Multiple stickers with the name and slogans of a white supremacist group were found posted around downtown Wednesday afternoon.
The group, Patriot Front, was founded by organizers of the 2017 white-supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. The group has been described by the FBI and non-governmental organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League as a Neo-Nazi and white supremacist group.
Haines resident Nick Schlosstein said he saw one sticker coming out of IGA, before finding more posted on lightposts and stop signs up and down Main Street. The stickers included slogans like the words “Not stolen, conquered,” next to the outline of the United States.
Schlosstein said he was already familiar with Patriot Front and took time to scrape off most of the stickers. “I know they’re a white supremacist organization, and it’s pretty clear from the stickers,” Schlosstein said. “I just feel like this town and this community is better than that, and I don’t want to see that on Main Street.”
In terms of official policy, interim borough manager Alekka Fullerton said anything posted on public property constitutes vandalism. “You can’t deface public property, regardless of the message,” Fullerton said.