Listen:
MP3 One Segment
Updating discussion from FTR-211, this program begins with discussion of National Alliance leader William Pierce’s acquisition of Resistance Records (a white power music label.) (Pierce is the head of the National Alliance, arguably the most important domestic Nazi group.)
Planning to specialize in black metal music (among other genres), Pierce and his associates are recruiting mainstream musicians to record racist and Nazi music under pseudonyms.
The broadcast highlights the formation of Resistance Records (prior to acquisition by Pierce) by George Bundi (a.k.a. Eric Hawthorne.) Stemming from the World Church of the Creator (another domestic fascist group), Hawthorne and Resistance have been celebrated by the Church of Satan. (Domestic fascists Boyd Rice and Michael Moynihan are both members of the Church of Satan and influential in the black metal milieu.)
A member of the Church of the Creator (Ben Smith) murdered several people in the Midwest (see FTR-168.) The program highlights Moynihan’s support for American Nazi James Mason and his espousal of “lone wolf” racist killers like Smith. Mason has been featured on the racist television show of Tom Metzger, whose organization has been successfully sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Another of Moynihan’s icons (and posthumous benefactor of Moynihan’s publishing outfit) is SS official Karl Willigut.
The program reviews Moynihan’s plans to publish work by fascist/occultist Julius Evola (another advocate of fascist violence as a “spiritual” act). Moynihan is also planning to publish music by the Iron Guard, a Romanian fascist group allied with Hitler (see FTR-221.) (Endorsed by Evola, the Iron Guard liaised with Otto von Bolschwing. Von Bolschwing was a key SS man who worked for the CIA after the war.)
The broadcast sets forth the Abraxas Foundation’s espousal of the Iron Guard’s philosophy of “long live death.” (Recorded on 4/9/2000.)
The look on Frank Luntz’s face when these guys were playing must have been priceless.
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It sounds likes this fellow might no longer be satisfied with murdering eardrums:
While the motive for the neo-Nazi attack on a Walmart in El Paso, TX, was explicitly laid out in Patrick Crusius’s manifesto posted on 8chan where he described his white nationalist goals, the motive for the attack in Dayton, OH, by Connor Betts remains largely a mystery. Crusius fits the class neo-Nazi domestic terrorist profile. But Connor Betts was a self-described anti-fascist, supporter of Elizabeth Warren, and a registered Democrat. He was basically the opposite of the profile of a mass shooter. At least if we solely look at his self-described politics. The fact that his own sister was one of the first victims only adds to the mystery.
But as the following article makes clear, as more information comes out about who Connor Betts was, a picture emerges of a man motivated not by politics or ideology but by an intense fascination with violence, gore, sadism, and hyper-misogyny. The kind of misogyny typically found with ‘incels’. Although Betts wasn’t quite an incel. He dated. His last girfriend actually described an incident where he took her on a trip to deliver an anonymous threatening letter to his previous girlfriend because he thought it was funny. But his intense misogyny becomes unambiguous when we look at his hobbies: Betts was the member of a band dedicated to misogyny and glorifying violence against women. The band, Menstrual Munchies, was part of the “pornogrind” scene. Pornogrind appears to be a subgenre of “goregrind”, itself a fusion of “grindcore” and death metal music. Mentstrual Munchies released albums with titles like “6 Ways of Female Butchery” and “Preeteen Daughter Pu$$y Slaughter,” and used cover art showing the rape and mutilation of female bodies.
We’re also learning that, back in high school, Betts was caught with a ‘hit list’ of boys and ‘rape list’ of girls. And He did profess an interest in satanism. In addition, one of his band members recounts Betts bringing a handgun on one of their tours and seriously suggesting that they rob a gas station. The guy was basically a ticking time-bomb.
So given that the Betts’s political background makes him a highly unlikely candidate to go on a seemingly random mass murder spree, the fact that he was obsessed with rape and violence and channeled that obsession in his music suggests that this might be one of those relatively rare instances where mental illness, and not ideology, was the primary driver of this murder spree:
““Part of the music is you want to figure out ways to portray people as being dehumanized as much as possible or, you know, degraded. And sexual dehumanization and objectification is a big way of doing that,” Ward said. “If for some reason the music he made or whatever, somehow did do that for him, I feel that it’s an exception, not the rule when it comes to people making this music.””
Well, let’s hope Betts is indeed the exception for people into “pornogrind” music. At a minimum, it sounds like the kind of genre that’s going to have a concentration of psychopath fans even if the majority of people are just into it for the shock value. And Betts certainly sounded like a budding psychopath:
So Betts appears to have been genuinely mentally ill in a manner that made him obsessed with violence, in particular violence against women. Might that be at least part of the explanation for why his sister was one of his first targets? Well, there’s another twist to all this involving his sister. It turns out she identified as a transgender man. It was something she reportedly was only open about to a relatively small circle of friends. And one of those friends claims her brother didn’t know she was transgender. Is it possible he recently discovered this and was sent into some sort of rage? At this point we don’t know, but it raises the question of how a violent hyper-misogynist might respond if to the revelation that his sister is transgendered:
“According to media reports, Cofer, 22, was the sibling of shooting suspect Connor Betts, and was the first victim in the mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon district that left nine dead and 27 wounded. It appears that Cofer was out as a trans man to only a handful of people, and there is no indication at this time that his gender identity was a motivating factor in his death.”
So at this point we have no idea of Connor even knew is sister Jordan was trans. But as one of Jordan’s close friends points out, it’s entirely possible Connor very recently learned about this:
So that all just adds to the mystery of the motive. But the more we learn about Connor Betts, the more it appears that his professed left-leaning politics and anti-fascist self-identification wasn’t part of the motive.
Along those lines, it’s worth noting one of the observations in the following article about Betts’s anti-fascist activities: there was a KKK rally in Dayton back in May. A handful of klansmen showed up but hundreds of counter-protestors showed up too. Betts was there, armed with a gun and covering his face with a bandanna. And according to the reporter who spoke with him at the rally, Betts didn’t appear to be there with any other group. He was just a lone ‘anti-fascist’ with a gun at the counter-protest, suggesting that Betts wasn’t actually directly involved with any anti-fascist groups:
“Betts wore a bandanna covering part of his face and sunglasses. He carried a gun which appeared to be similar in style to the one used in Sunday’s shooting. He did not appear to be part of any group that was in the protest crowd.”
Note that there were reports of a group of antifa members at the counter-protest. So Betts was there, armed and dressed like an antifa member, but he didn’t actually appear to be part of the actual antifa group there.
It’s also worth noting the similarities to a previous mass shooters, Steven Kazmierczak, the Northern Illinois University former student who open fire on a class, killing 18 people before killing himself. Kazmierczak also appeared to be heavily driven by an intense fascination with violence and gore, with a focus on the “Saw” movies. Like Betts, Kazmierczak had an interest in Satanism. Although Kazmierczak also had a history of interest in white-power movements, so in that sense he fit the classic mass murderer profile more closely than Betts.
The ironic part of all this is that one of the problems with how the US deals with domestic terrorism is that whenever the terrorist is a far right white male the ascribed motive is typically left to ‘mental illness’ committed by a ‘lone wolf’, despite the fact that the white male terrorists almost always appears to have been radicalized online and spurred on by neo-Nazi propaganda. But in the case of Connor Betts, he really does appear to be a lone wolf not driven by politics and his mass murder spree really does appear to be primarily driven by a mental illness. So it’s this highly anomalous mass murder event that actually fits the prevailing ‘mentally ill lone wolf’ narrative.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that since Betts was fascinated with mass murderers and satanism and violence in general he probably got exposed to a lot of the neo-Nazi propaganda that glorifies mass murderers. So in that sense he could still be seen as being influenced by far right propaganda.