YWC Leaders Stay Active, Despite Recent Events
It鈥檚 been a few months since (YWC) president Kevin DeAnna in February from the far-right campus organization that has some with white nationalists. Since then, and since the group鈥檚 appearance at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in February, YWC has appeared to go into a hibernation of sorts, but some of its leaders continue to be active.
The YWC website has been down for 鈥渞edesign鈥� for a few months, and the extremely active Towson University chapter when its faculty adviser quit because he was concerned about some of the rhetoric the group employed. That came in the wake of YWC members chalking 鈥渨hite pride鈥� messages on campus sidewalks.
Taylor Rose, who DeAnna referred to as the national vice president when he posted that he was stepping down, (he is allegedly based in Romania) with far-right nationalist groups and parties. He has also been busy writing a book about the rise of the right in the U.S. and Europe and the re-establishment of Western civilization and values. He has promoted the book on two white nationalist websites (so far).
In May, Rose wrote a description of his forthcoming book that was posted at the white supremacist (CCC). The Council is the modern incarnation of the White Citizens Councils formed to fight desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Its website has referred to black people as 鈥渁 retrograde species of humanity鈥� and claimed that race-mixing is 鈥渞ebelliousness against God.鈥�
Rose also gave an interview to the (LOS), a neo-Confederate organization that pushes for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by 鈥淓uropean Americans鈥� and run by an 鈥淎nglo-Celtic鈥� elite. Rose discussed his book there, as well, decrying multiculturalism, internationalism, Islam, and the rise of a shadowy New World Order and global elites. But, according to Rose, the right will 鈥渢ake back鈥� Western civilization, in spite of the left and 鈥渁gents of the banking and industrialist elite.鈥� If it sounds more Patriot than YWC, that鈥檚 not unusual. Rose has .
Meanwhile, Matthew Heimbach, president of the YWC鈥檚, said in a March podcast on the Southern Nationalist Network (SNN) that the Towson chapter, in the wake of losing its official campus status, would go underground. Heimbach claimed that opposition could look forward to a 鈥済uerrilla war of activism.鈥� Whether that鈥檚 true remains to be seen, but he has continued his own activism, which included a protest against the 鈥済lobal elite,鈥� or the 鈥溾�� meetings held in May in Washington, D.C. Heimbach said in another interview with SNN that he went to the protests with members of the CCC, a member of 鈥渢he League鈥� (LOS, presumably), and people he knew from the Tea Party. Heimbach is listed as a member of LOS on SNN.
And though he also claimed in a March 21 interview with SNN that he is not a neo-Nazi and does not support that agenda, he tweeted Sunday in support of Greece鈥檚 far-right and virulently anti-immigrant party Golden Dawn, which or labels, even though the party denies those accusations. On June 17, Heimbach tweeted that he was 鈥淓agerly awaiting greek [sic] election results. Hail the Golden Dawn!鈥�
Golden Dawn may claim that it鈥檚 not neo-Nazi, but books on Aryan supremacy in its office, and its leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, on Greek television. Party detractors point out the Golden Dawn members and supporters engage in. At Golden Dawn rallies and protests, participants can be seen carrying black flags with the 鈥渨hite pride world wide鈥� symbol popular on white nationalist sites like Stormfront.org. The party ran on a virulently anti-immigrant platform, calling for placing landmines along Greek borders, while flyers and TV ads called to 鈥渞id the country of their [immigrant] stench.鈥� Golden Dawn鈥檚 history or actions don鈥檛 seem to bother Heimbach, however. Nor do its ties to violence (see , and ).
