As a follow-up to the last note, I'll remind you the #Libertarian and #anarchocapitalist movements are rooted in racism and neofascism. Don't fall for the lies. Here are some useful quotes by #MurrayRothbard, #LudwigVonMises, #AynRand, and #RonPaul, via #ReichWingWatch.
Right-wing commentator and frequent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is burning bridges with some of his fans after rebuking Adolf Hitler on Saturday. “Happy birthday to the man who got 24 million Germans killed!” Jones wrote on X. “Hitler also launched a world war that killed another 80 million people. Just because our rulers are evil does not mean Hitler was good! Fuck Adolf Hitler!” Jones—who owes at least $85 million to Sandy Hook families for calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax—is rarely the voice of reason on social media. But after his criticizing Hitler, Jones found himself having to defend and double down on his generally uncontroversial position. “Hey Alex, who declared war on who? How many attempts at peace were rejected by Churchill?” reads the top reply. “Why did Rudolf Hess fly on a solo mission of peace only to be locked away and tortured for 46 years?” Hess was known for his role in forming the antisemitic and racist Nuremberg Laws before his unauthorized proposal for peace with the British in 1941. The post prompted Jones to respond to the assertions that the Nazis were eager for peace, saying, “That’s after Hitler invaded Poland and France!” The same user went on to baselessly link the Rothschilds, a prominent Jewish banking family, to a desire for the “eradication of Germany” and called out “ethnic cleansing of Germans post war.” Another user snarked that “alex jones will question anything except the official WW2 narrative,” to which Jones replied that he has “read over a hundred books on WW2 and [has] read 4 books written by top nazis.” “You sold out brother,” another person responded to Jones’ rebuke of Hitler. Jones replied: “Because I don’t like Hitler? I oppose all totalitarian systems.” Someone else took an antisemitic jab, asking, “How many shekels did you get for typing this, Alex?” “Zero,” Jones replied. The same person went on to claim “there are many parallels between 1920’s Germany and 2020’s America” along with an image stating that conservatives get called Nazis because they share their views of being against Marxism, globalism, queer theory, and more. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alex-jones-hitler-comments/?amp
TACOMA, Wash. — A Pierce County elementary school teacher and volunteer worship pastor charged with nine counts of first-degree child molestation pleaded not guilty to all charges in court Friday. Jordan Henderson, 34, was arrested at his Gig Harbor home Thursday by Pierce County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) deputies and booked into the county jail. The PCSD said five Evergreen Elementary School students, all girls, came forward and told officials the assaults happened at school during school hours. Deputies are asking other students who experienced inappropriate behavior to come forward. “The defendant used his or her position of trust, confidence, or fiduciary responsibility to facilitate the commission of the current offense, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Washington,” prosecutors wrote in charging documents. Henderson is accused of molesting and groping students under the age of 12. One of the students reported the assaults to her parents in February, according to PCSD Sgt. Darren Moss Jr. Moss said the PCSD informed the Peninsula School District about the allegations, and Henderson was placed on administrative leave. “It is always a really big concern when we get allegations of a trusted person abusing children,” Moss said. “As soon as we hear something like this it is a priority case for all of us and the school as well.” According to court documents, the alleged incidents were talked about amongst students, and in one instance “her and several other girls in her class agreed to watch out for each other and try to witness any touching by Henderson.” Court documents also state Henderson told one victim “the touching was something normal that teachers do, and to not go telling other people about it.” Chris Henderson, the lead pastor at Wellspring Fellowship, a Gig Harbor Christian church, said Jordan Henderson has served as a “deacon and worship pastor,” which are two volunteer positions, since 2011. Chris Henderson — who is Jordan’s father, according to the church’s website — said Jordan Henderson is on a “leave of absence due to the current allegations/charges against him.” Via KOMO News
The Effingham County Commissioner who was arrested on child molestation charges in May of 2023 has been indicted by a grand jury. 84-year-old Reginald Sanford Loper was indicted by the grand jury on Monday, roughly ten months after he was first arrested for Child Molestation and Sexual Battery. The case was presented by District Attorney Pro Tem Jared T. Williams, as the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office recused itself from the case last year to avoid the optics of a conflict of interest. After a presentation by Williams and testimony from GBI Agent Justin Jones, the grand jury on Monday returned a True Bill of Indictment on two charges: Sexual Battery Against a Child Under 16 and Sexual Battery. Most notably from the indictment is that it contains the names of two alleged victims, one of whom is a minor, whereas the warrants from 2023 only named one alleged minor victim. The indictment, obtained by TheGeorgiaVirtue.com, alleges that Loper ‘did intentionally make physical contact with the intimate parts of the body of another person (alleged victim’s name), a child under the age of 16 years, without the consent of the child, by placing the hands of said accused on the breast and buttock of (alleged victim’s name). The incident is alleged to have occurred between August 1, 2017 and August 1, 2020. On the second count, the allegation is that Loper made contact with the intimate parts of (alleged victim #2) without the consent of that person, by placing the hands of said accused on the buttock of (alleged victim #2). This incident is alleged to have occurred between September 12, 2014 and September 11, 2015. There is no statute of limitations on these charges. Loper has served as commissioner for District 4 in Effingham County, which covers the City of Springfield and parts of the City of Rincon, since 2004. He did not qualify for re-election. Following his arrest, the Effingham County Board of Commissioners issued a statement offering their prayers to Loper. https://www.thegeorgiavirtue.com/local-news-south-georgia/effingham-grand-jury-indicts-commissioner-reggie-loper-indictment-cites-an-additional-alleged-victim/
One of Donald Trump’s county campaign chairs in New Hampshire lost his job as a police officer after threatening to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree, murder the department chief and rape the chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension over his relationship with a high school girl, according to a newly released report from an internal affairs investigation. Jonathan Stone, who is currently a second-term state representative, was announced as Trump’s Sullivan County chair by his campaign on June 27, 2023. The coup-attempting former president first came to know Stone during Trump’s 2016 run, when Stone gave him an inscribed AR-15 assault rifle at a campaign stop. According to the files released last week, the original 2006 investigation was launched to look into allegations that Stone was involved in a relationship with a 16-year-old high school girl. Department officials decided to suspend Stone for five days and ordered him not to contact her anymore. Stone, who, according to the files, had already displayed a temper, began telling co-workers about his plans for violence. One police co-worker told investigators she had heard Stone make threats to a colleague. “That conversation included discussion about backing a truck up to the back door, kicking the door open and going on a shooting spree,” the co-worker said. “While Jon was under investigation for something, he said he was going to tie up the chief, make the chief watch him as he pillages the chief’s wife and children.” A department detective told investigators: “I recall Jon saying he was going to go to the chief’s house and rape the chief’s wife, and kids, and shoot the chief.” The investigators concluded that Stone should not keep his job. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fired-police-officer-new-hampshire_n_6616de8ce4b0999df35397ba
An Orange County federal judge has dismissed criminal charges for the second time in five years against accused members of a Southern California white supremacist group suspected of inciting brawls at political rallies throughout the state. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney on Wednesday dismissed charges against Robert Rundo — who was extradited from Romania last year — and Robert Boman of Torrance. The two were charged with conspiracy to violate the Anti-Riot Act and rioting. Rundo is alleged to be a founding member of Rise Above Movement, or RAM, a white supremacist group that, according to a federal indictment, touted itself as a “combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist white supremacy and identity movement.” Boman was also an alleged member of the group. In his decision, Carney granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, agreeing that Rundo and Boman were being selectively prosecuted, while “far-left extremist groups, such as Antifa” were not. “Prosecuting only members of the far right and ignoring members of the far left leads to the troubling conclusion that the government believes it is permissible to physically assault and injure Trump supporters to silence speech,” Carney wrote in his order. “There seems to be little doubt that Defendants, or at least some members of RAM, engaged in criminal violence. But they cannot be selected for prosecution because of their repugnant speech and beliefs over those who committed the same violence with the goal of disrupting political events.” Boman was already free on bond, while Rundo was still being detained. Prosecutors on Wednesday requested that Rundo remain in custody pending the government’s appeal, which Carney denied. “I don’t believe it’s warranted that Mr. Rundo spend one minute more in custody, so I’m going to release him forthwith,” Carney said. “I feel very comfortable in the decision I’ve made.” On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a stay on Rundo’s release pending the resolution of the government’s appeal. But, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, Rundo had been released the day before. Via LA Times
FAIRFIELD, Texas (KWTX) - City of Fairfield Police Department Officer Rodney Price, 56, resigned effective immediately on Feb. 29, 2024, after he was charged with invasive visual recording and voyeurism involving a victim younger than 14, KWTX confirmed with a Fairfield city official. The official told KWTX Price was employed by the Fairfield Police Department for seven years and declined further comment because the case is under investigation. Records show deputies with the Freestone County Sheriff’s Office Price arrested Price on Feb. 21. He was jailed on bonds totaling $10,000, but posted bail the same day he was taken into custody, according to records obtained by KWTX. The location of the alleged offense was in the 100 block of Keechi Street. No further information is available. https://www.kwtx.com/2024/03/13/central-texas-police-officer-resigns-after-he-is-charged-with-voyeurism-involving-child-victim-records/?outputType=amp
To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior advisers told CNN. “He thought Putin was an OK guy and Kim was an OK guy — that we had pushed North Korea into a corner,” retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff, told me. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’” “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán,” Trump said, adding, “He’s the boss and he’s a great leader, fantastic leader. In Europe and around the world, they respect him.” Trump allegedly reserved some of his most unnerving praise for Hitler, who led Nazi Germany during World War II. “He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” Kelly recounted. “I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.” “It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater,” Kelly told me. “But I think it’s more, again, the tough guy thing.” Trump’s admiration for Hitler went further than the German leader’s economic policies, according to Kelly. Trump also expressed admiration for Hitler’s hold on senior Nazi officers. Trump lamented that Hitler, as Kelly recounted, maintained his senior staff’s “loyalty,” while Trump himself often did not. Keep reading: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/trump-despots-advisers-sound-alarm/index.html
East Stroudsburg, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man wanted for incest, rape, and 106 additional related offenses was located and arrested in South Carolina. According to U.S. Marshal William Pugh, the marshals arrested Angelo Grieco, 55, in Johnsonville, South Carolina on Feb. 29. Grieco was wanted by the Stroud Area Regional Police Department on rape and related charges following their investigation that began in April of 2023. After attempts to find Grieco were unsuccessful, the U.S. Marshals Service was requested to assist in his apprehension, according to a press release. At approximately 12 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, members of the USMS task force arrested Grieco at a motor home in Johnsonville, South Carolina without incident, authorities said. Grieco was lodged at the Florence County Detention Center to be arraigned and remains at this location as he awaits extradition back to Monroe County, Pa. The USMS Middle Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force comprises 22 state, county, and local police agencies, including the Pennsylvania State Police, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, the Wilkes Barre Police Department, the Kingston Police Department, the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office, the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office and the Scranton Police Department — all of whom participated in this investigation. https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/pa-man-wanted-on-rape-incest-charges-arrested-in-south-carolina/article_d28cfa3e-dda8-11ee-b0ec-339759f6b04e.html
Donald Trump is hoping to win big on Super Tuesday, and kicked off the primary’s most vote-rich day with one of his favorite traditions from his time as president: calling into Fox News to deliver an unhinged rant. The former president called into Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, where he celebrated Monday’s Supreme Court decision barring states from removing him from the ballot, doubled down on his claims that migrants are “poisoning our country,” and declared that Israel has to “finish the problem” in Gaza. The former president, whose administration was staunchly pro-Israel, affirmed that he was “firmly in Israel’s camp,” as host Brian Kilmeade put it, and said he supports Israel’s ongoing offensive on Gaza, which has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. “You have to finish the problem,” the former president said. Trump also repeatedly claimed that if he was president, there would be no war between Israel and Gaza.“It would have never happened if I was president,” he said of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel, in which more than 1,100 Israeli and foreign nationals were killed. “They wouldn’t have done it to me, I guarantee you that. They did this because they have no respect for Biden and frankly they got soft,” he added. “If things went right in 2020, which they should have but they didn’t for some very bad and sinister reasons, all these people that are dead in Ukraine and Russia and Israel […] people would be leading great lives right now,” Trump said. Turning to domestic policy, Trump rehashed many of his long-standing claims on immigration, including that migrants are “poisoning” America. “People are coming from jails and prisons, and mental institutions and insane asylums and there are terrorists,” he said of undocumented migrants crossing the southern border into the United States. “What they are doing to our country is incredible, they are poisoning our country. And we’re going to close the border and deport the people, we’re going to get them out.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038/amp/
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A man with a history of “honorary” membership in the Klu Klux Klan not only managed to make it on the unofficial ballot to be the Republican nominee for Missouri governor, but may even appear atop the official ballot when GOP voters vote in the primary this August. Those revelations came to light last night when former Missouri Representative Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) tweeted out a screenshot showing the unofficial candidate filing list for governor posted to the Secretary of State’s website. On it, Darrell Leon McClanahan III’s name sits atop more well-known GOP contenders like Mike Kehoe and Jay Ashcroft. The candidates’ names are listed in ballot order, and because McClanahan drew a low number his name appears first. A 2022 article on the Anti-Defamation League’s website shows McClanahan next to a man in white robes as both men give what appear to be Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross some time around 2019. The ADL article claims that the organization’s Center on Extremism has been tracking McClanahan for years, as he has affiliated with various white supremacist and Christian identity groups. “Hey @MissouriGOP I just learned the candidate listed first on our primary ballot for Governor is a cross-burning KKK member who ran for US Senate 2 years ago and freely admits his KKK membership & white supremacist beliefs,” Dogan wrote, adding in a subsequent tweet that he hoped the party would reject McClanahan’s filing fee, calling him a “racist loser.” The RFT reached out via text message and asked McClanahan if he was the man pictured in front of the burning cross in the image shared by Dogan. McClanahan replied, “It’s an invisible empire Yes it’s me.” But he denied ever being in the KKK. Later on in the evening, McClanahan sent us the following statement addressed directly to Dogan: “Shamed Dogan I would like to respectfully request that you cease and desist from making defamatory statements about me on the X platform. Your statement about me being a cross-burning KKK member and white supremacist is false and damaging to my reputation.” https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/missouri-gop-candidate-for-governor-is-only-honorary-kkk-member-42007057
In a series of previously unreported social media posts, Mark Robinson, the GOP frontrunner for governor of North Carolina, repeatedly minimized Nazi atrocities and promoted conspiracy theories about Hollywood and the media using Yiddish ethnic slurs, among other incendiary assertions. “I am so sick of seeing and hearing people STILL talk about Nazis and Hitler and how evil and manipulative they were. NEWS FLASH PEOPLE, THE NAZIS (National Socialist) ARE GONE! We did away with them,” Robinson wrote on Facebook in May 2017, before claiming in a typo-ridden screed that communism has always represented a greater threat to the United States. “Communist created the Marxist Socialist that CURRENTLY control Europe, fill the ranks of OUR OWN Democratic Party, and control our mass media. Compared with the Communist the Nazis were upstart amateurs in terms of manipulation and MURDER.” Robinson, 54, made no mention of the mass extermination of European Jewry, even as he continued to implicitly downplay the legacy of the Holocaust. “It’s hard for me to understand how so many can remain blind to the fact that COMMUNISM, not Nazism was, and still is, the BIGGEST threat to American freedom,” he said, urging his followers to “wake up and see the REAL enemy.” “After all,” he concluded, “who do you think has been pushing this Nazi boogeyman narrative all these years?” Robinson’s comments, written before he was elected lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020, fit into a deeper expression of extreme paranoia advanced in several dramatically worded posts on his personal Facebook page — where he frequently voiced fears over a purported communist incursion. More broadly, the social media posts are part of a well-documented pattern of inflammatory pronouncements in which Robinson has invoked antisemitic stereotypes, flirted with Holocaust denialism and targeted Muslims and transgender people, among other minority groups. The lieutenant governor has refused to apologize for his rhetoric, which has raised alarms among Jewish community leaders in North Carolina. Keep reading: https://jewishinsider.com/2023/07/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-racism-antisemitism/
Part 2: Just some more "fun" round ups incoming of the "family values / protect the kids" party. 🤢 Thank you @reichwingwatch . 👈🏼 Follow for the news stories! #reichwingwatch #reichwing #familyvalues #maga #protectkids #republicans #conservativeprojections #gop #everyconservativeaccusationisaconfession #protectkidsfromrepublicans
Just some more "fun" round-ups incoming of the "family values / protect the kids" party. 🤢 Thank you @reichwingwatch . 👈🏼 Follow for the news stories! #reichwingwatch #reichwing #familyvalues #maga #protectkids #republicans #conservativeprojections #gop #everyconservativeaccusationisaconfession #protectkidsfromrepublicans
A New Mexico man has said he was hired by a failed Republican candidate for political office to carry out drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democrats who would not abide by false election-rigging claims. Demetrio Trujillo, 42, indicated in federal court documents filed on Friday that he had been hired for the spate of attacks by Solomon Peña, whose run for a seat in the New Mexico state legislature in November 2022 ended in defeat. Trujillo pleaded guilty to charges of election interference, criminal conspiracy and firearms-related offenses, and he could face several years in prison as he awaits a sentencing hearing that was not immediately scheduled, the US attorney’s office in Albuquerque said in a statement. The case followed warnings of escalating political violence in the US, especially after Donald Trump and his supporters widely spread lies that the former president had lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud. Peña, 40, stands charged with lying about how the race he lost had been fraudulently stolen from him, which then fueled a plot to shoot up the houses of New Mexico Democrats, among them the state’s house speaker. He has pleaded not guilty and awaits a trial set for June 2024. Peña approached members of the commission that certifies election results, told them the race he had lost by nearly 50 percentage points had been rigged against him, and asked them to reject its results. The drive-by shootings unfolded in December 2022 and January 2023 shortly after officials certified Peña’s electoral loss. No one was wounded in any of the shootings, though authorities have noted that – in one instance – bullets cut through the bedroom of a state senator’s 10-year-old daughter. Trujillo later told investigators that he knew Peña through acquaintances. Peña hired him to fire bullets at three officials’ homes to intimidate them, Trujillo reported. Investigators charged Peña with carrying out the spree’s fourth drive-by shooting by himself. Ultimately, smartphone communications from Peña, including texts, tied him to the attacks, according to prosecutors. Via The Guardian
The insane right-wing Jebus attacks and violent rhetoric against the Left has been going on forever. Unlike the Germans who cracked down on Nazism after the war, our country, in the guise of "freedom," has allowed the worst actors on the Right to become powerful and influential and detrimentally shape the public discourse. Hell, we embraced Nazi scientists for war technology, FFS. (See Operation Paperclip.) The Right are bullies and thugs, but I truly believe love wins. Play the long game. ❤️ 💪🏻💪🏽💪🏿 #fakechristians #christiannationalism #reichwing #reichwingwatch #leftisbest #christofascist #christianity #nazism #neonazis #trump #maga #rightwing #rightwinghate #jerryfalwell
CLEVELAND – Aimenn D. Penny didn’t apologize for firebombing a Geauga County church last year. Instead, he justified sacrificing his future for hate. The 20-year-old, standing calmly in an orange prison jumpsuit during his sentencing hearing Monday in U.S. District Court, maintained his attack was a protest against the LGBTQ+ community and drag shows, an effort “to protect children.” He said he does not believe men should dress as women or vice versa. “Especially in a place of worship,” Penny said. “I didn’t hurt anyone.” Except, he did - the judge and victims said. U.S. District Judge Bridget Meehan Brennan sentenced Penny to 18 years in federal prison for the March 25 attack and ordered him to pay $10,507 in restitution to the church, to undergo mental health treatment and to serve three years supervised probation after his release. He was found guilty in October of arson and obstruction charges. U.S. attorney Rebecca Lutzko had recommended a 20-years prison term. Penny, a member of the extremist groups White Lives Matter Ohio and the Blood Tribe, told FBI agents that he threw two gasoline-filled bottles, often called Molotov cocktails, at the Community Church of Chesterland around 1 a.m. on March 25. It left minimal structural damage. The attack was aimed at intimidating the church and preventing two planned drag show events there. According to court filing in the case, FBI agents in April obtained letters and a manifesto Penny wrote while in jail. He showed no remorse, only pride. His only regret? “The church didn’t burn down to the ground.” Two weeks prior to the attack, Penny was with extremist groups in Wadsworth protesting a drag queen event. And, in jail, he called for additional attacks, including one in Akron, in letters obtained by the FBI, court filings show. Penny claimed “his intention was to protect children from transgender persons,” but Lutzko wrote in court records that his “true purpose was intimidation of those who disagreed with him. He was not freeing any children held at the church that night.” https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/01/30/ohio-man-gets-18-years-for-firebombing-church-over-drag-shows/72406603007/
There’s a reason the right can’t shut up about LGBTQ people being pedophiles despite all the evidence pointing to contrary, and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels laid it out plainly. “Accuse the other of that you are guilty.” — Joseph Goebbels Credit to @kristen_browde and her team for putting these graphs together.