Suppose a Neo-Nazi compound opened up down the road from you?

We once lived in a neighborhood surrounded by lots of people with Nazi ideas. They were not a "compound," but they might as well have been.
Their kids amused themselved by drawing swastikas on people's driveways and writing racist insults. Anti-Black and antisemitic. Probably anti anyone else who was not a White Christian (by their definition). We stayed there for two years and then sold our house and moved to a civilized neighbofhood.
 

I think one is free to fly a flag with a swastika on it, or a hammer and sickle. I frankly don't care how one displays his or her ignorance. I do care about peoples' actions, and neo-Nazis tend to "act out."
 
Trade said:
Lol! I live in Alabama. The whole damn state is pretty much a Neo-Nazi compound.
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That’s a pretty unfair and sweeping generalization. Like every state, Alabama has a mix of people with diverse beliefs, backgrounds, and values. Yes, there are extremist groups here (as there are in many states and mostly here in Walker county maybe, used to be anyway), but the vast majority of Alabamians are just regular people trying to live their lives, raise their families, and contribute to their communities.

Throwing out labels like “Neo-Nazi compound” doesn’t help foster understanding or meaningful conversation, it just spreads more division. If we really want progress, we should be calling out hate where it exists, not painting an entire state with the same brush.
 

Marcy Sheiner said:
What is so interesting to me is that. about 10 minutes ago I read a book review about a posh hotel in the U.S. that housed captured Nazis during WWII. According to the review, this actually happened.
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"The Listeners"? It's based on a true story and is about a hotel in West Virginia that the government kept Nazi diplomats at. I picked that up from the library last week and haven't started it yet. It looks interesting.
 
Some people will do anything to cause a disturbance.
Back in southern Ohio where the KKK still has a very small chapter, there was a man that lived in a house that looked more like a shack and he flew the German Nazi flag everyday. I don’t know if he still does to this day or not. He was not a nice person and I made sure to avoid him at all costs. As a little boy, he would scare the B-Jesus out of me. I never saw him talk to anyone.

Every now and then, he would go away for a few hours. Dad would tell Mom, he’s probably going to a Klan or Nazi meeting. Dad told me that the FBI kept an eye on him.
 
In the US, just being a Neo-Nazi is not against the law. In fact, The US Constitution guarantees your right to have all kinds of political theories and beliefs, as long as you don't advocate overturning the government by force. So, yes, they had a swastika flag, flying in their compound. I heard they had problems with their neighbors and moved out.(?)
( BTW, today, the place is a summer nudist camp. If you watch the races at Pocono Race Track, when they have a drone shot of the track, there's a pond-that's the nudist camp.)
 
TabbyAnn said:
Is the Neo-Nazi ideology any worse toward women, Jews, and Americans than the Islam ideology? We have a mosque in every city.
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yes, far far worse

most Muslim people are like most christian, jewish, hindu, atheist etc people and do not have anything like Neo Nazi philosophy.

Mosques are fine - as are churches, synagogues, temples etc. We have them in every city too.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
In the US, just being a Neo-Nazi is not against the law. In fact, The US Constitution guarantees your right to have all kinds of political theories and beliefs, as long as you don't advocate overturning the government by force. So, yes, they had a swastika flag, flying in their compound. I heard they had problems with their neighbors and moved out.(?)
( BTW, today, the place is a summer nudist camp. If you watch the races at Pocono Race Track, when they have a drone shot of the track, there's a pond-that's the nudist camp.)
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I remember that place. I received a call of a disturbance there back in about 2006. It ended up being a camper on a pickup truck rolled into some parked cars. I don’t remember all the details, but they didn’t need us there. I told the manager of the park to call a tow truck to unscramble the cars and the pickup camper and have the owners contact their insurance company. There was no need for a police presence.

Just curious, is it still in business?
 
Hate proliferates with ignorance. Many times in the history of our country ignorance has been used to weaponize one group against another. This is how you get a people to go to war. Tell your people that the other group is worth hating and they have robbed you and yours of something and you have the fertile field to plow for whatever means. Think about the Muslim comment. When I was in college back in the 70’s I was taught that the Muslim religion was the third largest in the world. No angst at that time…but now that group has been painted with a very dark brush.
 
911 said:
I remember that place. I received a call of a disturbance there back in about 2006. It ended up being a camper on a pickup truck rolled into some parked cars. I don’t remember all the details, but they didn’t need us there. I told the manager of the park to call a tow truck to unscramble the cars and the pickup camper and have the owners contact their insurance company. There was no need for a police presence.

Just curious, is it still in business?
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I'm not sure. for a while, it was a gay nudist camp.
 
When one side, calling the other Nazi's, are the one's that spew anti Jewish hate and incite violence against Jews, I have to think that side is the one that believes in Nazi ideology. Their actions certainly indicate that is true.

Concerning the OP question, I would want to know if the compound posed any danger to my neighborhood. If they didn't impose on others rights, then no problem for me. If I was to meet their leader and he didn't see me as an equal human, then my question would be, "If you are bleeding to death and I am the only one that can save your life, do you want me to save it or walk on by because I am not of blood that you find equal?"

The ideology of these groups is not always "extreme right wing," in fact most times it is the same as the "radical left." When we are more concerned about some militia group that has no power to do anything, and can be taken out fast by the FBI and other agencies, more concerned about them than the violent rioters that damage property, burn the USA flag, fly flags of other countries over ours, murder in the name of social justice, and yell anti American hate, then I can clearly see who subscribes to Nazi ideology. What part of "death to America," is confusing?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When I moved to N. E. Pa. there Neo-Naxi compound down the road. The swastika flag was flying over this fenced in courtyard with a guard shack. I heard the Nazis didn't have very friendly neighbors, which caused them to move. The recent shooting of firemen in Idaho was near a large Neo-Nazi compound, which may or may not have anything to do with the shooting. But that does bring up the question-suppose a Neo-Nazi compound opened up down the road from you? Or is there a compound near you?
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Easy - I would never move to such a place. I'd also question the entire area.
 

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