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Cattledog

(5,911 posts)
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:15 PM Nov 2018

Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America

The creation of a new social networking platform called “The Base” appears to be an effort to shift Naziism from a divided digital space to physical, violent insurgency.

neo-Nazi who goes by the alias Norman Spear has launched a project to unify online fascists and link that vast coalition of individuals into a network training new soldiers for a so-called forthcoming “race war.”

Spear, who claims to be an Iraq and Afghan war veteran, is a self-proclaimed white nationalist with a significant online following. His latest act involves bringing neo-Nazis together, regardless of affiliation and ideology, into a militant fascist umbrella organization. His tool for doing this? A social network he calls “The Base,” which is already organizing across the US and abroad, specifically geared toward partaking in terrorism.

Within the confines of a secure chat room viewed by VICE, Spear and his burgeoning global web of terror cells are networking, creating propaganda, organizing in-person meet-ups, and discussing potential violence or “direct action” against minority groups, especially Jewish and black Americans. An extensive online library contains a trove of manuals with instructions on lone wolf terror-tactics, gunsmithing, data mining, interrogation tactics, counter-surveillance techniques, bomb making, chemical weapons creation, and guerilla warfare.

The network's vetting process serves to funnel committed extremists from around the internet into a group explicitly focused on providing users with terroristic skills, in order to produce real-world violence. Members of The Base have made it clear they’re recruiting applicants with military and explosives backgrounds. And in addition to homemade bombs, members have also begun discussing trying to find unexploded World War II ordnance to make improvised explosive devices.

“I'm all about violence, but I want to gather with people and plan something out,” wrote one user going by the name Rimbaud to the almost 50 other members of the secret network, lamenting that the recent terror attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh could’ve been more effective. “Maybe some form of bombing, or something a bit more destructive.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mexp/neo-nazis-are-organizing-secretive-paramilitary-training-across-america?utm_campaign=sharebutton&fbclid=IwAR3q-wP-ijMV2cU1dmClpUb1u1DnPdS7u3EvWrQJD-k-YR4CWt2suL5NNjU
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Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America (Original Post) Cattledog Nov 2018 OP
Hmm vercetti2021 Nov 2018 #1
Give them a new X-Box to pacify them. Throck Nov 2018 #2
I'm sure they believe all the COD game play qualifies them vercetti2021 Nov 2018 #3
The military will be on their side. lark Nov 2018 #7
trump's time as CIC is short. Any other pres. will crush these fools... brush Nov 2018 #12
They won't be fighting the US military inwiththenew Nov 2018 #13
They need to be stopped before they kill somebody. rockfordfile Nov 2018 #15
We still find unexploded 500 pound bombs during construction work here in Germany DFW Nov 2018 #4
I wonder if these fools realise that the feds oldlibdem Nov 2018 #5
"The Base"? Al Qaeda? LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #6
Some of them will blow themselves up, murielm99 Nov 2018 #8
And I honestly got to say, fewer nazis is definitely a good thing! Initech Nov 2018 #11
My cousin had a bomb-building RW crazy living next door. Dave Starsky Nov 2018 #17
Shades of "the Turner Diaries". n/t MicaelS Nov 2018 #9
Great, thanks to this POS administration we now have to worry about Para-Nazis. Initech Nov 2018 #10
Meh... brooklynite Nov 2018 #14
K&R ck4829 Nov 2018 #16

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
1. Hmm
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:21 PM
Nov 2018

So a bunch of basement dwellers wanna play domestic terrorist? Cool, lets see how fast they'll last against the US military.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
3. I'm sure they believe all the COD game play qualifies them
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:28 PM
Nov 2018

Trust me, playing COD or Battlefield probably makes them believe they can pick up a gun and run into a war zone without dying. These neo douchebags are fucking delusional maladjusted losers that hate everyone since they know deep down their life is garbage.

lark

(23,065 posts)
7. The military will be on their side.
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:56 PM
Nov 2018

The military is our enemy, not our friends. They will do whatever the CIC tells them to do and it won't be fighting RW terrorists.

brush

(53,743 posts)
12. trump's time as CIC is short. Any other pres. will crush these fools...
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 05:16 PM
Nov 2018

if they dare rise up against the government.

And any other president will pre-empt and break them just as the Proud Boys have been decimated in the last couple of months.

Do they actually think their activities are unknown to fed agencies as we speak, especially since they're publishing this stuff online?

inwiththenew

(972 posts)
13. They won't be fighting the US military
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 05:19 PM
Nov 2018

And if they are things have gone so far off the tracks that there is either martial law in effect or full blown civil war. They will be fighting civilian forces like police but mostly carrying out attacks against soft targets of their opponents. Like synagogues or churches. With how fucked our gun laws are how hard would it be to get and AR-15 and shoot 10, 20, 30 people?

DFW

(54,302 posts)
4. We still find unexploded 500 pound bombs during construction work here in Germany
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:32 PM
Nov 2018

I'd love to tie the bunch of these maniacs to one of them and do a test to see if it still worked.

oldlibdem

(330 posts)
5. I wonder if these fools realise that the feds
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 04:37 PM
Nov 2018

monitor these sites 24/7. They infiltrate them and watch them closely, and then when the day comes for the "big mission" they get the 4am flash bang grenade wake up. fast forward 3 years later and they are sentenced to life without parole on a terrorism conviction. then you see them in the court room balling their eyes out with mommy in the gallery but it's too late.

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