Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king
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My heart goes out to parents who may disagree with their children, but can't help but love them.
Squamish has a lot of mentally and physically healthy people... It makes me uncomfortable because I am not those things.
A lot of people want to freely associate just like anybody else without it being seen as ironic.
How curious.
I am very intelligent."
Anyway, rebelling against parents in the broadest sense of the term is not uncommon at all. Making a hard turn right though, oof.
> A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum.
so yeah, that's got to be a very messed up psyche, to take on the identity of your enemy.
> Under the pseudonym of "Bo Decker," he began selling Nazi merchandise and offering membership to his internet neo-Nazi group "Knights of Freedom" and later the American Nationalist Party.
People that feel rejected by society lash out at society. The overt spam and Nazism is pretty clearly lashing out.
I guess he lashed out at the wrong folks, because murders are very rare in Squamish. It looks like he was hiding from someone and they found him.
Personally, I would have hidden further from a metro area. Vancouver is very close.
Adolf's father, Alois Hitler [0] was born illegitimately and his parentage was never established, meaning that Adolph couldn't establish his own "aryan" descent. Alois Hitler was born as Alois Schicklgruber, but he requested to be legitimized in the name of his stepfather Hiedler, which for some reason was registered as Hitler. In the 1930's, Hitler had his cronies dive into his genealogy and Declare that there was no Jewish ancestry in his family. The rumour went though that Alois' mother (Adolph's grandmother) was working as a servant / cook for a Jewish family, and that the father may have been one of the family members. That's a lot of speculation though.
Adolf's mother, Klara Hitler [1] (nèe Pölzl), was Alois' first cousin once removed (yikes); not sure about any Jewish heritage there.
TL;DR we can't be sure because his paternal grandfather is unknown, but there's rumours abound.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_Hitler
Hitler had his minions try to clear that up to dispel the rumours, but nobody could find the real father. They concluded of course that he was a pure Aryan.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler#Biological_father
Take the USSR for example. Religion was banned for 3 generations so it played absolutely no part in determining who was considered Jewish or not.
Not since 1983 in reform Judaism.
Would a Nazi consider someone "not Jewish" because they're not observant or religious?
Of course not, don't be absurd.
Would a Nazi consider someone "not Jewish" because the Jewish blood was only on the father's side?
Of course not, don't be absurd.
Rabbis might disagree, but to me that just underscores that race does not have an objective basis. Race is defined by racists.
I don't see anything about a disagreement between father and son.
But I'm disturbed you think it necessary to say a disagreement might affect love. This is not normal. It might happen, but it should not be thought of as ok.
Even if he was violent multiple times against his father and family, which I'm not reading and I don't know why we might think that? I would still think love would be there, depending on the severity. Hurting other family members might destroy that love. But I don't know why we think this might have happened.
Correction: He failed at attempting the anti-government march, not that the anti-government march failed. Maybe it was related to Seattle WTO, but the march he tried to create never actually happened. According to CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/father-green...
I remember back when they first found the body, there was some worry there was a random killer in the area. The squamish highway has a pretty bad reputation for murders as it is. But, this seems like something premeditated.
And yeah, the squamish highway in that area is relatively murder free. It was pretty deadly for accidents prior to being redone though.
I guess disregard my nonsense about the murder highway.
Sorry.
BC's highways and roads remind me of tree roots all leading from Vancouver or the border.
But, if you sport nazi t-shirt while you are hanging out with nazis, if you are confirming their convictions to them and if you talk to undecided/doubting people, you are nazi regardless of what you believe deep down.
Sure, if he did actually lead anti-government marches, we could admit that he did lead anti-government marches. But since he didn't, we shouldn't admit to something that never happened.
If nothing else I really feel for his father (mentioned in the article), who despite everything seems to have deeply cared for his son.
The news of his murder was a pretty big shock locally. Everyone is talking about his youthful neo-Nazi fling but to me the most amazing part of this story is his past as a spammer. I read the book Spam Kings way back when and I clearly remember everyone hating these guys. Then fifteen years later or something, I'm chatting with one of those same guys at some local crag without knowing it. I know it's a cliche, but life is strange.
What I mainly remember is that he sort of spewed info about how great he was with ten minutes of meeting him. He clearly had a personality disorder of some sort but I can't really say what it was.
How does such a great author get such poor comment quality? It's kinda sad :(
He basically ran every controversial subreddit at the time under his nick "European88".
I doubt he "enjoyed" messing with others; more like he could not fathom what impact his actions had on them. Narcissists and cult leaders are the ones who "enjoy" messing with others-- and tend to stay in place until the bitter end.
This guy was probably just mentally ill but high-functioning. Despite his egregious behavior, I'd bet he never saw this coming.