This commentary was posted yesterday.

10 military personnel have reached out with their own accounts of witnessing white supremacist mobilization in the armed forces.

Several have recounted the retribution they faced for attempting to pursue or undertake investigations.

10.
I've also heard from some outraged right-wing military and law enforcement personnel.

So it's worth briefly responding to them here.

White supremacist mainstreaming and infiltration, after all, impacts them most directly.
1) White supremacist infiltration poses the most immediate threat to fellow military and law enforcement personnel.

2) This hurts the credibility of everyone in the fields.

3) WS actors are most dangerous to them, too. They infiltrate to subvert, not support, the state.
4) Whether or not military and law enforcement personnel who politically lean right recognize this:

The white supremacist (umbrella) movement has long relied on exploitation of shared 'patriotic' values to launder WS ideology.

Infiltration is a bipartisan security concern.
To Trump/GOP supporters in military and law enforcement that reached out, angry at me - there are 2 explanations.

1) You don't recognize, or are in denial about, the scope of the well documented issue.

2) You're the anon. Telegram accounts I see posting so often these days.
Finally, read the article or I won't take your complaints seriously.

And, FYI: I'm not a journalist.

I'm an academic and policy expert who consults for the United Nations and other national and multilateral actors on non-state armed groups and global political violence.
Did I tell you the one about the [yes, literal] neo-Nazi lawyer working in the civil rights office yet?
Everyday, I hear from more military and law enforcement personnel about their own experience with neo-Nazis and white supremacists inside.

So I think it's time for a mini-thread on this issue of:

"THIS IS JUST A PURGE OF REPUBLICANS"
and
"THIS IS ABOUT FREE SPEECH"
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I could spam you all day with Nazi Telegram screenshots of law enforcement and military infiltrators. But I won't.

For LEOs & DoD who keep insisting it's "just about purging Republicans":

The more you deny the obvious problem, the more obvious YOU are.

Let me put some misunderstandings to rest.

NO.
NOT ALL MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL ARE NAZIS.

Why do we lack reliable data?
Read the piece.

What do troops actually say?
Read the piece.

How do Nazis launder Nazism?
Read the piece.

In sum, many of you who keep responding, with accusations or attacks related to that white supremacist piece clearly...

Need. To. Read. The. Piece.

Where I address your points (y'all are easier to bust for not reading than undergraduate students).

Finally.

Better decades too late than never.

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28 Jan
"Ms. Entropy, why should we care about incentivizing Nazi disengagement? Who cares; they were Nazis?!"

Maybe ask me again after I finish securing a host for...the ENTIRE ARCHIVE OF FASCIST FORGE data someone just leaked to me.

Until then, I'll be busy.
In case you don't know - Ironmarch was the transnational Internet forum that gave birth to Atomwaffen Divison and its many Nazi spawns.

Fascist Forge was Ironmarch's sequel once the latter was knocked down.

Treasure trove, y'all.

Incentivizing disengagement is GOOD.
I do hope the Siege dorks are nervous - you should be!

Fascist Forge had a LOOOOOOOOOOOOT of great info; thanks for the AMAZING INTRO QUESTIONNAIRES!

Once I've got the host (in process) fully secured, I'll let you know ASAP.

Help Nazis leave.
That helps us all.

Goodnight!
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28 Jan
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...

BANANAS, Y’ALL.

Definitely in my top 5 of all time.
Read 5 tweets
27 Jan
Quick thread

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.
Read 15 tweets
25 Jan
Absolutely.

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: Image
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: Image
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: Image
Read 10 tweets
25 Jan
Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement | my piece for @TCFdotorg is live.

We had space limitations to work with, and I want to stress:

This is just the tip of an iceberg that stretches back past the 1970s.
tcf.org/content/commen… Image
A redux of the War on Domestic [if you’re white] Terror won’t solve anything - but there are steps for everyone to take that can.

30 years of false promises by law enforcement and the Pentagon to take neo-Nazi infiltration seriously.

Hold their feet to the fire.

It’s time. Image
The most urgent challenge for dismantling neo- Nazi and white supremacist infiltration is public awareness of just how deep this threat goes.

Even I'd never heard of the Utah Guard - dismantled in '87 after 400 members of the Aryan Nations took over.

And I know way too much.
Read 10 tweets
22 Jan
I’ve seen too many people say recently Eric Striker is just a leftist who later joined the alt-right.

So I just thought I’d remind you of where all this Nazi laundering (la ‘it’s about free speech, not hate’) comes from.

Tom Metzger.
If your “biggest ideological influence” in life is 80s/90s Tom Metzger...you most definitely are a Nazi.

Especially if he was your pen pal during your teenage years.

Where the hell do you guys think the whole “alt-right” mainstreaming thing began?

Good God.
If people want to confront the white supremacy threat, it takes a slightly longer memory than Richard Spencer and the alt-right.

Contemporary neo-Nazi mainstreaming and infiltration has been going on in organized form since the 1970s.

The Trump era was just the iceberg’s tip.
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