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Corey “C-Money” Farrell

The World’s Least Intelligent
Wanna-Be White Supremacist

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present you with Corey Farrell from Lafayette, IN. Corey “C-Money” Farrell brings up an interesting conundrum. Can a white supremacist be too stupid for antifascists to mess with? We’ll let you decide.

We recently received an unsolicited email from C-Money. The body was blank but the subject read, “I would love to join the movement”. Emails like this are not exactly how we grow as an organization. We figured this was just another white supremacist troll, but figured we’d shoot an email back:

From: harm@riseup.net
To: cmoney89765@gmail.com

Tell us about ypurself.Where you from? Where you live? Where’d you go to high school? How’d you hear about us?Describe your political beliefs. Have you been an activist for any other organizations? Do you have any skillsets you think might be useful?

We recieved this eyebrow-raising response:

From: cmoney89765@gmail.com
To: harm@riseup.net

Names Corey Farrell 22 years old. From lafayette Indiana. Went to Jeff high school. My political views is governmentis more towards Mexicans n afro Americans. Fuck the whites… My skills sets would be spreading the word here in Indiana n where ever I go. I am proud to be a white male.

And then added:

From: cmoney89765@gmail.com
To: harm@riseup.net

I also never been in any movements. But my family tells me to find one n join. Heard good things about u guys

It was at this point in time that we began to suspect that we might not be quite the organization that C-Money was looking for. The best that we can figure out, C-Money heard some rumors about some hard-hitting beastly members of the Lafayette Crew (who happen to have lightly tinted skin) and just assumed that they must be white supremacist. You’d think since he took the time to look up our email address on the interwebz he might have taken the time to read anything that we’ve ever posted, but no.

We were still amazed that anyone was this stupid. We looked online and quickly found that his info did indeed check out. C-Money is a 22 year old Lafayette native who wasn’t good enough at mixed martial arts to go anywhere with it. He’s been arrested on outstanding warrants. But still, we had to make sure:

From: harm@riseup.net
To: cmoney89765@gmail.com

So you’re a proud white male willing to do what it takes to ensure that white males keep their place at the top of the food chain?

C-Money’s response:

From: cmoney89765@gmail.com
To: harm@riseup.net

Depends what’s going on y

Followed by:

From: cmoney89765@gmail.com
To: harm@riseup.net

But ya I’m a proud white male

WN crews love “ironic” homosexuality.

Oh, C-Money… You’re actually pretty lucky you got us instead of the people you were looking for. Go tell some Hammerskins, Peckerwoods, or Aryan Brotherhood crews that you’d love to join their movement and that your name is “C-Money”. They’ll love that.

In all honesty, we almost feel bad for the kid. His parents apparently want him to join a hate group. He doesn’t have a future in fighting. He isn’t gonna become a doctor or rocket scientist. He probably figures he might as well join up with a crew that he hopes will have his back in the prison he’ll probably wind up in.

He was kind enough to provide a phone number for us. We’re holding back his address for the time being. All you liberal peace police who say that education is the answer: Here’s your chance. Someone should school this kid and find him a job and teach him how to read. Start with explaining what putting the prefix “anti-” in front of a word does to its meaning. Any antifa reading this might consider giving him a call to let him know what his future will be like if he succeeds in joining in a hate group. If that doesn’t work, oh well, the bigots can have this one… Ladies and gentleman the future of white nationalism.

Corey “C-Money” Farrell
(765)414-9392
cmoney89765@gmail.com
Lafayette, IN

HARM CeCe McDonald Benefit Report Back

Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement’s Bloomington chapter successfully hosted a benefit for CeCe McDonald this past weekend. Approximately $450 was raised for CeCe. The benefit featured various local musicians and provided an opportunity to raise awareness of CeCe’s case and show solidarity with the LGBTQ community both nationally and locally.

For those still unaware of CeCe’s case her support page can be found here. The state’s case against CeCe is particularly relevant at this time. Trayvon Martin’s murderer George Zimmerman is still free even though he stalked and killed the unarmed teenager. CeCe is still held captive even though she defended herself against racist, transphobic violence. Race, sexual orientation, and gender are the obvious motivations for the government’s very different treatment of the two cases.

Bloomington HARM would like to thank the many antifascists that traveled from all over the state to show their support and make this event happen so successfully. Stay tuned for more Indiana antifascist events in the coming weeks and months.

How Can You Save What is Not Yours?

In the coming weeks some of the members of HARM will be creating a space to open a discussion about dominant and dominated cultures. This post is an attempt to begin that conversation by covering a bit of history and one perspective of decolonization by discussing and supporting Linda Tuhwiai Smith’s argument in Colonizing Knowledges, that the Western world holds an egocentric view of itself and how it relates to other cultures around the world. It seeks to corroborate that the West measures all cultures and subsequent knowledge it comes into contact using Western culture, thought and ideal as the measuring sticks and while this does create a systematic way to classify information, it does not take advantage of other possible view points including that no culture needs to be measured at all.

Smith’s paper offers the perspective of a member of a dominated group concerning the dissemination of knowledge. She says that because the West aggressively seeks to categorize all they come into contact with, that it strengthens it’s domination by creating the constructs of the categorization to fit within it’s own knowledge base. The West doesn’t even consider if it is right, or even if it’s object of scrutiny is cognizant enough to contribute to the categorization. The West views itself as the epicenter, as the starting point, and though colonialism and imperialism moves outward aggressively discovering what was already there and collecting what belonged to someone else.

Smith argues that the colonization of knowledge began with the West establishing the “positional superiority” of Western knowledge (Smith, 1999).  This “superiority” was born of the Enlightenment along with all the other political and economic structures that moved us into “modernity,” including the industrial revolution, liberalism, formation of scientific disciplines, and public education (Spring, 1999). Smith sees the period of the Enlightenment as the spark that spurred the search for new knowledge (1999).  With “positional superiority” knowledge became a commodity, not only to be “discovered” but also to be “extracted, appropriated and distributed (Smith, 1999).”

She goes on to explain how maps were redrawn, people were classified, and knowledge and culture were saved but only in a way that suited the Western knowledge base (Smith, 1999). An important function of identifying another culture as less than your own is to justify the economic exploitation and control one wishes to exert over it (Spring, 2008). The scientific method classified Indigenous peoples on how “near,” “almost,” or “sub” human they were (Smith, 1999). They were deemed to be uneducable or without the possibility of obtaining salvation (Smith, 1999).  While these categorizations may seem trivial to the indigenous people themselves at the time, these types of classifications laid the groundwork for the othering of the indigenous.  A tenant of Western science is universal truth, or knowledge of knowledge’s sake, without a knower (Spring, 2008). Indigenous knowledge is acquired through experience and usually takes on a more holistic approach unable to separate their knowing from the rest of the world around them (Spring, 2008).

Smith continues by challenging the idea of collecting “artifacts” or pieces of indigenous culture (1999). She explains that you cannot collect something that isn’t yours, it’s stealing and that a culture cannot be rescued from the members of the culture, and it cannot be ‘saved for posterity’ when it is being taken away from those to which it belongs (Smith, 1999).

Most dominated groups experience the oppression of the dominant culture most readily through schooling according to Smith (1999). Education was and is one of the most effective ways to assimilate the indigenous into Western culture (Smith, 1999). Children were stripped of their cultures and shown how to do it the “right” way (Smith, 1999). There is this overarching theme in multicultural education writings that the dominant culture believes itself to be ‘right’ and the dominated culture ‘wrong.’ While this can be seen clearly when analyzing the relationship between the two at an academic level, it seems so elementary that even a person within the exchange would be able to see that under just the guise that it is the dominant culture should not be enough to decide that a whole other culture is wrong or inferior.

This paradigm surely backs up conflict theory and the idea that society is driven by class and status struggle (Feinberg & Soltis, 2009). It does not seem that it should have to take years of university education and an understanding of Marx to conceptualize that right and wrong are relative and lie along side beauty in the eye of the beholder. In sum, establishing the ‘positional authority’ of Western knowledge establishes that the West is a superior civilization, at least in the eyes of the West. However, the West’s domination only becomes ‘real’ when it has something to dominate.

Feinberg, W. & Soltis, J. (2009). School and society (5th ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Spring, J. (2008). The intersection of cultures: Multicultural education in the United States and the global economy (4th ed.). New York, NY: The Taylor Francis Group.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. (1999). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous people. London: Zed Books.

Anonymous Hits American Third Position

Anonymous is still at it with their wonderful #opblitzkrieg campaign against fascism. Their latest target was the American Third Position website and one of it’s most active leaders Jamie Kelso. The Indiana wing of A3P, Hoosier Nation, and its director Matt Parrott are less than pleased. Though we’re still combing through the full copy of their internal emails, anons were nice enough to leave us some highlights of the pwnage within their redesign of the A3P site. You can download a copy of the text from the new front page text here.

As the redesigned webpage tells us, there’s the usual racist bullshit you’d expect, but much more interesting is the correspondence which illustrates the links between the white nationalist community and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Kelso mentions ties to Paul’s Illionois campaign, though not surprisingly Paul’s Illionois campaign director has yet to respond to our inquiry. Kelso also is fond of boasting about his connections to Paul including face-to-face lobbying efforts at the behest of the A3P. Members also boast of injecting Ron Paul into left wing dialogue at left-wing websites:

To: Uilliam (OneCleverCookie@gmail.com)
From: patthemick (duxinarowe@yahoo.com)

Hey check out my latest thread on failure proof plan. I got another website to promote crossover voting for Ron Paul.lol My scheme is coming together nicely. I hope you’ll post to them that Democrats are crossing over to vote for Ron Paul to give Obama an easier opponent.:cool:

While Ron Paul’s ties to the white nationalist community aren’t especially news, direct ties between campaign leaders as well as continued mutual support between Paul and the fascists will be impossible for Paul to dismiss as he has previous accusations like his racist newsletters.

Also interesting are the conversations about selling extreme right bigotry to mainstream audiences. These marketing tactics are pretty transparent but pretty illustrative of how the far-right tries to sell itself in this ‘post-racial’ world we live in.

**DISCUSSIONS RE: NATIONAL SOCIALISM, EXTREMISM, PUBLIC RELATIONS - FROM PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MERLIN MILLER**

# To: “Adrian Krieg”
# Subject: Re: news release
# From: merlin@americana-pictures.com
# Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:07:34 +0000

Thank you, Adrian. I had seen this press release (dated Dec 22nd) but thought that it was undergoing Board revision. In my opinion it is close, but I have a couple of recommendations.

1) The opening paragraph positions A3P in a defensive manner comparing us to JDL, SPLC, NAACP, etc in that racial context. I would instead use an opening paragraph similar to Alex’s closing paragraph under “Immigration & Race” - ”The character of a nation depends on those who comprise it. A country is the product of its people; if you change the people you inevitably change the nature of the country. Each nation has the right to maintain the identity upon which it was founded”. I would then add…”The American Third Position (A3P) is the fastest growing political party in America and is the sole representative for the interests of traditional white Americans and the restoration of our Republic.”

2) In the fourth paragraph I would change “…total control of our southern border, before any discussion relating to our 24 million illegal immigrants, …” to “…total control of our borders disallowing any illegal immigration,…”

As far as the press release referring to our full platform on the web site, I would recommend (for the time being) using the one sheet, six panel flyer ”American Third Position PLATFORM” that I believe was developed in conjunction with The Nationalist Times. It is clear, succinct and will have broad appeal to our people. I would only make two minor revisions to it. 1) add “radical” in front of “feminism” – as we don’t want to alienate women who juggle careers and family, yet would support us, and 2) I would remove “including voluntary racial separation” after “…freedom of association,” – as it is implied and will occur naturally when we remove the social engineering influences of government and media.

My approach may seem “soft” to some, but it will work much better at this stage than being too explicit. I believe we can quickly grow the party and reach many of our disillusioned – if we dynamically appeal to their subverted reasoning - with facts and rational remedies. I want to posture myself as a patriot who is decisive (aggressively on the moral high ground), yet compassionate – and very concerned about our country and the active efforts to destroy all that we hold dear.

This will allow me to turn their smear campaigns upside down, rather than responding defensively to false allegations based on ammo that we have provided., If we are too authoritarian and explicit, we will be branded (even by our own people) as extremists, skinheads, racists, etc. A National Socialist approach may evolve in time, out of necessity, or through the dissolution of our country into small nation states (depending on the actions of the “global elites”), but at this stage we must posture to save our Constitutional Republic and restore a future for our kids/grandkids that our founding fathers envisioned.

Over the next few days, I will dissect “Our Vision for America” and add my voice, which I believe will moderate the tone and help us reach much further. On the campaign trail, I can discuss issues that Ron Paul believes he cannot, but I still want to maintain the moral high-ground in defense of our people and the Constitution. I believe this is why you considered me for the A3P ticket. Supported with the right tools, I will prove my worth.

Thank you and keep up the great work, Merlin

Essentially this email details how to take the white nationalist ideology of a political party founded by SoCal boneheads in order to make it sound similar to Fox News, as the public is so used to Murdoch’s flavor of fascism that they won’t notice the difference.

Matt Parrott warned his followers to change their passwords on his facebook page after A3P was hacked. Displaying a comical level of ignorance, Kelso chimes in to commend A3P’s system administrators for their “competence”.

There’s plenty more to come and we’ll be going through it all in detail. We’ve added a list of known A3P party members within Indiana to our site and they can expect to see us soon. We’ll be visiting their neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities letting everyone know just what kind of neighbors they are.

UPDATE 2/13/2012 – Scott Davis of Ron Paul’s Illinois campaign denied knowing of or association with the individual referred to in several of these leaked documents as Ron Paul’s #2 man in Illinois.

Call to (Online) Action!

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We go where they go…

I had a thought about this first point of unity among nearly all antifascists. While doing online research on our enemies it occurred to me that we really aren’t doing a great job of actualizing it. The safest place to be a bigot these days is actually the internet. Our enemies enjoy a wealth of online resources. These resources range from massive forums to personal blogs to twitter accounts and they support every variation of belief from pro-gay Odinism to feminist national socialism. There are less than two dozen similar antifascist resources in the English language that have been regularly updated over the last year. It would not surprise me if there were literally a thousand or more pages of racist bullshit for every page of antifascist content.

Our enemy’s sites are being used for the coordination of fascist activity, networking, community-building, ideological dissemination, self-criticism and improvement, and injecting their cause into mainstream dialogue. Other than a handful of blogs and local ARA chapters we have no such broader online community within even English-speaking antifascist communities, much less the antifascist community worldwide.

“Our fight is in the streets! Screw the interwebs”

Of course our fight will always be in the streets but I seriously doubt your local chapter is facing a Klan rally on a daily basis. Those of us doing intelligence have always known the internet was an important tool, but we have failed to use it to it’s full potential. Almost all coordinated white supremacist activity that occurs in the street will first be discussed, if not planned, online.

Not all antifascist work is super exciting.  Combing racist blogs for mentions of upcoming events is no one’s idea of a good time. To effectively fight this war we must commit ourselves to mundane tasks as well as more “glamorous” or “exciting” ones.

Call to Action

Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement would like to call on the world-wide antifascist community to join us in developing a larger, more sophisticated, and polished online presence for antifascism and anti-racism. We propose doing this using all means at our disposal. Create blogs and talk about our ideologies, our achievements, and our struggles. Force yourself to create twitter accounts and use them to spread news stories, research, and articles of interest to other antifascists and the world. Create Facebook pages and help spread our message by promoting antifascist musicians and artists. Tumblr, Reddit, Google+, YouTube… We need to make our presence felt.

We feel that twitter is an especially underused tool that is being utilized by every other activist community except us. Twitter is especially useful as many twitter clients can translate from most languages to English with a single click. It is very simple to create and maintain multiple twitter aliases. We propose the following hashtags for use.

#antifa = Tag this on anything interesting to the antifascist community at large
#ARA = Tag this on anything of interest or specifically related to Anti-Racist Action
#SHARP = Tag this on anything of interest to specifically related to Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
#[yourOrganizationsNameHere] = For us it’s #HARM, but come up with a hashtag for your local group and use this on anything of interest or specifcally related to you
#antifalulz = Did you see the video about the Nazi that picked the fight with Spokane Boxing Champion and got dropped with one punch? That’s the kind of shit this one’s for.

#antifalulz

If you need some help getting started, need some followers, or can’t figure it out, hit us up at @indianaAntifa

Fuck the borders

Part of our motivation with this call to action is an attempt to connect with and develop a sense of shared community with those outside the artificial lines which separate us. These borders separate us from antifascists outside of our cities, states, and nations. I am unfortunately monolingual, but I can visit Antifaschistische Aktion Germany’s website and with one click I can get a rough translation of it via Google Translate (which is built directly into the Chrome Browser). I propose that we all utilize this and similar translation services whenever we need, but make an effort to translate our own material into as many languages as possible. I propose that we make an intentional effort to seek out Spanish translators here in the US and that we put extra effort into finding translators for any significant news releases or articles we produce.

What this isn’t…

This isn’t a call for your organization to create a shitty looking webpage, post one time and then abandon it to rot for years (there’s enough of those already). This isn’t a call for antifascists to start boasting about direct actions online. This isn’t a call to be ignorant of security culture. This is not a call for anyone to  post anything under their own name or an alias that they wouldn’t want to be evidence in a trial. This isn’t a call for people to stop organizing, demonstrating, or meeting in real life. This isn’t a call to abandon our fight in the streets.

This is a call to continue waging this war using whatever means are at our disposal, and since most of these services are completely free, there really isn’t much good reason not to.

-HARM

HARM Withdraws Support for Occupy Indianapolis

Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement is withdrawing it’s support for Occupy Indianapolis. SOME of the reasons are listed below.

1. Occupy Indianapolis has failed to establish or maintain a substantial physical occupation. Though there are a few people making the symbolic gesture of standing in front of the state building, there has not been a reclamation of public space or creation of an open forum in which economic injustice can be addressed. Because there has been no substantial physical occupation, Occupy Indianapolis exists predominantly as an internet presence.

2. Because Occupy Indianapolis has fractured into so many groups, most of which subsist only on the internet, we find Occupy Indianapolis to consist primarily of armchair activists and internet warriors who will never have more than their non-involved sympathies to offer.

3. Because this collection of various websites and social media pages are unaccountable to any general assembly and keep confidential the names of admins, they are in violation what might be the two core values of the Occupation Movement, namely transparency and horizontal structure.

4. Because the primary point of contact for Occupy Indianapolis, the Occupy Indianapolis facebook page, is ran almost exclusively by a single person, namely one Ryan Kruze, who runs the page as one would their personal facebook page, we find that the lack of validity or tie to any physical occupation or coalition of activists disgraceful to the intentions of those who began protesting in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011.

5. Because Occupy Indianapolis has systematically alienated, disenfranchised, and censored radical voices both during it’s physical occupation and via it’s online presence it becomes clear that the occupation is not about compromise and consensus between disparate elements, but rather a hierarchical neo-liberal co-option of a movement in support of the status-quo.

6. Because online censorship has been focused on antifascist and radical voices rather than all “fringe” voices, Occupy Indianapolis has become a safe place for conspiracy-theories, antisemitism, racism, anti-worker sentiment, pro-sweatshop propaganda, and religious intolerance.

7. Because comments made by the admin of Occupy Indianapolis’s facebook page, Ryan Kruze, that “race is a distraction” from the goals of Occupy Indianapolis are completely false, ignorant of the well-documented research linking economic injustice and racism, as well as completely contrary to the efforts made by Occupy Wall Street, we find Ryan Kruze’s self-appointed leadership completely unacceptable.

8. Because we have received several reports of racial bigotry against minorities within the remaining scraps of the physical occupation including ties to white supremacist and neo-nazi groups, we find Occupy Indianapolis, whether through negligence or intent, not to be a safe space for minorities.

9. Because research indicating that the extreme-right was actively trying to infiltrate Occupy Indianapolis has been censored, we conclude that this infiltration was either to some degree successful, the “leaders” of a leaderless movement are sympathetic to their cause, or at best that they are ignorant to the potential dangers of fascist element’s involvement with the Occupy Movement

10. Because the dogmatic Pacifists have neutered any chance of direct action coming from the occupation, we find their to be no chance at revolutionary change stemming from Occupy Indianapolis’s actions.

11. Because the dogmatic Pacifists and others whose actions directly reinforce the status quo have collaborated with our oppressors by obtaining a permit and then used this permit as a justification to issue orders that occupiers: “1. First and foremost, do not break the law. If a police officer tells you to move, be polite and move on—do not argue with the police. Remember, the police are not the enemy; they are doing their jobs,” we find their to be no chance at reform stemming from any occupation which prohibits civil disobedience

Most of our members have been active in their local occupations and the majority of us have participated in Occupy Indianapolis actions. As long as people are fighting against injustice we will stand in solidarity with them,  but we believe that Occupy Indianapolis has little in common other than a stolen name with the original Occupation strategy. This strategy was not completely in line with all of our views but radical opinions had been an integral part of the greater Occupy Movement until recently. Sadly “Occupy” Indianapolis is not the only occupation facing similar problems. We urge any antifascists, radicals, and militants still involved with the Occupy Movement to be vigilant about similar issues at their local occupations.

-HARM