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Saturday 29 October 2022
Thursday 20 October 2022
ABSOLUTELY 100% FUCKING TRUE
Fuck the imperialists and their "shock and outrage" over what the fucking asshole russians are doing to Ukraine. The amerikkkans are just fucking jealous. When it comes to destroying entire countries and killing children , nobody does it better than the good ol' u.s.a.
Read this entire fucking article, please......
U.S. Expresses “Shock and Outrage” at the Russian Air Strikes Against Ukraine, BUT...
U.S. Expresses “Shock and Outrage” at the Russian Air Strikes Against Ukraine, BUT...
When It Comes to Murdering Civilians and Destroying Cities, America Still Stands Without a Rival
Central Baghdad, Iraq, July 30, 2007, after a bombing. About 8 million Iraqis, nearly a third of the population, need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the Iraq war. Photo: AP
On Monday morning, October 10, Russian military forces in Ukraine launched a wave of aerial attacks against Kyiv—Ukraine’s capital—and ten other cities, reaching far beyond the current war zone in the south and east, to areas where in recent months people had begun to resume more or less normal lives.
A Ukrainian official said that 30 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure had been hit, raising the specter of people losing heat as winter approaches. Apartment buildings, businesses, offices and streets were also hit. At least 20 people were killed and over 100 injured. In some places water systems couldn’t run because of the power outages. All this created yet more fear, hardship and misery for millions of war-weary civilians.1
The rulers of the U.S. and its NATO allies in this war—who are waging a proxy war with Russia on Ukraine’s territory to determine which imperialist powers will dominate Central Asia and Europe—responded to the Russian attacks with a flood of statements of “shock” and “outrage,” including accusations of “war crimes”2 and promises of both prosecution and retribution.3 Biden said this attack showed Putin’s “utter brutality.” The Secretary of the U.S. Army said targeting of civilian infrastructure was “horrific.” French President Emmanuel Macron declared Russia’s attacks to be “a profound change of the nature of this war.” Even the newly elected fascist government of Italy weighed in, declaring that it was “horrified by the cowardly missile attacks.”4
From these statements you would get the impression that Russia’s attack had reached new, never-before-seen heights of savagery, crossing a line that no other “great power” would even think of violating. But what does the U.S. do when it goes to war with another country? The answer is—it commits crimes on a vast scale and on an unrivaled level of brutality and depravity.
USA: Still Number One in War Crimes
In 1945, the U.S. dropped one atomic bomb each on the militarily insignificant Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs together killed approximately 200,000 people. In other words, the U.S. killed over 20,000 people in those two raids for every one person killed in the Russian raids—which, again, to the extent that they consciously targeted civilians, were indeed war crimes.
This despicable crime began what the U.S. liked to call “the American Century”—that is, the imperialist parasitical domination of the United States over most of the rest of the world. And massive bombing of civilians was a feature of it. Let’s look at the list:
Korea, 1950-53
From a series of U.S. Army photos depicting the summary execution of 1,800 South Korean political prisoners over three days in July 1950 carried out by the U.S.-installed puppet Syngman Rhee.
In 1950, the U.S. went to war in Korea. Air Force General Curtis LeMay bragged later that the U.S. “burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too…. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off—what—twenty percent of the population of Korea....”5 Pyongyang, a city of 500,000 in 1950, reportedly had only two buildings fully intact by the end of the war.
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, 1961-75
A dozen years later, the U.S. and its allies waged an even more horrific war in Indochina against Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In Laos, a country of 2 million people, mainly peasants, which wasn’t even directly involved in the war, the U.S. dropped 2 million tons of cluster bombs—250 million cluster sub-munitions6—or about 100 bomblets for every Laotian.
Smoke rises from bombs dropped by U.S. planes near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, July 25, 1973. Photo: AP
The U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia made farming impossible, forcing millions of peasants to flee to desperate poverty in the capital city of Phnom Penh, whose population doubled in four years. 7
Vietnam: Kill Anything That Moves
But the greatest horror was in Vietnam. Large parts of the South (which the U.S. was supposedly “defending”) were declared “free-fire zones” where troops or pilots were authorized to “kill anything that moves.” In the North, dikes and dams were bombed to cause massive flooding. In total, the U.S. dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives on one small country. By comparison, U.S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War 2. By the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, the U.S. had killed 2 million civilians, and the countryside was pockmarked with bomb craters, scorched by napalm, and saturated by (according to the U.S. itself) 11 million gallons of Agent Orange, a deadly herbicide that causes all kinds of diseases as well as birth defects.
People with severe flesh burns after napalm attack, June 8, 1972. Photo: Wikipedia
Think about it: 2 million people, in Vietnam alone!!! And now these people like Biden claim to be “shocked” and demand war crimes trials. With the sole exception of the trial of William Calley, who commanded a company of troops to carry out the My Lai massacre of over 500 civilians in a single morning, the only war crime “trial” ever held in the U.S. was carried out by the veterans of its own war, who testified in a tribunal that they organized themselves to the American-ordered crimes that they either witnessed or carried out in Vietnam.8
Iraq 1991-2003
But that was a long time ago, right? Surely the “good ole USA” has summed up these terrible events and fights differently now?
Wrong! Look at the U.S.’s repeated wars with Iraq (aimed at stabilizing and consolidating control of the strategic Middle East).
U.S. Devastates Civilian Infrastructure—Electricity, Water Pumping and Water Purification—of Iraq, Leading to Deaths of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
1991–in a Baghdad hospital, one of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi infants suffering from diarrhea as a result of the destruction of the country's water and sanitation system. Photo: Special to revcom.us
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in January 1991, it started with a 43-day nonstop campaign of bomb and missile attacks. 109,876 combat sorties dropped some 250,000 munitions—6,000 a day.9
The U.S. bragged about its “smart” munitions that could be focused on purely military targets and avoid civilians and civilian infrastructure. But what they don’t mention is that U.S. war planners consciously saw the destruction of civilian infrastructure—electric plants, water purification and pumping stations, dams, railroads, etc.—as key to victory.
According to the Washington Post:10
their intent was to destroy or damage valuable facilities that Baghdad could not repair without foreign assistance. Many of the targets … were chosen only secondarily to contribute to the military defeat [of the Iraqi army.] Military planners hoped the bombing would amplify the economic and psychological impact of international sanctions on Iraqi society. …
… "When they discuss warfare, a lot of folks tend to think of force on force, soldier A against soldier B," said another officer who played a central role in the air campaign but declined to be named. Strategic bombing, by contrast, strikes against “all those things that allow a nation to sustain itself.” [Emphasis added]
A family in Iraqi Kurdistan washing clothes in polluted water, 1991. Before the 1991 Gulf War, 96 percent of Iraqis had access to abundant supplies of safe drinking water. Three years later less than half had such access. Photo: Special to revcom.us
The U.S. was quite successful at this:
Between the sixth and seventh days of the air war, the Iraqis shut down what remained of their national power grid. "Not an electron was flowing," said one target planner. …17 [of Iraq’s 20 electric generating plants] were damaged or destroyed in allied bombing. Of the 17, 11 were judged total losses.
And the impact on the people was staggering:
The worst civilian suffering, senior officers say, has resulted not from bombs that went astray but from precision-guided weapons that hit exactly where they were aimed—at electrical plants, oil refineries and transportation networks.
A Harvard public health team, after visiting Baghdad, told the Post that
the lack of electrical power, fuel and key transportation links in Iraq now has led to acute malnutrition and "epidemic" levels of cholera and typhoid. In an estimate not substantively disputed by the Pentagon, the team projected that “at least 170,000 children under five years of age will die in the coming year from the delayed effects” of the bombing.
February 13, 1991: The Targeted Destruction of the Amiriyah Neighborhood Bomb Shelter—Over 400 Civilians Killed
Amiriyah shelter in Iraq bombed by U.S. killing 408.
But the U.S. didn’t just target civilian infrastructure—their “smart bombs,” helicopter gunships and planes were used to massacre civilians as well. According to Forces.net, “Civilian deaths resulting from the conflict are estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000.”
Here is a chilling example of a massacre of Iraqi civilians by the U.S.: In the middle-class neighborhood of Amiriyah, Shelter #32 was a respite from the terror—dug so deep and well it was said it could withstand a nuclear blast. It also had its own electrical system, so people were constantly in and out to take advantage of that, since U.S. bombing had devastated Baghdad’s power system. Kids would hang out there to play.
On February 13, as Al Jazeera describes: “a roar tore through the quiet neighbourhood when two laser-guided bombs slammed down on the concrete and steel structure, piercing the bunker’s roof and incinerating hundreds of civilians beyond recognition.” Neighbors rushed to help; one woman said “When I reached the shelter I heard the screams of the people who wanted to get out. By 10 am the voices had stopped – no one was screaming.”
At least 408 people died.
The U.S. falsely claimed that the shelter was a military command center, and that they had “no idea” civilians were there—even though the neighborhood was under constant satellite surveillance, and women and children were in and out of the shelter at all hours of the day. 11
Deadly Sanctions Lead to Malnutrition, Disease and Death for Half a Million Children
Having destroyed “all those things that allow a nation to sustain itself,” the U.S. followed it with heavy sanctions, preventing Iraq from importing the supplies needed to repair their infrastructure, or from selling enough oil to have the foreign currency to buy imports in any case.
Over the course of the next 10 years, as then-U.S. ambassador to the UN Madelaine Albright admitted on 60 Minutes, an estimated 500,000 children would die—Albright’s assessment of this was that “it was worth it.”
2003: The U.S. Again Invades Iraq
Iraqis look at the bodies of their loved ones killed during a U.S. raid 50 miles from Baghdad, March 2006. Photo: AP
Then, on top of all this, in 2003 the U.S. invaded again, (on the false pretext that Iraq was preparing to attack the U.S. with “weapons of mass destruction” which did not exist).
The U.S. launched a “Shock and Awe” attack on the capital city of Baghdad and its 6 million civilian inhabitants. In the first days of the war, “1,300 missiles and bombs were dropped on Iraq, most of them on Baghdad.”12 It virtually levelled the city of Fallujah, population 300,000, because it was a center of resistance to U.S. occupation, destroying 36,000 houses and killing between 4 and 6 thousand Iraqis. It set up torture centers like the Abu Ghraib prison. It fired on innocent gatherings of people from helicopter gunships.
By the end of the official U.S. occupation in 2011, it wasn’t just the infrastructure—Iraq itself was virtually destroyed as a functioning nation-state, fractured by internal turmoil, wracked by poverty and disease. It has yet to recover.
Barbaric “Customs” of a Savage Nation: U.S. Military Bombings of Weddings!
In the last few decades, the U.S. and its allies have amassed a horrifying toll of bombings of wedding parties, as well as school buses, hospitals and other targets filled with innocent civilians. A few examples:
- Afghanistan, July 2008, a U.S. missile hit a convoy of people traveling to a wedding in Nangarhar province, killing 47, including 39 women—one of whom was the bride—and children. Another 10 people were missing and presumed dead. All casualties were civilians.
- Afghanistan, August 2008, a U.S. helicopter gunship opened fire on what it thought was a meeting of Taliban militants in Herat province, but was actually a gathering of local peasants. The U.S. at first acknowledged 5-7 civilians as “collateral damage” but in the face of UN reports of 90 deaths finally admitted to 33.
- Afghanistan, November 2008, a missile launched by a U.S. aircraft hit a wedding party in Kandahar province, killing 40 civilians and wounding 28 others.
- Yemen, December 2013, a U.S. drone fired four missiles at people traveling to a wedding in Bayda province because a handful were thought to be in al-Qaeda—at least 17 people were killed, and at least 12 of them were innocent civilians. The Los Angeles Times wrote “In the gruesome aftermath, scorched vehicles and body parts were left scattered on the road. The incident illustrated the fact that many of the militants have tribal connections that make them likely to take part in village events, such as wedding celebrations.”
- Yemen, October 2016, the U.S.-backed Saudi military used advanced U.S. “guided” bombs to attack a large funeral in the city of Sana’a, killing at least 140 people and wounding 550. A local health official described the aftermath as “a pool of blood.”
- Yemen, April 2018, the Saudis used the same type of U.S. bomb to attack a wedding in the Hajjah governate, killing at least 33 people, including the bride. The majority of the dead were reportedly women and children. Survivors said that Saudi jets continued to circle overhead after the attack to prevent first responders from reaching the victims.
On July 5, 1852, the formerly enslaved abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass stated that the United States was guilty of “crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages.” These words ring truer than ever 170 years later.
A Consistent Record
And it is the same story, the same basic methods with new twists (like blowing up hospitals, or bombing school buses) that characterize every U.S. military venture. It is no exaggeration to say that the U.S. military has the blood of millions on its hands and has laid at least seven countries to complete ruin just since World War 2. And this will continue to be the nature of their “war-fighting methods” unless and until their machinery of death is defeated, broken up, and thrown in the dustbin of history.
Monday 17 October 2022
WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT ?
Why is it that when I'm watching a fine interview show on Youtube by the Nine Club , it's automatically called a fucking "podcast"? Of course I'm not blaming the folks at The Nine Club , these are the stupid times we're living in.
These used to just be called interviews . Where's the fucking pod ? Why the fuck do people immediately accept this bullshit ? And no, I don't need people recommending their favourite podcasts to me with their eyes closed while drinking kombucha or fucking craft beer.
Sorry , this was a pointless venting . Thanks for reading !
Thursday 13 October 2022
FUCKING LOWLIFE SWINE
What ? How can it be that a kkkop can also be a nazi shitbag ? You learn something new every day.
He Marched At The Nazi Rally In Charlottesville. Then He Went Back To Being A Cop.
Johnny Donnelly marched at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then he went back to being a cop in Massachusetts. (Photo: Illustration: HuffPost)
A Massachusetts police officer attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, five years ago and acted in key security and planning roles, HuffPost has confirmed. He also used an alias to post racist and antisemitic comments online. The officer, John Donnelly, was still an active-duty member of the police force until Thursday, shortly after HuffPost inquired about his status with the department and role in the deadly white supremacist rally.
Donnelly, 33, was a patrolman for the Woburn Police Department near Boston, where he has been employed since 2015.
But on the morning of Aug. 12, 2017, Donnelly could be seen on video arriving at the Charlottesville rally with Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist for whom Donnelly was apparently acting as a security guard. Spencer, Donnelly and a coterie of other suit-and-tie fascists worked their way into a city park where they held court beneath a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, posing for photos and talking into livestreams.
Donnelly was among hundreds of white supremacists who invaded the university town. His fellow attendees violently attacked counterprotesters, with one neo-Nazi driving his car into a crowd of anti-fascists, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring 19 others. That evening, Donnelly went to a party at a house near Charlottesville, where he joined in a celebration of the day’s events.
Donnelly then returned to Massachusetts and resumed his job as a cop.
His white supremacist activism and involvement in the Charlottesville rally has gone unknown for five years, during which time Donnelly — while still working as a police officer — became the president of a “back the blue” nonprofit raising money for law enforcement, as well as an award-winning real estate agent whose face is featured on a massive billboard in Woburn, a Boston suburb.
But last month, an anti-fascist collective called Ignite the Rightprovided HuffPost with evidence showing Donnelly attended the Charlottesville rally and connecting him to a series of deeply alarming messages posted online in which he advocated violence against leftists and minority groups.
HuffPost has verified the collective’s research and confirmed Donnelly’s employment with the Woburn Police Department.
After HuffPost contacted the department about Donnelly’s extremism, Police Chief Robert Rufo and Woburn Mayor Scott Galvin released a statement announcing Donnelly had been put on administrative leave pending an investigation.
“The Charlottesville rally is a dark moment in our history, and deeply disturbing,” Galvin said. “The City of Woburn is taking these allegations seriously by investigating the incident thoroughly and I will move to terminate Officer Donnelly if the investigation concludes that the allegations are accurate.”
Rufo added that if the allegations against Donnelly are sustained, the department will “ask the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission to decertify Officer Donnelly, ensuring he may no longer serve in law enforcement” in the state.
In response to questions regarding whether Donnelly had ever been disciplined for violating codes of conduct, or whether he’d been the subject of civilian complaints, Rufo said HuffPost’s inquiries would be treated as a public records request and answered within 10 days.
Donnelly did not respond to multiple requests for comment. After HuffPost left him voicemails, emailed him and messaged him, he deleted his pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
White Supremacist ‘Johnny O’Malley,’ Patrolman Johnny Donnelly
Left: "Johnny O'Malley," photographed at the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Right: A Zillow profile picture of John Donnelly, which was matched with the left photo through the facial recognition software PimEyes. (Photo: YouTube/Zillow)
Ignite the Right is a group dedicated to exposing every single person who participated in the 2017 event. “We do not forgive,” the group’s website states. “We do not forget.”
The site includes a database of white supremacists who have been identified as attending the demonstration. (HuffPost has not independently verified these IDs.) It also includes photos of the many white supremacists whose names are still unknown, five years later.
One of those photos was of a white man wearing a suit and sunglasses, sporting a “high-and-tight” haircut favored by fascists at the time.
The anti-fascists with Ignite the Right plugged that photo into the facial recognition software PimEyes. The site searched the internet and shot back a photo of an identical-looking man from a profile page on the online real estate marketplace Zillow. It belonged to a Boston-area realtor named John Donnelly, a “buyer’s agent” and “listing agent” catering to clients in the police and the military.
The anti-fascists then went to work finding corroboration that the PimEyes identification was correct — to prove Donnelly was really the man in the suit and sunglasses.
They found a video on YouTube, filmed by someone named “KK,” from the Aug. 12, 2017, rally, showing the man standing beneath Charlottesville’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. In the video he introduces himself to KK.
“I’m Johnny O’Malley,” he says.
The anti-fascists recognized this name and understood it was likely an alias. They’d seen a “Johnny O’Malley” in a private message group for white supremacists planning the Charlottesville rally. Most of the group’s members used pseudonyms.
The members’ messages to each other — hosted on the instant messaging platform Discord — were later obtained and published online by the independent media collective Unicorn Riot.
In a message on Aug. 14, 2017, someone in the group chat told “Johnny O’Malley” he’d seen him the YouTube video from Charlottesville. “Oh hey O’Malley, I saw you on KK’s video…nice glasses,” the message read.
“Oy vey… thanks lol,” O’Malley replied, suggesting that the O’Malley in the video and the O’Malley in the chat were the same man.
As the anti-fascists scrolled through messages from “Johnny O’Malley,” they found him divulging biographical details that matched those of John Donnelly, the real estate agent. O’Malley, for example, often talked about being Irish American and living in the Boston area.
And in a message dated Aug. 20, 2017, O’Malley wrote, “My sister got married to a huhwhite guy today… I’m trashed.” (“Huhwhite” is alt-right lingo for “white,” a reference to how some older white nationalists pronounce the word.)
According to the Facebook profile belonging to John Donnelly’s sister, she was married on Aug. 20, 2017.
Ignite the Right noticed on Donnelly’s LinkedIn page that he was not only a realtor; he was a cop. “Police Officer, City of Woburn,” the page said. “Acted in support of regular police operations serving arrests, enforcing traffic laws, and providing services to 40,000+ residents of Woburn.”
Earlier this week, HuffPost emailed the photo of “Johnny O’Malley” from Charlottesville to Rufo, the police chief, asking him to confirm the name and rank of the man in the photo.
“Johnny Donnelly,” Rufo responded. “Patrolman.”
‘Johnny O’Malley’ In Charlottesville
Donnelly was not some random attendee of the Charlottesville rally, but appears to have been deeply involved in organizing the event.
In the chat logs obtained by Unicorn Riot, where he used the name “Johnny O’Malley,” Donnelly can be seen coordinating flights and carpools to Charlottesville for Unite the Right.
In one message, Donnelly refers to himself as an Identity Evropa member, or at least suggests he is closely affiliated with those who are. Identity Evropa is a since-dissolved white supremacist group.
“If anyone heading downtown flying in Friday and has transportation … that wants to pick up two IE goys up at the airport, shoot me a [private message],” he wrote. “We’re flying into CVille airport.” (The word “goy” is a Jewish name for non-Jewish people that’s been appropriated by antisemites in recent years.)
In the video of Donnelly at the rally, it’s clear that he is working as a bodyguard for Spencer, the racist and antisemitic leader of the “alt-right” — a term Spencer coined to make his white supremacist movement sound more palatable to the general public.
Donnelly stands next to Spencer in the video. “Were you at the torch rally last night?” the cameraman asks Donnelly, referring to a demonstration on the evening of Aug. 11, 2017, when hundreds of white supremacists marched across the campus of the University of Virginia carrying tiki torches and chanting, “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!”
“Yeah, I was protecting this guy,” Donnelly responded to the cameraman’s question, gesturing at Spencer.
White nationalist Richard Spencer, center, and his supporters clash with Virginia State Police in Emancipation Park after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
After the video of Donnelly and Spencer was filmed, the Unite the Right rally attendees broke into various bigoted chants, some targeting anti-fascist demonstrators.
And a short time later, the rally exploded into violence, with white supremacists and anti-fascists trading blows in the streets for hours as police stood nearby, watching.
Police eventually declared the rally an “unlawful assembly” and started to push the white supremacists out of Lee Park. Photos show Spencer pushing himself against a phalanx of riot police, screaming and not wanting to leave.
It’s unclear if Donnelly, a police officer, joined Spencer in pushing the police.
Scattered violence broke out around Charlottesville as the white supremacists made their way out of the city. One fascist contingent beat a Black counterprotester with flag poles inside a parking garage.
And a neo-Nazi named James Alex Fields drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-fascists, sending people flying into the air and fatally injuring 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
A woman places flowers at an informal memorial to 32-year-old Heather Heyer on Aug. 13, 2017. Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting the white supremacist Unite the Right rally, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
That evening, Donnelly joined a celebration of this violence.
In a message posted in the Discord group, Donnelly described getting a cab to a party after the Unite the Right rally. “And I was redpilling the fuck out of the driver about the JQ,” Donnelly recounted. “Redpilling” means awakening to white supremacist beliefs, and “JQ” is an acronym for the “Jewish Question,” a phrase with Nazi roots referring to the antisemitic belief that Jews have undue influence and control over society.
Donnelly wrote that the cab was to “Azzmador’s house,” apparently a reference to Robert “Azzmador” Ray, an elder neo-Nazi who hosted a party at a safe house for white supremacists the evening of Aug. 12, 2017.
As HuffPost first reported, a video from that party shows Azzmador delivering a fiery speech after finding out about Heyer’s murder.
“This is our war!” he howled. “This has always been our war. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. Death to traitors! Death to the enemies of the white race! Hail victory!”
Azzmador’s adoring fans responded with their own shouts of “Hail victory,” the English translation of the German Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil.”
They then broke into a racist and antisemitic song, set to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
“My eyes have seen the glory of the trampling at the zoo. We’ve washed ourselves in n****rs’ blood and all the mongrels’ too. We’re taking down the ZOG machine Jew by Jew by Jew! The white man marches on!”
Donnelly didn’t respond to a HuffPost request for comment about whether he sang along.
Police Officer And Alt-Right Shitposter
Donnelly’s messages in the chat group are replete with racist and antisemitic slurs, along with appeals to violence.
“I wore my physical removal shirt from Right Wing Death Squad apparel to the gym today,” Donnelly wrote in one 2017 post. “Got some looks. If you’re not wearing offensive clothing to the gym, the kikes win.”
Right Wing Death Squad is an apparel company that was popular among the so-called alt-right in 2017. Its “physical removal” T-shirt is emblazoned with the words “PINOCHET DID NOTHING WRONG,” a reference to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s penchant for killing leftists by throwing them out of helicopters into the ocean.
An illustration on the back of the T-shirt depicts anti-fascists, or “antifa,” being thrown out of a helicopter. “MAKE COMMUNISTS AFRAID OF ROTARY AIRCRAFT AGAIN,” it says. “PHYSICAL REMOVAL SINCE 1973.”
Elsewhere in the chats, Donnelly wrote: “Friendly reminder that if you don’t lift today the kikes win.”
“We have enough fags in Boston we don’t need anymore,” read another message.
“Just call them n*****s,” read another.
He also once posted his email address, which contains the word rotors ― a likely reference to Pinochet’s helicopters.
That email address is connected to an account on Gab, a white-supremacist-friendly Twitter knockoff.
“Finally a place to shitpost without normie intervention,” Donnelly wrote on Gab.
“REMOVE KEBAB,” he wrote a short time later, using a racist alt-right euphemism for ethnically cleansing the U.S. and Europe of Muslims.
A Real Estate Agent, ‘Back The Blue’ Booster, And Firearms Instructor
White supremacist real estate agent John Donnelly. (Photo: Instagram)
Earlier this year, John Donnelly was the subject of a nice profile in Boston Agent Magazine, a local real estate trade publication. It began:
A Massachusetts resident for 32 years, John Donnelly, in his own words, is “an agent’s agent.” A Woburn native, Donnelly takes pride in the local connections he’s fostered in his three years in real estate and during his career as a police officer.
In addition to providing him an outlet to hone his social skills, Donnelly credits his experience on the police force with giving him a strong eye for detail and a fine-tuned negotiation style that helps him succeed today.
Donnelly now has a team of 15 motivated people working with him as The Donnelly Group, which primarily serves clients in the northern Boston and southern New Hampshire areas. “My team consists of a positive and fun atmosphere which promotes synergy, allowing us to get more done,” he remarks. In 2021, Century 21 also recognized Donnelly personally with the CENTURY 21 CENTURION® production award.
Donnelly got into the real estate business in 2018, according to his since-deleted LinkedIn profile. By November 2020, according to an Instagram post from The Donnelly Group, he had his own billboard in Woburn. The photo shows him standing with his German shepherd in front of the sign — which features his likeness and his business’s phone number.
Century 21 did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday about Donnelly’s white supremacist activism.
Donnelly’s former LinkedIn profile also described him as being the “president” of a nonprofit organization called Irish Angel since February of this year.
“Irish Angel is a support network for Law Enforcement, EMS, Firefighters, and the Military,” the group’s website states. “We provide education, awareness, and resources about addictions, PTSD, PTSI, TBI, Depression, and anxiety.”
Irish Angel’s social media accounts frequently post images of the “Thin Blue Line” flag, and messages with the phrase “Blue Lives Matter” — common symbols in law enforcement communities across the country that were developed as a racist retort to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Donnelly frequently posts this type of pro-police propaganda on his own social media accounts.
He also appeared at a fundraiser for Irish Angel as recently as September 2021, according to a photo posted to Twitter that shows him posing with the organization’s founder, Amanda Coleman.
John Donnelly at a fundraiser for Irish Angel. (Photo: Twitter)
A short time after HuffPost emailed Irish Angel about evidence of Donnelly’s white supremacist activism, the organization removed his picture from its website.
“We’re absolutely disappointed and appalled in light of this information,” Jorey Herrscher, the group’s treasurer, told HuffPost on Thursday. “We certainly had no knowledge of that going on, or otherwise he never would’ve been in that position. It’s a sad thing that groups like the ones he belonged to can infiltrate the best of organizations.”
Herrscher said Donnelly was “immediately removed” as president of Irish Angel and that an investigation has been launched to ensure his white supremacist activities didn’t impact the organization’s mission.
Before Donnelly was a cop, before he was a real estate agent, and before he was the president of a police nonprofit, he worked with his father at Precision Point Firearms.
The company’s website describes it as “federally licensed manufacturer and dealer of firearms” in Massachusetts. According to the vanished LinkedIn page, Donnelly was a part owner of the company, as well as a “lead firearms instructor” and “expert witness” until January 2017.
Photos from Precision Point Firearms show Donnelly attending different gun fairs and posing with big guns.
And one post, from early August 2017 — a week before Donnelly flew down to Charlottesville — shows a pistol for sale next to a Precision Point Firearms-branded sticker.
“BLACK GUNS MATTER,” the sticker said.
A racist sticker for John Donnelly's firearms company. (Photo: Facebook)
Anti-Fascists To Unite The Right Attendees: We Will Find You
In the weeks leading up to the Charlottesville rally, Donnelly coached future attendees how not to be doxxed.
If you’re worried about being identified, Donnelly wrote to members of the group chat, try to be “low key.” Don’t wear T-shirts with slogans or carry signs that might attract the attention of photojournalists.
He also tried to put the white supremacists at ease.
“[Anti-fascists] can review all the footage they want, but unless there is a massive effort, they’re not going to be able to doxx every person there,” Donnelly wrote.
Five years later, Donnelly has been doxxed by precisely that kind of massive effort.
Ignite the Right is a coalition of anonymous anti-fascist researchers that formed on the five-year anniversary of the rally in Charlottesville this past August.
When it launched, the coalition implored people in communities across the country to send them tips that could help them ID people who attended Unite the Right.
The coalition now has the photos of 529 people who attended the rally on its website. Two-hundred eighty-one of them have been identified, a spokesperson said, while another 248 still need to be ID’d. (Again, HuffPost has not independently verified these IDs.)
Among the dozens of white supremacists the coalition claims to have exposed over the last few months was a computer science professor at Furman University in South Carolina. The professor, Christopher Healy, has been put on leave pending an investigation by the school.
In a statement to HuffPost this week, Ignite the Right emphasized that it will never stop its search to find the fascists who terrorized Charlottesville.
“A woman was murdered at Unite The Right by a white supremacist compatriot of neo-Nazi cop John Donnelly,” the statement said. “The white supremacists who attended Unite The Right are an ever-present danger to their communities. We cannot tolerate Nazi cops and Nazi gun dealers having the authority to execute or imprison people. All his cases must be reviewed.”
“White supremacists operate at all levels of society, including business, academia, and government,” the statement continued. “We will never stop hunting them down and exposing them.”
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