Rassistische, hasserfüllte Videos, die Gewalt propagieren, wurden im Rahmen des Prozesses gegen einen mutmaßlichen Terrorpropagandisten abgespielt

In an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday, federal Crown prosecutors played three videos downloaded from social media by RCMP in 2020 — videos the Crown contends were created in part by Patrick Gordon Macdonald, an alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist who lives in the capital with his parents.

All three videos depicted people in skull masks and combat fatigues carrying firearms and flags, their faces covered and blurred. All three videos asked viewers to join Atomwaffen Division, a now defunct right-wing extremist group that was branded a terrorist organization in Canada in 2021.

Why do these cases all have to stink so thoroughly of artificiality? Read this:

“One of the videos played in court Tuesday — which an RCMP officer testified was posted on a public channel called Terrorwave Refined on the social media site Telegram in 2019 — shows people in skull masks tossing the Hebrew Bible, the Qur’an (Islam’s central religious text), a book on philosophy and a Pride flag into a bonfire.

Between shots, text panels taking up the entire screen call for viewers to “purge the weak” before a swastika appears”.

Seriously, this reads like a villain from a poorly written movie. Even wicked people – and I have met a few – don’t go out of their way to *advertise* that they are bad. Actually evil folks make an effort to seem reasonable and justified in their actions.

It might as well have ended with, *And then he punched a baby and spit on an old blind lady!*

I have zero previous knowledge of this case and anyone involved – so perhaps it’s real. But it sure as hell doesn’t sound believable.