In an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday, federal Crown prosecutors played three videos downloaded from social media by RCMP in 2020 — videos the Crown contends were created in part by Patrick Gordon Macdonald, an alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist who lives in the capital with his parents. All three videos depicted people in skull masks and combat fatigues carrying firearms and flags, their faces covered and blurred. All three videos asked viewers to join Atomwaffen Division, a now defunct right-wing extremist group that was branded a terrorist organization in Canada in 2021. Narrators with modified voices and subtitles spewed racist stereotypes and calls for violent action, while aggressive and ominous music blared at an almost uncomfortable volume — a stark difference from the otherwise calm and quiet proceedings. Macdonald, 27, is on trial in Superior Court. He’s charged with participating in the terrorist activity of Atomwaffen Division by helping produce the videos and other images, facilitating terrorist activity and inciting hate against identifiable groups for one or more terrorist entities, including Atomwaffen Division and the neo-Nazi James Mason. (…) One of the videos played in court Tuesday — which an RCMP officer testified was posted on a public channel called Terrorwave Refined on the social media site Telegram in 2019 — shows people in skull masks tossing the Hebrew Bible, the Qur’an (Islam’s central religious text), a book on philosophy and a Pride flag into a bonfire. Between shots, text panels taking up the entire screen call for viewers to “purge the weak” before a swastika appears. In another video RCMP said was posted on Terrorwave Refined in 2019, hateful rhetoric written to appeal to white nationalists in Ukraine accuses “treacherous bureaucrats” of being controlled by Jews. And in an echo of the Holocaust, it says national socialists have the “final solution for the traitors of Ukraine and the rest of the world.”
via cbc: Racist, hate-fuelled videos promoting violence played for alleged terror propagandist’s trial