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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:34 AM Feb 2018

Secret Chat Logs Show Neo-Nazis Celebrated Gay Jewish Student's Murder

Source: The Daily Beast




Members of notorious neo-Nazi group the Atomwaffen Division celebrated the murder of a gay Jewish student, according to secret chat logs unearthed by ProPublica. Samuel Woodward, the man accused of killing 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein, was previously exposed by the website late last month as having trained with the Atomwaffen group. That report was shared among members of the neo-Nazi group in a secretive chat, with one member writing of the killing “I love this,” and another praising Woodward as a “one man gay Jew wrecking crew.” The neo-Nazis used voice and text app Discord to communicate and keep their chats secret, but around 250,000 encrypted messages were obtained by ProPublica, giving a rare glimpse inside the group. The logs suggest there are around 20 Atomwaffen cells across the U.S., that some members have taken part in weapons training, and show members praising Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Norwegian mass-murderer and white supremacist Anders Breivik. Bernstein’s was the fifth killing tied to the Atomwaffen group.

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Secret Chat Logs Show Neo-Nazis Celebrated Gay Jewish Student's Murder (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
K&R Solly Mack Feb 2018 #1
Meanwhile back in DC neohippie Feb 2018 #2
Say it with me: Radical Nazi terrorism. Initech Feb 2018 #3
We have our own ISIS in the US. SpankMe Feb 2018 #4
And not only are they not doing anything about it... Initech Feb 2018 #5

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
2. Meanwhile back in DC
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:29 AM
Feb 2018

The Trump mis-administration wants to remove white supremacy groups from the focus at the Federal program to Counter Extremism and Violence


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-extremists-program-exclusiv/exclusive-trump-to-focus-counter-extremism-program-solely-on-islam-sources-idUSKBN15G5VO

The program, “Countering Violent Extremism,” or CVE, would be changed to “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism,” the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.



https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-white-house-is-turning-a-blind-eye-to-white-supremacist-terrorism/


In particular, his administration’s decision to focus the Countering Violent Extremism program exclusively on Islamists has been interpreted by many white supremacists as a green light.

“Donald Trump wants to remove us from undue federal scrutiny by removing ‘white supremacists’ from the definition of ‘extremism,’” Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, wrote in a post. “Donald Trump is setting us free.” He went on:

It’s fair to say that if the Trump team is not listening to us directly (I assume they are), they are thinking along very similar lines.… This is absolutely a signal of favor to us.

SpankMe

(2,958 posts)
4. We have our own ISIS in the US.
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 03:19 PM
Feb 2018

And Trumps DoJ is doing nothing about this as far as I know. There is reasonable suspicion that these guys are contemplating terrorist acts. This should at least justify warrants for phone bugging, email confiscating and other surveillance.

Also, is it just me, or are these guys kind of pretty? Maybe it's just that they're young.

Lastly, why is a guy named Fernandez in this group? I thought they hated minorities? Why are they allowing a Hispanic dude in their ranks?

Initech

(100,087 posts)
5. And not only are they not doing anything about it...
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 04:02 PM
Feb 2018

They're practically *GIVING* these fuckers a get out of jail free card! Trump knows they're his base and is exploiting it like the con artist that he is - and that's the only thing that will keep him in power in 2020. He is a madman!

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