i seen hesitation. i did something i typically don t do, i went after him and established a good rapport to him and listened to him and how tired he was of the hate and also how sorry he was for some of the things that he s been seeing happening lately so i really just listened to him and tried to be an ear for him because in that movement, there is not a lot you can be honest about. it s about putting up a show of force. for the first time in his life, he had somebody listen to vulnerabilities. that doesn t mean he doesn t have a long road to go. he has a lot of work in front of him. hate sounds active. being tired of hate with vulnerabilities inside your hate seems unusual. what does that look like to you? how did you sense that was possible? language do you use to say aren t you tired of it and i can help you with this. you know, most people would
to immigration court employees this week. the department claims it was a mistake and comes during a week president trump was krcriticize for andy semipet tick commemet . he s in an msnbc series breaking hate. he helps the former leader of the-nazi organization in the united states. just been on my radar for 20 years so when i began to hear from sources he wanted out of the movement, i did something i almost never do. i reached out to him. until today, it s been unclear what s motivating his desire to leave. what i see happening is a lot of violence coming.
nobody is born with a swastika flag wrapped around them. nobody is born with an isis flag in their hand. they find that idea ol because it fills some void in them. 18-year-old andrew oneschuk was murdered by a member of the white supremacist group he joined, trying to fill that void. the same way i once did. i was physically recruited in an alleyway in chicago. while andrews path to radicalization happened right here at home. inside his bedroom was a portal into a dangerous world of false facts, deceptive prop band did, and hate. few people understand that the internet itself has the power to radicalize young people, and the crux of this problem lies with platforms like google, reddit, youtube. what has made them so dangerous is their search algorithms.
walt, a lieutenant commander in the united states navy, deployed to iraq for a year. and things took a turn to the worse on the home front. andrew became angry and combative towards his mother and sister. he spent nights ca s camping aln the woods behind their house. and hours isolated in his bedroom. the onuschucks asked me to take a look around andrew s room to see if i could find clues to his descent they might have missed. i discover new numerous warning signs of national socialism. the ideology of the nazi party. and hate paraphernalia that s only visible to an experienced eye. so this book in particular, a lot of sim bottle here. first thing i notice is the 1488. it stands for the 14 words, which is the white supremacist mantra of, we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children. the 88 there is for the eighth
are you serious? do you really believe that andrew? it was so frustrating. andrew did believe it. and he began advocating his far-right ideologies. his family grew increasingly concerned, spending thousands of dollars on private schools, outdoor leadership programs, and psychologi psychologists. desperately trying to help their son. andrew had every resource available. they sacrificed everything. i think every time we talk it s like what can we do for andrew? andrew oneschuk was young and idealistic, but socially isolated and confused. ripe for the picking for hate recruiters on the lookout for new blood. but i still need to find out how andrew found atom waffen division. or if they found him.