Always a strange day to find yourself texting back and forth with someone who helped plot to kill you a year and a half ago...
... and trading notes about what you both told the FBI about the case at the time.
I think that’s actually awesome, and it gives me so much hope.
Goddamn, what an interesting day.
[yes, the identity is verified]
[no, not on a messaging app with my real #]
I need a nap. My mind is BLOWN.
I’ve had so much crazy shit happen to me in my life, but I gotta say: getting an apology from an ex-Nazi for the murder conspiracy against me — and trading accounts of what we told investigators at the time is...
For organizations with employees targeted or threatened by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other potpourri baskets filled with related and assorted violent extremists
[speaking from experience]
1) If you hire a person who works on neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other assorted violent extremists, here's the thing:
They WILL be targeted and threatened with violence - unless they're terrible at the job you hired them for.
If you won't support them, don't hire them.
2) If you want the "good PR" that comes with high-profile experts on neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and assorted violent extremists, you need to realize:
Your institution asked them to risk their lives.
That implies you will provide support and security - not penalties.
And here’s Brandon Russell (now in prison) - Atomwaffen Division’s National Guardsman founder - discussing how close he is to Nazi infiltration / mainstreaming ideologue Tom Metzger in leaked fascist forum messages:
Here’s another message from Atomwaffen founder (and National Guardsman) Brandon Russell, aka “Odin,” on the close contact his Neo Nazi knitting circle had with infiltration strategist Tom Metzger:
Here’s John Cameron Denton (aka “Rape”), who took over Atomwaffen when Brandon went to prison.
Rape went down too - in the swatting sting back in February 2020.
He can’t be much older than 30 now - and he was already a Tom Metzger baby Nazi fanboï by 2004: