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Boise man with alleged neo-Nazi ties, now facing gun charges, sought Idaho prison jobs – #terror #awd #atomwaffendivision

Before a Boise man was arrested in October for alleged gun crimes and was accused of trying to organize a “modern-day SS” on a neo-Nazi message board, he applied and interviewed for taxpayer-funded jobs at Idaho prisons. That same man, 35-year-old Paul Kryscuk, said in Instagram messages made public in court filings that he also applied to become a Boise firefighter and prepared to take a Boise Fire Department exam less than two weeks before his arrest. Kryscuk — who moved to Idaho in February 2020 — was arrested and later charged in federal court in North Carolina on multiple counts of conspiring to manufacture and ship firearms without a license. Three other men were charged in connection with the alleged conspiracy to manufacture and ship guns: Liam Collins, Jordan Duncan and Justin Hermanson. (…) At around the time of Kryscuk’s applications, he, Duncan and two other people met in the Boise area for live-fire weapons training outside of the city, according to prosecutors. During the training, the group made a video while shooting assault-style rifles, and at the end of that video, the four are seen giving a “Heil Hitler” sign and are wearing skull masks associated with the Atomwaffen Division, a terrorist neo-Nazi organization that is connected to multiple killings in the United States, federal authorities say. (…) In the Instagram messaging logs made public by prosecutors, Kryscuk and Duncan frequently used racial slurs and glorified violence, at one point discussing the shooting during protests and unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that left two people dead and one wounded, allegedly at the hands of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse. Kryscuk and Duncan also discussed the group of men who planned to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who tried to put measures in place to curb the coronavirus pandemic and received the ire of right-wing groups. The two said that if the group had been more secretive, members “could’ve done it.” The group in Michigan is accused of watching Whitmer’s vacation home and purchasing explosives in the hopes of destroying a bridge that would hamper a police response, according to federal charging documents. The group planned to kidnap the governor, destroy the bridge and escape in a boat, federal prosecutors say.

via idahostatesman: Boise man with alleged neo-Nazi ties, now facing gun charges, sought Idaho prison jobs

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Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the #Capitol Hill insurrection

Flags, signs and symbols of racist, white supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and American flags at Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol. The pictures tell part of the story of the beliefs of some of those who chose to show up on that day — from passionate and peaceful Trump supporters to extremists who showed their hate with their symbols as well as their actions. (…) “This was an event designed to oppose the results of a free and fair democratic election and the transition of power that would naturally follow,” Mark Pitcavage, a historian and expert in extremism with the Anti-Defamation League said. CNN spoke with him to identify the symbols and understand the chilling messages of tyranny, white supremacy, anarchy, racism, anti-Semitism and hatred they portray. (…) A rioter inside the Capitol wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt. The bottom of the shirt reads “Work brings freedom,” which is the rough translation of the words “Arbeit macht frei” on the gates of the Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz was the largest and most infamous Nazi concentration camp, where about 1.1 million people were killed during World War II. Pitcavage says he believes the shirt came from the now-defunct website Aryanwear. The design, which has been around for about 10 years according to Pitcavage, has been popping up on differing websites in recent weeks, though it is often taken down when a complaint is made. A social media image shows Nationalist Social Club stickers on what appears to be U.S. Capitol Police equipment It’s unclear when the photo was taken, but it was posted Wednesday in a Telegram chat the group uses, which includes a Nazi symbol as part of their name. NSC, apparently a word play on the National Socialists or Nazi party, is a neo-Nazi group that has regional chapters in both the United States and across the globe, according to the ADL. It is unclear if the sticker on the right refers to a New England chapter, or because the group originally called itself the New England Nationalists Club.

via ctvnews: Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection

siehe auch: These are some of the extremist groups responsible for the violence on Capitol Hill. The mob of U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters who overran police and stormed Washington’s Capitol Hill included members of several well-known extremist and white-supremacist groups. Federal authorities have begun to ingest thousands of hours of pictures and video of the mob violence in an effort to identify and potentially charge perpetrators. Other organizations like investigative journalism heavyweight Bellingcat, also put out a call for civilians to save any and all livestreams, footage and pictures they find so that they can begin to “scrape” the material to piece together the sequence of events and identify extremists, like they did for the “Unite the Right” rally in August of 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The violence did not come as a surprise to Barbara Perry, Director of the Centre for Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University. “I think I was [only] surprised that it took that long for something like this to happen. A lot of us had anticipated that we would see violence immediately following the election, especially if he [Donald Trump] lost,” Perry said in a phone interview with CTV News.ca Friday. Perry said she agrees that there has been a “mainstreaming of hate,” in recent years, and that the attack on the Capitol was a perfect example of it. “That’s an indication, I think, of how deeply embedded this has become in American politics in particular. But it certainly has become much more mainstream, not just in the political context, but in the media and popular discourse as well,” Perry said. Canada has not escaped the rise in extreme views either. “If we look at even Canadian public opinion polls, you know, we’re seeing quite a dramatic increase in attitudes around immigration, around Muslims, around legitimacy of government,” she said; Conspiracists, neo-Nazis, gun activists: The Trump loyalists who stormed Capitol. Naming the names: A look at some of the more prominent rioters who assailed the US Capitol this week The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world, but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol?

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Illinois CEO arrested during Capitol riots says he was in ‘wrong place’ at ‘wrong time’


After he was arrested for unlawful entry, Bradley Rukstales, a Chicago-area CEO, said he regretted participating in the mob that stormed the Capitol. Bradley Rukstales, who was arrested on a charge of unlawful entry after he participated in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, told an Illinois news outlet that he is “deeply regretful.” “It was great to see a whole bunch of people together in the morning and hearing the speeches, but, yeah, it turned into chaos,” Rukstales said in an interview at his home with CBS2 Chicago. “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and I regret my part in that,” Rukstales said. (…) In a tweet Thursday, Cogensia, the Schaumburg, Illinois-based company of which Rukstales is CEO, said he has been placed on a leave of absence due to his admission of participation in the events. A statement from the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed that Rukstales was arrested on a charge of unlawful entry. According to a search of publicly available election donation data, Rukstales has donated thousands of dollars to Republicans running for Congress and to President Donald Trump

via nbcnews: Illinois CEO arrested during Capitol riots says he was in ‘wrong place’ at ‘wrong time’

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#breaking – #Twitter Permanently Bans #Trump After Years Of Aggressive, Violent Rhetoric On Platform

The president, who had more than 88 million followers on the platform and often used it to govern, was permanently removed on Friday. After years of using Twitter as a legislation tool, sounding board and sometimes like a diary, President Donald Trump was banned from the platform on Friday. Less than two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the social media company removed the commander in chief after rioters overtook the Capitol on Wednesday, leading to the deaths of at least people. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that Trump would be banned from the platform “indefinitely” as a result of the insurrection. “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” he continued. “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.” Shortly after Zuckerberg’s announcement, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, tweeted that Trump had been blocked from its platform “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks.” (Instagram is owned by Facebook.)
Twitter and other social media companies have long been criticized for not banning the president or taking harsher action against him after his repeatedly use of the platform to incite outrage and violence. The companies have previously defended leaving up Trump’s posts as they were of “the public’s interest.” In the last year, there’s been a palpable shift as Trump’s behavior on social media has escalated. Twitter’s earliest action to curb his rhetoric came in the form of warning labels beneath certain tweets, which alerted followers if a tweet was factually inaccurate or violated rules against glorifying violence. Facebook and Instagram would later follow suit. After the riot at the Capitol, Twitter had instituted a lock on his account for 12 hours, noting that the ban would be extended if tweets rejecting the results of the November election, and those that violated its “Civic Integrity” policy, were not deleted. “Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of [Trump’s] account,” read a tweet on Wednesday. The tweets had been deleted as of Thursday afternoon. Many are saying that deplatforming the president in the final days of his presidency is “too little, too late,” as the damage he’s caused has already been done.

via huff: Twitter Permanently Bans Trump After Years Of Aggressive, Violent Rhetoric On Platform

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#Kyjiw: #SBU deckt Neonazi-Gruppe mit Anführer „Hitler“ auf – #terror


Der Sicherheitsdienst der Ukraine SBU hat in Kyjiw eine Gruppe von Anhängern des australischen Rechtsextremisten und Terroristen, Brenton Tarrant, enttarnt. Wie die Pressestelle des SBU mitteilte, trug ein Anführer der Neonazi-Gruppe den Decknamen „Hitler“. „Über elektronische Kommunikationsmittel und Messenger-Dienste habe er ein geheimes Netzwerk zur Verbreitung des so genannten „Manifests“ von Tarrant mit Aufrufen zur Ausübung von Terrorakten aus rassistischen und religiösen Motiven organisiert“, heißt es in der Mitteilung. Das „Manifest“ wurde laut dem SBU auch ins Ukrainisch und Russisch übersetzt und in Form einer Drucksache verbreitet. Die Außenministerien Australiens und Neuselands hätten darauf mehrmals mit scharfer Kritik reagiert. Bei den Durchsuchungen wurden zahlreiche Exemplare vom „Manifest“, elektronische Geräte und Symbole der Neonazis sichergestellt.

via ukrinform: Kyjiw: SBU deckt Neonazi-Gruppe mit Anführer „Hitler“ auf

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Meet DLive: The Livestreaming Platform Used by Trump’s Capitol Insurrectionists

Far-right extremists livestreamed on the fringe, youth-targeted gaming website DLive on Wednesday during an unprecedented breach of the U.S. Capitol building that left at least four people dead and others wounded. One of the extremists livestreamed on DLive from the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Hatewatch observed while monitoring the events. White supremacists and neo-fascists have increasingly embraced DLive as a streaming alternative to YouTube, partly because its content seldom undergoes any rigorous degree of moderation. A man named Charles Wayn founded the site in December 2017. Hatewatch has attempted to contact Wayn but has so far been unsuccessful. DLive is now owned by the peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent, which is run by a man named Justin Sun. DLive has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to extremists since its founding, largely through donations of cryptocurrency built into a service provided by the site. Hatewatch reported in November that white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has featured prominently in the so-called Stop the Steal protests that led to Wednesday’s breach of the Capitol building, has generated money through DLive at a pace that matches a six-figure salary. Other prominent extremists, including a man who corresponded with the terrorist who murdered 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019, also bring in donations of cryptocurrency through the site.

via splcenter: Meet DLive: The Livestreaming Platform Used by Trump’s Capitol Insurrectionists

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Charges in Capitol Riot Include Man With 11 Molotov Cocktails

U.S. charges 55 people with crimes related to Capitol storming. More charges expected to come, acting U.S. attorney says. The U.S. charged 55 people with crimes stemming from the siege of the U.S. Capitol perpetrated by a pro-Trump mob Wednesday, including a man who was arrested near the building with a semi automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails, the Justice Department said. The other cases include charges of unlawful entry and assault, Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia, said at a news conference Thursday. (…) The violent mob stormed the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, charging past police barriers, smashing windows and sending lawmakers fleeing for safety. The riot, which resulted in four deaths, forced members of Congress to temporarily abandon their formal certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. The lawmakers returned and completed the certification once the building was secured. (…) Photos and videos of rioters brawling with police and ransacking lawmakers’ officers were widely circulated on social media Wednesday afternoon. Legal experts say a wide variety of crimes — everything from vandalism to sedition — occurred during the riot and that prosecutors could charge offenders even if they walked away from the incident without being detained. Participants could be charged with the “willful injury of federal property,” as well as assaulting law enforcement officers and trespassing, legal experts said. Some could also face more serious charges, including sedition and insurrection, which would require proving an intent to disrupt or even overthrow the government.

via bloomberg: Charges in Capitol Riot Include Man With 11 Molotov Cocktails

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