Protests Planned for Controversial Convention in Herndon
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A controversial convention scheduled to begin Friday at a Herndon hotel will go on as planned despite opposition from various groups, including a protest rally planned for Saturday morning.
David Welliver, General Manager of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Herndon, told The Times that despite extreme pressure, he has no plans to cancel the event, which will take place Feb. 22-24.
The biannual New Century Foundation/American Renaissance convention is organized by Oakton resident Jared Taylor, who calls himself a “race realist” and publishes American Renaissance magazine, which he has done for nearly 20 years.
“Taylor is a Nazi pig,” Jeff Adler, spokesman for the militant group Jewish Defense Organization, told The Times in November. Upon hearing about the convention, Adler began a campaign, called Operation Nazi-Kicker, to prompt the Crowne Plaza hotel to cancel what he called the “meeting of hate.” He also said a physical protest was not out of the question.
“If [the JDO] are looking for Nazis they are barking up the wrong tree,” Taylor said in response.
The Southern Law Poverty Center, renowned for tracking and investigating hate-groups, lists Taylor on its Web site as one of “40 to watch” but says while “Taylor projects himself as a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist,” one thing that separates Taylor from the pack is “his lack of anti-Semitism.”
However, an unflattering report published by Taylor’s New Century Foundation titled “Hispanics, a statistical portrait,” caught the attention of El Pueblo Unido, a Latino empowerment organization.
The organization coordinated its own phone campaign to the Herndon hotel’s management.
“The goal is to drive the supremacists from the hotel they have prepared their conference in,” said Ricardo Cabellos in an email. “Should the phone campaign not work, we will pursue an organized protest with union friends during the event.”
A post this week on the Web site of international grassroots activist network Independent Media (indymedia.org), encourages protestors to meet in Herndon’s Chandon Park on Saturday morning to stage a protest march to the hotel.
“We will then converge at the hotel to protest, confront and disrupt the racist hate spouted by the AmRen National Conference,” it says.
“So what can we expect,” wrote Taylor on the Web site VDARE about expected protests. “Perhaps a dozen shaggy, braying throwbacks to the 1960s who will divert conference-goers and passing motorists alike with quaint slogans and eccentric attire. Nothing could be more edifying than the contrast between the detritus on the sidewalk and the crisp, good manners in the conference hall.”
Police are prepared for a little bit more. Fairfax County Police 1st Lt. Andy Hill of the Reston District station said he is familiar with American Renaissance and its conventions.
“We’ve had protests of this event in the past in Fairfax County,” he said. “There has been some history of some minor disruptions but nothing of a large magnitude.”
Nonetheless, police have developed an operational plan.
“We are going to have some extra security present,” Hill said. “Just a soft deployment in the event that the hotel management needs anything from us. We are good to go with that.”
(Posted on February 20, 2008)
Comments
I certainly hope there are layers of security plans and counter attacks, like having hidden video cameras, extra locked doors guarded by private security to prevent the “protesters” from gaining access to the main hall.
The hidden cameras should be to get mug shots for later prosecution and lawsuits for violating AR’s Civil Rights to free speech and to make into propaganda films displaying graphicly the “shaggy barbarians” contrasted with the event goers.
I hope there is a plan for the worst: what if 500 screaming whackjobs with black hoods show up and physically block the entrance to the hotel, or surround and harass participants as they struggle to walk from their cars to the room in question.
This is a Chess game, not a game of chance.
“Victories are made…not stumbled upon by luck”.
Posted by Frank Teller at 5:35 PM on February 20
So the HISPANIC EMPOWERMENT activist thinks someone else is a supremacist? Isn’t racial empowerment racism?
Posted by at 5:57 PM on February 20
Jeff Adler calls people “Nazi Pigs” yet he is the one that wants to disrupt and shut down a peaceful and perfectly legal convention by any means necessary including physical violence in an effort to squelch freedom of speech by honest law abiding American citizens. If anyone is behaving like “Nazi Pigs” and “hate mongers” it is without a doubt people like Jeff Adler and the JDO, the SPLC, and their supporters. I hope the Fairfax county Police round up all the troublemakers that try to disrupt the convention and put them where they belong “IN JAIL”. These idiots really need to look at their own “HATE” before they start bad mouthing others.
Posted by Gerry at 6:10 PM on February 20
Kudos to the management of the hotel for not caving in to the pressure from the loony left, and also to the police for at least a “soft deployment” in case of trouble. Sorry to say that I won’t be able to attend the event, but I hope there is a big crowd of AmReners there, and quite frankly, I hope they take some precautions for self-protection in case the police are afraid of hurting any of the precious little protesters.
And just in passing, how the hell does the Southern Poverty Law Center manage to get all this free, uniformly admiring publicity every time a white nationalist group is mentioned in a newspaper article? The only one I’ve heard of lately who is more adored by the mainstream media is Barack Obama.
Posted by Wayne Engle at 6:14 PM on February 20
I wouldn’t trust the police. Get a real security force.
Posted by Howard in Las Vegas at 6:22 PM on February 20
“*militant* group Jewish Defense Organization”
“Militant” Jews?
But does anyone else find it funny that these nuts “crash” white nationalist events such as the AmRen conference, yet we do not see ragged bands of white nationalists crashing “The Washington Diversity Conference”, the “Rainbow Coalition Conference”, the…
Ah, Lib hypocrisy - where’d we be without it?
Posted by Obscuratus at 6:24 PM on February 20
In the “Dilbert” comic strip, Dogbert points out that no one alive voted for the Bill of Rights. I have to wonder if it were put to a vote, would the Bill of Rights pass as is? It seems from this article the answer is a clear “no”. Freedom of speech, the press and assembly don’t seem to apply to AmRen.
Posted by at 6:27 PM on February 20
The white civil rights AR folks need to bring big posters with signs like, “Stop Black on White Racial Cleansing” and “Stop Black on White Crime By Any Means Necessary” and “Demand Affirmative Action From Blacks to Stop Oppression of White People” and “Stop the Zimbabwean Genocide of White Farmers” and “Civil Rights For All Including White People” and on and on. AR needs to start out the meeting with a protest march for their civil rights. Many white folks in the surrounding communities and across the country will shout in harmony with you.
Posted by Elrey Jones at 6:48 PM on February 20
Makes you wonder just how lazy and/or stupid the JDO is. A little research would have brought up featured Jewish speakers at AMREN conferences — Robert Weissberg, Michael Levin, Michael Hart. I even remember seeing Hasidics in the audience some years back!
They’re just an insignificant cog in the anti-racist machine.
They’d be better served fighting the documented anti-Semitism among “reconquistdores,” e.g., Nation of Aztlan.
Posted by Mike in NYC at 7:00 PM on February 20
This just brings intense light onto the resistance of white solidarity. These groups malign , marginalize and outright want to clearly eliminate any form white racial conscious. Amazing.
White man..everyone needs you and they do not want to let you go your own way. Mexicans and the JDO…groups of people who never shed an ounce blood for the in the formatioin of this country want to tell those who have how to run their lives. Its alright..we can be intellectual all we want for peaceful persuasion . but it will get ugly..and I don’t mind.
Posted by Quinn at 7:13 PM on February 20
A Latino empowerment group is mad about “Hispanics, A Statistical Portrait”? They can’t handle the truth can they?
My question is why isn’t there hordes of protestors at Black nationalist groups, Brown pride groups, etc.?
Posted by whitey at 7:17 PM on February 20
The unwashed mental cases begin their braying in ernest.
And why do they do that? Because, of course, they cannot legitimately dispute one single thing Amren espouses. Their only recourse is to throw childish temper tantrums, hysterically screaming about racism, hoping nobody checks the facts.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 7:29 PM on February 20
God I wish I could attend this convention, but it’s too far for me to afford to go. I would like to attend not only to hear the speakers and talk to other like-minded people, but to shove it in the faces of any protesters that we will not let OUR Constitutional rights be denied by their like.
Posted by Disappointed at 7:57 PM on February 20
Wonderful. isn’t it? Jared Taylor, who is white, can be called a ‘Nazi pig’ by a militant jewish organization and be vilified by hispanic and black groups at will. Jared Taylor never engaged in that type of rhetoric against minority groups. All he ever did was state a position he believed in but minority groups opposed. Now I ask you, who is the greatest risk to freedom of speech? Minority groups want to squash any type of speech they deem too white or not complimentary to non-white races. I may remind them (the minorities) that it was white men who instituted freedom of speech, a freedom the vast majority of the world does not have. It seems to me that some minority groups are trying once again to enforce third world values in first world countries. I have another solution. If you are not happy with the constitutional freedoms the white man has given you, you can always go live in some third world country that appreciates your value system.
Posted by at 8:17 PM on February 20
If Jared Taylor is wrong, why don’t any of these groups produce statistical documents showing so? Why don’t we see any studies documenting that most crime in this country is caused by Mormon teens? Why does mean Mr. Taylor always pick on blacks, and doesn’t even have the courtesy to an anti-semite? The least these groups could do is fund one study on the indolence of the Korean, or the mathematical ineptitude of the Chinese. None of these victim groups will even mention the travesty that there are no female players in the NFL. Don’t women and minorities stick together anymore?
Posted by Flamethrower at 8:20 PM on February 20
The Jews should start looking at the huge Muslims population in America. They want to kill all the Jews. How dumb can you Jews be?
The Blacks better start looking at the huge Mexican population in America. They want to displace you and take your jobs. How dumb can you Blacks be?
Imagine a HISPANIC group protesting the meeting of a white group? What nerve. Who’s the racist here? Just what does LA RAZA mean in English?
Posted by LOGIC at 8:24 PM on February 20
“Taylor projects himself as a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as white supremacist.”
Most would “describe” as white supremacist, huh? And I guess the SPLC’s (and their ilk) own projections have nothing to do with this.
I know that if a reporter wants to write a story that involves Jared it is almost mandatory that they quote something nasty an opponent of his has said about him. But would it kill one of these guys to quote something Carol Swain or some other legitimate scholar has said about him and not the crude propaganda of a pack of Marxist scam artists like the SPLC?
Posted by Rocky Marciano at 10:01 PM on February 20
I am, alas, unable to attend this year. But “In the name of our people,” I wish all the best to those making the trek to see Mr. Taylor and his guests. Don’t forget to take lots of photos — especially of the protestors.
But when next I do attend, I already have a joke prepared. The conference, as we all know, has a jacket-and-tie dress code. So I would look round at my fellow AmRenners in our nice clothes and announce, “Well, I guess the SPLC was right — we really ARE a bunch of racists in suits!”
Hoist one in the cocktail lounge for me — “In the name of our people.”
Posted by The Incredible Shrinking White Man at 10:04 PM on February 20
I wish I could attend, but alas, I am of the working class, dutifully pouring money into the tax coffers.
I do hope however that my tax money has gone for the latest in police riot control equipment, especially nightsticks.
People of lower intelligence, who seem to think that screaming slogans and name calling is a vocation, tend to get unruly.
When they do, I would like to see my tax money put to a good use.
Posted by Lucas M at 10:46 PM on February 20
I’ll be there! Can’t wait. This is going to be Christmas, the Rapture and the Super Bowl all wrapped into one!
Posted by Suburban Refugee at 11:15 PM on February 20
Maybe they could try to round up some day laborers for the march.
But, since Herndon Police are trained in ICE enforcement, I don’t think there will be a big turn out from the Hispanic population in town.
Posted by Virginian at 11:20 PM on February 20
They’re considering renaming Herndon to Hernandez because of the recent influx of hispanic immigrants.
In all seriousness, there are a ton of local hispanics in Herndon but they spend the majority of their time day-laboring. They do work very hard, but they also have turned much of Herndon into a different country entirely.
Posted by John R. Kennedy at 12:04 AM on February 21
“we will not let OUR Constitutional rights be denied”
There is no such thing as a constitutional right- there are simply rights. The expression implies that rights are gifted by the state- such “rights” would actually be permissions.
Posted by dr. poon tang at 12:22 AM on February 21
I can’t wait to go..I see that the weather is going to be bad.The peabrains will be sodden and saddened.
Posted by at 12:48 AM on February 21
Somebody should show those Jewish Defense League folks the number of Jews murdered, in the U.S. each year by White Nationalists (somewhere around zero is my guess) compared to the number of Jews murdered by antisemitic blacks (hundreds if not thousands). I wonder what their answer to that might be.
Posted by jewamongyou at 12:49 AM on February 21
I hope no one is seriously writing off the JDO with the description given in this article. They are a terrorist organization very much capable of anything.
Posted by Starr at 2:54 AM on February 21
When one doesn’t have facts or an intelligent argument to support their position the use of fear and intimidation are to be expected from irrational, emotional quackologists. The opposition’s very behavior disproves their own position and exposes it for what it is.
Posted by Robert at 7:31 AM on February 21
At this convention the word “racist” ought to be defined. It seems we white men if we accept the left’s usage we accept the fate of our genocide. I certainly hope when the word “racist” is used at the convention someone stands up and asks for a definition instead of glumly sitting in their seats and accepting the left’s catch all definition.
Posted by Simmons at 9:26 AM on February 21
What we need to realize at this point is that essentially the United States is in what I call a “totalitarianism light” as far as certain forbidden ideas. By calling into question the absolute equality of racial groups’ inherited intelligence, one is going against one of the underpinnings of the current society and government, as expressed in the famous quote used recently by Barack Obama which states “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
The reality is that the founding fathers meant this to be followed by “under God,” which obviously changes the intention and meaning of the phrase, but it was an assumption of the times back in the 18th century that all would understand that to be the meaning, not absolute equality of abilities or intellects.
But just as Communism had its verities which had to be enforced and which no one was to question, so present day society will not even consider the possibility of differing inherited abilities regarding intelligence. Even conservatives and liberals subcribe to the proposition of “No child left behnd,” for example, and educators just have to find the right “magic bullet” (or “bullets”) in order to obtain equal results for all racial groups and backgrounds which would follow from the “all men are created equal” proposition.
So while there are presently no “Gulags” in the U.S., a group of thinkers like those connected with American Renaissance are going against the party line, and so it’s logical that hoodlum-like behavior and threats will be received.
I respect and admire those of American Renaissance, and persons attending the conference, for their courage in the face of threats and intimidation to go ahead, and I hope that the local police will be able to keep things under control again.
Posted by Paul Jones at 3:31 PM on February 21
“magic bullet”
The bullet is the practical application of magical thought.
The older term was magic wand. I wonder why bullet was substituted?
Posted by magical thinker at 7:48 PM on February 21
“Somebody should show those Jewish Defense League folks the number of Jews murdered, in the U.S. each year by White Nationalists (somewhere around zero is my guess) compared to the number of Jews murdered by antisemitic blacks (hundreds if not thousands). I wonder what their answer to that might be.”
Posted by jewamongyou at 12:49 AM on February 21
Unfortunately, it is radicals like Jeff Adler, and radical organizations like the Jewish Defense Organization, who give decent Jews a bad name in race realist circles.
The JDO ought to be protesting the Nation of Islam instead. That is where you will find REAL anti-semitism.
Posted by Old Victorian at 7:52 PM on February 21
““Taylor is a Nazi pig,” Jeff Adler, spokesman for the militant group Jewish Defense Organization”
As usual, resorting to name-calling, as opposed to thoughtful, factual argument, shows these types for what they are; rabble rousers of fairly low intelligence.
Their protests show that they fear the changes we stand for, and that is a good thing.
Posted by Superman at 10:23 AM on February 22
I have never attended any of the past conventions. And unfortunately, i will not be able to attend this years convention either. But i will make it a point and purpose to attend my first one next year. I can’t wait to see the expressions on any of the potential protesters faces when i am wearing my dark, conserative and eloguent charcoal gray suit-dressed to kill-looking GQish and not white hoodish.
“They’d be better served fighting the documented anti-semitism among “reconquisdores”, e.g., nation of aztlan.”
Good point Mike. Where were these protestors, when at the time heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, (A.K.A. Cassuis Clay.) was denouncing whites and referring to us as “blue eyed devils”?
And isn’t it unbelievable, that this Ali character was eventually transformed into some sort of national hero!
Posted by Rudy at 12:18 PM on February 22
Fortunately the latest ‘New York Review of Books’ reckons Washington is decided to nuke north Pakistan — its only doubt being whether to announce the Muesli-smashing move in advance. Hopefully the strike will be accompanied by assassinating dictator Robert Mugabe; and by explaining these necessary actions to the poor American people, besotted with their loopy egalitarian constitution. Only thus, with the abandonment of multicultural pretences, will Americans regain some sanity and be able to appreciate American Renaissance. This should be Dubya’s ‘legacy,’ making up for his years of pathetic neocon worship of democracy. Jared Taylor should not fight personally, but just announce the Washington plan.
Posted by Chris Brand (Edinburgh) at 7:23 PM on February 23