Re: the link between Atonwaffen & the military, ProPublica talked to @kathleen_belew who said "throughout American history there is always a correlation between the aftermath of warfare and this kind of vigilante and revolutionary white power violence." pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
Surges in KKK membership "align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat & the aftermath of war then they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."
Postwar periods tend to correspond with an upsurge in white supremacist activity. If you haven't watched this yet you really need to: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
She also says the active duty military & vets who are recruited to this movement are statistically a tiny percentage of the armed forces but they play a huge role in weapons training & creating "paramilitary activists" mentality
We remember the Oklahoma City bombing as an act done by one man, we don't identify that bombing as the outgrowth of the white power movement.
In 2009 Daryl Johnson of DHS wrote an intelligence report re: the rise of white supremacist groups & their connection to the military; it warned the US faced a growing terrorist threat from white supremacists & anti-government groups & that these groups might recruit veterans.
Publication of the report provoked a political backlash from conservative lawmakers & veterans groups. The report was retracted & Johnson's unit was disbanded. "Everything we predicted has come to fruition and it's actually worse than what we had anticipated" - Daryl Johnson DHS
"with the wars that have gone on in Afghanistan & Iraq we have the rise of islamophobia, that's a huge factor in both the anti-govt groups & the militias that rally w/ firearms outside of mosques but also the white supremacist groups that hate ppl of other nations & skin colors"
"There's no question that there are organizations that would like for people to go in the military to acquire the training you get in the military and how we could screen all those people out, you know it's pretty difficult" - Retired Major General John Altenberg 
In 2017 Atomwaffen banned their members from appearing in public demos but ProPublica found pics from an earlier anti-immigration protest. John Cameron Denton (aka "Rape") of Texas Atomwaffen 👇🏻 with a rifle and skull mask then later with his neo-nazi buddies & mask off.
.@ACInvestigates tracked Rape and his Atomwaffen friends down at a metal show but they wouldn't give interviews. According to insider "Jeremiah", Rape has a relationship with Atomwaffen intellectual leader James Mason and should not be underestimated.
James Mason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mas… thinks the white race is in danger because Jews. Also thinks Timothy McVeigh & James Fields were heroes.
"With Trump winning that election by surprise I now believe anything could be possible. In order to make America great again you'd have to make America white again. We're headed for interesting times." Trump gives James Mason hope.
Kathleen Belew calls Robert Bowers an example of leaderless resistance. "What appears to be a lone gunman but someone who is motivated and propelled by a worldview and by a social network of like-minded people who push & enable violence."
related ICYMI: splinternews.com/swastika-found…
related ICYMI: splinternews.com/swastika-found…
Identity Evropa neo-nazi propaganda appeared in Pittsburgh right after the Tree of Life shooting.
I wasn't planning on tweeting the whole investigation but it was actually more disturbing the second time I watched it. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
I downloaded her book hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
just gonna add this good thread on the end of my thread about AWD
