September 26, 2004
BLESSEDLY CONFORMIST:
Protesters outnumber Neo-Nazis at own rally (Associated Press, 9/26/04)
About 100 white supremacists rallied at Valley Forge National Historical Park on Saturday as nearly twice as many opponents heckled them from a hillside.Posted by Orrin Judd at September 26, 2004 11:54 AMBoth groups were outnumbered by federal law enforcement officers.
Speaking as someone with a little knowledge of FBI domestic counter-terrorism techniques, probably half of the 100 white supremacists were informants.
Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at September 26, 2004 1:04 PMWhen was the last neo-Nazi rally in the U.S. where the protestors didn't outnumber them? I think this has been the case since the '70s, at least.
And Fred is probably right about the informants.
Posted by: PapayaSF at September 26, 2004 2:11 PMAnd maybe someday we'll be able to say the same things about neo-Communist rallies.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 26, 2004 3:10 PM...But what were the "federal law enforcement officers" rallying for?
Posted by: Just John at September 26, 2004 5:05 PM"...But what were the "federal law enforcement officers" rallying for?"
What they usually rally for...a chance to beat the stuffing out of both sides.
Posted by: H.D. Miller at September 26, 2004 5:17 PMI hate Illinois Nazis...
Posted by: AML at September 26, 2004 7:32 PMThis whole march sounds staged.
It certainly doesn't take much political bravery
to counter protest this buffoonery (if it was
really old-fashioned supremacists).
Anything to discredit actual white solidarity.
Posted by: J.H. at September 27, 2004 9:00 AMAs if there were a need to discredit it.
Posted by: oj at September 27, 2004 9:06 AMThere's such a thing as "actual white solidarity" outside of prison ?
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 28, 2004 8:22 AM