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Postby SonicG » Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:19 pm

Very interesting journey for this fragile young ego looking for acceptance. I don't think this article necessarily "humanizes" Anglin but rather points to an interesting nexus of the spiritual void being filled with the lowest ego urge to strike out and try to exact some form of revenge combined with the affects of a steady digital diet of Alex Jones, 4chan, Reddit and, sure, Bitcoin...

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How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?
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Postby Jerky » Wed Dec 20, 2017 5:15 am

It's a toxic brew, that's for sure... an evil "magic potion" of sorts that, at least to my eyes, seems to have been lab-refined and weaponized by parties as yet unknown (for the most part).

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Postby SonicG » Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:17 am

Jerky » Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:15 pm wrote:It's a toxic brew, that's for sure... an evil "magic potion" of sorts that, at least to my eyes, seems to have been lab-refined and weaponized by parties as yet unknown (for the most part).

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...and if the "parties as yet unknown" are the swirling vortexes of chaos??
It is amazing how the neo alt-right nazi pride whatevers have fractured almost immediately after coming to the light...Not that fractures are not also occurring among the mainstream parties and within the progressive left...
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Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:09 am

3 Georgia Cops Indicted for Tasing an Unarmed Black Man to Death

Michael HarriotYesterday 10:50am

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Former Sheriff’s Deputies Rhett Scott, Michael Howell and Henry Lee Copeland (Washington County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office)
Eurie Lee Martin’s niece figures that when he walked out of his Milledgeville, Ga., group home on July 7, he was headed to see his family for his birthday. Sandersville, Ga., was more than 20 miles away, so it makes sense that he would have stopped by a random house in Deep Step, Ga., during his walk and ask for a glass of water.

A stranger knocking at your door at night isn’t a usual occurrence, so it figures that the homeowner shooed Martin away and called 911. Because Martin suffers from schizophrenia, he seemed unbothered and kept walking when Washington County, Ga., sheriff’s deputies pulled up alongside him and tried to ask him questions.

What no one seems to be able to figure out is why Eurie Lee Martin is now dead.

We know who killed Martin. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on Wednesday, three former Washington County deputies—Henry Lee Copeland, Michael Howell and Rhett Scott—were indicted by a grand jury for the murder of the 58-year-old.

WXGA-TV reports that the three ex-deputies will face charges that include:

felony murder with the underlying offense of aggravated assault
felony murder with the underlying offense of false imprisonment
involuntary manslaughter with the underlying offense of reckless conduct
involuntary manslaughter with the underlying offense of simple assault
false imprisonment
aggravated assault
reckless conduct
simple assault
Prosecutors already know how Martin died. Martin died of respiratory distress after being tased repeatedly. The deputies called for medical help, but by the time paramedics arrived on the scene, Martin had stopped breathing.

The situation sounds familiar—a mentally ill man has an encounter with the cops. The man gets violent and attacks the officers. The officers have to restrain the suspect. They arrest him. The end.

Martin’s death probably would have gone down as just another tragic but understandable case of a man who died after law enforcement officers used justifiable force to subdue him. So why are we wondering why Martin is no longer alive? And why are three deputies sworn to protect and serve the public charged with murdering him?

Because, unlike most times this happens, a motorist happened to pass by at the exact time of the incident and captured the incident with his cellphone camera. The video shows Martin backing away from the cops. It shows him writhing on the ground in pain as he is being tased. It shows the officers kneeling on Martin’s body to handcuff him. Police have not released the dashcam video to the public, but the cellphone video doesn’t show Martin punching, kicking or physically attacking the cops in any manner.


But Eurie Lee Martin is still dead, even after the Washington County Sheriff’s Office found that the deputies violated the department’s standard operating procedures. Martin is dead even though all of the officers emerged from the incident without even a scratch on them. Martin is dead despite the fact that District Attorney Hayward Altman said that Martin did nothing to provoke the officers. Martin was tased, handcuffed and placed under arrest before he died, even though a probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found that Martin hadn’t broken a single law.

Eurie Lee Martin is dead.

Still.

And I’m sure you know why.
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Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:09 pm

Florida White Supremacist Group Admits Ties to Alleged Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz

February 15, 2018

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A spokesperson for the white supremacist group Republic of Florida (ROF) told the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday, February 15, that Nikolas Cruz, the man charged with the previous day’s deadly shooting spree at a Parkland, Florida, high school, was associated with his group.

On Wednesday, February 14, Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, allegedly entered the school with an AR-15 and opened fire, killing at least 17 people and injuring 14 more. Cruz left the scene but was later captured by police and has been charged with premeditated murder.

After self-described ROF members claimed on the discussion forum 4chan that Cruz had also been a member, the Anti-Defamation League called the ROF hotline and spoke with an ROF member who identified himself as Jordan Jereb.

Jereb, based in Tallahassee, is believed to be the leader of ROF. In 2016, he was arrested on charges of threatening a staffer in the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott because he was allegedly angry at the staffer’s son.

Jereb said that Cruz was associated with ROF, having been “brought up” by another membe. Jereb added that Cruz had participated in one or more ROF training exercises in the Tallahassee area, carpooling with other ROF members from south Florida.

ROF has members in north and south Florida. The alt right white supremacist group borrows paramilitary concepts from the anti-government extremist militia movement (not itself a white supremacist movement). ROF describes itself as a “white civil rights organization fighting for white identitarian politics” and seeks to create a “white ethnostate” in Florida. Most ROF members are young and the group itself is only a few years old.

Jereb added that ROF had not ordered or wanted Cruz to do anything like the school shooting.

If Cruz’s role is confirmed, the Parkland school shooting would be the second school shooting by a white supremacist in the past two months. In December 2017, another young white supremacist, William Atchison, engaged in a shooting spree at a high school in northwest New Mexico, killing two students before shooting himself.


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Postby American Dream » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:16 pm

TWP chief Matthew Heimbach arrested, top spokesman quits

March 13, 2018
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Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, is free on bond after being charged with strangulation and battery in southern Indiana.

In the wake of the arrest, the organization’s top spokesman and Heimbach's father-in-law, Matthew Parrott, announced he was walking away from the group.

“I’m done. I’m out,” Parrott told the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”

Parrott declined to comment further on Heimbach’s arrest or his resignation.

But, on the alt-right social media platform Gab, Parrott appeared to distance himself from Heimbach and the TWP.

Parrott posted on March 9: “I have attempted to be a positive, uplifting, and unifying voice in the nationalist cause. At a certain point, even the most stubborn man must hold himself accountable to the fruit of his labor. My focus from here on out will be exclusively infrastructure and logistics.”

Details of what led to Heimbach’s arrest on felony charges were not immediately available, though a representative of the Orange County Sheriff's Department confirmed they were related to domestic battery and strangulation. Online court records show the charges were filed Tuesday in Paoli, Indiana, about an hour northwest of Louisville, Kentucky.

Heimbach, 26, posted $1,000 bond and was released Tuesday. He did not answer calls to his cellphone and did not return questions sent by text message from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Heimbach started the Traditionalist Worker Party in 2013 after graduating from Towson University. He and his father-in-law, Parrott, folded in Heimbach’s previous organization, the Traditionalist Youth Network, a new white nationalist organization cloaking itself in “traditionalism.”

The latest arrest puts Heimbach in jeopardy of going to jail for a prior incident.

Heimbach pleaded guilty in July 2017 to disorderly conduct in the assault of a protester at a 2016 campaign event for Donald Trump in Louisville, Kentucky.

Heimbach was fined $145 and sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct, a lesser charge. District Court Judge Stephanie Pearce Burke suspended the jail time so long as Heimbach avoids being charged with another offense in the next two years.

A probation hearing for Heimbach is set in Kentucky on June 1.

A federal civil lawsuit is pending against Heimbach, President Donald Trump and others stemming from the incident.

Heimbach’s arrest is the latest incident to rock the alt-right.

Over the weekend, Richard B. Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, announced he would forgo any more campus speeches for now after a sparsely attended speech on March 5 at Michigan State University.

Heimbach and members of the TWP were outside the agricultural pavilion where Spencer spoke, at one point physically fighting with and throwing rocks at protestors. By the time the fights ended, more than two dozen people - protestors and Spencer supporters – were arrested.

In the days after the Michigan State fracas, Heimbach posted on Gab: “Our speaker spoke at ‘your’ campus. We picked your best fighters up and threw them around like rag dolls until the police stepped in to protect y'all, and we even captured your flag, faggots,” TWP wrote.


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Postby American Dream » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:17 pm

Here is more:


TWP chief Matthew Heimbach arrested for battery after affair with top spokesman's wife
March 13, 2018

Brett Barrouquere and Rachel Janik


Below is an update to an earlier story posted about Matthew Heimbach's arrest.

Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, is free on bond after being charged with battery in southern Indiana after a bizarre sequence of events involving Heimbach having an affair with his chief spokesman’s wife.

Police in Paoli, Indiana, said Heimbach attacked his wife and TWP spokesman Matt Parrott early Tuesday morning after the two confronted him about the affair with Parrott’s wife.

After the arrest, Parrott announced he was walking away from the group.

“I’m done. I’m out,” Parrott told The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”

Parrott declined to comment further on Heimbach’s arrest or his resignation. His resignation came hours after the arrest and just days after he learned of the affair between Heimbach and his wife.

Heimbach, 26, posted $1,000 bond and was released Tuesday. He did not answer calls to his cellphone and did not return questions sent by text message from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The strange incident began just after 1 a.m. Tuesday, when Matt Parrott, 36, called police from a Walmart near his home. He fled to the Walmart with his step-daughter after a violent confrontation with Heimbach.

The step-daughter told police that Heimbach and Parrott’s wife had been having an affair for three months. Heimbach and Parrott’s wife said the fling had ended.

The step-daughter and Parrott’s wife tried to set up Heimbach to see if he would continue the affair after saying it was over, police said in a report.

During the set up at Parrott’s Paoli trailer home, Matthew Parrott and his step-daughter waited outside, standing on a box and watching through a window, police said.

A confrontation ensued between Heimbach and Matt Parrott. Parrott told police Heimbach twisted him down to the ground, then “choked [him] out.”

“He grabbed and injured my hand after I poked his chest then choked me out with his arm,” Parrott said in a handwritten statement to police. “Then he chased me to my home and did it again.”

After police arrived, the responding officer overheard a verbal confrontation between Heimbach and his wife, followed by a “scuffle,” the report states. Heimbach’s wife said her husband kicked a wall, grabbed her face “and threw me with the hand on my face onto the bed.” Police said the step-daughter recorded the attack on her cellphone.

In the report, all four people involved in the incident recorded their occupations as “White Nationalist.”

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Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:12 am

Heather Heyer's mom: It took a 'white girl dying for white people to wake up and pay attention'
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State of emergency declared in Charlottesville ahead of anniversary


PHOTO: Members of white nationalists rally around a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. Joshua Roberts/Reuters/FILE
WATCH A timeline of the 2017 protests in Charlottesville and political fallout

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville have declared a state of emergency ahead of the anniversary of the violent Unite the Right rally.

The first iteration of the group's rally took place in the sleepy Virginia town last August. On the anniversary on Sunday, large protests and parades are planned in Washington, D.C., as well as smaller memorial events in Charlottesville.

On Aug. 12, 2017, Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when she was struck by a car that had plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters. Two Virginia State troopers were also killed that weekend when their helicopter crashed into woods nearby.

PHOTO: Peter Cvjetanovic marches with white nationalists and far right extremists as they encircle the base of a Thomas Jefferson statue after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11, 2017.Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Peter Cvjetanovic marches with white nationalists and far right extremists as they encircle the base of a Thomas Jefferson statue after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11, 2017.more +
Several events are planned in the Charlottesville area beginning Friday through Sunday to mark the anniversary of the rally, Northam's office said.

(MORE: How Richmond is addressing the debate over Confederate monuments 1 year after Charlottesville)
Northam asked residents to "make alternative plans to engaging with planned demonstrations of hate."

"Virginia continues to mourn the three Virginians who lost their lives in the course of the demonstrations a year ago," Northam said. "We hope the anniversary of those events passes peacefully."

PHOTO: White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the KKK and members of the alt-right attack each other as a counter protester (R) intervenes during the melee outside Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE
White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the KKK and members of the "alt-right" attack each other as a counter protester (R) intervenes during the melee outside Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.more +
Resources from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Health and Virginia National Guard will be present in Charlottesville over the weekend. The declaration, which was issued Wednesday, will also allocate $2 million to pay for the response, according to the governor's office.

(MORE: Driver accused of killing 1 in Charlottesville rally to appear in court)
The 2017 event in Charlottesville stemmed from a gathering of white nationalists and alt-right supporters who formed the "Unite the Right" rally. The outward purpose of the rally was to protest the city's plans to remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army during the Civil War, from a local park.

Hundreds of counter-protesters clashed with the rally attendees, causing violent brawls to break out in the street, prompting then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency.

PHOTO: A vehicle plows into a group of protesters marching along 4th Street NE at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Va., on the day of the Unite the Right rally, Aug. 12, 2017.Ryan M. Kelly/Daily Progress via Pulitzer.org, FILE
A vehicle plows into a group of protesters marching along 4th Street NE at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Va., on the day of the Unite the Right rally, Aug. 12, 2017.more +
Heyer, a counter-protester, was killed and several others were injured when a driver plowed through a crowd of people.

(MORE: $3 million lawsuit filed against organizers of Charlottesville rally)
What is expected to happen this weekend?

In addition to the events in Charlottesville, much attention will be paid to the "Unite the Right" parade and rally, which is slated to take place in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

Permits for protests have been granted in different parts of the nation's capital with the organizers of the original "Unite the Right" rally planning to march from a nearby Metro station to a demonstration in Lafayette Square Park, directly opposite the White House.

Counter-demonstrations have also received permits, including groups like Black Lives Matter and an individual who plans to burn a Confederate flag in Lafayette Park.

More details about the demonstrations are expected to be released in the coming days.

ABC News' MEGHAN KENEALLY contributed to this report.
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Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:14 pm

A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come

Christian Picciolini discusses the mainstreaming of white nationalism, what it takes to de-radicalize far-right extremists, and why the problem is metastasizing.

Yara BayoumyKathy Gilsinan

Aug 6, 2019

It’s going to get worse.

That’s the warning of a former violent extremist, Christian Picciolini, who joined a neo-Nazi movement 30 years ago and now tries to get people out of them. White-supremacist terrorists—the ones who have left dozens dead in attacks in Pittsburgh, New Zealand, and El Paso, Texas, in recent months—aren’t just trying to outdo one another, he told us. They’re trying to outdo Timothy McVeigh, the anti-government terrorist who blew up an Oklahoma City federal building and killed more than 100 people in 1995—the worst terrorist attack in the United States before September 11, 2001.

On Saturday morning in El Paso, a gunman shot and killed 22 people, including children, at a Walmart. The store was crowded for back-to-school-shopping season. The victims included a high-school student, an elementary-school teacher, and a couple carrying their infant son, who survived. And the shooter, according to an online manifesto authorities attributed to the suspect, saw himself fighting a “Hispanic invasion” as he gunned them down.
That shooting, along with another one hours later, in which an attacker killed nine people over 30 seconds in Dayton, Ohio, renewed the clamor for gun-control laws that has become a grim ritual after such events. But Picciolini said that even if the U.S. could get a handle on its gun problem, terrorists can always find other ways. McVeigh had his car bomb, the September 11th hijackers had their airplanes, Islamic State attackers have suicide bombings, trucks, and knives. “I have to ask myself, Do we have white-nationalist airline pilots?” Picciolini said. “There have to be. I knew people in powerful positions, in politics, in law enforcement, who were secretly white nationalists. I think we’d be stupid and selfish to think that we don’t have those in the truck-driving industry.”

Picciolini now runs a global network, the Free Radicals Project, where former extremists like him provide counseling to others trying to leave extremist movements. He spoke with us yesterday morning about the mainstreaming of white nationalism, what it takes to de-radicalize far-right extremists, and why the problem is metastasizing.
A condensed and edited transcript of the conversation follows.

Yara Bayoumy: What are your thoughts in the aftermath of El Paso?
Christian Picciolini: I’m as horrified as everyone else is. And frustrated, because this is something I’ve been banging the drum about for 20 years—that the escalation of violence would get worse. The [white-supremacist] ideology is spreading more into the mainstream than it ever has before. There aren’t checks and balances to counter it. There aren’t programs being funded to help people disengage from extremism. Some of the rhetoric coming from the very top is emboldening extremists.

Bayoumy: Talk to us about the evolution you’ve seen since you were in the movement 30 years ago—these views used to be on the fringe, and now are much more mainstream.
Picciolini: Unfortunately, I think that the underpinnings of the ideology have always been there. The extremists were on the fringe, and very visible, but other people weren’t willing to voice those beliefs. Thirty years ago, when I was in the movement, we were turning off the average American white racists who didn’t want to be so open and visible about those beliefs. So there was this effort to make it more mainstream, to grow the hair out, turn in the “boots for suits.” I never thought we would have a social and political climate that really kind of brought it to the foreground. Because it’s starting to seem less like a fringe ideology and more like a mainstream ideology.
Kathy Gilsinan: What role does the internet play? There’s a lot of discussion about internet radicalization for members of ISIS—is this a parallel process for white-supremacist movements, or are there differences?

Picciolini: It’s a very parallel process. The propaganda is very similar. The internet itself is a platform. Thirty years ago, marginalized, broken, angry young people had to be met face-to-face to get recruited into a movement. Nowadays, those millions and millions of young people are living most of their lives online if they don’t have real-world connections. And they’re finding a community online instead of in the real world, and having conversations about promoting violence.
Bayoumy: What about the shooter’s apparent anti-immigrant manifesto? Does anything in it strike you as surprising?
Picciolini: Unfortunately I’ve read every one of these things, since the first, in 2009, when James von Brunn walked into the D.C. Holocaust Museum and killed a guard [Stephen Johns]. He left a manifesto that had the same conspiracy theories, and much of the same language, that [we’ve seen] in other shootings up until this week—this whole idea of the “Great Replacement,” of “white genocide,” the belief that immigrants are going to overwhelm the white race. That, frankly, is a crock of shit. But we see things in the news that seem to kind of stand behind these notions—that border facilities are overwhelmed. Even though it’s not really a threat to anyone’s race. Migration has been happening for centuries, and we’re still here. Nations change over centuries, borders have been different. But that’s all the language white supremacists have been using for decades.



Bayoumy: What about the international connections between these movements?
Picciolini: There was always a connection overseas; these far-right movements shared the same names, the same leadership structure. Certainly the manifestos suggest that they’re playing off of each other; the El Paso shooter referenced support for the New Zealand shooter. It’s no longer a lone-wolf-type situation, which is something we were pushing in the ’80s and ’90s. The ideology then was that there were no leaders, there was no centralized movement, individuals were empowered to act on their own. But the internet has really solidified this movement globally through all these forums online; they’re connected in the virtual world in ways that we often can’t be in the real world. I would say that the threat of a transnational, global white-supremacist terrorist movement is spreading.
Bayoumy: How do they raise money?
Picciolini: Thirty years ago, music was the vehicle for that; you’d have touring white-supremacist metal bands, and groups would raise money off ticket sales. Nowadays, there’s a lot of crowdsourcing. These groups are generating revenue, for instance, through serving ads on some of their propaganda videos. If ads are being served on their videos, chances are good, depending on how many views, they’re making ad revenue based on Google, Facebook, YouTube, serving ads against their content. So, in that sense, de-platforming is good. It does slow them down quite a bit. From my perspective, it also makes people harder to reach. And a lot of times, it also emboldens them to get even more vile and vitriolic about what they’re doing, because they feel kind of like a caged animal. They play the victim narrative.

Bayoumy: What do you make of the president’s tweets Monday morning, in which he tried to connect gun background checks to immigration restrictions? [In later remarks on Monday, the president said: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated.”]
Picciolini: Any tragedy that happens now is being politicized, so it doesn’t surprise me. He’s very good at kicking little buckets of gasoline over sparks of fire that already exist. Racism existed before he became president, and is now again at the fore. When he says those things, he is speaking to his base by not coming out strong for a very specific opinion, as after Charlottesville[, Virginia,] when he said there were good people on both sides. This is a little bit of a dilemma for me, because I also have to believe there are good people on both sides in order to do what I do.

Bayoumy: That’s a good segue to get into your own story. How did you go through this evolution and find yourself on the other side of this? And since then, how have you been able to help people who are still in these groups? Have you noticed any change in the frequency of people who want to leave these movements but don’t know how?



Picciolini: I’ve seen the requests for help skyrocket since 2014. I was recruited when I was 14 years old, in 1987. My parents are Italian immigrants, and when they came over they struggled, had to work constantly, so I didn’t see them very much. But I grew up in a loving family. Still, I went searching for a sense of identity and community and purpose. I was standing in an alley, and a man came and recruited me. I spent eight years as part of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead group. I didn’t have a foundation for racism; everything I wore as a suit of armor, I ended up believing, and certainly promoting and acting on. But the foundation of racism was never there for me. When I started to meet people that challenged what I believed about them, people that were black, brown, gay—they showed me compassion at a time in my life when I least deserved it. I’d kind of sealed myself off from the real world for eight years, and when I finally started to get peeks at what these people were really like, things changed.

I got out in 1996, and spent three years trying to self-reflect after disengaging, and trying to understand how and why I got there—really struggling with that, until around 2000, when I started … unofficially doing the work that I was doing. I was walking through a mall in Chicago, and still had tattoos on my arms from the old days, and a man walked up to me and said, “White power.” I was out at that point, so I sat and talked to him for a little while. And I don’t know what happened to that guy, but he seemed pretty amenable to the fact that I was leaving. And I hope he got out. But that was kind of my first unofficial intervention, 20 years ago, and I have been doing that ever since.
I don’t necessarily look for people. They find me. I do interviews, I have a TV show, I’ve published a memoir. Anytime people see an interview or a TED Talk, they reach out to me. Because there really is nobody else to turn to. If you have a heroin addiction, there are groups for that. If you’re being abused, there are groups to turn to for that. But unfortunately, if you’re struggling with these ideas of hate, there really is nobody else.

Bayoumy: What does disengagement look like? What’s a typical example of someone reaching out to you saying they want to leave? How do you help them through that?
Picciolini: It’s a whole lot of listening. I listen for what I call potholes: things that happen to us in our journey of life that detour us, things like trauma, abuse, mental illness, poverty, joblessness. Even privilege can be a pothole that detours us. As I listen to those—rather than debate or confront them about their ideology, but creating a rapport with them—I start to fill in those potholes. I will find resources in their community to help them deal with the trauma, with whatever it is that was the motivation for them to go in that direction. Nobody’s born racist; we all found it. Then I leverage the community around them to try to engage them and support them, and try to find ways for them to crawl out of that hole. Typically what I found is, people hate other people because they hate something very specifically about themselves, or are very angry about a situation within their own environment, and that is then projected onto other people. So I’m really trying to build resilience with people.



I’ll also do immersions to try to challenge their ideology—so I’ll introduce them to the people they think they hate once they’re ready, and challenge them in the same way I was challenged. It’s helped me disengage over 300 people over the years.
Bayoumy: What are some of the things that prompt these people to question their beliefs?
Picciolini: Certainly not facts. It’s very emotional. I try to take them through an emotional journey where they come to the conclusion that they’ve changed, and it’s not me telling them that they’ve changed. What I’ve found least effective is me telling them that they’re wrong, or me telling them that they need to think a certain way. Typically these people are pretty idealistic, although they’re lost, typically pretty bruised emotionally, and they have very low self-esteem.
Gilsinan: So it’s not effective to say, “Actually, immigration is often good for the economy.” Then what’s your answer instead?
Picciolini: I’ve always found it very difficult to sway opinion when it’s a group of people. When people are in a group, they tend to not be as vulnerable or as forthcoming. So I think it has to be a personal journey. But there has to be a way to sway a whole group of people, so facts are important—for most people, facts are still important. For folks in these movements, they have their own set of facts. Two plus two equals five, so you can’t argue that two plus two equals four, even though we know that that’s the case. You have to take them through situations where they challenge themselves.

I was working with a 31-year-old man in Buffalo, New York, several years ago, and he had been discharged from the military for an injury that he suffered during basic training and wasn’t able to deploy to Iraq at the time. And he saw all his friends go off to war and fighting for America, and he wasn’t racist going in, but he started going in that direction and became very much of an Islamophobe. When he came home, he started drinking and got really heavily involved in the white-power movement.
He got a copy of my book and he wasn’t very happy with [it], because I had left the movement and he was still very much in it. And after a couple of weeks of talking with him, I finally met him in person and asked him if he’d ever met a Muslim person before, and he said he didn’t want to; he thought that they were evil, the enemy, animals, whatever, insert word here. And when I flew out I had arranged, unbeknownst to him, a meeting with an imam at a local mosque. When I convinced him to go, we spoke with the imam, and then two hours later, it was as if these men had known each other their whole lives. The guy who I was working with was a Christian, and he learned that Jesus was part of the Koran, and Muslims revered him as a prophet—all these things that he never knew. They were both Chuck Norris fans; they bonded over that. We were crying at the end, and hugging.



And now they eat falafel together every chance they get.
But it’s not an easy process; it’s a very, very long process. If you think about quitting smoking, or drinking, or anything like that. For me, from the time I was 14 years old till I was 23, those were kind of the adult developmental years, so there were a lot of things that I had to unlearn.
Gilsinan: So what can the U.S. do on the policy front? What has your experience been like trying to work with the government on these issues? Are we equipped to deal with this?
Picciolini: I think we can be equipped. There’s just no will to build something about domestic extremism. We don’t currently have any hate-crime laws that apply to online activity, but photoshopping someone’s face onto an Auschwitz prisoner on Twitter isn’t so different from spray-painting a swastika in a synagogue. I think we need to start asking ourselves what kind of policies need to be in place, not to limit speech, but to protect people from it. I don’t know what the answer is there.

Gilsinan: What’s next?
Picciolini: I really think we need to get away from using the term lone wolves, because while they are single actors, they are part of a larger ecosystem. I just think it’s going to get worse before it gets better. They’re all trying to outdo each other, not just the last person, but Timothy McVeigh. Terrorists will always find another way to do it. I have to ask myself, Do we have white-nationalist airline pilots? There have to be. I knew people in powerful positions, in politics, in law enforcement, who were secretly white nationalists. I think we’d be stupid and selfish to think that we don’t have those in the truck-driving industry.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:00 pm

I forgot about this thread ..thanks for the bump

Republicans Have Been Coddling and Protecting Far Right Extremists for Decades
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Yesterday we learned more details about the White House’s continued indifference to or actual interference with the DHS’s efforts to combat violent white supremacist extremism and terrorism. This is hardly surprising. There’s basically no clear line separating the kind of folks Trump invited to his social media ‘bias’ festival at the White House and various white supremacist propagandists who radicalize guys like the shooter in El Paso. But it’s misleading to see this as particular to Trump or this administration. This goes back at least 25 years and is in its own way comparable to NRA-backed legislative mandates preventing federal public health officials from funding research on gun violence.

Many point to 2009 when a DHS report on rising right-wing violent extremism became a huge brouhaha after it was leaked to conservative media. Then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano vaguely pushed back in defense of the report. But the Department basically caved to rightwing pressure and halted efforts to monitor and counter this rising terrorist threat. As the author of the report, Daryl Johnson, explained two years ago: “Work related to violent right-wing extremism was halted. Law enforcement training also stopped. My unit was disbanded. And, one-by-one, my team of analysts left for other employment. By 2010, there were no intelligence analysts at DHS working domestic terrorism threats.”

But even this only scratches the surface of the pre-history. Rightwing extremist violence also surged in the early mid-90s. This was largely driven by a Democrat in the White House for the first time in a dozen years (it’s a pattern as sure as clockwork). But there was a major push on Capitol Hill to valorize right wing radicals as an oppressed minority targeted by out of control federal law enforcement. This was the context of Wayne LaPierre’s infamous 1995 attack on federal law enforcement officials as “jack-booted government thugs [who guns laws had given] more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us.”

There was “Ruby Ridge”, the raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and more. Some of these incidents did reveal needless or at least unwise escalation by federal officials. But the real impact was to make federal law enforcement extremely wary of ever enforcing the law – whether it be about firearms, land use or anything else – if the suspects were white right-wingers in the American West – a fact peculiarly in evidence in the clownish Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016 and the earlier, related Bundy ranch stand off in 2014.

There was also a notorious but now little remembered hearing up on Capitol Hill in June 1995, soon after Republicans took over the Congress and only a couple months after the destruction of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City by militia member Timothy McVeigh. Republicans brought “militia” leaders from across the country up to the Hill in a hearing clearly intended to humanize them and present them as ordinary Americans standing up for their rights. This was before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. But there was a concerted effort, through these and other means, to limit or stigmatize any effort to combat criminal activities, menacing and related hate crimes by far right extremists.

It’s happening today in perhaps a more open and concerted way. But this isn’t new. The LaPierre nugget itself actually shows some of the pre-history of Trumpism and continuity over the last three decades. A year before the “jack-booted thug” line LaPierre told an NRA convention that “our media has become the master over the very Constitution that created it. Forget Stalin’s Russia. Forget Hitler’s Germany. The mightiest propaganda machine the world has ever known is right here in 1994 America.” This consistent pattern of Republicans acting aggressively to prevent scrutiny, monitoring or action against violent far right extremists stretches back almost 30 years. They have been extremely successful.
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Fox Corporation board members stay silent amid Tucker Carlson controversy
New York (CNN Business) — The seven members of Fox Corporation's board of directors continued to remain silent on Thursday, two days after Tucker Carlson used his Fox News prime time program to falsely claim that the white supremacy problem in America is a "hoax."

Hope Hicks, Fox's chief spokesperson, did not respond Thursday when asked if Rupert Murdoch, the company chairman, or his son Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive, had a comment about Carlson's remarks.

A representative for Paul Ryan, the former House speaker who sits on the media company's board, directed requests for comment on Wednesday to Fox. Hicks did not reply either Wednesday or Thursday when asked if Ryan had a comment.
Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan joins board of Fox Corporation
The silence comes as Carlson faced widespread criticism for downplaying the threat of white supremacy as "actually not a real problem in America."

It's "just like the Russia hoax," he said on Tuesday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power." On Twitter Wednesday, the "#FireTuckerCarlson" hashtag trended.

Carlson defended his inflammatory comments on his Wednesday night program, but then announced at the end of his show that he would be taking a vacation.
A Fox News spokesperson told CNN that Carlson would return on August 19 and said the vacation had been in the works before Carlson made his inflammatory remarks. There is, however, a very long history of Fox News hosts suddenly going on vacation after igniting controversy.
Other members of Fox's board have also remained silent amid the backlash.

Roland Hernandez, the former chief executive of Telemundo, hung up the phone when reached for comment on Wednesday. Hernandez did not respond to multiple requests for comment sent after the phone call.

Chase Carey, the chief executive of Formula One, and Anne Dias, the chief executive of Aragon Global Holdings who is also teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, did not respond to multiple requests for comment sent to email addresses for their company representatives.

Neither a working phone number or email address could be located for Jacques Nasser, the former chief executive of the Ford Motor Company who also sits on Fox's board. Hicks did not respond when asked on Thursday if he had a comment.

Carlson's remarks came after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, prompted media scrutiny of the racist views that the suspected shooter believed to have harbored. Politicians and authorities have sounded the alarm on the growing threat of white nationalist violence, but Carlson insisted on his show that "the whole thing is a lie."
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A Neo-Nazi Has Been Ordered To Pay $700,000 To A Woman Targeted In A Racist “Troll Swarm”
The judge ruled that the owner of the Daily Stormer’s actions “were racially motivated and intentionally resulted in a campaign of racial and gender harassment.”

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Posted on August 9, 2019, at 5:29 p.m. ET


A federal judge ruled more than $700,000 should be awarded to a woman who was barraged with racist, sexist, and threatening messages after a known white supremacist used his neo-Nazi website to encourage his followers to harass her.

The ruling was handed down Friday against known white supremacist Andrew Anglin, the founder and publisher of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, as well as one of his followers who repeatedly harassed Taylor Dumpson.

In her decision, US District Judge Rosemary Collyer said that Anglin’s actions “were racially motivated and intentionally resulted in a campaign of racial and gender harassment.”

“The extent of the troll storm was significant and Mr. Anglin, through the Daily Stormer, intended that result or was reckless in his actions,” said Collyer.

This ruling comes a day after a Montana judge entered a final order that Anglin pay $14 million to another woman he encouraged his followers to harass.


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Taylor Dumpson, pictured in 2017.
Dumpson was elected student government president of American University in 2017 — the first black woman president in the school’s history. The day she took office, several bananas with racist messages were found hanging from nooses.

The incident sparked national headlines, eventually attracting Anglin’s attention.

Four days after the bananas were found on the American University campus, Anglin encouraged his followers to troll Dumpson in a Daily Stormer post.


Court Documents
Alongside her picture, Anglin posted links to Dumpson’s personal Facebook page and the AU student government Twitter account, encouraging his readers to “let her know you fully support her fight against bananas.”

At the time, the director of the ADL Center on Extremism, Oren Segal, told BuzzFeed News that Anglin had “made a career encouraging people to target anybody he can get fame for harassing.”

Anglin’s followers immediately starting sending obscenely racist messages to Dumpson. Among them was Brian Andrew Ade, who is also named in the ruling.

Ade’s messages to Dumpson on Twitter invoked racial stereotypes and he referred to her repeatedly as a “chimpanzee” or “sheboon,” according to court documents.

Ade and Anglin, the two defendants, are both responsible for making the payment to Dumpson.

Judge Collyer also ordered that neither contact Dumpson or post anything online about her.
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Federal Court Sanctions Charlottesville Defendants Days Before Anniversary of Unite the Right Violence

Plaintiffs in Integrity First for America’s Suit Win Sanctions Against White Supremacist Defendants Elliot Kline (aka Eli Mosley), Matthew Heimbach, and Vanguard America

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Days before the two-year anniversary of the Unite the Right violence, a federal court has sanctioned white supremacists following a motion filed by the plaintiffs in Sines v. Kessler, the landmark civil suit backed by Integrity First for America (IFA) against the two dozen individuals and groups responsible.

Elliot Kline (aka Eli Mosley), Matthew Heimbach, and Vanguard America were primary organizers of the violence over August 11 and 12, 2017. The lawsuit details how the violence was meticulously planned for months in advance, including via the online chat platform Discord. Kline, Heimbach, and Vanguard America have so flagrantly violated court-ordered discovery obligations that the plaintiffs moved for sanctions earlier this year — first against Kline and Heimbach and then against Vanguard America.

In the opinion issued today, the federal court sanctioned defendants Kline, Heimbach, and Vanguard America by requiring them to pay plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees. The court also left the door open to even harsher sanctions depending on the defendants’ future compliance with their discovery obligations.

As the court explained in today's decision, “Defendants have continually failed to fulfill even their most basic obligations to this Court, their counsel, and the other parties to this case. Their refusal to meaningfully participate in discovery—or in Kline’s case to participate at all—despite repeated court orders directing them to do so has shifted everyone’s focus ‘from the merits to the collateral and needless’ and stalled the litigation’s progress for months on end. This behavior is unacceptable and will be sanctioned.”

The court continued, “‘Ordinary defendants must participate in the ordinary process of litigation,’ even if they do not want to. They cannot ‘step in and out’ of the litigation at their leisure; abandon the case because they are ‘kind of frustrated’ and do not ‘want to deal with it’; or ‘respon[d] to . . . [a] court order’ compelling discovery by firing their attorneys and refusing to show up for court. ‘On these facts, [I] cannot interpret [each Defendant’s] continued disregard for’ the Court and its orders ‘as anything other than bad faith.’” Opinion at 31 (internal citations omitted).

Plaintiffs have previously won sanctions against defendant Jeff Schoep.

“Over and over again, these defendants have defied court orders in an attempt to avoid accountability for the racist violence they planned and caused in Charlottesville. These sanctions make clear that time is up. Today marks one more important step forward in holding these neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups accountable for their actions,” said Integrity First for America Executive Director Amy Spitalnick.
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White supremacists were responsible for every single incident of domestic terrorism in 2018, according to a government document that The Justice Dept was “unable or unwilling” to give to Congress. They knew—and they just didn’t tell anyone. It’s now public.


Here's the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been 'unable or unwilling' to give to Congress
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WASHINGTON — Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018, according to a government document distributed earlier this year to state, local and federal law enforcement.

The document, which has not been previously reported on, becomes public as the Trump administration’s Justice Department has been unable or unwilling to provide data to Congress on white supremacist domestic terrorism.

The data in this document, titled “Domestic Terrorism in 2018,” appears to be what Congress has been asking for — and didn’t get.

The document, dated April 15, 2019, shows 25 of the 46 individuals allegedly involved in 32 different domestic terrorism incidents were identified as white supremacists. It was prepared by New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security Preparedness, one of the main arteries of information sharing, and sent throughout the DHS fusion center network as well as federal agencies, including the FBI.

“This map reflects 32 domestic terrorist attacks, disrupted plots, threats of violence, and weapons stockpiling by individuals with a radical political or social agenda who lack direction or influence from foreign terrorist organizations in 2018,” the document says.

The map and data was circulated throughout the Department of Justice and around the country in April just as members of the Senate pushed the DOJ to provide them with precise information about the number of white supremacists involved in domestic terrorism. While the document shows this information clearly had been compiled, some of the senators say the Justice Department would not give them the figures.

The DOJ did not respond to Yahoo News’ questions about why this data was not sent to Congress.

“I’m troubled by the lack of transparency, given that we haven’t received this critical information after several requests to the FBI and DOJ. They cannot and should not remain silent in the face of such a dangerous threat,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote in an email, after being told about the data.

Booker is part of a group of senators on the Judiciary Committee who have raised concerns about how the Justice Department categorizes domestic terror incidents and expressed concerns that white supremacist violence is being downplayed.

An aide to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who is also on the Judiciary Committee, said it was “disappointing” to discover the Justice Department has information it has been “unable or unwilling” to provide to senators.

“This is disappointing but unfortunately not surprising. In April, the Justice Department and the FBI briefed Senate Judiciary Committee staff on domestic terrorism, nearly six months after Sen. Durbin’s office first requested the briefing,” the aide said. “At the briefing, the DOJ and the FBI were unable or unwilling to provide precise data on white supremacist terrorism, and neither agency has responded to our repeated follow-up questions since the briefing.”

After the briefing with officials from the Justice Department and FBI, Booker, Durbin and other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray in May outlining their concerns about the categorization of domestic terrorism incidents.

“For the past decade, the FBI used 11 different categories for domestic terrorism, including a separate category for white supremacist incidents. The Administration is now using a classification system with only four categories, including ‘racially-motivated violent extremism,’” the letter said. “This new category inappropriately combines incidents involving white supremacists and so-called ‘Black identity extremists,’ a fabricated term based on a faulty assessment of a small number of isolated incidents.”

In the letter, the senators said they were “deeply concerned that this reclassification downplays the significance of the white supremacist threat.” They also indicated that they asked the FBI and DOJ officials involved in the briefing for information about white supremacist terrorism and were not provided with it.

“The briefers provided statistics on racially motivated violent extremism … but could not say how many involved white supremacist violence, other than to acknowledge they were ‘a majority’ of the incidents. If we do not understand the scope of the problem, we cannot effectively address it,” the letter said.

Wray testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on July 23, and Booker asked him about the bureau’s categorization of domestic terrorist groups. A week later, Booker sent Wray a request for additional information for the record, including the number of attacks and fatalities that “have been attributed to white supremacists since 2000.”

“During your hearing, I asked you a number of questions regarding the number of violent attacks and fatalities categorized as domestic terrorism, and you were unable to provide that data,” Booker wrote to Wray. Booker’s office said Wray has not responded to his request.

The April 15 document is available online on the New Jersey state government’s website.

In response to questions from Yahoo News, an FBI spokesperson declined to comment on whether the information was given to the senators, but insisted the FBI was regularly working with relevant congressional committees.

“While we don’t comment on congressional engagement, we can assure you that the FBI routinely engages with our oversight authorities in Congress around requests for information and FBI operations,” the FBI spokesperson said.

The FBI declined to comment on the April 15 document, saying the bureau “is not going to comment on somebody else’s product.”

A Department of Justice spokesperson referred Yahoo News to congressional testimony Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann gave before the House Homeland Security Committee in May for a description of “the department’s efforts in the domestic terrorism area in general.”

The document groups the 46 individuals allegedly involved in domestic terror incidents last year into three categories: “race-based extremists,” “anti-government extremists” and “single-issue extremists.” But the map also includes more detailed data within these categories and all 25 of the individuals classified as “race-based extremists” are identified as “white supremacists.”

The government’s classification of individuals under specific categories does not indicate they were necessarily convicted of crimes for extremist behavior, or that the actual charges against them included an extremist element. A Yahoo News review of the cases found that many were still pending, and we blurred out details identifying two individuals. (In one instance, the status of the case was unclear; in the other, the charges were dismissed.)

Some Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have argued that the Justice Department’s decision to reduce the number of categories, and using only “race-based extremists,” will make tracking white supremacists more difficult.

“The Trump administration’s irresponsible decision to stop tracking white supremacist incidents as a separate category of domestic terrorism obfuscates the extent of this threat,” Durbin’s aide said.

In his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, Wray, when pressed, said the “majority” of domestic terrorism cases last year involved white supremacists. However, he did not provide specific figures.

Booker said he was not surprised to learn the data shows that race-based attacks last year involved white supremacists. He cited a spate of recent high-profile incidents, including the Aug. 3 shooting in El Paso that left 22 people dead, as proof of the white supremacist threat.

“While white supremacy is not a new phenomenon in America, it’s incredibly troubling the way the movement has been emboldened and the administration’s efforts to obfuscate the data on these terrorist incidents simply defies logic,” Booker said.

In March, Durbin introduced the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act in the wake of a shooting at a mosque in New Zealand. The bill called on the DOJ and on FBI offices that monitor, investigate and prosecute domestic terrorism to assess the “threat posed by white supremacists” and to “provide transparency through a public quantitative analysis of domestic terrorism-related assessments, investigations, incidents, arrests, indictments, prosecutions, convictions, and weapons recoveries.” Booker was among the co-sponsors of the bill.

According to Durbin’s aide, the ambiguity in the current classification system and the DOJ’s apparent reluctance to release data on white supremacist terrorism raises concerns about whether adequate resources are being devoted to the threat.

“This highlights the problem with not specifically tracking white supremacist attacks,” the aide said of the document. “If we do not understand the scope of this problem, we cannot effectively combat it.”

Martin de Bourmont contributed research to this article.
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Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally

Last week Hatewatch exposed several leaders of that group, Identity Dixie (ID), who were instrumental in promoting and coordinating the Aug. 12, 2017, “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Hatewatch contacted Joseph Platania, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Charlottesville, regarding Identity Dixie’s involvement in “Unite the Right” and the disclosure of names of people who lead the group. Platania declined to answer specific questions and explained, “The Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney’s Office does not comment on the existence or status of criminal investigations.”

In addition to the continued criminal investigative work about the rally, a civil case, Sines v. Kessler et al, exists. The case, filed in late 2017, includes former Identity Dixie member Jason Kessler as a defendant.

Kessler belonged to the Proud Boys, a hate group comprising self-described “Western chauvinists,” when he secured the permit to hold the “Unite the Right” rally. He later joined Identity Dixie but left the group in 2018.

The organization and attorneys that represent plaintiffs in the Sines case also continue their investigation. “It’s no surprise that many defendants in our suit are connected to this group – and it serves as one more horrifying example of how these violent extremists co-opted social media to recruit and plan for the bloodshed in Charlottesville,” Amy Spitalnick said. She serves as the executive director for Integrity First for America, the organization that is funding the suit for the 11 plaintiffs. Spitalnick declined to provide additional information.

However, the Sines lawsuit describes defendants it lists as “the individuals and organizations that conspired to plan, promote, and carry out the violent events in Charlottesville.”

Hatewatch acquired and published the real names of Identity Dixie members and information that suggests they, too, planned participation in “Unite the Right.”

Identity Dixie leaders Eric Field, Bret Lynn and Lucas Gordon operate Identity Dixie’s website, forum and podcast under the pseudonyms “Mencken’s Ghost,” “Musonius Rufus” and “Silas Reynolds,” respectively.

The trio, along with “Ryan McMahon” and “Dark Enlightenment,” heavily promoted the deadly “Unite the Right” rally through Identity Dixie’s “Rebel Yell” podcast. Identity Dixie leaders worked with other “alt-right” groups to coordinate attendance at the rally, arranging transportation to and from the rally and lodging before and after the event. They also organized a “security detail” composed of their members for event organizer Kessler.

Kessler appeared on “Rebel Yell” twice in the runup to “Unite the Right.”

On a May 19, 2017, episode titled “Jason Kessler, Right-Wing Activism,” Lynn aka “Musonius Rufus” encouraged listeners to donate to Identity Dixie so the funds could go towards Kessler’s legal defense in a disorderly conduct charge. The charge, which was later dismissed, stemmed from Kessler’s involvement in the May 14, 2017, torchlit rally in Charlottesville’s Market Street Park (then known as Lee Park).

A post titled “Charlottesville: You Will Not Replace Us” under Lucas Gordon’s “Silas Reynolds” byline on the ID website indicates members participated in the May 14, 2017, rally along with “Identity Evropa, Vanguard America, League of the South [and] The Traditionalist Worker’s Party.” The blog promotes the white genocide conspiracy theory, claiming that “Removing statues is simply a foreshadowing of what the (((Marxist))) memory hole wishes to vanquish; the European people. Sensing the direction of these anti-White actions, our people have motivated to preempt any further progress our enemies seek.” The author shared photographs of individuals he suspected of being Jewish or LGBTQ.

Kessler returned to “Rebel Yell” on July 6, 2017, to decry the “hyperbolic rhetoric by the media” regarding the event after journalists noted the visual similarities between the torchlit rally and cross-lightings at Ku Klux Klan gatherings.

Kessler’s second “Rebel Yell” appearance was intended to build hype for the planned follow-up to the torchlit rally. Initially known as “Charlottesville 2.0,” the rally is now known as “Unite the Right.”

“Rebel Yell” episodes following the July 6, 2017, interview with Kessler featured an audio advertisement encouraging attendance at the rally:

There will be a “Unite the Right” rally this August 12th in Charlottesville, Virginia. Richard Spencer is returning to defend Lee’s statue in defiance of the Media’s smear campaign against Identity Europa’s rally for the statue. Other speakers will include Mike Enoch, Matthew Heimbach, Augustus Invictus, and Dr. Michael Hill of the League of the South. Bring your Southern flags, gentlemen.

Former Identity Evropa leader Elliot Kline, aka “Eli Mosley,” named Identity Dixie as a “Group/Sponsor” in a secret planning document prepared for white nationalist groups attending “Unite the Right.” That document is listed as an exhibit in the Sines v. Kessler lawsuit.

Identity Dixie appears to have had a channel in the “Unite the Right” planning server “Charlottesville 2.0.” Discord chats leaked by media collective Unicorn Riot show that Erica Alduino, posting under the username “Erika,” – who served as liaison between various alt-right groups – posted in “Charlottesville 2.0 #announcements”:

@everyone If you are a member of Identity Evropa, ATL-Right, Traditionalist Workers Party, Vanguard America, League Of The South, Identity Dixie, or any other organization I failed to name, please DM me. I set up private, organization specific channels so members in each group can coordinate and socialize with each other.

Identity Dixie members attending “Unite the Right” were instructed in ID’s secret Facebook group to wear a distinctive uniform consisting of a blue collared sport shirt and khaki pants. Several members bore the group’s flag, a “Southern Nationalist” flag adorned with a cartoon magnolia flower.

Virginia’s governor canceled the rally before it began. After an order to disperse, videos from that day show members of Identity Dixie marching away from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville and fighting with counterprotesters along their path. Subsequently, members of Identity Dixie praised themselves for participating in the failed rally and its aftermath.

Identity Dixie shield
Member “Spencer Reeshly” shared an image of a wooden shield adorned with Identity Dixie’s logo and the slogan “You Will Not Replace Us” built for “Unite the Right.”
Member “Spencer Reeshly” shared an image of a wooden shield adorned with Identity Dixie’s logo and the slogan “You Will Not Replace Us” built for “Unite the Right.”

Following “Unite the Right,” Lynn, under his “Musonius Rufus” pseudonym, took to ID’s secret Facebook group to thank a member who “led the brethren of Identity Dixie in this battle,” and acted as Kessler’s personal security during the event.

Lynn asks ID members to stay
Lynn, aka "Musonius Rufus," discouraged members from fleeing the group post-“Unite the Right.”
Responding to Lynn’s remarks “Hamish Bone” demurred on his role and stated, “as for leading ID, Silas and Mike led ID into Cville. Silas opened his home to all of us when we had nowhere to stay.”

Other ID members were lauded for their role in the violence that day. R.G. Miller, Spencer Borum, aka “Spencer Randolph,” and Brandon Richey, who were members in both the League of the South and ID, were filmed pummeling counterprotesters.

“Mitch Hoob” replied in Lynn’s comment that “the greatest fuckin thing was walking towards that massive crowd of psychopaths only to see RG/Spencer Randolph/Brandon Richey come flying through to clear em out allowing us to make it through with ease.”

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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: The Rise of Bigot America Thread

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Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootings after arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out. Here's what we know about them.

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Re: The Rise of Bigot America Thread

Postby Grizzly » Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:49 pm




The whole goal of the elites, Democrats, Republicans, the Senate, the House, people of considerable power and influence, the CIA, 3 letter agencies is to Divide us on every arbitrary issue that doesn’t matter to keep us from noticing the one that does: Wealth
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

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