling audiences that there were no gas chambers in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. Irving subsequently backed off those claims. Earlier this year, he set up a website selling Nazi memorabilia. His visit to South Florida was the latest on a surreptitious speaking tour in the United States, in which Irving informs attendees of his venue at the last minute so as to thwart protestors.
Irving told Florida television station WPBF that Kopko initiated the attack, and that the fight had nothing to do with his lecture. He said his assistant witnessed the incident. “She said that she saw four people chasing one member of the audience out and beating him to the floor, and she said she thought they were going to kill him, but he pulled a knife from nowhere and stabbed one of these men repeatedly,” he told the TV station. “It was a personal feud, apparently, which goes back over the years, and I gained the impression, or so I was told, that three or four of these people had come in there with the intention of roughing him up,” he said. He doesn’t know Kopko personally, Irving added.
Postings on Stormfront, the leading white supremacist website, imply that Kopko, 43, is associated with Crew 38, the support group for the Confederate Hammerskins. A Stormfront poster using the screen name of “White Racialist” wrote after the incident, “John is a good man and a true soldier for the Cause, and has been for 20+ years … As for the lowly coward that pushed a knife into John’s BACK, no fate is too awful for you. You have to try a lot harder than that to kill Crew 38!”
Kopko was an official of the National Socialist White Workers Party in 1992 when he led a protest outside a West Palm Beach bookstore on the premise that the business sold pornographic material that promoted race mixing and homosexuality. That same year, he tried to get neo-Nazi publications placed in Palm Beach County libraries. A newspaper reported that he showed up at a meeting dressed like a Nazi storm trooper.
Nachtman, 31, is a former member of the once-prominent neo-Nazi group, National Alliance. He has used the screen name “Blutfahne” – German for “blood flag” – on Stormfront and VNN Forum. The latter is an online forum of Vanguard News Network, whose motto is, “No Jews. Just right.” He also posts under the screen name “Teutonic Legion” on Stormfront, and his avatar is the Volksfront logo. He has promoted Volksfront and Confederate Hammerskins events, and helped organize the February 2007 Volksfront Victory Achievement Conference in Missouri, where he spoke.
There have been numerous recent confrontations in central Florida that suggest a war is brewing between former longtime allies Volksfront and the Confederate Hammerskins. Michael Lawrence, one of the original founders of the Confederate Hammerskins in 1987, switched his allegiance to Volksfront in 2007, and became the group’s unofficial leader in Florida. Randal Krager, who co-founded Volksfront in 1994 while serving a prison sentence, moved from Portland, Oregon, to Florida with his wife and son to live next door to Lawrence.
Since Lawrence’s defection, his longtime friend and Confederate Hammerskins member, Richie Myers, has steadily gained power throughout the state as the group’s Orlando leader. Myers and his second-in-command, Coby Stonecypher, regularly associate with the Outlaws Motorcycle Club gang. Lawrence and Krager do not. A public indication of trouble brewing between Confederate Hammerskins and Volksfront appeared in a Stormfront posting advertising Volksfront’s annual Martyr’s Day event, to be held this year in Pensacola. The announcement said the gathering was “family friendly [by that we mean no drunks, no non-racial ‘clubs’, no deviate or degrading behavior].” Many readers took that as disapproval of outlaw motorcycle clubs attending recent white supremacist gatherings, which has happened at Confederate Hammerskins events.
A woman using the screen name of “Vidgis” hinted on Stormfront this week that the stabbing at Irving’s lecture reflected an escalation in tensions between the two skinhead groups. She wrote, “…the saddest part is how the various White Pride organizations are at war with one another. If we would turn that rage towards the real enemies, we’d be making real progress.”
Knifings and neo-Nazis aren’t the sorts of events or people that show up often in Manalapan, the affluent little coastal town where Irving spoke at the Ritz-Carlton. It has been home to the likes of famed criminal defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, New Age musician Yanni and boxing promoter Don King. The 52-room oceanfront mansion of the widow of publishing heir Randolph Hearst fetched $22 million at a foreclosure auction last year. Monday’s fracas presumably was an atypical event at the Ritz-Carlton, whose website says it “has catered to the world’s most discerning guests,” and describes it as having “refined beauty” and a “graceful atmosphere.” The presidential suite runs a cool $3,000 per night. Hotel officials say the conference room where Irving spoke was reserved under the name of his book publisher in Great Britain, and they knew nothing about Irving.
Irving told local media that he was “deeply ashamed that this happened.
By Kriesgberichter
Sent to us from: Commander Schoep
NSM stands strong in California:
Forward this post on to lists, Forums, and our Folk everywhere:
NSM HQ salutes the men and women of the California chapter for standing strong today in the streets. You have raised the bar and set an example today. You have sent a message to every white person in American that believe’s in what we are fighting for, but are too afraid to come out and stand with us. When attacked you sent our enemies to the ground, and for that we salute you!
Approximately 2 dozen violent Mexican Communists (Brown Berets) broke through Police barrier and attacked 2 dozen NSM members & supporters. The NSM hit back hard, beating brown berets to the ground see pictures here:
Brown beret throws punch at NSM, and ends up getting taught a lesson. This is what happened before the Police pulled the communists away, and this is a lesson to what happens to anti’s when they break into our lines, they end up on the ground!
http://www.pe.com/multimedia/slideshow/2009/20091025_nazi/pages/06NAZI25mzg.html
Brown berets running as our Comrades assist one of them who apparently fell down with a headache:
http://www.pe.com/multimedia/slideshow/2009/20091025_nazi/pages/06NAZI25mzg.html
White Power! As a punch sends mexican commie reeling:
http://www.pe.com/multimedia/slideshow/2009/20091025_nazi/pages/06NAZI25mzg.html
Article from newspaper: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_webnazi25.2d9a4ba.html?ocp=3#slcgm_comments_anchor
Tv coverage:
Nazis, Counter-Demonstrators Clash In Riverside
http://cbs2.com/local/Riverside.Neo.Nazis.2.1268903.html
We will be marching in Phoenix, Arizona on the State Capitol on Nov. 7th, with a Nationally backed America First Rally. Any additional Comrades that wish to attend are welcome and I look forward to seeing you there.
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By Kriesgberichter
Germany clears way for ‘Nazi’ trial
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Demjanjuk was deported from the US to Germany in May after a long legal fight [AFP]
Germany’s highest court has turned down an appeal from suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.
The decision on Wednesday by Germany’s constitutional court clears the way for the formal trial to begin next month in what is likely to be Germany’s last major trial for war crimes committed in the Nazi-era.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 89, is charged with helping to kill almost 28,000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Poland.
He was deported from the US in May and has been in jail in Munich since then awaiting trial.
In July the court had rejected another appeal by Demjanjuk that his deportation from the United States infringed his basic rights.
Demjanjuk spent years in custody in Israel after he was extradited there in 1986, and was sentenced to death two years later after a court found him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
But in 1993 that verdict was overturned when Israel’s supreme court ruled he was not the feared death camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible”.
His family insists he is innocent of all accusations and say that he is too ill to stand trial.
By Kriesgberichter
Swiss charge Brazilian with faking skinhead attack
Oct 16, 2009
ZURICH — Swiss prosecutors have charged a Brazilian woman with faking an attack by skinheads that she said made her miscarry twins, officials said Friday.
Prosecutors, however, are seeking only a fine and not prison time if Paula Oliveira is convicted of deception of justice. They did not say how high the fine could be.
Police said Oliveira claimed she was attacked outside a Zurich train station by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of his head, and that the purported assailants cut the initials of Switzerland’s main right-wing party into her stomach and legs, causing her to miscarry twins.
Pictures of her scarred body appeared in newspapers and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the “remarkable violence against a Brazilian woman abroad.”
But after a series of tests, Swiss police said Oliveira was not three months pregnant as she claimed, and Zurich University forensic medicine chief Walter Baer called it a “textbook case” of self-mutilation. Her passport and legal papers were ordered blocked so an investigators could examine whether she misled law-enforcement authorities.
Prosecutors filed the charges on Wednesday, according to a statement. The case is likely to be brought to court, as Oliveira is contesting the charges.
By Kriesgberichter
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1. It’s Time To Get Revenge On Our Enemies
2. National Socialism Is National Health
3. Streetwise And Mean
4. Vengence Is Our Right
5. Slit Their Throats For The Shit They’ve Spun
6. Krystal Night
7. Juden Raus
8. Greedy Bastard
9. Werewolf
10. Let’s Kill The Niggers
11. Famous Last Words (Day of the Sword)
12. Set The Filth Alight
13. BBQ In Cronulla
14. RIP Rudolf Hess
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By Kriesgberichter
Brutal Attack – “As The Drum Beats”
01. I Got The Power (4:43)
02. Red Storm Rising (4:11)
03. Now I’m All Alone (3:08)
04. European Unity (5:51)
05. As The Drum Beats (3:06)
06. Through The Darkness (5:30)
07. Rockin’ For R’n'R (2:45)
08. Live Long Enough To Die (2:52)
09. Unity Of Mind And Fist (2:54)
10. We Won’t Run (3:10)
11. R.A.C. (2:36)
12. Alright Now (4:30)
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By Kriesgberichter
Brutal Attack – “Stronger Than Before”
01. Stronger Than Before (2:55)
02. Outside (2:01)
03. We only Came To Dance (2:25)
04. Freedom (3:01)
05. Let It Burn (2:29)
06. Rivers Of Blood (3:39)
07. Justice Is A Joke (2:43)
08. The Return Of St. George (1:45)
09. Victim (3:27)
10. White Pride, White Passion (2:18)
11. Dawn Patrol (3:54)
12. No-One Remembers(1:42)
13. Middle Class Fools (2:42)
14. Tell It Like It Is
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By Kriesgberichter
Brutal Attack – “Steel Rolling On”
01. Fist Of Steel (3:14)
02. It ain’t All Glory (3:43)
03. Bad Attitude (5:19)
04. My Struggle (5:46)
05. Phoenix Arise (3:49)
06. For Your Salvation (4:49)
07. You Decieved Me (3:57)
08. S.O.S. (4:08)
09. Turning Tide (4:44)
10. I’m Free (2:55)
11. You Deceived Me Part. 2
12. Aryan Child (8:20)
13. Kick it Down (3:19)
14. We’re For Real (3:44)
15. Freedom Fighter (4:36)
16. Roll The Losing Dice (4:00)
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By Kriesgberichter
Bristol candidate involved in racial incident
By Larry King
Inquirer Staff Writer
Last month, David Marucci was convicted of disorderly conduct, accused of cursing and using racial slurs over the prospect of African Americans buying the house next door to his.
Next month, Marucci stands a good chance of being elected to the Bristol Borough Council as a Democrat.
Not surprisingly, the NAACP is up in arms, calling on Bristol residents to “vote their values” at the polls Nov. 3 and organizing what it termed an educational rally last night at the borough hall.
“We just don’t want that man in the municipal building,” John Jordan, president of the Bucks County chapter of the NAACP, said yesterday afternoon.
Bucks Democratic leaders, meantime, are shunning Marucci from the fold. Sample ballots bearing Marucci’s name will not be distributed in Bristol, county Democratic chair John Cordisco said, and Marucci might soon face sanctions banning him from future participation in the party.
“Everybody was pretty appalled” by reports of Marucci’s behavior, Cordisco said.
Nonetheless, Marucci remains the Democratic candidate for Bristol’s East Ward council seat. And in the strongly Democratic borough, having a “D” next to one’s name at the polls can all but guarantee victory.
Marucci, 55, did not return a call yesterday seeking comment. His attorney, James Downey, said Marucci denies the allegations and has appealed his Sept. 9 District Court conviction to Bucks County Court. The appeal is scheduled to be heard Nov. 20 in Doylestown.
Marucci was charged after a June 17 incident in the 1200 block of Radcliffe Street, where he lives.
According to Robyn Trunell, a Realtor who serves as Borough Council vice president, she was visiting a vacant house next door to Marucci’s when he loudly cursed her and warned her not to sell the house to blacks, using an obscenity and a racial slur in the process.
“He told me, ‘It’s over for you if you sell that house to . . . ,’ ” Trunell, 62, said yesterday. “Every time I repeat the story, I still find it hard to believe.”
A Montgomery County man who was selling the house witnessed some of the exchange and corroborated her version in court, she said. “I had just gotten the listing for the house; this had nothing to do with politics,” added Trunell, a fellow Democrat.
On Sept. 9, District Judge Daniel Baranoski found Marucci guilty of disorderly conduct.
Marucci “absolutely denied” Trunell’s story, Downey said, and sought an appeal. “At this point, these are still only accusations. Why someone would want to stir the pot and hold a rally, I have no idea.”
Jordan said that the NAACP, a nonpartisan organization, cannot ask residents to vote against Marucci. At the same time, he said, he wants to ensure that voters are aware of Marucci’s actions.
“A lot of people don’t read their local newspapers, and a lot of people go in and vote their party without knowing a particular politician has behaved badly,” he said.
If Marucci is elected, Jordan added, “we will continue to come to meetings asking for his resignation. We are not just going to go away.”
He also noted that Marucci is a licensed Realtor, and had sought the listing for the property next door to his. “It concerns us a great deal that he may have used his bigoted ways in his own real estate dealings over the years,” Jordan said.
Marucci’s Republican opponent, Lorraine Cullen, said she had not made the incident a part of her campaign, and declined further comment. Independent candidate Michael Gerenda could not be reached for comment.
Trunell, who is not running in the November election, said that Marucci “does not represent the Democratic Party or who we are. We are very diverse in Bristol, and that’s one reason we love it.”
By Kriesgberichter
Survivors laud Czech action against Holocaust memorial vandals
The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants commended the Czech government on Monday night for the stiff penalties handed out to Miroslave Dano, Libor Mirga and Petr Hricko for vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial at Terezin.
The three were convicted for causing more than $100,000 worth of damage when they stole 824 bronze plaques from the site in 2008 and sold them to a scrap dealer. Mirga and Hricko, who fled to London, were sentenced in absentia to 4 1/2 and 3 1/2 years in jail respectively, while Dano, who was in police custody, was sentenced to four years.
“Vandalism against places of Holocaust martyrdom have become all-too-frequent in Europe and are especially painful to those who suffered through the horrors of that time,” said American Gathering President Sam E. Bloch. “It is reassuring that authorities in Eastern and Central Europe recognize the critical importance of punishing those who would vandalize the sites where thousands upon thousands were murdered, and desecrate the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. We are gratified that neo-Nazis, skinheads and other thugs now know that their despicable actions have consequences.”
