Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on May 18, 2016

American Front or its allies in the Confederate Hammerskins may have been responsible for fifteen Nazi banners found flying from freeway overpasses around Orlando, Florida, over the weekend of September 23, 2006. The flags commemorated Global Aryan Solidarity Day, planned to coincide with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Lynch still has close ties to white supremacists in the Orlando area.

American Front led a nationwide rally December 9, 2006, on behalf of incarcerated members of The Order, a 1980s white supremacist terrorist group. While the largest gathering occurred in southern California, several banners describing Order members as prisoners of war were found around Orlando and Maitland.

American Nazis The American Nazis were a long-standing but low-profile white supremacist group based in New Port Richey that drew attention following a standoff with Pasco County deputies the night after a woman and a friend of her son were attacked with a knife in their home in New Port Richey on March 23, 2006. John A. Ditullio was arrested wearing a red American Nazis t-shirt the morning after the attack and was indicted in Pasco County, in October 2006 on first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder charges for allegedly stabbing the woman and fatally stabbing the teenaged friend of her son.

Brian Zero Buckley, 44, the alleged leader of the American Nazis, was convicted on October 12, 2006, of burglarizing the same home in March 2006. Buckley sports a racist acronym tattoo on his forehead, ANFFAN, which stands for American Nazi Forever, Forever American Nazi.

Combat 18 Josh Steever, a racist skinhead who led a small band of Combat 18 skinheads in Spring, Texas, moved in late 2005 to south Florida where joined up with a small crew of skinheads, most likely also a part of Combat 18. Shortly after his move, a Web site for Floridas chapter of Combat 18 appeared on the Internet. Steever, well-known for his forehead tattoo of the word racist, served a short stint in a Texas jail for attacking someone with an axe handle. In 2006, Steever moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he started a small unit of Combat 18 before being arrested for threatening to blow up a school in Newark, California, while visiting his girlfriend.

Confederate Hammerskins (CHS) This regional branch of the Hammerskin Nation, the largest racist skinhead group in the nation, is comprised of members primarily from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Florida contingent is allegedly led by Richard Richie Myers of Orlando.

The Hammerskins are particularly active in organizing white power music concerts for racist skinheads, neo-Nazis, and other white supremacists.

March 17, 2006: CHS hosted about 100 people on private property in the Ocala National Forest at a white power rock concert that featured several bands, including Attack, Definite Hate, Platoon 14, Red, White & Black, Youngblood, and Youngland. Notable attendees included Randal Lee Krager, leader of the racist skinhead organization Volksfront, based in Portland, Oregon, and David Gletty, who at the time was the leader of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement unit in Orlando.

March 19, 2005: CHS hosted a St. Patricks Day concert in Ocala. About 75 racists attended the gathering.

March 13, 2004: In conjunction with the now-defunct Minneapolis-based white power music company Panzerfaust Records, the Florida CHS organized a St. Patricks Day white power concert in Jacksonville.. Approximately 100 white supremacists attended the event. White supremacist organizations represented included the National Alliance, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Movement and Church of the Sons of Yahweh.

The Hated This racist skinhead group is based primarily in Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida, but has a few members in New Jersey and Massachusetts. The Hated have about 30 members and associates, ranging in age from 18 to 28. The group's symbol is a white fist with the word Hated written in white and black letters above the fist, which in some cases is tattooed on members bodies.

January 2005: The Hated hosted a white power rock concert in Jacksonville, which was attended by several Hammerskins and other racist skinheads.

January 2004: Two members of The Hated, Eddie F. Demaire III and Troy Stokes, both from Florida, were arrested in New Jersey, charged with possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Police discovered a sawed-off shotgun with a scratched-off identification number and a knife with a blade over 3 inches inside their truck. Both men pled no contest to the charges.

In last few years, the SFAA has been very active, both in hosting events and supporting those of other groups. In September 2003, in line with their anti-immigrant and xenophobic agenda, SFAA joined about two dozen white supremacists in Immokalee, Florida, in an anti-immigrant protest. SFAA also participated in an anti-Israel rally at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville on November 9, 2002, sponsored by White Revolution. In addition, it hosted a South Florida Aryan White Pride Day on December 1, 2001, at White City Park in Ft. Pierce, Florida. SFAA was joined by members of the Florida ORION Knights of the KKK holding signs that read Illegal Immigration Equals Terrorism.

Vinlanders Social Club (VSC) The Vinlanders Social Club, also referred to as the Vinlanders, is a large racist skinhead umbrella organization based primarily in the Midwest and Northeast. There are a few members in Florida, including Robert Smith of American Front, as well as Florida State Skinhead Jody Lee Mathis, formerly of the Confederate Hammerskins, and Tommy South, previously involved with various Klan organizations.

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