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TexasTowelie

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 10:43 PM Aug 2017

Indiana white nationalist called 'the next David Duke' isn't stopping with Charlottesville

Three weeks ahead of the coming apocalypse, Matthew Heimbach knew that violence was a real possibility in Charlottesville, Va.

A prominent white nationalist who’d squared off with leftist counterprotesters before, Heimbach said the group he was leading into Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park would be prepared: helmets and shields. And a security wing of his fringe political party would openly carry weapons.

Standing in the middle of an Indiana forest where he sometimes films propaganda videos, Heimbach cast himself and his cause — the defense of white heritage — in the most romantic of terms.

“I know — and my wife knows — whenever I go to an event, like the ancient Spartan wives used to tell their husbands, come back with your shield — or on it. And my family knows this will likely cost me my life or freedom in this system we are fighting.”

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/08/27/indiana-white-nationalist-called-the-next-david-duke-isnt-stopping-charlottesville/573817001/

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Indiana white nationalist called 'the next David Duke' isn't stopping with Charlottesville (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
these guys live in a fucked up make believe world.... dhill926 Aug 2017 #1
Amen shenmue Aug 2017 #2
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