Sometimes we tend to take the Blue state for granted but we also have swamp creatures here in Connecticut, as the Trump Republicans try to bring politics to Connecticut the creatures and their slime is starting to spread.
A reputed white supremacist group is making forays into Connecticut with demonstrations and flyers
Hartford Courant
By Jesse Leavenworth
April 18, 2022
A reputed white supremacist group rooted in the Boston area has allegedly reached into Connecticut with a recent flash demonstration in Hartford and flyers distributed in East Hartford and Southington.One leaflet from the New England Nationalist Social Club declared a stand “for the security and prosperity of white New Englanders,” and on Market Street in Hartford Saturday, people representing to be group members wearing black jackets, ball caps and face masks unfurled banners that said “White Lives Matter,” “Defend New England” and “Defend White Lives.”
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But the group’s foray into Connecticut, including the diverse suburb of East Hartford, also is worrisome, she said. Flyers also were distributed in Southington last week.
And here you thought that we were exempt from the hate, but there are enclaves of hate in the northeast corner of the state. Don’t forget what happened here in 1968 when the Minutemen had a battle with the state police and the FBI, as Connecticut Explored* wrote...
Despite its remoteness, Voluntown found itself at the center of a national news story 50 years ago. The August 26, 1968, edition of the Las Vegas Sunreported: “State police maintained an armed guard yesterday at a Pacifist camp [in Voluntown]where a dozen [sic] heavily armed members of the . . . Minutemen staged a pre-dawn raid earlier this weekend. A force of 50 state police, warned by the FBI of the planned raid, arrested all six Minutemen early Saturday after a gun battle in which four Minutemen, a trooper and a woman resident of the camp were wounded.”
We think that we are safe here in the Blue state but Hartford Courant article goes on to say…
UConn sociology Professor Matthew Hughey, a specialist in hate groups, said the Nationalist Social Club’s membership is tough to tally, but likely ranges from 50 to 200. Many members split from other neo-Nazi groups after internal divisions, Hughey said.
New England is often viewed as a bastion of liberalism and socialism, but the NSC hopes to find fertile ground for an opposing ideology, or at the least a place where its message of white solidarity will resonate, Hughey said.
Don’t take our Blue state for granted Trump’s conservative PAC are setting their sights on us, they feel that a couple of Congressional seats are up for grabs and Senator Blumenthal is up for reelection this year.
*I was there back in 2007 for a three day workshop at the Volutonwn Peace Trust on facilitating meetings (You can read about here.) and you could still see the bullet holes from the battle.
When you mentioned the Voluntown Peace Trust so many memories came flooding back to me. A quaker couple who had been in the camps in Europe introduced some of us young folks who were draft age to Marjorie and Bob Swan who were doing draft counseling when the place was the Committee for Nonviolent Action. This was before the raid by the Minutemen. Ct. has always had white extremist's, thinking back to George Lincoln Rockwell whose ancestors were among those who founded South Windsor. Back in the late sixties early seventies he and his followers lead a Nazi parade through one of the Jewish resorts in Moodus Ct. a stone's throw from where I lived. So, we heard about this hate early on. I am sorry I missed out on the demonstrations against the ugly once again rearing their heads in Hartford and East Hartford. I do hope though that the new LGBT group Equality Ct. played a role in organizing and joining the group who came out against this slime? Are they even real?
ReplyDeleteIf the history and ourstories are correct we are and have been targets. But you know these new founded LGBT groups don't seem to know how to take a radical approach or they excuse themselves by their one issue stands and pay lip service and many times can't get over their own whiteness or white conditioning. And they want to make us believe they are leaders.
The big problem is that just a few of these right-wing folks can cause so real damage.
Ha... EqualityCT is "Gay Inc!"
DeleteYES! But if they needed something to kick start their movement and show they are on the ball the white supremacists in Ct. would have been the place.
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