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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:21 PM Dec 2016

SPLC warns that Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn is a dangerous anti-Muslim zealot

Source: RawStory

DAVID FERGUSON
20 DEC 2016 AT 19:02 ET

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a bulletin on Tuesday regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as national security adviser.

In a post at the Hatewatch blog, Stephen Piggott noted that Flynn has been very open about his reactionary views, posting frequently on social media.

“In the approximately 1,700 tweets examined by Hatewatch, Flynn has been no stranger to the anti-Muslim movement. He also has interacted with and praised a number of anti-Muslim figures. But perhaps most surprisingly, Flynn follows two individuals who use the hashtag #WhiteGenocide proudly displayed in their Twitter biographies: @ErinBSullivan and @AlbionAwakes,” Piggott wrote.

He continued, “White genocide is an idea that white people, far from ruling most of the developed world, are actually being subjected to a genocide that will ultimately wipe out their race. In recent years, the idea has been spread through something known as the ‘The Mantra,‘ a 221-word attack on multiculturalism written by Robert Whitaker, a cantankerous segregationist making a presidential bid this year on the racist American Freedom Party ticket. The Mantra ends with the phrase, ‘Anti-racist is code word for anti-white.’”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/splc-warns-that-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-is-a-dangerous-anti-muslim-zealot/

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Eugene

(61,807 posts)
3. Flynn's immersion in white nationalist conspiracy theories isn't as widely discussed.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:42 PM
Dec 2016

That along with his already tenuous relation with reality
makes him extremely dangerous.

TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)
2. He also has ties to Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Austrian Freedom Party
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:31 PM
Dec 2016
The Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, wrote on his Facebook page Monday that he met with Flynn "and a few other high-ranking US politicians" a few weeks ago at Trump Tower.

He noted in the post that his party had recently signed a cooperation deal with Putin's United Russia party, which "outlined plans for regular meetings and collaboration where suitable on economic, business, and political projects," The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Flynn's relationship with the Kremlin has been under scrutiny since he was tapped by Trump to be the national security adviser. Photos have emerged of the former lieutenant general with Putin in Moscow celebrating the 10th anniversary of the state-sponsored news agency Russia Today, which has featured him as a commentator.

The fact that Flynn appears to have granted an audience to Strache in New York raises more questions about the influence that far-right populism and white nationalism may have on the incoming Trump administration.



http://uk.businessinsider.com/michael-flynn-putin-trump-austria-far-right-2016-12?r=US&IR=T

Lithos

(26,403 posts)
5. yes, they are nazi's
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:11 PM
Dec 2016

Call it for what it is...

We need to update that History Channel "yes, it's alien" asshat to say "yes it's Nazis" - at least it would reflect the truth...

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Lithos

(26,403 posts)
4. Geez
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:09 PM
Dec 2016

Seems that with this generation of Nazis, Muslims are the new Jew and/or Communists...

I say this not lightly and with full respect and difference to the Holocaust and pogroms of the past.

If we do not fight this *together* this will not end well.

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AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
6. he is part of alt right
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:12 PM
Dec 2016

He is part of the alt right movement along with Bannon. He is so extreme that even many republicans are openly dissatisfied with this choice. Unfortunately, he doesn't have to be confirmed by the senate. Trump is getting brained washed by Flynn and Bannon so I doubt he can even distinguish facts from propaganda. We will be in grave danger in the years ahead with hightened risk of attacks on US soil. The new administration can use NSA sureveilence with no regards for ehics or law which may give them enormous power over the entire workd.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
7. I trust the SPLC, and I think that appointing an anti-Muslim racist as national security adviser is
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:28 PM
Dec 2016

a bad move.

AKing

(511 posts)
9. Mentally unstable Nat'l Security Advisor appointed by mentally unstable narcissist...
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:59 PM
Dec 2016

What could go wrong?

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