ANYWAY YOU GUYS WANT TO HEAR A LEGIT CRAZY NEO-NAZI STORY (like, a new one I haven’t told you yet)?
One of the absolute wildest — God, there really are so many — Neo-Nazi stories I know involves a 1970s SoCal KKK member named Walter White (no joke).
It starts when he turns up missing, mysteriously.
Walter White (no, not that meth — Walter of the California Klan meth) turns up missing.
His wife says he’s been kidnapped by... Irv Rubin of the Jewish Defense League.
[wait for it]
Some of Walter White’s fellow California Klan pals get all concerned (kloncerned — too much?) and they hatch a plot to avenge him but killing his alleged JDL kidnapped, Irv Rubin.
And being the California Klan...
Well, they got the wrong address (for one thing).
Thankfully, the Klan hit to avenge Walter White fails and they do not, in fact, assassinate Irv Rubin of the JDL.
They DO, however, manage to really, really piss off Tom Metzger in the process because now there’s feds watching....
... and that sucks for Metzger because...
... because Tom Metzger’s son-in-law was a (crooked, of course) stockbroker with connections.
And he’d been monitoring Irv Rubin’s bank accounts.
Thanks to the KKK failsons trying to avenge MIA Walter White, there went the data collection operation! #OOPSIE
...oh, and ...
... it turns out KKK Walter White had not, in fact, been kidnapped — by Irv Rubin, the Jewish Defense League, or anyone else.
He was off banging teenage girls, and his wife was just embarrassed about it.
MYSTERY SOLVED.
[and that’s your insane Neo-Nazi tale of the day.]
[just wait til I get to the one about a San Diego cop who infiltrated Metzger’s network, ran his political campaigns, and handled KKK security for YEARS... until SDPD ditched him and pretended he wasn’t even affiliated until a lawsuit made them fess up. That one’s also a gem.]
In conclusion:
If you’re ever on a game show and there’s a high stakes final question about obscure Neo Nazi trivia, I’m the friend you want to call for the jackpot answer.
As my life is, quite obviously, very strange.
Postscript (for now) on bizarre Neo Nazi trivia: You know when Tom Metzger reached his breaking point with David Duke?
- when David Duke came out on stage at a rally in a Speedo... just a Speedo... for no apparent reason whatsoever.
[it’s funny because it’s true]
Oh I will absolutely make this a recurrent Tweet storm series.
It would be heinously selfish to not share all the absolutely hilarious, batshitcrazy Neo Nazi nonsense I’ve collected.
[remind me to link the Telegram Zoomer Nazi drama threads here later.]
Did I ever tell you the one about the Aryan Nations Pastor and the Neo-Nazi lawyer who have been suing the absolute shit out of each other for the whoooooole past decade (over what, I still can’t really tell)?
Because THIS one is...a thing to behold.
This might be my favorite legal document of all time.
“THE BIBLICAL & MORAL CASE FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF LAKE COUNTY OHIO AND, IF NECESSARY, OF THE STATE OF OHIO”
[the county isn’t even the party he’s counter-suing.]
Anti-racists have such conflicting attitudes over former Neo Nazis and ex fascists.
I’ve been die-hard, actively anti my whole life, targeted personally since I was a kid, etc., so I understand much of the skepticism and cynicism, but —
I want to say something real quick.
Some of the most committed, generous, and helpful people fighting white supremacy today ARE formers.
Yes, treat disavowal / disengagement claims with caution, demand accountability in word as well as action, and no one is required to forgive, but know this:
I often see all formers treated as:
1) inherently untrustworthy and beyond redemption even if their help is accepted
2) scientific “specimens” by researchers and academics - like their sole purpose is to be studied as useful oddities
Regardless of organizational affiliation or lack thereof (hello Beam’s Leaderless Resistance) — YES, there IS a white supremacist movement that explicitly understands itself as such.
How do I know? Look at Telegram references to... “the movement.”
This ain’t rocket science.
Case in point:
Maybe...just maybe... if you’re reporting on white supremacist activity at, say, Ft. Bragg - you may want to consider OTHER instances of white supremacist activity at Ft. Bragg over time.
JUST IN CASE THERE IS A COINCIDENTAL PATTERN THAT ACCIDENTALLY EMERGES.