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9 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Here's a pretty interesting story you might have missed. Back in the 1990s, Neo-Nazi David Wolfgang Hawke made a bunch of money as one of the early "spam kings", converted it into gold bars & buried it somewhere. 1/
After losing a spam lawsuit to AOL, Hawke's parents' land was dug up to settle the suit but the gold was never found. Hawke went on the run and was living under an assumed identity in Squamish as a progressive Canadian vegan rock climbing pick-up artist called "Jesse James". 2/
The body of "Jesse James" was found burned in a car 3 years ago and has just last week been established to be Hawke. bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/man-fou… 3/
Hawke's birthname was Andrew Britt Greenbaum but he had it changed to shed his Jewish roots. While a student at Wofford College he assumed neo-Nazi persona "Commander Bo Decker" to run the Knights of Freedom. Rolling Stone did a profile of him in 1999. 4/ rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
SPLC ran a story about him back in the day also. Turns out that after being outed as Jewish by SPLC, he tried to rebrand his neo-Nazi group as "American Nationalist Party" (sound familiar, NJP?) but his fellow nazis rejected him. 5/ splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
I guess it's just another reminder that it never ends well for these guys. 6/6

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