| No Images? Click here   Welcome to week two of HuffPost’s revamped newsletter about hate and extremism in America! Every week, reporters Luke O'Brien and Christopher Mathias will bring you news and insight from the dark corners of our increasingly polarized political system. From resurgent white nationalists and anti-government militia to social media propagandists and internet trolls, we’ll cover the characters and conversations from around the lunatic fringe. We’ll also look at the far left anti-fascist groups that battle the far right online and in the streets.In October a 26-year-old named Taylor Michael Wilson, armed with a gun and plenty of ammunition, allegedly breached a secure area of an Amtrak train as it passed through a remote area of Nebraska. He pulled the emergency break, sending passengers flying and plunging the train into darkness. "I'm the conductor bitch," he said, reaching for his gun, as Amtrak employees apprehended him. Local law enforcement arrived and arrested Wilson, who was found to be carrying business cards bearing the name of a neo-Nazi group: the National Socialist Movement.A subsequent FBI investigation found Wilson had participated in the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, had a stash of over 20 guns at his house, and according to his cousin, had been "serious about killing black people.” Wilson now faces terror charges — a rare occurrence, as the government rarely calls white dudes terrorists when they commit acts of mass murder or violence, let alone charges them with terrorism.You'd think the DOJ would want to publicize the Wilson case, just as they do so loudly when announcing ISIS-related charges, for example. But there was nary a peep from the DOJ about Wilson. America only learned of this allegedly murderous Nazi when reporter Lori Pilger of the Lincoln Journal Star spotted the unsealed case when checking the federal court docket online.As HuffPost reporter Ryan Reilly explained in depth this week, the lack of attention the Wilson case received "reflects the priorities embedded in a system built up by U.S. lawmakers and law enforcement officials over the years: a U.S. criminal code and federal law enforcement apparatus that treats domestic terrorism as a second-class threat."When Ryan asked why there was no publicity surrounding the Wilson case, the DOJ offered up a baffling explanation: the criminal chief, who normally sends out information on new cases, had taken that day off.
The best way to understand the dangers posed by today’s far-right extremists is to listen to them talk among themselves, which they do incessantly on podcasts. Each week, the Angry White Men blog will highlight a snippet of that conversation to show you what the fascists and racists that make up the "alt-right" actually think. Don't say we didn't warn you, America.This week: an exchange from the latest episode of HateHouse, a podcast on offer from The Right Stuff, a popular white nationalist site. During the episode, co-host Johnny Ramondetta (aka Johnny Monoxide) alighted on the topic that prompts more violent babbling from the alt-right than any other: the Jews. Ramondetta advocated for expelling Jews from the United States. He went even further when he brought up Stephen Miller, the xenophobic Jewish senior adviser to Donald Trump. "He gets to close the oven behind the rest of ‘em when he pulls ‘em all in," Ramondetta said.Larry Ridgeway, the other HateHouse co-host, openly endorsed genocide. "I have never thought that I would find so much comfort in two words as I do when I utter the words ‘final solution’,” said Ridgeway, using the euphemistic term for Nazi Germany’s plan to exterminate the Jewish people.But it was guest host, Eric Striker, a columnist for Andrew Anglin's neo-Nazi blog The Daily Stormer, who best exemplified the deranged nature of far-right thinking when he proposed his own “final solution.” Striker wants to “deport all the Jews back to Israel, surround it with barbed wire and 24-7 military patrols, and then import a couple million blacks there.”Why the blacks? Fascists need a permanent enemy to justify and explain their hate. This enemy has to be adapted to fit any situation, which is why reality can be such a problem for fascists. It tends to interfere with the lies they must tell themselves to make an irrational ideology hang together. And in the current American context, one of the biggest lies alt-right fascists tell themselves is that a cabal of all-powerful Jews is flooding white countries with non-white immigrants in an attempt to erase the white race. The Jews, in this scenario, are somehow responsible for the blacks. Nevermind slavery and all that world history stuff.Later in the HateHouse conversation, Striker laid out his lunatic vision of what will happen if the Jews aren’t stopped from reducing the white population. "In the end, when whites become a single digit minority in the United States, yes, that’s when they’re gonna start openly killing people,” he predicted. “They’re gonna turn America, the whites in America into Gaza, and start raiding the communities and flying drones to execute white people in the street.”Jew-controlled drones executing white Americans because of black Americans. It only makes sense if you're a Nazi.Brandon Russell, a leader of a particularly bloodthirsty and extreme neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen, was sentenced to five years in federal prison this week over a stash of explosives discovered during an investigation of one of his roommates who murdered their other two roommates. Russell, a member of the Florida National Guard, kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on his dresser.  Related links:  White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues. Keep up with the story here.©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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