School Official Gets DEATH THREATS For Investigating Neo-Nazi Students by the Young Turks Jan 3, 2022
A group of teenagers from a California high school were pictured with prominent swastikas drawn all over their bodies, prompting an investigation by their school’s superintendent. As it turns out, the superintendent, her family, and her colleagues have been receiving death threats almost daily. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
"A school superintendent from California said she's been "subjected to death threats on a daily basis" after launching an investigation into a photo showing a group of students posing with swastikas drawn on their bodies.
"This has been one of the most traumatizing experiences in my life and in the lives of my colleagues," said Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman on in a video shared to Facebook on Thursday.
She and her colleagues have also received "threats that are aimed against our families," Newman added in the video.
The photo, showing eight white students with thick, black swastikas painted onto their torsos, went viral on social media. The students, some of whom are holding alcoholic beverages, appear to be at a house party. The students attend Wheatland Union High School, Newman confirmed."
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A California school superintendent said she's been 'subjected to death threats on a daily basis' since launching an investigation into a photo of students posing with swastikas drawn on their bodies by Yelena Dzhanova Jan 2, 2022, 7:07 AM
* A California school superintendent said she's facing death threats after announcing an investigation into students posing with swastikas.
* Nicole Newman said she saw a photo of Wheatland Union High School students with thick, black swastikas painted onto their torsos.
*"This has been one of the most traumatizing experiences in my life and in the lives of my colleagues," she said.
A school superintendent from California said she's been "subjected to death threats on a daily basis" after launching an investigation into a photo showing a group of students posing with swastikas drawn on their bodies.
"This has been one of the most traumatizing experiences in my life and in the lives of my colleagues," said Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman on in a video shared to Facebook on Thursday.
She and her colleagues have also received "threats that are aimed against our families," Newman added in the video.
The photo, showing eight white students with thick, black swastikas painted onto their torsos, went viral on social media. The students, some of whom are holding alcoholic beverages, appear to be at a house party. The students attend Wheatland Union High School, Newman confirmed.
"When I first saw them, I was profoundly disturbed and heartbroken. I knew just how much pain these images were going to cause our community," Newman said.
The students have been disciplined, according to the Sacramento Bee. But details of the consequences they are expected to face were not publicly shared for legal reasons.
Newman said the video message posted on Thursday would be the last public update on the case "as we cannot legally go into detail regarding the discipline of these students."
"There is no denying that, the choices made by the students in the picture were hurtful and deeply troubling. Their actions do not represent who we are as a school district and community," Newman said in a separate statement on December 23.
Newman said she'd reach out to elected officials and "key community stakeholders" to "begin the process of having a broader community conversation about how we can work together to prevent this type of issue from ever happening again."
Expert GOES UNDERCOVER and EXPOSES Recruitment Tactics of Dangerous Extremist Groups Kristofer Goldsmith* [The Neo-Nazi Hunter: “A few years ago, a friend of mine that I served with called me up and said, ‘Hey, Goldie, I joined a neo-Nazi organization, and I want you to help me take them down.’” —Kristofer Goldsmith, Founder of Task Force Butler. Veteran Kristofer Goldsmith fought in Iraq. Now he brings his fight to the far right at home. Founder of the nonprofit Task Force Butler, Goldsmith works with other veterans to infiltrate neo-Nazi hate groups and compile evidence to stop them.] MeidasTouch Jul 27, 2023
Against All Enemies is a YouTube/podcast series and upcoming documentary film about threats to American democracy. In today’s episode, Thomas Rousseau, of the violent white nationalist street gang Patriot Front, is exposed as a failed leader of a dangerous cult. Learn more about how these white nationalist and fascist street gangs are shot through with pedophiles and murderers in our earlier episode:
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Goldsmith CEO of task force Butler at both against all enemies and task force bottom lawyer we're focused on making sure you're informed about the persistent threat of neo-nazi's fascist street gangs and extremists militia as we're going to show you today the radicalization pipeline is taking angry young white men and juicing them up on grievances hyping them on militant versions of masculinity and gun culture and turning them back into our society there's a generation of Timothy mcveigh's and Dylan roofs being groomed for violence and they're just one bad day away from being our next Mass shooters today we're going to make sure you know about Patriot front leader Thomas Rousseau and the Nazis who follow him break the law under his orders and go to jail to impress him you might have seen last week that five members of patriot front were convicted for conspiracy to Riot in Idaho Rousseau and 30 other members of his Neo-Nazi gang were arrested last summer as they were preparing to attack a pride event in Coeur d'Alene they were convicted thanks to Rousseau writing down that plan to attack people and carrying that plan with him for the police to find when they were arrested Rousseau is 25 and grew up middle class in Texas Thomas Rousseau is also a committed white supremacist who hangs out with pedophiles and murderers to be clear those are not the opinions of myself or of task force Butler those are proven facts with documentary evidence and multiple convictions to back up the statements I'll address those facts very soon but first Thomas Rousseau Rousseau began showing signs of white nationalist beliefs as a young teenager by High School the FBI had picked up on his racist organizing across Texas and as infamy grew as he emerged as a leader of the white nationalist gang Vanguard America in 2017 Rousseau's role as a leader in Vanguard America also meant he was a leading organizer behind the deadly Charlottesville unite the right Neo-Nazi rally just a moment to define the terms we're using here because extremists have done a pretty good job of blurring the lines when we say white nationalist we're not talking about people who are patriotic and happen to be white Senator tuberville this note is for you to be a white nationalist means to be an advocate for genocide the force removal or mass murder of people of color this is the definition of genocide and genocide is the only way to achieve an ethno State a white nationalist is a genocidal Maniac Okay tuberville and when we say Nazi we're not using hyperbole we're talking about national socialism the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Nazi Germany again we're talking about people who want to see our government commit genocide against our own people Jews people of color the lgbtq community and others this is what we're talking about when we say Patriot front is a white nationalist gang of neo-nazis now that we have that cleared up remember when I said Thomas Rousseau Pals around with child sex predators and murderers here's where so in his Vanguard America uniform leading Vanguard America as their so-called ground Commander during the unite the right rally with James Fields James Fields is the man who murdered Heather heyer and injured over a dozen when he rammed a car into a crowd during the reunite the right protests in the weeks following the attack Rousseau claimed that Fields wasn't a Vanguard America member which is a pretty classic are you going to believe me or Your Lying Eyes defense there's ample documentary evidence of fields in the Vanguard America uniform getting invited to the Neo-Nazi rally to march with Vanguard America being in Vanguard America private chats standing with other Vanguard America members and carrying a shield with the Vanguard America emblem right before he murdered someone unite the right had the exact opposite effect for the assortment of deplorables that gathered in Charlottesville then the name of the Neo-Nazi rally sought to achieve Vanguard America like other far-right groups that showed up they're splintered in effect that was accelerated by Rousseau's paranoid immature leadership style rosette was actually been pretty successful in projecting The Narrative that Vanguard America dissolved into chaos and ceased to exist end of story but the true story is that rasoja seized control of the organization its online servers its members and then rebranded it into a totally new organization Patriot front Vanguard America is Patriot front Patriot front is Vanguard America Patriot front has emerged as a National Domestic threat with membership that have been active across all of the lower 48. they've been showing up at anti-abortion rallies Jewish synagogues black lives matter protests and lgbtq pride events Patriot front members still to this day communicate using Vanguard America's server which is named blood and soil and that's a direct undiluted callback to Nazi Germany Rousseau and Patriot front equate the white European identity to the right to inherit American soil Rousseau is completely lacking in any original thought and has nothing to offer in his critiques of American society in his writings about the so-called silent majority after the 2016 election Rousseau sounds like he's openly cribbing from 1980s Pat Buchanan just very poorly here's what he had to say in Fall 2016. quote the truth is white voters especially the working class have had more than enough of being called racist sexist xenophobic islamophobic homophobic and the rest of the trite usual buzzwords now keep in mind Rousseau is saying this in the context of Trump's candidacy being built around being openly all of those things Russo continues whining and saying quote The Forgotten majority of the American electorate has shown that much to the dismay of the globalist agenda that they have not been replaced by the tens of millions of blue voting immigrants from abroad that they can still hold up some semblance of resistance against the decay of their Nation from the globalist agenda to the replacement Theory to the championing of the underclass Rousseau is the epitome of what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like now I know Rousseau's Cadence voice and manner of speaking are extraordinarily annoying but I'm only exposing you to a few minutes of this clown so bear with me as we make a point here here he is at a recent DC rally we're called the greatest threat there is a threat we pose but not to the people we threaten only the Intolerable conditions which allow our highest offices to be filled with career criminals and plutocritic scum here in the city that does not deserve Washington's Name by political prisoners many of whom were tried and found guilty by the media long before the courts had any say so charged with obstructing democracy left of a democracy to obstruct we ask how can one betray a democracy which no longer exists how can one be a traitor against a liberal fantasy to which he was never loyal let them call us their slurs insurrectionists supremacist the list gets longer by the day we seek not Insurrection but Resurrection we seek not Supremacy but sovereignty Patriot front is Thomas Rousseau's personal cult it's his Cult of aggrieved marginal owners who buy into his shtick because name-dropping Thomas Paine is very impressive to people who've never read a book before I know because 15 years ago when I was freshly out of the service and struggling with PTSD it hadn't yet been to school that was me I know from being an ultra conservative Ron Paul supporter back in 2008 when I was in seriously rough shape after coming home from Iraq how important and intelligent people can sound when they rattle off quotes from the founding fathers my personal instability and my desire to find purpose in a new patriotism made me an easy mark back then it made me easy to manipulate back then was when Elmer Stewart Rhodes was using the same exact rhetoric and his connection to the Ron Paul campaign to lure disaffected veterans Into The Oath Keepers I know what it's like to be ripe for radicalization because I was there but what's important to realize is that aggrieved marginal loaners can and do commit real harm when they adopt ideologies promoted by groups like Patriot front and join those Neo-Nazi organizations Dylan roof killed nine black people in a church in Charleston South Carolina here he is wearing a jacket of the flag of apartheid era South Africa and Rhodesia two aggressively racist states that have become the rallying cries for white supremacists who want to accelerate the arrival of an American race war the average Patriot front member has given up their families and friends as they put themselves at legal risk because of their association with Rousseau and his violent cult and like so many Cults they're being used to provide Financial comfort for their cult leader like I said before many are just a single bad day away from being a mass shooter in a country swimming with guns we have these isolated weirdos who are being brought into what is essentially a cult that they have to pay to be members of Thomas Rousseau has taken from Joseph Goebbels of Nazi Germany to build a sophisticated media production system with an Affiliated LLC called media to rise he has explicitly said that their energetic use of video and social media is so-called marketing for Patriot front so we have this kid who's taking lessons from Mussolini and Hitler on how to build a fascist movement and then is marrying it with Kim Kardashian's influencer lessons to Rebrand white supremacy by painting it red white and blue except Thomas Rousseau is a failed leader most of the young men who become members of patriot front don't stick around for very long they might still be neo-nazis and they might still be white supremacists but dealing with Rousseau's immaturity his paranoia his grifting behavior as he funds his lifestyle buff by leeching off of their effort it sucks for the average Patriot front member and they leave how do we know this a task force Butler because we've infiltrated Patriot front numerous times we've been undercover as full-blown members we've shown up to their functions both invited and well not so invited we regularly receive tips from an interview former Patriot front members who regret being a part of the group and want to make things right and of course we've analyzed hundreds of gigs of data when groups like unicorn ride gain access to and release their confidential Communications using our inside knowledge task force Butler literally wrote the book on taking down Patriot front using civil suits and criminal prosecutions it's called project blacklisted and you can learn more about that on our website within weeks of sharing the project blacklisted Report with the lawyers committee for civil rights under law that group was able to use our analysis to help them file a lawsuit against Rousseau some of his top lieutenants and members in Virginia and that's for their conspiracy to engage in a campaign of racial intimidation and to destroy murals depicting black excellence Patriot front is at its core a multi-level marketing scheme for a racist boy from Texas but that doesn't mean that it's harmless when someone spends time in Patriot front they get the rush of being part of Rousseau's spectacle when they go out in their little silly parades but they're also trained in street fighting tactics Communications Recruitment and how to avoid detection as they commit hate crimes now just think about this for a moment there are neo-nazis out there who meet this guy Russo and find that he's too toxic to be around after a few months they leave that's what happens with Thomas Rousseau and Patriot front his behavior may drive them out but they're not leaving the white supremacist cause Patriot front is a pipeline that feeds the rest of the fascist street gangs and white supremacist groups throughout the country right now we're also watching a lot of the fascist street gangs evolved from the al-Qaeda model to the Isis model from Big top-down organizational leadership structure to semi-independent local cells for as long as it's existed Patriot front has been spinning off other smaller local and Regional Neo-Nazi organizations like nsc131 who've been terrorizing New England through Thomas Rousseau Patriot front also functions as part of a broader white supremacist Terror Network that includes organizations such as white lives matter National Justice party nationalist Social Club active clubs the rise above movement the Aryan Freedom Network and Blood Tribe just to name a few in multiple task force Butler reports on Patriot front we've documented where these extraordinarily violent groups are coordinating tax on communities of color lgbtq folks and anyone who might wind up in their path when they're out dressed up in their Best Buy uniforms now while they may look Goofy they're kind of doing that on purpose while they're distracting you with their Best Buy cosplay they're also carrying deadly metal weapons and they're wearing armor because they're looking to physically assault anyone who might bump into them so here's what we want you to take away from this today when you see someone say well we can't see their faces how many of them there are or they look like they work at Best Buy they're not that scary or you see someone who you know who's fallen into the maggot disinformation bubble say something to the effect of oh they're undercover feds there aren't real Nazi organizations in the U.S this is what you need to know patriotfront is a violent terrorist racketeering gang that primarily functions to plan train and manufacture weapons for the explicit purpose of engaging in acts of violence and harassment against minorities the lgbtq plus community and others deemed enemies by Patriot fronts leader Thomas Ryan Russo their goal is to inspire terrorists School shooters and other Predators who want to destroy our country using genocide Russo likes to wrap himself up in self-aggrandizing pseudo-intellectual double speak and compare their wearing of masks to that of the Boston Tea Party and how they dressed up as Native Americans Rousseau claims that they're disguising themselves to engage in so-called activism that their criminality is actually an expression of patriotism that goes back to the founding fathers this is garbage when a thief wears a mask to rob a bank it's not an expression of their patriotism or their bravery standing up against a tyrannical government they're wearing masks because they're criminals doing crimes and they don't want to get caught Ry front members wear masks to deceive you and make you think that their numbers are greater than they actually are we know from being inside the organization that they bulk up local actions by getting an assortment of white supremacists from other organizations to mask up with them and wear those clownish uniforms just for that one day Patriot front members wear masks because they're cowards they know that if they're identified as part of a Neo-Nazi organization that they're going to face consequences at work at school with their families and with their local communities and finally Patriot front members wear masks because they've been diluted into thinking that Thomas Rousseau's pathetic little cult is going to give them a sense of purpose and Brotherhood it doesn't Rousseau is a grifter coward who is playing on people's fears and grievances for his own personal and economic gain that is what Patriot front members tell us he may love to play dress-up and wreck other white supremacist lives by convincing them to break laws to impress him but that doesn't make him less dangerous because when Patriot front members are eventually identified and they're completely isolated from their friends and family all they have left is Rousseau and his cult that's why he wants them to get arrested so he can control them and so that they feel like they have no choice but to send Rousseau money to subsidize his lifestyle now remember when I said that Thomas Rousseau hangs out with pedophiles and murderers we introduced you to the murderous James Fields now let me introduce you to Patriot front member Jared Michael Boyce he was one of those guys picked up in Idaho a few months ago and he pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and a misdemeanor count of dealing in material that's harmful to minors we've recently covered the amount of pedophilia in the white supremacist and fascist street gangs you can find the link in today's show notes the five members of patriot front who were just convicted last week Forest Rankin Devon Center Derek Smith James Michael Johnson and Robert Whitted they will for the rest of their lives be unable to scrub off the stink of Thomas Ryan Russo never be confused Thomas Rousseau is a thug leading a gang of thugs who want to terrorize our society into submission because they truly believe in their fever dream of a white ethno state a task force Butler we're regularly infiltrating their networks and imposing legal real world costs on them there are about two dozen more members of patriot front who will be facing trial on those same charges as part of the same conspiracy to Riot including their leader Thomas Rousseau and our research and Reporting is helping to make sure that they get convicted every day a task force Butler we're making it harder for them to fundraise train and organize and in order to do that work we need your support against all enemies is produced by Ken Harbaugh in partnership with task force baller our team includes our producer Michael L cessor and the task force Butler volunteer researchers who provide much of the Intel and Analysis that will be bringing straight to you in this new show come back tomorrow for 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Bill Barr, Donald Trump’s former attorney general who once said that voting for the indicted ex-president would be “playing Russian roulette with the country,” stood by his decision to vote for Trump in November while also suggesting that Trump used to regularly float the idea of executing his political rivals while in office.
Barr made the nonchalant admission Friday during a CNN interview when anchor Kaitlan Collins mentioned former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin claiming that Barr was present in the summer of 2020 when Trump suggested that an unknown White House leaker should be executed.
“I remember him being very mad about that. I actually don’t remember him saying ‘executing,’ but I wouldn‘t dispute it, you know… The president would lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt he would’ve actually carried it out,” Barr said.
Collins then questioned whether Trump would say things like that “on other occasions.”
Barr responded that people would sometimes take Trump “too literally.”
“He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” he acknowledged.
Rumination increased rather than decreased anger and aggression. Doing nothing at all was more effective than venting anger. These results directly contradict catharsis theory.
The belief in the value of venting anger has become widespread in our culture. In movies, magazine articles, and even on billboards, people are encouraged to vent their anger and “blow off steam.” For example, in the movie Analyze This, a psychiatrist (played by Billy Crystal) tells his New York gangster client (played by Robert De Niro), “You know what I do when I’m angry? I hit a pillow. Try that.” The client promptly pulls out his gun, points it at the couch, and fires several bullets into the pillow. “Feel better?” asks the psychiatrist....
The theory of catharsis is one popular and authoritative statement that venting one’s anger will produce a positive improvement in one’s psychological state. The word catharsis comes from the Greek word katharsis, which literally translated means a cleansing or purging. According to catharsis theory, acting aggressively or even viewing aggression is an effective way to purge angry and aggressive feelings.
Sigmund Freud believed that repressed negative emotions could build up inside an individual and cause psychological symptoms, such as hysteria (nervous outbursts). Breuer and Freud (1893-1895/1955) proposed that the treatment of hysteria required the discharge of the emotional state previously associated with trauma. They claimed that for interpersonal traumas, such as insults and threats to the ego, emotional expression could be obtained through direct aggression: “The reaction of an injured person to a trauma has really only . . . a ‘cathartic’ effect if it is expressed in an adequate reaction like revenge” (p. PAGE?). Breuer and Freud believed that expressing anger was much better than bottling it up inside.
Freud’s therapeutic ideas on emotional catharsis form the basis of the hydraulic model of anger. The hydraulic model suggests that frustrations lead to anger and that anger, in turn, builds up inside an individual, similar to hydraulic pressure inside a closed environment, until it is released in some way. If people do not let their anger out but try to keep it bottled up inside, it will eventually cause them to explode in an aggressive rage. The modern theories of catharsis are based on this model. Catharsis is seen as a way of relieving the pressure that the anger creates inside the psyche. The core idea is that it is better to let the anger out here and there in little bits as opposed to keeping it inside as it builds up to the point at which a more dangerous explosion results.
If venting really does get anger “out of your system,” then venting should decrease aggression because people are less angry. Almost as soon as psychology researchers began conducting scientific tests of catharsis theory, the theory ran into trouble....
pounding nails should reduce subsequent aggression. The results showed the opposite effect. The people who had hammered the nails were more (rather than less) hostile toward the confederate afterward than were the ones who did not get to pound any nails....
venting anger does not reduce aggression. If anything, they concluded, it makes people more aggressive afterward. More recent research has come to similar conclusions... venting anger can reduce physiological arousal but people must express their anger directly against the provocateur. People also must believe that the provocateur will not retaliate. Venting against substitute targets does not reduce arousal....
Cognitive neoassociation theory posits that aggressive thoughts are linked together in memory, thereby forming an associative network. Once an aggressive thought is processed or stimulated, activation spreads out along the network links and primes or activates associated thoughts as well. Not only are associated aggressive thoughts linked together in memory but thoughts are also linked along the same sort of associative lines to emotional reactions and action tendencies (Bower, 1981; Lang, 1979). Thus, the activation of aggressive thoughts can engender a complex of associations consisting of aggressive ideas, emotions related to violence, and the impetus for aggressive actions.
Cognitive neoassociation theory predicts that venting should increase rather than decrease angry feelings and aggressive behaviors. Venting involves behaving aggressively, often against “safe” inanimate objects....In essence, venting is practicing how to behave aggressively. Such aggressive activity should prime aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavioral tendencies, especially if the people think about the source of their anger while venting. Thus, venting should keep angry feelings active in memory and also should increase the likelihood of subsequent aggressive responses.
“Because at the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him,” Barr argued, prompting Collins to counter that an unexecuted order doesn’t remove the threat.
Barr insisted that there was no threat.
“I don‘t think the threat is there. The thing that I worry about President Trump is not that he’s going to become an autocrat and do those kinds of things,” Barr said.
When Collins inquired as to why Barr believes that, and whether or not it’s a “hunch,” Barr responded that it was just his “feeling.”
“Having worked for him and seen him in action, I don’t think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that,” Barr claimed.
Later in the interview, Collins read aloud Trump’s mocking response to Barr following his endorsement. Barr replied by effectively kowtowing: “Classic Trump,” he said.
The “real threat to Democracy,” Barr claimed, came from the Biden administration, as opposed to the former president who has been indicted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.