| No Images? Click here   This is HUFFPOST FRINGE, your weekly postcard from the political wilderness, with reporters Luke O'Brien and Christopher Mathias. Last August’s deadly white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, has generated a number of lawsuits. One of the most notable is a federal complaint brought by 10 Charlottesville locals who were injured in the “Unite the Right” rally. They allege that the organizers of the event conspired to commit acts of violence, intimidation and harassment against racial, ethnic and religious minorities in Charlottesville and their supporters.The defendants in the case are a lineup of the usual suspects, many of whom also appear regularly in HuffPost coverage of the alt-right. Among them: rally organizer Jason Kessler, Chris Cantwell, Matt Heimbach, Jeff Schoep, Elliott “Eli Mosley” Kline, Mike Tubbs, Richard Spencer, Andrew Anglin, Robert “Azzmador” Ray, Mike “Button Eyes” Peinovich and, of course, James Alex Fields Jr., the driver who hit and killed 32-year-old counterprotester Heather Heyer. To prevail in court, the plaintiffs need to prove a conspiracy existed among the defendants. To do that, they need to show that the violence in Charlottesville was part of the white supremacists’ plan, rather than an unanticipated result of their rally. So far, the evidence doesn’t look good for the defendants. On podcasts and websites and, most tellingly, on Discord, a voice-and-text chat application that organizers used to plan the rally, they spoke openly and often about their desire for bloodshed.HuffPost got hold of one particularly blood-curdling example of white supremacists exhorting each other to violence — a speech written by Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin for his associate, Robert “Azzmador” Ray, to read at the rally. Ray didn’t have a chance to give the speech in Emancipation Park (formerly known as Lee Park) before cops shut down the event. But he delivered Anglin’s words a few hours later to a group of racists and fascists who had gathered in a dimly lit safe house to celebrate the bloody day. You can watch it here. Regular readers will know we pick a cuck o’ the week every newsletter. But this week, because of CPAC, we can’t pick just one! The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center outside Washington, D.C., was lousy with cucks on Friday. You couldn’t walk a foot without tripping over some dirty cuck just cucking away in a cuck corner.Two of the louder cucks, Will Chamberlain and Nick Fuentes, got in a classic cuckfight over God knows what — the Six-Day War? — and it went as you might expect: no real action, just hot air and spittle and MUH IDEAS.Amid this orgy of cucking, Ben Shapiro, an insufferable young right-wing media egotist, took to the stage in a yarmulke to give an entirely predictable speech about political correctness being Marxist orthodoxy. For 20 minutes, Shapiro linked one trite cliche to another. He could have been any cuck anywhere reading from the universal cuck script.
 A few weeks ago we warned you about the Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group connected to five murders in just eight months. Now, our friends at ProPublica have obtained over 250,000 messages sent by the group’s members to each other on Discord. The messages offer the clearest portrait yet of what is essentially an American terror group.When an Atomwaffen member named Samuel Woodward allegedly killed a gay, Jewish college student in California last month, the group’s members cheered. “I love this,” one member wrote. Another called Woodward a “one man gay Jew wrecking crew.”“What I really want to know is who leaked that shit about Sam to the media,” a third member wrote. “Rats and traitors get the rope first,” wrote a fourth.Woodward himself makes an appearance in the chat logs. Just two days after he allegedly stabbed Bernstein some 20 times before burying him in a shallow grave, Woodward seemed to grow a bit unironic, sentimental even. “Hey everyone,” he wrote, “i just wanted to let you all know i love you so much.”Atomwaffen has about 20 cells across the country, with the biggest in Texas, Virginia and Washington, according to ProPublica. Members have attended military-style “hate camps” in the Nevada desert, Shawnee National Park in Illinois and an abandoned cement factory, known as “Devil's Tower” close to Concrete, Washington.Most chilling in the chat logs is the group’s apparent lust for terror and infamy. Members discussed plots that included bombing electric grids and public water systems. And they praised white supremacist mass murderers, including Dylann Roof, who killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina; Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing; and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who massacred 77, most of them teenagers. It’s been a tough week for Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right “news” sites GotNews and Gateway Pundit. His planned panel discussion at CPAC was canceled after Gateway Pundit published fact-free articles claiming a teen survivor of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, had been coached into making anti-Trump talking points. Hoft also got sued this week for another fake news story he published back in August, falsely claiming that an “Anti-Trump, Open Borders Druggie” was responsible for driving a car into counterprotesters at the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. (The driver was actually a neo-Nazi.) To understand the dangers posed by today’s far-right extremists we need to listen to them. Each week, the Angry White Men blog highlights a snippet of conversation from an “alt-right” podcast to show you how fascists and racists really think. Don't say we didn't warn you, America….On Thursday’s episode of his radio show, David Duke, the ex-Klan leader and current rumored steroid abuser, joined his guest Eric Striker to deliver an alt-right eulogy for “America’s Pastor” Billy Graham, the evangelist who died this week at age 99.Graham leveraged his fame to forge close relationships with every U.S. president since Harry Truman and, as secretly recorded tapes later revealed, shared Richard Nixon’s disdain for Jews. “This [Jewish] stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain,” Graham once told Nixon in 1972, referring to purported Jewish media control -- a common anti-Semitic trope on the far-right. In 2002, Graham apologized to the Jewish community for that remark and other racist statements he’d made. It was this backtracking and refusal to publicly criticize Jewish power that prompted Duke and Striker to speak ill of the dead before Graham’s corpse had even been planted in the ground.“He chose his money and his popular status over any truth,” Striker said. “I can’t think of anything less Christian than that.”Both Striker and Duke feel Graham should have used his platform to talk publicly about Jewish media elites who, according to white supremacist conspiracy theory, foist a slew of ills upon America’s white Christian majority. Striker said that Billy Graham “knew the Jews were behind America’s moral decline,” just as the Germans knew before WWII, and still did nothing.Duke referenced a conversation between Graham and Nixon blaming the Jews for “putting out the pornographic stuff.” The former Klansman alleged that Time and Newsweek -- ostensibly under Jewish control -- helped persuade Americans that pornography was protected speech. That Graham didn’t speak out publicly on this subject was an unpardonable sin for Striker and Duke. Graham should have emulated Jesus Christ and sacrificed his career to warn the American people about Jews and porn, according to Duke, who went to prison in 2003 for tax and mail fraud after he bilked his gullible white supremacist followers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he allegedly gambled away at casinos.“If you’re gonna sit there and you’re gonna say that you’re a Christian, and you’re gonna watch this kind of evil happen right on your watch, well then, friend, you are not a Christian,” Striker sniffed, adding that Graham “better have a good story now that you’re waiting in line at the Pearly Gates!”  White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues.Did a friend send you this? Subscribe to HuffPost Fringe.©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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