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Introduction: Detailing the phenomenon of counter-culture fascism, this broadcast is a supplement to FTRs 211, 222. In its pursuit of becoming a mass movement, fascism has traditionally turned to alienated and leftist elements in order to recruit street soldiers. (The “Northern” or “Strasserite” branch of the Nazi SA was such an element in the early Nazi party under Hitler.) Today, counterculture fascists are utilizing the alternative music and publishing scenes to recruit alienated individuals to their cause. The major focal point of the program is the book Lords of Chaos, published by Feral House. Co-authored by Michael Moynihan, a Satanist, blood fetishist and Nazi and fascist fellow traveler, the book is an expose of the black metal music scene. (Moynihan is pictured below, left.) At a deeper level, however, the work is something of a fascist recruiting/promoting mechanism–projecting Moynihan’s own far-right political ideology onto the black metal music scene as a whole. (Many—perhaps most– black metal fans are merely “party-on” types, and not necessarily fascists or rightists at all.)
The broadcast sets forth Moynihan’s associations with, and promotion of, some truly evil, murderous fascists and Nazi/racists. Another central point of discussion is Moynihan’s long time friend, professional associate and political fellow traveler Adam Parfrey, the owner of Feral House and a significant presence on the alternative publishing scene. Coalescing in the Abraxas Foundation, an alternative music/occult/fascist/Social Darwinist think tank (their description), Parfrey, Moynihan and Boyd Rice have intertwined musical and political cultures with a counterculture fascist ideology. (Rice is pictured at right and above, with Nazi associate Robert Heick.)
Parfrey’s significant and growing presence in the conspiracy publishing field is worth noting. Feral House political books–much of their inventory deals with cultural, not political, subjects–tend to be uneven: many volumes have excellent material mixed in with drivel, some of the books are quite good and others ludicrous and insane.
What is important about the use of conspiracy theories in the context of a proto-fascist political view is the confusion that can result for those who come to realize that in fact, Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill Kennedy. This awareness may leave some in a relativistic political/intellectual universe. “Maybe the Holocaust didn’t happen!” In the era of the big lie, Parfrey and others who market some political truth mixed in with the vilest of fascist ideologies are truly dangerous and are sowing the seeds of doom.
Although Parfrey and company have deep connections to fascist and Nazi elements and have worked extensively to further some of those elements’ projects, one should not be too quick to label Parfrey a fascist himself. Rather, he might be termed a “fellow traveler,” whose efforts on behalf of, and association with, Nazi/fascist elements may be due to Parfrey’s devotion to the promulgation of “extreme culture.”
Defying easy definition, “extreme culture” could be said to be defined by anything that is edgy, over-the-top and, more often than not, offensive and/or unbelievable.
Exemplifying the cognitive parameters of the “extreme culture” disseminated by Parfrey and company are the pronouncements of a severely disturbed individual named Dan Rightmyer, published by Feral House under the nom de plume “Alex Constantine.” (Rightmyer/Constantine is pictured at right, being tortured by his demons). In addition to claiming that he has repelled magnets from his “cranium” and “knocked out a light bulb and a new CD player,” Rightmyer has stated that he has been tortured by “pulsed audiograms.” (An audiogram is a pictorial representation of a sound wave, the worst thing one can get from an audiogram is a paper cut. )
Program Highlights Include: Parfrey/Moynihan/Rice’s professional and ideological association with (and promotion of) current and former American Nazis including James Mason, Michael Murray, Joseph Franklin, the wife of convicted murderer David Lane and convicted murderer Perry “Red” Warthan; the Abraxas contingent’s glorification of Charles Manson; the association between elements of Satanic religion and the Abraxas milieu; the association between elements of Odinist religion and the Abraxas/Feral House network; the overt glorification of murder and violence by the Abraxas/Feral House milieu; connections between the Moynihan/Parfrey/Rice milieu and paramilitary right-wingers such as Robert N. Taylor; the genesis of counterculture fascism in the period between the World Wars; the effort on the part of these counterculture fascists to enlist the aid of leftists and people of color as “hommes de mains.” Parfrey’s recruitment of Liberty Lobby Holocaust denier Keith Stimely to write Feral House press releases; verbatim reproduction of the bizarre statements (lies? hallucinations?) of Feral House author Dan Rightmyer (aka “Alex Constantine”); statements by associates of Rightmyer/Constantine that his bizarre pronouncements are due to the effects of drug abuse; contradictions in the identity of the “witnesses” Rightmyer/Constantine claim can verify his statments (he has never produced such “witnesses”).
1. The discussion begins with the frightening and terrifying situation of the late Joe Ferguson, whose posthumous admiration of neo-Nazis, Charles Manson and Timothy McVeigh motivated his mass-murder/ suicide. It was while watching the recounting of the ghastly events of 9/11 that Mr. Emory absorbed the account of this smaller horror. Indeed, Ferguson’s psychological projection of his personality into a posthumous conception is, in certain respects, like the behavior of the 9/11 attackers. Like James Cagney, in the movie “White Heat”, the hijackers and Ferguson imagined that their fiery demise would imbue them with a combination of notoriety and physical transcendence. By disseminating a poisonous adulation of Manson and his ilk, the purveyors of counter-culture fascism, quite deliberately in most cases, set others on their course toward oblivion. The unmitigated evil propagated by Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, publishing guru Adam Parfrey and their fellow travelers is set forth in this program.
“Agitated, shirtless under his body armor and holding a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, disgruntled security guard Joseph Ferguson stared straight into the video camera held by a man who would shortly become the fifth life snuffed out in Ferguson’s 24-hour killing spree. ‘I’ve taken four victims,’ Ferguson said from the Rancho Cordova home where he held a Burns International Security colleague and his wife hostage for nearly 18 hours before shooting himself to death in a gunbattle with officers. ‘That should be enough to last a week in the news. . . . He was fascinated with neo-Nazism, Timothy McVeigh and Charles Manson. . . . .”
“Sacramento Killer Vowed Not to Be Taken Alive” by Michelle Guido; San Jose Mercury News; 9/11/2001; pp. 1A-14A.
2. Introducing the book that is at the center of this discussion, author Kevin Coogan encapsulates the story of Black Metal musician Varg Vikernes and his victim, Oystein Aarseth. This story is the centerpiece of Lords of Chaos, co-authored by Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind.
“Lords of Chaos, a recent book-length examination of the Satanic black metal music scene is less concerned with sound than fury. Authors Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind zero in on Norway, where a tiny clique of black metal musicians torched some churches in 1992. The church burners’ own price of worship was a small Oslo record store called Helvete (Hell). Helvete was run by the godfather of Norwegian black metal, Oystein Aarseth (‘Euronymous’, or ‘Prince of Death’), who first brought black metal to Norway with his group Mayhem and his Deathlike Silence record label. . . .”
3. Reflecting the mythologizing of what is, in reality (for most creatures who pursue this type of music and culture), a mediocre, inglorious existence, Vikernes named himself after a figure from Lord of the Rings.
” . . . Lords of Chaos, however, is far less interested in Euronymous than in the man who killed him, Varg Vikernes, a church burner who dubbed himself ‘Count Grishnackh’ after an evil ogre in Lord of the Rings. Vikernes is now serving a 21-year sentence—Norway’s toughest penalty—in a maximum security prison for brutally stabbing Euronymous to death on August 10, 1993. After his arrest just seven days later, the Count justified himself by claiming that Euronymous was a communist ‘queer’ who had cheated him out of Burzum royalties. He also claimed that Euronymous was plotting to kill him. After being ostracized from the black metal community, Vikernes announced that he was now no longer a black metal Satanist, but rather a Nazi Odinist because the Jews had ‘killed my father Odin.’ ”
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4. Coogan notes that Moynihan infers from the behavior of Vikernes a growing trend among Black Metal aficionados toward murder and violence. As will be seen, this inference is itself a projection of Moynihan’s own political orientation and not necessarily a reflection of the bulk of black metal musicians and fans.
If Lords of Chaos were only about the antics of the most extreme wing of black metal, it would be an informative and entertaining look at pop culture Grand Guignol. The book, however, suggests that the events in Norway reflect a growing tendency among alienated youth from Miami to Moscow, who are now allegedly blending black metal, Satanism, and currents of fascism into a culturally explosive Molotov cocktail. Vikernes, however, is really famous for murder, not music, while the overwhelming majority of black metal musicians and fans are not, and are not likely to become, church burners, murderers, or Nazi Odinists.
To buttress its thesis, LORDS OF CHAOS points to metalheads turned murderers, including ‘Balfagor’ from the Swedish Satanic band Nefandus, who attacked a black man in a self-described ‘niggerhunt’; Bard Eithun (‘Faust’) from the Norwegian group Emperor, who murdered a gay man that sought to seduce him; and Jon Nodveidt from the Swedish group Dissection, who butchered an Algerian immigrant. LORDS OF CHAOS even devotes an entire chapter to an obscure two-man German band called Absurd, who coldly executed an annoying fellow high school student. Although the members of Absurd are self-proclaimed Nazis and Vikernes fans, even they reported that they committed the crime for personal, not political, motives.
LORDS OF CHAOS also dwells on the activity of otherwise highly obscure fascist propagandists with no direct ties to black metal who are nevertheless trying to recruit its followers into their cause. It even adopts a far right spin on Jungian theory when it suggests that Vikernes may have tapped into an anti-Christian racial/cultural archetype that is allegedly still aglow in the Norwegian collective unconscious. The book also profiles racist killers with no known ties to black metal, such as the Florida youth clique called the Lords of Chaos. Before being dethroned by local police, the Lords burnt down a church, murdered a gay teacher, and were planning to slaughter black visitors to Disney World with silencer-equipped automatic weapons.
LORDS OF CHAOS culminates with a paean to the ‘fire, which, it claims, burns bright inside the black metal under-ground despite the attempts of mysterious unnamed ‘forces of finance and materialism’ to ‘root it out and stamp it out.’ ”
(Ibid.; p. 2.)
5. Feral House, the publisher of Lords of Chaos, distributes one of Vikernes’ CD’s. In this context, it is significant that Feral House owner Adam Parfrey is part of a counterculture, Social Darwinist/fascist milieu that overlaps both the alternative music and publishing fields.
. . . Lords of Chaos’s publisher, Feral House, itself distributes one of Vikernes’ Burzum CD’s ‘Filosfem’. . . LORDS OF CHAOS has generally been perceived as an expose of a colorful music sub-culture, and it does indeed provide much valuable information about an otherwise inaccessible scene. Yet what really makes the book fascinating is that its main author, Michael Moynihan, is himself an extreme rightist whose fusion of politics with aesthetic violence shapes a not-so-hidden sub current that runs throughout LORDS OF CHAOS. The book itself, however, is not a ‘fascist’ tract in the strict sense of the term, in part because Moynihan co-wrote the book with Didrik Soderlind, a former music critic for a mainstream Norwegian paper who is now an editor at Playboy. Moreover, Feral House editor Adam Parfrey clearly wanted to publish a popular book on the strange universe of black metal rather than a political polemic. Nor does Moynihan himself fit easily into the more conventional definitions of fascism. LORDS OF CHAOS is best characterized as a palimpsest with the author’s own political ideology at work just below the surface of a text ostensibly devoted solely to analyzing an extremist musical sub-culture.
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6. One of the points of action and association between Moynihan, and his publisher Adam Parfrey is the Abraxas Foundation, which united both of them with Satanist and fascist Boyd Rice. Abraxas is described by Moynihan as an ‘occultist-fascist think tank’—it is linked to the Church of Satan, about which more will be said later.
Michael Moynihan is an interesting fellow. . . In 1989, the youthful Bostonian joined forces with the San Francisco-based Abraxas Foundation, which he described as an ‘occultist-fascist think tank’ linked to the Church of Satan. Moynihan dubbed his own wing of the Abraxas Foundation ‘Axis Sanguinaries’ [Blood Axis] because: Blood can be seen as LIFE, and at the same time it can be equated to DEATH. It is essential to violence in almost all instances. It has powerful sexual connotations. It is the key fluid of history . . . [Axis] highlights the genetic aspect of blood, bound together in the will of a people or race. It describes allies of mind and blood, mobilized for total warfare. It also reiterates the pivotal nature of blood in human existence, both personal and world-historic.’
According to some reports, Moynihan’s blood fetish included drinking (non AIDS-infected) blood. He was also suspected of setting fire to a manger scene on the Cambridge Commons, just across from Harvard University, in 1987, A note left by the firebug at the smoky scene the day after Christmas asked: ‘How many more fires before you realize your gods are dead? DEAD!’
(Ibid.; pp. 2–3.)
7. Further developing the ideology of Abraxas, the program highlights its fascistic undertones and its emphasis on disseminating this philosophy to youth. (Note the picture of Rice and his American Front protégé Robert Heick, in full Nazi uniform and brandishing daggers for the camera: http://www.canuck.com/Srl/rice.html .)
. . . . As for the Abraxas foundation, it was founded by another blood fetishist named Boyd Rice in 1984. The name came from Abraxas, a Gnostic deity that combined within itself the forces of light and darkness, good and evil. Rice hoped that his foundation would help create ‘a new demographic of people who are into the occult, Fascism, and Social Darwinism. It’s out there as an alternative for kids who are growing up and need that information.’ Both Rice and Moynihan came out of the ‘industrial’ music scene. . . .
(Idem.)
8. One of the industrial music acts that helped to break the cultural taboo against utilizing fascist imagery was “Throbbing Gristle” and its chief bard Genesis P. Orridge. (Note that Moynihan, among others, held this group and its successor acts in contempt. In Moynihan’s opinion, the group and its leader lacked true fascist political conviction.)
. . . ‘Throbbing Gristle’, the linchpin of the post-punk ‘industrial’ turn, dressed in camouflage gear decorated with an SS-looking lightning bolt patch, and issued songs like ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ and ‘Salon Kitty’ (named after an SS-run brothel in Berlin). The cover for the Throbbing Gristle song ‘Discipline’ on Fetish Records showed the group outside the former Nazi Ministry of Propaganda building in Berlin. Throbbing Gristle called their hackney-based recording studio the Death Factory, and its Industrial Records logo was an unidentified picture of Auschwitz. Many punks despised Throbbing Gristle as misogynist ‘death art’ fascists. At a July 6, 1978 concert at the London Film Co-op (where Boyd Rice also appeared), a fight even broke out between Throbbing Gristle and members of the Rock Against Racism-allied bands the Slits and the Raincoats. . . .
(Ibid.; p. 4.)
9. Coogan explains the fascist aesthetics underlying the culture to which “Throbbing Gristle” belongs.
. . . The Industrialist fascination with taboo breakers extended to charismatic leaders like Hitler and Manson, who became iconic figures in a world where evil was more real than good, and hate more strong than love. Yet because they, like the Marquis de Sade before them, were also fearless disrupters of middle-class morality, a Hitler or Manson were also, in a sense, perverse role models. The sheer bleakness of industrial culture also provided fertile ground for future misanthropy. If evil was more powerful than good, evil was also more natural. In a truly Hobbesian world the Social Darwinists and the Malthusians were right when they argued that only the strong could and should survive.
(Idem.)
10. Not unprecedented, this worldview reflects one that became extant during the period leading up to World War II.
. . . The sense of despair felt by industrial culture was not unique. A similar heroic/pessimistic worldview appeared in Europe after World War I. In the early 1920’s there arose what I shall call ‘counter-cultural fascism.’ More a sensibility than a movement, it fused Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the individual will-to-power and his contempt for middle-class morality with Oswald Spengler’s belief in the imminent downfall of the West. Artists like Futurist founder Filippo Marinetti, Ezra Pound, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ernst Junger viewed traditional forms of conservatism with the same contempt that they felt for social democracy, rationalism, and the Enlghtenment. While Genesis P. Orridge was not really a countercultural fascist, Throbbing Gristle stood on he cusp of a revival of a ‘counter cultural fascist’ turn in segments of haute Bohemia.
(Idem.)
11. More about the fascist manifestations of the Abraxas network
Another set of ides associated with the Abraxas network had earlier been promoted by a radical Italian fascist named Franco Freda. Freda, who advocated a combined right-and-left-wing terrorist assault on the middle class Establishment, first outlined his ideas at a 1969 meeting of the far-right European Revolutionary Front in Regensburg, Bavaria. In his talk, which was later published as La Disintegrazione del Sistema [The Disintegration of the System], Freda argued that the ‘nervous system of the bourgeois world’ had to be disrupted with utmost violence by far right ‘political soldiers’ working in an alliance with the far left.
(Idem.)
12. One of the political/ideological antecedents of the Abraxas fascist aesthetic is Julius Evola. Evola’s work was financed by the SD—the SS intelligence service. (For more about Evola, see—among other programs—FTR#233.)
Freda derived essential parts of his strategy from the Italian conservative revolutionary theorist Julius Evola, the ‘Herbert Marcuse’ of the postwar European far right. Evola argued in books like Calvacare la Tigre (Riding the Tiger) that the collapse of modern mass society was something to be welcomed, not resisted. Radical Evolans like Freda believed that violent shocks to the system could only hasten the inevitable collapse of the hated modern order. . . .
(Idem.)
13. Next, the program sets forth the professional development of Adam Parfrey—a fellow in the Abraxas Foundation and the publisher of Lords of Chaos.
. . . The new hip regime of mean was exemplified by the infamous Los Angeles Amok catalog. Amok Press’ bestseller Apocalypse Culture, a collection of rants, raves, conspiracy theories and aesthetic terrorist tracts, was another key text. Adam Parfrey, owner of Amok and later Feral House, first entered the scene in 1980 with IDEA, a southern California-based Re/Search-type journal about punk culture. He then moved to New York, where he met the art designer George Petros. . . .In 1984, Parfrey and Petros created Exit, a New York-based journal heavy on graphic design.
(Ibid.; pp. 5–6.)
14. Far from benign and aloof, Parfrey’s literary efforts have served to disseminate the views and efforts of some of the very worst Nazis and fascists.
“Parfrey worked with Petros on the first three issues of Exit, before leaving to create Amok Press. Once a success de scandale, Exit’s increasing fascination with fascism doomed it to just six issues. Issue Five, for example, featured a particularly rancid piece of anti-Semitism entitled ‘The Execution of Carl Jung’, which was ‘conceived by George Petros’ with ‘text researched by Robert N. Taylor,’ a former paramilitary Minuteman leader turned racial Odinist. The final 1994 Exit included contributions from Michael Moynihan and James Mason, an American Nazi whose book Siege was published by Moynihan. While producing Exit, Petros also served as an editor at Seconds, an eclectic New York-based music magazine that Moynihan, Rice, and Parfrey regularly write for.”
(Ibid.; p. 6.)
15. One of the organizations with a philosophical affinity for Abraxas, Genesis P. Orridge, etc., is the Church of Satan and its late founder, Anton LaVey. (Both Moynihan and Boyd Rice are members of this organization.)
The new glorification of the instinctual and the barbaric, the belief in the survival of the fittest, and the hatred of both Christian morality and liberal humanism were all music to the ears of Anton LaVey, the founder and head of the San Francisco-based Church of Satan. Not surprisingly, Boyd Rice developed close ties with LaVey in the early 1980’s. In 1984, Rice set up the Abraxas Foundation as a ‘social Darwinist think tank.’ An Abraxas tract called WAKE pro-claimed ‘Long Live Death!’ and hailed Malthusianism as ‘Nature’s Eternal Fascism.’ (The Church of Satan also maintained close ties to Genesis P. Orridge.) Today Rice is himself a member of the Church’s governing inner circle, the Council of Nine. . . .
(Idem.)
16. Among the fellow travellers of LaVey are people who espouse Odinist religion. Within that milieu, in turn, are people of a truly murderous bent. Note the presence in this Satanist/Nazi milieu of the wife of convicted Order murderer David Lane. (For more about The Order, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 89, 386, 399, and the various programs discussing the topics of OJ Simpson case, the Oklahoma City bombing, and Serpent’s Walk. Important background information on The Order can be obtained from RFA’s 10–13—available from Spitfire.)
. . . LaVey, who is often only seen as a libertarian maverick, called for a new kind of fascism in a 1994 interview with Michael Moynihan in Seconds. Moynihan’s essay, ‘The Faustian Spirit of Fascism,’ was also published in the Church of Satan’s magazine, The Black Flame. LaVey even contributed an introduction to a new edition of ‘Ragnar Redbeard’s Might is Right, a Nietzschean and Social Darwinist tract first published in 1896 which LaVey had liberally plagiarized in his own book, The Satanic Bible. The editor of the new edition of Might is Right is listed as Katia Lane. She is the wife of David Lane, an Odinist leader of the high-profile far right paramilitary group called the Order, who is now serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder a Denver radio personality named Alan Berg
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17. The afterword of Might is Right (edited by the wife of convicted Order killer David Lane) was penned by George Hawthorne, head of the Ra Ho Wa racist musical group. Afterword author George Hawthorne is also the founder of Resistance Records, now owned by the National Alliance. (For more about Resistance Records and the National Alliance, see FTR#211.) Before being appropriated by the National Alliance, Resistance Records was distributed by the fascist Liberty Lobby. In charge of this distribution was Todd Blodgett, a former Reagan White House staff member. (For more about the Nazi underpinnings of the Reagan administration, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 180, 332, 421.)
The author of Might is Right’s afterword is, arguably, even more; ‘devilish’ than LaVey. He is none other than George Hawthorne, head of the white racist musical group Ra Ho Wa (Racial Holy War) and founder of Resistance Records, whom Michael Moynihan interviewed for Seconds and The Black Flame, Moynihan is also thanked in the new edition of Might is Right for helping make the book possible.
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18. Promoting and extolling Charles Manson, the Abraxas milieu came into contact with James Mason, among other members of the American Nazi Party.) “In the mid-1980’s, Adam Parfrey formed Amok Press, the precursor to Feral House, with Ken Swezey of the Amok catalog. Amok’s first book, Michael, was an English translation of Nazi Prpaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ sole novel. Parfrey’s next book, Apocalypse Culture was followed in 1988 by The Manson File, which was edited by Nikolas Schreck (the boyfriend of LaVey’s daughter Zeena) in collaboration with Boyd Rice and others. Rice regularly visited Manson, and even campaigned to get him released from jail through an Abraxas spin-off called the Friends of Justice.” (Idem.)
19. A pivot point in the development of the Abraxas Foundation’s professional relationship with members and alumni of the American Nazi Party was convicted murderer Perry ‘Red’ Warthan. Warthan catalyzed the relationship between ANP member James Mason and the Abraxas configuration. Among the ranks of the Nazis associated with the Abraxas milieu is Robert Heick, seen here in Nazi uniform with Abraxas/Moynihan/Parfrey colleague Boyd Rice: http://www.canuck.com/Srl/rice.html .)
Via Manson, the Abraxas circle came into contact with James Mason, a former member of George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party (ANP) and the eccentric head of the National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF). Mason had established contact with Manson in the early 1980’s through an NSLF member named Perry ‘Red’ Warthan. Warthan later murdered a 17-year-old high school student in Oroville, California, because the boy told police that Warthan had been distributing racist literature. In the late 1980’s, Rice got into hot water due to his friendship with Robert Heick is the leader of a skin-head group called American Front that once attacked the San Francisco anarchist bookstore “Bound Together.” Although he denied having any political ties to Heick, the growing unpopularity of Abraxas in San Francisco led Rice to decamp to Denver, Colorado.
(Ibid.; pp. 6–7.)
20. Next, the program highlights the relationship between Abraxas fellow Adam Parfrey and the late Keith Stimely, the former editor of the Liberty Lobby’s Journal of Historical Review (the leading Holocaust denial publication.) Parfrey hired Stimely to write press releases for Feral House (publisher of Lords of Chaos).
As for Parfrey, he first moved his publishing operation from New York to Los Angeles. After the LA riots, he relocated to Portland and then returned south to Venice, California. While in Portland, Parfrey (whose own mother is Jewish) hired the late Keith Stimely, an openly gay former editor of The Journal of Historical Review, the world’s leading Holocaust-denial outfit, to write Feral House press releases. Stimely’s name also appeared on a leaflet, along with that of Moynihan and Portland artist Diabolos Rex, as part of a Boyd Rice/NON ‘Total War’ performance in that city. . . .
(Ibid.; p. 7.)
21. Moynihan’s Storm Press published American Nazi Party member James Mason’s tract Siege, which glorifies Manson and other mass murderers as exemplars of the chaos that National Socialism should embrace. (Joseph Ferguson embodied the tragic distillate of this philosophy.) Significantly, Mason (and through him, Moynihan) advocate violence against the system by anyone—left, right, white black, brown or otherwise.) In this respect, Mason is an advocate of a stance approximating that of the fascist Third Position. (For more about the Third Position, see, among other programs, FTR#‘s 252, 285, 352, as well as Miscellaneous Archive Shows M19 and M21, available from Spitfire.) Note that Feral House guru Adam Parfrey assisted in the publication of Siege.
“. . . One year later, Moynihan was more preoccupied by literary than legal matters. His Denver-based Storm Press published Siege, a 400-page anthology of the writings of James Mason, the Nazi fan of Charles Manson. In his acknowledgements, Moynihan (‘Michael M. Jenkins’) thanked (among others) both Adam Parfrey and Anton LaVey for their help in facilitating Siege’s publication. Mason argued in Siege that National Socialism had lost its violent, revolutionary edge. ‘We want to see crime and chaos rise to such a degree where the System becomes no longer viable and falls apart,’ he wrote. In a tract called ‘Smashing the Pig System,’ he growled: ‘If a bunch of Black Nationalists rob a Brinks truck, if they kill some System Pigs, WHO CARES??!!
(Idem.)
22. Note Siege’s glorification of James Franklin, the role model for National Vanguard Books’ tract Hunter. That book (published by the literary wing of the National Alliance that also publishes The Turner Diaries and Serpent’s Walk) glorifies the killing of interracial couples.)
Siege also paid homage to white racist ‘lone wolf’ assassins like Mason’s former American Nazi Party colleague Joseph Franklin, who specialized in shooting interracial couples (‘race traitors’); and James Huberty, who massacred a largely Hispanic clientele at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Diego. Mason felt that the lone wolves mere merely expressing healthy ‘Viking berserker rage’ against ‘Big Brother.’ He especially liked the fact that, since they acted alone, these lone wolves were very difficult to catch. Siege also glorified Charles Manson. Mason even created a Manson-inspired successor group to the NSLF called the Universal Order in an effort to transcend the traditional ‘left-right spectrum.’ In his introduction to Siege, Moynihan also highlighted Mason’s call for a unity of [ideological and behavioral] extremes against the System. . . .
(Idem.)
23. As bizarrely violent and aberrant as it appears at first glance, the philosophy espoused in Siege and Lords of Chaos reflects the Freda/Evola call the destabilization of the “system.”
. . . For all its crudeness, Siege echoed Franco Freda’s radical Evolan call for total social disruption in La Disintegrazione del Sistema. Storm also plans to issue the first English translation of Evola’s 1953 book, Gli Uomini e Ie Rovine (Men Among the Ruins). In August 1993, one year after Siege was published, Varg Vikernes murdered Euronymous. Although Moynihan was not a black metalist, the lure of Norway’s new Charles Manson [Vikernes] too much to resist. . . .
(Idem.)
24. Among the fascist theorists Moynihan relies upon in his book is one “Kadmon”—himself a professional associate of Moynihan’s.
In Lords of Chaos, Moynihan suggests that Vikernes is an avatar of a long-repressed Odinist archetype analogous to what Jung claimed for Nazi Germany in his famous 1936 essay on Wotan. . . . In Lords of Chaos, Moynihan relies upon ‘Kadmon,’ editor of a Vienna-based journal called Aorta, to bolster the racial archetype thesis. Kadmon argues that Norwegian black metalists are modern day examples of an ancient martial/mystical band of Werewolf-like ‘berserker’ warriors known as the Oskorei. No disinterested scholar, Kadmon is also a political supporter of Vikernes as well as Moynihan’s collaborator. His band Allerseelen, for example, put out a joint CD with Moynihan’s group Blood Axis. A blood fetishist, Kadmon named his journal Aorta because it is ‘a blood-red cycle. In Aorta there is my blood. The blood of the poet, the blood of the magician, the blood of the warrior.’ Kadmon also devoted one issue of Aorta to ‘the Odinist Norwegian composer Varg Vikernes . . .who is currently in prison due to his Viking ethics.’
(Ibid.; p. 8.)
25. Lords of Chaos neglects to mention that its glorified protagonist Euronymous was planning to dynamite a punk anti-fascist house.
. . . Given how much valuable information Lords of Chaos does present, it is somewhat incredible that the book fails to note that at the time that Vikernes murdered Euronymous, he was also planning to destroy an Oslo-based punk anti-fascist squat called Blitz House. After his arrest for murder, the police discovered that he had about 330 pounds of stolen dynamite in his possession. . . .
(Idem.)
26. An even more significant omission is the failure Lords of Chaos to note that among the apparent influences on Vikernes’ murder of Euronymous was the ideology of the Abraxas milieu itself!
Lords of Chaos also ignores another obvious cultural influence on Vikernes, the Abraxas network’s glorification of killers like Charles Manson! Vikernes’ home town, Bergen, is also home to Jan Bruun’s Hypertonia World Enterprises. Bruun is a major distributor of Charles Manson memorabilia like ‘Watching Satan—the Legacy of Charles Manson.’ He knows Moynihan and interviewed him for an Italian journal aptly named Helter Skelter. Moynihan also thanks Bruun, an avowed social Darwinist and Malthusian, in the acknowledgements to Lords of Chaos. It seems almost impossible to believe that Vikernes would not have known about Hypertonia World Enterprises, especially since Bruun was in contact with Euronymous and even sold Mayhem LP’s.
(Idem.)
27. Next, the broadcast highlights Moynihan’s own association with the racist/Odinist organization the Asatru Alliance. As with the rest of the Abraxas political/cultural environment, the Asatru Alliance intersects the milieu of the American Nazi Party and the paramilitary Minutemen.
Despite his use of Kadmon’s theories, Moynihan claims in Lords of Chaos that ‘there is absolutely no specific connection’ between practitioners of Nordic religion and the black metal scene. ‘In fact,’ he writes, ‘public assumptions that such a link would exist have been a severe liability to these groups.’ Moynihan, however, neglects to mention that he himself is a leading member of a U.S. based racialist ‘Old Norse and Germanic religion’ movement called the Asatru Alliance of Independent Kindreds (AA), which in headquartered in Arizona.
The Asatru Alliance evolved out of a 1960’s Odinist/Nordic revival movement called the Asatril Free Assembly. The Asatru Alliance faction argued that a Norse religious movement should only include people of Northern European descent. It also publishes a journal called Vor Tru which is edited by Robert Ward, the former editor of a rightist music zine called The Fifth Path. He is also almost certainly the ‘R, Ward’ thanked by Moynihan for his typesetting contribution to Siege. Another Asatru Alliance, ‘Valgard’ (Michael Murray), was a former member of Rockwell’s American Nazi Party.
(Idem.)
28. Robert Taylor is another of the unsavory associates of Moynihan and Feral House’s Adam Parfrey. As of 1999, Moynihan lived in Portland Oregon, where he moved in order to work for Feral House.
Moynihan’s close friend Robert Nicholas Taylor, who publishes an Odinist journal called The Continuing Clan, is yet another Asatru Alliance bigwig with a far right bio. The rightist music journal Ohm Clock reports that during ’ a 12-year stint as a national spokesman for the Minutemen, he [Taylor] went on to become Director of Intelligence and set up the first guerilla training schools ever to exist in the United States.’ Taylor’s call for the racial balkanization of America, an argument associated with the late ‘Klanarchist’ leader Robert Miles, was also featured in the last issue of Exit. Moynihan now [1999] lives in Portland, where he moved in order to work for Feral House. . . .
(Ibid.; pp. 9–10.)
29. Moynihan continues to propagandize on behalf of Vikernes. Note that Vikernes’ CD’s are jointly distributed by Feral House audio.
. . . True to his principles, Moynihan is quite active in the propaganda support network for Vikernes. He is, for example, a leading contributor to a rightist journal called Filosofem, which is published by a group also called Blood Axis. Filosofem is located at 5 Rue Gabriel Price in Metz, France. This same address is the source of a series of pro-Vikernes leaflets which carry the name Cymophane on them. Filosofem also takes its name from a Burzum CD that Vikernes recorded in 1993 while out on bail. That CD is currently being jointly distributed by Misanthropy Records, Cymophane Productions, and Feral House Audio.
(Ibid.; p. 10.)
30. Another of the occult fascists associated with Moynihan and the Abraxas network is Kerry Bolton, publisher of Nexus among other periodicals.
Lords of Chaos also contains an interview with Kerry Bolton, a New Zealand-based Satanist who is trying to popularize fascism inside pop culture with a series of small journals like Key of Alocer, The Nexus and The Flaming Sword. His essays have also appeared in The Black Flame and Filosofem. In one of his writings Bolton even calls the Futurist (and later Fascist) Filippo Marinetti a forerunner of ‘Industrial Culture’. His publications also feature Moynihan, R.N. Taylor, Boyd Rice, Kadmon, and others like them. . . .
. . . Bolton also leads an overtly fascist magical sect called the Black Order. The Black Order’s New Zealand address is conveniently reprinted in an illustration in Lords of Chaos. A French far rightist and OTO leader named Christian Bouchet also pops up in Lords of Chaos. Along with publishing his own occult journal Lutte du People he edits. Bouchet advocates an alliance with the far left, applauds Castro for resisting American imperialism, and praises the French nineteenth century anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. H even offered a eulogy for the German ultra-leftist Ulrike Meinhof, a leader of the terrorist Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF. Nouvelle Resistance is also behind a pro-Vikernes music fanzine called Napalm Rock, whose editor Lords of Chaos interviews. Given his own background and publicly proclaimed political views, it seems fairly obvious that Moynihan would not be terribly distraught if a new wave of ‘berserker youth’ chose to follow in Vikernes’ path—regardless of whether or not he holds the Count’s most extreme political statements in high regard.
(Idem.)
31. In light of the ideological/cultural propagandizing of Moynihan, Parfrey, Rice, the Abraxas network and the other fascists and Nazi fellow travelers recounted in the text above, the motivation propelling the bloody demise of Joseph Ferguson seems less obscure.
Agitated, shirtless under his body armor and holding a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, disgruntled security guard Joseph Ferguson stared straight into the video camera held by a man would shortly become the fifth life snuffed out in Ferguson’s 24-hour killing spree. ‘I’ve taken four victims,’ Ferguson said from the Rancho Cordova home where he held a Burns International Security colleague and his wife hostage for nearly 18 hours before shooting himself to death in a gunbattle with officers. ‘That should be enough to last a week in the news. . . . He was fascinated with neo-Nazism, Timothy McVeigh and Charles Manson. [Italics are Mr. Emory’s]
“Sacramento Killer Vowed Not to Be Taken Alive” by Michelle Guido; San Jose Mercury News; 9/11/2001; pp. 1A-14A.
32. Obviously, Parfrey and company have deep connections to fascist and Nazi elements and have worked to further some of those elements’ projects. One should not be too quick to label Parfrey a fascist himself. Rather, he might be termed a “fellow traveler,” whose efforts on behalf of, and association with, Nazi/fascist elements may be due to Parfrey’s devotion to the promulgation of “extreme culture.”
Defying easy definition, “extreme culture” could be said to be defined by anything that is edgy, over-the-top and, more often than not, offensive and/or unbelievable.
Exemplifying the cognitive paramaters of the “extreme culture” disseminated by Parfrey and company are the pronouncements of an individual named Dan Rightmyer, published by Feral House under the nom de plume “Alex Constantine.”
Claiming to be an expert on, and victim of, mind control, Rightmyer/Constantine sent a letter to the now-defunct magazine Mondo 2000, in which he made some remarkable statements.
He claims to have been tortured by “pulsed audiograms.” An audiogram is a graph, constructed in order to chart a person’s hearing loss. The worst thing one can suffer at the hands of an audiogram is a paper cut. Rightmyer/Constantine’s statment is not only demonstrably false, but absurd.
The piece de resistance, however, is his claim to have repelled magnets “from his cranium,” an act he claims was witnessed by “two of the leading child psychologists in the country.”
. . . . For five years I have been the victim of a formal torture program at the hands of the CIA. The torture is electromagnetic and difficult to trace, retaliation for my political research. . . . I have been subjected to a gruelling daily regimen of torture rendered from a remote source. I have been burned by microwaves, kept awake for days at a stretch by shrieking noises in my ears, the effect of pulsed audiograms. One evening I was hit by an infra-sound attack . . . on my spine, the most painful experience of my life. I was left crawling and screaming across the floor. For die-hard skeptics, I can offer this proof: Two of the leading child psychologists in the country once witnessed magnets repelled from my cranium. When I wrote a letter to Amnesty International about my plight (it was ignored), friends of mind [sic] were subjected to microwave attack. . . . [Italics are Mine–D.E.]
33. Yet another of Rightmyer/Constantine’s claims concerning magnets being repelled from his head:
. . . . I have numerous witnesses who will testify on the witness stand that my
head has been so magnetized it repelled magnets. Yet Martin claimed I was
lying. I am not. . . .
“Constantine vs. Canon”; Conspiracy Theory Research List; 3/18/1999.
34. On a KPFK chat board (KPFK is the Pacifica radio outlet in Los Angeles) Rightmyer/Constantine was challenged to identify the two psychologists who had supposedly witnessed the magnets incident. Miraculously, the identity of the two supposed witnesses changed completely! In addition, Rightmyer/Constantine claims he “knocked out a light bulb and a new CD player”!
Obviously, Rightmyer/Constantine’s account is at fundamental variance with his earlier account. One should not be too ready to brand him a liar, however. He may just be hallucinating (see below.)
I have responded to this question on Internet discussion lists when serious people were interested. Two former colleagues of a well-known KPFK talk show host witnessed the episode. It was the least spectacular event that occurred on the afternoon in question, BTW. I also knocked out a light bulb and a new CD player. [Italics are mine–D.E.] Since you haven’t stooped to flames, I’ll explain ... I was targeted by electronic weapons — these are not so obscure these days, after all, and all of the past ridicule on this message board is misplaced, not to mention cruel. I have for 20 years fought as fiercely as anyone for human rights on a number of fronts — and was tortured for it. We know the sort of person who flames torture victims, don’t we? Why would I respond to that sort of lowlife. My focus is on federally-sponsored atrocities, corruption, cover-ups ... not idiots who have to struggle with a simple explanation for an event that is not really so far-out, after all. I’ve written about the technology in two books. Read them, check the footnotes, and you’ll understand where I’m coming from.
AC
35. An alternative explanation for Rightmyer/Constantine’s experiences was provided by a colleague of his. In a Google chat forum, he noted the following (reposted by another participant):
More stuff on Dan Rightmyer — the kook known as pen
name ‘Alex Constantine.’I’ve responded adequately to Dan Rightmyer and his silly billy pal Brian in another recent thread. But there is something else you good folks really ought to know about Dan ‘Alex ConstantWhine’ Rightmyer. (Sung to the tune of the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ theme...) Come and listen to my story ‘bout a nut named Dan, Hears voices in his head he says are from ‘The Man.’ He says ‘They filled my noggin full of electronic bugs!’ But he doesn’t let you know that he’s done a lot of DRUGS. (ACID, that is. LSD. ‘Hundreds of trips.’)
‘Hundreds of acid trips’ is the admission Dan made to his former best friend, S.M. Any reasonable person who wants the full story should feel free to write me or call me. I’ll tell ya how to talk to this former best friend for yourself — you’ll hear all sorts of outrageous, hilarious stories about Dan’s history of massive drug abuse, as well his insane behavior.
(Here’s a sample: Once, one of Dan’s inner ‘tormentors’ identified himself by name. Dan found that a gentleman of this name was listed in the phone book. Dan, who owned a firearm, threatened to go to the house of this obviously-innocent party and shoot him!)
The Political Implications of the UFO Phenomenon and the "ET" Myth
If one is keeping track of fascist ideology creeping into mass culture I can suggest following up on associates of Genesis P, Orridge ‚Dave Tibet of the group Current 93 professes to be influenced by Francis Parker Yockey and his group released a record titled Emperium as well as a few others with overt Crowley themes.
yeah that guys a nazi for sure
[...] FTR #437 Counter-Culture Fascism [...]
Adam Parfrey briefly attended an editorial meeting of an alternative newspaper we were involved with in Portland. My impression was that he was mostly working an unexplored corner of the publishing market. However, one of his associates had attended a political discussion group we had and tried to defend the intellectual utility of Yockey’s book “Imperium”. We didn’t buy it. At the time, the owner of Powells Books in Portland thought the book was so dangerous he kept the few copies he had in a locked room.
In an interesting cultural parallel This story ran today about German counterculture 200 years ago, Grimms Fairy Tales.
Here’s the link and some commentary:
“The theory that the Grimms’ tales, particularly the more brutal ones such as How Children Played Butcher With Each Other, in which a whole family massacres itself, had an adverse effect on the German character was expressed frequently after the second world war.
In his 1978 book Roots of German Nationalism, Louis Snyder argued that the brothers helped to shape certain deleterious traits, such as discipline, obedience, authoritarianism, glorification of violence and nationalism, which became part of the national character. That was the reason allied commanders banned the book in schools after the war, arguing that they had found the roots of Nazism in the Grimms’ world.
A British major, TJ Leonard, even said the fairytales had helped Germans teach their children “all the varieties of barbarousness”, making it easy for them to fit into the “role of the hangman”.
The German author Günther Birkenfeld saw in the fairytales the answer to “how the German people were able to perpetrate the atrocities of Belsen and Auschwitz”.
The book was therefore largely banned from the German nursery – which was simultaneously undergoing its own anti-authoritarian, pro-modernisation reaction to Nazism – for decades. At the same time though, it was becoming increasingly hijacked outside Germany by Disney and Hollywood.
Matussek and others are calling for a re-think about the place the Grimm tales have in Germany’s cultural identity.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/20/200th-anniversary-of-grimms-fairy-tales-triggers-a-year-of-celebration-and-cultural-examination/
Maybe this is just a playful reference to pioneering Colombian black metal band Parabellum. Or at last, that’s about the best scenario we can hope for at this point:
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=6V2ndbXT2zo
Tom Metzger interviews boyd rice
Remember the story about the neo-Nazi-turned-Islamist who murdered two of his neo-Nazi roommates, resulting in the discovery of a fourth neo-Nazi roommate who was planning a morter attack on a Florida nuclear plant who was also and in possession of high-explosives and radioactive material? Well, in case it’s not abundantly obvious that this group poses a serious threat to the public, here’s an article about how members of their particular neo-Nazi group — “Atomwaffen” (German for “Atomic Weapon”) — have been responsible for a number of recent murders around the country and more murders should be expected because Atomwaffen produces ISIS-style videos promoting mass neo-Nazi violence designed to sabotage and implode society:
““Their rhetoric is some of the most extreme we have seen,” said Joanna Mendelson, a senior researcher at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The group, she said, views itself as the radical vanguard of the white supremacist movement, the frontline soldiers of an imminent race war.”
Extreme even by neo-Nazi standards. That’s Atomwaffen. Hence, a celebration of Hitler and Charles Manson:
And in the case of the murder of Blaze Bernstein, it appears that being Jewish and gay was probably enough to precipitate the murder. That’s the kind of people that join Atomwaffen:
And this group is estimated to have 80 member scattered around the country in small cell (possibly planning nuke plant attacks?) after starting in 2015. And the man charged with this crime, Samuel Woodward, has reportedly been involved with that recruitment effort:
And this murder was just the latest Atomwaffen murder. There’s also the murders in Florida that revealed the nuke plant plot, along with a 17 year old Atomwaffen associate who murder his girlfriend’s parents after they objected to their daughter dating a neo-Nazi:
And the two guiding lights for this new domestic terror threat are none other than James Mason and Charles Manson. This is where we are. Still:
So this appears to be part of the Manson legacy: inspiring ‘white ISIS’.
And don’t forget that when Atomwaffen makes ISIS-style videos advocating violence designed to collapse society and trigger a race war, that’s what ‘dropping the mask’ looks like for Nazis and other violent far-right movements. The ‘Alt-Right’ people in suits and ties like Richard Spencer who strive to create an air of respectability for Nazis by not dressing like a Nazi are merely masking what Atomwaffen is putting on full display: that the ‘Alt-Right’ collection of contemporary neo-Nazi thought is heavily overlapping with Charles Manson’s hopes and dreams which is why Atomwaffen openly worships him:
“If you’re wondering who might rhapsodize a psychotic racist in this manner, the answer is other psychotic racists, many of whom belong to Atomwaffen Division, a particularly bloodthirsty and anti-American branch of the so-called alt-right that has made worshipping Manson a part of their cultish devotion to violent insurrection.”
Charles Manson: Patron saint of the guys who want to blow up your local nuclear power plant. Because of course.
And this group makes ISIS-style videos encouraging Americans to declare war on the country through acts of violence in order to make Charles Manson’s visions of race war and the collapse of society a reality:
But let’s not forget that so much of what excites Atomwaffen members with Manson’s race war ramblings is the kind of worldview that excites a lot more than just Attomwaffen. Most far-rightists are just less overt about it in public:
“Apocalyptic lunacy has always been part of far-right politics, and a vigorous strain of it runs through today’s alt-right white supremacist movement. It should come as no surprise, then, that Manson, whose once-upon-a-time status as a longhair could never obscure the swastika carved into his forehead, might serve as a new vessel of madness for today’s violent racists. In many ways, he was a forebear of groups like Atomwaffen and a bug-eyed prototype for the modern race warrior”
Yep, Manson was indeed a “bug-eyed prototype for the modern race warrior.” And note how American Nazi James Mason’s experiences with Manson led him to conclude that there’s a combined ‘super-capitalist’ and ‘super-communist’ global conspiracy against white people. It’s hard not to notice the overlap with with the general worldview of Steve Bannon or Alex Jones. That’s how unfortunately topical Charles Manson’s ideas are today:
“Through “Charlie,” Mason came to understand that Hitler’s death had brought about the end of Western civilization. Every government in the world was now part of an anti-white global conspiracy run by “super capitalists” and “super communists.” Nothing about Western culture or its institutions could be salvaged. It would all have to be blown to smithereens.”
Isn’t that pretty much the far-right zeitgiest nowadays? There’s a giant global conspiracy against white people perpetrated by left-wing ‘communists’. And when you point out that almost all the wealth and power is held by right-wing capitalists, the far-right throws in ‘super-capitalists’ into the mix of baddies too. Isn’t that more or less the generic ‘angry-white Alt-Right male’ zeitgiest constantly getting pumped out by places like InfoWars and Breitbart? Isn’t contemporary far-right nihilism in the West deeply infused with the spirit of Manson’s Helter Skelter? It sure seems like it, which is why Charles Manson is so tragically topical.
And given that so much of the Alex Jones/Breitbart worldview wraps itself in an ‘us against Big Brother’ exterior, it’s also worth keeping in mind that the core principle behind Nazism and most far-right ideologies is something very close to the underlying principle behind the ‘Big Brother’ in Orwell’s 1984: power for power’s sake. Achieved and held at any cost, through any means necessary. That is the core of far-right reactionary thought if you strip everything else away. Joy in wielding power mercilessly coupled with a raw terror in losing that power and a willingness to do anything to get it. That, combined with a hefty dose of sadistic hate, is the core of much of these ideologies. It’s why Nazis are so ready and willing to commit acts of terror and propagate Big Lies in order to achieve their objectives: fascism is about the power. That’s pretty much it. Everything else is just window dressing. Just like Big Brother.
So there really is a group plotting against white people: Nazis and their fascist allies who want to collapse society via terror and hate so they can seize control. That’s who. Because if you look at the collection of far-right movements around the worlds, it’s typically a meta-movement of aspiring Big Brothers who care about little more than having unchecked power and being free to carry out their every sadistic whim. And Helter Skelter, and its contemporary memetic Alt-Right troll-warrior variants, are just a means to that end of seizing complete power. The Nazis are literally trying to become Big Brother by labeling the non-Nazified elements of society Big Brother and declaring war on it and that’s definitely an agenda that qualifies as a plot against white people. And everyone else.
And that’s all why it’s important to keep in mind that, while Atomwaffen is indeed an outlier the neo-Nazi scene in terms of their extremely open calls for basically ISIS-style domestic terror and sabotage, it’s not like they aren’t just saying what a large fraction of the far-right quietly talks about and plots behind closed doors. So when you read about how Atomwaffen and/or Charles Manson are considered outlier in the neo-Nazi scene, don’t forget about this word of endorsement from none other than Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer:
Don’t forget: Auernheimer called Atomwaffen “a good bunch of dudes” following the double-murder in Florida. They’re only “extreme” in terms of how extremely out in the open they are about the kinds of things neo-Nazi movements quietly plot about. But other than that, by neo-Nazi standards they really aren’t all that extreme. And that whole general poisonous mind-set pumped out by right-wing media across the world that white people are under attack by the world really could have been the kind of thing you would hear coming out of Charles Manson’s mouth. In other words, when the far-right drops the mask, you’re going to be looking at Charles Manson. Or one of his admirers wearing a skull mask.
@ Pterrafractyl–
A couple of points:
With Atomwaffen making ISIS-style videos advocating mayhem, we should not forget that their mediated exhortations, like James Mason’s call for “lone-wolf” violence, gained impunity from civil suits holding them to financial account for violence committed by consumers of their material as a result of Glenn Greenwald’s efforts.
Also:
Mason’s “Siege” was published by Adam Parfrey, a degenerate who has shepherded a drug-addled psychopath named Dan Rightmyer, aka Dan Rightuyer aka “Alex Constantine” (the nom de plume under which he publishes). Rightmyer and Parfrey have latched on to my late dear friend Mae Brussell’s material.
That is why I have counseled that people should steer clear of the vultures that have descended on her grave.
Mae spent–and gave–her life working against the likes of Charles Manson, James Mason et al.
Parfrey promotes, and caters to, those elements.
Best,
Dave Emory
A suspect has been apprehended in the recent arson attacks on three black churches in Louisiana and, surprise!, the suspect has what appears to at last have tangential ties to racist groups. Specifically, the suspect, Holden Matthews, appears to be involved in the “black metal” music scene with a big focus on pagan religions and Norse mythology:
“A Facebook page that appeared to belong to Matthews showed he was active in pagan and black metal pages, and that he commented on two memes about far-right former neo-Nazi metal musician Varg Vikernes, who served 15 years in prison for killing a fellow metal musician and burning churches in Norway. The comments revealed little other than that they indicated his familiarity with the figure.”
So Matthews has social media posts that make it clear he has a strong interest in black metal and paganism. And while there didn’t appear to be posts where he expressed racist attitudes, he did comment on some posts about who served 15 years in prison for killing a fellow metal musician and burning churches in Norway. And Matthews did make a ‘white power’ joke, but other than that his social media profile doesn’t appear to be filled with neo-Nazi content which, of course, doesn’t mean he wasn’t a neo-Nazi but indicates he wasn’t open about it if he was:
And now here’s a piece in The Advocate that includes a number of screenshots of Mathews’s social media posts, including the comments about the Varg Vikernes meme. It’s worth noting that Matthews appears to be defending a movie about the Norwegian black metal scene, Lords of Chaos, in his comments to the meme about Vikernes’s depiction in the movie. Vikernes slammed the movie as “made up” and complained about being portrayed by a Jewish actor. Matthews comments appear to defend the movie. The article also notes that Matthews posted in recent months about being visited by Hel, the Norse mythology goddess of death, after Matthews performed an unspecified “sacrifice.” And that points towards perhaps some sort of religious zealotry and mental illness playing a role in these arson attacks. So while it’s quite intriguing that Matthews has social media comments about a memes about a neo-Nazi black metal musician who burned down churches in Norway, it’s still unclear to what extent Matthews’s actions were driven by neo-Nazi beliefs vs religious hatred:
“In one post, Matthews shared that he was visited by Hel, the Norse mythology goddess of death, after Matthews performed an unspecified “sacrifice.””
So the guy was definitely into making “sacrifices” to Norse gods and if he had neo-Nazi racist beliefs he wasn’t really revealing that on social media. And yet it’s hard to come up with a more racist act than the burning of three black churches in an area over a short period of time. That’s classic racist domestic terrorism. Is it possible the church burnings were driven by something other than racism? Well, that seems unlikely given the circumstances, but it’s worth noting that Matthews’s social media posts days before his arrest show Matthews had a deep hatred of specifically Baptists. The three black churches he burned down were all Baptist churches. According to Matthews’s post, he cannot “stand all these baptists around here, bunch of brainwashed people trying to find happiness in a religion that was forced on their ancestors just as it was on mine,” and wished that “more blacks [sic] people would look into ancient beliefs of pre Christian Africa.” So while it’s hard to ignore the overt racist nature of the burning of three specifically black churches, it would appear that an intense anti-Christian (and specifically anti-Baptist) sentiment could have been at least part of what drove Matthews’s actions:
“Responding to a post about “afrikan spirituality,” Matthews, posting under the name Noctis Matthews, said he cannot “stand all these baptists around here, bunch of brainwashed people trying to find happiness in a religion that was forced on their ancestors just as it was on mine.” ”
Were Matthews’s actions driven by a desire to encourage black Americans to return to pre-Christian religions out a belief that Christianity had been imposed on them just as it was imposed on Matthews’s ancestors? Not driven by racism but instead driven by a sense of liberating the black Baptists from the Christianity that had been imposed on them. If so, Matthews may have discovered the second worst reason to burn down churches. Neo-Nazi beliefs are obviously worse, but this would still be pretty awful:
And note that Matthews himself wrote and performs a song about burning down churches in Odin’s name. And the videos of one of those songs was posted a day after one of the church burnings:
So it almost has the feel of Matthews really was engaging in some sort of sacrificial act when he burned these churches down. If they hadn’t all been black churches it would be easier to attribute the motivation primarily to anti-Christian Odinist zealotry. We’re left with this remarkable set of facts where Matthews doesn’t overly seem like he was driven by neo-Nazi beliefs even when you factor in the whole black metal Odinist part of his background and instead he may have been primarily driven by his overt intense anti-Christian beliefs. But there’s no getting around the fact that he didn’t just burn down three churches after expressing anti-Christian sentiments. He burned down three black churches. So if he wasn’t trying to send a racist message and terrorize the local black community and was instead trying to send a generic anti-Christian message that was an incredible oversight on his part.
And now we’re learning that prosecutors are adding hate crime charges. Although it’s unclear if the charges are for a hate crime over race or a hate crime over religion:
“Matthews, who had no previous criminal record, was arrested Wednesday on three charges of arson of a religious building. Prosecutors filed documents Monday adding three more charges, accusing Matthews of violating Louisiana’s hate crime law, a link authorities had previously stopped short of making.”
So we’ll see what exactly the nature is of those hate crime charges. It was either race-based hatred, religion-based hatred, or both. But there was clearly some hatred involved. All in all, the ambiguity around this case is a reminder that if you burn down a bunch of black churches in tribute to your Odinist beliefs it’s going to be really hard to convince people you aren’t a neo-Nazi if you are indeed not an actual neo-Nazi but are instead just an insane Odinist bigot. It’s one of those reminders that hopefully doesn’t apply to too many real world situations but here we are.
@Pterrafractyl–
It turns out that the late Adam Parfrey actually was involved with the screenplay of the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Chaos_(film)
Excerpt: ” . . . . Lords of Chaos is based on the 1998 book of the same name. Originally, Japanese director Sion Sono was set to direct a film based on the book, with Jackson Rathbone starring as Varg Vikernes.[3][4] It would have been Sono’s first English-language film. The screenplay was written by Hans Fjellestad (who was earlier reported to be the film’s director as well[5]), Ryan Page, Adam Parfrey (the book’s publisher), and Sono. . . .”
President Trump’s order to fly flags at half-staff in response to the mass shooter attacks over the weekend expires today, August 8th, 2019. And as the FBI’s former assistant director of counterintelligence, Frank Figiliuzzi, recent pointed out, August 8th, which can be written as 8/8, the kind of numerological symbolism neo-Nazis love. So following the El Paso neo-Nazi attack, Trump chooses 8/8 as the day to raise the flags back to full staff. What a coincidence:
““We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with,” Frank Figiliuzzi said during an interview on MSNBC focused on the problem of white supremacy.”
Know thy adversary. It’s generally good advice. Advice that includes an awareness of your adversary’s symbolism. The Trump White House of course completely accidentally made this mistake *winkety wink wink*.
And note who decided to try and mock Figiliuzzi over his observation: Ann Coulter:
So it’s worth recalling that Ann had a similar response to these kinds of neo-Nazi numerological observations back in January of 2017: On January 5, 2017, Coulter decided to simply tweet out “14!” which no other explanation. This was widely seen as a reference to the “14 Words”, but Coulter countered that it was actually just a reference to the number of days left in Obama’s presidency (there were actually 15 days left, as lots of other GOPers were tweeting at the time). And guess who was in the group of people who made the ‘mistake’ of assuming Coulter was trying to squeeze in a neo-Nazo shout out: other neo-Nazis, who gleefully responded with “88!”:
“Coulter’s “14!” was overwhelmingly answered with “88,” a reference to another one of Lane’s white supremacist terms. It stems from his “88 Precepts,” a list of statements on what he calls “natural law.””
A “14!” shoutout and “88!” shout backs. Along with other generally supportive tweets from from Twitter users like “PreppyAltRight”. You can still see the many ‘Alt Right’ responses to her original tweet, although many responses have been deleted.
That’s all part of the context of the White House’s curious timing to bring flags back to full staff.
Oh, and let’s not forget that 8/8/2019 happens to be the 50th anniversary of the murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson family. Murders intended to set off “Helter Skelter” and Manson’s envisioned race war. So while 8/8 on any year is going to be special day to neo-Nazis, 8/8/2019 is an extra special neo-Nazis anniversary. Made all the more extra special thanks to the White House’s ‘mistake’. *winkety wink wink wink*
@Pterrafractyl–
On the subject of 8/8 and the vile creatures at Feral House (a focal point of FTR #437):
Note how they celebrated that anniversary some years ago–
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Best,
Dave
Here’s an interesting look at what life is like for the patron saint of Atomwaffen, James Mason: a Denver journalist, Jeremy Jojola, tried to get an interview with Mason and ask him if he feels any responsibility for the murders done by Atomwaffen. Mason rejected a request for an interview, so Jojola waited outside of Mason’s home and tried to get an interview with Mason when he was out and about. It turns out Mason lives in government-subsidized ‘Section 8’ apartment. Jojola watched Mason head out from his apartment and head to the local day shelter for homeless senior citizens for a free meal. A few days later, Jojola actually approached Mason at a parking lot to ask him if he felt any responsibility for inspiring Atomwaffen’s violence. Mason admitted that he still advises members of Atomwaffen, but initially saying he didn’t encourage such violence, telling Jojola, “If they were acting on my words, they wouldn’t be doing the things they’re doing.” But later in the interview he hedges those calls to avoid violence by suggesting that if Atomwaffen members do choose to commit violence they better make it count, saying, “If you must do it, it seems to me to be only common sense that you’d want to do it right, because it’s the end of your life...You may die out there in the street via SWAT team, or you may spend the rest of your life in the joint. Make it count for god’s sake.” So Mason isn’t against Nazi violence. He’s just against non-strategic Nazi violence that doesn’t advance the Nazi cause:
““There is no doubt that he dances the line between saying that ‘I’m not associated with this group,’ and yet showing all the markers that indicate that he is fully embedded within this neo-Nazi organization, Atomwaffen,” Mendelson said.”
Yeah, it’s not exactly a convincing act on Mason’s part. The guy whose book is required reading for Atomwaffen members pretends to not be associated with Atomwaffen at the same time he leaves an extensive internet record spreading their message and showing himself hanging out with them:
He may be financial poor, but he has a wealth of young Nazis who idolize him, which is arguably the worst possible kind of fortune.
Also keep in mind that, while Atomwaffen is responsible for at least five murders, three of those murders were fellow Atomwaffen members. And those murdered members happened to be actively planning on a mortar attack on a Florida nuclear plant with the goal of triggering a meltdown and forcing the mass depopulation of that region of Florida so they could set up a Fourth Reich there, which is an example of Atomwaffen’s aspirations for catastrophic levels of mass murder and also presumably the kind of strategic violence that gets Mason’s approval.
We already knew the 2024 US election was going to have a ‘civil war’/insurrection theme. There’s no avoiding it this year. And while the primary sources of those civil war sentiments were obviously going to be centered around Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign of vengeance, here’s a set of articles that serve as a painful reminder that the spark for a larger conflict doesn’t have to come from Trump himself. With the current political zeitgeist, any lunatic capable or violence is potentially capable of being that spark. At least as long as the rest of ‘usual suspect’ lunatics play their roles.
And that brings us to the grizzly story out of Pennsylvania about Justin Mohn, a 32 year old man who killed and decapitated his father. Mohn then posted a 14 video on social media holding up the severed head and “fifth column” groups — which he said includes undocumented immigrants, the LGBTQ community, Black Lives Matter and antifa — who are working in concert with the “traitorous” federal government to destroy the U.S.while calling for a mass militia uprising against all federal employees who should be killed on sight. Mohn’s father was a federal employee for 20 years. The video — which sure sounds a lot like the ‘white ISIS’ videos Atom Waffen is known for — managed to get over 5,000 views on YouTube and went viral on Twitter before being taken down.
That mass militia uprising obviously didn’t happen. But we’re still faced with the question about just how much potential did something like this have to spark something bigger. For starters, it turns out Mohn has self-published a number of books, including a 2017 book “The Revolution Leader’s Survival Guide.” His latest published essay was titled “America’s Coming Bloody Revolution.” Did Mohn have any sort of following he expect to follow his war cries? Or was this an entirely isolated individual? We don’t have those answers, but those questions bring us to the bizarre circumstances of Mohns apprehension by local police: he fled to a National Guard training facility around 100 miles away. Mohn was found there, armed with a gun, and taken into custody without incident. So the guy decapitated his father, made a video calling for a mass militia uprising and war on all federal employees that went viral on social media, and then drove to a National Guard training facility and allowed himself to be captured without incident while armed. It’s a strange story.
But whether or not Mohn had any followers, that doesn’t mean an incident like this couldn’t be used by others to spark something bigger. Which brings us to the now predictable response across right-wing social media: claims that it was all a government false flag psyop designed to build support for a pair of bills under consideration in the House and Senate that would limit militia activities. Claims amplified by prominent ‘alt-right’ figures like Laura Loomer. And as we’re going to see, Loomer isn’t just a far right social media personality. She’s increasingly a favorite of Donald Trump. In fact, Trump reportedly asked campaign aides last year if they could find a spot for her inside the Trump campaign. Loomer, for her part, has publicly expressed interest in being Trump’s press secretary should he win a second term. Trump is apparently so enamored with Loomer that we had a report a couple weeks ago filled with anonymous Trump campaign staffers basically warning about Trump’s ties to Loomer becoming a liability during the general election. It’s the kind of anonymously sourced story that suggests the concern inside the campaign about Trump cozying up to Loomer in coming months is significant and growing. It’s also a sign that Trump is planning on running a campaign for darker and more dangerous than anything we saw in 2016 or 2020.
So we have a gruesome domestic terror attack weaponized as a deep state anti-militia plot by a media personality who is likely only going to grow closer to Trump as this insane 2024 campaign season plays out. And we aren’t even close to election day yet. On one level, it’s the tragic and bizarre story of a man you has clearly gone insane and committing a gruesome but utterly random crime. But on another level, there’s nothing random about this. It’s exactly the kind of horrific tragedy we should expect by now given the political zeitgeist of the United States in 2024. Donald Trump has made opposition to the federal government a central platform of a reelection agenda, after all. That’s what the whole Schedule F/Project 2025 scheme is all about. And now, with the showdown at the border in Texas over illegal immigration and calls for direct confrontation between states and the federal government, the civil war zeitgeist is absolutely unavoidable, especially for mentally unhinged individuals in the thrall of this kind of QAnon-style worldview. How many domestic terror attacks of this nature can we expect in 2024? And how will those attacks be weaponized spun? Time will tell, but with the Trump campaign framing 2024 as election that must be won at all costs, it’s not hard to imagine what happened in Pennsylvania is just a prelude to what’s to come. Especially if Trump ends up trailing in the polls the closer we get to Election Day. That’s all part of grim context of the Pennsylvania beheading story. Justin Mohn may or may not have been a lone isolated delusional individual. We don’t know yet. But what’s clear is that this isn’t a lone isolated story. This incident is very related to the madness of the 2024 election cycle and Trump’s vengeance, so let’s hope this isn’t a sign of what’s to come:
“The gruesome video racked up more than 5,000 views before YouTube removed it for violating its policies on graphic violence and violent extremism. Like many other videos that feature mutilations and death, the video of showing his fathers head initially went viral on Twitter (now called X) where it was shared widely by “verified” users. X is now sending anyone searching for keywords relating to the video to a blank page. ”
it wasn’t just a disturbing graphic propaganda video. It was a beheading video that was allowed to go viral on YouTube and Twitter. A successful graphic propaganda video, in that sense. Justin Mohn’s call to arms for militias to engage in some sort of mass murder of all federal employees may not have succeeded in rallying that response. But he did succeed to issuing a mass call to arms for mass murder. It raises the question as to how long these videos calling for the mass murder of federal employees would have stayed up on social media had they not graphically included the severed head of Mohn’s father, along with the question of how viral would the videos have gotten without that severed head:
But then we get to what is arguably the most disturbing set of questions about this story: was Mohn truly operating completely independently when he committed this act, or was he in contact with a larger network of militia members and expecting some sort of response to his rallying cry? The guy self-published books about violent revolution, after all. Surely he’s been in contact with other violent extremists. It would be easy to assume Mohn is purely a lone nut had he not been apprehended at a National Guard Training Facility. Why did Mohn go there, of all the places, after killing his father and releasing that video?
And as the following article notes, when Mohn was eventually apprehended at the Lebanon County National Guard Training Center, he was found with a gun and yet taken into custody without incident. Was anyone else at the facility? And did Mohn managed to enter the buildings there and just find an unsecured gun laying around? Or did he bring the gun with him? And why didn’t he shoot at authorities instead of giving up without an incident? It’s a puzzling case for a number of reasons:
“Authorities at the Lebanon County National Guard Training Center said Justin Mohn, 32, was taken into custody after they learned he was inside the base. Police said he had a gun.”
So after posting that video with his father’s severed head and calls for the mass murder of all federal employees, Mohn was found at a national guard training facility with a gun and gave himself up to police. It’s an odd ending to this story. It’s like a murder mystery where the biggest mystery is why there wasn’t more murder.
And, as we should expect by now, the internet has answers to these mysteries: it was all deep state plot designed to create support for a pair of bills working through Congress designed to limit the activities of militias. At least that’s the spin taking on on the far right. But it’s not just fringe internet figures pushing this meme. Laura Loomer, a figures increasingly close to the Trump campaign, has been quite vocal about her suspicions. As Loomer put it, “Justin Mohn sure looks like the perfect Democrat Patsy for the sake of... getting support to ban militias...Just another ‘coincidence.’ ”:
““Justin Mohn sure looks like the perfect Democrat Patsy for the sake of... getting support to ban militias,” “Laura Loomer, a conservative political activist, said in a tweet referencing the Senate bill that has since been viewed nearly 620,000 times. “Just another ‘coincidence.’ ”
It would be nice to think of Laura Loomer just a random fringe personality. But truly fringe personalities don’t have hundreds of thousands of people viewing their tweets. And Loomer wasn’t coy about her line of speculation. She was quite clear that this was all part of some sort of psyop designed to create support for restrictions on militias.
Now, if this actually was part of some sort of deep state ‘op’ designed to increase support for these militia bills, it’s hard to see it as anything but an incredibly poorly planned op. A single lunatic calling on militias to militias to mass murder people — with no miltias answering the call — isn’t exactly a compelling psyop.
But it’s also worth comparing this incident to, for example, the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, an event that has also long been characterized by the far right as a deep state op. And yet, as we’ve seen, the evidence in that case suggests Paddock was himself inspired by far right ‘Sovereign Citizen’ sentiments and even expressed fears of mass gun seizures by the government and FEMA camps. Paddock also reportedly expressed a desire for something that would ‘wake up’ the American public. And yet, to this day, the motive remains officially unknown and that event is frequently described on the right to be some sort of deep state op. It’s both an example of a pattern we’re seeing playing out with the case of Justin Mohn, but also a reminder of the long-term costs of allowing these kinds of investigations to just get dropped without any real closure or explanation:
It’s going to be interesting to see how much more this ‘Mohn is a psyop’ narrative takes hold as investigation plays out. But with Laura Loomer having already taken up this cause, it’s just a matter of time before we see that narrative echoed by the Trump campaign. Or at least that’s probably the concern being felt by Trump campaign insiders right now based on the following report about Trump’s increasing open enthusiasm for Loomer. Not only does Donald Trump have a pattern of promoting Loomer’s videos on social media, but he even asked campaign aides to hire her for the campaign last year. She was never hired, and Loomer has subsequently attacked Trump campaign manager Brian Jack from being a “mole”. Despite all that, Trump still seems to be a big Loomer fan. So much so that multiple anonymous Trump campaign staffers decided to speak to NBC to share their concerns that Trump’s relationship with Loomer is only going to get closer as this campaign plays out:
“Trump has long embraced some of the more fringe figures on the right who have lavished him with praise. He has asked people around him what they think of Loomer and views her as someone who is unafraid of speaking uncomfortable truths, a source familiar with discussions said.”
Trump clearly wants permission to include Loomer in more his his campaign. He likes what he’s seen from Loomer during this primary season, despite his campaign staff’s palpable concerns over how associations with Loomer might play out during the general election:
Trump even reportedly asked his campaign aides to hire Loomer for a campaign role back in April. At the same time, Loomer has been attacking Trump’s campaign manager Brian Jack, calling him a “mole”. It’s a sign of the esteem Loomer holds in Trump’s eye: she can repeatedly attack his campaign manager and he’s still enamored with her:
Who has more of Trump’s support at this point? Brian Jack or Laura Loomer? Perhaps more importantly, how will Trump’s attitude toward Jack and Loomer going to shift should he find himself behind in the polls as the general election unfolds? Because let’s not kid ourselves: Trump’s 2024 campaign is only going to remain a ‘campaign’ as long as he’s close or ahead in the polls. Should he start falling behind and looking like he’s going to lose, that campaign is going to rapidly turn into a planning group for the next insurrection. A very large planning group that will include any random MAGA lunatic itching for violence. We’ve seen this movie before. In other words, Justin Mohn’s militia revolution would have probably had a lot more success had he waited until after Donald Trump declares war on the federal government later this year. There would have at least been a lot more fellow travelers on the same ‘mass purge of the feds’ page.