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on the there's no limit to have a dream container stuck in your own adventure, no counter adding the hello on. and those are the put on them in the hall with the top stories on out as a, as well as leadership has released its 1st video message since the killing of the group . secretary general has a muscle on friday deputy lead a 9 cousin cold for patients while the group replaces its members have died in his riley strikes. but he assured, supposes that has ball as ability to strike back as undiminished supp. the last little one that these lumnick resistance will continue to confront these rarely enemy in support of gaza and palestine, and defensive loving on and its people. and in response to the assassinations and
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killing of civilians, how the sand wedge, you, you might, we will face any possibility and are prepared if he is really decide to launch a ground and vision as the resistance forces are ready for ground combat. well that statement came out was off the end is really as try it has an apartment block me, a central baby boot cutting, at least 3 people. the attack in the cooler area is the 1st of the lebanese capital that's outside the southern suburb of da here. as well has been targeting senior has ball of fake is on that stripe for the desk told across leaven on in the past 24 hours to at least a 156 people. and the southern city of fired families, doug graves to bury the loved ones as move on. found the a by on sunday 6, people were killed in an astro icon. the city zeno holder has moved on as well as video message. so this is the 1st time we see and hear from a high ranking has the official since the assassination of has the secretary
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general house on this role. defiance message, we have not collapse and we will continue just 5 minutes later we heard from lebanon's caretaker prime minister and this evening. i see that ebony government is not directly involved in this conflict, but it has been trying to bring about a ceasefire. he's presenting some sort of a compromise saying that the government is ready to deploy a lebanese army troops along the border in line with you and resolution 1701. he made that statement after meeting the parliament speaker to be very an ally of hezbollah, who is now meeting with the lebanese army chief joseph. so it's hard to see that all these different statements and meetings are not to a coordinated in one way or another. yes, the same ask them was defiant, but he acknowledge that the group suffered losses and he did. he did say that the hezbollah will continue to support the people of casa and defense beloved on. but he did not strike that defiant tone that we heard from this role and previous
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speeches. where is role will not be able to return tens of thousands of residents to northern as well as long as the war on gaza. and we did not hear him say that more times than his rarely troops have been seen along the israel 11 on volta. there's really armies has a ground incursion in 2011 on as an option of defense. administer your galani visits. a troops in that area and gaza organizes rarely stripes, have killed at least 7 palestinians. one attack targeted a shelter to displace people in the southern city of con eunice as bach, the major fire and 3 palestinians were killed on the palestinian active as her husband. and 2 children were killed in an attack in central gaza. and now the news french fall arrived lead among the pen and thousands of members of the national riley pottery of going on 5 in paris. they refused of misusing. and the best thing you funds the party has contested the charges. the national valley is a major full symposium and talk to july snap election. official official
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provisional results from austria's general elections suggest the far wide forgetting. patsy has one of the most boats, but it will need to form a coalition. the bodies lita habit keiko is a polarizing stucco, and to whom all the policies lead us have refused to the death toll from hurricane helen has risen to at least 91 in the southeast of the us. people in florida, georgia, south carolina and virginia have been grappling with the destruction and severe funding is disrupting life in acapulco on mexico, southern pacific coast. hurricane john had the city last week of bringing strong winds of heavy rain for at least 22 people were killed. all those of the headlines . the news continues here on al jazeera of to against the enemies which examines the role paid by veterans and violent american far right groups ahead of the presidential election. thank you for watching. the
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today, domestic terrorism is the greatest terrace. increasing the trend is real and we are all at risk for decades. body stream is 1st, military capital for a name and access weapons. this was the i do believe the ultimate something. i know that i'm going directly against people who think that they also are the type of bond do solemnly software for the context and install it all in a nice and a mess are so hoping. so help me the
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a truck one he won the popular and he wanted the electoral college vote. oh, you know, it was literally character the something special. i am not a conspiracy theorist. i base my life on facts and judgment. and what i believe is right for this country, lynn has been exposing truth left and right. and that's what makes him one of the most dangerous men in america. michael flint is a retired us army. 3 star general to specialty was military intelligence. his trust is, you know, the intelligence community wants to, you know, validate the sources of information that we have in order to make it to, to ensure that it's believable, reliable, relevant in the teams. the lead were notoriously effective and routing out
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insurgencies in iraq and afghanistan for over a decade. in 2012, he was nominated by the rock obama to be the director of the defense intelligence agency. mike quinn brings to this position, decades of experience in military intelligence. his knowledge of the 21st century battle field is unsurpassed. 3 years later, the one time democrats had become an avid supporter of candidate for lock her up. that's right. yeah, it's, it's right. correct. and would soon become president trump national security advisor, but just 22 days into his term. trump fired him for lying about his interactions with russia. the evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation is what led the president to ask for general flint resignation. and general flint would soon enter a plea deal with the f. b i is prison sentence was under review. when trump
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pardoned him in december 2020 less than in a month before leaving office, mike flint and i served together for many years and were very close friends. i disagree with him politically. i am disappointed by the nature of the comments that he makes the calls to action. this is one of our top quality guns and the find somebody in washington dc disagrees. former general michael flint convicted felon. use his general like it's his 1st name. i'm his facebook front. his facebook name is jen flint. on telegraph, he's general flint. he's using his rank as part of his identity. and he is adopted the radical fascist politics of maga and of cuba, non,
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wherever you go, one, we go really yours, america. to build yourself as a leader for an insurgency, against the people's united states. from a sample moraine. i want to know why, what happened in miramar. can't happen here. no reason, i mean it was issued out and then as a parent endorsement of the military who is not the only time, the former military intelligence officer has planted ideas about the legitimacy of the federal government and its partners in crime. while he doesn't need any introduction on this friday, january 28th broadcasting is general plan. and of course, you can battled individuals in the fight for this republic. all these global organizations, they see themselves has this is how we can control societies. this is how we can
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control humanity. so let's introduce something called colbin and they did it and they did it for a couple of reasons. one of the big reasons was, was the steel and election as you learn the ability to lead, whether it's military or not, you learn the ability to get people to do stuff. and that's just what he's doing. we are in a percival moment in the history of the not states of america were fighting was face for fighting was college and nothing can resist be perverts, this military experience, this religious experience to evoke this kind of feeling of a higher purpose impressed with best bars there is no watch it is on their side board on their side. 6 we will not go to the
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night, we will slides, we are making our lives and we are checking them twice. and we are finding out who is the enemy of the american people that are creating the oppression in this country. the people that are involved with tearing down our freedoms, our liberties, and the value of what we hold dear in this country, need to be placed on list. they have to be put on these list. they have to be put out of our society altogether and never be trusted again. now, if someone ends up attacking these people that have been found to be an enemy of the united states and their criminals, i'm not going to shed a tear about it. i mean
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when i left the military, i was a hard core republican that was a libertarian. like a lot of people in the military. but i was looking at like, i can't even calm documentaries, but these youtube videos like movies like guys you have better wake up and understand that there are people who are guiding your life and you don't even know what none of those studies extremism have recognized. it's filled with the anti semitic troops in the theme of the movie without explicitly saying this stuff. jewish people are out there controlling the banks and the banks, the reasons why they go into course so therefore, the jews are responsible for my friends dying, right? that's the connection that it's trying to make. the ultimate goal is to get everybody in this room and have all money beyond those chips and everything on those chips. and if anybody wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we just don't know if the chip i just absorb this propaganda fell for it fell
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into it. you know, i was watching alex jones before anyone knew what is the wants me now there openly lagging. it's really government and they run it. tucker calls is back on m assembly c one bath. it's all connected. these people down here are radicals and all of these concepts started to fit together and feed this narrative, this, this idea that i, it felt but pretty put words to, for so long that i was the victim, not just of circumstance, but of some sort of various groups of powerful individuals who were manipulating all of us that everyone was just acting his pockets. you know what people now called the deep state, but we were awake and it was our job to wait. everybody else of the
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the . yeah, there is a lot there. they flashed photos of the pyramid on our dollar bills. they showed a picture of george soros. they talked about the world bank everythings incorporated. these are all things that i didn't understand when i was watching my propaganda videos back in 2007, 2008. but man, i mean it's like they just took notes off of that. that had be all confused and crazy back then. these groups have always operated on the playbook of using the prevailing social contacts to mobilize people, recruit,
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and radicalize in the twenty's plan was anti black and anti jewish. but it was also anti mexican, near the border, anti labor and the pacific northwest anti immigrant in the northeast, where there were a lot of immigrants. what it did was figure out what the prevailing social tensions were in a given community and use those to recruit people for its own purposes. the prevailing feeling among a host of veterans returning from vietnam was that they had been stepped in the back by an ungrateful society, their own feckless government and the media delete. well, it seems no more certain that the bloody experience of death is to and in a stalemate, it made them right recruits for a new conspiracy. fueled wave of violent extremism aimed at routing out the enemy. within the cubans are coming in by the thousands, the mexicans are coming in by the millions that the hey and so coming in from the
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heidi wherever the little country is coming in by the hundreds of thousands, quite people have had enough. they can no longer even afford to buy a proper housing for themselves. and our government would have us spend thousands and thousands of millions of dollars on the and once they've had. and one of the key figures in the white power moves then after the vietnam war, and one of the architects of it's moved to sell sale terrorism to using the early and internet and to a number of other major changes that fueled it's rise. is a veteran named louis beam. the only thing that i'm part of the back of the white one on the line. and will you commit yourself to the battle to make it so? who is being served 2 tours in vietnam is a helicopter gunner and came home in 1968 with multiple metals for bravery. and combat says that i use great professional scale, encourage, and advice, and great personal danger. that hasn't changed at all, in my opinion. presently,
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i'm having to use that most scale and i think it does take courage to, to do what i'm doing and i'm doing it in the face of the enemy. this time, the enemy goes under a different name being took the skills he honed and the military and brought them to the k k k, where he rose to grand dragon of the texas knights 5 years to fax. the one of the reasons that beam rose so quickly in these organizations is that he told a story about warfare and trauma that a lot of other people were mobilized by, including people who didn't serve. i saw
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a young man asking that as soon his argument was about the wrongness of war, the horror of seeing casualties in the field, the horror of losing your fellow soldiers. but his pivot was, this is why we should come back to the united states and bring that violence home to everybody who left us there the,
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the rest christian we want the heads of the enemies in our toes, but vietnam they took years. we're going to take a ins, themes, rhetoric and military exercises eventually got the attention of the f, b i. then 1983, he left texas for hayden lake, idaho. a haven for white supremacists, you joined forces with the area nations and began to command a cell style, terrorist movement of white power acted as the idea was that one or a few white power activists could work together towards a commonly held set of goals and targets but without prosecutable ties between them and without direct ties to move that leadership. but there was a problem. the cells which were spread across the country and into canada still needed to communicate with each other. and even when the f b,
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i wasn't listening on their phones being wanted to do more than talk, if you wanted to share ideas and create networks. so they created a social network called liberty. and one of the 1st postings and titles on my side and country and then lewis team travels around the country, teaching people how to go online. these message boards included assassination list and ideological content, and who you should hate and why, but they also included social networks content like personal. and this was in 198485 way before most people think about far right online activism. decades before facebook can be using this early form of the internet, clansman skinheads, neo nazis and other extremist groups banded together to commit it
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a series of heinous robberies, bombings and murders across the country. incense were all races. that's where all the radical right. and that's a crime in america. when you have to do the time, don't regret the crime, will be at the forefront of the site to what, hopefully, smashing the skulls of timeliness or executing race traders or shooting on site. anybody we don't think is why we have to get our government back. that's what it's all about. all these so called versus groups are nothing but patriotic citizens trying to do just that. by 1985, the department of justice came to believe that the network of white power cells behind these crimes represented a serious threat to national security. lewis beam has been charged with seditious conspiracy. along with 13 other individual what else as a concert?
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saturday night when all the drug store in towns closed, but the trial was a disaster for the government, a standing verdict this afternoon, the trial of 13 white supremacist among chargers, they faced conspiracy to overthrow the government of united states. the verdicts from the white jury came on the 4th day of deliberations beam and his co defendants were acquitted on all charges. the humiliating outcome, let the d o j to focus their attention on individual criminals and the band and investigations of the white power movement as a domestic terrorist threat. the catastrophic legacy of liter let's resistance, has been that we as a public have lost sight of this movement. we don't have any domestic terrorism legislation. we don't have domestic terrorism was, for example, the number one tool, if the agents and prosecutors used to disrupt a terrorist attacks in the united states as material support the of
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material support is basically a charge to lovely on individuals who are helping a tourist organization or a violent organization, unfortunately, we don't have that when it comes to domestic terrorist organizations. the problem with this situation is when you don't have domestic terrorism was you need an act to happen. you need a hot body in order to start that investigation. and usually you can charge that individual with hated crime or with other charges, but you cannot charge them with terrorism. you can not go after the whole network. oh wow. the building has been blown away. and devastating the massive bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown oklahoma city. shattering that building, killing children, killing federal employees, military man and civilian even timothy mcveigh. he blew up
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a whole federal building and prosecutors could not charge him or his associates with terrorism. the indictment charges that timothy mcveigh and terry nichols, former army buddies with a grudge against the government plan. the bombing select mcveigh and nichols met each other through their service. they trained together at fort riley, kansas before mcvey deployed to the gulf as part of the broad one infantry unit in iraq. there he seems to have experience some amount of traumatic combat before their return home after washing out of special forces, he was really angry and we see at that moment his deepening involvement and radical white power activity ranging from making these connection to the michigan militia, mcvey used his military training to help carry out the oklahoma city bombing, and then a letter to a friend. he invoked his military most to justify it. i have sworn to uphold and
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defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and i will, blood will flow in the streets, good versus evil. free man versus socialist want to be slaves pray, it's not your blood. my friend, the other key component here was his use of the turner diaries, a gun shows timothy mcveigh would have copies of the turner diaries, but just don't be a novel the details how to topple the us government. the fictional revolutionary start by blowing up a federal building and then proceed to exterminate their political enemies, including all jews, blacks, and latinos. in 1997 mcvay was convicted of murdering 168 people using a weapon of mass destruction and blowing up a federal building. no domestic terrorism charges were broad however, because he and nichols were sought to have acted alone. just imagine,
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as timothy mcveigh is named wants to know how much we will look at the terrorism truck in a very different let's 1st of all we will look at it as a terrorist. that's right. we we go after mcveigh, we would go after all the people who would helping him and were assisting him. we will keep the investigation going in order to get the whole network. when you are very limited with the tools you are using this, a groups will take benefits from these are not loan roles. these are people who are united by ideology, by social ties, by selection of targets. these are all part of the same movement. and this is really what we're seeing, continuing into our present day moment. so nice. the plots are kidnapped on governor toil by the f. b i in october, 2020, less than a month before the presidential election. 14 men were arrested in
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a plot to keep nap michigan. governor gretchen whitmore their plans included storming the state capital using zip ties to take hostages and conducting a trial that would result in a public hearing of the governor. the suspects were all members of the will hearing watchman, a paramilitary groups commanded by a former marine that had ties to the michigan militia. prosecutors contend that they wanted to kidnap her to try to ignite another american civil war before the 2020 election in hopes of disrupting it. and perhaps keeping joe biden from becoming president, but federal prosecutors could not charge any of the conspirators with material support. despite having a mountain of evidence laid out against them at trial, the groups leader, adam fox, telling the informant he was inspired by oklahoma city bombing terrorist of timothy mcveigh telling the informant if we can have our world. they can't have theirs. burning it down like lewis beam before them were
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none of the defendants were convicted on federal charges. the goals of this insurgency in michigan were to take over the state house and then to kidnap and execute the governor. the goal of the insurgency on january 6 was to overturn the results of a democratic election. so if we see this as part of a movement h to stop the american, people being able to choose their own leaders in insurgency is all about seizing control of the government. not through winning an election, not through. the democratic process is not through persuasion but through violence . it's an, it's a form of war. the latest news rather able to reach the strikes. there's a lot of chaos here. they are worried that there's going to be another try with detailed coverage defense of smoke continues to fill the air here as the rescue workers try and take out 80 survivors from the heart of the story in total. these
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really all me how currently say that they've struck about 800 targets. there's 3 waves in palestine on the british rule, educated in america, the controversial professor in new york. he realized that he was the voice of a people out to 0. wow. that's what made him an influential right chunk of the palestinian and what size? out of place 67 was that spelled promise for one people. but the blade to the establishment of a jewish family at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british
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declaration changed the middle east, south seeds of disk on out of the around the hello. i'm elizabeth donovan, doha with the top stories on al jazeera, as well as leadership, has released its 1st video message since the beginning of the group. secretary general house on the saw on friday deputy leda 9 costs and costs of patients, while the group replaces its members who died and his rarely strikes. but he assured, supposes that has all his ability to strike back his undiminished supp. the last little one that these lumnick resistance will continue to confront these rarely enemy in the board of garza and palestine, and defensive loving on and its people. and in response to the assassinations and
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killing of civilians, how the sand wedge you, you might, we will face any possibility and are prepared if he is really decide to launch a ground and vision. as the resistance forces are ready for ground combat. that statement came out as often as righty as to like had an apartment block the a central day root can at least 3 people. the attack in the corner area is the 1st and 11 east capitol that's outside the southern suburb of da here is one. has been targeting senior, has vall looks like is that stripe for the desk told across leaven on in the past 24 hours to at least a 136 people. and this happens city of fire families, doug graves to bury their loved ones as mold bombs, fell nearby on sundays, 6 people were killed in an asteroid called the sea and will tags on his way. the troops have been seen along the israel 11 on board to those where the army says the ground, encouraging them to tell them that known as an option and defense minister, you'll have to log visit a troops in the area and now the news french fall right lita mounting the pen and
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thousands of members of the national valley party of going on trying in paris. they accused of misusing and and best link e u funds. the policy has contested the charges are especially provisional results from austria, as general elections suggest the far right freedom party has won the most votes, but it will lead to form a coalition. the policies lead to have a trickle is a poor wising figure. the death toll from hurricane helen has risen to at least 91 in the southeast of the u. s. people in florida, georgia, south carolina and virginia. i've been wrestling with the destruction. those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera of to against all enemies which examines the role paid by veterans and violent american far right groups ahead of the us presidential election. thank you for watching. if
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you look at january 6th, what we're looking at is really the collision of 3 different streams of activity. one is the organized white power movement that is coming off of decades, if not generations, of organizing armament training and ideological content. they want to know what the oars as the board. probably another is q and on which is newer, more radical works very fast. where we go one, we go, and the final one, the biggest one is simply the trump bass. it's clear to me that what you had was a concerted effort by a number of different organizers. take these various groups together and focus their energies into create a critical mass. and that's not new.
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interact me and i'll kind of interact emerged. it really came led by a guy and he might be most of us are covered to travel around the country. had a christmas and he portrayed this, hey, i'm not your normal political leader. and we're going to show the kind of commitment that real men would do. and i'll kind of interact, which is very extreme, ideologically started to be joined by people who work, natural bedfellows, people go finally someone who's not going to put up with the crap. someone who's going to take the law into their own hands, it's going to get us what we deserve because we have been exploring just by the
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leach of the region. i think i have one more shot. those are caught. we and donald trump both understand that you can inflame those passions. it is where the leader takes those frustrations that becomes potentially disastrous. grievance narratives are made up there, constructed narrative, but they are used by demagogues because they work the basic, very simple reason the congressmen and women and will probably not going to be tearing so much for some of them because you'll never take back to our country with weakness,
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you have to show surprises and you have to be strong. the, the siege of the capital on january 6th did not overturn the results of the 2020 election. but that's not the only measure by which the actions of that day are being judged. there's footage of crowd ways directing journalists to read the turner diaries, read the turner diaries on january 6th, the turner diaries with structuring a lot of sort of the imaginative, performative action of that day. the news hung outside the capital refers to events in the turner diaries called the day of the rope, which is the hanging of race traders which include politicians. and significantly, there is a strike on the capital that is not supposed to be a mass casualty attack. in the turn it or is it the murder attack,
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it's meant to be simply the selected killing of a few corrupt legislators in order to show other white people that extremist can strike at the heart of the american power. c c c and by that measure, i think that they succeeded with the rich people use the side the you look at january 6th, i think the people that were there that participate in number one, they wanted it to serve as a wake up call to those people who are in power, and the facts of the matter is every single person that was,
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it was there that day is a patriot of this nation. i think it's absolutely heartbreaking to see veterans involved in these things. and i know for a lot of them their hearts are in, in some ways in the right place. we just don't live in the same world of truths anymore. so people in dc, there are americans. yeah. and they were patriots. they only broke laws because the d. c. police didn't do their job. ok. okay. that's it. people die because they didn't do their job. this is the result danger of the big election line. right is this is a conspiracy theory that says the very part of american political life, the very heart of a democracy has been destroyed and taken from us, which leaves us what recourse to i believe the election was stolen. absolutely without it though. no way in hell, joe biden was like, this no longer is a constitutional republic and we are going to fight to bring our constitutional
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republic back again. we've had vinyl domestic extremist organizations for a long time, but i think what makes this moment particularly dangerous. there are a couple of things. the 1st one is the fact that it's able to ride on a wave of conspiracy thinking, in general, distrust that's happening because of social media technology is, is happening because of the way we restructured our society on the internet. that gives them the sheer numbers of people that they could never dream of, of bringing to bear on their own, everybody to get up with their shoulder. well, we need participation. 247. we need you to be a force multiplier as a soldier. and as a, as a uh, as a general and so retired, you know, we have an army of digital soldiers. you can do come in and control over social media and you're fighting against evil. and you're on the side of god. and you're on the side of the united states and your oath it's a very attractive proposition. the sad part is you're using all those skills and
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that goodness and that purity of heart, that you think is actually absolute. unadulterated both. the 2nd major difference because you have political cover from the very top, the only way we're going to lose this selection is there the election is great. january 6th, a combination of 2 months of a propagation of a big law and of conspiracy theories by the president of the united states to serve as a house. republicans go along with trump and vote to overturn the electors on the evening of january 6th. we are united states senator and members of the house of representatives object to the accounting of the electoral votes of the state of pennsylvania. madam speaker, i rise to support the object transfer rise to support the objections speaker. i rise to support the objects adam share. i vigorously support the subjection and i asked both, it has always been thoughts, be ceremonial and ministerial, where you accept the electoral college results, which were no serious way contested. i mean,
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that's almost as astounding is what happened in terms of the interaction. how can so many people believe that it was unfair? it was because the president said it was unfair. there's senator said, it was unfair. their member of congress said it was unfair of full audit is absolutely necessary. we should get injunctions if necessary. and normally those are people that the electric can have faith in one of our 2 parties is committed to it or well, you can whitewashing of history. the big lie, a big light is all out of both. that's what it is committed to, not quarreling much with conspiracy theories, is committed to per urging those republicans at the state local level. and at the national level, we want to fight back against allies and the conspiracy theories. that's a big deal. war is literally a continuation of politics by other means or military forces are the part of our
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society that the carries out that piece. then we come home. and the question is, do we have a political system to functions? where are we at a point, or were our own politics, the politics inside our own communities, the politics inside our own country can only be continued through other means. and we gotta be very careful because if you think you have support from the highest levels of government, why aren't you fighting for your country? aren't you already sort of sworn in to do this? the issue is that the people that we are identifying as extremist, they're identifying as patriots or freedom fighters. and that is, it almost sounds like i'm talking about terrorism right now. the proud boys, the oldest keepers, the 3 percenters are a threat. the ones that i'm really afraid of are the gen z ones. the service members who have served during the time of relative peace, these young people who join to fight, never got a chance to fight into. starting in conservative echo chambers online had been brought into the proud voyage of fascist pipeline. so gab is it
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alternative social media platform? it was created to be a safe space for neo nazis. one of the groups on here is the national just as party . this is a neo nazi party within the united states whose goal is to use protests to radicalize, trump supporters into explicit white supremacy. they're developing new and original propaganda that painting them in a light achieving the power, the ability to shape politics and engage in violence in a way that they thought they were going to get from the military. they understand how to recruit people into that lifestyle. i think that the republican party is, is no more than capable of adopting that idea ideology in a way that that's on file and will even to me and i,
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i never saw us where we are today. i think another 4 years or things could be far worse. i think the worst case scenario is probably worse than most of us. want to imagine. i could see a civil war because this is the same movement we've been dealing with this whole time. it's reasonable to assume that what we can see is only about half of the activity that there is an underground that is mounting violent action training in camps trying to accumulate weapons and preparing for violence. when you talk about civil war or specific sectors of the country that could go kinetic just go to these areas where you see the 1st big far let protest when republicans take back the house. so if there's anybody out there for bad people or black large matters, the might just okay. or if republicans think that one of the state elections were stolen, the project with your legislators, you're going to do something you're going to have to take my life. there's no way
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of dial the sale, there's no way all of this can happen. who is the same? a final legislation came down where we last are 2nd amendment tomorrow that, that when still the civil war, to be honest with you. i don't know of any veteran that once was. but at the very same time, when you look back to what our founding fathers warranted for this country, we are so far away from that today. it's just something you're ready for and they're going to stay full. if you're prepared, you're prepared. and if you're not, you're not. if you're armed, then you're somewhat prepared to defend your family and yourself. if you're not, are you're dogs. there's evidence. so if we don't fix our elections and actually make them both fight again, we don't have to. there is no 2024, but it is the election of 2024. that opens up a different front one that is potentially as dangerous as a violent civil war. there are people in this movement who believe that the nation
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cannot be saved as it is and must be for thrown in order to make way for a white f no state. and then there are probably people in this movement who think a hi. there is an opening here to run for office and mount a sort as qu from inside in order to change the very nature of the nation. not worry about scenarios in which you know, 2020 for one party controls congress. the other party wants the presidential election, congress refused to certify the election. the republican party has a pretty systematic plan to have state legislatures, impose themselves much more directly into the certification of electors to perhaps also suppress democratic folks along the way. so i do think the chances of a real attempt to overturn a legitimate election results are not nothing and they're not tiny. and then somebody is president or people that are elected that aren't due or aren't there an illegal way. and then that's when the dissent happens. and that's the end of our country and our legal norms. and that scares the hell out of me. this country you as individuals with the individual liberties and individual rights,
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you have you to start assuming risk for your neighborhoods in your communities and your towns. you have to get involved general funds, ultimate plan is to undermine democracy. is to get his digital soldiers to radicalize the rest of the republican base. go wrong for dog catcher. if you don't like us who's running your school board, go run for those pay board. if you don't like the who's running your little town or your little parish, go get involved. sling can convince his followers to push enough good people out of government. they'll beat us into submission. i don't want guys like disgraced former general michael flint to be deciding who's in america in, who's not general plan. do you believe the violence on january 6th was justified? because their movement is about excluding the others. it's not about the will
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of people. it's about suppressing opposition. it's about how power general. but do you believe in the peaceful transition of power and united states of america? this is how countries full part part of my experience as a veteran. and as somebody's works, refugees in human rights work, i know what happens when the center cannot hold in a society falls apart. i know what happens when your ethnic identity or you're in group out group membership becomes a life and death issue. and when neighbors start killing each other, i've seen it and whatever your twitter bravado about the next civil war is, nobody wants to see that. and that is the read to help. the very worst case scenario is that we slide to authority areas that we are not able to climb out of this. we have seen this happen over and over and over again in other countries. we have seen them fight back against the 1st ways and not be ready
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for the 2nd and not be ready for the 3rd. this is a, this is going to take a long time and it's going to take everything we have to make sure that our democracy is still standing at the end of it. i hope to think critically and do everything within your power and within the confines of, of the law to make sure that we don't live in that to still be in the future. that could just be a few years away. the i went to my son's brakes site and i just felt so help which it made me angry that my son sacrificed almost felt like it was in vain. and now i re focus. i had to take a look at it. i have to do a lot of soul searching to understand that that's not the case. and this light is not over. it's far from over and may never be owned by his sacrifice is not in vain. my service service of everyone else of all americans,
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regardless of your, your form, as long as you got up in the more we strive to do the right thing. it's not in vain . wherever a young american did national service for a year, maybe in uniform, but not necessarily what if they didn't health care conservation education? how would they feel about each other? at the end of that, by experience, we know you're almost always feel different, more tied to you break down many of your preconceived prejudices against other groups. trust starts to build in 2013. i 1st applied to my local community college and having had my military experience turn out so negative, i'll be honest. my confidence was destroyed. and i was like terrified of registering for classes because i was terrified of failure. and i went over the course of my 1st semester at nassau community college for feeling
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a lot of bad stereotypes about veterans, you know, coming in, having my headphones on. having my hoodie over my head kind of just like sitting down. not talking. anybody not engaging. and a group of student veterans that like community college identified that recognize that it was a problem and helped to break me a partial i went from being a guy in prison talk to anybody. it sits in the corner to being elected to represent all of the student veterans, west student veterans of nassau is a chapter of student veterans of america. the national organization focused on basically using people in the transition from combat to college, to careers. and because most of my interactions with the outside world in person, person to person, i wasn't as easily able to seek out an echo chamber that didn't challenge my opinions. that only reinforced by believes that diversity of opinion is what kept me from joining the always keepers when it 1st springs that helped to break the out
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of it. a lot of veterans getting out, they don't have that opportunity. we're in a different world. in this new world, our troops have to be trained to not only defend themselves against a chinese sniper or a russian tax, but against enemy, this information campaigns on the internet. it's also true that this information is not just coming from china and russia. we know how to come back a malicious misinformation. we did a pretty good job teaching soldiers and citizens how to not fall for nazi propaganda. we did a pretty good job teaching soldiers and citizens how to not fall for communist propaganda all through the cold war. the problem with that of course, is that you know, opposite shoes and nazis was a goal shared by both political parties in america, opposition to the soviet union was
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a goal shared by most across the political spectrum in america. right now, this conflict, you know, it's far to partisan, it's far to devices and it's far to politicize. we know how to do this, but it takes that unity and this is a layer cake of problems. this is something that does not just exist at se d o d policy level. this is about how journalists talk about the movement. how are laws, prosecute the movement, how our national leaders direct their time and attention? we know that there is a lot of the little team will to establish or to create a domestic terrorism along. yeah, i think there was a big possibility that we can designate visa groups as internationally terrorist organizations. so what that means, we can take all the rules, the laws, the authorities, the other line forestman intelligence agencies have to go after them the same way.
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we go after international terrace organizations who's pay the price, who's pay the price for being a conspiratorial. you're responsible depakote, you get treatments with the exception of a few true believers. so we're just doing, taking in and foolishly believed all this stuff. most of them are going about going on doing fine. voters need to decide whether they are comfortable with those who insight violence representing them and movements like this. and when the entire population decides that they are unacceptable, we haven't seen that yet. the. so the ideal solution is the radicalization, but that's not something i'm interested in. i'm interested in justice and i'm interested in imposing costs. people are trying hurt america and americans. all i think about all day is finding bad guys and hoping that they end up in jail
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documenting any potentially criminal behavior, documenting things that if they're not a legal society would frown upon. and ultimately it's to put a cost behind being in and search it within the united states and not the out there. but it doesn't mean we're going to win, and that's what i want to tell people. this good doesn't always try it. but i do believe the os means something, and i know that i'm going directly against people who think that they also are honoring their own in the same way. and that's why i think this makes this dangerous. but what's enabling that schism to happen is the law. which world of truths do you live in? it's not about commitment the country that share. so the only way back to get back together the only the only possibility of reconciliation is a conversation that can occur in the you know, in an environment of truth. we can either reconcile we with each other as
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a country. or we can have a conflict. where do i want america to go? not here, not where we're at this path wrong, kill us, little kill this country to kill freedom. it'll kill our commodity. it'll kill our compassion and our human decency for each other. what i like to see is for the people on both sides, all come together and agree on going by the truth only if we can do that, then this nation can be salvage. do i see that happening? no, i don't. i can hope that the
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is really forces seek to silence the truth. finley occupied westbank storming and shutting down elsie's 00 enrollment. the truth must be protected and heard and the stories of real people must be told. this is not just then a task on journalism. it's an attack on the world's right to know. journalism is not a crime or pressing it is the
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it had a lot of they will stop in south america and there's lots of hot and dry weather to be found across that central band of the constant isn't. that's we're going to see temperatures peak up in the days ahead for the likes of west and brazil and also into power boy asked to insure on coming up to $37.00 degrees celsius. now it's a lot cooler for the sol, so this which is an argentine now with some wet and windy weather coming in, a few wintry flakes as well in the batch of storms the set to develop across the uruguay, living costs, northern parts of origin. tina eventually working their way into southern parts of brazil. now it's shari. across the east coast. those chavez do start to dry up on choose day west, across the north with some heavy storms and bus of rain from ecuador and columbia. but it's not as heavy that rain as what we're seeing across the central america.
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