Neo-Nazi group may plan Triad gathering

Greensboro police make safety plans

By: By Ryan Seals | GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD<br>
Published: August 16, 2009

GREENSBORO

Police are making preparations for the possibility that a meeting of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement could be in Greensboro later this month.

The NSM, a group which describes itself as "defending the rights of white people everywhere," is planning its Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting on Aug. 29, according to the group's Web site.

If it happens, it will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the November 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings at Morningside Homes, which left five people dead and 10 injured.

However, an exact location for the meeting has not been officially announced, and Greensboro police are acting on intelligence that the meeting could potentially take place there.

"This is a political-action committee that might be coming," said Capt. Janice Rogers of the Greensboro Police Department.

"(If it happens) we are going to provide enough manpower to ensure that all parties involved are guaranteed safety for them and anyone who may counterprotest."

A page dedicated to the meeting on the group's Web site indicates that the group is planning a meeting that will last from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with training and seminars.

The page states that the group's leader, Jeff Schoeop, will be in attendance along with other speakers.

A spokesman for the group did not return a message asking for comment yesterday afternoon.

The group, which is based in Detroit, was founded in 1974 and says it's open to "non-Semitic heterosexuals of European decent," and has core beliefs to "preserve European culture and heritage, strengthening family values, economic self-sufficiency and reform of illegal immigration policies."

The group also touts "immediate withdrawal of our national military from an illegal Middle Eastern occupation and promotion of white separation."

The group believes that United States' citizenship should be denied to all nonwhites, homosexuals and those of Jewish faith, according to its Web site. The Anti-Defamation League describes the group as the largest neo-Nazi faction in the United States, and states that it has affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and other neo-Nazi organizations.