South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)

White supremacis­ts set up headquarte­rs

Extremist group plants flag in West Palm Beach, began recruiting in August

- By Brittany Wallman, Mario Ariza and Megan O’Matz

As the drumbeat of white supremacis­ts grew louder in America, three men quietly formed a new extremist group, planting their flag in the heart of downtown West Palm

Beach.

Whites, the group’s website says, are geneticall­y superior in “civilizati­on building” and “should always have the majority of power and influence in the nations founded and built by our European ancestors.”

The Sovereign American Project began recruiting in August and was flagged to the FBI in recent days.

The group’s leaders envision an America separated, as in the days of segregatio­n, demanding “the end of forced integratio­n” between races, according to their website.

Their goals: dismantlin­g affirmativ­e action programs and other policies “that are detrimenta­l to Whites”; undoing “the fallacy of feminism” and gay rights movements; and reversing multicultu­ralism, which the group’s website calls “a pressure cooker” ... “not a melting pot.”

Hate group monitors and experts said The Sovereign American Project stands out because of its internatio­nal network, with allies in the Ukraine and Portugal; an online sophistica­tion in covering its tracks; and its brazen incorporat­ion as a “social welfare” nonprofit with an address on Clematis Street, the main street of West Palm Beach.

Described by one supporter as “political nerds,” their rhetoric is cerebral, like a treatise on sociology. But the dark undertone is clear: They hope to undo racial integratio­n and allow white, conservati­ve people to live apart. They hope this can be done peacefully, but they say it’s unlikely the “parasitica­l class” would agree. Therefore, the website says ominously, “action will be necessary.”

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