The National Youth Front has flown under the radar until anti-immigrant posters calling for declaration of war were posted around the Tempe campus.
Angelo John Gage, a 30-year-old former Marine, is the Chairman of the National Youth Front, which describes itself as an “elite youth organization dedicated to the preservation of all white people, including their nations and cultures across the globe."
Gage said the mission of the organization is to prepare them to be tomorrow’s leaders, capable of confronting those who wish to deny them a safe future.
“Our mission is to inspire, train and educate the youth of today so they are capable of becoming the competent leaders of tomorrow and confront anyone who wishes to deny a safe future for our people,” Gage said in an email.
Before Gage joined the National Youth Front, he ran for Congress in New Jersey in 2014, under the American Freedom Party. The American Freedom Party is “a new and dynamic grassroots political organization which is dedicated to building a powerful pro-American political party to challenge the powers that be,” according to its website.
Gage was disqualified before the campaign season began because of incorrectly filed paperwork. Instead of waiting to run in the next Congressional race, he decided to take action by accepting the chairman position for National Youth Front when it was offered to him, Gage said.
The infamous posters found around ASU’s Tempe campus were posted by NYF’s previous chairman, who stepped down due to “life choices that he made which are in direct conflict with the entire purpose of NYF,” Gage said.
The posters, which depicted a large mission statement alongside a copy of the Charlie Hebdo cover included the phrase, “This is a declaration of war.”
Liban Yousuf, civil rights director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Arizona, said even though these opinions are reflected by a small minority, students should be on the lookout and report any attempted or perpetrated hate crimes.
“While it's troubling that a group like this is putting up posters with what appears to be incitements of violence against minority groups, as far as we can tell, this doesn't appear to be anything more than the actions of a tiny minority of individuals on the fringes," Yousuf said in an email.
However, Gage clarified they are not declaring war against minority groups, but freedom for themselves from the government.
“The National Youth Front is not declaring war on anyone," Gage said. “Instead, we are declaring our freedom from this oppressive, anti-white, globalist government that has been slowly subverting our country since the 1960’s and has been actively destroying all of Western Civilization since (World War I).”
Gage said although he believes every legal citizen has the right to live and thrive in the United States, this country was founded by a majority of white people, who have shared their country with only a small minority of non-whites until recently.
“What most people fail to realize is that if you change the racial demographics of a nation, whether through legal or illegal immigration, everything else changes with it,” Gage said. “When white people become a minority in the United States, everything from our culture to our language, holidays, social mores, and values will change. Essentially this means that Western Civilization as we know it in America will cease to exist.”
As an example, Gage illustrated a scenario that depicted hundreds of millions of “white” people immigrating to China, causing the Chinese to lose their culture and identity.
“This scenario is exactly what has been happening over the last several decades since the globalist usurpers passed laws that totally altered America’s immigration policies which ended up drastically altering the demographics of this country,” Gage said. “The white population today is around 60 percent, which amounts to a 30 percent decrease in only 50 years! This isn’t just happening in America, but in all countries that were founded by white people around the world.“
Although the organization has a strong opinion and view on the way the country is governed, Gage insisted he and the organization are not a threat to others.
“We are not a threat to anyone outside of our organization,” Gage said. “We have a live-and-let-live policy now that I am running the NYF and this, I believe, is the answer to America’s racial tensions and another social issues (sic). All we are saying is let people form their own communities, whether mixed or homogenous, stay out of their business, and go on with your own."
Geology sophomore Srinidhi Ravi said she has noticed a rise in public extremist groups since moving here from Dubai.
"There are no extremist groups in Dubai," Ravi said. "There is always some sort of commotion on this side of campus where extremist groups preach whatever they are preaching. A lot of people get annoyed because they enforce their values instead of just stopping them."
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