The Joker in the Patriot Movement

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Postby American Dream » Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:51 pm

Alex Jones And Aleksandr Dugin Praise Vladimir Putin For Standing Against ‘Satanic’ ‘Globalists’


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In 2014, Dugin claimed Russian forces should launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, in his words, “kill and kill and kill those responsible for the atrocities” in the country.

The “mad philosopher” is also popular among the alt-right. Richard Spencer has published Dugin’s writings on the website Alternative Right. And in 2015 Dugin recorded a speech called “To My American Friends in Our Common Struggle” was played at a conference hosted by Matt Heimbach.

And, like Jones, Dugin is a big supporter of Presidents Trump and Putin. Jones asked Dugin for his insight on “real mindset of Putin,” and praised Putin for “kicking a lot of the globalist oligarchs out” and “fighting against all the abortions” and the “destruction of the family.”

“First of all, Vladimir Putin has his own worldview that is not so much ideological,” Dugin replied. Instead, Putin “represents, more or less, [what the] Russian people think” and the “Russian soul.” Dugin went on to say that Putin views himself first and foremost as Russian, as opposed to viewing himself as a “globalist” or — cue the anti-Semitic dog-whistling — “cosmopolitan.”

“And that is exactly the same way Trump is,” Jones said enthusiastically, “So it’s a return to common sense, a return to cultural nationalist with a Christian base.” Dugin agreed and called this the “real similarity” between Trump and Putin. He even suggested that “Putin could be considered to be the Russian Trump, as well as Trump could be considered [an] American Putin.”


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:18 pm

Meet Peter Imanuelsen, aka Peter Sweden, the bigoted conspiracy theorist who is a frequent source for the American "alt-right" on Europe

Imanuelsen is a xenophobic pseudo-journalist who has denied the Holocaust, called the moon landing a "hoax," and suggested that LGBTQ people be sent to camps

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Imanuelsen has, for months, been ingratiating himself into far-right and pro-Trump Twitter circles -- he once tweeted four times in response to a Breitbart article lamenting the lack of Christian symbolism in a supermarket holiday ad -- and it appears that his efforts have begun to pay off. Imanuelsen now has over 85 thousand Twitter followers, 24 thousand YouTube subscribers, and his Periscope videos regularly draw tens of thousands of viewers.

Imanuelsen’s relationship with Paul Joseph Watson, an Infowars conspiracy theorist who is obsessed with the canard of Swedish migrant crime, illustrates his rise. Their Twitter relationship seems to have started in February 2017, when Watson quote-tweeted Imanuelsen’s tweet about an explosion in Malmo, which Imanuelsen later deleted. He started quote-tweeting Watson aggressively in March and started tweeting directly at him a few months later. Watson has quote-tweeted Imanuelsen many times and has interviewed him on Infowars. Most recently, Infowars.com reprinted a post Imanuelsen wrote for the anti-immigrant European news blog Voice of Europe. Imanuelson’s tweets parallel the content of several prominent far-right outlets that report on the subject of crime in Sweden, and an October 2017 post by the far-right Gateway Pundit was based entirely on his tweets. In November 2017, Imanuelsen was cited as a "journalist" who "keeps track of bombings in the country" in an article on the website of RT, a Russian media outlet which U.S. intelligence officials and experts have said is a propaganda arm for the Kremlin.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:46 pm

Trump’s Debt to Ron Paul’s Paranoid Style

James Kirchick

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Texas Congressman Ron Paul, at his Republican presidential primary campaign headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire, November, 2007

Late in the fall of 2007, I called up an obscure radio host named Alex Jones. At the time, Jones was known mostly for brandishing a megaphone outside the annual Bilderberg conference, shouting obscenities at its influential participants, as well as for his cameos in the art-house films of fellow Austin native Richard Linklater. It was years before Jones’s rants about chemtrails and the NAFTA Superhighway would be uploaded onto YouTube, where they would eventually find an audience of millions, nor had he yet made a fortune on his own line of dietary supplements and “brain pills.” To watch his documentary about the supposed plot hatched by George Pataki, David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix, and others to exterminate humanity, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, I had to purchase a DVD.

My reason for contacting this all-American curiosity was that I was reporting a story about the then Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul for The New Republic. (Paul had been a frequent guest on Jones’s radio show for years.) I had obtained a trove of newsletters that the libertarian gadfly had intermittently published from the late 1970s through to the mid 1990s, which were chock-full of conspiratorial, racist, and anti-government ravings. According to passages published under Paul’s name, Martin Luther King Jr. “seduced underage girls and boys,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency “intends to wipe out state jurisdictions by setting up the ten federal regions so beloved of the Council on Foreign Relations,” and gay victims of AIDS “enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick.” Collectively, the bulletins revealed an exceptionally sinister side of the man whose ardent supporters and much of the media portrayed as a principled, if slightly cranky, “straight talker.” My exposé of the newsletters and broader investigation into Paul’s history of associations with all manner of groups and individuals on the extreme right, entitled “Angry White Man,” was published by The New Republic on the day of the 2008 New Hampshire primary.

Ten years ago, the notion that Ron Paul—or anyone espousing his worldview—would ever come close to becoming the president of the United States was extremely far-fetched. Never mind his far-out proposals to revive the gold standard or abolish the Federal Reserve; Paul was an outspoken opponent of foreign policy interventionism in general and a strong critic of George W. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in particular, untenable positions for anyone hoping to win a GOP presidential nomination at the time. Paul ran once more for president in 2012, and retired from Congress early the following year.

I’ve been put in mind of my past work on Alex Jones, Ron Paul, and the strange milieu they inhabit by the current occupant of the White House. Donald Trump first appeared on Jones’s radio show in December 2015, was a frequent guest over the course of his insurgent presidential campaign, and maintains contact with the man who, among countless other moral obscenities, claims the Newtown school massacre was a “hoax” designed to increase popular support for gun control. Trump, according to Jones, often publicly repeats information Jones tells him “word for word.” And so it is that an extreme right-wing conspiracy theorist I interviewed in order to add some color to a piece about a fringe politician has, in course of a decade, become a trusted confidant of the president of the United States.

Long before Donald Trump emerged as the most prominent purveyor of a racist conspiracy theory concerning the country’s first black president, played political footsie with white supremacists, condemned “globalism,” sold himself to the masses as a guru of personal enrichment, attacked American allies as scroungers, and made overtures to authoritarian regimes like Russia, there was Ron Paul. The ideological similarities between the two men, and the ways in which they created support, are striking.

Decades before right-wing chain emails—never mind Twitter—fringe political figures and movements used a more prosaic tool for gaining adherents: direct-mail newsletters. Subscribers to Paul’s various publications (which appeared under titles such as the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter) could learn how “order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began,” how AIDS was spread through the US Postal Service, and read favorable coverage of unsavory personalities like the Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott and the white supremacist Jared Taylor (described innocuously as a “criminologist”).

Paul’s strategy was to appeal to voters on three bases—racial animus, anti-elitism, and nativism. From the beginnings of his political career in the late 1970s, Paul diligently amassed a nationwide following among the remnants of what was the pre-World War II “Old Right”: isolationists, gold standard nostalgics, New Deal opponents, and racists. In later years, Paul would add right-wing, apocalypse-fearing “survivalists” (now also known as “preppers”) as well as anti-government militia members to his base; his newsletters referred to cult leader David Koresh as a “reasonable person” and lauded the rising militia movement as “an encouraging sign that the end of government as we know it may be near.”

No conspiracy theory was too weird, and no person too far beyond the pale, for Paul (or, arguably, his presumed ghostwriter Lew Rockwell) to endorse. The Holocaust-denying chess champion Bobby Fischer was “very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew.” Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms were “jackbooted thugs.” There were even kind words for David Duke, referred to affectionately as “The Duke.” Sound familiar? The anti-government hysteria and sympathy for the militia movement Paul expressed in his newsletters reverberate in Trump’s attacks on the “Deep State” and likening US intelligence practices to Nazi Germany. When Trump starting using “globalist” as an epithet on the campaign trail, it brought back memories of Paul, who also deployed the word as a term of abuse. And years before an Intelligence Community assessment would conclude that Kremlin-controlled cable network Russia Today had participated in an influence operation designed to help Trump win the presidency, Paul was a frequent guest on that network, and continues to appear there.

Paul also shares with Trump a reputation for financial flim-flammery. In a letter hawking his Ron Paul Investment Letter, Paul warned readers that a US government redesign of the currency was part of a plot to track Americans. “These totalitarian bills were tinted pink and blue and brown, and blighted with holograms, diffraction gratings, metal and plastic threads, and chemical alarms,” he wrote, calling the money, “a portable inquisition.” Only by subscribing to his newsletter—for a mere $99—could readers “save their family.” They would also get his guidebook, “Surviving the New Money” (a $50 bargain!), and access to an “unlisted phone number of my Financial Hotline for fast breaking news” (a $25 offer). Another solicitation offered readers “the unique Ron Paul Privacy Card,” which is presumably as valuable as a degree from Trump University.

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Though Paul is often called an orthodox libertarian, his ideology is more accurately described as paleolibertarian, which shares the limited government principles of traditional libertarianism but places a heavier emphasis on conservative social values, white racial resentment, and isolationist nationalism. It is, in many ways, a forerunner of today’s alt-right, and Paul himself has proven to be something of a gateway drug to even more extreme political movements. Tony Hovater, the neo-Nazi subject of a much-discussed New York Times profile last year, recalled that his fascist awakening began in 2012, when, as a supporter of Paul’s presidential campaign, he watched the Republican National Convention implement rule changes designed to favor eventual nominee Mitt Romney. Among the eclectic interests of Nicholas Young, the thirty-eight-year-old former Washington, D.C., Metro police officer who tried to assist the Islamic State, were Islamic radicalism, Nazism, neo-Confederacy, and… Ron Paul. In a piece about the part played by online subcultures in the radicalization of alt-right activists, Buzzfeed News’s Charlie Warzel noticed how so many individual stories “followed a similar pattern: steadfast libertarians—as the Times piece claimed Hovater was at one point—who found their way to the message board through an errant link and stayed awhile for the off-color jokes only to be drawn in by the political arguments,” eventually becoming full-blown neo-reactionaries.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:43 pm

Far-right media pundits are now calling for a police state

During the Jan. 19 episode of his program, Jones went on an extended-length rant, saying that Clinton, former president Barack Obama, former FBI director James Comey and a host of others were accusing Trump of acting like a dictator. Jones' suggested remedy: Trump should start doing just that.

“Mr. President, they’re not going to stop, they’ve already started a civil war! They’ve all got to go to prison!” Jones raged in a segment discussing CNN host Anderson Cooper and New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg. “They’re saying you’re a dictator, we all need to be shut down, take our free speech, and then say you’re doing that. They’ve already launched their operations!"

The Infowars founder then alluded to Phil Mudd, a former FBI and CIA official, now a commentator at CNN, who said last August that Trump’s antagonistic remarks about career intelligence officials could result in them wanting to “kill this guy.” It was clearly a metaphor, as host Jake Tapper and Mudd were quick to point out, for the idea that Trump might be inspiring government officials to leak disparaging information about the president.

According to Jones, however, Mudd had instead publicly stated that American intelligence agencies are planning to assassinate Trump. Because of that, Jones suggested, the president needs to begin physically rounding up his political opponents and treating them like violent traitors:

“Phil Mudd is on TV saying he’s going to kill you! All you need to do is go after them now! Turn the dogs loose! They started it! They did it! They’re the foreign power! They’re the enemy! They’re the traitors!”

“Get ’em! Get ’em!” Jones screamed as he pointed at an image of Cooper and Rosenberg on his studio screen.

Later on in the episode, Jones revisited the topic of the Trump-Russia investigation, claiming that Obama “needs to go to prison” because “these people aren’t above the law.”

“These aren’t Americans,” Jones continued. “They’re globalists.”

He then tried to answer listeners and viewers who might believe that Trump imprisoning Clinton and Obama could lead to civil war.

“They’re already trying to cause one,” Jones replied. “Justice be done, may the heavens fall,” he said, alluding to the famous Latin phrase that is also a line in Oliver Stone's conspiracy film “JFK.”

The Infowars chief then compared government officials and liberal political figures to the Japanese and German armies America fought in World War II:
“We have to attack them legally and lawfully. . . .We have to defeat them all. They’re not going to stop,” Jones continued. “Like World War II, you don’t just kick Hitler back into Germany, he’s going to reconstitute and attack again. You don’t just kick the Japanese out of the Pacific Islands, you’ve gotta go all the way to Tokyo. They started it!”

As he continued, Jones suggested that because of their “treason,” Trump needs to “go all the way” against his opponents.

“Whatever has to happen is going to happen. We’re going all the way against these people, period. We have to do it. There’s no other choice. They’ve all got to politically hang for their crimes,” he said.

“Incidentally,” Jones said as he looked deep into the camera and drummed his figures to accentuate the dramatic pause. “You know what the punishment for treason is.”

He continued: “These are the foreign individuals that took our country over. They’re the ones who corrupted everything almost to the point of the country’s death. And they’re still trying to strangle the country today. We must stand against them.”

Before the rise of Trump, Jones was an irrelevant conspiracy radio host whose ravings were listened to by a small number of deranged core fans and hipsters with eccentric senses of humor. All of that changed after Jones latched on to Trump during his campaign.

Trump returned the favor, saying publicly during his campaign that Jones has an “amazing” reputation." As president, he has given Jones and his Infowars colleagues prime access to White House officials. According to Jones, Trump has called him multiple times at home during the past few months. The host has also claimed that he knows several personal phone numbers for Trump, including the president’s private suite at Mar-a-Lago.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:52 pm

Alt-America reveals the forces that revived the radical right and imperil our democracy

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David Neiwert.

With all the noise in the media about the alt-right, the role that anti-government groups and militias play in the current climate is less well understood. Can you elaborate a bit on how they fit in?

They all have that same belief system that’s predicated on Alex Jones type conspiracism. Of course Jones didn’t invent this stuff, but he is far and away the leading progenitor of it these days. That’s the common ground that the alt-right has with Patriot militiamen: this alternative universe they share.

Patriot militiamen tend to be more in the prepper mode, survivalist mode. What most militiamen have in their minds is this idea that it’s all going to fall apart, and we need to be able to protect our families. Whereas white nationalists are actively trying to make it fall apart. They want to create a race war. They’re doing their damnedest to create it, to create the conditions to have one. They actually want an authoritarian system. They don’t believe in democracy, they believe that democracy is a joke, and they’re doing their very utmost to destroy and undermine it.

In the book, you noted a phenomenon I thought was interesting, an objection that some mainstream conservatives have to any criticism of even the most extreme right-wing activity. You mentioned the strong negative reaction to a 2009 Homeland Security report that pointed out the threat from domestic right-wing extremists. Why do you think this happens?

Some conservative pundits have become fairly open about identifying themselves with these radical extremists. At first was a little shocking, at least in 2009. Then it became really clear that they see any kind of reportage on right wing domestic terrorism as a threat to their agenda.

When conservatives are defending the far right, one of the reasons they’re doing it is that people will make this connection between these radicals and the conservative movement. Part of the problem is that they have themselves become close enough to these radicals that you can’t help but notice similarities. They’ve been doing this for years. This stuff moves into the mainstream, and it’s mainly through this ultra-hyperbolic rhetoric, where they’re constantly trying to push the envelope, but pushing the envelope on the right means literally, you’re going to be pushing that envelope right into Nazi territory. And they don’t have any brakes on that.

Think about these three men about to stand trial in Kansas right now who were plotting to use truck bombs on a Somali Muslim community the day after the election. Islamophobes have been demonizing these people to such an extent that not only do we have militiamen believing they need to go out and bomb these guys, but it winds up arguing alongside ISIS, that Muslims will never be accepted in America. It creates a syndrome where one form of terrorism starts feeding another.

Even more important is the effect that this constant demonization has on the public. This feeds the refusal to accept that there might be right-wing extremism. They really want to believe that all of the threat to Americans is coming from the “others.” They react very violently to the suggestion that their own side is actually responsible for far more terrorism in this country than Islamists are.

Do you see any steps at this point that the administration could or may take to help steer the nation back to reality?

No. The administration actively tries to divest people from reality because that’s how their authoritarianism works. Trump tweets these things out, these things that are clearly divergent from reality. That Obama wiretapped him and he had more votes than Hillary, and all these other things that contradict reality. They actually draw his followers farther into his authoritarian bubble. Part of the appeal is that these folks feel like they’re part of something special and that they have unique knowledge and that they have unique insight. So he’s constantly doing these kinds of things to serve as a wedge between his followers and the rest of us, and it’s very effective. I don’t see them stopping it any time soon, because it’s essential to their appeal. It’s essential to his approach to governance.

You mention in your book that it’s imprecise to call Donald Trump a fascist, as some detractors have done. How would you characterize him?

He’s not a fascist ideologue. Fascists are usually genuine ideologues about the whole political philosophy. Trump doesn’t offer any of that. He’s a very visceral politician who shoots from the hip, and all of these things he does are right out of a classic right wing populist playbook. The nativism, the sublimated racism, the sublimated misogyny. Claiming that you’re going to be representing the interests of working class people when you are a millionaire is also part of right wing populism, since the days of Henry Ford.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:50 pm

NRA board member Ted Nugent makes NRA membership pitch on Parkland conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' show

Nugent: “Every American that is listening to us right now needs to be a member of the National Rifle Association, that’s job one”


From the February 26 edition of Genesis Communications Network’s The Alex Jones Show:

ALEX JONES (HOST): You’ve got these admitted talking point young people out there that if we say, “Hey, you're spouting Democrat talking points,” they lie and say that we’re bullying children and that nothing happened. It’s just next level, so -- you were also getting into solutions, how we fight back, I mean this is obviously the big one, Ted Nugent.

TED NUGENT: Well, number one, Alex, ditto, ditto, ditto, thank you very much. But here’s the most important battle cry of all, and we proved it in November of 2016: every American that is listening to us right now needs to be a member of the National Rifle Association, that’s job one. And not just being a member ourselves but we need to sign up our friends, our coworkers, people at school and church, at the barbecue, our families. We need to make the National Rifle Association, which is a grassroots organization of families who believe in self-defense and believe in the right to keep and bear arms -- it’s a self-evident truth, it’s not a view, it’s not an assumption -- we need to make sure that everybody that we know are members of the NRA, because the fake news, their number one target is freedom. Their number one target is the National Rifle Association. And the National Rifle Association is rock solid in the asset column of America with law enforcement, law and order, and legal gun owners across this land.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue Feb 27, 2018 7:46 pm

David Hogg Called Out Alex Jones, Who Is Now Very Upset

By Jared Holt | February 27, 2018 2:10 pm

David Hogg, a teenage survivor of the Valentine’s Day mass shooting in Florida that killed 17 people, has trolled Infowars nutritional supplement salesman and radio host Alex Jones and asked to appear on Jones’ show to clear things up with the “shit journalist” who has promoted conspiracy theories about the shooting at Hogg’s high school and other mass shootings.

Jones has spent nearly two weeks advancing the false narrative that the teenagers who survived the shooting and are now advocating for stricter gun laws are “crisis actors.” Jones has also placed blame on CNN and Hogg for recent strikes on his YouTube account on videos about the Parkland shooting survivors. Jones is currently one strike away from being banned on the platform.

Hogg tweeted to Alex Jones and said he’d love to come on Infowars and “clear some of this up because clearly as a shit journalist you can’t”


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:30 pm

We are shocked, shocked to discover sexual harassment, bigotry and excessive shirtlessness going on in Alex Jones’ establishment (allegedly)

FEBRUARY 28, 2018 By David Futrelle

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So the Daily Mail is reporting that two former Infowars employees have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing head Infowarrior Alex Jones and other staffers of harassment and discrimination, describing a workplace lousy with racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, sexual harassment and way more shirtless Alex Jones than anyone should ever be subjected to.

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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:52 pm

Jerome Corsi & the alt-right’s Russian hackers

BY DANIEL HOPSICKER · PUBLISHED MARCH 3, 2018 · UPDATED MARCH 3, 2018

Alt-right “author” and scummy disinformation specialist Jerome Corsi’s wild roller-coaster week may have another dip left.

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Corsi, InfoWars’s DC bureau chief, as well as the man many think invented the alt-right, was riding high earlier this week, after USA Today, the country’s highest-circulating paper, published an opinion piece he wrote.

Then, yesterday, he was kicked off YouTube… for life. He had only recently received his first two You Tube strikes—for harassment and/or bullying—late last month...


Dr. Jerome Corsi may know a few Russian hackers.

ImageJerome Corsi has more to worry about than how many views his video rants are currently receiving. He may be involved in a half-visible criminal conspiracy powering the Russiagate scandal, which is beginning to unravel.

If, as expected, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicts a gaggle of Russian hackers next week, it will be surprising if some of the Americans who facilitated and helped pay for the hackers aren’t taken down as well.

Many are waiting impatiently for the American fellow-conspirators of the Russian hackers’ to be fingered and publicly shamed.

The notion that this number “might could” include Jerome Corsi is enough to set bitter hearts aflutter. But, is this just wishful thinking?

Under America’s racketeering laws, everyone involved in a criminal organization is supposedly guilty of the crimes committed by other members of the group, which could truly trigger a bloodletting.


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Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:40 am

Alex Jones: ‘I’m Not Afraid Of Brown People. I’m Afraid Of Brown People Turning Into Leftists’

By Jared Holt | April 3, 2018 5:06 pm

Alex Jones, the nation’s most notorious conspiracy theorist, told Infowars listeners today that he would happily move to Mexico if it became “beautiful everywhere like it is in some spots” because he is “not afraid of brown people” unless they turn into “leftists.”

Today on “The Alex Jones Show,” Jones was discussing the “caravan” of Central American immigrants currently traveling through Mexico and hoping to enter the United States.

“I want to see these countries industrialized. I want to see them first-world. I want to see Mexico beautiful everywhere like it is in some spots and first-world. I’ll go move down there,” Jones said.

He added, “I’m not afraid of brown people. I’m afraid of brown people turning into leftists that hate my guts just like white leftists.

Jones went on to claim that the caravan is not comprised of women and children, but rather men that have been “organized by Soros and the U.N. and they are setting a migration wave chain to implode the U.S. and sink this lifeboat, not just the others.”


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue May 01, 2018 7:53 am

That frog is about boiled by now:

Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph Watson, Is About to Steal His Crackpot Crown

One long-time former colleague of Watson said the change in his approach toward Islam had been stark. “His current political stance is adversarial and, for lack of a better word, Islamophobic. It wasn’t always like this. Early on, he did quite detailed and researched work on geopolitical and foreign policy. This changed a few years ago,” he said, via email.

“Like Alex Jones, Paul Watson is primarily interested in audience. He is not an activist. He is an instigator, which makes him very popular with a large following on social media… I put him in the same camp with Richard Spencer and Pamela Geller and the anti-Islam faction of the so-called Alt-right. Several years ago, he was anti-war and libertarian. Now he is a racist.”

One of the hardline anti-Islam campaigners Watson has worked with is Tommy Robinson, the former head of one of the biggest anti-Muslim street-protest groups in Europe. They have recorded numerous YouTube videos together with headlines such “The Truth About the Koran.”


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When Robinson’s Twitter account was suspended during the spate of terror attacks in Britain last year, Watson posted the agitator’s rant for him. In the video Robinson attacked “stupid, liberal wankers” opposing measures such as Muslim travel bans and internment that would keep Britain and the U.S. safe from “depraved, death-loving Muslims.”

Nick Ryan, a spokesman for Hope Not Hate, Britain’s largest anti-racism campaign, said the selective nature of Watson’s conspiracy theories showed that he was motivated by a far-right agenda.

“Paul Joseph Watson is one of the most visible far-right figures on social media, part of the so-called ‘alternative right’ and a flag bearer for anti-Muslim and hard-right conspiracy theories,” he said.

“His danger lies in his huge social media footprint and connections to other far-right figures like ‘Tommy Robinson,’ which allows conspiracies to spread rapidly. After the Westminster attacks last year, for example, Watson was the most mentioned person on Twitter.”

A few days before Twitter shut down Robinson’s account permanently last month, I asked why he and Watson were cutting through so effectively on social media. “It’s because we are the bollox,” he replied in a direct message. He was using a shortened form of the British phrase “the dog’s bollocks,” which—for reasons that remain obscure to etymologists—means the greatest.

Kelly Jones said the last few years of InfoWars output had been increasingly worrying. “They’ve transmogrified into little white supremacists which is alarming crap,” she said. “Paul’s white supremacy is growing—I know it’s a difficult issue, this refugee crisis—but they are actively encouraging white supremacy.”

A new army of alt-media journalists—inspired by the likes of Watson—are creating their own mini-empires online. One of them is Caolan Robertson, 22, a producer and commentator who has worked with former alt-right darling Milo Yiannopoulos, Tommy Robinson, and Lauren Southern, who was prevented from entering Britain earlier this year because of her alleged history of hate speech.

Robertson has also become a friend of Watson in real life.

“He is a great guy to hang out with, and the reason he does so well is because he is actually a real person who says what the majority of people in his country privately think every single day,” Robertson told The Daily Beast.

“I think he has inspired an entire generation of young people who feel disenfranchised by what is going on in their schools and universities. They feel represented by him and his message, the media does not represent young people at all. When they try to, it’s MTV ranting about far left nonsense, which everyone seems to hate.”

Robertson says he loves Watson’s work, but when I ask about the older conspiracy theories or Watson’s admiration for David Icke—he draws a blank. “I’m not sure. I don’t know much about that,” he said. “Never heard of David Icke.”

It’s his anti-PC message that resonates with many of Watson’s fans. After decades of manufacturing somewhat plausible narratives to suit his wilder fantasies, those skills are now being deployed to demonize populist targets, whether that be feminists, transgender people, or Muslims.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu May 24, 2018 7:59 pm

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ALEX JONES GOES FULL ALT RIGHT TALKING ABOUT ‘RACE SCIENCE’ AND ‘JEWISH POWER’

In the rant he talks primarily about Jews, after saying that different ethnic groups have different “traits.” This stems from racist ideas that link up IQ and personality traits, such as sexual restraint and criminality, to race. Obviously the Alt Right and white nationalists simply ascribe all negative qualities and low IQ to non-white races in the Global South. The difference is that they note the Jews high “average IQ,” and then suggest they use this intelligence to destabilize Western nations in an effort to give Jews, as a group, an advantage.

Jones then goes on about Jews’ “innate” ability with money and their use of Usury, a common anti-Semitic caricature of Jews as greedy money lenders.

The importance of these comments should not be overlooked since he has made explicit what many people though was implicit: Jones appears to adhere to a white nationalist vision of the world where race determines individual cognitive function and Jews control the key institutions of the Western world.


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Oath Keepers boss Stewart Rhodes goes all-in on a conspiracy theory too wild for even Alex Jones

June 12, 2018 Nick R. Martin and Hatewatch Staff

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Oath Keepers president Stewart Rhodes has thrown his weight behind a conspiracy theorist who’s been nicknamed “Screwy Louie” by other members of the militia movement and who's made allegations that are too wild even for the king of conspiracy theories, Alex Jones.

Rhodes, whose group claims to be made up of tens of thousands of current and former law enforcement and military personnel, posted a “call to action” on the Oath Keepers website on June 6, telling his members to go to Arizona to help with an “operation” begun last month by Michael Meyer, who commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur.

Meyer’s group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), claimed to have uncovered evidence of child sex trafficking at an abandoned industrial site near Tucson, Arizona, and that law enforcement was not taking the situation seriously. His group has also claimed to have discovered what it said was a “child’s skull” in the desert miles away from the site.

Local and federal law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told BuzzFeed News they investigated the matter and found no evidence of crimes at what was likely a homeless encampment. The local sheriff’s department released a statement saying the skull found was that of an adult. The department also noted that the remains of “at least 40 migrants” have been found in that part of Arizona since the beginning of 2018.

None of that stopped Rhodes, one of the most prominent figures in the antigovernment militia movement, from embracing Meyer’s claims and sending armed militants to back him up. Rhodes himself could even be seen with Meyer on Tuesday, June 12, in a video posted to the Veterans on Patrol Facebook page.

In his call to action, Rhodes said he was looking for members with special operations and law enforcement experience to travel to Arizona to assist in Arthur’s efforts. He wrote that some Oath Keepers should be prepared to be armed “to provide security for the field teams and for the operation in general.”

He also asked for cash.

“If you cannot volunteer for this mission, please make a donation to support those who can,” Rhodes wrote. “We will need to cover considerable travel, food, and lodging expenses for our volunteers. Every little bit helps.”

It’s not uncommon for Rhodes to issue calls for Oath Keepers to mobilize to various locations in the U.S. The group has sent members to run “security” at various right-wing rallies, assist in disaster relief, and perform “incognito” poll monitoring on Election Day 2016. But the call to action in Arizona is by far the most bizarre.

Shades of Pizzagate

The situation has echoes of the so-called “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that swept across the radical right during the 2016 presidential campaign, in which many falsely claimed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Democratic operatives were tied to a child sex trafficking ring operating out of the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, DC. In fact, the pizza shop had no basement and there was no pedophile ring there.

The speculation over Pizzagate became so hysterical that in December 2016, a North Carolina man named Edgar Welch, who’d binge-watched conspiratorial videos on YouTube, traveled to Washington to investigate the pizzeria himself. He showed up armed with a revolver and a high-powered rifle and fired multiple shots into a locked closet door inside the restaurant. No one was injured. Welch was arrested and later pleaded guilty to two charges — assault with a dangerous weapon and transporting firearms across state lines. Before his sentencing, Welch wrote a letter to his judge apologizing for his “foolish and reckless” behavior. He received four years in prison.

Since then, a number of high-profile Pizzagaters have distanced themselves from the conspiracy theories. Others, however, have embraced similar theories, known by the shorthand “QAnon” and “Pedogate.” The latter, similarly to Pizzagate, claims vast networks of the world’s powerful and elite — including business leaders, politicians and clergy — are trafficking children for sex and that President Donald Trump is working to dismantle the criminal enterprises.

What’s taken place in Arizona has exploded in online forums dedicated to QAnon and Pedogate in recent weeks as many believers in the conspiracies have become convinced that Meyer and Veterans on Patrol are truly disrupting sex trafficking rings despite the fact that they have located no victims or perpetrators. Meyer even gave a shout out to one of the conspiracy theories on a recent video on Facebook: "QAnon is in the house now."

Too foolish for even Alex Jones

Despite the embrace by some online, not everyone in the conspiracy community has gotten behind Meyer’s actions.

Alex Jones, whose website InfoWars routinely markets some of the wildest fictions to a massive audience, threw cold water on the notion of a child trafficking ring in Tucson last week. (Facing a potential lawsuit, Jones apologized last year for his website’s role in promoting Pizzagate.)

Jones said in a June 8 note posted to InfoWars that he believes what law enforcement on the ground has said about the matter:

This homeless camp found near Tucson, Ariz., has been investigated by the police. There’s nothing going on there. It’s a homeless camp with some evidence that may suggest illegal aliens with children have come through the area, which we already knew given that it’s near Tucson and other major migration points in the southwest.

But it’s not just local police saying that nothing’s there – President Trump’s own DHS, which has been massively busting up human trafficking rings all over the US, has investigated the homeless camp and said nothing is happening there.

But, of course, Jones couldn’t let the moment pass without offering his own theories.

Jones claimed the Arizona operation is designed to discredit people, like himself, who believe that "globalists and multi-national corporations" are involved in sex trafficking rings. He called the Arizona situation a "honeypot" and urged his audience to stay away from it:

No one should go to the homeless camp, and no one should investigate it independently. At the bare minimum, visiting the site constitutes criminal trespass. The story is a honeypot. All evidence shows it’s a setup.

Bundy supporters get vicious

While Jones didn’t mention Meyer by name, some of the militiamen that Meyer encountered during the 2014 antigovernment “Patriot” standoff in Bunkerville, Nevada, and the occupation of the a wildlife refuge later in Oregon have attacked Meyer directly since he’s gained some small notoriety.

Meyer made appearances at both standoffs, which were carried out by members of the Bundy ranching family, though his presence didn’t go over well. Some militia figures have, in the past, gone as far as to accuse him of being a snitch for federal law enforcement or at least a troublemaker looking for attention. Some have nicknamed him “Screwy Louie” because of it.

Those views have received some fresh air in recent days.

Pete Santilli, a far-right radio host who acted as a spokesman for the Bundy militants during the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, recently posted a series of tweets attacking Meyer (under the name Lewis Arthur) as a "gooftard provacateur" who should not be trusted.

Santilli also questioned why military veteran Craig Sawyer, another prominent "Pedogate" believer who goes by the nickname "Sawman" and was one of the early figures to amplify the Arizona situation, got involved with Meyer. (Sawyer has since distanced himself from the operation and deleted some early YouTube videos he’d posted about it.)

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