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Tribute to Joe Tommasi

by Tom Metzger

I knew Joe Tommasi back in the early seventies. I first met him and some of his NSLF soldiers at a New Christian Crusade Church convention run by James K. Warner.

The first actual meet-up took place when a hotel elevator door slid open into the meeting hall -- and there he was -- dressed in Levis, a sweat shirt and an army fatigue jacket, plus combat boots. All of his men were dressed like 60's left wing radicals. There was one very beautiful girl in the group, and she dressed about the same. I talked to Joe for a few minutes and it was clear that he was far out front of where I was, but he was very gracious and polite as we spoke. I was wet behind the ears and pretty naive at the time.
Then, in a flash they were gone like people on a mission. Later on, Joe rolled a smoke grenade through the Hollywood theater where the film "Holocaust" was premiering. I laughed and laughed. A note on it read:

"HELLO! THIS IS A FRIENDLY GIFT FROM YOUR LOCAL NAZI PARTY!"

Leader! The theater was packed with hundreds of big shots, politicians, Hollywood Jews, etc. They poured into the streets and were not allowed back in for 2 hours. Next day the Los Angeles Times headline screamed: "Nazis Bomb Premier of Holocaust".

Not long before this, Joe Tommasi had been a uniform wearing National Socialist who pretty much went by the book, and had been NS in spirit since his early teens. Having inherited a house in El Monte, he allowed it to be used as a headquarters for the old Rockwell Party, then led by Matt Koehl. He recruited many people in the L.A. area, and deployed many marches.

Joe Tommasi was a natural leader of men, and did not really believe in going strictly by the book. He went along with some beer drinking at headquarters, and had an occasional female companion in his room. This was one of the things which led to his downfall.

Matt Koehl was an unmarried bachelor-type and, like too many National Socialists back then, was a tight-ass. Koehl wanted to run headquarters like a monastery. This didn't sit well with Joe, a working class guy who knew how to handle working class people. He was evolving through the early Brown Shirt stages into a true Freebooter, ready for NS type street action.

Then Commander Koehl sprung a trap on him. He called for a national convention in Cleveland where at one of the meetings Joe and some other officers, who also owned buildings used as party headquarters, were coerced into signing them over to the National party, meaning Matt Koehl. Not long afterward, using the excuse of Joe's El Monte headquarters hijinks, Koehl kicked him out of his own House.

Joe Tommasi then created the NATIONAL SOCIALIST LIBERATION FRONT, a 'loose cells' organization presaging The Order. They wore street clothes and surplus military jackets, much like the old left. They grew long hair, many had beards. They could move through the seas of L.A. without the slightest notice. No flags, no arm bands, no badges, no targets on their backs!

They trained in the mountains and in the deserts. They attacked Marxist book stores and left wing meetings. They 'may have' bombed some porn shops. They published a slick magazine, sporting large captioned pictures with mottos like "POLITICAL POWER STEMS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN", and filled with revolutionary tracts.

Ominously, while this was all happening, Joe fumed about the home he was swindled out of. Every few days he would drive by the old place. NSWPP Headquarters was then being run as a Hollywood caricature -- full uniforms, spit and polish.... and armed guards. One day while passing by, 19-yr-old guard Clyde Bingham flipped him the bird. Joe slammed on the breaks, got out and and headed toward him. Nearby, 18-yr-old guard Jerry Jones drew a .45 just as Bingham was holstering his. As Joe approached, the 'little fat kid', as Rose Tommasi called him, shot him in the head.

Joe Tommasi died in front of his own house!

Not long after, while running a book sales booth at the Pomona gun show, his pregnant wife Rose approached me. After giving her a big hug, she said she was going back home to live with Joe's parents, who operated an Italian restaurant in Kansas, and there have the baby. Somewhere in my archives I have a picture of the restaurant sign. Joe's boy would be in his thirties by now, but I never heard from either of them again.

David Rust was one of Joe's closest comrades. About 25 years ago I tracked him down, and he said he had a trunk full of records and pictures. I thought this should be made into a book about Joe, and he agreed. But Rust kept giving me the run-around. The book was never published.

If Joe Tommasi's ideas for revolutionary organization had spread across the nation back then we would now be in a much better position to change things. Unfortunately, like Robert Mathews after him, Joe did not have time to get it really rolling.

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