Portrayal inaccurate
Mr. Jeremy Baumhower,
In the March 8 Toledo Free Press, you wrote about “The day the Nazis won.”
In your column, you attempt to demonize the National Socialist Movement (NSM) by calling us “Nazis” and “people who hate.” These types of unflattering portrayals have been so often inaccurately bandied about that their inflammatory use is almost laughable. However, you do make one grave mistake.
While April 19 (the day after our rally) also celebrates “419 Day,” you make a false comparison to the events of 2005. This was not the day of violence “inspired by a group of people who only hate.” More correctly, this was the day that communists and anarchists motivated the black citizens of Toledo to rise against their own community in hate.
You write that, “We in the media choose whether to make hate groups coming to Toledo a news story.” Fine. However, if you chose to consciously ignore the underground motivations that engulfed your own community, which was anarchist and communist-inspired looting and rioting, you are obviously missing the whole point. The “Nazis” did not win that day — it was the communists and the anarchists who inspired the hate, destruction and violence. There is no winner when communist-inspired rioting brings destruction upon any city.
Again, ignoring this part of the story stops people from analyzing the negative contributions made by communists and anarchists in your own town.
Instead of stooping to their level (and denigrating the journalistic trade) by vulgarly calling us “the lowest pieces of s*** this country has ever known?” why not make some meaningful exploration into the underlying historic issues and present concerns?
It is not the NSM, or any other prowhite movement for that matter, that your town has to fear. It is those who want to ruin a peaceful way of life.
The greatest love a journalist can show is to bring out the truth in issues he feels are somewhat discomforting.
Furthermore, we in the NSM are often misrepresented by the mainstream press, as you so eloquently demonstrated. I wonder what it is about a white civil rights organization that you find to be so hateful?
The NSM is made up of countless men and women who have served this nation in the military, as well as others who work in public service and many other professions. Stereotyping an entire group of people is true hate, and it’s wrong. It would be like us saying every black person in Toledo is a rioter and criminal; that is certainly not true and we do not stereotype in such a manner. The NSM is highly active on the U.S. borders, and abide by an America First platform. If standing up for white civil rights, defending our nation’s borders, and taking a nationalist, America First political stand is considered low and hateful, then so be it.
I doubt this letter will see the light of day, or be published as a rebuttal to your hate-filled diatribe against the NSM in the Toledo Free Press, as I am quite certain the media would love to continue demonizing the NSM.
Anyone who is interested in our political platforms should simply check out our website at www.nsm88.org. We have a lot more support in Toledo than I think you realize.
Respectfully submitted,
— Cmdr. Jeff Schoep
National Socialist Movement
