The California Blackshirts—a group that demonstrated with a “White Men Unite” poster bearing Nazi-affiliated symbols in San Luis Obispo—have now hurled their messaging onto residential properties in Grover Beach.
Grover Beach residents Paul and Jane Smith, who requested to have their names changed for safety concerns, found a plastic bag containing a California Blackshirts flyer on their lawn. Rocks weighed down a bag containing the words “A Call to Action” along with an Othala rune (a hate symbol) emblazoned on the flyer. Paul told New Times he noticed the plastic bag on the night of Aug. 13 when he was taking out the trash.
“They were most likely driving slowly, like newspaper boys would, and threw the baggies,” Paul said. “All the people on our street are very upset. We understand this is freedom of speech, but this is wrong.”
The flyer contained a link to the California Blackshirts’ Telegram channel, and a call to “all men and women of the European race” claiming that the “world our ancestors built is slowly collapsing.”
The Smiths aren’t the only Grover Beach residents who received a plastic bag. Others took to Facebook and Nextdoor saying they found handfuls of the same flyers in plastic bags on other lawns. According to KSEE24 reporting, similar packages were found in Hanford, Kings County, around Aug. 10. These flyers were also found in SLO soon after the group demonstrated in front of a fire station in late July.
Jane told New Times that she texted Grover Beach Mayor Karen Bright as soon as she saw the flyer. Bright told her via text that she doesn’t condone it. The Smith’s neighbor and previous Grover Beach Mayor Jeff Lee visited them the next day to express his disappointment at the flyers, according to Jane. She said she was surprised such flyers could appear in Grover Beach.
“Our town was the Venice Beach of Five Cities,” she said. “We’re the quirky ones and we even have Highway Patrolmen on one side of us.”
The Grover Beach Police Department encouraged residents to discard the flyers.
No repeat incidents have taken place in Grover Beach since, according to the Smiths.
“To me, freedom of speech is the right to assemble, but this is wrong, unsettling, and unsafe,” Paul said. “It [the flyers] has no place on your doorstep.” Δ
This article appears in Aug 17-27, 2023.
Hmmm. I also can’t decide if it means the blackshirts are “a few rocks short of a full load” or “dumb as a bag of rocks”.
No, please don’t clarify which of the two in your next public littering. SMH.
These people have an unequivocal right to say and print that hateful garbage, but they don’t have the right to throw it out the windows of a moving car. That’s the classic definition of littering and each instance can result in a hefty fine and community service. It would be nice if instead of just advising residents to throw them away, the police would gather them all, try to determine who did it with fingerprints and/or neighborhood security camera footage, then charge the perpetrator with one count of littering for each bag thrown. Thousands of dollars in fines and weeks of community service would send a very strong message that there is no place for racists on the central coast.
Find out who they are, out them to their employers, watch them get fired.
Their brains are no better than the rocks and beans in those bags. They’re treating on former European lands founded by Europeans
For most of my life, I have had to deal with and fight against the ideas, attitudes, and gross behavior of white supremacists, racists, and antisemites. Like the people mentioned in this article, I too received a baggie with this garbage. However, I am troubled by the tepid statements made in response to complaints by residents having this fetid and racist commentary deposited on their doorstep. One stated that this method wasn’t condoned; another that flyers like these have no place on one’s doorstop. Another talked of the freedom of speech, rather than commenting on the perversion of free speech represented in the flyers, and evidently by this group of clumsy and dangerous fools.
Good for them! Its about time white people stood up and took back their nation. Were tired of our nation being invaded, and people saying that everybody everybody else can collectivize except us.
Im sure nobody would be crying if Black people said that blacks should unite or if somebody was holding up a sign that said brown pride!
Youve been indoctrinated and brainwashed by the Jewi**sh media that hates us and is trying to destroy us and tells you that we cant say things like this and we cant unite with our own people.
Sit down and STFU cause we have freedom of speech just as much as you do no matter how much you dislike it!
And we already know who YOU are Billy so you can stop with your pathetic doxing attempts. Nobody cares anymore