Angry Planet - ICYMI: Inside the Occult Neo-Nazis Killing People in America

Episode Date: April 12, 2019

From the Silver Legion to the Aryan Nation, the U.S. has had its share of fascist organizations but its never had anything quite like Atomwaffen Division. Grown and organized online, the group has bee...n linked to five murders and a bomb plot in the past eight months. The group is so extreme that even prominent leaders of the Alt-Right have denounced it.This week on War College, journalist Jake Hanrahan takes us through what the group believes, what it wants, and what it might be willing to do to get it.You can listen to War College on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/war-c…d1023774600?mt=2, Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/jason-fields/war-college, Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…yfrxlbf6e6ec6difm or follow our RSS directly: rss.acast.com/warcollege. You can reach us on our new Facebook page: www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/; and on Twitter: @War_College: twitter.com/War_College.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:24 They're much more extreme. To give you some idea, they're not Holocaust deniers. They're Holocaust advocates, you know. So they'll say, well, maybe it did happen. Maybe it didn't. but, you know, we hope it did and we wished it was worse. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields.
Starting point is 00:01:05 Hello, welcome to War College. I'm your host, Matthew Galt. Domestic terrorism is a growing threat in the United States. From online chatter to real-world violence, more individuals are taking violent political action in America. Recently, ProPublica published an ex-mose on such one such group, Adam Woffin Division. Jake Hanrahan is one of the authors of that ProPublica story and is here with us today to talk about Adam Woffin Division and what makes them so dangerous and so unique. Hanrahan is a journalist and a filmmaker from the UK. His work has appeared in The Guardian and HBO's Vice News. Jake, thank you so much for joining us.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Brilliant, thanks for having me on. Let's go through the basics. What is the Adam Woffon Division? So the Atomorphin division is, I think it can be best described as a semi-underground neo-Nazi militant group in America. But they're not like, you know, sometimes people talk about, oh, they're the alt-right, the most extreme version of the alt-right. That's not true. They're not alt-right. These guys are completely different.
Starting point is 00:02:02 They're much more extreme. To give you some idea, you know, they're not Holocaust deniers. They're Holocaust advocates, you know. So they'll say, well, maybe it did happen. Maybe it didn't. But, you know, we hope it did and we wished it was worse sort of things. So they're about as extreme as it gets. And they don't believe in turning up a protests and doing all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:02:20 They gather in small groups. They have 20 plus cells all over America. They do arms training. And yeah, they operate on this kind of lone wolf basis. So far, they're linked to five murders and a bomb plot. Right, because if you think about the alt-right, most of them, like you think Richard Spencer want to work kind of within the existing political system, right? Adam Woffend Division wants to destroy that existing political system.
Starting point is 00:02:46 That's exactly it. Yeah, they're nihilists in a way because, yeah, they don't want to, they don't even like America. You know, they burn the American flag. There's footage of them burning the Constitution. Yeah, they don't want to be a part of the system at all. They want to be completely outside of it. They're anarchists in that way, if you know what I mean? They're kind of like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Someone asked me, how would you describe them the other day? And I was like, they're like anarchist, neo-Nazi, occultist. Like, it's all in there, you know, it's pretty much the, accumulation of like the internet computer games generation you know on nazism and yeah they're about as extreme as it gets okay where does the name come from so atom wafen can be translated as atomic weapons uh in german so atom wafen division um one of their their leader he was connected to a bomb and the police believed that he was plotting to uh one of them was plotting to blow up a nuclear power station or something like that in america so
Starting point is 00:03:43 I guess it kind of comes from around that. But, you know, atomic weapons, the end of the world is kind of their aesthetic. Another thing that makes them distinct from a lot of the other groups is that they have been linked to actual violent crime. Can we talk about some of those crimes? So yeah, so the leader, one of their kind of co-founders or one of the guys that was close to the leadership when it started, Dylan, he converted to Islam. But he stayed with an atom often because he was, you know, he believed in very extreme Salafi, you know, extremist Sunni Islam, which, Atomoff and, you know, Sam Woodward, the accused murderer of this boy in California, have been, you know, he said that they're pro-ISIS. They prefer to have a world like ISIS wants, as opposed to, you know, the so-called liberal world that they hate so much. So this kid got into extremist Islam and he ended up shooting two of the main members of Atomov and dead. So that was the first two murders. He said that they were planning to, you know, kill Muslims and that's why he did it. But there's, you know, there's, you know, there's, you know, No one really was quite sure what happened there. And then when the police raided the house, he was living with Brendan,
Starting point is 00:04:49 who was the very founder of Atomoffon. And they found TATP homemade explosives in the basement. I think Brandon admitted that was his. So he was building explosives. And then there was Nick, this kid, Nicholas Gianpa, I think his name is pronounced. He shot his girlfriend's parents dead when they found out that he was a neo-Nazi, kind of tried to stop her seeing him. So he went in and shot both of them.
Starting point is 00:05:13 dead. And now there is the most recent one, which is the one where I started to, you know, really start investigating these guys after finding out that he was a member of Atomoff. Sam Woodward in California, he stabbed a boy called Blaise Bernstein, who was gay and Jewish and he'd gone to school with Sam. And then he was home for the holidays, met Sam in a park. He was found dead a few days later, stabbed 20 times and buried in a shallow grave. Originally the police were saying this might be a hate crime. You know, Sam seems to be quite right wing. And then after I've been looking into Atomofen for about two years now. And after all that, someone actually contacted me because they knew that I was, you know, quite interested in Atomoff
Starting point is 00:05:52 and said, look, you need to look at this kid. He's not just right wing. He's extreme. You know, he's neo-Nazi. He's a part of Atomofen. And I thought, come on, you know, like, it came from, like, weird right-wing Twitter, like people on there and, you know, all these rumors and stuff. But this kid actually knew him. So, you know, he provided me some evidence. And then I found someone else. And then I found a third person. They all said the same thing. And he also said the same thing. And as you can see in that big thread I did on Twitter, I kind of showed my evidence as I came across it to just show, look, this is what it is. And everybody could have a look. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:24 We're going to link to your Twitter thread, which I think is pretty important for decoding all of this, because it is very odd. And I think you kind of touched on one of the things that I think is really odd and interesting about it, darkly interesting, unfortunately. One of them had converted to Islam and was going through this ideological shift. and killed some of the other members. Their ideology is malleable. It seems like it's more about causing chaos than it is about any kind of particular adherence to any particular group or book.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Is that true? Well, yeah, kind of. It's hard to pin down in a way because they follow a book called Siege, which is a collection of neo-Nazi newsletters by an old Nazi, I think he's like in his 60s now, a guy called James Mason. and some Atomoffam guys basically found his old writings.
Starting point is 00:07:17 This was a guy that was a member of the American Nazi party. He was in like a militant group and he was writing these newsletters for years through the 80s called Siege and it was basically pushing out the idea that neo-Nazi group shouldn't join the community, shouldn't join the kind of political sphere. They should split up into small little cells, commit lone war for tax, commit terrorism, guerrilla warfare in a neo-Nazi with an neo-Nazi with an illegal sphere. Nazi spin on it. And that's basically what Atomothan follows. So they put together siege, they started selling it. They made it all snazzy and that has basically become their Bible.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Now there are a lot of other far right groups in America who also follow siege who are not part of Atomofen, but them guys really brought that back out. And yeah, there is, there's a lot of other, so for example, on their website now, they have, they say this is, you know, very specific reading. You have to read this to be a part of us. And there's some weird satanic books on there. there's all sorts of stuff that you perhaps wouldn't think about. I know some of them read like Buddhist spiritualism, looking through their chats because we have their like 250,000 of their secret chats we've got. And there's a lot of arguing as well, I think, in between what is and isn't Atomoff.
Starting point is 00:08:30 But again, ultimately it is, you know, nihilistic chaos so that they can push forward with this neo-Nazi revolution that they want. we keep calling them neo-Nazis. And I want to, you know, we've had militias and neo-Nazi groups. We've got Aryan nation in America for years. What makes Adam Woffin different? What distinguishes them? So, I mean, I think atom-waffe, and, you know, as reprehensible as they are, they kind of see themselves and could be argued they're kind of the real deal of the neo-Nazi groups
Starting point is 00:09:04 because they're not out, they're not pantomime Nazis, you know, they're not wandering around and giving interviews and what have you, with saw stickers on their backs. They're secretive, or at least they were until our investigation came out. And they're doing arms training. They're collecting members in different states. They've got cells here, there and everywhere.
Starting point is 00:09:23 They're a lot more organized than perhaps, you know, area nations who meet and get drunk and, you know, be racist and whatever. These guys, you know, they had a rule. And we spoke to one former Atomoffan member. And he said the rule is you don't talk about active operations. So, you know, my active operations being actual attacks. The rule is they don't talk about that online, they only do that in person. They have what's called hate camps, so they have secret camps where they meet up, they do arms
Starting point is 00:09:50 training, ideological training, camping, orientering, that sort of thing. And they film that and they put it out online and, pardon me, and what I think they've done, which is quite clever of them in, you know, a very twisted way is they really captured the kind of 2018, 2017 aesthetic, you know, what is it is going to look cool to somebody. These are not like, you know, marching with kind of, you know, a stiff uniform type thing. These guys are like, you know, tapping into internet memes. And if you were a Nazi, you could look at them and think, well, that looks fun and that looks serious, you know. Although their training videos are quite hilarious, you see them like firing automatic rifles really badly firing them into nowhere.
Starting point is 00:10:34 But at the end of the day, you know, who else is doing that? They are the group that are doing that. And they have been linked to these murders, which in a twisted way has kind of made them more legitimate, I guess, in the eyes of the kind of neo-Nazi activist. Do we have any idea how many members there are or how many cells, how big this might actually be? So when we were doing the investigation, we know there's about 20, more than 20 cells, I'd say around 20. But again, we don't know exactly how many people are in each cell. but they are all across America and I think they were in
Starting point is 00:11:09 Texas, Virginia there was Washington, Nevada other places, California and they have these cells and they have various leaders of each cell and they kind of act autonomously and we think there were about 80 members at one point but they could you know they could have been less
Starting point is 00:11:24 there could have been a bit more but it was definitely around that number there has since been an internal split in Atomwaffen due to some of the new members or new leaders rather, being outed as Satanists and kind of fans of the occult, which some of the other Nazis in the group didn't like. They said it was degeneracy. And that has kind of scuttled the whole thing at the moment.
Starting point is 00:11:47 What's their leadership structure like? So at the top, they have a lad called John Denton. So he is, sorry, let me get the name right. Yeah, so at the top you have John Cameron Denton, who is the leader of Atomoff. and he took over after Brandon was sent to prison when he was caught with the explosives. Now, Denton goes by the alias rape. So they all have aliases
Starting point is 00:12:10 and to give you some kind of idea of what this guy is, you know, his alias is rape. And he has kind of subordinates around him. He's in Texas. He runs the whole of Atomoffon from his area. And then you have other individual leaders in each cell. We believe that Sam Woodward was a co-leader
Starting point is 00:12:26 of the California cell, although we can't quite prove it yet, but we think that was quite likely. that was possible. So yeah, each cell across America as a leader, they'll report up. But overall, Denton or rape, you know, is his alias is, he decides what goes on. And then there are other people around him, Kimeh. There's a guy called Vass. Loads of other people that decide or help him with the propaganda and the message of Atomovin and basically the aesthetic of how they look when they're projecting themselves across the internet and trying to get new members.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Were you able to talk to Denton? And where is he now? Does, you know, do we have any sense of how he's reacted to all the news? As far as we know, he's in Texas. Still, we tried to get in contact with him but couldn't. We got in contact with one of their guys, Hubsky. He turned, he tried to turn on them, basically. So he went by the alias commissar. His name is Michael Lloyd Hubbsky in Las Vegas.
Starting point is 00:13:21 He said, you know, if you keep me out of it, then I'll give you information. But, you know, since he's, obviously we didn't do that. We're not going to make a deal with him. And then he's gone out. but since the article came out we know that Atomofen has deleted all their servers, all their Discord servers which is where we got the messages from
Starting point is 00:13:38 and I've moved on to a different more encrypted chat app hilariously keeping in some of the people that they were considering a traitor before so I don't think they quite know what's going on I've had people trolling me like there was a few guys on Twitter I think it was I reckon it was Denton possibly
Starting point is 00:13:54 just because the way he was talking and the things I've seen him say in the chats just saying really weird stuff like I don't know. It's quite hilarious to be honest. They were trying to say like, what information do you want? I'm going to leave. And I was like, obviously, this is bullshit. And they just kind of, you know, went away.
Starting point is 00:14:10 But yeah, I mean, I think they're definitely quite shaken by it because, you know, the whole thing is kind of scuttled now. They've been very, very quiet on social media. They've not said a word since. So, yeah, I imagine they're not too happy. How did they get on your radar? That is a good question. So primarily in my work, usually in the Middle East, or you've
Starting point is 00:14:30 Ukraine or whatever covering conflict. And I've always been fascinated in irregular warfare. So, you know, militias, paramilitaries, that sort of thing. I find it really interesting. And one day I was just looking into the malicious scene in America. I was thinking I'd love to do a documentary there one day about these groups. And I somehow, about two years ago, I think it was 2015. And I came across, it was very small at the time.
Starting point is 00:14:50 I came across this Atomwaffe on Twitter. And I saw they were putting up some, like, really extreme leaflets. And they were putting them up on universities and stuff like that. I thought, wow, that's quite different. I haven't seen a group this extreme at the time. They had a Twitter account and I contacted them. And I said, look, I'd love to come to America and, you know, speak to you guys. You know, first and foremost, what you believe in is, I think is disgusting.
Starting point is 00:15:12 So, you know, let's get that out the way. But I want to come and hear what they've got to say. And that was quite funny because when we got the chat logs, we found out that they had this, like, weird plot to kidnap me if I did come. And they were like, yeah, we'll put a bag over Hanran's head and we'll take him here and everywhere. So that was quite hilarious to read that. but yeah i guess i just i just being obsessive i'm always like combing the internet looking at these weird little groups um and just tracking it obsessively because i i enjoy it you know i just weird as i am i find it quite fun to just follow every little detail so for two years i was kind
Starting point is 00:15:42 of following them i had a little file you know my computer just thinking what are they doing and keeping track and then when someone contacted me and said look sam woodwood is a part of atom and that's when i thought right this is like their fifth murder um and i've got this information this kid says that he's a part of it he says he's national social list. So I thought now is the time to kind of try and write a little bit on them. And it got to the point where I was waiting for editors at various other publications because I'm freelance, so I was waiting for the editors. And I just thought, you know what, this is someone else is going to scoop me on this.
Starting point is 00:16:12 I can't be bothered. So I just put all the information out on Twitter. And that really blew up. And then that's when ProPublica contacted me and said, hey, we want to do an investigation. Like, will you come and work with us and show us what you've got? And yeah, and it just went from there. Let's get into some of the weird occult and ideological stuff here, because I think this aspect of it is super fascinating and kind of underreported. If you go on Gab or you ask some of the other alt-right guys,
Starting point is 00:16:37 Gab is like an alternative Twitter for the audience. You ask Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer about Adam Woff, and they will tell you that these guys are alt-right posers and that they're actually a satanic cult. Unfortunately, a lot of that information didn't make it into the ProPublica piece. So I wanted it to be in there. I thought it was important, but I get it. They kind of wanted to focus more on the violence and the San Woodward case.
Starting point is 00:17:00 But yeah, so what we found out, whilst we were going through it, all of a sudden there was a kid from Attenwaffe who split from them initially, and he was called Vex. That was his username as alias. So this guy, Vex, split from them, and he started to post up loads of information and inner workings of the chats of what Denton, and Caleb Cole, he was his alias as Kimeer. Excuse me, he's like the right-hand man, I guess, of Denton.
Starting point is 00:17:29 And some others, a guy called Ted Bundy was another one, so they have all these weird aliases. Anyway, he started posting up their chats, and it became very clear that these guys were into some kind of satanic, far-right kind of vibe, you know? And these alias, the aliases they all have, if you look at it, kind of tied into it. Anyway, so this one guy split, he started exposing it,
Starting point is 00:17:49 and then other Atomofan guys looked at this evidence and started to be like, hang on, this is weird. Now, this is what really got me. I found this really interesting because for about five or six years now, I've been looking into a group called The Order of Nine Angles, which is a kind of an umbrella term for far right, a far right satanic ideology. Now, it's what they call like left-hand path, Satanism.
Starting point is 00:18:13 So it's not, you know, kind of this lavei Satanism, which is basically like edgy atheism. Like left-hand path is they believe in demons, they believe in, you know, and the 09A, the Order of Nine Angles even preach an idea of culling, which means, you know, weak people should be killed. There's, you know, the kind of myth that if you want to be in the group, you have to sleep for 40 nights in the forest, this kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:18:35 And it started in England, I think in the 70s or the 80s. And so I've been following that, and I recognize their symbol. And all of a sudden, their symbols started popping up when this guy vex on Atomoff and started exposing Denton's kind of satanic links. I couldn't believe it. I said, no way, this is incredible. because, you know, I've been following this for years just out of interest. And it looks like finally, you know, some kind of group is actually trying to do what the Order of Nine Angles is preaching.
Starting point is 00:19:01 So that really, I don't know, that really struck me. So technically it is actually true what that lunatic Anglin is saying that Atom often became this far right neo-Nazi satanic group because rape or Denton at the top believes in all of this, you know, and he's admitted it. He said, yeah, I am a Satanist. So what, you know, they believe in kind of, the idea of, the idea of. is, Atomov is meant to be no degeneracy as they call it. And believing in Satanism and all this, I guess for those guys is degeneracy. So that's where the splits happened. And that happened whilst our investigation was going. I know a lot of them Atomov and guys think that we got our information from this guy Vex. It's not true. I've never even spoken to the guy. But that happened whilst our investigation was going on. So it's quite interesting to just watch that from the sideline and see them kind of
Starting point is 00:19:48 destroy themselves if you like. But yeah, it's definitely, definitely. quite a big part of it. Well, and another thing that's interesting about the Order of the Nine Angles part is that in some of their writings, they tell adherence to infiltrate fringe militant groups and push them towards violence, correct? Exactly. So I think that's what really got a lot of the original members, if you want, of Atomoffen, quite shaken, because when this Vets started saying, look, you know, rape, Denton, he believes
Starting point is 00:20:19 in the Order of Nine Angles, and the guy says, yeah. and Kimair says, yes, we do. And then he started posting their beliefs. There's a big audio chat where they're arguing in a Discord about it. And he says, well, look, the thing that Order of Nine Angles says is infiltrate far right groups to kind of co-op them and take over. And I guess that is what they believe Denton has done. And the Order of Nine Angles in England has been linked to violence, correct? Kind of.
Starting point is 00:20:48 So the Order of Nine Angles is believed to be started. by a guy called David Mayat. Now he, in the 80s, I think even as early as the 70s, was a very, very militant neo-Nazi. He was a part of some of the kind of toughest skinhead group, but he wasn't himself. He was kind of a spiritual, intellectual kind of guy from Yorkshire who just happened to believe in the most disgusting neo-Nazi violence you could think of. And then he ended up becoming a militant Muslim. so he converted to Islam became like this militant jihadist
Starting point is 00:21:22 and then he came out of that and fell into this weird occult thing that he now calls the mystical way which I don't know you know it's kind of out there but people believe that David Mayat is the guy behind the alias of Anton Anton Long which is you know the kind of writings of the Order of Nine Angles are all by Anton Long David Mayatt denies it but perhaps it wasn't him but I think he was definitely you know quite close to it so in that respect yes it it could be linked to violence because he was behind a lot of violence that happened in the UK in them times in regards to the neo-Nazi groups.
Starting point is 00:21:55 A lot of people have different aliases and shifting ideologies. Yeah, exactly. And I think the most interesting thing about the kind of satanic link is that it really speaks to, I guess, the kind of generation that these guys come from. You know, most of them are like 17, 18, up to about 25, somewhat older. But they're this kind of generation, and they believe in, you know, nihilism. they want the most extreme they can get. So that's why Atomoffin became the most extreme Nazis.
Starting point is 00:22:23 And I guess the most extreme Nazism wasn't even enough for some of them. So they're now like extreme Nazi Satanists who follow the Order of Nine Angles. You know, they're just pushing it and pushing it and pushing it as much as they can get, which is kind of hilarious in a way if it wasn't for all this, you know, terrible things like the murders that have happened at the hands of Atomwaffe, allegedly. Right. And this is why Siege, James Mason, Siege appeals to them. I guess let's talk about that book just a little bit more. Like what's,
Starting point is 00:22:52 what's in there? Why is that important to them? So Siege, yeah, that's a good point. I've read siege. I read it twice. It's massive. I read it twice. I wanted to be kind of, I don't know about it. I wish I hadn't read it. It's insane, to be honest, like the whole thing's mad. And to give you an idea of how extreme it is, I always cite this one line in it. I was reading it, and it really kind of, it shot me when I read it. And so James Mason was friendly with Charles Manson. late Charles Manson, the guy that ran the Manson family. So he was friends with him, and when he's talking about the Sharon Tate murders, he has this horrible line where he basically defends the murder of Sharon Tate's
Starting point is 00:23:30 unborn baby, which I believe was cut from the womb or stabbed while she was, you know, while she was dying, like really horrific. And James Mason says, well, you know, it was after all adieu, as if to say, well, it doesn't matter, you know, that's how extreme it is. He's literally defending the killing of an unborn child. So this guy is about as extreme as you can get. And siege is all about, well, literally laying siege to the land, you know, destroying the system, as it were. They always refer to the system, the system, you know, they have to destroy the system.
Starting point is 00:24:00 And he believes that, you know, the only way to do that is through violence, lone wolf attacks. And Atom often believe that too. You know, they believe that politics is absolutely useless. I think a lot of young people feel like that. You know, they don't feel like there's anyone there to talk to them. They don't feel accounted for. I think you get this, you know, hugely kind of, especially in America, both sides are extremely toxic. Nobody wants to talk.
Starting point is 00:24:22 And unfortunately, you know, you get these groups like Atomov and do spring up because they want something more extreme, more definite, you know. And siege gets, you know, siege is about as close as it gets to drawing a very militant line in the sand, I think, when it comes to neo-Nazi ideology. Is James Mason still alive? Yeah. So James Mason's still alive. He's in his 60s. he's believed to live in Denver but we couldn't get in contact with him
Starting point is 00:24:45 we tried he sees atom often guys like they go to his house there's pictures of Denton with James Mason you know they've got their Nazi regalia on they're zigging all over the place and they're holding up various far right books kind of posing I know that he does a little podcast
Starting point is 00:25:02 now over the phone which I believe Denton and his little circle they make that happen the website siege culture is their website which is where Denton and all the Atomoffon, those guys put up all of James Mason stuff. And a little while ago, there was quite an obvious turn. So it was very, you know, National Socialist, Siege, the aesthetic was there.
Starting point is 00:25:25 And then all of a sudden there started being these kind of more satanic vibes. So there was pictures of Charles Manson. There was an order of nine angles patch in one of the photos. There was like blood dripped on to some kind of paper, which had been seen in some other satanic far-right stuff that Denham. and there's link to. So I think his influence is quite obvious. And there's even a picture of James Mason reading this book called Iron Gates, which is, it's reading, you have to read that book apparently to be in Atomoff. And I remember, I read the first part of it. Basically, it's
Starting point is 00:25:57 about this kind of apocalyptic wasteland. And in the first scene, a crowd of people tear a infant apart and eat it. Like that's, you know, and that's required reading for Atomoff. And there's a picture of James Mason reading that. So, you know, you can understand these guys are seriously extreme. But there's been, as you've teased earlier in the show, since the satanic stuff about Denton has come out, and since the ProPublica piece has come out, there's been a split internally, right? Can you talk about that a little bit? Yeah, sure. So there's been a split. I think it started when this guy vex, like I mentioned, he started outing Denton as this Satanist and Denton and a few other Guy's Kimer and some other of his kind of comrades in the top kind of echelon started to say,
Starting point is 00:26:44 yeah, we are Satanist kind of so what? Like, I don't care about this. I don't care about that. You know, we don't believe in, I think his argument was like we don't believe in certain standards of morality. That's why we're Satanist or whatever. But it didn't really tee up with some of the original Atom Woffing members and a load of them have left. They departed because they didn't want to be a part of this kind of satanic circle. And then a lot of these members have formed their growing group. Now, I don't think they have a name yet, but they have started a website called faschcast.org. So it's very obvious. If you look at it, it has a lot of the old atomwaffe and aesthetic. It just doesn't mention atom wop and there's no kind of, you know, satanic imagery. So they've split now.
Starting point is 00:27:22 I have no idea what Atomwaffean are doing now. I don't know if, you know, Denton and those guys will just scuttle it and start something else, but they've been incredibly quiet. There's a group in the UK called System Resistance Network. And for a while, even they were starting themselves as the kind of UK atom waffin. And they released a video recently called splitting the atom where they're like burning an atomwaffe flag and, you know, saying they're no longer anything to do with them because of this satanic stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:49 So, yeah, it's definitely a big rupture in their ranks now. But, you know, we'll see what happens. I mean, maybe they'll just vanish now. I definitely think the article made a big difference because a lot of them got quite scared and they just kind of vanished. I know that. But yeah, we'll see where it goes. I think maybe Denton and them guys might,
Starting point is 00:28:06 just, you know, fall into this satanic circle and, you know, a new atom often will rear his head. Jake Hanrahan, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thanks very much, big fun. That's our show for this week. Thank you so much to Jake Hanrahan again for sharing that story with us. And thank you so much for listening. War College is me, Matthew Galt, and Jason, Jason Fields. You can find us on Twitter at War underscore College or on Facebook at facebook.com forward slash war college podcast.
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