Given this complex web of ideologies, most of today’s radicals are linked by pro-patriot beliefs that are mainly defined by the Tea Party movement and right-wing extremism, which makes it easy for people to foster their racism openly to others. They are even bold and brazen enough to run for political office.
In Riverside, Calif., political novice Jeff Hall (pictured) has thrown his hat into the race for the Riverside County water board. Although this may be a minor and obscure position, it still is a political office, and though he has to date run a low level campaign in an attempt to unseat the incumbent, Hall is a well-known white supremacist.
Hall is the California director of the nation’s biggest white supremacist group — the National Socialist Movement. In this capacity, Hall has directed and lead demonstrations in Riverside and Los Angeles. At these events, he and his supporters openly carried and waved swastika flags, chanted “white power” and walked with the ubiquitous stiff-armed Nazi salute.
As such, it is not surprising that his political ambitions have attracted a large level of disdain from community groups. After all what immigrant or Jew or other ethnic racial group would want a neo-Nazi controlling their water? The 31-year-old Hall, who is a plumber by trade, stated in a recent interview that he believed that all non-whites should be deported and reiterated his desire for “a white nation.” He is even on record for refusing an invitation to a candidate’s forum because it was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and a Latino community group.
Another racist, Dan Schruender, a member of the Aryan Nations, is also running for political office in Rialto, Calif,, where he is seeking a seat on the city’s school board. –torrance stephens, ph.d.
