White supremacist group talked about paramilitary training in secret vetting calls

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Source: whdh.com



October 22, 2020

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CNN

(CNN) — Young men hoping to join a White supremacist group spoke about hosting paramilitary trainings and how to legally bring firearms to those events, according to secret recordings of vetting calls published by the Southern Poverty Law Center Thursday.

Some 83 hours of calls with more than 100 participants linked to The Base group were analyzed by the SPLC, which monitors hate, for a new podcast, “Sounds Like Hate.”

Military training or knowledge of firearms was an important asset, according to the released calls. So was having a place to train.

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The SPLC’s release of parts of the calls comes at a time when US intelligence services say domestic violent extremists, specifically White supremacist groups are the “the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.”...................

Read more: https://whdh.com/news/white-supremacist-group-talked-about-paramilitary-training-in-secret-vetting-calls/

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[reACTIONary]

1. Link to the SPLC Transcript.

A script or transcript of the podcast:

https://soundslikehate.org/images/assets/sounds-like-hate-baseless-part-1-transcript.pdf

[Mike 03]

6. Thanks for the link. Man, this is crazy:

Rinaldo Nazzaro: I mean, obviously, the ideal solution, if we could just kind of wave a magic wand, would be like, yeah, we would be able to take control of the government and just maintain the current
boundaries of the United States.

Jamila Paksima: Nazzaro professed to be a national socialist, or a nazi, and began recruiting people to his
side. This was the beginning of the Base. It was also right around the time when he left the United States
and moved with his Russian wife and two kids to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Cassie Miller: Rinaldo Nazzaro, using the name Norman Spear or later Roman Wolf, was appearing
on social media, kind of dismissing those ideas entirely, saying that there were no actual political
ways to achieve a fascist state that was built on ethnonationalism. What they needed was revolution
and revolution required violence. I can also talk about how we got his name. He bought land in
central Washington and his name was on those documents.

[reACTIONary]

2. SPLC Sounds Like Hate Podcasts

Sounds Like Hate is a new podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center that focuses on the stories of people and communities grappling with hate and searching for solutions.

https://soundslikehate.org/

[lonely bird]

3. Oh, great

Al-Qaeda mean “the base”. We have our own al-Qaeda now. But then the irony would be lost on them.

[Mike 03]

4. The leader lives in Russia, per the story:

The man at the center of most of the calls is Rinaldo Nazzaro, the group’s leader, who the SPLC says now lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[Mike 03]

5. Do the members of The Base understand that their leader is in St. Petersburg Russia?

In one call, Nazzaro told an applicant the group’s aim.

“We want things to accelerate, we want things to get worse in the United States. And from that point, by virtue of the chaos that ensues, that would naturally present some opportunities for us. Law and order starts breaking down, power vacuums start emerging for those who are organized and ready, to take advantage of those.”

What tools.

[Aristus]

7. Paramilitary training?

They need to do less 'pew-pew-pew' in front of the video game console, and more 'huff-puff-puff' on the obstacle course.

I suppose I should be glad that they don't...

[kimbutgar]

8. They should pass a law that any ex militatary member caught participating in these terrorist militia

Groups should lose any veterans benefits they are entitled to,

That would wipe them out pretty quickly.

[scarletwoman]

9. Excellent idea!

[ck4829]

10. White Nationalist Terrorism

[onetexan]

11. The name Rinaldo Nazarro is a Hispanic sounding name - am i right?

If so, what's a Hispanic guy doing taking part in a white nationalist group?

[burrowowl]

12. The SPLC is a great asset