Soldiers of Odin Outnumbered in Nanaimo

Yesterday the Soldiers of Odin acted as "security" in an effort to intimidate homeless people living in Discontent City in Nanaimo:

Please be careful #Nanaimo friends. The Soldiers of Odin is a Neo-Nazi group. This isn’t about the issue they’re saying it is about, not fully, this is a recruitment. Do not align yourselves with this group regardless of your opinions about tent city/homelessness/addiction pic.twitter.com/IyWKUA9VEN

— William Gill (@william_keith35) August 1, 2018

There was tension today in Nanaimo as the Soldiers of Odin marched to the city's homeless camp and were met by a much larger group that opposes their views. We will have this story and more Vancouver Island news live at 5 p.m. on our website:https://t.co/BnpOYPU2oo pic.twitter.com/ZRY2ZWRTmz

— CHEK News (@CHEK_News) August 6, 2018

Good afternoon from Port Drive in #Nanaimo where members and supporters of Discontent City are gathering for a counter rally against a planned march by Soldiers of Odin. pic.twitter.com/XFGx2x35nA

— Nicholas M Pescod (@npescod) August 5, 2018

BREAKING: The Soldiers of Odin have arrived at Discontent City in #Nanaimo pic.twitter.com/nibRbvcZIo

— Nicholas M Pescod (@npescod) August 5, 2018

Suffice it to say, they were vastly outnumbered:

Nanaimo, BC community came out to protect & send off Soldiers of Odin and their anti-poor co-conspirators from Discontent City, an encampment of people without homes in the Vancouver Island city https://t.co/6IFERXa7wY pic.twitter.com/y1ahnTZ2Ki

— CommunistPartyCanada (@compartycanada) August 6, 2018

PHOTOS: Here are a couple quick pictures I took from today's rally/march at #DiscontentCity in #Nanaimo involving the Soldiers of Odin. pic.twitter.com/q5eJkoxwDJ

— Nicholas M Pescod (@npescod) August 5, 2018

Sad and terrifying that the Soldiers of Odin is marching on a homeless camp in Nanaimo today; but it raises my spirits to see this many people literally blocking the path between this hatred and the residents of DisconTent City. We need more of this solidarity. ✊✊✊ https://t.co/AWwIxuO6J5

— Anna Cooper (@CooperAnna) August 5, 2018

A tense scene now outside Discontent City. An RCMP officer estimates around 1,000 people there, a mix of supporters/opponents/bystanders. Soldiers of Odin now on scene. Both sides blocking the street, chanting face-to-face #Nanaimo @JulieHChadwick pic.twitter.com/JN1cEPZ6fa

— NanaimoNewsNOW.com (@NanaimoNewsNOW) August 5, 2018

Now there's an effort to figure out the names of the SoO members who participated in this march; though the chapter president refused to provide his name, it is known:

created by a fellow village radical. Though not 100% that they're Victoria BC based.. they apparently have meetings there and Langford.

regarding white supremacist group Soldiers Of Odin, Vancouver island chapter. pic.twitter.com/hRWvtaDmKG

— ⛰The Village Radicals⛰ (@MrBranches_) August 6, 2018

Watching. But not spellchecking. Conrad Peach is the leader of the Nanaimo Soldiers of Odin chapter. #DiscontentCity #nanaimo #nazis #PunchANazi #soldiersofodinnanaimo #vanisle pic.twitter.com/WwhNvYlSUQ

— Meagan Carver (@enthusiaccident) August 5, 2018

Conrad Peach

And like former BC chapter president and short-lived Canadian SoO leader Bill Daniels, it also appears that Peachie has a bit of a criminal history which, given the accusations leveled at those living in the tent city by members of the SoO, I find to be interesting:

Did I write "interesting"?

I meant to write patently hypocritical.