What's for sale at Long Island's Nazi record store?

HuffPost found out. No Images? Click here       This is HUFFPOST FRINGE, your weekly postcard from the political wilderness, with reporters Luke O'Brien and Christopher Mathias.    A Vinyl Solution This is a report from fellow HuffPost reporter, and Friend of the Fringe (FoF), Andy Campbell. “Heretic’s Crypt,” a pop-up record shop in Long Island, touted itself as Patchogue’s “most extreme brick & mortar record store in over a decade!” Turns out it was selling neo-Nazi band records and T-shirts. It even sold the shirts in toddler sizes, because fashy baby fashion is IN right now. It was promptly shut down when local metal heads found out about it. We tracked down the Crypt’s curator, who told us he’s definitely not a Nazi — and that he’s just really into “esoteric pagan ideologies.” Never mind the black sunwheels and wolf hooks on his Facebook pages; his National Socialist Black Metal band; his label, WolfTyr Productions, promoting white supremacist groups; or the Nazi salutes at the concerts where his favorite bands play. “People can take it any way they like, after all it’s a free country,” he said. Keep an eye out for our story in HuffPost tomorrow. You’ll learn about white supremacist metal bands and Long Island’s long history of Nazi activity. After all, in the 1930s, Suffolk County was home to Camp Siegfried, a pro-Nazi summer camp (see the photo at the top of this newsletter, and the one below), which was adjacent to a German colony in Yaphank that named its streets after Hitler and Goebbels (read about that here). After the war, some of Hitler’s relatives lived on Long Island. Locals are worried that a pop-up Nazi record store marks a resurgence.   What a year this week has been   A lot happened in the world of Fringe over the past week. Andrew Anglin just can’t stay out of legal trouble. On Monday, The Daily Stormer publisher got hit with yet another federal lawsuit — this one brought by Taylor Dumpson, who served as American University’s first black woman student president. Dumpson is accusing Anglin of — what else?! — orchestrating an online campaign of racist harassment and intimidation against her. Dumpson had been in office as student president only one day when a masked man hung bananas with racist epithets written on them from nooses near American University’s student government offices. The incident made national news and caught Anglin’s beady little eye. Fringe Followers will know how it played out from there: Anglin painted the target, his followers attacked in a “troll storm” and misery ensued for decent people. By our count, this is the fourth federal lawsuit facing Anglin, who will undoubtedly hide from process servers and try to avoid responsibility for his behavior. That’s been his cowardly pattern throughout his life. The crazy thing about this case, which was filed in Washington D.C., is that he may get away with it. In a previous case filed against Anglin last April by Tanya Gersh -- a Jewish woman in Montana whom Anglin subjected to a vicious troll storm -- the Nazi argued unsuccessfully that he is a “stateless” person beyond the reach of the federal courts. He claims to live abroad and has expressed an intention never to return to the United States, which is fine with most Americans. But his timing was off in the Gersh case. A person’s domicile is established when a lawsuit is filed, and Anglin was clearly a citizen of Ohio last April. The circumstances may be different now. If Anglin can prove that he has set himself up permanently in another country, he might be able to duck Dumpson’s lawsuit. BREAKING FRINGE NEWS: The judge in the Gersh case issued some findings and recommendations Thursday about Anglin’s argument that his orchestration and incitement of harassment is protected by the First Amendment. The judge determined that, to put it simply, Anglin’s argument is dumb. (More on this soon.) Your Fringe correspondent traveled to Burns, Tennessee, over the weekend, where the suit-and-tie racists of American Renaissance were holding their annual conference in a state-owned hotel. (They can’t really use private hotels anymore, as anti-racist protesters always pressure the hotels into canceling.) Ethnostate-enthusiast Jared Taylor wouldn’t let HuffPost in the taxpayer-owned building, sending this stern email calling your Fringe correspondent a "close-minded bigot":  And so HuffPost reported from the protest outside, where dedicated anti-fascists heckled some of the white nationalists as they were escorted by police inside. There was a giant police presence at the event (a trend, it seems) and protesters also directed their ire at the cops. “Those are the most influential white supremacists in the world meeting at this rural location in Tennessee!” yelled Lacy MacAuley, an anti-fascist activist from Washington, D.C. “You all are protecting absolute evil right now and you’re looking at us as if we’re the problem!” Another protester, Beth Foster, grew upset when she wasn’t allowed to bring a tiny purse inside the protest pen. “It’s anti-racist activists that the state sees as the enemies,” she said. “Not the Nazis or the white supremacists who are in our buildings, using our public restrooms, and eating in our public restaurant, plotting genocide.” FoF Sebastian Murdock wrote about the 57 white supremacists arrested on charges of running a giant meth-trafficking operation, as well as kidnapping. From Murdock: In one case, an unnamed victim was held hostage for several days by members of the Aryan Circle and Aryan Brotherhood of Texas after being accused of shorting the members $600 in meth sales. Authorities determined that Aryan Circle member James Mark Nelson had actually stolen the money, then convinced other supremacists that the victim had done it, according to the indictment. Nelson, along with suspects Ralph “Evil” Adams, Jerry “Looney” Lunsford and Amanda Gallippo, held the victim hostage sometime between January and February 2018, during which time they pointed a gun at the victim’s head and threatened to kill him. “During this period, Nelson used a black hatchet to chop off a portion of Victim A’s left index finger,” the indictment says. The victim was later released. Damn.  And our friends over at ProPublica have a blockbuster story out about how Atomwaffen — quite possibly the most extreme neo-Nazi group in America — has members active in the U.S. military. Among these members is Vasillios Pistolis, a U.S. Marine who bragged about cracking skulls in Charlottesville, Virginia. Here’s a photo of him: Atomwaffen is no ordinary white nationalist group. They claim to be preparing for a coming race war and its members have been connected to five murders over the last year. And there’s evidence that many white supremacists are serving in our armed services. In 2017, a Military Times survey found that 25 percent of active-duty service members had encountered white nationalists within their ranks. Please read the whole ProPublica story.       Cuck o’ the Week Oh, look. What do we have here? We have a humorless young feller wearing some tough feller gloves trying to tear apart an resist fascism sign in Seattle. But he’s failing, this feller. And he’s taking guff for it. (The commentary in this video is gold.) Your Fringe rapid response unit has learned a few things about this guy, who is sporting a T-shirt for “Patriot Prayer,” a Portland-based far-right group founded by Joey Gibson. His name is Luke Mahler. He is 21. And he is not a Proud Boy, although he desperately wishes to be, according to a source with knowledge of the local fascist scene. “Luke idolizes Joey [Gibson] and the Proud Boys,” the source told Fringe. “So he wants really badly to join them, but he wigs the fuck out on Facebook all the time, so he's poisoned his relationship with everyone he wants to be around.” Mahler does indeed wig out on his Facebook, where he seems weirdly proud of his inability to tear apart the resist fascism sign. Also, he ran for president as a Republican in 2016, perhaps unaware that you have to be at least 35 years old to be president. It’s okay, though. This week, he wins one vote unanimously: He’s a cuck. Up Shitzkrieg Jacob Scott Goodwin, a 23-year-old white supremacist from Arkansas, was found guilty of a malicious wounding charge this week in the beating of Deandre Harris last August in Charlottesville. A jury recommended he be sentenced to 10 years in prison. Your Fringe correspondent was in the parking garage and witnessed Goodwin and a group of other white supremacists viciously beat Harris, who is black, with poles. Harris, his face bloodied and his arm broken, stumbled away from the attack. At some point, someone in the garage drew a pistol, pointing it around, causing your Fringe correspondent to duck and run. A group of some 20 county sheriff's’ officers stood across the street, doing nothing. It was the work of local activists and online sleuths that eventually brought these white supremacists to justice. (Harris himself faced a charge over the fight, but was acquitted.) Goodwin was part of the ShieldWall Network, an Arkansas white supremacist group run by Billy Roper. NBC has a fascinating documentary out about Goodwin’s parents, who since their son’s arrest have grown increasingly involved in the ShieldWall Network themselves.     (Worst) Word of the Week Incel – Short for “involuntary celibate,” an incel is a man who, despite his best efforts, cannot lose his virginity. Elliot Rodger, the college student who went on a killing spree because women refused to have sex with him, identified as an incel. (Definition courtesy of the Angry White Men cucktionary, a great resource.) A lot of people learned what “incel” meant last week when 25-year-old Alek Minassian allegedly drove a rented van into a crowd of pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring many more. In a Facebook post before the attack, Minassian declared the beginning of the “incel rebellion” and praised another “incel” and mass murderer: Elliot Rodger. The incel movement is essentially a violent, anti-women extremist movement. It’s real scary. There have been, rightly, a lot of “incel” explainers this week, but as David Futrelle wrote for HuffPost: Since the flurry of the 2016 election and its aftermath, we’ve had over two years’ worth of field guides to the poisonous online wastelands in which nationalism, fascism and bigotry fester. Why are we only now shining the light on the role patriarchy plays in the petri dish?     Blood and Soiled   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 the April 25, 2018, episode of his Radical Agenda podcast, white supremacist Christopher Cantwell took a break from stumbling drunk through Leesburg, Virgina, to address the recent mass murder in Toronto. According to a Facebook post the day of the attack, the perpetrator -- Minassian, the incel -- wanted revenge on the good-looking men and women (especially women) with active sex lives: the “Chads” and “Stacys” as they’re called on 4chan and other online hotbeds of sociopathy. Although he traffics in a language common to the alt-right – yes, unsurprisingly white supremacists also have an obsession with “Chads” and “beta males” – Cantwell pinned the blame for the attack on feminism and liberal values. According to the racist shock jock, who, as a reminder, used to write sporadically for a popular “men’s rights” website: "These men did not find themselves incapable of finding women because they were hypermasculine, violent monsters. If they were such macho beasts, they would surely have quite the opposite problem. They, like so many others, accepted the inherently leftist notion that competition was a sin. That masculinity ought to be eradicated. That every sexual advance is the equivalent of sexual assault. And that society owed the lowest of scum the highest of accolades. When their adoption of leftist values predictably left them without any hope of satisfaction, they did what all leftists do, and lashed out violently at the targets of their envy." In other words, Cantwell believes these incels have been indoctrinated by a liberal, feminized culture that shames displays of masculinity. And if they had only behaved like the “alpha males” in the alt-right, this never would have occurred. But incels and alt-righters both share similarly retrograde beliefs about women and sexual attraction. White nationalists are preoccupied with “trad” women to the point where many espouse a belief in “white sharia” – a semi-ironic ideology that would return women to “traditional” gender roles through rape and domestic violence. Is this really that far off from the incels who support mass rapes and acid attacks as a means of punishing women who reject them? As if on cue, the first caller into Cantwell’s show as soon as the host finished ranting about “leftists” and their “Jewish lies” promoted the same beliefs that inspired Minassian. The caller bemoaned the “sexual liberation of women” and claimed that women are looking for a partner who is “strong, confident, [and] very wealthy” – the “top of males.” He said these are the men who are “having more sex than ever before.” Even Cantwell railed against men and women who have sex for “fun” without “incur[ring] obligation” and “reproducing.” Whatever minor disagreements the white nationalist and incel communities have, they can at least rest easy knowing many of them view women and sex through the same warped lens.   HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25th 2018 we will be introducing a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe to HuffPost Fringe. Want more? 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