WEBVTT - White Terror 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.920 Cool Zone Media. 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.560 It was a little after seven pm on a warm 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:14.040 Wednesday evening in October of twenty twenty two. Urai Van 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.320 Koulik and Matuschhorvath were sitting outside of Taplaren, a gay bar, 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.560 and brought us lavas city center. Matushe was studying Chinese 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.639 at a nearby university. You or I was a drag 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.080 performer whose day job was designing the displays at a 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.800 clothing store. They were enjoying the evening outside of one 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.879 of the city's few dedicated queer spaces, and then they 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.440 were dead. They were shot by a teenager who left 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.000 behind a sixty five page neo Nazi manifesto before shooting 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.400 himself in a nearby park. August twelfth, twenty twenty four, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.959 was a sunny afternoon in the Turkish city of z Kisheher. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.800 A teenager wearing a skull mask and a bulletproof vest 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.160 walked into the tea garden outside of a mosque and 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.200 stabbed five men before being tackled to the ground. Two 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.720 left a manifesto glorifying mass murder. In July of twenty 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.160 twenty four, a teenager in New Jersey who'd been planning 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.320 to destroy power substations in New Brunswick was arrested at 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.640 the Newark Airport before he'd fly to Ukraine to join 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.200 the Russian Volunteer Corps, where he hoped to learn the 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.600 skills he'd need to carry out acts of terror here 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.800 at home. These three teenagers never met, but they had 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.480 something in common. A murderer in Slovakia, an attempted murderer 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.560 in Turkey. They were alone when they walked the familiar 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.160 streets of their town, stalking their victims. They were alone 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.920 when they shocked. They were alone when they stabbed. They 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.399 hunted human prey as lone wolves. But there are no 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.280 lone wolves, not really. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.240 The wolf pack is. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.640 Online now, baying for more blood. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.960 Between nineteen sixty eight and twenty twenty one, one hundred 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.440 and five white men and women of action, half tinging 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.600 out upon themselves, wage war against the system, and our 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.040 racial enemies are saying, to the best of our brothers, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.440 and this is our legacy of white Terrier. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.120 All three of these young men were incited to take 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.399 action by propaganda produced by the Terragram Collective, a one 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.200 synonymous group of militant neo Nazi accelerationists on the messaging 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.160 app telegram. All three of them were radicalized by a 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.160 thirty four year old dildo saleswoman from California, narrating the 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:33.040 manifestos of their idols, the mass shooters who came before them. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:54.760 I'm Molly Konger and this is weird, little guys. Urai 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.160 Krachik died by suicide sometime overnight after he murdered two 0:02:58.200 --> 0:02:59.799 people outside of a gay bar and brought us a 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.120 law on October twelfth, twenty twenty two. His body was 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.600 found in a nearby public park early the next morning, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.280 but he didn't shoot himself right away. After fleeing the scene, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.840 he got online. That was where he was most at home, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.640 after all, That was where he became the man he 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.600 was in the moment he fired those shots. A few 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.119 hours before the attack, he tweeted out links to his manifesto. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.880 After fleeing the scene of the shooting, he went home. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.600 He told his parents what he had done. They argued, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.960 but no one called the police. He left a handwritten 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.440 suicide note, retrieved a second gun from his father's safe, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.680 and left the house again. His parents were the last 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:50.560 ones to see him alive. The city was crawling with 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.280 police that night, They were on high alert for the shooter, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.600 worried he would act again, but even now that he 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.120 was armed with a fresh weapon, he didn't seek out 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.160 more targets. Krazik walked to a local park and checked 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.840 four chan on his phone. People were talking about him 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.280 about his attack. He wanted to see what they were saying. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.720 Four Chan users quickly connected the shooting to his Twitter account. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.160 As he'd walked home after the attack, he tweeted hashtag 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.000 brought a slava feeling no regrets? 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.520 Isn't that funny? 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.560 On four Chan, they were already discussing the manifesto he'd 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.920 tweeted out. One poster asked why would a Slovakian write 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.920 his manifesto in English? And this was the first post 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:41.280 the shooter replied to He wrote, because I felt like it. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.120 If you're familiar with four chan, first of all, i'm sorry, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.680 but if you've spent any time on there, you know 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.880 it's not a friendly place, and not just unfriendly to outsiders. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.719 Even people who share similar ideologies are at each other's throats, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.440 hurling insults, said engaging in an eternal competition to be 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.760 the nastiest person with an Internet connection. Posters mocked the 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.160 shooter for killing only two people, and asked why he'd 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.480 chosen such low value targets. Even as they celebrated the 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.840 deaths of his victims, they bullied the shooter for not 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.560 doing more, for not doing it better, for not doing 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:24.919 it differently. They were Monday morning quarterbacking Murder Life is 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.120 just a first person shooter game for the keyboard Warrior 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:34.440 mass shooting enthusiast. To these comments, Krazil replied that he'd 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.200 wanted to shoot the Slovakian Prime Minister at Ward Hager, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.919 writing wish I could have gone higher, but whatever wanted 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.000 to bag the Prime Minister, but I didn't get lucky 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.239 with his car arriving. Later. News reports do in fact 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.600 confirm that he was seen that evening on security camera 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.560 footage outside the Prime Minister's home an hour before the shooting. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.880 The same news report maps out his walk home after 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.400 the shooting, a route that took him through a largely 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.560 Jewish neighborhood. Rejik lamented on four Chan that night that 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.640 he had wanted to shoot the Kabbad House too, but 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.920 he'd run out of ammunition, writing wish I could pull 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:16.240 off more, got nearly no amm O bro posters on 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.080 four Chan were skeptical that the man replying to them 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.000 was truly the shooter himself, and demanded that he post 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.719 some kind of proof. A little after eleven thirty pm, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.040 four hours after fleeing the scene of the shooting, he did. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.800 It's dark wherever he was. You can't see anything in 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.080 the background. The flash illuminates only the subject of the selfie. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:45.200 He's completely expressionless. There's no smile, no bravado, no fear even. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.840 There's just nothing. He's looking straight at. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.479 The camera, holding his phone with one hand and making 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.960 a finger gun that points directly at the viewer with 0:06:54.040 --> 0:07:00.280 the other. Have a last selfie, he says. Most of 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.240 his posts on the four chan thread that night are 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.160 in English. It is the lingua franca of the site, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.839 after all. But one user responds to this selfie in 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:14.000 Slovak translated. The comment reads, what happened boy? Why don't 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.520 you smile anymore? Reality set in? Did you fall for 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.240 the meme? Stupid? 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:19.480 Right? 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.480 The shooter replied to that comment in Slovak, saying, speak 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:29.960 for yourself. In attaching a second selfie, he's smiling this time, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:35.080 kind of. It's hard to say you feel any sorrow 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.320 for a man who just murdered two people in cold 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.880 blood and then logged onto four Chan to take credit 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:45.360 for it. And I don't not really not for this murderer, 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.960 but he was just a boy once, a boy whose 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.960 fake smile shows the still slightly rounded cheeks of a 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.640 kid who won't live to see the last adolescent changes 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.840 to his face. His forced smile, a smile that doesn't 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.840 reach the eyes. That selfie taken in the dark, somewhere 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.880 in the trees on the edge of town will probably 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:05.360 stay with me. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:05.880 For a while. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.559 He engages with the four Chan thread for nearly an hour, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.640 answering questions and repeatedly acquiescing to demands for proof that 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.440 it's really him. He posts a picture of a handwritten 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.440 note with a time and date, posts another selfie, this 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.200 time with his shoe on top of his head. This 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.040 is a common form of proof demanded on four Chan 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.680 to determine if you are really interacting with someone who 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.920 is who they say they are and in real time. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.640 I guess the idea is that most people have a 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.840 shoe nearby, but most people don't have old photos of 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.600 themselves online with a shoe on their head, So if 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.960 you can produce such a photo on request. You probably 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.480 are the person in the photo and not just someone 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.720 using photos of a stranger that you found online. Another 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.720 user asks him to spell out the N word and 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.640 leaves on the ground and post a picture of that. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.840 He says it would take too long to spell out 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.520 the whole word, and posts a blurry photo of leaves 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.480 arranged in the shape of the letter N. Another user 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.000 asks him what's going through your mind right now, and 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:16.000 he says, sad for my family, happy with my own life. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:22.440 Nothing for the two f slurs soon a bit of lead. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.440 Another user asks if he plans to spend decades in 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.640 prison or if he'll kill himself. He replies with two 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:37.080 words and hero, which is memespeak for dying by suicide. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.560 His last four Chan posts was shortly before midnight. Four 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.960 Chan users are perpetually caught in between their desire for 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.360 and celebration of acts like this and their frustration that 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:49.760 this kind of thing makes them. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:50.920 All look bad. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.120 You know, it makes them look like exactly what they are, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.600 the kind of people goading a teenage murderer into killing 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:03.280 himself writes, you have made everyone on this board look 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.800 like a terrorist. Is that what you wanted? Also repent 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:13.040 hell is real? His reply his final post reads only 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:19.160 not my problem. On Twitter, his final post was a 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.280 little after midnight in Slovak, he wrote see you on 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:28.200 the other side. A Slovak language news report says that 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.600 two days before the attack, he had called a mental 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.360 health crisis hotline. He said, I have to die, but 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:40.440 I am very afraid, and then he hung up. But 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.120 in his final hours he didn't call back. He didn't 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.439 call that hotline. He didn't turn himself in or seek help. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.080 He sought reassurance and support from the place least likely 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.240 to provide it. He logged onto four Chan, hoping to 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.440 see his acts hailed as heroic, but they. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:58.839 Just laughed at him. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.439 He was dead before terogram canonized him, placing him in 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:09.120 the Pantheon of terror. He worshiped. Authorities in Slovakia weren't 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.800 able to ping his cell phone location until five am. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.240 The cell phone provider didn't have any employees working overnight. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.040 His body was found in the park around seven am. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.120 It's not clear exactly when he died, but if I 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.800 had to put money on it, I'd guess he died 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.880 in real life shortly after he logged off. He posted 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.480 right up through the end, and that's all we really knew. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.480 In October of twenty twenty two, the manifesto was online 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.360 for all to see. In the manifesto, he includes the 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.240 Terogram Collective in his list of special thanks at the end, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.600 writing you know who you are. Thank you for your 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.640 incredible writing and art, for your political texts, for your 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.400 practical guides building the future of the White Revolution one 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.239 publication at a time. In the section of the manifesto 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.960 under the header recommended reading, he lists many of the 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.320 usual suspects. He was inspired by the christ Church mosque 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:11.720 shooting and recommends that shooter's manifesto. He praises the terrorist's Bible, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.400 William Luther Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries, and even recommends 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:20.200 the prequel, an even sloppier novel called Hunter, But he 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.960 also recommends two other lesser known publications, two of the 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:29.080 four publications authored by the Terragram Collective. He lists these two, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:35.200 Militant Accelerationism and The Hard Reset, last, writing, if the 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.319 other books give a theoretical and fictional base for our resistance, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.400 these two provide the practical means for it. They also 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.520 go into a deeper dive into some issues, concepts, and things. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.200 Anyone who seeks to fight Zog should know. These two 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.040 may be harder to find than the other books I listed, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.520 but you can find them if you look in the 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.080 right places. The link between the Brodislava shooting and the 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.679 Tterogram Collective was never a secret. It was right there 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.599 all along. He said it himself. He recommended their propaganda 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.120 and thanked them in the acknowledgments. But when he was 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:15.560 posting on Fortune that night he lied about something earlier 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.280 in this Murderer's Q and a session. Someone asked him, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.960 have you been talking to some other people over telegram, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.000 discord or signal? And he replies, made my own decision 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.679 to do this. I had barely any dms with people 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.720 on telegram or wherever. And he later followed up with 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.240 their channel owners. Hence the annan part, don't know their names. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:43.280 They produced good content. Though Craigich was trying to backtrack 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 on his initial post that he'd exchanged direct messages with 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.199 anyone in the lead up to the attack, the truth, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.439 as it turns out, is that he wasn't just reading 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.880 the material produced by the Telegram Collective he was in 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:01.559 active communication with its leaders. This age murderer in Slovakia 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.720 hadn't just posted his manifesto online before the attack. He'd 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:10.920 also sent it directly to someone immediately after. He wanted 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.320 to be certain that his message got out, so he 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.800 sent it to someone he knew would spread it, someone 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.080 who had helped him craft it. He sent the manifesto 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:28.160 to Matthew Allison, a man in his thirties living in Boise, Idaho, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.160 earlier this month. In September of twenty twenty four, Matthew 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.440 Allison of Boise and Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.520 were arrested in charge in a fifteen count indictment with 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.200 soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, interstate threats, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.960 distributing information relating to explosives, and conspiring to provide material 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.760 support to terrorists. The pair are alleged to be the 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.600 ringleaders of the Terragram Collective, that association of pseudonymous posters 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.960 on telegram that produced Neo Nazi acceleration propaganda and now, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.840 according to the Department of Justice, the Terogram Collective can 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.400 also be called a transnational terrorist group According to the 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.200 allegations in the indictment, Krajik was an active member of 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.960 the group's chat for a year. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:31.120 Leading up to the shooting. And I guess I should 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.840 back up a little bit and explain a little more. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.400 About what's going on in these chats, as much as 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.360 I would really rather not. There are plenty of Nazi 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.960 chat rooms. There is no shortage of places online where 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.720 a racial slur enthusiast can log on and share ideas 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.640 with other guys who hate black people and Jewish people, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.560 and gay people, and immigrants and women and whatever. Pick 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.440 your flavor. It's out there in abundance. This is something 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.520 much darker. These are accelerationists, people who believe their goals 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.440 can only be achieved by driving society over the brink 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.040 and into total collapse. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:12.840 They believe that. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.240 Acts of mass murder, terrorism, and destruction are the necessary 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.160 course of action to create the chaos required to allow 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.360 a new world to be born, a world built by 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.720 and four white men alone. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.160 And they aren't just talking about it. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.800 The Terogram Collective has produced a series of what would 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:41.240 you call them manuals, manifestos, zines, terrorism handbooks. They've put 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.520 out four written publications in one short documentary, all directed 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.960 at providing both inspiration and explicit instruction on how their 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:55.400 followers can commit acts of unspeakable violence. In their online spaces, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.400 past acts are celebrated. One of the core elements of 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:05.920 the group's ship language is this pantheon of saints. It's 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:11.000 not the saints you're thinking of. This is a gruesome hagiography. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.840 They've canonized mass shooters. They celebrate the Saint Day of 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.560 each shooter on the day of their atrocity. Robert Bowers, Unders, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.640 Bravic Dylan Rue, Brenton, Terran, Patrick Crusius, Anton London Patterson, 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.360 murderers from infamous to obscure murderers from all over the world. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:37.880 The criteria for sainthood are fivefold, race, motive, intent, score, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:43.720 and worldview. The prospective saint must, of course, be white. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.600 There is occasionally some debate in the Nazi community about 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.160 whether they should offer their begrudging respect for non white 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.360 mass murderers, who nevertheless kill large numbers of people they 0:17:54.359 --> 0:18:00.239 deem worthy targets, but the answer is generally no. They 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.040 would celebrate something like the Pulse night club shooting, which 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.920 killed nearly fifty people, most of whom were both Latino 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.480 and members of the queer community. That perpetrator cannot be 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.119 celebrated as a saint because he fails the first test. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:19.399 He isn't white. Intent, motive, and worldview all feel like 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.320 they kind of describe the same thing. So I'm not 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.360 sure why there are five criteria when they probably could 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.480 have condensed it down to three. But the attack must 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:33.520 be deliberate, that's intent, committed in the spirit of our struggle, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:38.240 that's motive, and be motivated by a white nationalist ideology. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.879 Though they are willing to make some exceptions. There's a 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.040 little wiggle room here for attacks that are right wing 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:50.440 but not explicitly neo Nazi. And score means exactly what 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:56.240 you probably think it means. They're keeping score, they're counting bodies. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.040 Sometimes if you log into the worst kind of place 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.760 during an active attack or in the immediate aftermath of one, 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.080 you'll see eager speculation that someone could be getting a 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.240 new high score, like it's some kind of video game. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.760 And there are no exceptions to this requirement. You cannot 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.560 become a Terogram saint with a score of zero. Someone 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.480 has to die. These ideas didn't originate with Matthew Allison 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.600 and Dallas Humber. Both of them have been members of 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.359 this online community for years since at least twenty nineteen. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.280 In twenty twenty two, after the arrest of one of 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.520 the community's most prolific posters, they became the group's leaders. 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:45.560 A user who posted as Slovak bro Pavel Benedick, was 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.760 arrested in Slovakia in early twenty twenty two and eventually 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.000 sentenced to six years in prison for his support of 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.639 terrorism and Slovak Brough isn't the only Terogram author to 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.000 land himself in prison. Brandon Russell, the Adam Woffin founder, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.959 currently awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to blow up 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.000 the power grid in Baltimore, was in close communication with 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:10.520 members of the group before and after his arrest. He 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.840 appears to have participated in the creation of at least 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.480 some of the group's work. Two men in Canada were 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.320 arrested last fall, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police press 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.560 release alleging that they too had participated in the creation 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.359 of Tarogram manifestos. Their cases are ongoing and subject to 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.920 a publication ban in Canada, so the extent of their 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.680 involvement and the possibility that revelations in those cases had 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.119 some bearing on the investigation here in the US is 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.400 unknown right now. As the leaders of the Tarogram collective, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.080 Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison, are alleged to have directly 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.719 contributed to acts of terrorism. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.520 All over the world. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.760 Their publications provided detailed instructions on how to make bombs, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.320 how to make napalm at home with materials you can 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.000 buy at the hardware store, the most efficient way to 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.800 destroy an electrical substation with rifle fire, and how to 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:05.159 identify the most valuable targets in your area, targets that 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:11.320 could be infrastructure or human. They maintained a document called 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:17.080 the List, a list of high value assassination targets. For 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.280 each name on the list, there was a little graphic 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.760 like a trading card. The target's name, home address, and 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.159 photograph were always featured, along with the reasons why they 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.800 were considered an enemy of the cause. Those reasons, as 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.840 you might expect, tended to be related to the target's identity. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.240 They're Jewish, they're gay, they're an immigrant, or some other 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.639 kind of undesirable in their eyes. The names on the 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.560 list include senators, judges, a former federal prosecutor, state and 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:53.240 local government officials, and non profit employees. In their chats, 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.360 they posted the list often, and would sometimes post individual 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.919 members of the list alongside encouragement to take action. In 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.560 one exchange described in the indictment, a member of the 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.480 group chat asked if there were any members of the 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:09.520 list located in his area. The administrator of the group 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.960 responded with a trading card image for a target in 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.879 a city in the poster's area. The user replied, we 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.160 already have this one, and asked the channel administrator to 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.159 tag him if any new names were added to the 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.560 list in his area. A user the government alleges is Dallas. 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:30.199 Humber replied, we'll do. A week later, she tagged that 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.679 same user with a new name in the same city. 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.480 He replied, very good, I'll check in with my guys now. 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.239 And it wasn't just members of the list who were 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:45.000 in danger. Humber and Allison would routinely remind members of 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:46.960 the group of the kinds of targets they should be 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.679 seeking out. In June of twenty twenty three, Humber posted 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.720 numerous exhortations to followers that they should be targeting Gay 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.760 Pride Month events, writing in one post. 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:03.879 Mass shootings, arson bombings, vehicle tax The list goes on, 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.520 and the opportunities provided to you this month will be plentiful. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.520 Don't let them go to waste. What's more impactful boycotting 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:17.639 target or getting dozens of targets in your sights and 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.200 taking them out permanently. Actions speak louder than words. Direct 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:27.240 lethal action speaks louder than any boycott. This Pride month, 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.040 give us what we truly need, a new saint to 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.040 be proud of and a glorious new attack to celebrate. 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.720 You've got the means an opportunity. All you need is 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.880 the will. Don't breathe a word of what you're planning 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:45.040 to anyone, and make it count. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:50.440 Make it count. That's a frequent refrain. Make it Count 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.840 as the title of one of the group's terrorism manuals. 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.919 It's also the final line of the broadess Lava Shooters Manifesto. 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.320 The line itself comes from seed the collected essays of 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:05.760 James Mason. If the Turner Diaries is their Bible, siege 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:10.240 is perhaps a missile or a brevery. Maybe the analogy 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.919 doesn't hold. I don't know, but Mason is the godfather 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:18.800 of modern fascist terrorism read Siege was such a constant 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:21.600 directive in so many Nazi chats for so long that 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:24.520 it's more of a meme than an actual instruction. At 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:28.920 this point. Mason wrote the Siege newsletter throughout the early 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.960 to mid eighties. The essays were collected and published in 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:34.960 book form in the early nineties, but the text languished 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:37.919 in relative obscurity until it was rediscovered by users of 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.560 the Nazi forum Iron March in the early twenty tens. 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:43.960 It's no coincidence that Adam Wafflin was born on the 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:47.400 pages of that forum, in the bubbling ideological soup where 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:52.000 young men were exchanging their favorite passages of Siege. It's 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:56.159 a messy sprawling six hundred or so pages, depending on 0:24:56.200 --> 0:25:00.399 the addition you've bootlegged from some terrorism chat room. It's 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:04.640 mostly useless ramblings. There's a lot of repetitive content. It 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:08.040 wasn't written to be a book, to be fair. The 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:11.479 line make it count comes from the end of the 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:15.840 August nineteen eighty two newsletter, in a missive titled Biting 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:19.720 the Bullet. Like much of the avice in Siege, this 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:23.879 essay is about taking action, about choosing the time, the target, 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.439 and the circumstances of your attack on the system, because 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:31.320 you may only get one chance to strike. The essay concludes, 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:35.800 quote in revolution, the price of failure generally is death. 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:40.359 So whatever you do, and whatever course you choose, don't 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:46.360 sell yourself cheap. Make it count. Make it count. The 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.600 Collective's Terrorism Guide by the same name and The Hard 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:54.639