People are distributing fliers, some pasted on yard signs, promoting a neo-Nazi group.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Megan Burger saw them, two people attaching fliers to yard signs in her north Everett neighborhood. In essence, she saw them plaster a message of hate over expressions of love.

You’ve seen those yard signs. With three colors and in three languages — English, Spanish and Arabic — they say “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.”

Out walking last weekend in the Wetmore Avenue and 10th Street area, near Everett Community College, Burger and her husband, Matt, saw two “adult-sized individuals” put a flier on a yard sign.

The flier said “Will Your Speech Be Hate Speech?” At first glance, “it didn’t seem that bad — but then we looked it up,” Burger said Tuesday. The bottom of the flier credits its message to Patriot Front, and its website bloodandsoil.org.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch effort, Patriot Front was created by Texas-based neo-Nazis as “a blend of traditional white-supremacist ideology, alt-right sensibilities and activism, and militia-style armed insurrection.” Patriot Front arose after a split within its original organization, Vanguard America.

“Blood and soil” reflects a philosophy from Nazi Germany, “Blut und Boden,” dating to the 1930s. It was chanted by torch-carrying white nationalists who marched last year at the University of Virginia, and at a “Unite the Right” rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In a post on the Nextdoor website, Burger wrote that she and her husband didn’t get a good look at the pair. It was getting dark, and they ran off when spotted, she said.

The couple, who posted pictures of the defaced signs on Nextdoor, saw more Patriot Front fliers on the EvCC campus. Saying “Keep America American,” those fliers were on a sandwich-board sign advertising a Ramadan event. On Monday, EvCC’s Muslim Student Association hosted the Ramadan event in the Henry M. Jackson Conference Center.

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[lunasun]

1. a blend of traditional white-supremacist ideology, alt-right sensibilities and activism, and

militia-style armed insurrection.”

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for visibility...

We need to keep eyes on these groups. I hope this included shout-outs to the SPLC. They're kind of the clearing house for hate group visibility.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. If they were walking into peoples' yards

and posting their flyers over existing signs, they were trespassing. And they damn well knew it.

We have got to stay awake and call out these racists wherever we encounter them. These people are damaging our nation every day with their hate. Do not let them divide us. We have always been stronger when we stand together and it's time we all started taking our civic responsibility to defend our neighborhoods seriously. If you see these people, call them out, take their pictures and post them everywhere. When they realize that we are not going to simply stand idly by and allow them to destroy this country, we will defeat them.