Jeremy MacKenzie, leader of an alleged white supremacist group, already faces 13 gun charges in Nova Scotia. A Nova Scotia man already facing 13 gun charges in his home province is also accused of four offences in Saskatchewan, including two firearms-related counts, according to RCMP. Jeremy Mitchell MacKenzie was charged on July 18 with assault, pointing a firearm, using a restricted weapon in a careless manner and mischief. According to Saskatchewan RCMP, the charges stem from an incident last November in the rural municipality of Viscount. (…) In January, MacKenzie was arrested by RCMP in Nova Scotia in advance of a raid on a home in Pictou County. RCMP said officers turned up five restricted guns, including rifles and handguns, one unrestricted firearm, prohibited ammunition magazines, ammunition and body armour. (…) MacKenzie and another person are also charged with threatening Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer after a series of anti-mask protests were held outside the CMO’s home. MacKenzie is the leader of an online group known as Diagolon, whose members have been tied to the convoy protest that shut down the border crossing at Coutts, Alta., earlier this year.
via cbc_ Saskatchewan Sask. RCMP issue warrant for Nova Scotia man facing multiple gun charges
siehe auch: Diagolon: What to know about the group whose founder shook Pierre Poilievre’s hand. Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre came under fire this past weekend after an image of him shaking hands with Jeremy Mackenzie, the founder of a group known as “Diagolon,” emerged. Shortly after the image surfaced on Mackenzie’s public Telegram channel, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on Poilievre to “denounce Jeremy Mackenzie and Diagolon,” who he said are “designated as violent extremists by Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre.” Singh was referring to a report from Press Progress, which last week published a document it obtained through access-to-information from the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre, a federal organization that assesses threats of terrorism to Canada. The document, dated Feb. 17, 2022, classifies Mackenzie as one of the “key anti-government IMVE (ideologically motivated violent extremism) adherents” that attended the so-called “freedom convoy” protests in Ottawa earlier this year. (…) A drug-addled demonic goat named Phillip. A fictional diagonal country running from Alaska to Florida. An alleged plot to kill RCMP officers in Coutts, Alta. There’s a common thread uniting these topics: they’re all, in some way, tied to Diagolon. Founders of the group say it’s all one big joke, a meme, and they’re just a group of anti-establishment comedians. The demonic goat and fictional country were the product of “several edibles,” to hear Diagolon founder Jeremy Mackenzie tell it. His telegram channel has more than 13,000 members, and he has at least 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. But after a patch bearing the group’s insignia was found alongside weapons seized by the RCMP near the border in Coutts in February, some extremism experts say they are concerned about what the multi-hour livestreams could inspire their viewers to do.
siehe dazu auch: THE DIAGOLON MOVEMENT AND MILITANT ACCELERATIONISM. “Accelerate, accelerate, there’s no way out,” says Diagolon’s de facto leader Jeremy MacKenzie. “This is going to come to total shit, so let’s just get it over with.” In February 2022, Ottawa and the Canada-United States border crossing at Coutts, Alberta became epicenters of a far-right populist protest movement calling itself a “trucker convoy.” Many of the elements that make up Canada’s far-right came together in support, primarily motivated by conspiracy theories and anti-government and anti-mandate zeal. During the multi-day protest, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) foiled an alleged plot at the Coutts border to kill police officers. Included among the alleged conspirators were adherents of the “Diagolon” movement. New to many outside of the activist and research spaces, Diagolon is similar to other prominent far-right separatist movements and memes, but is distinctly Canadian. The presence of Diagolon illustrated the potential for violent extremism inside the trucker convoy protests. (…) Militant accelerationism is defined as a set of tactics and strategies designed to put pressure on and exacerbate latent social divisions, often through violence, thus hastening societal collapse. Unlike the explicit militant accelerationism of The Base and Atomwaffen Division, the Diagolon movement attempts to downplay its inherent accelerationism with memes, denials, and humour. The Diagolon meme was created over several episodes of Jeremy MacKenzie’s live stream with input from his audience, and rebroadcast on multiple online platforms. MacKenzie, a 36-year-old military veteran and anti-government live streamer, is the de facto leader of the Diagolon movement which he has called his own “low-rent Kekestan” (another fictitious nation created by 4chan’s /pol/ board). Diagolon is also similar to “Boogaloo,” a violent anti-government meme favoured by white nationalists, in that both memes have now grown into an offline mobilizing concept with the ability to inspire acts of violence. These meme-originated mobilizing concepts were both initially developed and promoted in marginal and fringe online spaces, and later printed onto flags and taken to protests. Diagolon was not explicitly conceived to promote a militant accelerationist ideology as detailed above. Nonetheless, it retains markers of militant accelerationism and narratives shared within the movement serve as primers and justification for accelerationist violence. Members of the movement, generally speaking, share the goals of many far-right populists – the formation of an illiberal republic, a halt to “mass immigration,” and the maintenance of Euro-centric societies. However, they do not believe a political solution exists for their grievances. Consistent with militant accelerationism’s tenets, Diagolon adherents see collapse and conflict as inevitable, sometimes desirable, to take power and punish “unCanadian” elements within society. In this respect, Diagolon is still a reactionary movement seeking to influence political systems even if they have little to no faith in their authority or abilities to course correct towards Diagolon’s preferred policies.