Politics and Lifestyle
Tommasi first rose to prominence as a young leader within the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP) in Arlington, Virginia. The NSWPP began to splinter following George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination in 1967 and Tommasi frequently found himself at odds with Rockwell's successor, Commander Matt Koehl. Koehl, a strait-laced Hitlerian, objected to Tommasi's radical viewpoints as well as his personal habits which included smoking marijuana, listening to Rock N Roll and inviting a girlfriend to sleep with him at NSWPP headquarters whenever he was the overnight duty officer. Tommasi remained with the NSWPP until he moved to California and founded the NSLF. The new group attracted many of the younger and more radical members of the NSWPP and as a result, the NSLF's membership grew rapidly while the NSWPP's influence went into steep decline. This only served to deepen the dislike Koehl and his more loyal followers felt toward Tommasi. Tommasi also sought membership among white college students who felt alienated by both the radical leftist movement as well as the mainstream conservative right. NSLF recruiting posters frequently depicted images of guns and warned that American was facing an impending race war. Today, many neo-nazi groups continue to espouse this belief.
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