Reports Identify Leader Of Neo-Nazi ‘Base’ Group After Week Of Arrests Damage Org | Talking Points Memo

The founder and leader of the neo-Nazi group “The Base” has been identified in news reports, days after seven alleged members of the organization were arrested and charged in three separate cases across the country.


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We have so much to thank Russia for!

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Mathews soon left Canada and allegedly crossed illegally into the United States, where he was allegedly harbored by two other Base members, Brian Lemley and William Bilbrough.

Violent dangerous criminals sneaking across the border! I’m sure FOX PRAVDA will get right on the story.

Oh … wait … not brown-skinned. Never mind.

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In Arabic, The Base is Al Qaeda. Makes sense.

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If there were any justice in this universe, the Kremlin would be a smoking crater

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Holy Crap.

He was reportedly married to a Russian-born woman in Manhattan in 2012 and is currently living in Russia.

Pictures of Nazzaro have appeared on advertisements for English lessons in St. Petersburg, the Guardian reported. And multiple offices associated with Nazzaro’s businesses — including on Fifth Avenue in New York and K Street in Washington, D.C. — are reportedly in fact “virtual offices” that are rented from another company who maintains the premises.

Russia meets Fifth Ave. and K Street. And all of them kept hidden by shell companies, no doubt. Why am I not surprised?

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These men seem like good people…

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If Reagan were POTUS today the bombing really would begin in five minutes.

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…advertised his services as an intelligence and security expert…

It’s always the security experts.

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Rinaldo Nazzaro? I guess Sicily didn’t send their best a couple of generations ago. They bring crime, they become Nazis…

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Yeah I’d like to hear one of our presidential candidates promise thank them with the promise of crippling economic sanctions along with a “Hey China. If you’re listening, the resident in the White House has been pretty bad for business. Get us those documents he’s been withholding and we’d be very grateful.”

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All while living in Jersey.

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Also if there’s any justice in this world, at this guy’s trial whenever prosecutors have to read the name “Norman Spear” into the record, they’ll do it in a mock porny voice that makes fun of him and points out just how ridiculous it sounds.

One can dream.

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The reports identified Nazzaro based in part on property records and tax affidavits associated with a training camp The Base operated out of eastern Washington.

So does that other distinguished Christian Neo-Nazi WA state Rep. Matt Shea know this guy, train with these guys, or promote these guys?

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I await the details of their connections with Rudy Giuliani and Larry Klayman.

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You have to hand it to Vladimir Putin, instead of blowing countless billions in aircraft carriers and stealth fighters. They just finance a few hackers, fake news writers and extremists, bribe and extort a president and you are all set. The foundations of America are completely undermined, republicans would rather side with the Russians that with their fellow Americans. Talk of asymmetrical warfare, and no need to crash airplanes into buildings.

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You do realize that in Arabic, “The Base” translates as: “Al Qaeda”?

Yeah. Figures.

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The Russians are harvesting the ignorance and depravity of America’s conservatives.

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I take it he was enamored of Albert Spear or is a failed architecture school graduate.

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It’s considerably less Aryan-sounding, I suppose, but ‘Sicilian Spear’ is such a hotter nom-de-porn, tbh. Weren’t the Normans basically lazy Vikings that sacked some junk, settled down, got comfy and put on weight and airs? HAWT.

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