Morning Briefing: Fort Bragg Soldier Plotted to 'Physically Remove' Racial Minorities
Morning Briefing: Fort Bragg Soldier Plotted to 'Physically Remove' Racial Minorities
Noah Edwin Anthony, former U.S. Army soldier at Fort Bragg, pleaded guilty to an illegal weapons charges, and was allegedly in possession of a 'ghost gun' and owned Nazi paraphernalia.
Morning Briefing: Noah Edwin Anthony, a former U.S. Army soldier previously stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to “possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle,” and “faces up to ten years in prison when sentenced later this year.” Anthony’s alleged plot to “‘physically remove’ racial minorities from eastern North Carolina was uncovered by military officials.”
Military police reportedly found “two extended magazines, ammunition, ‘Nazi type patches’ and an American flag with a Swastika in place of the blue field and stars.” Anthony, who was discharged from the military in February, had reportedly “been an intelligence analyst assigned to the 389th Military Intelligence Battalion, 528th Sustainment Brigade, which is part of 1st Special Forces Command.”
Anthony was indicted by a grand jury in March 2022, and a warrant for his arrested was executed in September 2022.
Terrence VanOchten, who allegedly called for “putting Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's head on a stick,” has been jailed and faces federal charges “involving pipe bombs, anti-government extremism and an arsenal of weapons.”
A synagogue in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, was reportedly “was vandalized with anti-Semitic hate speech and graffiti.” The outside of the synagogue was “spray painted with a swastika and the word “AZOV.’” a reference to the far right military battalion associated with neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Members of Patriot Front, a White Nationalist neo-fascist group, staged a protest outside SatanCon 2023, an event sponsored by the Salem, Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple.
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David Gilbert reports on how Moms for Liberty, “since the group’s founding in Florida in 2020, its influence over local and national Republican politics has grown exponentially: It’s now a nation-wide movement with 260 chapters that claims to be a ‘grassroots’ group working to protect students and defend parents’ rights. Its members are leading the charge on book-banning campaigns across the country and the group says it has helped install 275 of its favored candidates on school boards in 2022 alone, dozens of whom don’t have any children attending public schools in their districts. The group’s methods, however, belie the wholesome vision it tries to project. VICE News has spoken to students, administrators, parents, superintendents, school board members, and teachers who have faced vicious attacks by Moms for Liberty. Their stories paint a picture of a group that conducts orchestrated harassment campaigns against individuals, that’s resulted in many fearing for their safety and, in some cases, their lives.” [Vice News]
Jessica Pishko writes that Mark Lamb “a Republican, jumped into next year’s race for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, currently held by Democrat-turned-independent Kyrsten Sinema, having fully honed his new ‘American Sheriff’ persona. In an ad announcing his campaign, Lamb declares, ‘It’s time for a new sheriff in Washington,’ as a series of images flash across the screen zooming in on the details of his new favorite outfit—cowboy hat and boots with worn tips, a big Western belt buckle, a flak vest emblazoned with his title in large letters, and a Glock on his hip. Lamb, who did not respond to questions for this story, is hardly the first sheriff to try and use his role in law enforcement as a stepping stone for higher political office… But Lamb, while always a self-professed ‘gun nut,’ did not have a great deal of law enforcement experience when he first ran for sheriff. To compensate, he branded himself as a ‘constitutional conservative’ with political ads calling himself ‘pro-life,’ ‘pro-gun,’ and ‘pro-religious freedoms.’ Unlike many sheriff campaigns, there was hardly a word about crime, jail conditions, or public safety.” [Bolts]
Dani Anguiano reports that in Shasta County, California, “residents angry over pandemic closures began filling county meetings, sometimes forcing their way inside, and directed their ire at elected officials who enforced only the minimum restrictions required by the state. One local resident, Carlos Zapata, warned the board of supervisors at a meeting in August 2020 to reopen the county or things wouldn’t be ‘peaceful much longer’. ‘When the ballot box is gone, there is only the cartridge box. You have made bullets expensive, but luckily for you, ropes are reusable,’ another resident said at a board of supervisors meeting in January 2021. Religious leaders defied state orders and continued holding events. Bethel church, a Redding megachurch with more than 11,000 members and a major footprint in this city of 92,000, reported hundreds of cases at its school of ‘supernatural ministry.’ But there was more than just a backlash under way. The anger coalesced into an anti-establishment movement backed financially by the Connecticut millionaire Reverge Anselmo, who has a longstanding grudge against the county over a failed effort to start a winery.” [The Guardian]
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