[News] Nazis Recruiting At Sacramento Gun Show

Tue Jan 5 21:29:37 EST 2010

Nazis Recruiting At Gun Show

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/02/18634112.php
by Antifa
Saturday Jan 2nd, 2010 1:06 PM
One of the most notorious domestic hate groups in the United States 
has become active in the Sacramento area. Members of the neo-Nazi 
National Alliance are selling books and recruiting racists at the Cal 
Expo Center Gun Show this weekend, Jan 2 and 3, 2010.

The latest National Alliance Membership Bulletin has a detailed cover 
story about the Sacramento unit's recruiting activities at local gun 
shows. In the article, the unit leader, Jim Ring, brags about his 
success at signing up neo-Nazi's at these events.

Antifa has learned that this notorious hate group intends to have 
several tables at the Cal Expo Center this weekend. Jim Ring has 
claimed to local racists that the show sponsor, McMann Roadrunner, is 
"sympathetic" to the National Alliance message. McMann ignores 
complaints from customers and vendors when the NA appears at their 
shows in California and Arizona, according to Ring, who brags that 
McMann gives him a discount for his tables and allows him to promote 
and sell copies of the "Turner Diaries" at the show.

This racist novel has been the "Bible" of right-wing domestic 
terrorist groups for thirty years. Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy 
McVeigh, used the book as his "blueprint" for the OKC bombing. 
According to the ADL, McVeigh himself used to sell copies of the 
Turner Diaries at gun shows in Arizona. Fifteen years later, Jim Ring 
continues to hawk this terrorist textbook to a new crop of budding 
extremists from his tables at the Cal Expo Center.

We need to shut this group down. Research suggests the National 
Alliance is on the ropes. Any efforts Antifa can make to prevent the 
NA from recruiting extremists and selling Nazi merchandise at local 
gun shows could have a serious impact on the income and growth of the 
group. The Sacramento crew claims they are one of the last remaining 
units in the organization. Reports claim the NA has less than one 
hundred dues-paying members and there are only a few places in the US 
where the hate group is even recruiting anymore.

Sacramento has literally become "ground zero" in our fight against 
these facists.

The local unit leader, Jim Ring, 56, works nights at the Grass Valley 
Kmart. He is one of the highest-ranking members of the National 
Alliance. In fact, Ring claims he was once in line to take over the 
organization. A self-proclaimed, life-long "National Socialist," Ring 
told local members that he was offered the Alliance chairman's 
position by Shaun Walker in 2006, after Walker's arrest on federal 
civil rights charges.

Ring claims the current chairman, Erich Gliebe, seized the assets and 
property of the group and put his close friends on the NA board to 
protect himself from critics within the organization. Gliebe claims 
William Pierce picked him to run the National Alliance before he 
died. Ring claims this is a lie.

At a recent unit meeting, members said that Gliebe was running the 
Naitonal Alliance into the ground and Ring complained that Gliebe 
fails to ship him the racist books and propaganda he needs to promote 
the NA at Sacramento gun shows. Ring also complained to members that 
the chairman has failed to produce any new propaganda magazines or 
catalogs for years.

Despite these organizational intrigues, Jim Ring is a "company man" 
and will likely stay with the Alliance for the rest of his life, 
according to local unit members who know him well.

It is up to local Antifa to help Jim Ring have a change of heart.

What can we do?

A.) First, we can put pressure on local gun-show venues to ban any 
vendor that permits neo-Nazi recruitment or racist merchandise on 
their premises. The main gun show vendor in the region, McMann 
Roadrunner, has been repeatedly asked to prohibit the National 
Alliance from using their shows to recruit. The last time they were 
contacted they hung up on us. Call or write the company and express 
your outrage. We are organizing a phone bank to stress the company's 
toll free number, 866-698-6591, with complaint calls this week. 
Please do your part and ring their phones off the hook. You can also 
call or fax their main numbers or send them an email:

McMann's Roadrunner
PO Box 5969
Glendale, AZ 85312-5969
Phone: (602) 843-5303
Fax: (602) 298-7111
Toll Free: (866) 698-6591
roadrunnershows at hotmail

B.) At the same time, pressure should be applied to the venue owner, 
Cal Expo Center. They have also ignored our calls and emails. 
Encourage local businesses to boycott Cal Expo. Alert local 
independent media and affinity groups to complain to the Cal Expo 
Center Board of Directors about neo-Nazi's renting space in their facility.

California Exposition & State Fair
1600 Exposition Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95815
916/263-3000
Toll Free 877/CALEXPO
<mailto:calexpoboard at calexpo.com>calexpoboard [at] calexpo.com

Calexpo Security: 916/263-3050

C.) Visit the show this weekend and confront the racists. They will 
be there today and tomorrow. The National Alliance generally rents 
several tables along a wall at the Expo Center. There are plenty of 
photographs of the group's display tables on Stormfront, where they 
brag about the "receptive audience" they find at these shows. Photos 
can be viewed here:

<http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=624799&page=75>http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=624799&page=75 

This is a photo from the November gun show:

<http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/BerzerCo/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC00121.jpg>http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/BerzerCo/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC00121.jpg 

(Editor's Note: Could someone at Indymedia make this image appear in 
the article? HTML tags don't seem to be working. It may also be 
helpful to save the photo and download the image directly, in case 
the Nazi's remove it from Stormfront.)

The Sacramento NA unit has more than a dozen active members. Help us 
identify and contact every one of them. Here is what we have on the 
three who showed up at the last gun show at the Expo Center:

Jim Ring
13648 Lupine Court
Penn Valley, CA, 95946
(215) 477-6719

Ring's date of birth is Dec 14, 1953. He is the fat, older man with 
the sweater vest and glasses in the photo linked above. Ring claims 
he is a night manager at the Grass Valley Kmart. He complains about 
the problems the store has with "black and Mestizo shoplifters" and 
writes about Latino "border jumpers" on the National Alliance news 
site, where he is a contributor:

<http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=8955>http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=8955 

Ring also posts as "Legend" on the Resistance.com forum.

We have complained to Kmart about having a neo-Nazi in a supervisory 
roll over workers and customers of color at this store. They have 
ignored our calls and emails. Please contact the General Manager at 
the Grass Valley store and politely advise him of your intention to 
boycott his establishment:

Curt Hoisington
General Manager
K-Mart
111 West McNight Way
Grass Valley, CA 95949
530-272-9611

Lynette Sonya Avrin
AKA "Lyn" "Lynette Moore"
6632 Chastain St.
Orangeville, CA, 95662
916-218-9468

Avrin's date of birth is January 6, 1969. An active neo-Nazi for more 
than 10 years, Avrin is the brown-haired, middle-aged woman in the 
black sweater in the above photo. Going by the name "Freya14" on 
Stormfront since 2004, Avrin has made more than 16,000 posts on the 
racist forum. A major financial donor, she is listed as a "Lifetime" 
Friend of Stormfront and a Sustaining Member. Avrin, who will be 41 
this week, has posted hundreds of photographs of herself and her two 
children in the photo threads on Stormfront. Until around October 
last year, Avrin lived in Lakewood, Colorado where she reportedly 
worked at the Denver VA Hospital. Currently unemployed, Avrin says 
she is a student working on her "associates degree in psychiatry." 
She now lives with fellow National Alliance member Francis Drumm.

Francis Jeromy Drumm
AKA "Jeremy" "Richard Drumm"
6632 Chastain Drive
Orangeville, CA, 95662
916-987-2476
916-218-9468
916-996-3241

Francis Drumm goes by "Jeromy" in the local NA unit. His date of 
birth is August 10, 1971. He is also known to use the name Richard 
Drumm, according to his criminal record on file with the Sacramento 
County Superior Court. Drumm, 38, has a felony conviction for assault 
and battery and another conviction under PC 245 (A) (1). Claiming to 
be a journeyman plumber, Drumm goes by the names "BerzerCo" on line 
and uses the name "Palerider" on Stormfront. Drumm is not believed to 
be the man in the background on the right in the above photo. Drumm 
has posted dozens of photographs of himself and his wife and children 
on Stormfront. He claims he is in the middle of a divorce. Lynette 
Sonya Avrin has lived with Drumm for the past two months.

These three Nazi's, Ring, Avrin and Drumm, seem to be the main 
organizers of the local National Alliance unit's gun show outreach. 
They have been selling neo-Nazi merchandise and recruiting racists at 
gun shows in Sacramento for some time.

It is about time we made them stop.

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