Neo-Nazi Group Takes Message To Fla. Turnpike
Billboard Remains Despite Complaints
With a plain black lettering and big block letters, the sign
appears to mimic the style of the "Got Milk?" advertising
campaign, and reads in part: "WHO RULE$ AMERIKA?" The sign gives
the Internet address of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group
based in West Virginia.
"Obviously we don't want people associating Sumter County with
this group. I'd be a fool if I wasn't concerned," said Benny
Strickland, chairman of the Sumter County Board of Commissioners.
"But I don't think we have the power to do anything."
National Alliance billboards were removed in Old Town last April
and in Tampa in 2001 after advertising companies found out that the
group advocates an all-white, non-Jewish society.
But Jerry Sullivan, president of Micanopy-based Sunshine Outdoor
Inc. that put up the sign about 35 miles from Orlando in August,
said he had no intention of taking down the sign as long as it is
paid for.
"It's free speech. Do you know what free speech is?" he said,
adding "I don't believe in Nazis, but no, it don't bother me none.
There's no law against it."
Robbie Rogers, Sumter County's director of planning, said that
despite numerous complaints received by the county office,
advertising for a club -- even an unpopular one -- is not against the
law.
"We don't have anything in place that can deal with this," she
said
Shaun Walker, Chief Operations Officer for the National
Alliance, said the sign's purpose is: "To raise public awareness
of the political reality we live in today."
"I'm a white American and we'd like to return the reins of
control to white people," he said.
No one from the National Alliance's two Florida chapters in
Orlando or Tampa was interested in speaking to reporters, Walker
said.
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