BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP:Nazi contingent at hotel brings out police

By Amber Cox
   BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Patrol cars surrounded the Comfort Inn hotel on Route 206 over the weekend as a safety precaution as members of the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States registered there from April 14 to 17 in anticipation of their Statehouse rally on April 16.
   ”Township police learned that numerous members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) would be staying at the hotel,” according to a release sent by Bordentown Township police. “Due to the fact that the NSM generally attract various counter-protestor groups who have shown previous tendencies to engage in violent attacks against them, the Bordentown Township Police Department formulated a security plan for the hotel.”
   The plan included 22 officers from Bordentown Township, four from Bordentown City, four from Chesterfield, two from Mansfield, one from Florence and approximately 25 from the New Jersey State Police.
   The hotel was not aware that the rooms were rented to members of the group, according to township police, because all reservations for the members were made under fake names.
   The detail was also responsible for all other civilians that were staying in rooms at the hotel.
   ”The importance of this detail became even more apparent when the NSM members briefly departed Bordentown Township on the evening of April 15 and traveled to the Borough of Pemberton for a dinner and conference,” police said. “One of their major opposition groups, Anti-Racist Action, became aware of the location of this dinner, traveled there and engaged in a large-scale fight with the NSM which involved various weapons and resulted in several injuries.”
   Other counter-protestors were arrested at the rally on April 16 after they caused damage to buildings near the Statehouse in Trenton.
   No incidents were reported in Bordentown during the NSM’s stay.