Maccabee wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:22 pm
JohnNewell wrote:shinzen wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:47 am
I knew about a number of these groups, but they have grown in number since I last looked. Be safe everyone.
Different groups, different names, same members. The radical members of Identity Evropa became Atomwaffen, then briefly Rapewaffen, and now the Base. All in a couple of years.
That’s not entirely true, John. There is a Venn diagram of sorts but one group did not morph into another and then another. Many of these groups are existing in parallel with each other with a small percentage of crossover members.
I follow the groups that impact Texas so there may be an intrastate thing here. We have various local militia groups (none really strong right now). Then there is Texas Patriot Network (TPN), Texans United for America (TUFA), the now basically defunct Nomadssar. There's maybe 4-6 "leaders" that attend each other's meetings and bring along some additional followers that may attend a meeting or two and then seemingly drop out. It's pretty much the same core group of idiots.
Several of them live beyond their means (and that was even mentioned in an unkind newspaper article here), several have convictions for drug dealing and theft presumably to support a drug habit, TPN tries to look clean but they drew most of their headcrackers in Fall of 2018 from a neo-Nazi group here in Texas called Soldiers of Odin (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_of_Odin) that came complete with Nazi emblems and slogans ("14 88") hidden in their social media.
Several Soldiers of Odin members and TPN members live near prominent members of Atomwaffen. In some cases in the same small town.
Texas supremacists and nazis are notorious for drug manufacturing and dealing. Nazis, no visible means of support, drug convictions. You do the math and draw your own conclusions.
There is a lot of traffic between Texas and the PNW. Joey Gibson and associates from Patriot Prayer have been in Texas several times and some of our prominent idjits have traveled to the PNW to participate in demonstrations and brawls.
An Atomwaffen leader and his buddy were traveling from the PNW and one was arrested near Lubbock, TX. The other guy in the car wasn't arrested but is so notorious that he has a lifetime ban from traveling into Canada and has been banned from all US military basis. I know because an associate showed me a nationall-distributed military flyer and my response was like "Oh yeah. I know about him." They were on the way to "Houston" to visit some folks. For training. We know who that was.
The part about Evropa, Atomwaffen, and the Base seems to be clearly true. The Feds and I had a chat a few months ago and one of them mentioned that they were getting good information from articles on Propublica.org. I pulled out my phone and showed them that I had the author and another writer that he collaborated with on my (hopefully) secure messaging service.
So I am not dissing you or disagreeing with you in any way. I might disagree with that Venn diagram and it's possible that my perspective of looking at Texas-centric threats varies from a national perspective.
I might add that recently there has been a big surge in interest in neo-nazism among young people. The vast majority of them are wankers. They are pimply incels that cannot back up what they write online. Pretenders. Wannabes. Gamers who think this is all still a game. Which is not to say that one of them won't be the next Dylan Roof, who still thinks that the Klan is going to get him out of jail btw, from what I have read. But it's the core leadership that you have to worry about. The handful of real troublemakers that think they can influence mainstream Republicans and/or who might actually organize some sort of terror attack is actually quite small.
And that leadership has remained fairly constant and thay keep organizing new groups as their infamy and infighting grow.