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SOCAL NAZIS IN THE NEWS

January 21, 2011

Orange County Nazis Threaten To Kill Jerry Brown

by Ken Layne  

First they stole his tires and we just 'liked it on Facebook' .....Southern California Nazis or whatever have painted graffiti in the Orange County town of Santa Ana informing new (again) Governor Jerry Brown that they will kill him next month. One message says “We’re gonna kill Gov. Brown 2/14/11″ and the other says “26 more days 4 Brown” and has a swastika instead of, we guess, a period. Santa Ana police Corporal Anthony Bertagna, who is apparently mentally challenged, told local media he did not know if the messages were related in any way. (The two threats were both found yesterday in the same Orange County town, when February 14 was 26 days away, so who knows, right? One is probably referring to sending Meg Whitman a Valentine’s Day snake or something, and the other probably doesn’t even exist in our universe.)

Anyway, why do these Nazi Gangstas want to kill Jerry Brown? What did he do to the O.C. Nazi Gangstas?

Because this is a crazy country full of crazy people and Orange County is basically “Arizona on the Coast,” police are taking this super-seriously even though they have absolutely no idea if these messages are related or refer to Jerry Brown or are legally protected as Talk Radio language or what, nobody knows at all. Nobody knows anything, but we will all keep updating this story regularly until we don’t know anything later. [Fox News/Reuters]

{ 150 comments }

Come here a minute January 21, 2011 at 2:03 pm

Stealing two tires is also Nazi code for "I'm going to kill you on February 14, 2011." It may be related to the other two threats.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Maybe they're going to replace them with new ones as a Valentine's Day gift from the guv's secret admirers.

gvvt January 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm

2 / 14 / 2 0 11
2 (14/7) 2(2-2)(1+1)
2 TIRES

It's a CODE, for chrissakes.

Sophist [APPLAUSE] January 22, 2011 at 11:44 pm

Dan Brown?! What are you doing on the Wonkettes? Shouldn't you be busy writing your next terrible novel that I won't ever read?

Barbara_i January 21, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Why Valentine's Day? Is this a Hallmark card gone seriously wrong? When you care enough to send the hairy beast?

Gratuitous World January 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm

i've always contended valentine's day is the most fascist holiday.

OneDollarJuana January 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm

It's certainly the most sexist.

horsedreamer_1 January 21, 2011 at 2:59 pm

& what's the problem with that? I thought women want to be sexist.

Gleem_McShineys January 21, 2011 at 8:02 pm

It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:10 pm

Au contraire. I send far more V's day cards than I do Xmas.

bitchincamaro2 January 21, 2011 at 5:39 pm

"V" day sounds a lot dirtier than "X" day. Count me in.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:11 pm

Duh, it's also Arizona Statehood Day. They are sending a subtly-coded message, DaVinci-Code style.

deanbooth January 21, 2011 at 5:27 pm

They must be Hallmarxists!

Native_of_SL_UT January 21, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Well, I can tell you, I know this.

MissTaken January 21, 2011 at 2:07 pm

I didn't realize that Hallmark made a "Countdown To Valentine's Day Assasination" card. Love is in the air!

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:10 pm

They're on the rack alongside the Death To America Day cards.

MissTaken January 21, 2011 at 3:51 pm

I hate how commercialized Death To America Day has become. When I was a little girl we made our Nazi = Obama signs with popsicle sticks and elmer's glue in arts and crafts. Now you can just pick up a shiny, Made in China version at the Walmart. Kids these days really don't know the true meaning of the holidays.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:12 pm

Most guys just want a steak and a blowjob, but Orange County has a real crush on Brown.

Negropolis January 21, 2011 at 8:10 pm

An Orange Crush, even.

WriteyWriterton January 22, 2011 at 4:40 pm

With a Boehner.

bumfug January 21, 2011 at 2:07 pm

And in Tucson, authorities are investigating the possibility the the murders of several people in a Safeway parking lot may be related to the assassination attempt on Rep. Giffords.

PsycWench January 21, 2011 at 2:07 pm

Interesting that they chose Valentine's Day. Somebody is tired of never getting roses on 2/14 I guess.

qwerty42 January 21, 2011 at 2:34 pm

Maybe it's about Al Capone. Or Some Like it Hot.

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 4:01 pm

There is nothing worse than a NAZI who is having a sad Valentine's Day.

Rarian Rakista January 21, 2011 at 7:34 pm

How about a fat ex-girlfriend who drunk dials you on Valentine's day?

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 10:10 pm

A fat NAZI ex-girlfriend would still be worse.

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 10:41 pm

Actually, by my standards, that would be a pretty good Valentine's day.

HistoriCat January 21, 2011 at 4:38 pm

Well, if they would just stop jacking up the price of roses on Valentines' Day! It's outrageous I tell ya!

Rarian Rakista January 21, 2011 at 7:35 pm

I gave a carton of cigarettes and a ham for Valentine's day when I was dating a girl in an Oregon fishing town.

chilequiles January 21, 2011 at 7:52 pm

I'm assuming the fat ex-girlfriend was the recipient of the cigarettes and ham? She sounds lovely.

Rarian Rakista January 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm

I called her swarthy, once. She had a horse face.

slowhansolo January 21, 2011 at 2:07 pm

Hammerhead discourse, punctuated by swastikas? Marion is smiling in hell.

JoshuaNorton January 21, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Obviously, Valentine's Day is the traditional time for massacres and such.

http://www.history.com/topics/saint-valentines-da...

Name_Tag January 21, 2011 at 2:08 pm

i hate orange county nazis.

DeeJayKitteh January 21, 2011 at 2:22 pm

But I love the Real Housewives of Orange County Nazis. Such a guilty pleasure.

Bonzos_Bed_Time January 21, 2011 at 4:46 pm

I love me some Commie Girl though!

chilequiles January 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Oh wow, memories of OC Weekly…

commiegirl January 23, 2011 at 1:25 am

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU TOO.

Bonzo, you just made my fucking day.

GOPCrusher January 21, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Do they say "Heil Hitler, brah!"?

chilequiles January 21, 2011 at 7:57 pm

I still can't decide whether "brah" is more Huntington Beach or San Clemente… Probably San Clemente cause of all the jarheads.

Janinthepan January 21, 2011 at 10:09 pm

Just as much as you hate Illinois Nazis?

PsycWench January 21, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Also, the latest 9/11 commission is beginning to believe that the murder of some people in the WTC is related somehow to the murder of some other people the exact same day.

KochFembot January 21, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Allegedly!

Oblios_Cap January 21, 2011 at 2:10 pm

For what it's worth, J-Bro, don't give in an inch to fear!

Beetagger January 21, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Having grown up in OC, I can attest that it is Arizona… in a buddhist way. Shit smears of nazi stuff on walls makes me homesick.

spinozasgod January 21, 2011 at 2:11 pm

sounds like a typical OC valentines day to me. nothing says "I love you" like sweet sweet death.

Gratuitous World January 21, 2011 at 2:12 pm

it might be realted to swastikas up in sacramento that defaced pictures of israeli-born kings' small forward omar cassipi. but it would be a mistake to trade him for kwame brown. Nazis are terrible at recognizing NBA talent – for obvious reasons.

moralturpentine January 21, 2011 at 2:12 pm

Only one person is powerful enough… darling enough… brave enough to stop them! She's tough… she's dangerous… she's wide-hipped and strong-willed… she's Leroy's Mama! And as long as she's alive – the SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!

SayItWithWookies January 21, 2011 at 2:24 pm

"Adolf? Is that what that little Ricky Simpson is calling himself now?"

Monsieur_Grumpe January 21, 2011 at 2:35 pm

I love that movie.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:19 pm

Oooh, shiny. It's a "play now" option on Netflix. There goes my afternoon….

GOPCrusher January 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Troma Films rule.

SorosBot January 21, 2011 at 2:12 pm

The Breitbarters will surely find a way to twist the threats of the liberal hippie Governor of California as really being the work of a liberal.

slowhansolo January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Everyone knows no one but liberals smoke pot.

horsedreamer_1 January 21, 2011 at 3:01 pm

John Perry Barlow wants to thank you for libelling him.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Yet another false-flag operation by America's Enemies.

SorosBot January 21, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Ah yes, I had forgotten how most of the teabaggers who make violent threats or carry racist signs are really just liberals pretending to be teabaggers to make them look bad.

Oh_Crap January 22, 2011 at 12:34 am

Or sex ed being taught by unions teachers in public schools.

baconzgood January 21, 2011 at 2:13 pm

Real Skin Heads Of Orange County. I smell a new E show.

JustPixelz January 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Bravo or GTFO. Something like "Sieg Heil for the Straight Guy" .

glamourdammerung January 21, 2011 at 5:10 pm

There are a lot of closest in skinhead groups. And no space for the coats for some reason.

Though this probably explains the overlap between the teabaggers and full blown neo-Nazis.

freakishlywrong January 21, 2011 at 2:13 pm

What took them so long?

WriteyWriterton January 22, 2011 at 4:46 pm

They had to find someone who could spell "Brown."

bitchincamaro2 January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Do death threats in OC even count if they don't come via Twitter or FB?

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm

That is so excellent it made me laugh out loud. Thanks.

bitchincamaro2 January 21, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Those darn kids are calling that "LOL", but what the hell do we know??

Radiotherapy January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Time to revive the suede denim secret police?

x111e7thst January 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm

I need some nerve gas to protect myself, but I hear it's guarded day and night by caged white rabbits so..

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Great, now what is going to happen to my uncool niece?

obfuscator2 January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

it wasn't a swastika, it was a shrugging asterisk.

nounverb911 January 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm

"Asterisk Shrugged"?

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

You sir, should be a nominee for WIN of the Day!

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:15 pm

I second that motion. Also.

SudsMcKenzie January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Obviously the work of The Sons of Sunkist.

JackDempsey1 January 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm

2 unrelated messages:

“We’re gonna kill Gov. Brown 2/14/11″ = possible threat, suggest wearing kevlar vest with dinner jacket ala Mr. Bond

“26 more days 4 Brown” = typical UPS delivery snafu, totally ruining birthday surprise

nounverb911 January 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Is it too late to pray for an 8.5 earthquake? (Localized of course).

102415 January 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm

He doesn't know if the messages are related because he hasn't had a chance to ask around the station yet.

WriteyWriterton January 22, 2011 at 4:48 pm

Corporal Wigham.

102415 January 23, 2011 at 11:17 am

I'm crying. Satisfied? Who or what or why is this Corporal Wigham? Google has failed me and I need a fancy breakfast now :(
Please.

WriteyWriterton January 23, 2011 at 11:19 am

Chief Wigham from Springfield, Simpsonland, appropriately reduced in rank and re-located to CA.

102415 January 23, 2011 at 11:36 am

Oh. Never mind.

WordSaladNation January 21, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Santa Ana? Someone should investigate the Babylon sisters! Shake it!

Texan_Bulldog January 21, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Maybe Jerry should have some cops tail Meggles Whitman…just saying. I'm sure she's not bitter at all that she blew $150M of her personal money only to go down like a crack-addicted whore.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Best slam of Meg today. You, sir or madame, are genius.

738838 January 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm

Orange County Nazis. John Boehner is orange. Coincidence? I don't think so.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:17 pm

You'll need to make that connection on a chalkboard, or it isn't real.

Negropolis January 21, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Tide goes in, tide goes out…jus' sayin'.

OkieDokieDog January 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm

Leave Moonbeam alone!

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

Assault on Spaceship Earth!

MissTaken January 21, 2011 at 2:22 pm

I call bullshit on Gov Brown v3.0's Facebook status update. Are you trying to tell me he actually spelled words out completely and somewhat correctly utilized punctuation?

He obviously needz moar shoshal netwerkin edubicashan from Sarah n Grassley, foshizzle.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:24 pm

Haha! Wotta n00b

Edit–I typed zeroes, not "o"s. Not only does IntenseDebate swallow our posts for no reason, it harshes our 1337 5ki112.

EDIT to EDIT: Oh. I see. The typeface just makes numerals leetle. So those are zeroes, but no one can tell.

MissTaken January 21, 2011 at 3:53 pm

it's not the size of your zeroes that counts, but how you use them. At least that's what my ex boyfriend tried to convince me of.

Tommmcatt January 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm

It happens on both sides you guys! Liberals use death threats and swastikas to make points all the time!

Stop trying to silence Sarah Palin!

EdFlintstone January 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Ken, the OC nazis preferred to be called teaparty patriots.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm

Am I high on the lameass pain pills I take now that the good stuff was killing my liver or is this post bringing out the best snark of the day?

SorosBot January 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Here I thought that Orange Country was just home to a bunch of attractive rich teenagers who appear to be in their mid 20s and have lots of sex and relationship drama with each other.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:19 pm

Evidently there's a trailer park in paradise.

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 6:23 pm

And that prevents them from being NAZIs or Republicans how?

slithytoves January 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm

" Santa Ana police Corporal Anthony Bertagna also told the media that since the graffiti has been removed, 'there is no longer any threat.'"

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:21 pm

How fucking absurd is that statement? If I get a death threat letter all I have to do is throw it away and the threat is gone? I hope that clown is appropriately embarrassed.

DoktorZoom January 21, 2011 at 3:32 pm

Corporal Bertagna then covered his eyes, announcing, "And now, I'm an INVISIBLE POLICEMAN!!!!!!"

slithytoves January 21, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Dude, you know I made that up, right? Probably shouldn't have put quotes around it. Oops. My bad.

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 4:08 pm

There you go, spoiling the fun. I'm a dudette, btw.

Extemporanus January 21, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Well, they finally did it.

They killed his fucking car.

Oblios_Cap January 21, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Damn. That car tied the garage together.

LionelHutzEsq January 21, 2011 at 2:32 pm

But, according to Glenn Beck and J-Gold, NAZIs are liberal Socialist. And Gov. Brown is a liberal Socialist. Why would one want to harm the other…, unless, NAZIs are really of the right…, but that can't be possible, because the right is never violent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ&fe...

DustBowlBlues January 21, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Sean O'Rushbeck logic.

Bonzos_Bed_Time January 21, 2011 at 4:50 pm

Self-hate.

Terry January 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm

Have the police looked into the whereabouts of Meg Whitman's kids?

prommie January 21, 2011 at 2:57 pm

Yes, of course, they are the prime suspects whenever assholery is perpetrated anywhere, but the witness is now saying that she doesn't remember exactly what happened, she was drunk, and she can't rule out that she might have consented to the swastika painting.

edgydrifter January 21, 2011 at 2:34 pm

Give it up, Megs. Brown isn't going to leave town just because you paid some goons to spritz a few swastikas across the OC.

Lascauxcaveman January 21, 2011 at 2:36 pm

NAZIPUNKS /
NAZIPUNKS /
NAZIPUNKS /
FUCK OFF!

Monsieur_Grumpe January 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Ah the classics.

prommie January 21, 2011 at 2:52 pm

our beach, our chicks, our waves, fuck off.

CrunchyKnee January 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm

California Uber Alles

hockeymom January 21, 2011 at 2:37 pm

I've always liked San Clemente. Seems full of hippy, potheads, not Nazis.

Bonzos_Bed_Time January 21, 2011 at 4:51 pm

Marines and kept women.

Ken Layne January 21, 2011 at 5:33 pm

Not to mention "Richard Nixon's vacation/retirement house and the kind of evil old white people who would welcome Richard Nixon's vacation/retirement house."

Bonzos_Bed_Time January 21, 2011 at 5:37 pm

Now a gated community of gazillion dollar homes.

The hippy potheads never made it down that far south.

102415 January 23, 2011 at 11:21 am

See above.

Negropolis January 24, 2011 at 12:29 am

The area between Metro LA and San Diego seems like a whole other world. Beautiful, but it seems like it could be fertile ground for extremist groups if they ever wanted the place. It's like the people of CA decided that they'd ram a bulkwork of military-style conservatism up against the Mexican border to dissuade any funny ideas from across the border. lol

102415 January 23, 2011 at 11:31 am

I once spent a lovely week next door to that house in an empty Coast Guard Barracks courtesy of my dear son back in the 1980's. The best surfing beach in CA.We spent part of each morning staring towards the Nixon Compound squinting and wondering if Diane Sawyer was there thinking stuff. Then we forgot all about it.
Now, I'm old evil and white. Then, I was adorable and drove a blue $200 Pinto.

Rox1SMF January 21, 2011 at 2:43 pm

Reuters: "… Santa Ana, an affluent city…" Clearly they've never been to Santa Ana.

GregComlish January 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Did somebody forget to explain that Jerry Brown isn't that kind of Brown person???

BarackMyWorld January 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm

They wanna run that clown Jerry Brown out of town. Cuz it rhymes, see?

prommie January 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm

Stop blood-libelling the nazis. Your stomping on their constitutional freedoms, you fascists.

fuflans January 21, 2011 at 2:57 pm

i think we should stop jumping to conclusions and blaming nazis. we have NO IDEA what was actually in the graffitti artists' heads.

SudsMcKenzie January 21, 2011 at 3:15 pm

You know who else blamed the Nazis

WriteyWriterton January 22, 2011 at 4:50 pm

Elie Wiesel?

Too soon, or not soon enough?

horsedreamer_1 January 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm

They're shoving assassination down our throats!

genxr January 21, 2011 at 3:06 pm

Nazis? Damn those liberals are at it again.

glamourdammerung January 21, 2011 at 3:10 pm

Anyway, why do these Nazi Gangstas want to kill Jerry Brown? What did he do to the O.C. Nazi Gangstas?

He was not the GOP candidate and he won.

seppdecker January 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm

California's just like the rest of the country. Elect a Democrat and watch the freaks come out of the woodwork. Help us Jesus!

Sassomatic January 21, 2011 at 3:24 pm

Were there brown kids on skateboards nearby at the time? If so, it was them. Kids will be kids ya know. Specailly the brown ones.

Cat_Damon January 21, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Look, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown…

JustPixelz January 21, 2011 at 3:53 pm

Nazis hate both brown people and Brown people. Also Jews.

jim89048 January 21, 2011 at 4:22 pm

Could be some of Jane Hamster's FDL acolytes. Seemed to be plenty o' hate to go around.
And meanwhile, in the northern half of the state, 2nd-graders are gettin' down with their sexy selves.

HistoriCat January 21, 2011 at 4:45 pm

But enough about Jerry Brown. How has Sarah Palin been affected by these OC Nazi threats toward Jerry Brown?

Steverino247 January 21, 2011 at 4:46 pm

Orange Juice Libel!!!

MiniMencken January 21, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Hey, Surf Nazis! Your Orange County neighbor Orly Taitz is, like, totally Jewish. Just thought I'd put it out there.

Negropolis January 21, 2011 at 8:10 pm

It looks more aesthetically pleasing in German.

Negropolis January 21, 2011 at 8:12 pm

Meg Whitmen really needs to get some anger management classes, or up the dose, or something. This is unbecoming of a lady soon to run against and lose to DiFi.

JumpySnark January 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm

I am Governor Jerry Brown; my aura smiles and never frowns. Knock-knock at your front door – it's the suede/denim secret police. They have come for your uncool niece…

ttommyunger January 21, 2011 at 10:14 pm

Nazis world-wide are spinning in their graves in shame and disbelief; Orange County Nazis? Where do they hold their rallies, Starbucks' parking lot? What are they proposing for Jerry, a drive-by slapping? It is to larf.

OC_Surf_Serf January 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm

Back from my smoke break, whaddimiss?

Oh, shit…

Hey, it wasn't me.

Besides, c'mon Santa Ana? It must have read "26 días más 4 Brown"

Negropolis January 22, 2011 at 12:29 am

Santa Ana is 80%+ hispanic (with nearly all of them being of Mexican descent), which is even more impressive when you consider the city has nearly 400,000 people. It's like the rest of Orange County tells any hispanic that moves into the county that they have to live in Santa Ana.

transfatz January 22, 2011 at 3:14 am

Nazi Valentines day:

Stealing your tires
What a wonderful way of saying we're going to kill you
We're stealing your tires…

starfanglednut January 22, 2011 at 4:06 am

I love a thread with lots of DK lyrics.

102415 January 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Gilda Radner quote.
Decades collide.

Pointblank November 5, 2011 at 11:01 am

This happened in Santa Ana the once all American city is now a MEXICAN CITY.

I doubt very much if Anglo Americans were involved. They usually don't graffiti walls.

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