“Right now, most media focus on men and online radicalization focuses on the "demand" side of the equation, looking at the psychological factors that drive men to seek out these influences. That's important, but sources I spoke with last year for an in-depth report on radicalization also felt attention must be paid to the "supply" side. American University professor Brian Hughes explained that pre-internet, it was relatively rare "to encounter extremist propaganda or an extremist recruiter." With the internet, however, "you can't avoid radicalizing material. Propaganda is everywhere."
More will likely be learned about Jabbar, but what we already know suggests he's part of this larger trend. Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert, told the Washington Post that Jabbar is "a classic case" of someone who "finds now a cause to justify his life and his rage" in the radical Islamic ideology he found online. After an initial investigation into whether Jabbar had accomplices, federal authorities have determined he acted alone and was "inspired" by ISIS propaganda.
Similarly, while Livelsberger hinted at his intent to friends and an ex-girlfriend, he ultimately seemed self-directed. Like Jabbar, he appears to have been lost and felt that this final act of violence would give him meaning. His letter suggests he believes he'll be a hero to men who share his radical political views. Both men were caught up in the sick logic of toxic masculinity, where being "good" is about being dominant and hateful. It's a worldview that reimagines ugly behavior as noble, and it's not a surprise it so often ends in violence.”
FROM:
salon
Toxic masculinity links the New Orleans attacker and the Las Vegas bomber
Amanda Marcotte
Mon, January 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM EST
IMPERIUM is a film about pre-social media times when Nazi & KKK organizations needed to recruit in person and carefully vet recruits to expose FBI & state police informants. Wether person to person Nazi/KKK or social media MAGA/Qanon the result is the same, mass shootings & bombings.
“Klansmen operating in Parkesburg, PA were arrested and later convicted:
"Residents may not have noticed them, but they were here when they set off pipe bombs, test-fired machine guns and taught bomb-making classes.
They blended right in
‘They look like us. They sound like us. They are us,’ said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr., assigned to coordinate investigations and prosecute cases with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Before international terrorists took the spotlight, there were men like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, a domestic terrorist executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, for the attack that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds more
‘To effectively combat terrorism, whether international or domestic, what you need are human sources -- spies, informants,’ explained Hogan. ‘They need to penetrate into the terrorist organization on a long-term basis.’
Obtaining such inside information was critical in convicting David Wayne Hull -- a self-declared Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who operated a "cell" in western Chester County -- of a number of weapons charges, witness tampering and a charge of instructing others how to use a pipe bomb in furtherance of a federal crime.”
FROM:
Klansman faces sentencing on weapons, bomb charges
Published: Friday, February 25, 2005
By GINA ZOTTI
The book “The Terrorist Next Door” was published in 2004.
Today what’s left of news organizations are mostly unaware that Qanon & MAGA are right wing extremists and terrorists.
I wrote about the pre-internet pre-Qanon right wing extremist terrorists extensively on Coatesville Dems Blog.
SEE ONE OF MANY POSTS:
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Pennsylvania the Keystone State / KKK Meet-up State
Before the Internet linked extremists from far-flung locations KKK members met person to person. They avoided telephones because of wiretaps. Pennsylvania “The Keystone State” became a traditional meeting place of the KKK. Pennsylvania’s location at the center of the Eastern Seaboard made it the location where extremists from areas as distant as Maine and Florida could meet in person.
Efforts by Klan groups to move off the internet and back to face to face meetings means that Pennsylvania might again be a major player in Klan activities.
SEE:
"Ku Klux Klan Groups
Although the number of Klan groups held steady at 163 chapters, or klaverns, last year saw what may be the beginning of a trend: Klan groups moving off the Internet in an apparent bid to regain the secrecy that marked their heyday. The United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Texas with 30 klaverns, was the first example of that, although others are moving in the same direction."
FROM:
Intelligence Report, Spring 2014, Issue Number: 153
The Year in Hate and Extremism
Posted by James Pitcherella at 6:23 PM
MORE:
Nazis and Skinheads were once scary looking:
"Recruited into the neo-Nazi movement in the 1990s, Smith has been active in an array of white
nationalist, skinhead and neo-Nazi groups. He co-founded the Pennsylvania racist skinhead group
Keystone United (formerly Keystone State Skinheads) in 2001, one of the largest and most active
single-state racist skinhead crews in the country...
Smith and two other KSS members in March 2003 were arrested in Scranton, Pa., for beating Antoni
Williams, a black man, with stones and chunks of pavement. Smith pleaded guilty to terrorist threats
and ethnic intimidation and received a 60-day sentence."
Nazis are blending in, becoming normalized. They're not scary looking now. Some look like clowns, but they're deadly clowns.
The Alt-Right Nazis would only be a joke if not for President Trump's Nazi Alt-Right 24-7 advisor and speech writer, Steve Bannon. Nazi white nationalist political groups are gaining in popularity and are blending with normal politics in many countries including all of Europe.
FROM:
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
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