After a spate of hate-graffiti last spring, a couple more spray-painted swastikas showed up in Aberdeen last week. Local sandblaster Randy Metzinger removed the Nazi vandalism from Aberdeen Roncalli’s brick wall over the weekend for half-price:
“It had to come down,” Metzinger said. “What was on there should be offensive to everybody. … It has no place anywhere.”
The graffiti included swastikas and rude language. School officials found the graffiti Nov. 25, said Jeff Simmons, president of the Aberdeen Catholic School System.
…The final bill for the cleaning was $300, Simmons said. But as a donation to the school, Metzinger cut that in half.
“My 8-year-old asked ‘Why does somebody do that?'” Metzinger said. “So it’s hard to answer. You can’t put yourself in their shoes and come up with a good reason, at least I can’t” [Katherine Grandstrand, “Roncalli Graffiti Removed During Weekend,” Aberdeen American News, 2017.12.05].
Other local Nazis are finding a place for their offensive message at the Aberdeen AmericInn. Aberdeen’s crypto-Klan club is promoting another hate rally Thursday, December 7, 7 p.m., featuring Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group founded by John Tanton, a racist whose stated goal is to preserve American culture by maintaining “a European-American majority.” Tully’s Federation opposes DACA, supports the Trump wall, and accepted over a million dollars from a pro-eugencis group in the 1980s and 1990s.
Right in line with the fact-free Islamophobic strain of Aberdeen’s anti-immigration slideshows, Tully herself has claimed that Muslims are “promoting colonization of their own religion, of their own culture in towns and taking them over.”
While the AmericInn probably won’t allow sandblasters on the premises Thursday, Aberdeen HS Democrats are organizing an appropriate response to this hate rally.
Seriously, what is the point of these tools dressing up and pretending to be bad guys? Is it fear and/or intimidation? Those are federal crimes if I remember right. Time to put the little fantasies to bed and get on with your hateful lives.
I guess those Aberdeen Germans are proud of their Nazi heritage.
“Aberdeen HS Democrats are organizing an appropriate response to this hate rally.”
What about Aberdeen HS Republicans?
Strangely silent, Debbo.
Aberdeen seems to becoming a place of less and less liberalism these days. Nazis running meetings in the town, rallies at local watering holes, Mr. Novstrup strangely silent on his efforts to smite these bad people, and now I have heard even the police in Aberdeen are adding a gun turret to their military surplus attack truck, which is bullet and bomb proof. What on earth will Aberdeenites think when the cops, like Mr. Kaiser in the legislatures, are storming down the road with a new turret on top? You’d think Aberdeen has metamorphosed into Belle Fourche or something.
Grudz, with last year’s election, one might think that of many places in America.
Indeed, Mr. H. Have you seen this new tank-like vehicle being driven by your local police? When I saw a picture I feared for bicyclists and pedestrians alike. Heck, there are many a car this thing could just mow right over. It was Mr. Jackley who gave them the money to buy this and really turn it into a fearsome vehicle. I imagine Mr. Kaiser behind the wheel, giving Mr. Novstrup as a local celebrity and politician free rides about town, and it scares me just a tinge.
I’m sorry, Grudz, did you want to talk about the issue, or did you just want to play word games and drive us down some tangential path with your own armored verbal assault truck?
Nazis are bad. The adults inviting out-of-state racists to speak in Aberdeen are a greater threat to our community than the young punks doodling on buildings… but our new $54K turret from the A.G. doesn’t seem to be deterring either.