Not Your Grandfather's League of the South
The League of the South (LOS) held another of its anti-immigrant rallies against 鈥淪outhern demographic displacement鈥� this past Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla. The event targeted Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for his support of 鈥淭hird World immigration鈥� and 鈥渁mnesty.鈥� Making his racist views perfectly clear, LOS head Michael Hill told a reporter, 鈥淚鈥檓 standing up for my people 鈥� white Southern people 鈥� no one else.鈥�
The Florida event was just the latest in a the group has held in places such as Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. And it seems that the ranks of protesters become more extreme every time. For the first decade and a half after its founding in 1994, the LOS was known for filling its ranks with PhDs into white Southern history. But starting with their August rally in Uvalda, Ga., it鈥檚 more often neo-Nazis and other hard core types who are showing up.
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Let鈥檚 just take a look at who joined the Tallahassee protest. On hand was Floyd Eric Meadows of Acworth, Ga., who was once in the Klan and had a picture on his Facebook page wearing an SS bolt patch and a 1488 patch. Gina Brashear of Fort Myers, Fla., who likes to 鈥渓ike鈥� pictures posted on the LOS Facebook page, was there, too. Brashear in white supremacist circles, having posted in 2008 that she has been 鈥渁 member
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Jereb鈥檚 partner in the ROF is Nicholas Jordan. He鈥檚 featured on the ROF website an urban training march. Jordan lists as friends on Facebook, anti-Semite of Paoli, Ind., and Bradley Dean Griffin of Midway, Ala., who was also at the protest and runs the racist website Occidental Dissent. Another supporter of the militia and the LOS who was at the event is Richard O鈥機ell Snider. He distributed the LOS鈥檚 Free Magnolia publication in Tallahassee and runs the secessionist Florida Fire-eater blog.
The militia appears to be close to longtime LOS Florida leader Michael Tubbs, who has an ugly criminal past of his own. In 1987, Tubbs and another Army Green Beret, toting automatic weapons fitted with silencers and dressed completely in black, robbed two fellow soldiers of their M-16 rifles during a routine exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C. 鈥淭his is for the KKK,鈥� the holdup men shouted as they fled.
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