Racist Former Student Leader Moves Into Neo-Nazism
A little over a year ago, Matthew Heimbach was annoying fellow students at Towson University with juvenile stunts like chalking 鈥淲hite Pride鈥 and 鈥淲hite Guilt is Over鈥 on sidewalks of the Maryland campus.
But in the last few months, since graduating at the end of the spring semester, Heimbach has been turning into a full-fledged neo-Nazi. No longer content with softer groups like the White Student Union that he started at Towson, Heimbach now rails about 鈥渃onniving Jews,鈥 goes on talk shows like that hosted by neo-Nazi David Duke, approvingly quotes terrorist assassin David Lane, wears a pistol when addressing a leading racist group, and calls for violent revolution.
鈥淩evolution is the only answer to our plight,鈥 Heimbach wrote in a post today on the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), an umbrella group he formed this spring with Indiana native Matthew Parrot and which now includes the White Student Union. 鈥淥ur ancestors fought against the scabs, bosses, capitalists and Jews to make a better future for their children. Now we must do the same.鈥
In the same post, Heimbach said that 鈥渢he Left has spent generations attempting to 鈥榟elp鈥 the worker by dancing to the tune of the Jewish elites.鈥 Like Christ, he said, 鈥渨e must 鈥 drive out the moneylenders and traitors in our midst.鈥
In an August post on the same site, Heimbach openly acknowledged a long-time interest in national socialism, fascism and white pride movements. He credited the Stormfront website, run by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black, as 鈥渃rucial鈥 to his own development as an activist. 鈥淸T]he time is right, and Trad Youth is here to be the vanguard of the youth movement for our folk. 鈥 While victory is a long way away and will be paved with blood, sweat, tears, and martyrs, we truly now have a chance to not only restore our race and our Tradition, but to become triumphant.鈥
Last week, Heimbach also wrote that 鈥渨e are looking to totally overturn this system. Traditionalists are willing to die for our Cause and our people.鈥 He went on: 鈥淭he total destruction of Western Christian civilization should be something to galvanize the masses against the pilfering capitalists, conniving Jews, and Third Worlders who want to swamp our nations. The people should be marching in the streets with torches and guns and a militant spirit, but 鈥 they aren鈥檛.鈥 Still, 鈥淩evolution and revival is coming comrades, we just have to keep up the pressure.鈥
Also last week, Heimbach went on the radio show hosted by David Duke, a former Klan leader and long-time neo-Nazi. Posting on Stormfront as 鈥淢arylandFalangist鈥 (a Phalangist is a fascist), Heimbach described his appearance as 鈥渁 huge honor鈥 and said it focused, in part, on 鈥渢he role of Jews in academia.鈥
Heimbach announced in May that his White Student Union, a reincarnation of another racist campus group led by him, would be merging with the TYN. After he graduated, he became executive director of the larger organization.
A month later, in June, Heimbach spoke to the Council of Conservative Citizens 鈥 a hate group that has referred to black people as a 鈥渞etrograde species of humanity鈥 鈥 with a pistol strapped to his hip. He called for secession and quoted David Lane, who died in prison while serving a 190-year sentence for the assassination of Alan Berg, a Jewish talk show host who had criticized racist groups, in 1984. He cited Lane鈥檚 14 Words, which have become a white supremacist catchphrase: 鈥淲e must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.鈥
Matt Parrott of the TYN has also been sounding more radical since taking up with Heimbach. Last week, Parrot wrote about TYN鈥檚 protest of a Bloomington, Ind., bookstore thought to be a 鈥渟toried hub of Marxist agitation,鈥 saying the shop 鈥渁ctively promotes terrorist violence.鈥 To make the point more clearly, TYN carried picket signs to the store depicting the image of a hanging lynching victim. Parrott, an Indiana resident and former head of a Council of Conservative Citizens chapter, said in his post that 鈥淭radYouth is what the radical right has been waiting for, a complete synthesis of authentic street-fighting courage and Radical Traditionalist principles.鈥 In a post about 10 days earlier, he said, 鈥淣o more sitting back and watching America fall apart. There is a storm coming!鈥
As Heimbach and Parrott head further and further to the right, it may be that the only thing remaining to be seen is if they truly adopt 鈥渟treet fighting鈥 and, like their Nazi mentors, storm into the street in order to physically attack their enemies.