Stephen J. Ross

The real problem in Los Angeles is not the Nazis.

It's all those commies who live in Boyle Heights, basically saying all the Jews were communists, all the communists were Jews.

And when they went to the FBI—

And brought the evidence.

The FBI said we're sympathetic but there's nothing we can do until J. Edgar Hoover approves surveillance.

And Hoover refused surveillance because he said none of the Nazis had broken laws.

And so Jews around the country very quickly begin to realize that no one was going to come to their aid.

And so it was up to Jews.

It was up to blacks.

It was up to minorities to protect themselves.

They could not rely on government officials to do the basic job of any government, which is to protect the lives of its citizens.

They didn't get very far until 2016 is what I would argue.

That part of the problem was what I call the too many Führer problem, which is all these hate group leaders from 1945 on were talking about the need for a fascist coalition.

And we have to have a united fascist front.

That's the only way we can confront the two major parties because the two major parties were corrupt.

They also believed that groups like the John Birch Society were way too liberal and that they needed hardcore fascists in government and they needed a third party of fascists.

And they could never quite get that because they were too divided.

Well, the group they were reporting on was called the Columbians, and they were led by a southerner, Emery Burke, who liked to affect a British accent, and Homer Loomis Jr.,

who liked to pretend he was a southerner, even though he was part of an elite New York family that had lost a lot of its money and believed that much of the money it had lost was due to Jews.

And they managed to recruit a great deal of the Klan members