A white nationalist rally on a busy overpass near downtown London, Ont., this past Sunday has raised alarms among witnesses and experts monitoring extremist behavior.
This demonstration left a lasting impression on local resident Dave Vermue, who was driving along Horton Street when he noticed about 30 men standing at attention, masked and dressed in black, waving flags on the Wortley Road overpass.
“I thought there were Boy Scouts on top of the bridge until I passed underneath and saw what it was,” said Vermue, who recorded the event with his vehicle’s dash camera. “I immediately thought of stormtroopers from Nazi Germany.”
The group displayed a banner reading “remigration now” from that overpass, alongside the Canadian Red Ensign flag, the Ontario flag, and the flag of Second Sons Canada, a white supremacist group that claimed responsibility for organizing the event on X, previously known as Twitter.
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A screen capture from Vermue’s dash camera footage. (Submitted by Dave Vermue)
Vermue mentioned he didn’t need to know their motto to grasp what was happening and that it made him uneasy.
“I’m totally flabbergasted at their method of protest,” he stated. “They have every right to share their terrible views and be censured for it, but making a public display in uniform that resembles military propaganda [is concerning].”
Second Sons is headed by Jeremy Mac Kenzie, who also founded Diagolon, described as an “extremist militia-like organization” by the RCMP. Earlier this year, he filmed himself giving a Hitler salute in a video shared on Telegram.
This group is among several “active clubs” being monitored – white nationalists organizing combat training in preparation for what anti-hate researchers claim is an impending race war.
Groups like Second Sons often hide their faces and identifying features such as tattoos while sometimes using Nazi symbols for this purpose.
The slogan “remigration now,” brought to London by these groups is crafted to seem less extreme than it truly is, according to Hazel Woodrow. She works as the education program manager for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which examines white nationalism in Canada.
Woodrow explained it’s also more discreet than banners proclaiming “mass deportations now,” shown by Nationalist-13 – another active club that has held demonstrations and training sessions in London and St. Thomas this year.
“It’s a buttoned-up version, a repackaging of ethnic cleansing,” Woodrow said. “The forced removal of non-white individuals is what groups like Second Sons or the Dominion Society of Canada aim for.”
Woodrow and CAHN suspect that Dominion Society is linked to Second Sons as its political branch within their network.
The London Police Service acknowledged awareness of Sunday’s protest and noted that the group remained for about 30 minutes before departing without any incidents.
On X, Second Sons announced they conducted a combat training session in town before protesting. CBC London identified Westminster Ponds as their meeting location.
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The top image shows a screen capture from a video posted by Second Sons on social media. The bottom image shows a Google Earth screen capture of the same location tracked back to Westminster Ponds in London, Ont. (Second Sons/X, Google)
