Maine Community Battling Neo-Nazi ‘Blood Tribe’ Scooping Up Real Estate

A small community in northern Maine is taking on a gang of neo-Nazis who call themselves the "Blood Tribe" and are working feverishly to set up a white supremacist headquarters in the village.

Members, led by extremist former Marine Christopher "The Hammer" Pohlhaus, on Saturday, joined other neo-Nazi groups in greater Orlando, Florida, to salute Hitler and spew virulently racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ slurs, said local police.

"This is just the beginning," Pohlhaus vowed in the so-called "march of the redshirts."

Earlier this year, the Blood Tribe helped organize an anti-drag protest in Ohio, where they shouted "Sieg Heil" and threw the Nazi salute.

When Blood Tribe members are not busy fomenting hate gatherings, they're buying up real estate in Springfield, population 293, horrifying the locals, according to reports.

“We have a problem with Nazis coming to set up a military-style camp,” Maine Democratic State Sen. Joe Baldacci told the Daily Beast in a story last week, referring to the tribe setting up shop in Maine.

Baldacci is proposing legislation that would prohibit any group from creating paramilitary training facilities in the state, as 25 other states have already done.

The idea is that neo-Nazis like the Blood Tribe are not going to settle down where they can't have a paramilitary camp.

"They have a perfect right to express their opinions and to protest,” said Balducci, reported Maine Public Radio.

“But nobody, nobody has the right to create a situation and cause an incitement of violence or to train others to create civil disorder and disturbances of the peace and threats to other people," he added.

Pohlhaus has claimed on Telegram that the tribe already has 120 acres in Springfield, where members intend to create a neo-Nazi camp in a state that's "super white," the Southern Poverty Law Center reported in July.

The gang has still reportedly not obtained all required permits for building homes and burning brush on the property, but that's unlikely to stop them for long.

Meanwhile, Springfield and other area residents are doing what they can to make the situation as unpleasant for Pohlhaus and his acolytes as they have done for the townsfolk.

Pohlhaus was recently banned from Planet Fitness over “multiple member complaints” about his racist T-shirts and swastika tattoos.

Locals don't appear to be cowed by Pohlhaus and his ilk.

Former Marines like Pohlhaus “aren’t the only tough guys out there," said Brian Kresge, the president of the Beth Israel synagogue in Bangor and a Maine National Guardsman who served as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

“We have more friends than the neo-Nazis do, and Bangor’s proactive police force will invariably step up patrols as they always do,” Kresge told the Forward last month.

“Sure, these sad cats can buy some land ... but they aren’t Mainers, and they aren’t welcomed by Mainers.”