A group of people spray painting in Springfield, Illinois.
The server of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front has been leaked with chat messages, images, and videos that show the group conspiring in hate crimes, despite their claims that they were a legitimate political organization.
In the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in Virginia, one attendee rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring 35 others. The group was started by Thomas Rousseau after a picture of the killer posing with white supremacists was posted online. Rousseau renamed the organization "pf" with the goal of hiding any involvement in violent acts.
In order to present itself as a group of patriots who are aligned with the ideals and values of the founders who defeated the tyranny of the British in the 18th century and paved the way for the United States to be born, PF has tried to present itself as such. Rousseau wrote about the formation of the PF.
The new name serves several purposes. It can help inspire sympathy among those more inclined to fence-sitting, and can be easily justified to our ideology. The original Americans were revolutionaries. The root of the word patriot is paternal. It means loyalty based on blood.
There are rubber roofing cement and cans.
The report is based on a different picture than the one it was published in. Rousseau and other members of the group discussed the defacing of murals and monuments promoting Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQ groups, and other social justice causes.
The chat appears to show a member of the PF discussing the targeting of a civil rights mural. Rousseau replied "It's in the stencil guide" when a member asked what the best way to cover up a mural was. Cans. The stencil guide shows how to use spray paint and not get caught. Rousseau received pictures taken while he was scouting the mural.
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Rousseau allegedly told the other member to keep him posted on his research and practice with the rubber roofing cement that was used to cover the George Floyd memorial. At the event, orders will be given out.
The defacing of a monument in Washington is documented in the data dump.
What it looked like before.
What it looked like after.
The leaked data claims to show a range of illegal activities the group discussed. Rousseau told members that one participant in the Washington DC rally will make a false report to authorities if they call from a burner phone.
He will cite that there is a protest, he sees shields but no weasels, and everyone involved appears to be behaving peacefully, waving and handing out flyers, yet he is a concerned citizen and suggests the police take a look into it to ensure everyone's civil rights are safe. He will say that it looks like we just arrived from the metro. This will make the police less visible before our big visual contact on the bridge, and provide a little confusion and mis info that's within the realm of honest dialogue.
Attempts to reach Rousseau were unsuccessful.
According to Friday's report, the leak consisted of 400 gigabytes of data and came from a self-hosted instance of Rocketchat, an open source chat server that's similar to Discord. It is the latest example of a hate group being hacked and its private discussions being dumped online. Many of the members of the Iron March website were members of the US Marines, Navy, Army, and military reserves.