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riversedge

(69,721 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:31 PM Aug 2017

Vanguard America, group Charlottesville driver James Fields Jr. marched with, has increasingly becom

Source: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


Full title--as some got cut off:
Vanguard America, group Charlottesville driver James Fields Jr. marched with, has increasingly become a neo-Nazi voice


Sunday, August 13, 2017, 11:21 AM

The hate group crazed driver James Fields Jr. marched with before he mowed down a group of counter-protesters, killing one of them, has become a prominent neo-Nazi voice in the white nationalist movement, according to its opponents.

"They've definitely quickly become one of the premier organizations when it comes to the street demonstrations in the alt-right," Keegan Hankes, a research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), told the Daily News.

Vanguard America was one of several hate groups that swarmed upon Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday for the coming together of white nationalists.

Violence erupted in the Virginia town Saturday and only got worse when Fields sped his grey Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people — killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
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Hours earlier, the Daily News photographed Fields carrying a shield emblazoned with the Vanguard America logo and wearing its uniform: khaki pants and a white polo.......................

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vanguard-america-increasingly-neo-nazi-voice-article-1.3408117



Ok--I finally put this together. these are the men in the hate rally dressed like Trump on the golf course!!




http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3408116.1502637415!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/vanguard14n-1-web.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vanguard-america-increasingly-neo-nazi-voice-article-1.3408117














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Vanguard America, group Charlottesville driver James Fields Jr. marched with, has increasingly becom (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
Fields Wields Shield Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #1
I noticed it was upside down. What a loser. yardwork Aug 2017 #2
Anti rolling pin? ChubbyStar Aug 2017 #5
They *do* look like rolling pins. Fucking losers. SMC22307 Aug 2017 #6
I think I know who's running that. ETA: Kevin Alfred Strom. That's his name. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 #3
Interesting because Revilo P. Oliver LiberalArkie Aug 2017 #4
Six generations of that palindromic name??? Cadfael Aug 2017 #10
Someone pointed out in another thread they look like Blackwater attire... SMC22307 Aug 2017 #7
I thought about their polos and Khakis too and realized yorkie77 Aug 2017 #8
These a-holes have not only ruined The Red Wings logo and tiki torches FrodosNewPet Aug 2017 #9

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
6. They *do* look like rolling pins. Fucking losers.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 03:13 AM
Aug 2017

I may have been online too long today but think those are called "fasces"? (Can't keep all the citronella man-boys, flags, symbolism, etc., straight!)

fas·ces,

/ˈfasēz/

noun
historical

plural noun: fasces; noun: fascis

(in ancient Rome) a bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade, carried by a lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power, and used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy.


mahatmakanejeeves

(56,892 posts)
3. I think I know who's running that. ETA: Kevin Alfred Strom. That's his name.
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:56 PM
Aug 2017

He used to post in the shortwave radio forum at Usenet about 10 - 15 years ago. He lives up in Stanardsville, which is the county seat of Greene County. Give me some time to think of his name.

There was a regular poster at his website who used the name Oliver P. Revilo. Google that, and you'll find this guy.

Kevin Alfred Strom. That's his name.

Maybe not. He ran an outfit called National Vanguard. He's been mentioned at DU a few times. Here's one:

Neo-Nazi Leader Arrested for Child Pornography

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
4. Interesting because Revilo P. Oliver
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 10:06 PM
Aug 2017

Oliver left Washington, D.C. in 1945. He returned to the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor, became an Associate Professor in 1947, and Professor in 1953.[citation needed] He published little in the academic press but later became known for politically conservative articles expressing anti-Semitism and white supremacy.

In November 1955, William F. Buckley, a graduate of Yale, founded the National Review, a magazine to express a conservative viewpoint.[6][dead link] He worked to increase its respectability, prohibiting publication by anti-Semites or extremists such as Oliver.

In 1958, Oliver joined Robert W. Welch, Jr. as one of the founding members of the conservative, anti-Communist John Birch Society.[citation needed] Oliver wrote frequently for the Birch Society magazine American Opinion. In 1962 Buckley repudiated Welch and the "Birchers", saying they were "far removed from common sense" and urging the G.O.P. to purge itself of Welch's influence.[7]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revilo_P._Oliver

yorkie77

(87 posts)
8. I thought about their polos and Khakis too and realized
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 08:11 AM
Aug 2017

They are trying to "normalize" their appearance. I doubt they dress like this on a daily basis, but they are trying to look like Trump or members of country clubs. It's very much like when there's a wild-looking person going on trial, the defense attorneys try to make the person look much less dangerous: new hair-cut or style, button down shirt, glasses, etc.

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