Fascists are the Tools of the State

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POLICE TARGETED ANTI-RACISTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE AHEAD OF ‘UNITE THE RIGHT’ RALLY, DOCUMENTS SHOW


Police at "Unite the Right" rally on August 12

Leading up to the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, numerous foot soldiers of the “alt-right” openly broadcast their intention to create bloodshed in the genteel southern town.

A white supremacist group in California posted online videos glorifying physical assaults they had perpetrated on their ideological opponents. A post by the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer called for “military guys” to “crack skulls” of black people.

Many of the white supremacists traveling to Charlottesville had violent criminal histories and were well-known to law enforcement. They included: a former Green Beret and Ku Klux Klansman who went to prison for stealing weapons and explosives, a former Marine who went to prison for assaulting a cab driver he thought was Iraqi and participated in violence at the Berkeley protests before coming to Charlottesville, and a Baltimore Klansman who was charged with three separate assaults and a rape (but not convicted).

But an August 9 assessment by federal and local law enforcement officers of the potential for “domestic terrorist violence” at the August 12 rally mainly focused on the possibility that violence would emanate from anti-racists, who were described as “anarchist extremists.”...

U.S. law enforcement’s contemporary focus on anarchists, as well as those it labels as anarchists—largely dates back to 1999, when militant protests partially shut down a World Trade Organization summit in what became known as the “Battle of Seattle.” The protests dealt a brief but powerful setback to the U.S.-led global economic agenda.

Under Trump, prosecutors have carried on this tradition by aggressively targeting leftists and anti-racists, including the more than 200 demonstrators who were charged with felonies for protesting Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. Fifty-nine of those charges are still pending.

This wave of repression has been accompanied by an ideological campaign that has attempted to demonize the Black Lives Matter movement and the network of anti-fascists known as “Antifa,” many of whom are anarchists. In late-November, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced a federal probe focused on individuals who are inspired by “kind of an antifa ideology.”

https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/docu ... ttesville/

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Insurgent Supremacists – a new book about the U.S. far right

By Matthew N Lyons | Sunday, April 01, 2018 | 1 comment

My book Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire is due out this May and is being published jointly by Kersplebedeb Publishing and PM Press. It draws on work that I’ve been doing over the past 10-15 years but also includes a lot of new material. In this post I want to highlight some of what’s distinctive about this book and how it relates to the three way fight approach to radical antifascism. I’ll focus here on three themes that run throughout the book:

1. Disloyalty to the state is a key dividing line within the U.S. right.


For purposes of this book, I define the U.S. far right not in terms of a specific ideology, but rather as those political forces that (a) regard human inequality as natural, inevitable, or desirable and (b) reject the legitimacy of the established political system. That includes white nationalists who advocate replacing the United States with one or more racially defined “ethno-states.” But it also includes the hardline wing of the Christian right, which wants to replace secular forms of government with a full-blown theocracy; Patriot movement activists who reject the federal government’s legitimacy based on conspiracy theories and a kind of militant libertarianism; and some smaller ideological currents.

Insurgent Supremacists argues that the modern far right defined in these terms has only emerged in the United States over the past half century, as a result of social and political upheavals associated with the 1960s, and that it represents a shift away from the right’s traditional role as defenders of the established order. The book explores how the various far right currents have developed and how they have interacted with each other and with the larger political landscape.

I chose to frame the book in terms of “far right” rather than “fascism” for a couple of reasons. Discussions of fascism tend to get bogged down in definitional debates, because people have very strong—and very divided—opinions about what fascism means and what it includes. Insurgent Supremacists includes in-depth discussions of fascism as a theoretical and historical concept, but that’s not the book’s focus or overall framework.

As a related point, most discussions of fascism focus on white nationalist forces and tend to exclude or ignore other right-wing currents such as Christian rightist forces, and I think it’s important to look at these different forces in relation to each other. For example, critics of the Patriot/militia movement often argue that its hostility to the federal government was derived from Posse Comitatus, a white supremacist and antisemitic organization that played a big role in the U.S. far right in the 1980s. That’s an important part of the story, but Patriot groups were also deeply influenced by hardline Christian rightists, who (quite independently from white nationalists) had for years been urging people to arm themselves and form militias to resist federal tyranny. We rarely hear about that.

2. The far right is ideologically complex and dynamic and belies common stereotypes.

Many critics of the far right tend to assume that its ideology doesn’t amount to much more than crude bigotry, and if we identify a group as “Nazi” or as white supremacist, male supremacist, etc., that’s pretty much all we need to know. This is a dangerous assumption that doesn’t explain why far right groups are periodically able to mobilize significant support and wield influence far beyond their numbers. Yes, the far right has its share of stupid bigots, but unfortunately it also has its share of smart, creative people. We need to take far rightists’ beliefs and strategies seriously, study their internal debates, and look at how they’ve learned from past mistakes. Otherwise we’ll be fighting 21st-century battles with 1930s weapons.

For example: because of the history of fascism in the 1930s and 40s, we tend to identify far right politics with glorification of the strong state and highly centralized political organizations. Some far rightists, such as the Lyndon LaRouche network, still hold to that approach, but most of them have actually abandoned it in favor of various kinds of political decentralism, from neonazis who call for “leaderless resistance” and want to carve regional white homelands out of the United States to “sovereign citizens” and county supremacists, from self-described National-Anarchists to Christian Reconstructionists who advocate a theocracy based on small-scale institutions such as local government, churches, and individual families. One of the lessons here is that opposing centralized authority isn’t necessarily liberatory at all, because repression and oppression can operate on a small scale just as well as on a large scale.

This shift to political decentralism isn’t just empty rhetoric; it’s a genuine transformation of far right politics. I think it should be examined in relation to larger cultural, political, and economic developments, such as the global restructuring of industrial production and the wholesale privatization of governmental functions in the U.S. and elsewhere.

We need to take far rightists’ beliefs and strategies seriously, study their internal debates, and look at how they’ve learned from past mistakes. Otherwise we’ll be fighting 21st-century battles with 1930s weapons.

As another example of oversimplifying far right politics, it’s standard to describe far rightists as promoting heterosexual male dominance. While that’s certainly true in broad terms, it doesn’t really tell us very much. Insurgent Supremacists maps out several distinct forms of far right politics regarding gender and sexual identity and looks at how those have played out over time within the far right’s various branches. Most far rightists vilify homosexuality, but sections of the alt-right have advocated some degree of respect for male homosexuality, based on a kind of idealized male bonding among warriors, an approach that actually has deep roots in fascist political culture.

In recent years the alt-right has promoted some of the most vicious misogyny and declared that women have no legitimate political role. But when the alt-right got started around 2010, it included men who argued that sexism and sexual harassment of women were weakening the movement by alienating half of its potential support base. This view echoed the quasi-feminist positions that several neonazi groups had been taking since the 1980s, such as the idea that Jews promoted women’s oppression as part of their effort to divide and subjugate the Aryan race. This may sound bizarre, but it’s a prime example of the far right’s capacity time and again to appropriate elements of leftist politics and harness them to its own supremacist agenda.

Continues at: https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018 ... about.html

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Turkey Tags Out of NATO, Looks To Fuck United States

DR. BONES



Putting Your Shoes on The Table Is Bad Luck

Turkey played a key role in the American-run destabilization of Syria, arming and aiding ISIS when we could not. We needed them to play The Game. In return the United States allowed them to bomb Kurdish targets instead of ISIS held territory with NATO approval. Both States were united, bound by military treaty and a werewolf-esque hunger for the tears of women and children.

This all changed when Turkey became convinced the United States was trying to kill Erdogan.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, current President of Turkey, accused the West of “supporting terrorism” and said the failed coup that almost took him out of office was organized by “foreign powers.” The charge is that those powers are extremely American. According to Turkish media:

“General John F. Campbell, a former US commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), organized meetings and preparations that lasted over eight-and-half-a-months before the Turkey coup…

According to military sources, the coup plotters agreed to allow the U.S. authority to establish a U.S. military base at the Turkey-Syria border.

…also promised to upset the balances in the area by blocking Russia in a military and economic manner after establishing a coup regime in Turkey in the second half of 2016.

If they had failed to take full control, then the second plan would have been implemented: turning Turkey into a new Syria.”

Far be it from me, an uneducated Floridian sorcerer, to opine on the truth of such allegations. I can note the US was certainly uncomfortable with how close Russia and Turkey had been getting after a visit by Aleksandr Dugin, Putin’s pet Necromancer. I can also I’ll point to the past, a shared past that both Turkish and American officials would be very aware of:

“Syria fell into the anti-Western camp as a result of the oust of Western leaning President Adib Shishakli in 1954. The coup was orchestrated by the Syrian Communist Party, former Syrian President Atassi, and Druze officers in the Syrian army. After the coup, the communist and Arab nationalist elements seized greater control within the country’s political and military apparatus. Both Turks and Americans perceived further communist take-over of Syria as a vital threat to the containment of communist expansion in the region…

Washington was, at that time, in the midst of trying to remove Syria’s leftist government from power by covert action. CIA funds were deployed to create riots by the followers of former President Shishakli. Turkey was tasked to create border disturbances in the north to justify the use of military force if necessary.”

Weird! That sure sounds familiar! This is how the US rolls, what we do, and Turkey has been helping us do it for a long, long time. Why wouldn’t they be suspicious? If we knew about the impending coup, as the United States later admitted it did, why didn’t we warn the Turkish President…unless we had a hand in it? The claim by the CIA that it didn’t know enough about the coup to say for sure what was happening sounds like bullshit…especially considering somebody else did:

“The Russian army intercepted Turkish military communications that indicated a coup was being organized against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Fars News. This information was then passed on to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), diplomatic sources told the news agency.”

Even after the coup Turkey was hardly treated as a wounded ally. Erdogan suggested Turkey would be unable to continue its strategic allegiance with the US if it continued to hold the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by the Turkish government of instigating the coup attempt. The United States told him to get fucked, saying they’d need documented proof before any extradition. Erdogan replied by noting “we did not request documents for terrorists that you wanted returned.” Turkey sent Germany more than 4,000 files on “wanted terrorists” involved with the coup. Germany did nothing. “The West is supporting terrorism and taking sides with coups,” Erdogan would go on to say. “Those we considered friends are siding with coup-plotters and terrorists.”

In Cartomancy the 9 of Clubs represents “unseen consequences,” larger events looming in the background waiting to manifest. It is the increase in wind when a hurricane is still days away, the unnatural quiet before a tornado. It also represents not “seeing the forest for the trees,” a lamentable position where the individual is so bogged down in details the larger goals or imagery are lost in all the noise.

Preoccupied, blinded, or woefully ignorant the complex interactions of luck and choice rend our illusion of stability, regardless of whether we can fathom their consequences.

Or prepare for them.

https://godsandradicals.org/2018/04/10/ ... ed-states/

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Red/Brown is at the heart of this:

Some of Thiriart's disciples took his words to heart. Renato Curcio, a member of Giovane Europa, the Italian section of Jeune Europe, went on to become a leader of the Red Brigades, the left-wing terrorist group that kidnapped and murdered selected targets in Italy throughout the 1970's and early 1980's.
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters..., Martin A. Lee - 2013

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From Confronting Fascists to Facing the Police State
Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Newnan, Georgia




As the momentum of fascist organizing wanes, “antifa” has become public threat #1. Their fusion centers show their determination to fix us in their sights. The boundaries of legitimate politics are always in flux, but the need for control remains constant. The story that the government’s hired guns escorted freedom marchers on the road to Montgomery will never redeem them for the brutality they enacted in Selma. It is no great irony that the mask laws used against anti-racists in Newnan were originally intended for use against the Ku Klux Klan. Governance has no commitment to ideals. Beneath all levels of abstraction, there is only the callous organization of violence.

The Defeat of “Antifa,” the Victory of Anti-Fascism

The battles we have fought in the last few years prepared us for the extremity of these events. Despite all the setbacks, it is heartening that two dozen Nazis now require a million-dollar Pentagon budget and a 700-man military convoy to conduct their rallies. Neither the empty posturing of politicians nor the hollow point rounds of police forced white nationalists back into their corner; it was the determination of anti-fascists and the bravery of ordinary people. We have won the respect of our generation, while the Nazis have lost their respect.

https://crimethinc.com/2018/04/24/from- ... an-georgia

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I find this incredibly creepy:

Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military

A Marine took part in the violent assaults in Charlottesville last summer and later bragged about it online with other members of Atomwaffen, an extremist group preparing for a race war. The involvement of current or former service members — often with sophisticated weapons training — in white supremacist groups has long been a concern.

A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica May 3, 5 a.m. EDT



Vasillios Pistolis, a U.S. Marine, clubs a man with a wooden flagpole during the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)


The 18-year-old, excited by his handiwork at the bloody rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer, quickly went online to boast. He used the handle VasillistheGreek.

“Today cracked 3 skulls open with virtually no damage to myself,” the young man wrote on Aug. 12, 2017.

Vasillios Pistolis had come to the now infamous Unite the Right rally eager for such violence. He belonged to a white supremacist group known as Atomwaffen Division, a secretive neo-Nazi organization whose members say they are preparing for a coming race war in the U.S. In online chats leading up to the rally, Pistolis had been encouraged to be vicious with any counterprotestors, maybe even sodomize someone with a knife. He’d responded by saying he was prepared to kill someone “if shit goes down.”

One of Pistolis’ victims that weekend was Emily Gorcenski, a data scientist and trans woman from Charlottesville who had shown up to confront the rally’s hundreds of white supremacists. In an online post, Pistolis delighted in how he had “drop kicked” that “tranny” during a violent nighttime march on the campus of the University of Virginia. He also wrote about a blood-soaked flag he’d kept as a memento.

“Not my blood,” he took care to note.

At the end of the weekend that shocked much of the country, Pistolis returned to his everyday life: serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Of the many white supremacist organizations that have sprung up in the past few years, Atomwaffen is among the more extreme, espousing the overthrow of the U.S. government through acts of political violence and guerrilla warfare.

Journalists with ProPublica and Frontline gained insight into Atomwaffen’s ideology, aims and membership after obtaining seven months of messages from a confidential chat room used by the group’s members. The chat logs, as well as interviews with a former member, reveal Atomwaffen has attracted a mixture of young men — fans of fringe heavy metal music, a private investigator, firearms aficionados — living in more than 20 states.

But a number are current or former members of the U.S. military. ProPublica and Frontline have identified three Atomwaffen members or associates who are currently employed by the Army or Navy. Another three served in the armed forces in the past. Pistolis, who remains an active-duty Marine, left Atomwaffen in a dispute late in 2017 and joined up with another white supremacist group. Reporters made the identifications through dozens of interviews, a range of social media and other online posts, and a review of the 250,000 confidential messages obtained earlier this year.

Continues: https://www.propublica.org/article/atom ... y-military

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Congressman wants answers on extremist activity in the military

By: Leo Shane III  


White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., during a Aug. 12, 2017, protest. A Minnesota congressman is asking the Defense Department to detail what they are doing to counter those group's influence in the military after recent reports of troops participating in white nationalist activities. (Steve Helber/AP)


WASHINGTON — A Minnesota congressman wants full details on what the military knows about extremist activity within its own ranks following news reports detailing at least three service members with ties to a white supremacist group.

Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat who was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, set a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late last week asking for information on any investigations into troops’ extremist activities and “steps currently being taken to screen recruits for extremist ties” by the end of the month. He calls the problem an urgent threat to the armed forces.

“Although Department of Defense guidance clearly prohibits discrimination and extremist behavior, it appears that some service members are still able to join and actively participate in extremist organizations,” the letter stated, adding he sees evidence that “volunteers with seemingly credible ties to the white supremacist movement are being allowed to enter the military.”

The move stems from a recent ProPublica and Frontline PBS report which found evidence at least three current service members and three other veterans who belong to the white supremacist group Atomawaffen, which has been tied to the murders of at least five people in the last year alone.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon ... -military/

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Have You Encountered White Supremacists or Neo-Nazis in the Military? Tell Us.

We want to know more about these service members. We want to know what the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are doing about them.


White supremacist and other protesters gather around a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11, 2017.


The Atomwaffen Division is a violent neo-Nazi group tied to five murders and a bomb plot over the past year. At least some of their members are currently serving in the U.S. armed forces. Our reporting showed that Lance Corporal Vasillios Pistolis, a Marine currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, acted as a cell leader for Atomwaffen and associated with other fascist organizations; he also boasted about assaulting four people last summer at the white power rally in Charlottesville. Our reporting on Pistolis and his fellow Atomwaffen members sparked an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and prompted Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to press the Pentagon to explain what it is doing about racial extremism in its ranks.

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/ ... ry-tell-us

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How Did a Convicted Neo-Nazi Release Propaganda From Prison?

A white supremacist incarcerated on explosives charges says his fellow hate group members have "created something beautiful"



Less than six months into his five-year sentence on federal explosives charges, neo-Nazi Brandon Russell, founder of Atomwaffen Division, has issued a statement. In a new video released this week, Russell, a former National Guardsman, and the subject of a lengthy investigation in Rolling Stone, thanked his comrades for their "undying loyalty and courage," and issued a warning to those who'd betrayed the hate group Russell founded in 2014. "There is no room in this world for cowardly people," he said, quoting Adolph Hitler. "The sword has been drawn. There is no turning back."

Russell's statement, ostensibly recorded from inside the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, where he is now incarcerated, followed several recent reports of white supremacy among active duty military personnel, including several Atomwaffen members who left the organization at the end of 2017. On May 4th, Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) wrote a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis requesting the DOD open an investigation into white supremacist activity within the military. "The involvement of service members in white supremacist or other hate groups is cause for significant concern, particularly given their combat and weapons training," Ellison noted. Last September, a Military Times survey found that 25 percent of active duty troops polled said they'd seen examples of white nationalism among their fellow service members.

The Atomwaffen video, which celebrated the group's paramilitary training, also took the opportunity to single out three members the group now believed to have betrayed them. One is Joshua Beckett, a former combat engineer who reportedly trained Atomwaffen members in arms and hand-to-hand combat. Another, identified as Brenan Frank Duffy, the group alleges is currently on active duty and sporting a notable tattoo of an AK-47, with the word "Revolution." "Despite their actions they all consider themselves fascists," the video notes. "Let it be known they no longer have allies."

A former physics major at the University of South Florida, Russell was arrested last May after two fellow Atomwaffen members, 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman and 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk, were found murdered in Russell's Tampa condo. A former Atomwaffen member, and the mens’ roommate, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs, allegedly confessed to the murders and then led police to the condo where they discovered a stash of chemicals and explosive precursors belonging to Russell in the garage. In Russell's bedroom, investigators found more precursors, an assault rifle, and a framed photograph of Timothy McVeigh.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/n ... on-w520782

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Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini


Pier Paolo Pasolini at Antonio Gramsci's tomb, 1970.

1968
During the summer of 1968, Pasolini launched a column for the non-leftist magazine Tempo. In the first installment, he wrote: “Surely the reader knows that I am communist: but he also knows that I am a fellow traveler of the PCI, a relationship that does not imply any reciprocal commitment (on the contrary, it is a quite tense relationship, and I have many enemies among the communists as I have among the bourgeois).” The article also mentioned a small party that had formed at the time, the Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity — Pasolini despised it because he considered it sectarian — and the Catholic left. But another, devastating interlocutor would emerge for Pasolini that year: the student movement.

Most people believe that Pasolini opposed the students and supported the police, a tenacious myth that has spread all over the world. A Film Maker’s Life, a 1971 documentary on Pasolini, includes a voice-over saying that “in a completely surprising and unexpected way, he takes the side of the police.”

The myth began with “The PCI to Young People,” a poem Pasolini composed after the Battle of Valle Giulia, which marked the beginning of the Italian 1968. In his usual contradictory style, he wrote that he sided with the cops because, unlike the students, they were the sons of the poor people. But, just a few lines after, he stated, “obviously we are against the police as an institution.” The end could not be more explicit: “Do I have to take into consideration the possibility of fighting the Civil War on your side, setting aside my old idea of Revolution?”

Reading the whole poem, and knowing the context, helps us understand how Pasolini’s opinion of the student movement was more complex and favorable than is commonly believed. Wu Ming 1, a member of the Wu Ming collective, concludes: “After having read all of this tirade (the entirety of it, not just the 4–5 extrapolated verses brandished like clubs by some thugs) one cannot conclude that Pasolini was with the police.”

But critics, especially on the Right, can pull random quotes not only to diminish an author but also to exploit him for their own reasons — something that conservatives in Italy and abroad have been doing to Antonio Gramsci for decades.

Pasolini, a fellow traveler rather than an organic militant (and how could he have been, given that he was almost fifty at the time and part of the previous leftist generation?), did indeed support the students and other movements that emerged in Italy in 1968–69. He said that the only two “democratic-revolutionary experiences” of the Italian people were the resistance and the student movement. He wrote as much in an open letter to the Italian prime minister, Giovanni Leone, when the police violently crushed the protests at the 1968 Venice Film Festival.

He repeatedly spoke and wrote against the police, but this does not mean that he opposed the individuals — often poor lumpenproletarians and peasants — who worked for the armed wing of the state. Italy was, after all, also where organizations like the Proletari in divisa (Proletarians in Uniform) tried to organize the armed forces and gained a certain traction during those years.

In 1971, Pasolini became director of the magazine of Lotta Continua, one of the organizations of the extra-parliamentary, post-‘68 Italian left, and he financed and helped shoot an investigative documentary on the fascist-planned Piazza Fontana bombing with this same organization.

Without this context, it is impossible to understand the Pasolini of the time. As Wu Ming 1 wrote:

What is left without context? A handful of images — fireflies, the end of peasants’ world, hippies’ homologated bodies — reduced to cliches and rendered harmless … fed by that same dominant culture that persecuted Pasolini, by the journalistic heirs of his slanderers and by the political heirs of those who attacked him in the streets.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/pier ... nist-party

The Police vs. Pasolini, Pasolini vs. The Police

By Wu Ming

In the issue of Tempo of January 10, 1970, Pasolini speaks directly to social-democratic MP Mauro Ferri, and writes:

The extremism of minority and extra-parliamentary leftist groups has in no way brought about the Piazza Fontana carnage (it is heinous to even think that): it has brought about the greatest victory for metalworkers. Before the actions of Potere Operaio and of other minority groups outside the parties, trade unions were sleeping.

For two months, starting on March 1, 1971, Pasolini acts as the editor of Lotta Continua's publication, knowing he risks being investigated, indicted and tried for the paper's contents. That happens on October 18 of that same year, on account of having "instigated militaries to disobey orders [...], carried out anti-national propaganda, for the subversion of the State-sanctioned economic and social orders and for publically instigating to commit crimes." Maximum sentence in the penal code: 15 years of imprisonment. Witnesses for the prosecution: officers, petty officers, public security agents, and carabinieri.

After this indictment, Rai blocks the airing of Enzo Biagi's television programme, dismissing any kind of presumption of innocence. Today it's one of Pasolini's most famous television appearances, but many don't know it was censored and was only aired after his death, five years after the recording.

Meanwhile, members of the police are at the forefront to demand — and most often obtain — the requisition of Pasolini's work. In Bari, inspector of police Santoro emphasises the "horrifying" obscenity of the film Decameron. In Ancona, a complaint is filed against the same film by forestry inspector Lorenzo Mannozzi Torini, a "pioneer of truffle cultivation" according to Wikipedia.

Definitely worn out but certainly not intimidated, Pasolini finances and shoots with Lotta Continua's cinema collective a investigative documentary on Piazza Fontana and on the state of struggles in Italy. With a screenplay by Giovanni Bonfanti and Goffredo Fofi, the documentary, named "December 12", comes out in 1972 with a caption: "from an idea by Pier Paolo Pasolini."

...Three weeks later, in the night between the 1st and 2nd of November, Pasolini's body lies in Ostia's mud, thrashed, reduced to a single blood-soaked rag.

Now, to conclude, I borrow Roberto Chiesi's words:

If you go through the horrible photographs of Pasolini's corpse's discovery, there is one, maybe the most horrible, which shows the tortured body, surrounded by some investigators and policemen on their knees. There is a policemen sitting next to Pasolini's corpse, he smiles. The photo shows it unmistakably: it is a scornful smile, a disdainful smile. This image can be taken as a sample of a worse Italy, one we should refuse, condensed in that black and white image, published at the time on many newspapers' front pages.

Pasolini continued to be against the police, the police continued to be against Pasolini.

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2719-th ... the-police

Originally found at Who Makes the Nazis?:


http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/arch ... d-pasolini

How P2 and its fascist henchmen murdered Pasolini

Published on Thursday, 05 April 2012 13:16 Written by Alfio Bernabei

Neofascists played a role in the killing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the writer and film director, who was found battered to death on the night of 1 November 1975 on a stretch of beach at Ostia, near Rome.

Thirty seven years after the event that shook Italy’s cultural and political world, a picture is gradually taking shape of a planned execution carried out by a gang of up to six people. At least two of them frequented a branch of the MSI (Movimento Sociale Italiano), the party founded after the Second World War by the diehard nazifascists of Mussolini’s Salò Republic.

Some testimonies also point to links with individuals who were later to be found connected to the terrorist organisation Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR – Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari), as well as with the Roman underworld associated to the far right, in particular the Banda della Magliana, a criminal gang that was subsequently named during investigations into some notorious murders, including those of the former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and the banker Roberto Calvi.


Pino Pelosi, the only man convicted for the killing

The disappearance of documents belonging to Pasolini, and the hastily discarded testimonies gathered by an undercover agent who obtained confessions from the two neofascists of responsibility in the murder, also cast doubts on the role of the Italian Secret Service and members of the judiciary. Both were at the time heavily infiltrated by P2 (Propaganda Due), a Masonic lodge that was using rightwing terrorists and petty criminals to carry out atrocities and executions as part of the so-called “strategy of tension”.

Suspicion is mounting that Pasolini’s murder was carried out within the framework of P2’s plans to subvert the constitutional order. According to the 1981-1984 parliamentary investigation led by the MP Tina Anselmi, P2 was acting as a clandestine “parallel government” or “a State within the State”.

Interest in Pasolini’s murder was reignited last December when Pino Pelosi burst into a crowded room during the presentation of a book in Rome and announced that the killer was still alive. Pelosi, now 53, was arrested on the night of the crime and told police he had acted on his own to protect himself from sexual advances. He was 17 at the time. With his nine and a half year jail sentence well behind him, Pelosi is now admitting that he was used by people who had devised a plan to silence the author.

At the time of his death Pasolini was vehemently attacking destructive forces in Italian society which, in his opinion, were creating a wasteland for a whole generation of young people, a process amounting to a kind of mental rape for which much of the responsibility rested with the politically corrupt ruling Christian Democratic Party and its cronies.

In books and articles he was proclaiming the need to put “the State on trial”, by which he probably meant the entire Cabinet, the heads of the then publicly owned companies and a large chunk of the military and even of the judiciary. Endowed with a clear insight into the riddles and obfuscations of power games, he was convinced that Enrico Mattei, President of ENI, the Italian Petrol Company, had been assassinated in a staged plane crash. A book he was working on at the time of his death, Petrolio (Oil), published posthumously, dealt with the Mattei affair. After Pasolini’s murder 78 pages disappeared from the only manuscript in existence. They have never been found.

Rumours have circulated for years that the man who took over from Mattei, Eugenio Cefis, was the real head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, part of the Stay Behind/Gladio organisation. The purpose of this network was to prevent the Communist Party from gaining enough strength to form a government. Among the “gladiators’” tasks was to maintain a climate of fear through terrorist acts with the objective of making a military intervention appear justifiable for the restoration of law and order.

Acting through a variety of neo-Nazi outfits, the P2/Stay Behind/Gladio network was targeting those who were getting too close to unmasking its plotters at the top. Journalists and leftwing investigative magistrates were the victims of attacks and assassinations. As a novelist and film maker reaching for truths outside the purely forensic, Pasolini could be perceived even as a bigger threat. Moreover, he had a huge following among the intelligentsia. Though capable of embarrassing blunders, like his servile interview with the poet Ezra Pound, his firm stance against fascism was to be found in virtually every book he wrote. Many of his films also focused on a critique of oppressive forces, whether in the shape of social conventions (Theorem, Pigsty) or perverse political power (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom).

At the time of his death he was completing the latter film, perhaps the most eloquent and disturbing attack on fascism in the history of cinema. The plot dealt with the sexual components of power and its maintenance taken to murderous extreme. Using the literary framework of one of the Marquis de Sade’s libertine novels, he was showing how even sophisticated cultures ranking high in the production of the arts – music, literature, architecture, all referred to in the film – can succumb to the unscrupulous manipulation of power hungry thugs who, by imposing their will on supine populations, can abuse and destroy whole generations.

With unprecedented directness, Pasolini was warning audiences that while nazifascist threats can be easily detected when dressed up in the conventional garbs of brutal domination, enabling a counter reaction, it is far more dangerous when the process of subjugation is carried out in ritualistic forms of apparent ordinariness by seemingly innocuous people, until they turn into monsters, by which time it’s too late and everyone feels complicit and compromised with the fait accompli. This is why the message of Salò was and remains so shocking.

Particularly in Italy, where no purge had occurred after the Second World War, the film contained an exhortation to remain vigilant about nazifascists lurking in every office, in every street, in schools, at newspaper desks, among intellectuals and in the Church.

Seen in the light of Pelosi’s most recent revelations, Pasolini’s murder was planned with extreme care. First, there was the theft of film cans from the shooting of Salò. Pasolini wanted to retrieve the material. The youth he had befriended, Pelosi, already in contact with petty criminals and neofascists, was probably used as the go-between to let the author know that the cans could be retrieved, but if he called the police or made too much noise everything would be destroyed. As Pasolini and Pelosi remained in contact, the chances were that sooner or later the latter would entice the homosexual author to some secluded place where the killers could step in and commit the crime undetected, thus allowing the “killed by his own depravity” version of events to prevail in the investigations and in popular belief.

On the night of 1 November Pasolini and Pelosi drove to a beach in Ostia. Pelosi now says that soon after they parked, a scooter arrived with two men. Then a car pulled in with three or four men on board and finally a second car arrived carrying only its driver. “We had been followed all the way”, Pelosi says. The trap having been set, Pasolini was savagely beaten up. One of the cars drove repeatedly over his body to crush the thorax and make sure he was dead.


Police examine the murder scene on a beach at Ostia

Pelosi maintains that he took the blame for the killing because his family received threats. At his trial it was found that he could not have acted alone. No investigations followed to find his accomplices. A confession of responsibility in the crime obtained by a lone undercover policeman, Renzo Sansone, who questioned two brothers, Giuseppe and Franco Borsellino, was quickly discarded. Pelosi now confirms the two brothers, who frequented the MSI branch in the Tiburtino district of Rome, were indeed present at the scene of the killing. Among others named is a man called Sergio Pinna, who vanished soon after, never to be found again, and Giuseppe Mastini, still in jail because of a string of murders.

According to some testimonies, Mastini’s links with neofascists went as far as being friendly with Gilberto Cavallini who was to become one of the leaders of NAR, the nazifascist armed group whose members were later to be found guilty of the 1980 Bologna massacre in which the P2/Gladio organisation was involved.

There are many aspects of Pasolini’s murder that are still unclear. But little doubt remains that those who decided to silence him relied on some neofascists for his execution.

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In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims.


Heval Mohamed Kelli walks with Buckley and his children, C.J., 6, and Miera, 3, outside their home in LaFayette, about two hours northwest of Atlanta.


White power!’

A few days before Kelli’s visit, the Buckleys were on the couch that doubles as their bed watching a home movie of sorts. It was a 2015 documentary about the Klan streaming on Netflix.

In it, Buckley stands in a black hooded robe, red Klan cross on his chest, white rope around his waist. Next to him, 4-year-old Chris Jr. — C.J., the same boy now running in and out of the living room with a gray puppy at his heels — was standing in a matching pre-K version of the robe.

Buckley throws a Sieg Heil salute.

“White power!” shouts the father.

“White power!” repeats the son, his little arm extended to the sky. It comes out “pie-er” in his pint-size voice.

As a nighthawk, Buckley was the black-robed enforcer of the Klan’s code. In dark barns and back fields, he taught his Klan brothers how to use and conceal weapons, close-quarters fighting, surveillance, secrecy.

“Anything to keep your people safe,” he says.

He won’t describe many of his activities because he doesn’t want to be prosecuted. He will say he had his men break into a house to reclaim Klan robes and material from a member who had left the group. They leafleted neighborhoods, black and white, with fliers meant to both intimidate and recruit.

They carried weapons of all kinds — knives to assault rifles — hidden under the robes. At supposedly peaceful rallies, most Klansmen were armed and many were high, he said. Buckley was a daily meth user during his time in the robe.

“Look at him tweaking right there,” Buckley says, pointing a perspiring Klansman in the documentary who chews his lip compulsively as he describes how a small brigade of white militia could “take the Negroid population out in a weekend.”

Buckley was particularly accomplished at burning crosses, sometimes on farms and secluded lots, but often in public view. He torched a towering cross near the highway leading into Summerville, Ga., a glowing warning to the town’s growing populations of Latinos and African Americans.

Buckley learned hate, and violence, during a tumultuous childhood in Cleveland. His father would return from days-long benders and routinely whip Buckley for any misdeeds he might have committed in his absence. Feminism was stupid, homosexuality was wrong, and whites only dated whites.

Buckley, who joined the Army when he was a high school junior, had black comrades in the military, but not friends. He remembers the guy in his last deployment who was mixed race. He called him “Halfrican.” “It wasn’t a big deal to me or him,” Buckley said.

Muslims, though, were a big deal. Seeing an attacker beneath every niqab wasn’t just self-protection, it was training.

“Every paper target I ever shot was a Muslim,” Buckley said. “Every bit of bayonet training or hand-to-hand combat, it was other soldiers dressed up like Muslims.”

The hatred outlasted the uniform. Buckley left the Army after 13 years following a Humvee accident that left him with a broken back and an addiction to painkillers. When the doctors eventually cut him off, he started buying on the street. Soon came cocaine, mushrooms and “the love of my life,” meth. He was eventually using two grams a day and spending hundreds a week on his habit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/loc ... c4f7ef1299

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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library ... he-nucleus

Anonymous

Confronting the Nucleus

Taking Power from Fascists


Introduction
I’ve written this analysis as an introduction to the structural and social politics of fascism and anti-fascism. This text is meant to examine mechanisms of the fascist ideology not often touched on in popular media discourse, while also examining possibilities for confronting the fascist influence in our political and economic system.

Usually, a vague and misrepresented description of fascism accompanies popular media analyses on the rise of fascism in the United States. Everyone knows Fascism is dangerous and to be stopped at all costs, few know how to identify it when it’s revealed to them. Since this is the case, we must find an accurate description of fascism before we can begin this analysis.

If you get your politics from conservative leaning media, the narrative is often that the defining “fascistic” attribute is “violent suppression of political opponents and free speech”. Therefore, you will understand fascism as, generally, illegitimate political aggression. This definition is extremely similar to the tactical implications of defining “terrorism” as an outside phenomenon, dissolving all nuance and complicity. This definition used to define fascism ignores all structural and ideological mechanisms of fascism while also leaving room to excuse it for “legitimacy”.

If you get your politics from more progressive leaning media, the definition is “authoritarian nationalism and the destruction of democratic institutions”. This is a bit more coherent, but it’s fundamentally inadequate and almost indistinguishable from neo-liberalism. This shows that the economic engine of fascism is being outright ignored by progressive media, leaving fascism misunderstood and covered in a mask of cognitive dissonance.

The fundamental difference between neo-liberalism and fascism is the interest being served by the private institutions. If the private institutions operate for the interest of the capitalists, we have neo-liberalism. If the private institutions operate for the interest of the nation-state, we have fascism. Within this context, fascism can more accurately be described a tool of the state to manage the economic system for it’s own supremacy. By fault of the dangerously expansive nature of private interest, fascism can also be described as a defensive mechanism for our modern capitalist market economy.

In the Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini describes this transfer of the “Liberal State” to the “Fascist state”:

"The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it may be called the "ethic" State."

This relationship between the capitalist market economy is fundamental in understanding how fascism manifests as a reactionary ideology as well as a phenomenon of capital accumulation.

The Reaction
Since the election of Donald Trump there’s been an emergence of generally fascist and anti-fascist movements trying to solidify their political influence through radical propaganda. Marches and rallies especially so, as they are ultimately propagandist demonstrations. The far-left wants to silence the political influence of the far-right and the far-right wants to silence the political influence of the far-left. So much so that they’re willing to engage in illegal and violent activity to gain political power over the other.

To the general public, that’s what this conflict consists of, stripped of any nuance.

The Debate
As a result, a public “debate” emerged around the ethics of violent tactics against fascism and, furthermore, what fascism is in the first place. Consequentially, we’re given opposing narratives of either: fighting the fascist ideology with public debate, or fighting fascists themselves with tactical violence. Either option leaves us with very little to work with for a tactical defensive or offensive strategy against fascism. To that point, the way this argument is framed leaves little room for analyses of fascism’s ideological formation in the social realm or as an elite phenomenon.

Hitler’s insight on what could have stopped the Nazi movement echoes the same strategic incoherence on both accounts, “…if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance; or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.” [1] While this advice is upheld as some sort of tactical secret, it derives from his social Darwinist conviction that applies the evolutionary concept of natural selection to social nature. His belief holds that not only does violence beget violence; violence is necessary to social progress. This is to say that if there’s no violence, the fascist ideology could not reproduce, if there is violence, it will be the most brutal who survive.

Non-Violence
Liberals often refer to the first half of Hitler’s insight, that we must “not offer any resistance”, and we must confine the conflict in what’s often called the “marketplace of ideas”. The problem with this fixation on public debate in the “marketplace of ideas” is that “public debate”, ironically, takes place through media platforms that exist within a market. Thus, the sides of discourse fluctuate as irrationally as capital in a market economy. If you’ve ever been on the Internet you probably noticed it’s not the rational media that goes viral and gets advertising space. The way far right ideologues and personalities spread their propaganda so effectively is by poking at the viewers insecurities and alienation while providing scapegoats and easy answers. This also happens to be the perfect click-bait. In this way, debate can often serve to push the fascist narratives over the more rational ones.

This isn’t to say we shouldn’t challenge fascist ideologies where they present themselves. The fascist propaganda must be confronted. However, we must be extremely careful not give them a platform through debate. Fighting fascism through discourse must adequately confront the fascist narrative and leave no room to be derailed.

Violence
I have to emphasize here, as it’s often overlooked, fascism shows its true face in violence. As the liberal narrative desires to confine the conflict in a peaceful way, we cannot use this to discredit self-defense. Whatever faith you have in non-violence won’t save you in a war zone. We have to keep in mind that there are in fact legitimate forms of violence. It’s a line in the sand that has to be identified while debating “tactical violence”.

In leftist circles we are only given the second half of Hitler’s insight, that we must “annihilate the nucleus”. For those of you paying attention to the social presence of the "alt-right" fascist movement, it would seem far left anti-fascist action has beaten their charisma to a halting point. In fact, alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer admits this fact outright. In reference to his particular movement, he said “When they become violent clashes and pitched battles, they aren’t fun… Until the situation changes, we are up a creek without a paddle.” [2] If this is the case this would stand as evidence to the liberal narrative that confronting their movements head on would inspire a greater reaction and thus a larger presence. This evidence is given to us by the left as a complete tactical guide to confronting fascism.

The fixation on tactical violence as a means of combating fascism can overlook non-violent tactics in combating fascism. It’s easy to overlook the peaceful resistance that accompanied the violent resistance when it’s the violent tactics the fascists give credit to. However, it was the peaceful resistance that legitimized the militant self defense of the left. Both can be credited to the derailment the alt-right movement.

The Reactionary
The problem is we’re lead to believe that these movements are the “nucleus” itself. However, the “nucleus” is not going to be located in the actions or organization of fascists. This would assume that fascism is a byproduct of simple mis-education and wise propaganda. The “nucleus” is going to be located in that which produces the conditions for the fascist ideology. If we take a look at the beliefs held by the fascists we can gain a better sense of where they might originate from.

The ideas most common to fascism include:

1. Anti-Immigration

2. Racial Purity

3. White Supremacy

4. Anti-Semitism

5. Social Darwinism

6. Extreme Nationalism

7. Extreme Authoritarianism

What’s important about identifying these ideas is not so much about identifying their incoherence, but identifying where they come from. This is where we will find the so called “nucleus”.

In most cases, those involved in the fascist movements are members of a privileged group who have become dispossessed, such as poor whites. In the public realm, fascism can be seen as a reaction to broken promises of privilege. These groups of people are referred to as “reactionary” fascists. They are foot soldiers for the fascist ideology, but they do not manage their own conditions. This dispossession and alienation manifests by material conditions created by capitalism. It is the scapegoating that directs their reaction away from the ruling class.

The Nucleus
The true fascists are those who benefit from the ideology. Institutionally, these ideas originate from the far right and conservative members of the ruling class who are afraid the expansive strategies of the progressive elite will destabilize our economic system. Fascism for the elite is a way to manage labor, preserve social hierarchy, preserve traditional values and defend against progressive and revolutionary activity among the working class. In other words, it is a defense mechanism by the state to manage the capitalist market economy. The ideas of social Darwinism and authoritarian nationalism convey this ideal, while ideas of anti-immigration and white supremacy convey who’s targeted by the fascist ideology.

Anti-Fascist Action
So when we’re told that the conflict between fascists and anti-fascists is the division created by the fascists in power, we have to understand who the real victims are. Immigrants, people of color, Jewish people, the lgbtqa+ community, the disabled, the poor, the houseless, etc. These are the people the fascists in power are trying to divide us from. Anyone who wishes to further divide us from them are enemies of the working class.

In our inevitable conflicts, we have to be clear about how and when these tactics of violence and non-violence actually respond rationally to the motives of the state and the threats of the reactionaries. Yes, we must disrupt the public response to fascist propaganda. However, we can’t be confused by this tactic to define this disruption as a victory. These tactics can silence an infant movement, but they do not remove the fascists from the state who put it together, and it does not remove the alienation of capitalism which form the tools for these elite fascists.

Conclusively, if we wish to confront the “nucleus” of the fascist movement, we must build an intersectional, anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist movement focused on decentralizing power away from the state and restoring political power to the people. This means that the most important tactic in confronting fascism is building networks of democratic power to create a new form of politic. This new form of politic is essential not only for confronting fascism, but for creating a future that’s sustainable, rational and liberatory; A new form of politic that confronts the corruption of power and hierarchy that persist the expansion of capital and the necessitation of fascism. Without this new form of politic we will be stuck in the streets fighting the tools of the state until we’re eventually crushed and all prospects for progressive revolution with it.

Recommended reading:

- “Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project”

by “Colin Jenkins

- “Fascists are the tools of the state”

by Peter Gerlderloos.

- “Libertarian Municipalism, an overview”

by Murray Bookchin.

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Proud Boys Dominick Owen, Donovon Flippo, and David Silliman ride around with violent youtuber Kerry Hudson, pepper-spraying bystanders before they run into a cop car. The police let them go.

https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/pb-2/

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Somebody is creaming their jeans right about now:


https://vimeo.com/275327490

White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed

American homegrown terrorist groups are the chosen favorites of Pyongyang

May 6th, 2013 Nate Thayer

WASHINGTON D.C. – In September 2003, John Paul Cupp, the 22 year old son of a fundamentalist Christian preacher from Indiana, received a message from the government of North Korea.

“Upon the authorization of the Central Committee” it read, Pyongyang “extends militant greetings to you who extend warm support and solidarity to the Songun policy of our respected Marshal Kim Jong Il, treasure sword of our nation.”

The “formation of the Songun Politics Study Group USA has been reported to our Central Committee and, through it, to the Workers Party of Korea….Now your organization has been introduced to the entire Korean nation in the south and the north. We are very pleased to have a revolutionary organization and comrades like you in the land of the United States, the bulwark of imperialism and determined to further the relationship with you in depth,”

Rodong Sinmun, the official voice of the ruling Korean Worker’s Party (KWP), reported the news on September 11, the two year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

The message from Pyongyang promised to send further information “by DHL” to the address of “Comrade John Paul Cupp.” What North Korea didn’t mention was at the time was that John Paul Cupp had no address because he was homeless and living in a tent under a highway in Portland, Oregon.

“My father is a loser. He lives in Lynn Haven, Florida,” wrote Cupp on an online family genealogy thread in October 1999. “I moved to Portland to join the communist party and get my poetry published. I am 19 years old.”

By the time Cupp vowed his loyalty to Pyongyang and was made Chairman of the newly created Songun Politics Study Group USA, his evolving political ideology embraced white supremacy, pro Islamic Jihadists, virulent anti-Semitism, and launching domestic terrorism to achieve the armed overthrow of the U.S. government.


John Paul Cupp (c) in trench coat when he was homeless living in Portland Oregon in the early 2000’s when he became the chief U.S representative of the Pyongyang sanctioned group of U.S. supporters of North Korea. North Korean media heralded Cupp as a “prominent U.S. public figure.”

In recent years, the North Korean government has joined in alliance and found common cause with American citizens from the violent armed fringes of both the political far right and left, who are members of registered U.S. domestic terrorist organizations, have been convicted for violent racial attacks, claimed to have sent Anthrax chemical warfare agents to the President of the United States, been sentenced to mental institutions for threatening to assassinate sitting U.S. presidents, and been imprisoned for plotting terrorist attacks on U.S soil.

“Comrade Kim Il Sung and Dear Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il are the two greatest human beings in the entire history of the world”

Several have made official visits to North Korea as the invited guests of the Pyongyang government.

The American political activists of the pro-North Korean political organizations created by Pyongyang in the U.S. include leaders of armed white power groups accused of trying to spark violent race wars, ; Americans fighting for the creation of a U.S. state populated exclusively by white people; supporters of the extermination of the Jewish race; who applaud the 9/11 and Oklahoma City terrorist attacks; and others who hold as their ideological mentors the religious suicide cult leader Jim Jones, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden, and the assassins of three U.S. presidents and civil rights leader Martin Luther King.


John Paul Cupp with SKS rifle in 2009, with confederate flag in the background. Photo taken in 2009 while he was advocating white supremacy and head of the official U.S. Songun Politics Study Group

Continues at: http://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-pow ... -revealed/

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The military has a long history of white supremacist members. Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations, served in the Army Air Corps. Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was a naval aviator. Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Even recently, the military’s ranks have been filled with white nationalists. The previously mentioned Devon Arthurs was in the Army Reserves and roomed with a group of white supremacists. Michael Chesny, who gave advice to neo-Nazis on weapons and demolition techniques, was also an explosives expert in the Marines. Joseph Manning was kicked out of the Marine Corps for climbing a building to display a banner with a white supremacist slogan.

Active-Duty Marine Moonlights as Leader of Violent White Supremacist Group: Report, Michael Harriot