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#Prepper-Netzwerk – Kaffee für den Untergang – #terror

Der umstrittene Verein Uniter e.V. hat sich 2020 aufgelöst. Doch Mitglieder sind weiter aktiv, wie Recherchen von Report Mainz zeigen. Der Verfassungsschutz hat die Vereinigung im Visier und bewertet sie als “gesichert rechtsextremistisch”. “Lovebomb”, “Assault” oder “Sniper”: Die Namen der Kaffee-Röstungen klingen reißerisch, und doch wirkt der Online-Shop auf den ersten Blick unscheinbar. “Black Ops Coffee” nennt sich die Marke, die mit “starkem Kaffee für echte Helden” wirbt.Hinter der Fassade des Kaffee-Versands hat sich ein Prepper-Netzwerk etabliert, das sich systematisch auf den “Tag X” vorbereitet, also auf den angeblich drohenden Zusammenbruch der staatlichen Ordnung. Kopf der Gruppe ist André S., ein ehemaliger Elite-Soldat der Bundeswehr, der heute nicht nur Kaffee verkauft, sondern auch als Mediator, Profiler und “Experte für Krisenmanagement” sein Geld verdient. Das zeigen Recherchen des ARD-Politikmagazins Report Mainz.Untergangsszenarien und KampftrainingÜber einen Insider hatte Report Mainz monatelang Einblick in die Gruppe, die sich “Black Ops Community” nennt und deren Anhänger sich regelmäßig treffen, etwa zu Online-Kursen und “Community Calls”, in denen André S. das ideologische Fundament der Gruppe legt und “Lagebilder” kommuniziert.Immer wieder geht es um krude Untergangsfantasien, um die feste Überzeugung, dass Deutschland in den kommenden Jahren chaotische Zustände drohten. Flächendeckende Stromausfälle zählen dazu, die das Land zurück ins “Mittelalter” stürzten. Oder eine Invasion extremistischer “Schläfer”, von denen angeblich hunderttausende in Deutschland lebten, eingeschleust vom türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdgan.Waffen im HausInnerhalb der Gruppe geht es immer wieder auch um konkrete Vorbereitungen auf solche Szenarien, zum Beispiel um Bewaffnung. “Ob es die Axt, die Machete oder die Armbrust ist”, rät André S. seinen Anhängern. “Du musst halt irgendwas zu Hause haben, um dich und deine Familie verteidigen zu können.”Fester Bestandteil der Vorbereitungen sind außerdem regelmäßige Nahkampftrainings. Report Mainz liegen Aufnahmen eines solchen Trainings vor. Sie zeigen unter anderem das Üben für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Polizei, etwa wie man aus Polizeikesseln ausbricht, Polizisten entwaffnen und verletzen kann. Laut Kursplan, der Report Mainz vorliegt, soll es in aufbauenden Trainings auch um den aktiven Einsatz von Messern und Schusswaffen gehen. (…) Besonders problematisch sei, dass sich “Black Ops Coffee” gezielt an Personen aus dem Sicherheitsbereich wendet. André S. sucht auch die Nähe zu Ex-Soldaten, wie die Recherchen von Report Mainz zeigen. Das ehemalige Mitglied des Kommando Spezialkräfte der Bundeswehr tritt als Reservist auf, bezeichnete sich öffentlich mehrfach als “Hauptfeldwebel der Reserve”. 2022 lud er mit einem Reservisten-Verein sogar zu einem gemeinsamen Schießwettkampf ein, gerichtet unter anderem an die “Black-Ops-Coffee-Community” und “Soldaten der NATO-Partner”. Der Kopf der Gruppe, André S., ist kein Unbekannter. Er war Mitgründer des umstrittenen Vereins Uniter e.V. Dieser war eigentlich gedacht, um ehemaligen Soldaten beim Weg ins Zivilleben zu helfen. 2018 geriet der Verein in die Öffentlichkeit, weil S. und andere Mitglieder in Verbindung zu einem extremistischen Prepper-Netzwerk gebracht wurden.

via tagesschau: Prepper-Netzwerk Kaffee für den Untergang

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Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult – #terror

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin. Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of the Aryan race. The Wewelsburg Castle was also a fantasy nerd’s dream come true. In its bowels lies an occult enclave straight out of Cecil B. DeMille: an Arthurian-style set of catacombs designed to look medieval but actually made of concrete. Above, in the Hall of the Supreme S.S. Leaders, there’s a marble floor inlaid with a design of the Black Sun, or Sonnenrad—a circle containing swastika-like arms that epitomizes Nazi striving to create an idealized Norse-Aryan past for themselves. Himmler started renovations on the castle in the mid-1930s; the Nazi paradise he built was meant to host S.S. ceremonies, such as handing particularly distinguished murderers the Totenkopfring, a ring adorned with the signature S.S. skull but also a variety of quasi-Nordic runes and symbolic oak leaves, designed by Himmler’s personal occultist, a purportedly clairvoyant mystic by the name of Karl Wiligut. The Nazis, in short, were obsessed with legend and magic. Consider the swastika itself: First written about in Germany by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the ruins of Troy in 1868, the swastika was seized on by Hitler—whose birthday falls on Easter Sunday this year—as emblematic of the idealized, quasi-mythical Aryan race he sought to recreate. More to the point, the Nazis were murder nerds, LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they committed very real atrocities. And the same is true of their successors today. Partly aping their dead heroes and partly engaged in a similar delusion—self-mythologizing as the scions of an ancient white race—neo-Nazis are a remarkably myth-oriented bunch. This manifests in a lot of different ways, like engaging in werewolf-themed cultic neopaganism or dedicating themselves to Norse gods. Or, in a recent newsworthy example, following the Order of the Nine Angles, a late-twentieth-century neo-Nazi pseudoreligion that seeks to turn its adherents into racially pure Satanic wizards. Earlier this week, a Waukesha, Wisconsin, teenager and devotee of the Order of the Nine Angles, or ONA, was charged with murdering his mother and stepfather and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, in order to further the Order’s goals of a world plunged into chaotic violence. “Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses,” the 17-year-old, Nikita Casap, wrote in a manifesto. “Huge amounts of violence will be required.” He called himself a “niner” (a Nine Angles devotee) and encouraged his imitators to read a variety of extremist books. In doing so, Casap drew on nearly a century of blood-drenched legacy in his pairing of violent death with a potent dose of magical thinking. The symbol of the Order of the Nine Angles looks, more than anything, like a mutilated cat’s cradle, just as their ideology is a muddle of inverted myths, profligate cruelty, and pure bigotry. It’s a religion of shock and destruction, and as such, it has appealed particularly to young men—teens seeking to break away from their parents, and aimless mid-twenties men who want to blaze a path of dubious glory by blood. The movement was created in the 1970s by a British neo-Nazi named David Myatt, nicknamed the “Cat Strangler” by his friends because of his affinity for torturing animals. His ideology reflects the charming sobriquet. In 1999, a 22-year-old man reportedly inspired by Myatt’s book A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution planted bombs embedded with nails in areas frequented by London’s minority and gay communities, injuring 129 people and killing three. In Myatt’s work and speeches, an increasingly elaborate cosmology is paired with direct calls to terrorist action, all in the service of ushering in an eschatological race war. Affiliated with the so-called “Left-Hand Path” of magic—dark or black magic—the ONA offers such occult hokum as a world divided into the seven branches of the “Tree of Wyrd,” a creator deity named Vindex, and individual cells called “nexions.”

via newrepublic: Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult

Neo-Nazis lean so heavily on myth because their ideology is prima facie absurd; the purported oppression of whites needs tortuous, even mythological explanations to ring remotely true. From @swordsjew.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1939…

— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-04-20T13:06:00.941Z
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‘The #bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ #Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of #Trump – #terror

Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the US. The world’s first reaction to the young military veteran and far-right radical who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City 30 years ago this month was near-universal revulsion at the carnage he created and at the ideology that inspired it. A crowd yelled “baby killer” – and worse – as 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh was led away in chains from a courthouse in rural Oklahoma where the FBI caught up with him two days after the bombing. He had the same crew cut he’d sported in his army days and stone cold eyes. An hour and a half’s drive to the south, 168 people lay dead, most of them office workers who had been providing government services, along with 19 young children in a day care centre directly above the spot where McVeigh parked his moving truck packed with ammonium nitrate and other explosives. The children were, most likely, his prime target. (…) Fast-forward those 30 years, and the movement is not only very much revived but has moved from the outer fringes of American politics to the very centre. McVeigh wanted to strike at what he saw as a corrupt, secretive cabal running the US government – what Donald Trump and his acolytes refer to as the Deep State and are now busy dismantling. McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities such as Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology, which won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November. McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion. McVeigh believed it was up to ordinary citizens like him to take up arms and fight against a tyrannical ruling order, no matter the cost in innocent lives, because that was what the country’s founders had done during the American civil war. The T-shirt he wore when he was arrested carried a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” During the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, the QAnon-friendly Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert expressed much the same sentiment as she cheered on the rioters smashing and bloodying their way past uniformed police officers into the halls of Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted. The parallels have not been lost on political veterans of the 1990s. Clinton himself observed in a recent HBO documentary: “The words [McVeigh] used, the arguments he made, literally sound like the mainstream today. Like he won!” The threat the far right poses to the US government is no longer a physical one – not when it comes to the executive branch, anyway – since the radicals intent on cleaning house now have like-minded leaders such as Trump and Elon Musk doing it from the inside. It’s hard to imagine McVeigh, who was executed by lethal injection in 2001, objecting to the administration’s campaign to hollow out the international aid agency, kick career prosecutors and government watchdogs out of the Department of Justice, or vow to refashion “broken” institutions such as the FBI.

via guardian: ‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump

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FBI Richmond warns parents of violent online networks targeting children – #terror #764

The FBI said they are seeing a sharp increase in the 764 Members of Violent Online Networks targeting young people with the goal of coercing them into recording or even live-streaming acts of self-harm. The FBI is warning parents about a disturbing online trend targeting teens. Internet strangers are trying to coerce minors into harming themselves. The FBI said they are seeing a sharp increase in the 764 Members of Violent Online Networks, which are internet strangers targeting young people to coerce them into recording or even live-streaming acts of self-harm. “Parents and educators, we here at FBI Richmond want to tell you about an alarming trend we’re seeing that’s affecting our children,” FBI Richmond Special Agent in Charge Stanley Meador said. It’s a trend that’s been rapidly growing since 2022. Meador said these violent networks are targeting young people online with a desire to cause fear and chaos through them. “What we’ve seen anything that involves sending what we call child sex abuse materials, nude photos of young people to things as severe as getting young people to carve their abuser’s name into their skin and photograph that,” Meador said. Meador said these extremist groups will also extort victims into sharing anything related to animal cruelty, violence to others, and even suicide.

via 12onyourside: FBI Richmond warns parents of violent online networks targeting children

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Rechtsextreme Chatgruppen bei #Telegram – »Großartig, ich wünsche ihm gute Jagd« – #terrorgram #awd #TheBase

Eine militante Neonazi-Subkultur im Netz propagiert Gewalt. Neue Zahlen zeigen: In dieser Parallelwelt »Terrorgram« sind Hunderte Rechtsextreme aus Deutschland aktiv. Viele sind noch Jugendliche. Die SPIEGEL-Recherche. »Hunter« nennt sich der junge Deutsche auf der Messenger-App Telegram, »Jäger«. Und er lässt keinen Zweifel daran, wo er politisch steht. Er stamme aus einer »NatSoc Family«, einer nationalsozialistisch eingestellten Familie, schreibt er auf Englisch. Bei ihnen in Sachsen gebe es weniger »Nicht-Weiße« als im Westen des Landes, und die extreme Rechte sei auf dem Vormarsch, »vor allem die militante Szene«. In einem Chat mit einem vermeintlichen Gesinnungsgenossen wird »Hunter« noch deutlicher. Er trainiere eine Gruppe Jugendlicher und junger Männer von 13 bis 25 Jahren, schreibt er. Dazu postet er Fotos von Geländemärschen in Flecktarn. Ab und an würden sie nach Polen oder Tschechien fahren, offenbar für Schießübungen. Er wolle, so behauptet »Hunter«, im Wald Sprengtests mit einem Gemisch aus Diesel und Dünger machen. Sein Vorbild: Timothy McVeigh, der sprengte 1995 in Oklahoma ein US-Bundesgebäude. Der Neonazi aus Ostdeutschland heißt mit echtem Namen Jörg S. Was er während des Chats nicht weiß: Sein Gegenüber arbeitet als verdeckter Ermittler für die US-Bundespolizei FBI. Über ihren Verbindungsbeamten in Berlin warnt die Behörde den deutschen Verfassungsschutz und den Generalbundesanwalt. Nach monatelangen Ermittlungen verhaftet die Polizei im November 2024 Jörg S. und sieben weitere Männer. Sie sollen die Terrorgruppe »Sächsische Separatisten«  gegründet haben. Der Anwalt von Jörg S. ließ eine Anfrage unbeantwortet, in früheren Stellungnahmen hatte er die Terrorvorwürfe bestritten, es handele sich um eine »relativ harmlose Wandergruppe«. Nach Überzeugung der Behörden gehören Jörg S., 24, und Mitstreiter zu einer militanten rechtsextremen Subkultur, die seit einigen Jahren junge Männer auf der ganzen Welt anzieht. Ihre Gruppen tragen Namen wie »Atomwaffen Division« , »National Socialist Brotherhood« oder »The Base«. Sie sehnen sich nach einem Tag X, an dem die staatliche Ordnung kollabiert, und propagieren Gewalt gegen Juden, Schwarze, Migranten. Rechtsextreme Terroristen wie Anders Breivik, der 2011 in Norwegen 77 Menschen ermordete, oder Stephan Balliet, der 2019 in Halle (Saale) eine Synagoge angriff und in der Nähe des Gotteshauses zwei Menschen tötete, verehren sie als »Heilige«. Experten bezeichnen das Phänomen als »militanten Akzelerationismus« . Anhänger dieser Ideologie glauben an den Niedergang des Westens und wollen diesen durch Anschläge beschleunigen. Die Szene vernetzt sich vor allem über den aus Dubai betriebenen Messenger Telegram, ihr loses Netzwerk aus Kanälen und Chatgruppen wird daher auch als »Terrorgram« bezeichnet. Auf Fotos tragen sie mitunter Totenkopfmasken über dem Gesicht, ihre digitalen Pamphlete wimmeln vor Hakenkreuzen und Gewaltfantasien. Deutschland müsse »restlos im Chaos versinken«, bevor wieder »etwas Normales entstehen« könne, schrieb der Neonazi Jörg S. in einem Chat. An anderer Stelle fantasierte er von einem »weißen Dschihad«.

via spiegel: Rechtsextreme Chatgruppen bei Telegram »Großartig, ich wünsche ihm gute Jagd«

siehe auch: Deutsche im Terrorgram-Netzwerk: Eine Dunkelfelduntersuchung zur Aktivität deutscher User im Militanten Akzelerationismus. Das Research Paper Deutsche im Terrorgram-Netzwerk: Eine Dunkelfelduntersuchung zur Aktivität deutscher User im Militanten Akzelerationismus liefert erstmals empirische Ergebnisse zur Einbindung von Usern mit lokalem Bezug zu Deutschland in das transnationale rechtsterroristische Terrorgram-Netzwerk auf der Plattform Telegram. Der Militante Akzelerationismus stellt eine ernstzunehmende Bedrohung für die demokratische Gesellschaft dar – spätestens seit 2018 ist ein Anstieg von Aktivitäten der Szene zu beobachten, darunter der rechtsterroristische Anschlag in Halle 2019 sowie weitere vereitelte Anschlagsplanungen. Die Analyse unterstreicht das vorhandene Bedrohungspotenzial und zeigt, dass deutsche User aktiv in das Rechtsterror-Netzwerk eingebunden sind: 83 sogenannte Heavy User mit besonders hoher Aktivität, von denen ein erhöhtes Gefahrenpotenzial ausgeht, konnten bislang unter den deutschen Usern identifiziert werden. Deutlich wird auch, dass Reaktionen Telegrams trotz der anhaltenden Gefahr unzureichend bleiben: In von der Plattform selbst bereitgestellten Informationen zeigt sich, dass weniger als fünf Prozent der identifizierten Gruppen bislang gesperrt wurden. Dabei sind Plattform-Sperrungen ein effektives Mittel, um radikalisierte Nutzer aus dem Netzwerk zu entfernen.

Symbolbild: Screenshot Telegram – Propagandavideo Atomwaffen Division Deutschland
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Teen suspected of murdering parents now tied to ‘cult’ and conspiracy to kill Trump to spark a ‘political revolution’ – #terror #O9A #Terrorgram

The 17-year-old accused of killing his parents subscribed to a neo-Nazi ‘satanic cult,’ prosecutors say. A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering his parents followed a neo-Nazi “cult” and hoped to further a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, including killing President Donald Trump, prosecutors say. Nikita Casap, 17, is accused of killing his mother Tatiana Casap and his step-father Donald Mayer in their Waukesha home on February 11, according to the criminal complaint filed against him last month. He now faces nine charges, including murder, hiding a corpse and identity theft. Prosecutors say they’ve linked Casap to The Order of Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi group that originated in the U.K. The organization is considered a “satanic cult” by the FBI with “strong anti-Judaism anti-Christian and anti-western ideologies.” The group dates its calendar from the birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and believes in creating a new world order which emphasizes social darwinism, satanism and fascism, the BBC reports. Prosecutors say Casap had written a manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination and other terrorist attacks, according to his arrest warrant reviewed by local outlet WISN. The goal, his manifesto said, was to spark a political revolution and promote white supremacy. One classmate told investigators that Casap said he was speaking with someone in Russia through the Telegram messaging app, and they concocted a plan to assassinate Trump and overthrow the government, according to investigators. Casap also told his contact that he wanted to shoot his parents but that he didn’t have a gun, the person told investigators. Later, Casap told the person that he planned to befriend someone with a gun so he could steal it and kill his parents.

via independent: Teen suspected of murdering parents now tied to ‘cult’ and conspiracy to kill Trump to spark a ‘political revolution’

siehe auch: Wisconsin teen plotted Trump assassination, ‘revolution:’ warrant – #terror #O9A. Wisconsin teen plotted Trump assassination An FBI investigation into a Wisconsin teen, already accused of killing his mother and stepfather, revealed a conspiracy to assassinate President Donald Trump in an effort to start a “political revolution,” according to federal court documents FOX6 News obtained on Friday. The Brief An FBI investigation revealed a conspiracy to assassinate President Donald Trump in an effort to start a “political revolution.” The Waukesha teen is already accused of killing his mother and stepfather. The warrant said he paid for, at least in part, “a drone and explosives to be used as a weapon of mass destruction to commit an attack”; Wisconsin teen charged in parents’ deaths is accused of neo-Nazi plot to kill Trump. Authorities say Nikita Casap, 17, wrote a three-page antisemitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler and hoping to ‘save the white race from Jewish-controlled politicians’. A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County authorities with first-degree murder, theft and other crimes in the deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer. Authorities allege the teenager fatally shot them at their home outside Milwaukee in February and lived with the decomposing bodies for weeks before fleeing with $14,000 cash, passports and the family dog. He was arrested last month in Kansas; Neo-Nazi teen slaughters parents as first step in Satanic Donald Trump assassination plot “As to why, specifically Trump, I think it’s obvious.” In February, the bullet-riddled bodies of Donald Mayer and Tatiana Casap were found under blankets at their Waukesha, Wisconsin, home. Their son, 17-year-old Nikita Casap, was nowhere to be found. In the house was a receipt for a .357 magnum revolver, but ominously, no sign whatsoever of the gun. A manhunt was launched, with cellphone pings tracking Nikita to a truck stop in Walcott, Iowa. Security footage from the truck stop showed Nikita behind the wheel alongside the family dog. An APB was put out for the SUV, and an hour later he was pulled over. On searching the vehicle, cops noted a 357 magnum revolver lying on the passenger floorboard, boxes of ammunition, his parents’ wallets and cellphones, roughly $14,000 in cash, an open safe, women’s jewelry, laptops, and banking documents. At this point, the case seemed like a relatively straightforward homicide: Nikita murdered his parents, then attempted to escape with whatever money and valuables he could lay his hands on. Then cops searched his cellphone. After obtaining a search warrant for Nikita’s phone, they discovered he was obsessed with the “occult-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group” The Order of the Nine Angles. The group arose in the early 1970s under the guidance of Anton Long, generally thought to be a pseudonym for British neo-Nazi David Myatt. The order was founded on the principles of “Traditional Satanism” and pushes for its members to isolate themselves from society, become criminals, embrace violence, and carry out human sacrifice, with the ultimate aim of accelerating humanity toward a spacefaring new era in which Aryan superhumans will colonize the Milky Way. To bring this about, Nikita decided that Donald Trump had to die. The FBI discovered messages on the phone detailing what appears to be assassination plans and a manifesto entitled “Accelerate the Collapse”, containing images of Hitler, the phrase “all hail the White Race”, and the belief that Trump is a “Jewish-controlled” politician

siehe dazu auch: A ‘neo-Nazi’ allegedly planned to kill Trump. Federal cuts could slow foiling similar plots. The FBI says 17-year-old Nikita Casap plotted to assassinate the president as a way to spur a race war. Federal funding cuts could hamper similar probes. A newly unsealed affidavit from the FBI alleges that a Wisconsin teenager charged with killing his parents earlier this year also appears to be a white supremacist who plotted to set off a race war by assassinating President Donald Trump.  The affidavit alleges 17-year-old Nikita Casap of Waukesha, Wisconsin, killed his parents in February to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to carry out his plan of killing the president. He hoped the assassination would cause the United States to collapse, an outcome he claimed was necessary to topple the “Jewish occupied” government and save the white race, according to a document the FBI referred to as Casap’s “manifesto.” The affidavit alleges Casap partially paid for “a drone with a dropping mechanism” to inflict harm by dropping “an explosive, Molotov cocktail, or very strong topical poison” on a target. According to messages referenced in the affidavit, Casap has links to multiple white supremacist groups. In messages on TikTok and Telegram, he identified himself as a follower of the Order of Nine Angles, which the FBI describes as a neo-Nazi cult that “advocates for the use of violence and terrorism to overthrow governments and destroy modern civilization,” NBC News reported. In his so-called manifesto, he appeared to recommend readings from the Terrorgram Collective, a global white supremacist group known for carrying out acts of violent racism and anti-LGBTQ bigotry. (Casap’s attorneys did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.) Instances of white supremacists attempting to incite a race war have occurred with disturbing frequency. In 2023, Rachel Maddow spoke with extremism expert Kathleen Belew about why neo-Nazi groups believe they can trigger a race war by attacking U.S. infrastructure such as electricity substations.

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Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower – #terror #thebase #awd

US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war. An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war. Experts say examples like this shows how under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked. On the surface, following a TikTok account might seem like a minor infraction for a young private in the 1st Infantry Division. But not only has that private followed the Base, a violent neo-Nazi terrorist organization once the target of an FBI investigation, there are directives issued under Joe Biden that discourages that kind of social media activity. But in February, the Department of Defense issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Since, the efficacy of rooting out the far right within the ranks remains unclear. In the wake of the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill and early revelations that at least 151 of those attackers had a military background, the Pentagon issued a historic stand-down order and created a working group on extremism. By December 2021, it released new policies on what constitutes extremist activities, namely policing how soldiers behave on social media, which included any affiliations to extremist organizations. On an obscure and secretive TikTok account the Base operates for recruitment, counting just 30 followers, a private and mortarmen in the 1st Infantry Division is listed as a follower. Posts on the account promote the Base’s assassination and sabotage mission in Ukraine, neo-Nazi iconography, and plans to create “platoon-sized units of highly dedicated, trained men”. The Guardian provided the name and rank to the US army, which said it was now investigating the matter. (…) On the private’s Instagram account, he appears to be an airsoft gun enthusiast and a second world war re-enactor that has played as a member of a unit of what appears to be Germany’s Nazi-era Wehrmacht. “The TikTok account affiliated with the group includes a clear statement supporting accelerationism and advises joining the group to be linked up with other individuals to exploit ‘collapse’,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a longtime far-right analyst and expert on the Base who noticed the soldier following the account. “The Base has been designated as a terrorist group by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.” Fisher-Birch pointed out that the Base and other adjacent groups, like the now-defunct Atomwaffen Division, are still interested in political violence and continue to prioritize the recruitment of soldiers because “combat experience and military training are prized”. But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount. Hegseth has his own connections to Christian nationalism and was reported by a servicemember for alleged extremist tattoos that prevented him from attending president Biden’s inauguration.

via guardian: Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

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