Ulkomaan natsit uutisissa yleistopik

[Texas-Peten soosit]

Esim.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/4/2 ... olice-ties
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/ ... ice-claims

[Balam-Acab]

juurikin esim. tolla kultaisella aamunkoitolla on ollu erityisen tiiviit ja limittäiset välit kreikan poliisin kanssa aina ties mitä erikoisyksiköitä myöten. näitä on jossakin määrin avattu mm. oikeudenkäynneissä, mutta tuskinpa kuviosta tiedetään läheskään kaikkea

e: jaa juu siitähän noissa linkeissä olikin

[Hikinen Möhömaha]

Aiotaankohan tähän reagoida nyt mitenkään kun tuomioitakin on tullut, vai saavatko rikollisjärjestöihin kuuluvat ihmiset jatkaa osana valtion väkivaltakoneistoa?

[Isotooppijalostamo]

Aiotaankohan tähän reagoida nyt mitenkään kun tuomioitakin on tullut, vai saavatko rikollisjärjestöihin kuuluvat ihmiset jatkaa osana valtion väkivaltakoneistoa?

No ei varmasti reagoida. Toi paikallinen kokookumshan on 2019 vaalivoiton jälkeen ottanut tehtäväkseen hävittää kaikki anarkistit, squatit tai muuten vaan vetää kaikkia turpaan. Nimenomaan kyttien erikoisjoukot eli mellakkakytät ja dias-moottoripyöräpoliisit (joita käytetään nimenomaan poliittisiin tehtäviin ja demoissa ihmisten hakkaamiseen) on yhdistetty natsiyhteistyöhön. 2012 vaaleissa (oletettavasti myös 2015) Ateenan kytistä tosiaan +50% äänesti natseja (kytillä erilliset äänestyspaikat joiden kautta on voitu arvioida osuuksia).

http://news.radiobubble.gr/2012/06/did- ... eally.html

[kiimainen dinosaur]

Onko tässä siis käynyt niin että poliisit on tän rikollisjärjestön puolella, kun hyökkäävät sitä vastustavan mielenosoituksen kimppuun?

Mitö? Siis ihan niinku Suomessa?

[overgrown reptilian]

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/l ... 922301002/

Plans to kidnap Whitmer, overthrow government spoiled, officials say
ROBERT SNELL, MELISSA NANN BURKE | THE DETROIT NEWS
6 hours ago
Federal agents said Thursday they thwarted a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — a conspiracy that included visits to her home in northern Michigan and training with explosive devices.

The alleged plot involved conspirators who met during a Second Amendment rally at the Capitol in Lansing in June and reached out to members of a Michigan militia known as the Wolverine Watchmen for reinforcements, according to state and federal officials.

The court filing alleges the conspirators twice conducted surveillance at Whitmer's personal vacation home in northern Michigan and discussed kidnapping her to a "secure location" in Wisconsin to stand "trial" for treason prior to the Nov. 3 election.

"Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. "The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message."

After the charges were revealed, Whitmer slammed President Donald Trump for failing to condemn in strong enough terms hate groups such as the far-right Proud Boys, whom he told to "stand back and stand by" during the debate last week.

"Hate groups heard the president's words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry, a call to action," the Democratic governor said.

She also warned those who threatened violence: "We will find you, we will hold you accountable and we will bring you to justice.”

The federal affidavit first reported by The Detroit News was filed hours after a team of FBI agents raided a Hartland Township home Wednesday and comes amid an ongoing investigation into the death of a Metro Detroit man killed during a shootout with FBI agents.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, federal and state officers on Thursday detailed charges against more than 12 people and what they described as "elaborate plans" to kidnap Whitmer.

The nature of the case is “rather unprecedented,” Michigan State Police Col. Joe Gasper said at a news conference.

“But it does send a very vivid reminder that while we may be in a period of discourse, possibly even divisiveness and fighting across the nation, law enforcement stands united,” Gasper said.

The investigation is the result of months of work that culminated Wednesday night in the execution of a series of search warrants and arrest warrants — both in-state and out-of-state — related to acts of terrorism under Michigan state law.

The conspiracy described by the FBI specifically involved at least six people, including Ty Garbin, 24, whose home was raided by agents in Hartland Township late Wednesday.

The affidavit filed in federal court details probable cause to charge the six men with conspiring to kidnap Whitmer. Those identified by name include:

Adam Fox
Barry Croft
Garbin
Kaleb Franks
Daniel Harris
Brandon Caserta

Ages and hometowns for all six men were not immediately available, but officials said all but Croft are from Michigan. Croft is from Delaware.

Fox, Garbin, Franks, Harris and Caserta made initial appearances in federal court Thursday and are being held without bond pending detention hearings. The conspiracy charge each is facing is punishable by up to life in federal prison.

"All of us standing here today want the public to know that federal and state law enforcement are committed to working together to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans, particularly when they target our duly elected leaders," said U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge of the Western District of Michigan.

Through confidential sources, undercover agents and "clandestine" recordings, federal agents tracked the six men during their planning to kidnap Whitmer as they communicated over encrypted messaging platforms using code words and phrases in an attempt to avoid detection by law enforcement, Birge said.

The group also allegedly participated in field exercises that included detonating an improvised explosive wrapped in shrapnel to test its capabilities, he said.

Caserta, 32, of Canton Township, posted several videos on TikTok, including one in which he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, the trademark clothing of members of the antigovernment Boogaloo movement.

“The Price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” Caserta said in one video. “And indifference to this notion is the means by which the people can and will secure their own oppression. Wake the f--- up.”

The criminal charges were filed six days after another so-called Boogaloo boy, Madison Heights resident Eric Allport, 43, was killed during a shootout with FBI agents at a Madison Heights restaurant.

Allport is not believed to have been involved with any of the people accused of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer or violently overthrow the government, a law enforcement source told The News.

Allport died of multiple gunshot wounds during a shootout with FBI agents in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse at about 4:30 p.m. Friday near John R and 12 Mile.

He had a violent, turbulent life. Allport served an 11-year prison sentence for shooting at two police officers, was an adherent of the anti-government Boogaloo movement and played a minor role in the infamous Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992, one of the darkest chapters in federal law enforcement history.

Separately, Nessel on Thursday announced state charges against seven other individuals pursuant to the state's anti-terrorism act, "all of whom are in custody and linked to the militia group Wolverine Watchmen."

In total, 19 state felony charges for firearms and terror-related acts were filed by Nessel against seven individuals known to be members or associates of Wolverine Watchmen.

The individuals include Paul Bellar, 21, of Milford; Shawn Fix, 38, of Belleville; Eric Molitor, 36, of Cadillac; Michael Null, 38, of Plainwell; William Null, 38, of Shelbyville; Pete Musico, 42; and Joseph Morrison, 42, who live together in Munith.

The suspects are alleged to have called on the groups’ members to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them; made threats of violence to instigate a civil war leading to societal collapse; and engaged in the planning and training for an operation to attack the state Capitol building and kidnap government officials, including Whitmer, according to a statement from Nessel's office.

“There has been a disturbing increase in anti-government rhetoric and the re-emergence of groups that embrace extremist ideologies,” Nessel said.

“These groups often seek to recruit new members by seizing on a moment of civil unrest and using it to advance their agenda of self-reliance and armed resistance. This is more than just political disagreement or passionate advocacy, some of these groups’ mission is simply to create chaos and inflict harm upon others.”

[overgrown reptilian]

The federal investigation dates to early 2020 when the FBI learned through social media that individuals were discussing the violent overthrow of several state governments and law enforcement.

In June, Croft, Fox and 13 others from multiple states held a meeting in Dublin, Ohio, near Columbus, according to the government.

Those present included an FBI confidential source who recorded the meetings. The source has been paid $8,600.

“The group talked about creating a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient,” the FBI agent wrote.

“They discussed different ways of achieving this goal from peaceful endeavors to violent actions. At one point, several members talked about state governments they believed were violating the U.S. Constitution, including the government of Michigan and Whitmer.

“As part of that recruitment effort, Fox reached out to a Michigan-based militia group,” the agent added.

The militia group is not identified in the court filing, but members periodically meet in remote areas of the state for firearms training and tactical drills.

The FBI was already tracking the militia in March after a local police department learned members were trying to obtain addresses of local law-enforcement officers, the FBI agent wrote.

“At the time, the FBI interviewed a member of the militia group who was concerned about the group’s plans to target and kill police officers, and that person agreed to become a (confidential source),” the agent wrote

In late June, Fox posted on Facebook a video in which he complained about the state’s judicial system and COVID-19 restrictions on gyms operating in Michigan.

“Fox referred to Governor Whitmer as ‘this tyrant b----,’ and stated, ‘I don’t know, boys, we gotta do something,” according to the court affidavit. “You guys link with me on our other location system, give me some ideas of what we can do.”

The affidavit describing the thwarted plot reports two occasions when the alleged conspirators conducted surveillance on Whitmer's vacation home — during the day on Aug. 29 and at night over the weekend of Sept. 12-13.

Fox and two other individuals located Whitmer's home and shot video and took photos of it as they drove by on Aug. 29. One of the individuals then calculated how long it would take local and state police to respond to an incident at the property.

"We ain't going to let 'em burn our f---in' state down. I don't give a f--- if there's only 20 or 30 of us, dude, we'll go out there and use deadly force," said Fox during the surveillance operation, according to an audio recording quoted in the affidavit.

In an encrypted group chat, Garbin later suggested that demolishing a nearby bridge would hamper a response by police to the governor's home, according to the court filing.

The September surveillance followed a field exercise at Garbin's property in Luther, Michigan, where the conspirators allegedly detonated an improvised explosive device made from a commercial firework wrapped in shrapnel "to test its anti-personnel effectiveness."

After a briefing on the plan to kidnap Whitmer, a larger group of the men drive from Luther to the vacation home in three separate vehicles while armed.

They stopped to check the underside of a highway bridge to check for places to attach an explosive charge, and discussed detonating explosive devices to divert law enforcement officers from the area of the governor's home.

“She f---ing goddamn loves the power she has right now,” Fox said during the surveillance operation, according to the affidavit. “I can see several states takin’ their f---in’ tyrants. Everybody takes their tyrants.”

The group later returned to Garbin's property, where they discussed destroying Whitmer's vacation home. "Kidnapping, arson, death, I don't care," Franks said, according to the affidavit.

The group made plans to conduct a final training exercise in late October but then decided that was too close to the November election, so they moved forward with raising money to procure explosives and other supplies including an 800,000-volt taser. It's unclear when the kidnapping was planned for.

FBI and state police executed the arrests of several of the conspirators when they were meeting on the east side of the state to pool funds for explosives and exchange tactical gear, Birge said Thursday.

Garbin and Franks appeared in federal court shortly after Thursday's news conference announcing the charges in the alleged kidnapping plot.

In a brief court hearing in Grand Rapids that took about five minutes, Garbin, 24, and Franks told a judge that they would need court-appointed attorneys based on their financial status. The two also were given their next court date of Oct. 13 for a bond hearing. The pair will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals.

The criminal case comes after months of state restrictions on travel and business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The lockdown has been a lightning rod for anti-government extremists in this country, and Gov. Whitmer has been on the forefront of their targeting,” said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, tweeted Thursday afternoon: "A threat against our Governor is a threat against us all."

"We condemn those who plotted against her and our government," he said. "They are not patriots. There is no honor in their actions. They are criminals and traitors, and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

House Speaker Lee Chatfield tweeted that violence "has no place in politics."

"Ever. It’s never a solution to disagreements. The people who targeted @GovWhitmer and police officers are un-American. Justice should be swift and severe. It’s time to send a message that violence will not be tolerated," he wrote.

U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, a Republican and Whitmer critic, also condemned the threats against her and praised law enforcement. "I wish Governor Whitmer and her family well."

In recent weeks, the state-owned Michigan governor's residence received security upgrades, including the construction of a new perimeter fence.

The "perimeter security and other safety upgrades" were planned out last year, Whitmer spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said in early September. They were scheduled to start in the early spring but were delayed until recently because of the pandemic, she said.

The cost for the "maintenance" projects at the Lansing residence, which was recommended by the Michigan State Police and the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget, was about $1.1 million, Brown said.

"As a matter of practice, we’re constantly reviewing security protocols and adjusting as needed," said Shanon Banner, spokeswoman for the Michigan State Police, in early September.

"We don’t comment on specific threats against the governor nor do we provide information about security measures."

[Pasi Fist]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... en-whitmer

Six people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer

FBI said plot involved contacting members of a militia who ‘talked about murdering tyrants or taking a sitting governor’

Six people have been charged with a plot to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, that involves links to a rightwing militia group, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced.

Another seven people were charged with plotting to target law enforcement and attack the state capitol building. The state attorney general, Dana Nessel, announced additional charges under Michigan’s anti-terrorism law. Seven men, all in custody, are linked to the militia group Wolverine Watchmen.

They are suspected of attempting to identify the homes of law enforcement officers to “target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war”. They also planned and trained for an operation to attack the Michigan capitol building and to kidnap government officials, including the governor, Nessel said.

The news sent shockwaves through a country facing one the most contentious elections in its history and already marred by accusations of voter suppression, civil unrest linked to police brutality and sometimes violent incidents and protests by heavily armed rightwingers.

Whitmer told reporters on Thursday that she knew the job would be hard when she took the oath of office nearly two years ago but she “never could have imagined anything like this”.

She thanked law enforcement, and said she hoped the criminal charges would “lead to convictions, bringing these sick and depraved men to justice”.

She said the pandemic ought to be a time for unity – saying “we are not one another’s enemy, the virus is our enemy” – but she accused Donald Trump of stoking division instead of bringing the American people together.

Referencing the first presidential debate last week, when Trump told the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by”, she said the president was “rallying” groups such as the ones that plotted her kidnap.

“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry, as a call to action,” she said.

The FBI said in an affidavit that the plot to kidnap Whitmer had involved reaching out to members of a Michigan militia. The criminal complaint states that the alleged plot involved her second home in northern Michigan.

“Several members talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor,” an FBI agent wrote in the document. “The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message.”

The six men charged with plotting against Whitmer were arrested on Wednesday night and each faces up to life in prison. US attorney Andrew Birge called them “violent extremists”.

“All of us in Michigan can disagree about politics, but those disagreements should never, ever amount to violence. Violence has been prevented today,” the Detroit US attorney Matthew Schneider told reporters.

The affidavit was filed on Wednesday hours after FBI agents raided a home in Hartland Township, a community about an hour outside Detroit.

The criminal complaint identified the six as Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, all of Michigan, and Barry Croft of Delaware.

Whitmer, a Democrat, has been the frequent target of protests by often heavily armed anti-lockdown groups who have launched numerous demonstrations against her efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. She put major restrictions on personal movement throughout the state and on the economy, although many of those limits have been lifted.
Whitmer’s moves once caused Trump to tweet “Liberate Michigan” as an exhortation to his supporters against her policy. As news of the foiled plot unfolded, many commentators fingered the president’s words as a contributing factor to the alleged conspiracy.

Former FBI agent and national security commentator Asha Rangappa asked pointedly: “Who knew that Trump and Fox News’ exhortations to “liberate Michigan” might lead to an attempt to harm the governor and lead a coup? Completely unforeseeable.”

The Detroit News reported that the investigation dated to early 2020 when the FBI learned via social media that individuals were discussing a violent overthrow of several state governments. A confidential paid informant then recorded a meeting between more than a dozen people from several states that took place in Dublin, Ohio.

“The group talked about creating a society that followed the US Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient,” the affidavit said. “They discussed different ways of achieving this goal from peaceful endeavors to violent actions. At one point, several members talked about state governments they believed were violating the US constitution, including the government of Michigan and Governor Gretchen Whitmer.”

Through electronic communications, two of the alleged conspirators then “agreed to unite others in their cause and take violent action against multiple state governments that they believe are violating the US constitution”, the FBI said.

One of the alleged conspirators, Adam Fox, said he needed 200 men to storm the capitol building in Lansing and take hostages, including the governor, according to the FBI. He said he wanted to try Whitmer for “treason” and would execute the plan before the 3 November election, the government said.

Later, however, the group shifted to targeting the governor’s vacation home, the FBI said.

Speaking on CNN late Thursday, Whitmer said the White House’s attacks have stoked threats against her.

“We have to call it out for what it is – it is domestic terrorism,” she said of the plot.

Whitmer said White House had not checked up on her, while Joe Biden and Charlie Baker – the Republican governor of Massachusetts – had. “That’s what decent people do,” she said. Not long after news of the thwarted plot broke, Trump campaign official Jason Miller attacked Whitmer: “If we want to talk about hatred, then Gov Whitmer, go look in the mirror – the fact that she wakes up every day with such hatred in her heart towards President Trump.”

“Every time that this White House identifies me or takes a shot at me, we see an increase in rhetoric online – violent rhetoric,” the Michigan governor said. The foiled kidnapping plot “took it to a whole new level”.

In a statement, Biden said he had spoken to Whitmer and delivered a harsh rebuke of Trump’s rhetoric: “There is a throughline from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance and lawlessness to plots such as this one. He is giving oxygen to the bigotry and hate we see on the march in our country.”

In a tweet, Trump renewed his attacks on Whitmer, saying she had “done a terrible job”, before saying: “I do not tolerate ANY extreme violence. Defending ALL Americans, even those who oppose and attack me, is what I will always do as your President! Governor Whitmer – open up your state, open up your schools and open up your churches!”

[Kalle]

Natsi-teemalla ratsastanut hyväntekeväisyystempaus vei vankeuteen Slovakiassa

Puoluejohtaja Marian Kotleba joutuu telkien taakse ensimmäisenä parlamenttiedustajana Slovakiassa. Kotleba tukijoineen muutti Viininystävät -puolueen äärioikeistopuolueeksi.

Slovakiassa parlamenttiedustaja ja puoluejohtaja Marian Kotleba on saanut neljän vuoden ja neljän kuukauden vankeustuomion natsi-ideologian edistämisestä. Vankeustuomio on maassa ensimmäinen parlamenttiedustajalle annettu.

Syytteen mukaan Kotleba, 43, järjesti hyväntekeväisyystempauksen natsi-teemalla. Hän jakoi 1 488 euron sekkejä köyhille perheille tapahtumassa, joka pidettiin natsien Slovakia-nukkevaltion perustamisen vuosipäivänä vuonna 2017. Asiasta kertovat muun muassa Reuters ja Deutsche Welle.

Luku 1488 on valkoisten ylivaltaa kannattavien symboli, joka perustuu 14-sanaiseen rasistiseen iskulauseeseen ja natsien tervehdykseen. Järjestäytyneeseen rikollisuuteen erikoistunut oikeus totesi Kotleban syylliseksi kansalaisoikeuksien ja demokratian tukahduttamiseen pyrkivän ideologian edistämisestä.

Kotleba pyrkinyt pehmentämään julkisuuskuvaansa

Kotleba johtaa Kansanpuolue Meidän Slovakiamme -äärioikeistopuoluetta, jolla on yhteensä 14 paikkaa maan 150-jäsenisessä parlamentissa. Puolue haluaa vetää Slovakian pois Natosta ja on hyvin kriittinen EU:ta kohtaan.

Puolue on pitänyt arvossa Slovakian sodanajan presidenttiä Jozef Tisoa, joka määräsi yli 70 000 slovakianjuutalaista ja -romania keskitysleireille ja joka myöhemmin joutui oikeuteen maanpetoksesta.

Useita puolueen toimihenkilöitä on tuomittu ekstremismistä. Viime vuonna maan korkein oikeus päätti, että puoluetta ei kielletä.

Kotleban ideologiaa on kuvattu ”fasistisena”. Kotleba itse kiistää tämän. Viime vuosina Kotleba ja puolue ovat pyrkineet pehmentämään julkisuuskuvaansa. Puolue lupaa kiristää lakia ja puolustaa ”kunnon slovakkeja” EU:n ajamaa ”maahanmuuttoliberalismia” vastaan.

– Olemme miekka, joka voi pelastaa Slovakian, Kotleba julisti vaalitilaisuudessa viime helmikuussa.

Kotleba sanoi, että risti ei ole tarpeeksi taistelussa ”homoideologiaa” tai ”islamisaatiota” vastaan. Kotleban puolue sai vaaleissa kahdeksan prosentin kannatuksen, neljänneksi eniten.

Viininystävät muuttui äärioikeistopuolueeksi

Vuonna 1977 syntyneen Kotleban isä työskenteli armeijassa, ja hänellä on kaksi veljeä. Kotleba opiskeli tietojenkäsittelyoppia yliopistossa ennen kuin alkoi työskennellä koulussa.

Pian sen jälkeen hänestä tuli äärioikeistoliike Slovenska Pospolitostin (Slovakialainen yhteishenki) johtaja. Maan korkein oikeus kielsi kuitenkin liikkeen demokraattisten periaatteiden loukkaamisesta. Asiasta kertoo muun muassa Balkan Insight.

Kotleba ja hänen tukijansa eivät lannistuneet, vaan ottivat vuonna 2009 haltuunsa Viininystävät -puolueen. Näin syntyi Kansanpuolue Meidän Slovakiamme, josta tuli vuoden 2016 vaaleissa yksi EU:n radikaaleimmasta puolueista. Puolue muun muassa kampanjoi romaniväestöön kohdistuvalla vihalla.

Vuonna 2013 Kotlebasta tuli yllätysäänestyksessä Banska Bystrica -alueen kuvernööri. Transparency International -järjestö syytti myöhemmin Kotlebaa nepotismista ja viranomaisviestin väärinkäytöstä antisemitistiseen ja ekstremistiseen propagandaan.

[Suomalainen Vapaa Radikaali]

Ihmeen pitkään Kotlebakin sai huseerata. Neljä vuotta linnaa natsille kelpaa aina

[Karhunpoika hairahtaa]

Ihmeen pitkään Kotlebakin sai huseerata. Neljä vuotta linnaa natsille kelpaa aina

Suomessa ois saanut neljä vuotta arkadianmäellä.

[Pasi Fist]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -pill-expo

US militias forge alliances with conspiracy theorists ahead of election

Anti-government and anti-science advocates joined by founder of militia group at Red Pill Expo in Georgia

Armed militia groups are forging alliances in the final stages of the US presidential election with conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers who claim the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, intensifying concerns that trouble could be brewing ahead of election day.

Leading advocates of anti-government and anti-science propaganda came together at the weekend, joined by the founder of one of the largest militia groups. The rare connection occurred at the Red Pill Expo, a conference convened on Jekyll Island, Georgia – a symbolic location as it is the birthplace of the US Federal Reserve, a popular bogey figure for conspiracy theorists.

The summit, staged indoors in front of a packed and maskless audience of about 350, was headlined by Stewart Rhodes, president of the Oath Keepers. The militia, which turned up menacingly at several Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests over the summer and has acted as a vigilante squad at numerous Donald Trump campaign rallies, has links to 25,000 current or past members, mostly military or police veterans.

Rhodes aroused the crowd of “Red Pillers”, as they called themselves, with incendiary language. He denounced BLM as a “communist front” and encouraged attendees to seek training in firearms and militia activity as the election approaches.

“You are your own self-defense,” he said. “You must organize yourselves in the next 30 days in your towns and counties. We have members in every state in the union and we are standing them up right now.”

Rhodes said the turbulence around “radical left” protests had brought “a flood of special warfare operatives into the Oath Keepers”. He cited former navy Seals and special force personnel from Fort Bragg, the US army garrison in North Carolina.

A number of groups monitoring far rightwing paramilitary activity have warned in recent weeks that militia groups and individuals online are increasingly focusing their attentions on the presidential election. The chatter has been fueled by Trump’s provocative remarks casting doubt on the integrity of the voting process and calling on his supporters to turn up at polling places on election day.

Anxiety is also growing around the activities of white supremacist domestic terrorist groups, which federal agencies now recognize as an especially dangerous threat. Last week six people were charged in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.

At the Red Pill gathering, the Oath Keeper president set his sights openly on election day. He said that on 3 November “we will have our men deployed outside the polling stations to make sure you are protected, especially in swing states”.

Rhodes’ appearance marked an unusually overt fusion of interests between armed far-right groups and anti-government and anti-pharmaceutical conspiracy theorists. Several of his fellow keynote speakers denounced the coronavirus pandemic as a fraud cooked up by global elites as a ploy to subjugate the American people.

Betsy Quammen, author of a book on the 2014 Bundy standoff in Nevada who attended the Red Pill event as a monitor, said the union of disparate virulent movements was troubling. “As somebody who’s been studying militia manoeuvring and conspiracy theorists, it’s disconcerting to see these various groups uniting under a common banner of mistrust about coronavirus.”

She added that the timing of the meeting so close to the election was alarming.

Among the speakers at the summit, Mikki Willis followed Rhodes in talking up the actions of armed rightwing individuals. Willis is known for having been the director of Plandemic, the viral video that spread the lie that coronavirus was invented by big drug companies and Bill Gates, among others.

He boasted to the Red Pill audience that he had also made a laudatory video about Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged in August in the killing of two people during anti-police brutality protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Willis praised the alleged shooter, whom Trump also notably failed to denounce, as a “very stand-up citizen”.

David Icke, the British conspiracy theorist widely denounced for antisemitic hate speech, was beamed into the summit by video from the UK. He traded misinformation about the “pandemic hoax”, accusing a global “cult” of elites of having creating a coronavirus vaccine that was in fact a “sterilization agent” that would be used to destroy humanity.

Icke also encouraged school kids to refuse to wear masks, which he called “face diapers”.

Two other major strains of misinformation were represented at the weekend. Del Bigtree, producer of the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed, which features the disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield, also portrayed the pandemic as a global conspiracy aiming to take control over people’s lives.

Bigtree pointed to a poll last month that suggested that two-thirds of Americans would be hesitant to get a Covid vaccine when it first became available. He said the survey showed the anti-vaccination movement was winning: “Man, does it feel good!”

He also praised Trump as a “brave individual” and someone “I’ve watched wear a mask less than anyone else”.

The last group given a voice at the gathering were peddlers of industrial bleach, who market the chemical as a “miracle cure” for all known ailments including malaria, HIV/Aids, cancer and Covid-19. Kerri Rivera, a leading advocate of chlorine dioxide as a treatment for autism, talked to the summit by video link from Germany.

“If people took chlorine dioxide for most illnesses, few doctors would be needed and the pharmaceutical industry would be bankrupted,” she said.

She also claimed the bleach, which is used in industrial textile manufacturing, had no major side effects. In fact, the US Food and Drug Administration has warned that consuming it can be life-threatening and incidents of death have been recorded.

Several leading bleach pushers in the US are currently in jail on federal charges.

[Suomalainen Vapaa Radikaali]

Paras uutinen tältä saralta tulee ilman muuta Kreikasta:

Uusnatsijohtajalle 13 vuoden vankeustuomio Kreikassa
Tuomioistuin linjasi viime viikolla, että äärioikeistolainen Kultainen aamunkoitto -puolue on toiminut rikollisjärjestönä.

Kreikassa äärioikeistolaisen Kultainen aamunkoitto -puolueen johtaja Nikos Mihaloliakos on tuomittu 13 vuoden vankeuteen.

62-vuotias Mihaloliakos sai tuomion puolueeksi naamioituneen rikollisjärjestön johtamisesta. Lisäksi hän sai vuoden mittaisen tuomion aseen laittomasta hallussapidosta.

Tuomioistuin linjasi viime viikolla, että Kultainen aamunkoitto on toiminut rikollisjärjestönä. Sen edustajille luettiin rangaistukset tänään keskiviikkona.

Oikeus tuomitsi 5–7 vuoden vankeuteen viisi muuta puolueen sisäpiiriläistä. Joukossa on riippumaton europarlamentaarikko Ioannis Lagos. Kreikan viranomaisten täytyy nyt pyytää EU-parlamenttia kumoamaan hänen oikeudellisen koskemattomuutensa.

Kaikkiaan tuomion sai yli 50 Kultaisen aamunkoiton jäsentä erilaisista rikoksista.

Elinkautisen vankeustuomion sai puolueen jäsen Yiorgos Roupakias, joka murhasi vuonna 2013 fasisinvastaisen räppärin Pavlos Fyssasin. Murha käynnisti tutkinnan Kultaisen aamunkoiton toiminnasta.

Kotietsinnöissä löytyi muun muassa laittomia aseita ja natseihin liittyviä muistoesineitä. Puolueen johtohahmot pidätettiin vuonna 2013. Oikeudenkäynti alkoi kaksi vuotta myöhemmin.

Kultainen aamunkoitto pääsi parlamenttiin vuonna 2012 maahanmuuttovastaisella ohjelmalla. Se oli yhteen aikaan Kreikan kolmanneksi suosituin puolue. Viime vaaleissa se ei saanut ainuttakaan parlamenttipaikkaa.

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Dutch state broadcaster pulls logo from vans after attacks

NOS takes unprecedented step amid far-right risk, saying journalism is ‘under attack’

The Dutch state broadcaster has removed its logo from outside broadcast vans as politicians complained of a steep rise in threats and the national counter-terrorism agency warned of a heightened risk of far-right violence in the Netherlands.

The broadcaster, NOS, said it had been forced to take the unprecedented step because “almost daily, journalists and technicians on the road to report are confronted with verbal abuse, garbage is thrown, vans are blocked [and] people bang on their sides or urinate on them”.

NOS’s editor, Marcel Gelauff, said it had been the case for some time that its reporters no longer went to public events without security guards.

“It’s not just what has happened, but what you are afraid might happen,” he said. “Journalism is under attack from people and groups who only want to see their own world reflected back at them, who are trying to deny every other perspective, and are therefore attacking the freedom of the press … This is a defeat for journalism.”

The decision has shocked the Netherlands, which despite a history of having flamboyant far-right politicians such as Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders, and occasional political violence, is widely seen as a tolerant society of consensus and compromise.

Thierry Baudet, a far-right politician whose Forum for Democracy party has regularly accused the media of being “part of the elite”, told a TV talk show he thought it extremely unlikely that such criticism had led to the current climate.

But the minister for the media, Arie Slob, said he took the announcement very seriously, telling parliament that a free press was at the heart of democracy: “Hands off our press. Let journalists do their job safely and let them do it independently.”

The speaker of the Dutch parliament, Khadija Arib, also said she was deeply concerned by an increase in online attacks against politicians and daily demonstrations outside parliament.

Protesters “harass MPs, touch them, and jeer at journalists and politicians”, Arib said, adding that politicians had reported 44 threats and filed 17 formal complaints with the police in the first eight months of 2020.

The Netherlands’ national coordinator for counter-terrorism and security, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, said the coronavirus crisis had made social unrest more visible, both on the street and on social media.

The country was witnessing a “radical undercurrent with extremist behaviour”, Aalbersberg said, made up of people who harassed politicians and journalists, intimidated police officers and published online lists of private addresses of police and politicians.

“People who have long distrusted the government, science and traditional media may find their views confirmed in conspiracy theories and misinformation,” the counter-terrorism organisation said.

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Berliinin kuuluisan museo­saaren aarteita sotkettiin, tuhotöistä epäillään tunnetun salaliitto­teoreetikon seuraajia

Kymmeniä kulttuurihistoriallisia aarteita sotkettiin öljymäisellä nesteellä Museuminselillä Berliinin keskustassa.


Berliinin museosaarella sijaitseva Alte Nationalgalerie on yksi museoista, joissa tuntemattomat tekijät ovat tärvelleet lukuisia kulttuuri- ja taide-esineitä.­

Berliinissä on paljastunut laaja tuhotyö kuuluisalla museosaarella eli Museuminselillä. Berliinin poliisi paljasti tiistaina, että Unescon maailmanperintökohteeksi julistetun saaren eri museoissa on sotkettu kymmeniä kulttuurihistoriallisesti arvokkaita esineitä suihkuttamalla niitä öljymäisellä nesteellä.

Poliisin mukaan tihutyöt tehtiin Saksojen yhdistymisen muistopäivänä eli 3. lokakuuta. Asia nousi julkisuuteen vasta poliisin lähestyttyä museoissa tuona päivänä vierailleita ihmisiä etsiessään silminnäkijöitä.

”Olemme tutkineet asiaa jo jonkin aikaa. Emme taktisista syistä johtuen julkistaneet tapausta ennen tätä”, Berliinin poliisi kertoi sähköpostissa saksalaiselle Der Tagesspiegel -lehdelle keskiviikkona.

Asiasta uutisoivat aiemmin tiistaina ainakin saksalainen Die Zeit -lehti ja julkinen radiokanava Deutschlandfunk.


Berliinin Neues Museumissa oli näyttelyesineitä tärvelty nestemäisellä aineella. Egytiläisen museon johtaja Friederike Seyfried osoittaa öljyn tahrimaa kohtaa.­

Tagesspiegelin mukaan ainakin 70 esinettä oli tärvelty öljymäisellä nesteellä Pergamonmuseumissa, Neues Museumissa, Alte Nationalgaleriessa ja muissa museosaaren kohteissa.

Vandalismista oli jäänyt näkyviä jälkiä muun muassa egyptiläiseen sarkofagiin, kiviveistoksiin sekä 1800-luvulta peräisin oleviin maalauksiin.

Tapausta pidetään jo nyt yhtenä vakavimmista iskuista kulttuuri- ja taideaarteita vastaan Saksassa toisen maailmansodan jälkeen. Silti kesti yli kaksi viikkoa, ennen kuin asia nousi julkisuuteen.

Tapauksesta tekee merkillisen se, että tihutöistä epäillään paljon julkisuutta saaneen saksalaisen salaliittoteoreetikon ja antisemitistin Attila Hildmannin tukijoita.


Vegaanikokki ja salaliittoteoreetikko Attila Hildman puhui kannattajilleen Berliinin museosaarella heinäkuussa.­

Hildmann on turkkilaistaustainen, Berliinissä syntynyt tunnettu vegaanikokki ja -keittokirjailija. Viime aikoina hän saanut julkisuutta väittämällä mielenosoituksissa ja sosiaalisessa mediassa, että koronaviruspandemia on huijausta ja että pandemian varjolla yritetään luoda totalitaarista yhteiskuntaa. Hän on lietsonut Saksassa laajoja mielenosoituksia koronarajoituksia vastaan.

Kesällä Hildmann järjesti museosaaren Altes Museumin edustalla säännöllisesti mielenosoituksia. Lopulta Berliinin kaupungin viranomaiset kielsivät Hildmannin mielenosoitukset niissä esitettyjen kunnianloukkausten, uhkausten ja vihapuheen vuoksi.

Hänen tähtäimessään ovat erityisesti Saksan liittokansleri Angela Merkel, terveysministeri Jens Spahn sekä miljardööri Bill Gates, joka tukee rokotusohjelmaa Afrikassa.

Hildmann levittää herjaavia kuvia, huorittelee, nimittää päättäjiä sionisteiksi ja satanisteiksi ja on puolustanut avoimesti natsijohtaja Adolf Hitleriä.

Museot reagoivat Hildmannin toimintaan kesällä pystyttämällä Altes Museumin edustalle mainoskankaan, jossa vastustettiin rasismia, antisemitismiä, nationalismia ja vihapuhetta.

Elokuussa Hildmann kirjoitti kannattajilleen viestipalvelu Telegramissa, että Museuminselillä sijaitseva Pergamonmuseum, jossa on esillä muinainen Baal-jumalan alttari, on ”Saatanan valtaistuin”, Tagesspiegel kirjoittaa.

Lehden mukaan Hildmann on väittänyt toistuvasti, että museo on ”globaalien satanistien ja koronarikollisten keskuspaikka”, ja että öisin museossa ”uhrataan ihmisiä ” ja ”häpäistään lapsia”.

Tämä tuo Hildmannin väitteet lähelle äärioikeistolaista Qanon-salaliittoteoriaa, jonka mukaan Saatanaa palvovat pedofiilit pyrkivät maailmanvaltaan ja että vain Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trump pystyy estämään sen. Liike pitää koronaviruspandemiaa keksittynä asiana.

Museuminselin läheisyydessä järjestettiin 3. lokakuuta useita salaliittoteorioiden innoittamia ja koronarajoituksia vastustavia mielenosoituksia, Tagesspiegel kertoo.

Viranomaiset eivät ole esittäneet todisteita siitä, että museoesineiden tärveleminen liittyisi juuri Hildmanniin tai hänen tukijoihinsa. Saksalaisen median mukaan Hildmann on kuitenkin toistuvasti soimannut museoita siitä, että ne vastustivat hänen mielenosoituksiaan.

Hildmann on myös toistuvasti nimittänyt Saksan liittokansleria Angela Merkeliä ”demoniksi” ja ”Illuminatiksi”.