Alabama white supremacists charged with trespass, burglary at nuclear power plant

[essentialsaltes]

On the night of Jan. 4, four avowed white supremacists entered a secure multi-industry property just across the Tennessee River that includes a nuclear power plant.

Two of those men, Aiden Daniel Cuevas, 19, and Aidan Christian Stamper, 19, hail from Madison, Alabama. The other two men are identified as Brandon Dean Crews, 24, of Iuka, Mississippi, and Logan Gulbranson, 18, of Cole Harber, North Dakota.

[County sheriff] Stuart also obtained footage according to the report that shows some of the individuals entering a “turbine building” on the site and “moving around with flashlights” before leaving the building.

The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office has charged all four men with felony trespassing and burglary in connection to the incident.

Jeff Tischauser, a research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s Intelligence Project, has monitored the online activity of all four men arrested in the incident.

He says they make up the core of a group calling themselves the “North Bama Brigade” in online white supremacist and neo-Nazi circles.

Tischauser said all four men could be connected back to Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann, who posted online that he sees himself as a “Shredder” figure from the series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, building a “literal underground army” of rebellious youth.

“Accelerationist neo-Nazis see attacks against electrical grids and infrastructure as helping to accelerate the collapse of our social system,” Tischauser said. “They think that the race war is right around the corner.”

 

[Pommer]

On the night of Jan. 4, four avowed white supremacists entered a secure multi-industry property just across the Tennessee River that includes a nuclear power plant.

Two of those men, Aiden Daniel Cuevas, 19, and Aidan Christian Stamper, 19, hail from Madison, Alabama. The other two men are identified as Brandon Dean Crews, 24, of Iuka, Mississippi, and Logan Gulbranson, 18, of Cole Harber, North Dakota.

[County sheriff] Stuart also obtained footage according to the report that shows some of the individuals entering a “turbine building” on the site and “moving around with flashlights” before leaving the building.

The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office has charged all four men with felony trespassing and burglary in connection to the incident.

Jeff Tischauser, a research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s Intelligence Project, has monitored the online activity of all four men arrested in the incident.

He says they make up the core of a group calling themselves the “North Bama Brigade” in online white supremacist and neo-Nazi circles.

Tischauser said all four men could be connected back to Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann, who posted online that he sees himself as a “Shredder” figure from the series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, building a “literal underground army” of rebellious youth.

“Accelerationist neo-Nazis see attacks against electrical grids and infrastructure as helping to accelerate the collapse of our social system,” Tischauser said. “They think that the race war is right around the corner.”

What kind of pizza did they order?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Weird, that plant is close to my mother. Tishomingo country is in Mississippi, the Iuka guy, I would have thought that Alabama would have jurisdiction.

 

[RileyG]

Awful

 

[Desk trauma]

Weaponized and compromised law enforcement persecuting innocent tourists investigating sinister complicated equipment!

 

[ozso]

Maybe the skinheads were hoping they'd go bald from radiation exposure.

 

[DaisyDay]

“Accelerationist neo-Nazis see attacks against electrical grids and infrastructure as helping to accelerate the collapse of our social system,” Tischauser said. “They think that the race war is right around the corner.”

"Accelerationist" - that's new to me.

From Wikipedia:

Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, referred to as "acceleration".[1][2][3][4][5] It has been regarded as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants, both of which support the dramatic change of capitalism and its structures as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.[6][7][8][9]​

Are Musk and his gang "accelerationists"?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Tischauser said all four men could be connected back to Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann, who posted online that he sees himself as a “Shredder” figure from the series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, building a “literal underground army” of rebellious youth.

So-called “active clubs” have proliferated across the US and are a combination of fitness and mixed martial arts groups that often espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies, openly taking their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and European soccer hooliganism.

Active clubs have emerged as perhaps the most dangerous form of far-right political organizing today. With links to other militant organizations, including Patriot Front, they encourage a seemingly mainstream version of masculinity, layered with ideologies promoting a US race war and using the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as a gateway to recruiting.

Earlier this month, their main Telegram account, endorsed “youth clubs”, which are chapters beginning to spring up online across the country, showing pictures of 18-year-olds and under engaging in mixed martial arts, racist meme-ing, and posts referencing genocidal and bigoted literature.