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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerican ISIS: 3 recently-accused killers linked to same ultra-extreme Neo-Nazi group
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/590292705/5-killings-3-states-and-1-common-neo-nazi-linkAt first glance, five killings in three states since last May appeared to be unrelated, isolated cases.
But a common thread is emerging. Three young men have been charged, and all appear to have links to the same white supremacist group: the Atomwaffen Division.
Atomwaffen is German for "atomic weapons," and the group is extreme. It celebrates Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson, its online images are filled with swastikas, and it promotes violence.
One of the group's videos shows young men, wearing scarves over their faces and camouflage, firing rifles during military-style training. The video begins with group members shouting in unison, "Race War Now," and concludes with the tag line, "Join Your Local Nazis."
"Atomwaffen no doubt takes some of the white supremacist rhetoric to another level. The views that they articulate are white supremacists on steroids," said Joanna Mendelson, who follows extremist groups for the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles.
"And what is the change they want to see? Real-world violence. Real-world apocalyptic violence," she added.
But a common thread is emerging. Three young men have been charged, and all appear to have links to the same white supremacist group: the Atomwaffen Division.
Atomwaffen is German for "atomic weapons," and the group is extreme. It celebrates Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson, its online images are filled with swastikas, and it promotes violence.
One of the group's videos shows young men, wearing scarves over their faces and camouflage, firing rifles during military-style training. The video begins with group members shouting in unison, "Race War Now," and concludes with the tag line, "Join Your Local Nazis."
"Atomwaffen no doubt takes some of the white supremacist rhetoric to another level. The views that they articulate are white supremacists on steroids," said Joanna Mendelson, who follows extremist groups for the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles.
"And what is the change they want to see? Real-world violence. Real-world apocalyptic violence," she added.
Ex-FBI agent Clint Watts (whom you've probably seen on CNN, MSNBC and other networks) says:
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If this were ISIS or al Qaeda wed be talking about air strikes and invasions - white supremacists, no discussion, no response
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American ISIS: 3 recently-accused killers linked to same ultra-extreme Neo-Nazi group (Original Post)
CousinIT
Mar 2018
OP
the KKK is the oldest conservative, christian terrorist organization in this country...
Thomas Hurt
Mar 2018
#3
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Not only is there no discussion, no response
This information has to be ferreted out by non-government organizations, because our federal government doesn't make monitoring of violent Nazi hate groups a priority.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Watts has mentioned this possible connection
before in and about the Charlottesville Nazi show down.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. the KKK is the oldest conservative, christian terrorist organization in this country...
this is just more of the same.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)6. I agree . What's more "white supremacy on steroids" than...
hanging a man or dragging him behind a truck? Not downplaying this group at all, just sayin' that their views/actions are hardly unprecedented.
dalton99a
(81,500 posts)4. Kick
malaise
(269,004 posts)5. Lock them up
They are terrorists