Neo-Nazi Hate Fest in Emeryville Council Chambers
It was bound to happen here eventually. Trump’s America came bursting into the Emeryville City Council chambers in a co-ordinated attack Tuesday, out-of-town neo-Nazis phoning in racist public comments; calling out Jewish, gay, transgender, and Black people. The group responsible, the ‘Goyim Defense League’ is identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a Florida based hate group. All manner of hateful epithets including the ’N word’ were used by the speakers in our Council Chambers.
Five people identified themselves with fake names and four were shut down by Mayor Courtney Welch for violating Emeryville’s prohibition for public commenters using “threatening, profane or abusive language which disrupts the orderly conduct of meetings”.
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| Mug shot of former Petaluma resident neo-Nazi leader Jon Minadeo. Mayor Welch cut his mic. |
The same five people (sometimes using different names), have been calling in for public comment at city council meetings in Blue States across America including but not limited to San Francisco, Petaluma, Sonoma, Sacramento, El Cerrito, San Jose, Walnut Creek, Laguna Beach, Monterey, Saratoga, Walla Walla WA, Snoqualmie WA, Framingham MA and Norwalk CT. At the January 24th council meeting in Walla Walla, one of the speakers identifying himself as ‘Andy Zemite’ but in Emeryville went by ‘Rex Yuden’, yelled “Heil Hitler” just before his mic was cut. That speaker may have been the group’s leader, former Petaluma resident Jon Minadeo.
Goyim Defense League (GDL) is a small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs led by Minadeo who moved from Petaluma to Florida in December 2022. GDL is a parody of the anti-hate Anti-Defamation League’s name by replacing “Anti-Defamation” with “Goyim Defense” -- “Goyim” being a disparaging Yiddish and Hebrew word for non-Jews.
Minadeo was arrested in 2023 and jailed 30 days for illegally distributing racist literature in Florida.
Former Emeryville resident Marc Albert reports on the group disrupting the Petaluma council meeting: https://krcb.org/2023110793047/news-feed/petaluma-to-weigh-resuming-public-comment-following-racist-disruptions
We must stop this kind of behavior now. They constitute a huge threat to society - stop them by any means necessary.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone cares to look a little deeper, its clearer they intend to grow leeching their Trumpism all they can. Arrest them, before some gets hurt.
ReplyDeleteThe Emeryville mayor, Courtney Welch, is a part of the same hypocracy and abasement called out by racist hate hawkers. Courtney Welch, late last year, tweeting about our own magazine editor, Brian Donahue, calling him a "Fuck Boy" is the same sick, emotionally unstable, and aggregious profanity that Mayor Welch claims to protest! The mayor herself is a clear example of the profane hypocracy that seethes within our council chambers walls... Beware Emeryville residents.
ReplyDeleteGreat point! Profanity is for the government officials to use, not us.
DeleteYou are equating Welch calling Brian a F Boi on the same level as the hate speech from the callers against blacks, women and Jews? Seriously? One was unprofessional. The other were actual hate speech. Either you can’t tell the difference, which is troublesome, or you can but choose to inject false equivalence, which is more troublesome.
DeleteThe point I'm taking is Mr Anon is concerned about the government operating in a cynical manner. From an autocrat's perspective, why let a crisis go to waste? That's how they think.
DeleteCity Hall did it before: in May, the City Manager shut down virtually the entire people's building to the people because of a guy that came in with a camera. The staff got hysterical and called the police on the law abiding man but the backstory is that the City Manager used that incident to forever close our building to us. Now, because of some Trump backing neo-Nazis, as vile as they are/were, now the people are going to be forever stopped from using profanity while addressing their government. Sometimes people are angry at the public policy and profanity is appropriate. Now however, only the City Council will be allowed to use it. That's a cynical use of government power. Trump backers are everywhere in America now. They WANT the government to panic and over-react. But we're not going to do that. We're going to continue to run our government in a democratic fashion.
Read the May 21st story here: https://emeryvilletattler.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-guy-with-camera-causes-most-of-city.html
Correction: "Goyim” being a disparaging Yiddish and Hebrew word for non-Jews."
ReplyDeleteActually literally Goyim means nations and has evolved to refer to people that aren't Jewish.
Jew haters think it's disparaging in order to further their agenda but it's actually not disparaging