Several Hammerskins turned up at a Cockney Rejects show in Murrieta, CA, in May. At least a few of them were evidently drunk, and they started groping women in the pit before brawling with a bunch of punk kids.

They've now been IDed, although it looks like they were generally known figures already, so not a lot of surprises. Still, if you're in that neck of the woods, it seems worthwhile to read up on their bios.

One thing that this article brings out, which hasn't gotten a lot of public attention, is the fact that many "active clubs" serve as recruiting grounds/feeders for the Hammerskins (that is, the ones that aren't feeders for Patriot Front). If you've got a nazi bonehead problem in your area and there isn't already an "active club," there's a good chance there will be one soon.

In any event, there you have it.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/these-nazis-groped-women-at-a-cockney-rejects-show/

#Hammerskins #ActiveClubs #Rundo #Murrieta #CockneyRejects #HSN #PatriotFront

Robert Boman, the last defendant in the neo-nazi Rise Above Movement (RAM) riot case from 2017, has been found guilty in a jury trial. Sentencing won't be till August.

https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/jury-convicts-man-for-racist-rally

#RiseAboveMovement #RAM #Rundo #ActiveClub #NeoNazis #fascism #fcknzs

A self-proclaimed “tribe” of racist heathens is building a compound on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. This group overlaps with Patriot Front (PF), a fascist organization with members nationwide, and the “Church of Aryanity,” a racist cult that refers to Adolf Hitler as “the Great One.” The leader of the Tennessee “tribe” is Brian Culpepper, who spent a decade in the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was its PR Director for several years.

In 2022, Patriot Front used the large property—mostly woodland but with cleared areas—to train its members for street demonstrations. Last year, PF members traveled to work construction on the property, including a large building intended as a combined martial arts dojo, heathen temple, and home for PF member, Ian Michael Elliott. As construction on the land progresses, the property will host increasingly large racist gatherings. At least equally dangerous, the “tribal land” will bring together far-right martial artists, aspiring street brawlers from fascist “Active Clubs,” and some of the most violent fringes of the neo-Nazi scene. It already provides a home for committed PF members. By documenting this compound and revealing its location, we hope to warn eastern Tennessee residents about the white supremacist threat in their midst.

https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/revealed-patriot-front-linked-aryan-tribal-land-in-eastern-tennessee/

#PatriotFront #NeoNazis #fascism #fcknzs #BrianCulpepper #ActiveClub #ThomasRousseau #TellicoPlains #Tennessee #ChurchOfAryanity #NSM #IanElliott #Odinism #WolvesOfVinland #SeanKaufmann #Rundo #KieranMorris

Soooo... "Active Club" front man Rob Rundo's plea deal says that he's on supervised release for two years, and he can't consort with his old RAM crew during that time (see points 4 and 5 below), but it says nothing about staying away from Active Clubs, Patriot Front, Hammerskins, or Nazi MMA stuff in general.

This is what we mean when we say "We protect us."

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Upon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be placed on supervised release for a term of two (2) years under the following terms and conditions:

1. The defendant shall comply with the rules and regulations of the United States Probation & Pretrial Services Office and Second Amended General Order 20-04.

2. During the period of community supervision, the defendant shall pay the special assessment in accordance with this judgment's orders pertaining to such payment.

3. The defendant shall cooperate in the collection of a DNA sample from the defendant.

4. The defendant shall not associate with anyone known to the defendant to be a member of the RAM organization and others known to the defendant to be participants in the RAM organization's criminal activities.

5. As directed by the Probation Officer, the defendant shall not be physically present in any area known to the defendant to be a location where members of the RAM organization meet or assemble.

6. The defendant shall possess and use only those digital devices, screen usernames, email accounts, social media accounts, messaging applications, and cloud storage accounts, as well as any passwords or passcodes for all such digital devices and accounts that have been disclosed to the Probation Officer upon commencement of supervision. Any new devices, accounts, applications, passwords, or passcodes are to be disclosed to the Probation Officer prior to the first use. A digital device is any electronic system or device that can access, view, obtain, store, or transmit digital data related to email accounts, financial accounts, and social media accounts.

7. All computers, computer-related devices, and their peripheral equipment, used by the defendant shall be subject to search, seizure and computer monitoring. This shall not apply to items used at the employment site and/or educational institution that are maintained and monitored by the employer and/or the educational institution.

8. The defendant shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Computer Monitoring Program. The defendant shall pay the cost of the Computer Monitoring Program unless defendant demonstrates an inability to pay, as determined by the Probation Officer.

9. The defendant shall submit the defendant's person, property, house, residence, vehicle, papers, computers, cell phones, other electronic communications or data storage devices or media, email accounts, social media accounts, cloud storage accounts, or other areas under the defendant’s control, to a search conducted by a United States Probation Officer or law enforcement officer. Failure to submit to a search may be grounds for revocation. The defendant shall warn any other occupants that the premises may be subject to searches pursuant to this condition. Any search pursuant to this condition will be conducted at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner upon reasonable suspicion that the defendant has violated a condition of his supervision and that the areas to be searched contain evidence of this violation.

Case 2:18-cr-00759-JLS Document 458 Filed 12/13/24 Page 2 of 5 Page ID#:48

#Rundo #RAM #ActiveClub #MMA #NeoNazis #fcknzs #fascism #Hammerskins #HSN

A good look at why incarcerating right-wing maniacs is, at best, an ambiguous solution.

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From the article:

Now the architects of this subculture are heading to prison for their first, second, or third stints in custody for violent offenses. And alongside them, there are hundreds of January 6 participants on their way to or in the Bureau of Prisons system: As of August 2024, the Justice Department has charged more than 1,400 people with criminal offenses stemming from the insurrection and more than 900 defendants have pleaded guilty.

The sentencing patterns to date of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy do not inspire confidence: All have been sent to medium-security facilities, including federal prisons like Cumberland, Manchester, Coleman, and Talladega. The “Patriot Wing”—the name alleged insurrectionists in the Washington, DC, jail gave to their housing unit—is known to have fostered solidarity among January 6 defendants. So the role of correctional systems in tracking and responsibly housing extreme-right inmates is crucial.

Yet there currently is no deradicalization or intervention curriculum for federal prisoners with domestic terrorism convictions, either inside prisons or upon their release back into society. By contrast, Germany’s state governments and its domestic intelligence agency spend millions of euros annually on anti-extremism education and deradicalization efforts. The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not return requests for comment.

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“Back in the 1990s, the prison gangs didn’t really operate much outside the prison, except to support the guys inside,” says Mike German, a former FBI agent and Brennan Center fellow who infiltrated Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance and other Southern California neo-Nazi gangs in the 1990s. According to German, “The prison gangs have become more political as the cops started letting them get away with clobbering anti-fascists.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/american-neo-nazi-prisons

#PIC #prison #NeoNazis #fascism #fcknzs #Rundo #AtomwaffenDivision #AWD #Atomwaffen #accelerationism #ProudBoys #OathKeepers #Jan6

Copied from @awinston at the dead bird site:

Bit of news in American Neo-Fascist circles: Rob Rundo, the co-founder of the Rise Above Movement & its 'Active Club' doppelgangers, is in negotiations with SoCal federal prosecutors for a possible plea deal to his 2018 anti-riot act conspiracy charges, per a 8/29 docket item

#Rundo #fascism #ActiveClubs #NeoNazis #fcknzs

This is a solid analysis of the ways that two of the most prominent neo-fascist groups in the US organize, namely Patriot Front and the Active Club network. Specifically, it looks at the ways they have adapted to the post-Unite the Right environment and their resilience in the face of threats from law enforcement and antifascists.

If you're not familiar with how these groups organize, this would be a very good primer. And if you're already up to speed, I still think this is a good analysis of how they have weathered certain challenges and what organizing problems they still face, in light of the fact that they take very different approaches to organizing.

(I should mention that I'm not crazy about ISD's orientation toward crafting analyses that might be useful for law enforcement. Still, this is good research that's freely available online, and there's nothing to stop the rest of us from utilizing their work for our own nefarious purposes.)

From the article:

Key Findings

Failures resulting from the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which included the doxxing of protestors, substantial financial penalties, and increased scrutiny on the white nationalist movement, forced leaders and groups to shift their tactics and organizational structures.

Specific organizational models, like those used by Patriot Front and Active Clubs, have been instrumental in making groups more resilient to disruption from law enforcement and perceived enemies.

Recent arrests of key white nationalist leaders do not appear to have had a significant impact on groups’ operations, which have continued unabated and may indicate that changes at the organizational level are generating some results.

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/patriot-front-and-active-clubs-two-modern-models-of-white-nationalist-organizing/

#PatriotFront #ActiveClubs #fascism #WhiteNationalism #NeoNazis #fcknzs #LeaderlessResistance #Rundo #ThomasRousseau

It's worth noting the court's reasoning here. In overturning the prior dismissal of the case, they challenged Judge Carney's comparison of the neo-nazi defendants with antifascist arrestees on three grounds:

1. The nazis were serial perpetrators who went to multiple rallies and assaulted people, whereas the antifascists who had been arrested at a rally weren't and didn't.

2. The nazis "behaved like leaders of an organized crime group" insofar as they "coordinated combat training sessions; created materials to recruit others; and planned cross-country travel to commit their acts."

3. Prosecutors simply had a much stronger case against the nazis, given their prior assault convictions and the fact that they bragged about it online, handing prosecutors useful evidence.

I'd like to think that the second point might establish a precedent applicable to basically the entire Active Club network and possibly others, but the reality is that it's at least as likely to be applied to groups like JBGC or any activists who do actual self-defense classes together.

The third one really should be an object lesson to all of us. As the lawyers say: Shut The Fuck Up. Don't talk about what you did or didn't do and sure as hell don't brag about it. It's just not worth it.

Anyways, an interesting turn. And Judge Carney has just recently (semi-?)retired, so maybe Rundo will finally go to trial. (From what I hear, Boman has left that whole scene and expressed regret about it all. I have no insight into whether or not this is true or, if so, whether or not he's sincere. In either case, regret isn't, unto itself, a literal or metaphorical Get Out of Jail Free card. Still, an ex-nazi is better than an active nazi, and I'd rather he make a sincere effort and get the support he needs in getting out of that scene. We'll see...)

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From the article:

For the second time, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated an indictment against a pair of Southern California white supremacists, overruling a federal judge who said the men were singled out for selective prosecution.

The appellate panel rejected the conclusion of Senior U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, who said federal prosecutors went after the two members of the white-supremacist Rise Above Movement while ignoring similar violence by members of far-left groups. The pair was accused of chasing down and violently attacking counter protesters at Make America Great Again rallies.

By looking broadly at the collective conduct of groups like antifa and weighing it against the individual conduct of the two defendants, Robert Rundo and Robert Boman, Carney was comparing apples to oranges, the Ninth Circuit panel said.

#Rundo #RiseAboveMovement #NeoNazis #Antifa #NinthCircuit #ActiveClub

https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-again-reinstates-rioting-charges-against-two-white-supremacists/

US District Judge Cormac Carney has approved bail for neo-nazi fight club impresario Rob Rundo on the ground that fascists can't get a fair shake in the legal system, whereas antifascists don't get the same harsh treatment.

This is the same Judge Carney who tossed the charges against Rundo back in February for the same reason.

For background, Rundo is a co-founder of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), which is the prototype on which today's "Active Clubs" are based. Active clubs are a decentralized network of neo-nazi fight clubs conceived and promoted by Rundo.

The thing is, he mostly got the active club project off the ground while he was a fugitive in (mostly) Eastern Europe. He was indicted in 2018 for conspiracy to riot due to RAM's engagement in altercations with antifascists at a Trump rally in California in 2017. Rundo bolted and was finally arrested in Romania last year with a couple of fake passports in his possession and extradited to the US last summer. Also noteworthy: that was the second time he fled the country to escape an indictment.

Does any of this sound like someone who is "not a flight risk"?

At any rate, Carney is clearly out to right the wrong of excessive prosecution of violent Nazis. In his opinion granting bail, he laid into both prosecutors and antifa. He writes:

“An objective review of the evidence reveals that though Mr. Rundo espouses a hateful ideology, he and his co-defendants were not the true threat to democracy at rallies. Contrary to the government’s accusations, it was Antifa, a far-left extremist group, that posed the insidious threat to democracy.”

Carney explicitly recognizes Rundo's history of fleeing, writing:

“In fairness to Mr. Rundo, during many of these periods he was technically free to travel. Still Mr. Rundo’s use of fake documents and other deceptive tactics while attempting to travel internationally demonstrate that, in practical terms, he was trying to evade prosecution and is willing to leave the country to maintain his freedom.”

He also doesn't see any much likelihood that Rundo poses any danger to the community. He writes:

"Because there are reasonable conditions that can reasonably assure the safety of the community and Mr. Rundo’s appearance as required, Mr. Rundo is entitled to bail."

and

“Because the allegations of Mr. Rundo’s violence are limited to a particular context, release conditions, such as prohibiting Mr. Rundo from attending any political rally or associating with any member of any white nationalist organization, are well suited to addressing any potential danger to the community.”

Anyways, it's a good thing there are brave judges out there willing to make sure that Nazis get treated fairly. Democracy would be totally screwed if they couldn't just run around beating people.

#Rundo #RAM #NeoNazis #ActiveClub #fcknzs

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/antifa-instigated-the-violence-judge-grants-bail-for-alleged-white-supremacist-charged-in-wake-of-trump-election/