/ Patriot Front members spray painting in Springfield, IL. Unicornriot.ninja
Chat messages, pictures, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremicist group known as the Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file members conspiring in hate crimes, in spite of their claims that they have been a reputable political organization.
Patriot Front, or PF, formed in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, a demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in one particular death and 35 injuries when a rally attendee rammed his car or truck into a crowd of counter-protesters. PF founder Thomas Rousseau, began the group right after an image posted on the net showed the now-convicted killer, James Alex Fields, Jr., posing with members of Vanguard America shortly just before the attack. Vanguard America quickly dissolved, and Rousseau rebranded it as PF with the aim of hiding any involvement in violent acts.
Since then, PF has strived to present itself as a group of patriots who are aligned with the ideals and values of the founders who defeated the tyranny of British colonists in the 18th century and paved the way for the United States to be born. In announcing the the formation of PF in 2017, Rousseau wrote:
The new name was meticulously selected, as it serves a number of purposes. It can assist inspire sympathy amongst these much more inclined to fence-sitting, and can be effortlessly justified to our ideology [sic] and worldview. The original American patriots have been nothing at all quick of revolutionaries. The word patriot itself comes from the similar root as paternal and patriarch. It implies loyalty to anything intrinsically primarily based in blood.
Turbo cans and rubber roofing cement
But a published report and leaked data the report is primarily based on present a starkly distinct image. The chat messages, pictures, and videos purport to show Rousseau and other PF members discussing the defacing of a lot of murals and monuments advertising Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ groups, and other social justice causes.
This chat, for instance, seems to show a PF member discussing the targeting of a civil rights mural in Detroit. When a member asks what the finest way is to completely cover up a mural with paint, Rousseau is shown replying “It’s in the stencil guide. Turbo cans.” The stencil guide refers to
When a distinct member discussed regardless of whether rubber roofing cement was appropriate to covering a George Floyd memorial that had been treated with anti-graffiti clear coating, Rousseau allegedly responded: “Keep me posted as to your study and practice with this substance. Orders will be offered out at the occasion.”
The information dump also seems to document the defacing of a monument in Olympia, Washington.
/ What it looked like just before. Unicorn.ninja
/ What it looked like right after. Unicorn.ninja
The leaked information purports to show a variety of other illegal activities the group discussed. They include things like Rousseau informing members preparing a rally in Washington DC that one particular participant will get in touch with 911 from a burner telephone and make a false report to authorities.
“He will cite that there is a protest, he sees shields BUT NO WEAPONS, and everybody involved seems to be behaving peacefully, waving and handing out flyers, nonetheless he is a concerned citizen and suggests the police take a appear into it to make sure everyone’s civil rights are protected,” Rousseau appeared to create. “He will add that it appears like we just arrived from the metro. This will soften the police up just before our major visual make contact with on the bridge, and present a tiny confusion and misinfo that is inside the realm of sincere dialogue.”
Attempts to attain Rousseau or other PF members didn’t succeed.
Friday’s published report stated that the leak comprised about 400 gigabytes of information and came from a self-hosted instance of RocketChat, an open supply chat server that is equivalent to Slack and Discord. It’s only the most recent instance of a hate group becoming hacked and its private discussions becoming dumped on the net. In 2019, the breach of the Iron March website revealed, amongst other items, that numerous of its members have been members of the US Marines, Navy, Army, and military reserves.
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