By Paul Eide <p_eide@hotmail.com>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/omaharallyandpolice03sep07.shtml
September 3, 2007

Hello Ken

There was a supposed "Nazi Rally" in my hometown of Omaha Nebraska over the weekend which to me smacked more of a military tactical exercise than anything else. The following is my description of the events accompanied by several photos.

Thank you.

Paul Eide

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On Saturday, September 1st, I was awakened by the familiar yet unrelenting sound of helicopter blades swirling overhead. This sound was not unfamiliar to me as the Omaha neighborhood in which I reside is anything but crime free, but it was certainly an odd time to be "fighting crime".

Upon venturing out to grab some breakfast, I realized that every block I drove down was not only closed, but being monitored by a police cruiser and a single patrolman. Because I don't watch the news as a general rule, upon one such intersection I shouted out to a middle age lady and her friend on
the corner and asked what was up.

"The Nazis are having some type of rally. I live on this block and can't leave or else they won't let me back in."

After exchanging a few other words, my wife and I pulled off and proceeded to the next block and found the whole situation very odd, because we hadn't heard anything about it ahead of time. Every block for the next seven blocks was being monitored in a similar fashion.

Finally I stopped and yelled to a cop on a motorcycle, "What's going on here?"

He responded, "The Nazis are having a rally today until four this afternoon." To which I responded, "These must be out of town Nazis because the Nebraska game is at 2:30 and we know who will win that battle." For a moment, he dropped the facade of "Enforcer" and laughed at my joke before
his partner told us to move on.                                              

Once home, I grabbed my camera and decided to venture out for myself and absorb the energy. I walked to the end of my block, on 31st and Dodge [photo right] , and realized that Dodge was closed in both directions from 30th all the way to 34th, which was odd because after 20+ years as a resident I have never seen Dodge closed for anything but a major traffic accident. So, I proceeded west on Dodge towards 34th to see what was going on.

On the way I stopped and spoke to a patrolman who was stationed at the next intersection. After being razzed by a fellow citizen about "Them stupid Nazis" and why they were allowed to do this on Omaha's busiest street and main traffic artery, he told the citizen, "Well they applied for the permits and followed the necessary actions so there isn't anything I can do. Call the Mayor's office."

34th Street and Dodge, September 1, 2007

After the citizen walked away, I exchanged pleasantries with the patrolman and said "So if me and my organization decided to hold some type of rally on public grounds all we have to do is fill out a permit request?"

"Yes."

"And we get to decide the location or does the city dictate it? Can't the city deny a request for a potential location?"

"Well, yes but all you need is the certification and if you have questions about that, you should contact the Mayor's Office."

Dodge Street in Omaha isn't just a major traffic artery, but it is so old it is actually a Federal highway, the original highway on Omaha's history. With this knowledge in mind and considering the fact that Federal highway equals Federal property, not city or state, I asked the patrolman, "Well since Dodge is actually a Federal highway, wouldn't it have to go beyond just the Mayor's office?"

To which he surprisingly replied, "This conversation is over. You need to proceed." He got right in my face and gestured with his arm that I needed to continue walking west. I was genuinely surprised because until that moment it had been a pleasant exchange, which suddenly turned VERY confrontational.

38th Street & Dodge

The police presence in the area set a strange pall over the neighborhood. I learned along the way that the event was being billed as an "Anti Illegal Immigration Rally", which lead to some weird interactions with passersby as people tried to guess who was in support and who was against the proceedings by race alone.

But it wasn't only that. Every street I walked on I was harassed by cops about my destination in a neighborhood where this type of behavior never occurs. "Where are you going? Why? Do you live on this block?" etc. Why would I need to be asked these questions if it was just a Nazi Rally?

There was a lot of tension in the air, both literally and figuratively because there were three police helicopters on site that were occupying the air space from 40th and Dodge (and one block in both east and west directions) to 30th and Dodge covering at least 15 square city blocks continuously.

Once I actually got to where the proceedings were supposed to take place, I was alarmed by the number of policemen in full "Riot Gear," complete with gas masks, ropes, helmets and batons. None of them were friendly. You got the vibe that if one minor infraction occurred that would be easily handled by one patrolman, it would suddenly be overblown into a situation that required eight.

After I walked to an area off the main drag I looked upon the situation and took it all in. I saw at least 100 officers in full riot gear, marching in formation and realized it was finally here; it was happening in MY city, not some far off, easily dismissed place like New York or California, but Omaha, Nebraska. Facts were being misconstrued to a readily accepting public, in order for the governing bodies of this country/state to put on a full-scale tactical exhibition under the guise of an "Anti Immigration Rally". My neighborhood was being disjointed and rendered totally incapacitated in an hour or two of possession by the local authorities.

As I walked and talked to other solo picture taking citizens along the way, I learned that 13 different law enforcement agencies had combined to  monitor to the days events, something that hit me as strange for an anti immigration rally fronted by a group calling themselves the "National Socialist
Movement."

Omaha Riot Police securing shady building garage exit (above)

Omaha Police directs anti-Nazi protestor to appropriate containment pen to exercise his First Amendment rights.

The "Rally" itself was probably the least interesting part of the day. Around 25 members of the "NSM" {National Socialist Movement] stood in front of the Mexican Consulate building (which is closed on Saturday's) encaged by police barricades which restricted their movement to a 30 foot "pen" created by the barriers. Their pen was right in the middle of pens created for both the antagonists and the protagonists. The "Nazis" just took turns hurling insults in unison at the anti-rally supporters and that was about the extent of the rally.

Brown uniform Nazis (above) addressing invisible supporters in containment "pen" seen below

Nazi group exchange insults with penned anti-Nazi 'opponents'

Closeup of surging crowd of anti-Nazi opponents

Another interesting thing I noticed was a policeman standing in a "safe area" between the Nazi's and the Pro-Nazi supporters with a television news style camera on his shoulder video taping the proceedings. He wasn't recording the anti rally demonstrators at all, just the Nazi's and his own police troops as they moved into different formations like an army regiment. Was he doing this to avoid a liability lawsuit should it get out of hand? Or was he doing it like an NFL team studies game film before a game, reviewing the minutest details in preparation for a "live" game? That's what this whole thing struck me as; a type of intra squad "scrimmage" between all these different agencies to see how they would work together, like a test run.

 

What I couldn't get over or understand for a supposed "rally" was the overall tactical approach that law enforcement had assumed. There were cops everywhere, restricting both the flow of auto traffic and pedestrian traffic for blocks around the consulate, patting every one down and forcefully not allowing citizens to walk down normally public walkways. They were on horses, with dogs, cattle prods and batons.

There were also several vehicles with government license plates and tinted windows that encircled the whole 15+ block radius of the event for the duration. On two occasions I was approached by these vehicles where cops/patrolmen in plain clothes jumped out and told me to stop walking so they could search and pat me down.

Once I got home, I did some research about the "Rally" and learned an interesting detail. The man who organized the event in Omaha, 39-year-old David Gletty of Orlando, is the same man who organized a similar event through the Parramore neighborhood of Orlando, and is actually a paid FBI informant and suddenly I began to wonder about the merit of the "Rally". This new understanding shed light on the why the air was so thick with tension and explained the aggressive nature of the police force on hand which was noted by multiple bystanders I encountered along the way. It wasn't just a normal police procedure, it was something different. After having lived in large American cities previously and attending similar rally events (by choice or by circumstance), I never once encountered one so invasive and intimidating.

Even on the local news that night they questioned the necessity of the seemingly limitless amount of patrolmen and resources used to quell the "rally", in addition to the uproar about the several thousand tax dollars that were wasted on monitoring about 25 Nazi's for absolutely no reason.

The thing that struck me the most about this experience was how abruptly the plan was laid out and executed. Watching the positions the "Storm Troopers" took and the way they moved in formation looked much more like a training exercise than an attempt at maintaining order during a protest.

Another thing to consider while reading this is that Omaha is less than 20 miles from a huge military installation called the Strategic Air Command located in Bellevue, Nebraska. Built during the cold war the purpose of SAC is described as "Toward deterring aggression, the U. S. built a vast nuclear arsenal, most of it under the control of the Strategic Air Command," as stated on its website. In fact after the events of 9/11 took place the first location President Bush was ferried to from Florida was SAC located in Bellevue, Nebraska. That shows you how important that SAC is and by default Omaha becomes somewhat important as well because it is easily the biggest city for about 300 miles in any direction.

Perhaps my assertions are incorrect and far fetched, which they will be undoubtedly labeled by for at least a few people reading this, but I think events like these are seeds being sown in a very subversive manner to bring the "Police State" to fruition in the most powerful nation on the planet before reaching across the seas and enveloping others. Just the sight of seeing 100 or so "Storm Troopers" overtaking your neighborhood at their discretion is being ingrained in your subconscious mind as something "normal" or "acceptable" so when it happens again, the public will remain docile and unquestioning but on a scale far grander than individual perception alone.

 

                                                                               Omaha police pats down pedestrian (note metal detector behind)

Occurrences like this are on the rise all over this country but don't get the publicity that is necessary for the public to become informed. I wanted to do my part for the "underground" and share the situations I encountered for the benefit of anyone reading this. All the good intentions in the world
are not enough to stop the movement that is afoot. If there is any hope that our society will not be relegated to a third world communist police state in the next 15-20 years it will take individual action and a conscious focus of will to preserve even a shred of life as we now know it.

Paul Eide

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