No Lives Matter

The Black mass shooter is here, and no-one is stopping them.

If only you knew how bad things really are.

Disclaimer: This essay contains discussion of sensitive subjects including graphic violence, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), severe hate speech, and satanic accelerationism, among other things. This content is included to illuminate the severity and pervasiveness of these sensitive subjects in online spaces and in no way indicates support for the content.

On the 22nd of January 2025, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson walked into the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Antioch, Tennessee and opened fire, killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, before ultimately turning the gun on himself. The day after the attack, local police claimed that a motive had not been determined yet, but Henderson had left a “substantial body of data online and on social media”. The substantial body in question refers to a 55-page document, purporting to be Henderson’s manifesto, which began circulating on the internet shortly after knowledge of his attack became known. A basic reading of the document devoid of context might leave you with more questions about Henderson’s motives than answers. It seems to be a collection of grammatically incorrect political diatribes, incredibly graphic and non-sensical images, and direct links to resources on how the reader themselves can successfully commit a mass casualty event.

As is the case with many mass shootings in America, public discourse seemed to stay within the realm of firearm policy reform, mental health initiatives, and the “alt-right” (Henderson’s African American heritage used in parallel with his manifesto to suggest self-hatred and an allegiance to white nationalism as the primary factors in the attack). The limited discussion this attack received in the news centered on Henderson’s obsession with Nazi iconography and rhetoric. Soon, as expected, the American public set their minimal attention spans onto other issues and talk of the Antioch High School Shooting faded from public discussion.

However, one key update went relatively under-reported in the mainstream media. Prior to his attack, Henderson, under the handle @groidcell on Twitter, had been interacting with Samantha Rupnow, the deceased perpetrator of the Abundant Life Christian School shooting that occurred some three weeks prior. Rupnow’s purported manifesto mirrors Henderson’s as a collection of violent misanthropic views, poorly formatted infantile white nationalist talking points, and a clear admiration for the perpetrators of past mass casualty events. The sources that reported this update sectioned it between statements about Henderson’s engagement in online communities that promote radical incel violence and his obsessive racial self-hatred. At most, the Anti-Defamation League has described this link between Henderson and Rupnow as indicative of a “troubling trend” of young people increasingly finding online networks that are shaping violence and extremism.

@groidcell (Henderson) asking @postalbrained (Rupnow) to livestream her attack in response to her purported manifesto. via: @bx_on_x

Anyone who takes a cursory look at this troubling connection might walk away believing that Henderson and Rupnow’s attacks are the inevitable result of two socially isolated youth immersed in America’s gun-worship culture whose shared obsession with fringe alt-right politics and desensitization to gore had led them to similar online spaces. The notion that mass casualty perpetrators are “inspired” by other perpetrators has been a mainstay in American discourse since the Columbine massacre of 1999, which left twelve dead. The perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, have become something of pop culture icons in more sinister corners of the internet; revered as pioneers or martyrs. Numerous “fan-cams” have been spawned of the two with a clear, but potentially unintended, homoerotic nature to the obsession. In the years following the Columbine massacre, concerns about mass shootings swelled to an all-time high and a public dissection occurred to determine, not just the material motives of the perpetrators, but the societal factors that would allow such a tragedy to take place. Film-maker Michael Moore’s 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine examined the titular tragedy through the lens of America’s firearm obsession, concluding that a nationwide distrust of American bureaucracy has incentivized firearm manufacturers to capitalize off public fear. The American public arms itself like no other citizen body in history and this has enabled firearm manufacturers, and by extension the firearm lobby, to develop and promote a culture that worships firearm ownership above all else. This, in turn, enables “lone wolf” and “socially ostracized” members of society to easily take out their personal frustrations on their less maladjusted peers with little safeguards in place to stop them. It is not an understatement to say that Bowling for Columbine acted as ground zero for discussions of “gun control” in America. The ideas spawned from the documentary have permanently forged the nature of public discourse surrounding mass casualty events in America, specifically in the direction of firearm manufacturers.

In the 25 years since the Columbine massacre, the circumstances and factors surrounding mass casualty events in America have significantly shifted. Over the last seven years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of K-12 school shootings, yet public discourse seems stagnant. More than 60 mass shootings have been carried out where the perpetrators had made at least a single reference to Harris and Klebold. This permanent mark left by Harris and Klebold on pop culture has resulted in a permanently restricted discourse about mass casualty events that largely bounces around the same few topics; firearm policy, mental health/social ostracization and, in recent years, white nationalism. Like Harris and Klebold, it is usually assumed that the perpetrators of these mass casualty events are fringe members of society who’s social ostracization leads them towards radicalization (often through online channels), and to mitigate this we must either reform firearm policy to limit access to guns, or reform mental health policy to detect and prevent “red flags” from going unnoticed. These conclusions, while not incorrect by any means, are not adequate to explain the shifting nature of mass casualty events over the last decade. The “ostracized lone wolf” explanation has begun to fall short in the modern age, especially in the case of Henderson and Rupnow.

The truth, at least in part, is significantly more disturbing. Henderson’s attack represents a watershed moment for militant accelerationism, an action-backed political ideology that has become a rising terror threat not just in the United States, but globally. A closer reading of Henderson’s manifesto, and other online behaviour, reveals a truly distressing link between benign online spaces and a rising militant satanic-Nazi ideology whose adherents have been involved in coordinated terror attacks, mass killings, widespread child sexual abuse, occult practices, and Cold War-era espionage. Most concerningly however, is the fact that federal law enforcement agencies may be enabling these attacks to happen.

Part 1: Total N**r Death**

First and foremost, Henderson’s manifesto is a clear indicator of the crumbling state of America’s underfunded education system. Large portions of the document are wholesale plagiarized from other documents left behind by mass casualty perpetrators, while the parts attributed to Henderson can be identified by his paragraph-long run on sentences. For example, when talking about his personal gripes with the Black American community, he writes “And it gives me migraines to think that all the general black community can do at this point is race-bait, sell drugs, kill for petty to no reason, shoot hoops, beat people up, eat fried chicken all the time, embrace the stereotype and saying ‘we wuz kingz’ [sic]*, when the ‘speakers’ of this shitty community include the f***t Gazi Kodzo and the Jamar Clark ‘JarJarDinduNuffin’ [sic] crowd and when more and more black people are becoming SJWs and teaching about ‘white privilege’ in universities instead of taking responsibility for their own fucking actions and solving the real problem.” A basic examination of infamous manifestos over the past decade will reveal a noticeable decline in the literary capabilities of their authors. Henderson’s original work often seems as if it’s ripped unedited from his diary, more concerned with adequately demonstrating his anger, disgust, and scorn than with truly convincing his reader of any specific belief system. It is a far cry from being as verbally coherent as Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto. Rupnow’s manifesto is no more grammatically sound than Henderson’s, saying of herself “I’ve always been a quiet kid I’d say, or at least that’s what everyone else around has said and never really had the brains for most things because I wasn’t smart enough for people around me even though I’m good at science and some stuff”. In the case of Henderson specifically, it seems as if he had given up a level of linguistic accessibility in exchange for niche internet references that can only be deciphered by a minority of disconcerting web users.

This paves the way for another important concept that has emerged; Henderson might be history’s first terminally online school shooter. Terminally online (and likewise chronically online) is a pejorative describing someone who is overly engrossed in internet culture. It denotes behaviour that goes beyond simply “spending a lot of time online” and can involve a level of disassociation from the material world. Henderson’s manifesto is reference after reference to niche neo-Nazi memes and jokes, indicating that he had long been prioritizing online culture rather than real-world interactions. For example, he opens his manifesto by referring to himself as a “*nrcell (involuntary nr)”, referring to the decentralized online subculture of inceldom (involuntarily celibate) whereby sexually frustrated young men direct their ire towards the perceived cause of their pain (e.g. feminism, leftism, sexual liberation, modernity etc.) Immediately after this, he twice repeats “THE WEST HAS FALLEN, BILLIONS MUST DIE, ACCELERATE”, *a tongue-in-cheek catchphrase often used to parody the resentment of white nationalists towards the perceived “Great Replacement” of white people in Western nations and subsequently the depopulation that must occur to counteract it. However, as an actual adherent of white nationalism, Henderson further buries his use of the phrase under more layers of nihilistic irony.

Nihilism and misanthropy are pillars of alt-right propaganda and act as trojan horses in virtual spaces. Mike Watson’s article Nietzsche’s Dionysus vs. The Nihilism of Social Media Shitposting discusses how, across the political spectrum, the subject and style of meme humor (the dominant form of comedy in the 2010’s) tends towards despondence, depressive ideation, amoralism, and at times, misanthropy. Adherents of right-wing online spaces exploit this comedic trend towards nihilism by influencing netizens to embrace fringe misanthropic “truths”; a process colloquially known as “blackpilling”. Blackpilling itself is the most severe version of “redpilling”, a term that became popular post-2016 to describe initiating oneself into a shared set of beliefs that contradict the fact-based reality accepted by society at large. Redpilling became a popular term amongst loyal followers of Donald Trump, QAnon truthers, and online misogynist groups such as incels. The term “red pill” originates from the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix, where the films protagonist is presented with a choice between taking a blue pill and a red pill. Should he take the blue pill, he would wake up in his bedroom, none the wiser to any events that transpired. However, should he take the red pill, he would venture forward with an irreversible knowledge about the painful reality he exists in. Symbolically, the blue pill represents a state of blissful ignorance, while the red pill represents conscious awakening to one’s surroundings. As such, the suffix ‘-pill’ or ‘-pilling’ is used to denote indoctrination into any number of heterogenous strands of diffuse political activities.

Therefore, Henderson’s repeated use of the suffix “-pill”, such as his recommendation that potential mass casualty perpetrators take the ‘lean pill’ (which means to ensure you have a below-12% body fat percentage on the day of your attack to avoid being “[…] a retard with bunch [sic] of weapons but is too fat use them LOL [sic]”), indicates that Henderson felt indoctrinated into an irreversible understanding of his circumstances and surroundings. However, the entirety of this manifesto is so densely packed with nihilistic anti-humor and ironic memes that it’s hard to identify where irreverence ends, and earnestness begins. “/Crimemaxxing/”, “skelly mode chuds”, “going AN HERO”; all non-sensical phrases of Seussian proportions used so matter-of-factly that it’s hard to believe that Henderson himself even understood what he was doing in earnest and what he was doing simply ‘for the lulz’. He sandwiches these terms between comprehensive resources on how to calculate your body mass index, how to purchase firearms for cheap, and how to lockpick classroom doors (to avoid “getting cucked by a fucking door. Leading to a lesser high score.”) making for truly jarring and disjointed read. A macabre tone-setter for the document, the first image presented is a coy cartoon face (a meme known as “Cobson”) super imposed onto a blood-red Nazi Sonnenrad symbol.

If there is one thing that can be taken at face value from this document, it is that Henderson hated Black people, and he sincerely despised himself for being Black. All his cheeky irreverence reads as if it is meant to atone for his race. He opens the top of his manifesto by stating “*I’m ashamed to be black. I feel like shit being n****r” and begins his final remarks by playfully musing about whether previous mass casualty perpetrators would even like him due to his race. In a disturbing act of self-flagellation, he states that “I know doing this act or make better then [sic] the rest of other n***s. I’m a sub5 loser. Nothing I do will makeup for what my ‘people’ have done.” Despite his adamant assertion that his disdain toward the Black community is simply the natural response to their cultural values, Henderson has clearly (consciously or unconsciously) identified his own personal feelings of social ostracization within Great Replacement rhetoric (a popular neo-Nazi conspiracy theory that asserts Western nations are having their “indigenous” white population intentionally and methodically replaced through mass immigration policy). Independent investigative journalist Bx_Investigates examined Henderson’s online diary, copied from his Element account, which contains references to living with an abusive mother, struggling with mental health, and growing to hate his family. His pathological idolization of “European culture” and derision of “Black culture” is a paper-thin stand-in for his own feelings of resentment towards his immediate community (which, according to him, was majority Latino and Black). He was indebted to those online spaces that provided him any semblance of community; those same spaces that despised him. He owed them for being Black.

That’s what makes his inclusion of large excerpts from Matthew Harris’ manifesto, DEATH sentences, even more peculiar. Matthew Harris is a former University of California, Los Angeles, philosophy lecturer who was arrested in 2022 after circulating his 800-page manifest to 35 individuals named in the document. The document allegedly employs the term “N*R” in all capital letters over 10,000 times along with “kill” 7, 512 times, “shoot” 2,512 times, and “bomb” 2,489 times. In addition to coded but terrifyingly clear threats against university employees and former friends, Harris made rambling calls to mass violence such as “setting fire in woods near mansions or gated communities”. Prior to his worsening mental health, Harris was described by friends as a gifted philosophical mind who had worked hard to earn a PhD. Whereas Henderson’s manifesto is a precocious attempt to counteract his feelings of isolation through violence, DEATH sentences is glimpse into a once talented mind that was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial due to its intensifying schizophrenia. It is, in a phrase, bat-shit fucking insane. While it quickly devolves into incoherent threats of sexual violence against former female colleagues and seemingly curses out the Boston Bruins hockey team, at the crux of Harris’ manifesto is some semblance of a thesis that is diametrically opposed to Henderson’s. Harris spends almost the entirety of the 800 pages calling for an endless blood-soaked genocide against all “unworthy men” (a term he uses to denote all white men, among others) as retribution for the “exploitation, slavery, rape, torture, and abuse” that Black Americans have had to suffer for generations. Harris opens DEATH sentences by stating that “My ancestors were enslaved about 25 miles from where I fled from grad school to the north to avoid racism. They fled the same path from oxford north Carolena [sic] to new englond [sic] after slavery”, a statement that succinctly represents the underlying pathology of his entire document. Henderson and Harris go blow for blow, each sentence of their respective manifesto’s heightening the call to violence against their perceived enemies. Where Harris calls for his allies to “shoot all goldheads”, Henderson demands that they “crucify filthy blacks”. Henderson reveres Europeans as conquerors, inventors and revolutionary thinkers while Harris believes pedophilia to be the primary aspect of the unworthy man’s culture. Harris dedicates his manifesto to “World Dominance by the N**R (US Slavery Descendants)”, Henderson begs for “total n***r death”.

There are any number of reasons Henderson felt compelled to include excerpts from DEATH sentences in his manifesto despite, ostensibly, a core disagreement on the very nature of the Black community in America. He might have been infatuated with Harris’ use of vulgar epithets against other cultures, his sexually derogatory and threatening remarks towards former female colleagues or, in all likeliness, his extreme and unending calls to mass violence. It’s clear that the writing style of DEATH sentences had a deep influence on Henderson’s own. Save for the hyper-nihilistic post-ironic memes, many parts of Henderson’s manifesto are indistinguishable from Harris’. It’s not unreasonable to believe that Henderson identified a similar condition within Harris; a common affliction that can only come from being a descendant of Africans in America. Both Henderson’s and Harris’ attack (enacted or not) were motivated by a pathological obsession with the state of African descendants in America. Alaine Locke, famed writer and philosopher, pinpointed this source of this affliction as the physical, spiritual and mental severance of African Americans from continental Africa through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This severance created a vacuum in the collective consciousness of African Americans that supplanted the role of self-actualisation. Harris literally verbalizes this schism in DEATH sentences, where he states “*NR was created by the lesser man’s evil. NR was caused to exist (as distinct from efrikans [sic]) because of the lesser man’s treacherous ways. Even tho efrikans betrayed NR and sold him to lesser men, the lesser man created the system that erased NR’s identity”. Here, “efrikan” clearly refers to continental Africans as distinct from descendants of U.S. slaves. Henderson even introduces himself as “an Efrikan born in 2007 to a middle-class family of black Israelites”.* Again, without further knowledge, it is impossible to tell whether Henderson was born to a family of African Black Israelites, but the conclusion remains the same. The descendants of Africans in America have an internal motivation to usurp this affliction, and when left to an unsound mind, this motivation can manifest as extreme violence. Locke saw the Harlem Renaissance as the opportunity to overcome this affliction through cultural and intellectual contribution. Many saw the election of Barack Obama as the cultural signifier that we, as a nation, had triumphed over this affliction. However, with Harris and Henderson as case studies, America has clearly and dutifully failed in her reconciliation. We are only two generations removed from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (which removed the discrimination against non-Western and Northern European ethnicities from U.S. immigration policy) and the effects of this collective affliction on the descendants of voluntary African migrants has yet to be seen.

Many have linked the increased frequency, and deadliness, of mass public killings over the last four decades with changes in the economy, politics and social world. This has led to working-class white men to feel a level of unearned disenfranchisement that has culminated in a violent anti-democratic movement pointed at a perceived “out group” (some could call this a basic definition of fascism). What is to be said, then, of the mass killer who is apart of that out group? Take, for example, Arda K. (as identified in Turkish media). Arda was named specifically in Rupnow’s manifesto as someone that inspired her. On August 12, 2024, Arda donned an assault vest and helmet, commencing a violent stabbing spree in the western Turkish province of Eskisehir. Despite Turkish media’s overly simple explanation that Arda was radicalized by “video games”, Arda’s own 17-page manifesto indicates he wanted to be included in the ranks of previous mass casualty perpetrators, not unlike Henderson. However, it seems as if online fringe spaces (such as 4chan and KiwiFarms) met Arda’s attack with ridicule, most likely based on a perception that he isn’t white. Thus emerges a psychological profile of a mass casualty perpetrator whose internal response to changing external factors is violent atonement. A member of the out group who further attacks the out group for approval and acceptance.

A Meme ridiculing the attacker, shared on TikTok on 13 August.

This emerging profile differs greatly from the psychological profile of past Black mass casualty perpetrators. Chris Dorner notably targeted Los Angeles Police Department officers in “unconventional and asymmetric warfare” in response to his retaliatory firing for reporting excessive force. The D.C. Sniper, two men named John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, committed the attacks to make the murder of Muhammad’s ex-wife seem random. As the economic, political, and social conditions continue to worsen globally, this profile is ripe to pop-up more and more in Western nations. A final question, then, must be asked. What enabled Henderson to complete his attack, but not Harris? Both had digital paper trails that outlined their goal, both were vocal and public about their obsession with violence and, if the claim made in by Bx_Investigates is true, both were brought to the attention of local law enforcement. Henderson was much younger than Harris as well, under presumably much more supervision. How did law enforcement catch Harris, but let Henderson slip through their fingers?

Twitter user @bx_on_x claiming to have reported Henderson to authorities.

Part 2: Blood in, blood out

Solomon Henderson was a child; an incredibly disturbed child, but a child, nonetheless. His writings reveal an immaturity that betrays his attempts at engaging with nuanced concepts such as the prison-industrial complex and crime rates in America. He sees the world as simplistically as a 17-year-old can. It’s no surprise that, like any 17-year-old, he had an extensive online presence. Extensive is an understatement. Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud, Pinterest, and even an account on a website concerningly titled “watchpeopledie.tv”. It seems nefarious actors have been able to assess and utilize the internet quicker than we’re able study its role in the individual radicalization process, which is why it may come as a surprise that Henderson’s radicalization most likely didn’t begin on some obscure incel forum page or an unmonitored gore video sharing site. It most likely didn’t even occur on Instagram or on the newly Boer-owned Twitter. In 2024, a reporting consortium consisting of WIRED, Der Spigel, Recorder, and The Washington Post uncovered the “com” network; an international ecosystem of loosely related online groups that congregate on seemingly harmless child-oriented platforms such as Roblox or Minecraft. These groups prey on children, luring them onto less restrictive platforms such as Discord and Telegram, hoping to ultimately victimize them through coordinated online campaigns of extortion, doxxing (publicly providing personally identifiable information about a person on the Internet), swatting and harassment. Most interestingly is the com networks telltale iconography, a murderous blend of satanism, neo-fascism, Nazism, and the occult.

Since 2021, international authorities from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Brazil, and more, have warned the public about a concerning trend in “violent online groups” targeting youth. As concerning as it sounds, this may come as no surprise. The dangers of being a youth online have been a primary societal concern since the introduction of the internet. Yet, these online groups are responsible for “some of the most egregious online enticement reports that we’re seeing in terms of what these children are being coerced to do” says Fallon McNulty, the CyberTipline director for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The com network is not a single entity, rather a sprawling network of interconnected groups with varying sinister interests. Some groups specialize in doxxing, some groups specialize in swatting (falsely calling emergency services to dispatch a large number of armed officers to a scene), and some groups specialize in extortion. One of the pillars of the com network is an organization known as 764, a group described by WIRED as using platforms such as Roblox to “desensitize vulnerable populations through sharing extreme gore and child sexual abuse material (CSAM)”.

764 branded aesthetic skins for the children's game Roblox

For example, a 764 member might don a Roblox skin with insignias representing their group (Satanic pentagrams, the head of Baphomet, etc.) with the goal of luring an interested user to another platform. 764 seems to have been started in the summer of the early 2020’s by Bradley Cadenhead, a teenager from Stephenville, Texas. Cadenhead originally started 764 as a Discord server, named after the first three digits of Stephenville’s zip code, to moderate the distribution of hundreds of videos and photographs of extreme violence, Satanic symbols scrawled in blood, animal torture, and CSAM (including ‘how-to’ guides on sexually exploiting minors), some of which Cadenhead uploaded himself. In August of 2021, federal authorities seized Cadenhead’s phone and found 20 files of CSAM, as well as photographs including “Brad is a pedo” and “764” carved into the flesh of unknown persons, an act known as “cutsigning”. One of Cadenhead’s victims, “Eve”, recounted how Cadenhead would lure young women to his server through false shows of affection and convince them to send him nude photographs. Once Cadenhead had established a degree of trust with his victims, he would extort them to film themselves committing increasingly harmful or dangerous acts. In Eve’s case, Cadenhead and his associates urged her to kill herself and carve their usernames into her skin. They pressured her to strangle her cat and even to behead her pet hamster on camera. “Bite the head off, or I’ll fuck your whole life up,” a user named “Felix” told Eve on video. During the police investigation, Felix was an alias associated with an IP address linked to Cadenhead. Eve relented and did all this in her bedroom closet. In an interview Cadenhead gave with probation services after his arrest, he admitted to the group’s use of the server to do sextortion, sometimes for money, and sometimes just for power over the individuals.

Just after Cadenhead’s arrest in 2021, the FBI received multiple tips about a core member of the 764 Discord server, Angel Luis Almeida (also known under the pseudonym “Gorebutcher”). After serving time in 2019 for stealing several cars, Almeida moved into a relative’s apartment in Queens, where his social media posts show a young man, as the WIRED investigation puts it, “enamoured with firearms, dugs, threats of violence, the Order of Nine Angles, and child abuse.” He brandishes weapons, shows off Satanic tattoos, and wears a skull mask balaclava that has been associated with violent neo-Nazi groups. One of the tips the FBI received about Almeida after Cadenhead’s arrest informed law enforcement that he was consistently uploading home videos of animal abuse and fantasizing about child sex abuse. That fall, after Almeida had posted images of himself with a handgun (next to more Order of Nine Angles indicia), federal authorities had enough to substantiate federal criminal charges against him. While in custody, federal authorities uncovered hundreds of thousands of digital files, including reams of CSAM, and communications with other members of 764. Despite Discord’s June report to the FBI about the 764 group, Almeida’s November arrest was the first public documentation of the bureau’s glimpse into the group. Digital forensics of Almeida’s online traces show he groomed “multiple minor victims, from whom he solicited CSAM and whom he encouraged to engage in sexual acts,” according to an October 2023 court filing to substantiate superseding charges of child abuse, coercion and CSAM possession.

After the arrests of Cadenhead and Almeida, a new, somehow more disturbing era of the group began to emerge. “Tobbz”, a young German based in Romania and infamous 764 member, fell into the world of 764 after developing an intense interest in the Order of Nine Angles. In March of 2022, Tobbz attacked an 82-year-old man, causing him to be hospitalized. Two weeks later, he fatally stabbed an elderly woman he suspected of being Roma or Jewish. Tobbz streamed the lethal attack on Discord and uploaded the video later to Telegram. Another member, “Riley”, took over moderation after Cadenhead’s arrest. According to “Sophie”, a 15-year-old Canadian victim of 764, “Riley would encourage 764 participants to generate content from their victims. “Fansigns (cutsigns) and stuff, like people stepping on birds, crushing them, and people killing animals. Really. He would post a lot of animal killing”. According to Sophie, Riley was also enamored with the Order of Nine Angles, and it’s U.S. offshoot, the Tempel ov Blood. Riley tattooed the Tempel ov Blood insignia, a trident topped with “333,” on his forearm, the same insignia Angel Almeida displayed on a flag in his bedroom.

As well, Sophie recounts the rise of “red room” livestreams, which were carried out on dark-web sites and shared on 764 Discord or Telegram groups. These livestreams consisted of 764 members persuading their victims to commit harmful acts on livestream for their enjoyment. “I watched a girl hang herself from her closet,” Sophia says, adding that the girl survived. “I saw somebody shoot themselves. Right in the face.” This includes the livestream where Eve beheaded her hamster. Several of these livestreams and videos are collected and spliced into “hype videos” that serve as propaganda for 764 and other groups in the com network.

Instagram post connected to 764 using 764 iconography

764 is but one of many cells within the com network, some of which extend their influence from across the globe. The Maniac Murder Cult (MMC/MKU/MKY) is one of these groups. MMC is a Satanic Ukrainian-based neo-Nazi terrorist group that is more explicitly national socialist, but no less violent, than 764. They are dedicated to committing and soliciting acts of mass violence including, but not limited to, mass shootings, stabbings, and bombings. From 2021 to 2022, The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation arrested around 170 suspected MMC members, many of whom were accused of plotting terrorist attacks in Russia. Mention of MMC hit mainstream Western media in 2024, when a grand jury indicted 20-year-old Michail Chkhikvishvili, the leader of the MCC, on four charges, including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence in New York City. Chkhikvishvili, who goes by the handle “Michael” or “Commander Butcher”, tried to solicit an undercover FBI agent to dress as Santa Claus on New Year’s Eve and pass out poisoned candy to racial minorities and Jewish children in New York City. According to FBI testimony, “M.K.Y. [Telegram] channels have been used to share videos depicting and encouraging acts of violence on behalf of M.K.Y.” not unlike the hype videos that are circulated in 764-affiliated groups. Several of the attacks in these videos feature MCC leader Yegor Krasnov, who goes by the moniker “Maniac”. According to an FBI affidavit, Krasnov created MCC in 2017, and modeled the group after a pair of Ukrainian serial killers known as the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs. The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk, are responsible for a string of murders that occurred in June and July 2007. Before they were ultimately arrested, the two committed 21 murders, seemingly at random, with their weapon of choice, a hammer. The two recruited a third conspirator, Alexander Hanzha, to record their crimes and upload them to the internet, in an infamous video colloquially known as Two Guys One Hammer. In the Haters Handbook (the premier instructional handbook of the MCC), MCC states that, if mass casualty perpetrators recorded and shared their violent and criminal activities, there would be more individuals inspired to follow in their footsteps. Since Cadenhead’s arrest, key influencers in the 764 community have shifted away from circulating CSAM and sextortion, towards offline ideologically motivated criminality, more aligned with the goals and values of MCC. This shift has provided more overlap and fertile grounds for transmission of MCC recruitment material as well as the wider acceptance of terroristic material and propaganda.

As a result, MCC has been able to publish three ideological and instructional “handbooks”, not only for its own group, but for other groups such as 764 and across Terrorgram, the name given to a collection of terror groups that solicit and commit hate crimes and acts of terrorism through Telegram. In September of 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had charged two suspected leaders of the Terrorgram collective with soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officers, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The two suspects, 34-year-old Dallas Humber and 37-year-old Matthew Allison, are alleged to not only be advancing white supremacist ideology but intentionally preying on vulnerable young people who wander into their channels and grooming them to commit acts of mass violence. This level of persuasion, the DOJ says, goes well into the realm of criminal as Humber and Allison disseminated Terrorgram hype videos and handbooks that provide specific advice for carrying out crimes, celebrated white supremacist attacks and provided a hit list of “high-value targets” for assassination. Humber and Allison in particular are accused of guiding individuals to carry out three attacks; an October 2022 shooting outside an LGBT bar in Slovakia, a July 2024 planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey, and an August 2024 knife attack in the Western province of Eskisehir, Turkey. The individual arrested in the Turkish stabbing attack was Arda K., the same individual named in Rupnow’s manifesto.

Terrorgram is also known for their production of extreme propaganda. Aside from disseminating MCC handbooks and 764 hype videos, Terrorgram has also produced two extensive terrorism manuals and a 24-minute documentary that glorifies the murders committed by 105 mass murderers. Allison and Humber even created a visual calendar celebrating the days mass killings took place to inspire others. Yet, their most important contribution to their terroristic goals is the introduction of “sainthood”. Saints are the perpetrators of these attacks who, through their violent aspirations, have ascended to martyrdom. To aspire to “sainthood” is to aspire to rank among the most deadly and barbaric of domestic terrorists, in what groups across the com network call “a legacy of white terror”. Henderson’s manifesto is littered with the “saint” honorific, as he pays his dark respects to previous mass casualty perpetrators. This culture of sainthood is used to further radicalize and ingratiate vulnerable youth by providing them with a goal of biblical proportions. By mythologizing the legacy of mass shooters, socially ostracized youth who may feel disenfranchised are inundated with propaganda that provides them with a purpose. In 2022, Humber posted a motivational diatribe that described the “saints” as ‘Gods’ and ‘soldiers for the white race’. The day after Humber posted the diatribe, in a separate group chat, she admitted that she had sent the diatribe to a specific, young and impressionable member of Terrorgram, with the explicit goal of persuading him to commit a mass attack.

It may seem like splitting hairs to delineate between groups like 764, Terrorgram, MCC and the com as whole, but this is important to establish a timeline and a comprehensive understanding of how this growing threat evolved. While groups under the com network are separate, they work closely with each other to disseminate violent and graphic information to their members, effectively creating a dark ecosystem of radicalization that operates openly. They seek to inhabit less sinister parts of the internet where vulnerable young folk congregate; incel forum and eating disorder pages. The manipulation tactics and techniques used in 764 for sextortion purposes are being applied to militant national socialist movements, such as MCC. What has resulted is a dark network of bad actors with the explicit goal of using gore to desensitize vulnerable youth and ultimately persuade them into committing mass acts of violence for various neo-Nazi goals. This incredibly concerning trend of “groomers” or “handlers” with the goal of mass violence has resulted in more Terrorgram leaders being labelled as special designated global terrorists. Unfortunately, these groomers and handlers in the com network are seemingly able to spread their influence faster than they can be caught. The third edition of the Haters Handbook claims that MCC is responsible for 50+ murders and 150+ “actions”- all the while hinting that there are more that have not been made public.

In May of 2022 18-year-old Payton Gendron drove 320 km from his hometown in Conklin, New York, to a supermarket in Buffalo, where he would perpetrate a mass shooting that took the lives of thirteen people; ten of whom were Black. He would livestream part of his attack on Twitch, where users could see a third person view of his automatic rifle, with racial epithets scrawled into the side. At one point during the livestream, Gendron pointed his rifle at an unarmed person behind the checkout, noted they were white, apologized and moved on. Gendron’s attack was deemed a clear case of racially motivated violence, and he was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences with no chance for parole. Like the connection between Henderson and Rupnow, an update to the story made little to no traction in the media. Just 30 minutes prior to his attack, Gendron invited at least six people to a private Discord group through a link with the caption “HAPPENING– NOT A DRILL”. This Discord group acted as Gendron’s personal diary, detailing his plans for the assault and his racist motivations. By far, the most concerning piece of information that came from Gendron’s personal writings is the revelation that an unknown figure, that Gendron refers to as ‘Sandman’ or ‘Saint Sandman’, counselled him on weaponry before the massacre. Gendron references Sandman three times in his writing and allegedly quoted them in a post he made on May 2; ‘When the time finally comes to deal decisively with a whole host of society’s problems, and not go to prison for it, you’ll know. Just be ready. You have spent your entire life, from the day you were born, right up to this very moment, reading this sentence, coming to where you are right now,’ Sandman allegedly told the teen. ‘Look around you. Are you content with where you are right now? Are you where you want to be? If so, continue to march. If not, what are you going to do? What’s your plan? Get and keep your mind, body, and spirit right. Pray. Lift. Run. Read. Shoot. And teach your kids to do those things.’ Whoever this ‘Saint Sandman’ is, they clearly played a heavy and intentional role in Gendron’s radicalization. This quote alone shows that Sandman was preying on Gendron, assuaging fears and motivating them through hesitation. It is unmistakable that Gendron was radicalized by alt-right propaganda that can be found on almost any website nowadays, but to make the jump from online racism to offline mass violence requires a level of coercion that is coordinated. Gendron might have ben preyed on by an evil actor, like Humber and Allison, to enact a brutal attack.

Henderson repurposed Gendron’s quote from Sandman in his manifesto and makes his own disturbing dedication. In the “Shout Out” portion of Henderson’s manifesto, he pays his respects to those he feels indebted to; the fringe alt-right forum page Soyjak.party, his favourite moderators on those sites, his online friends, and even his favourite meme; Cobson. However, Henderson dedicates a handful of sentences to an unknown entity he simply refers to as “My Handlers”. He writes, “You helped me along with my journey through the process of HATE You taught me how to hate and it will change the world. FUCK PEACE FUCK YOUR FAKE LOVE. THE ONLY REAL EMOTION IS HATE. OPEN YOUR HEART TO HATE. RACE WAR NOW!!!”. These words, considering new context, are indicative of something severely disturbing. It is fully possible that Henderson was groomed explicitly by these online networks to commit his attack. There is an entry in Henderson’s Element diary where he states “My sister has a Discord it’s over. I have to commit the attack. She’s 100% gonna get groomed” indicating that Henderson himself might have been involved, or been a victim of, these extortion and grooming networks. Out of hundreds, or thousands, of Discord or Telegram channel dwellers, only two or three may be susceptible to this level of coercion; but that can still result in countless lives lost.

“*Are you a siegetard O9A 765 Satanic N***r?” Henderson asks himself in his manifesto. “No, never did that shit is gay and larpy it only scares your 1980s boomer Christians. Then why a siege mask? Because it’s funny and the aesthetic.” Once again, he insists that his reliance on satanic imagery, and any association to 764 (jokingly referenced as 765), is simply because it’s funny and it’s for the aesthetic. Yet, as we’ve mentioned, these groups within com diffuse tactics and techniques amongst each other, and their primary tool has always been hyper-irony, nihilism and misanthropy. Even as Henderson denies any earnest allegiance to these groups, he overplays his hand and reveals how steeped he is in this neo-Nazi occult culture, using even more abstract shorthand references; 765, “siegetard”, and of course, O9A/ONA (Order of Nine Angles). Interestingly, Henderson refers to his relationship with Christianity as “complicated”.

Now that adequate context has been established for com, it’s many influences and potential consequences for society, it is fundamental to investigate a group whose shadowy influence manifests throughout the network, whose ideological traditions are the foundation for which com is built on, and whose history predates com by several decades; The Order of Nine Angles. The predecessor to com and its affiliates, the O9A was established in the early 1970’s by British neo-Nazi David Myatt. Technically the O9A originally was a Wiccan organization founded in the 1960’s, but it wasn’t until Myatt’s leadership in 1974 that the group took on a theistic satanist stance. Myatt himself is described as one of England’s foremost proponents of contemporary neo-Nazi ideology and theoreticians of revolution. Born in the British East African colonial possession of Tanganyika (where his father was a civil servant for the British government), Myatt has travelled the globe on extended stays in the Middle East and East Asia, studying and synthesizing various strains of religions ranging from Christianity and Islam in the Western tradition, to Taoism and Buddhism in the Eastern path, all the while remaining staunchly committed to the national socialist cause.

Today, there are two main ideological strains within the O9A. The “original” strain was pioneered by Myatt and was heavily influenced by his syncretized religious learnings. Through texts like Hostia, allegedly penned by Myatt under the pseudonym Anton Long, this strain of the 09A focuses on “Sinister” conduct that includes subversive, illegal and immoral actions. Notably, however, there is a clear emphasis on introspective, left-hand, and generally non-violent rituals. Throughout his twenty published works, Myatt weaves a mystifying, cryptic, and intentionally opaque lore centered around a primordial spirituality that has been supplanted by the Abrahamic faiths. He tells of an apocalyptic final confrontation between monotheistic “Magian” civilization and primordial European “Faustian” spirituality. The overlap with fascism leads significant portions of O9A adherents to view the enemy of Faustian spirituality, ultimately, as Jewish people. This manifests in individual esoteric and occult practices that may lend themselves to hate-based violence. What resulted is a form of esoteric occult Hitlerism that deifies and worships Adolf Hitler while focusing on individual rituals.

The second strain of the O9A is organized around the Tempel ov Blood, the U.S. “nexion” of the organization. The O9A experienced a lull in focus throughout the 80’s and 90’s, as Myatt’s cult had not spread beyond obscurity in the United Kingdom and official “nexions” had been established. The establishment of the Tempel in the 2000’s helped push an O9A resurgence. The Tempel is most known for their infiltration of right-wing fringe groups and proselytizing an ideology known as militant accelerationism. Accelerationism, broadly, can be understood as a school of social concepts that recognize modernity, liberalism, and capitalism’s inherent contradictions will inevitably lead to their own demise and societal collapse. Militant accelerationism, on the other hand, embraces political violence and acts of terrorism in the pursuit of that demise. Militant accelerationists believe society’s collapse, while inevitable, will simply take too long and militant action is necessary to expedite their goals. From the smoldering ashes of previous civilization, militant accelerationists believe they will achieve social rejuvenation. Accelerationist, then, endorse the tactic of seemingly random acts of terrorism to attempt to spark chain reactions of social upheaval and violence. To this end, the Tempel’s training manual dismisses the original O9A’s emphasis on introspective action for a totalizing focus on external violence and destruction. Through his in-house publishing imprint, Martinet Press, the founder of the Tempel ov Blood, Joshua Sutter, has helped fuel the ascent of the O9A and fast-tracked satanic militant accelerationism to all corners of the internet. His perspective has had a considerable lingering effect on Terrorgram, as he emphasizes no tactic going too far. The Haters Handbook, MCC’s premier instructional handbook, states “nihilistic national socialism” involves the destruction of current systems and ideologies without adhering to any orthodox ideological framework, making actions unpredictable. In the late 2010’s, O9A and Tempel iconography became ubiquitous across Terrorgram and the militant accelerationist movement with the assistance of a prolific graphic designer who went by the moniker “Dark Foreigner”. Dark Foreigner, Patrick Gordon Macdonald, was instrumental in giving new life to the Tempel by blending satanic O9A aesthetics with the “siege” culture of another militant neo-Nazi group, the Atomwaffen Division. Despite his arrest in 2023 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Macdonald’s unique choice of colour palette, sinister and menacing tone, and militant neo-Nazi slogans has long defined the militant accelerationist network. After his arrest, the RCMP stated that this “is the first [case] in Canada in which an individual advocating a violent far-right ideology has been charged with both terrorism and hate propaganda.”

Posters designed by Macdonald using his signature style and one of O9A’s symbols, the septagon

Placed into the context of the satanic militant accelerationist traditions of the O9A and the Tempel, the sextortion, swatting and hacking arms of the com network simply act as pipelines towards radicalization. Online communities that may exist to satisfy a vulnerable but non-threatening population are seen as hunting grounds for satanic neo-Nazi groomers who seek to coerce members of this population into acts of mass violence. Jade Parker, a former military intelligence contactor for the United States Joint Operations Command, released one of the first comprehensive articles about the threat of accelerationists in America, well before the FBI had revealed any investigations into com or 764. In it, she claims that the August 2019 attacks at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the bar scene in Dayton, Ohio were mischaracterized as united by white supremacy. Instead, Parker suggests that what unites the perpetrators was their use of the Internet and shared accelerationist aspirations which inherently contain white supremacist dimensions. The El Paso attack perpetrator admired the Christchurch terrorist (which killed 51 people), and expected the media would misrepresent nuances in his beliefs and instead blame inflammatory political rhetoric to perpetuate partisan narratives regarding white supremacy.

Terrorgram screenshot depicting the militant accelerationist framework for societal collapse

On the morning of January 6, 2021, hours before supporters of Donald J. Trump would go on to storm the United States Capitol Building in protest of the election’s certification, two pipe bombs were discovered outside of the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention, respectively, and Molotov cocktails were discovered in a vehicle near the Capitol. The FBI identified multiple persons of interest during the initial weeks of their investigation; someone who searched the term “pipe bomb DC” online prior to law enforcements discovery of them but after their placement, someone who took photographs of the area behind the RNC one day prior to the riot, and a vehicle of interest carrying a passenger matching the description of the suspect that drove past the RNC minutes after the suspect planted the pipe bombs. Despite the initial findings, in the years since the riot, the FBI has yet to identify the suspect and has refused to provide additional information about these investigative leads. Prior to her disappearance from the Internet, Jade Parker claimed that she had a “very good idea” of the unidentified January 6 bomber and their affiliated network. In a manifesto left behind before her disappearance, Parker claims she went to federal authorities with definitive proof that this trend of “lone wolf” shootings were, in fact, not lone at all but apart of a concerning domestic terror network of decentralized cells, akin to ISIS. When discussing the Christchurch mass shooter, Parker states “He stated he used guns to agitate the American political left into eroding Second Amendment protections and spread his materials on social media to provoke calls for censorship of the political right. He anticipated the second-order effects of these restrictions would further factionalize and polarize an already divided landscape when the right responds to perceived attacks on their liberty by knee-jerk legislative measures.” In this context, Parker is claiming the January 6 pipe bomber is not a traditional MAGA supporter, or an explicit member of more traditional alt-right groups, such as the Boogaloo Boys or the Proud Boys, at all. Rather, the perpetrator is most likely a militant accelerationist who saw the riot as an opportunity for a mass casualty attack that could be used to sew discord and division. Parker differentiates between these two groups via implicit and explicit militant accelerationism. Individual adherents to this ideology should be viewed on a spectrum ranging from inspired, such as the Proud Boys or MAGA, to overt self-identification, such as the Atomwaffen Division or MCC.

Screenshot from @bx_on_x of Jade Parker claiming to have identified the Jan 6 bomber

Parker codified many of her findings in a “dead mans switch”, as she called it, titled *The Origins of the Doctrine of Accelerationism. *Parker’s work is dark, and there is a paranoid tone that permeates everything she writes. She accuses her academic colleagues of usurping her research in a coordinated attempt to discredit her more “far fetched” conclusions. She publishes multiple drafts and iterations of essays, outlining her increasingly narrow scope of research from “mass shootings”, to “stochastic terrorism”, and ultimately, to militant accelerationism. Although accelerationism has gained prominence from the writings of Ted Kaczynski, SIEGE by Neo-Nazi James Mason (hence, Henderson’s reference to being a “siegetard”), and the Turner diaries by William Pierce, militant accelerationist (or accelerationist terror) is the transformation of these ideas because of the internet.

Of course, Myatt and O9A emerged as one of the “curious characters” over the course of Parker’s investigation. She claims that Myatt attempted to use occult groups prior to his formation of the O9A as vehicles of revolution but failed. He mentions that the occult groups were acting as extensions of a separate covert subversive organization. O9A literature is intentionally shrouded in myth and emphasizes obscuring the organization to outsiders through deceit. Myatt’s use of the occult holds no intrinsic spiritual attachment, she claims, except as a repository of Sorelian myth to map desired values and thematic resonance. Effectively, Myatt laundered the conceptual framework for a violent insurrectionary political movement through the opaque and intentionally esoteric imagery of the occult.

Parker concludes this iteration of her essay pondering the covert organization Myatt mentioned as lurking behind the religious political and social groups that it is using to encourage accelerationist terror attacks, presuming there is even a bigger player at hand. Clearly, it is imperative for federal authorities to investigate the influences and co-conspirators of major figures like Myatt and Sutter. Unfortunately, federal authorities face many obstacles on the path towards justice. The primary obstacle in that path being David Myatt’s and Joshua Sutter’s long and documented respective histories as working with, and in some cases explicitly on the payroll of, the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Part 3: Operation Gladio

Few cowards can be credited with advancing the satanic neo-Nazi movement as far as it has in America as Joshua Sutter. Sutter’s publishing house, Martinet Press, acted as a vehicle for O9A and Tempel propaganda, as documented by late independent journalist Nate Thayer. His influence has extended well into the com network and 764, and his continued involvement in the violent fringe right has had a lasting effect on the movement. His unfortunately prolific production of propaganda materials led him to meet John Cameron Denton, a senior figure in the militant neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division. The Atomwaffen Division has been described as one of the biggest neo-Nazi organizations in America and boasts an international membership that extends to the United Kingdom, Argentina, Canada, Germany and other European countries. Through Martinet Press Sutter introduced two of his books, Bluebird and Iron Gates, as Atomwaffen required reading, both books that celebrate child sexual abuse. Sutter’s influence on the Atomwaffen Division makes the revelation of his status as an FBI informant even more shocking. During the 2021 federal trial of Atomwaffen Division leader Kaleb Cole, details emerged outing Sutter as having been an official FBI informant since 2003 after being sent to prison roughly 20 years ago for trying to buy a silencer and a defaced Glock .40 pistol from an undercover federal agent in Philadelphia. At the time of his arrest, Sutter was living on an Aryan Nations compound in Pennsylvania. Since then, Sutter has earned at least $140,000 USD by infiltrating far-right organizations, most notably the Atomwaffen Division, starting in 2017. Yet, Sutter’s unmasking as an FBI informant has not stopped his commitment to the satanic neo-Nazi movement and he has continued to publish extremist books through Martinet Press, rebranded as Agony’s Point Press in 2022. One of the titles published by Agony’s Point, volume one of the Drums of Tophet zine, includes an interview with Commander Butcher of MMC, real name Michail Chkhikvishvili, the Ukrainian neo-Nazi who was arrested for planning a mass poison attack in New York City. Chkhikvishvili lists Atomwaffen and O9A as lasting influences and discloses an “alliance” between MMC and 764. WIRED’s investigation into Sutter’s history as an FBI informant reveals that Sutter openly discussed viewing CSAM with other members of his nexion and had a notable fascination with the case of Belgian serial killer, rapist and pedophile Marc Dutroux. Shortly before Agony Points Twitter page had been taken offline, the account posted a blood-smeared photo of Dutroux next to human and animal skeletal remains, as well as a severed doll’s head inked with lightning bolts and a swastika, on top of a flag featuring a Nazi death’s head and the Nazi slogan “Meine ehre ist meine treue” (my honor is my allegiance). Despite all that has emerged, federal authorities have yet to confirm Sutter’s status as an informant and have refused to comment on the situation. Why would the American government effectively bankroll the production of domestic terror propaganda, especially with the knowledge of Sutter’s influence on the violent right? The answer may lie in the relationship David Myatt had with federal authorities, one shrouded in significantly more secrecy, and one that spans decades.

“Satanic Panic” was a term coined to describe the moral panic of the late 1970’s to late 1990’s, that consisted of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of satanic ritual abuse, usually, but not always, centered around children. By the early 1980’s, a broad array of vague symptoms of Satanic Ritual Abuse were being seen in allegations throughout Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. In retrospect, the Satanic Panic movement is seen as the embodiment of upper-class pearl clutching and is laughed at with derision. Anyone who references “satan” or anything satanic in modern political discourse is often written off as a disassociated hermit who has spent far too much time online. As mentioned before, however, Myatt saw the occult as an opportunity to communicate insurrectionary national socialist ideas, and there was no more important figure in the United Kingdom’s satanic movement of the early 80’s than Myatt himself. An article produced by the Guardian in 2014 shone a spotlight on Black Magic and Bogeymen, a book produced by Prof. Richard Jenkins of Sheffield University. In his book, Jenkin speaks to military intelligence officers, including the head of the army’s “black operations” in Northern Ireland, Captain Colin Wallace. Wallace admits that the “psych-ops” branch of military intelligence exploited public fear of satanism and fomented the idea that emerging paramilitary movements (in this context, Irish resistance movements against British occupation) and campaigns they were engaged in had unleashed evil forces across Northern Irish society. Wallace said that manufactured hysteria was helpful in discrediting paramilitary movements as well as keeping younger children in at night and away from buildings that might have been used by military and police for undercover surveillance. The incredibly tense years of 1972–1974 were among some of the bloodiest of the Troubles and a period when Northern Ireland was on the brink of civil war. Jenkins writes that military intelligence officers sought to create a subtle link in the public’s mind between the true-to-life horrors of the Troubles and something more supernatural as part of its propaganda campaign.

These same years where Satanic Panic was at an all time high in the U.K. are the same years that Myatt founded the O9A and dedicated himself to advancing satanic Hitlerlism. The only mention of this potential link between Myatt and British military intelligence comes from a (less than reputable) German-language news site that goes on to make even more significant claims. In this article, the author writes “Extremists, secret services also used Satanists to implement their strategy of tension. For example, in the early 1970s in Northern Ireland a Satanic Panic was created through fake information. The originator of this Satanic Panic was David Myatt, who founded the neo-Nazi Satanist group Order of Nine Angles in the same year that this panic arose. David Myatt was also a member of the neo-Nazi association Column 88, which hid the neo-Nazi activist Walter Kexel…”. Column 88 was a neo-Nazi paramilitary organization based in the U.K. It was formed in the early 1970’s and most notably undertook military training under the supervision of a former Royal Marine Commando. A secret Nazi underground group, the history of Column 88 alleges to go back as far as 1945. Myatt is documented in his autobiography as having been a leading member of Column 88. This is just two of many links between Myatt and British military intelligence that leads many to claim that he, and subsequently the strain of occult neo-Nazi militant accelerationism that he helped birth, are part of Operation Gladio.

Operation Gladio (derived from the Italian word gladius meaning “sword”) is the name given to the collection of covert paramilitaries and “stay-behind” organizations created and run by NATO, the American CIA, the German Stasi, and the British MI6 during the Cold War. While the term Gladio originally referred to the Italian arm of this coalition, it has come to encompass all and/or other national branch organizations dedicated to the same effort. At the end of World War II, Western fears of a Nazi takeover of Europe subsided and gave way to fears of another ideological enemy, communism. National intelligence agencies from NATO nations instituted covert organizations that were to stay behind and carry out guerilla warfare in the event of a Soviet takeover of Europe. The historian Daniele Ganser wrote about the Gladio strategy: “The “stay-behind armies” were unknown to the people, the parliament, and to most members of government. Throughout Western Europe, they formed an invisible, coordinated, secret network of security organizations. However, in some– but not in all — countries, these organizations mutated into terrorist cells. […] Washington, London, and the Italian military intelligence agency feared that the gains made by Communist politicians at the [Italian] polls and hence their entry into government could weaken NATO from the inside out. In order to prevent that, the people were manipulated: Right-wing extremists carried out terror attacks which were then falsely ascribed (by means of faked evidence) to the targeted political enemy. The people, in turn, reacted by clamoring for more police protection, a restriction of rights, and more surveillance on the part of the intelligence agencies.” Operation Gladio involved the heavy use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western Europe and even went as far as to fund and support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism. Wallace’s admission of using “psych-ops” to undermine the Irish republican movement during the Troubles is seen as an extension of Operation Gladio’s anti-communism tactics and goals. In the wake of the Soviet Union’s dissolution in the late 90’s, the stay behind networks of Operation Gladio have shifted their target towards any ideological movement that can be seen as an tangential to communism. The United States Department of State maintains that the operation only served to resist a potential Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

The previous quote used by the German-language news outlet goes to mention someone by the name of Walter Kexel as being a member of Column 88, the neo-Nazi paramilitary organization headed, at one time, by David Myatt. Walter Kexel was a right-wing terrorist, and, along with Odfried Hepp, half of the namesake of the terrorist group Hepp-Kexel-Group. The Hepp-Kexel-Group perpetrated bank robberies and attacks in the early 1980’s and gained most of their membership from Hepp’s former organization, Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (Armed Sports Group Hoffman) was a right-wing extremist organization that is considered to be the transit point of right-wing terrorism in Germany. On September 26, 1980, 23-year-old Gundolf Kohler carried out the Otkoberfest bombing, which killed 13 people and injured 221. In the immediate investigation into the bombing, it was concluded that Kohler worked alone, however, further investigation revealed that he had made repeated contact with Hoffman and was very much involved with the group to some degree. Der Spiegel reported that prior to be bomb plot, Kohler had been sounding off about the upcoming election. He allegedly said it could be arranged for a bomb to explode, and this could be “blamed on the left so that Strauß will be elected.” More than 30 years after the attack, research done by the Bavarian political magazine *Kontrovers into the official investigation reveals that doubts about Kohler’s sole involvement were more than warranted. Files from the Federal Intelligence Service revealed that Hoffman had contacts with Italian right-wing extremists in a Lebanese training camp. What makes this revelation so explosive is the suspicion that these Italian right-wing extremists were behind the deadly bombing in Bologna that occurred a few weeks before the Oktoberfest attack. The Bologna massacre has long been considered the work of Operation Gladio, as it was the result of the not-so-secret collusion between state officials, fascist terrorists and agents provocateurs in an unofficial policy known as strategia della (strategy of tension). The strategy of tension was meant to terrorize Italians into voting for the oligarchic Christian Democrats instead of the Italian Communist Party. This policy was backed by the United States, and the CIA reportedly funneled millions of dollars into anti-communist parties and initiatives to influence the outcome of numerous elections prior to the 1940’s. At the time, Bologna was considered a stronghold of the Italian Communist Party. The parallels between the attack in Bologna and the Oktoberfest attack are numerous, they occurred within weeks of each other, when both countries were about to hold elections, and the perpetrators of both were self-avowed fascist neo-Nazi’s who sought to violently dismantle the influence of communism in their countries. Most notably, in both cases, left-wing extremists were suspected, only for the attacks to later be proven having been carried out by right-wing terrorists. Unfortunately, few links exist between Kexel and an alleged membership with Column 88. Aside from this single German-language media outlet, there exists an edition of the [Anarchist magazine Blackflag](https://files.libcom.org/files/bf7-2a-1983.pdf)* that reports Kexel’s 1983 arrest took place at the Wareham home of ex-Column 88 leader Ian Souter-Clarence, as well as a declassified CIA document from the mid-2000’s that mentions Kexel and Column 88 as members of note in the emerging neo-Nazi threat.

Myatt’s relationship with federal authorities goes beyond his alleged involvement and cooperation with European intelligence agencies during the 70’s and 80’s. The German-language news site alleges a connection between Myatt and one Michael Aquino. Aquino was a high-ranking military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and a National Security Agency employee. He was deployed in the field of psychological warfare and is an honorary graduate of the US Army Military Intelligence School. In 1981, Aquino was a reserve attaché at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and a year later he was a student at the Foreign Service Institute, sponsored by the Department of State. As mentioned, Aquino’s specialty was the use of psychological operations to intimidate, undermine and frighten the enemy — the exact purpose for which Operation Gladio was established. During his time as attaché, one of Aquino’s main tasks was to mediate between the European NATO defense headquarters and the U.S. Embassy, and he participated in a series of tours of European NATO installations. This alone might give one pause and lead them to conceive that, throughout his storied career in European psychological operations, Aquino may have had some involvement with Myatt during his time in the 70’s and 80’s, Myatt was the foremost mind in the British satanic neo-Nazi movement after all. If Myatt saw the occult as a vehicle for his accelerationist national socialist beliefs, and European intelligence agencies saw national socialism as a vehicle for anti-communism, it’s very possible that Aquino and Myatt had overlapping interests. The position that may have brought Aquino closest to Myatt, however, was Aquino’s tenure as a high-ranking member of the Church of Satan. While the strains of satanism practiced by Aquino and Myatt differ, it’s clear that their shared interest led them to at least one interaction. In 2016, Aquino posted on an internet forum, reproducing a letter he had received in the 1990’s from David Myatt. Aquino also mentioned that correspondence with Myatt was mutually courteous and respectful. In the letter, Myatt denies Aquino’s mention of his name in connection with a “certain occult group”. Furthermore, Myatt claims that satanism is at complete odds with national socialism and his potential involvement in any occult practices was to infiltrate occult groups for national socialist ends.

The German-language media outlet that reported on the connection between Aquino and Myatt claims that Aquino’s production of this letter potentially hides ulterior motives, writing “Isn’t it remarkable what he reveals to an alleged stranger without any need? Not only did he tell Aquino that he was not a Satanist, but he also admitted to having infiltrated occult groups to spread the message of National Socialism […] It is also remarkable that Aquino pulled out the letter for no apparent reason and posted it on an Internet forum almost 18 years after it was written. One cannot help but get the impression that the publication of the letter, which was supposedly written in the late 1990s, was an agreed-upon matter between the two. Did Mr. Myatt want to clear his name and get rid of his Satanist image with the help of Aquino? Was Aquino an old acquaintance of Myatt’s from his days in Europe? Was there a collaboration between the two?”

Even more peculiarly, Aquino’s name has popped up in connection with the case of Marc Dutroux, the Belgian serial killer and child rapist that Tempel ov Blood founder Joshua Sutter exhibited a fascination with. The Institut Abrasax claimed to be a research and study centre for unexplained phenomena. Courses on occult sciences were given and the centre studied everything related to various forms of magic. In December of 1996, the institute came under investigation for having children delivered by Marc Dutroux for ritual murders as part of satanist rituals, but the investigation was cut short. Not unlike the story of Jefferey Epstein, Dutroux himself claims that he is the patsy for a larger pedophile crime ring that implicates many of the Belgian elite, notably the far-right activist and financier Benoir, Baron de Bonvoisin (known as the Black Baron). Bonvoisin was a close confidant and advisor of the then Belgian Prime Minister Vanden Boeynants and has financed militant neo-Nazi groups across Belgium, such as the Front de la Jeunesse. Dutroux admits to kidnapping and sexually assaulting the young girls but claims that he and his associates were merely meant to acquire and store them using one of his seven houses. Documents released by WikiLeaks show that large sums of money in different currencies arrived in the bank account of Dutroux’s accomplice in timely links with the disappearances of the abducted girls, which suggested to investigators that he was financed by a larger pedophile and prostitution ring. Belgian police investigation files reveal that they discovered a letter in the wooden houses of Bernard Weinstein, one of Dutroux’s accomplices. The letter reminds Weinstein “to remind him of the gift for the high priestess”. Attached was a kind of order form for 17 females between the ages of 2 and 20 who were needed for anal, oral and vaginal sexual practices. The letter was signed by the satanic priest “Anubis” (real name Francis Desmedt), the founder of the Institut Abrasax. The co-founder of the Institut Abrasax is Dominique Kindermans, who goes by the honorific the Supreme High Priestess. The “him” in this letter is never expounded upon, but many conclude it to be Dutroux, solidifying the narrative that Dutroux and his accomplices were acting as procurement for more sinister satanic and pedophilic circles. At least 27 witnesses related to the Dutroux case have died, several of them under suspicious circumstances that, when expounded upon, would most likely go outside of the scope of this essay.

The Institut Abrasax was headquartered in Forchies La Marche, only 10 km from Charleroi, where Dutroux lived at the time of the murders and where the bodies of his victims were found. Only 25 km from Charleroi is the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the military headquarters of NATO, and where Aquino was stationed during his time as attaché. Kindermans was also alleged to be a high-ranking member of the Church of Satan with Aquino. As well, if we accept the premise of Aquino’s work in Cold War Europe as part of Operation Gladio’s psychological operations campaign, the links become even more concerning when we consider the alleged 1990 search of The Black Baron’s home. The search revealed documents that are said to have outlined a strategy of tension, specifically anticipating blind attacks on Belgian supermarkets. This has led people to suspect The Black Baron of financing the Brabant Attacks, a series of violent attacks that occurred in the Belgian province between 1982 and 1985. A total of 28 people died and 22 were injured, with most of the attacks happening at various supermarkets. While no official connection in the Brabant investigation was made to groups financed by Bonvoisin, speculation increased after former members of Westland New Post (a Belgian far right organization founded by members of Front de la Jeunesse), including the only Gendarmerie, recalled being ordered to covertly survey and compile a report on security arrangements at Belgian supermarkets of the large chain targeted by the Brabant killers. Included in the documents found at Bonvoisin’s home was a list of 8 names of gendarmes from “Groupe G”, which was said to be led by leaders of the Front de la Jeunesse and WNP such as Paul Latinus and Michel Libert, respectively. Latinus would go on to confess stealing confidential NATO documents through Michel Libert, who was a NATO military volunteer at the time. Another concerning interest that connects Aquino to the Dutroux investigation; Aquino himself was investigated for child molestation allegations in connection to more than four dozen potential cases of sexual abuse at the Army’s Child Development Center at the Presidio of San Francisco. A girl came forward in August 1987 and identified Aquino as the culprit. An investigation was launched, but it was closed after insufficient evidence was found.

At the risk of turning this essay into a web of unmemorable names attached to a corkboard with thumbtacks and connected with increasingly thin twine, let us take a step back. The image that remains is hazy but it’s heavily implied that, in the decades between the 1970’s and 1990’s, Western intelligence agencies were funding and training covert anti-communist Nazi organizations through Operation Gladio, which centered around the weaponization of psychological operations. These tactics included bombing campaigns, serial murders, and stoking fears of supernatural satanic violence. Furthermore, these tactics were used to undermine and subvert popular opinion, resulting in knee-jerk reactions from politicians. Does this narrative sound familiar?

While the goals and tactics of Operation Gladio may have shifted with the changing communist threat, it is laughable to imagine national intelligence agencies haven’t been acutely aware of the emerging neo-Nazi terror threat, largely due to their role in proliferating the threat itself. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the global neo-Nazi movement has been a key tool of control and subversion by Western intelligence agencies, and the links continue to pop up today. In the case of Payton Gendron, the perpetrator of the Buffalo supermarket attack, it was revealed that one of the recipients of Gendron’s Discord invitation 30 minutes prior to his attack was a retired federal agent. This same former agent is one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with Gendron in online chat rooms where “racist hatred was discussed”. One official told the New York Post “[discussions of] replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry” were prominent.

Whatever monster that was unleashed in the name of anti-communism has adapted to the changing landscape of terrorism and has used the internet to disseminate its unique brand of militant satanic Hitlerism. Whether or not federal authorities explicitly helmed the direction of this beast, at this point, is moot. The militant accelerationist movement has taken on a life of its own and goes far beyond any “lone wolf” explanation for the rise in mass public killings. Deeply embedded in the bowels of this network are players linked to federal authorities, or federal authorities themselves, authorities who seem incapable or unwilling to further investigate.

Unsurprisingly, there is also a financial dimension to this trend. A month prior to Henderson’s attack at Antioch High School, The Metro Nashville Public Schools board had approved a $1 million contract with Omnilert, an artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection company. Don Maye, head of operations at the security and surveillance research group IPVM, says “Schools are an attractive market for security technology for a couple reasons, there’s money there, and the reason why there’s money there is that there’s violence happening there that the public is concerned about.” Despite claims that its effectiveness had failed on the day of the attack, and wider claims that AI detection technology is faulty and misrepresented at it’s core, it continues to be adopted all over school boards in America. One Phillidelphia school board, the Park City School District of Summit County has recruited security company ZeroEyes to employ their “proactive gun detection and intelligent situational awareness solution”. ZeroEyes’ AI gun detection system is now layered on top of existing digital security cameras at all eight student-occupied PCSD buildings. If a gun is identified, images will instantly be shared with the ZeroEyes Operations Center, staffed 24/7/365 by specially trained U.S. military and law enforcement veterans. Rest assured, ZeroEyes claims “monitoring screens in the ZOC stay blank; the ZeroEyes Operations team does not see a live feed from any cameras. Further, the platform does not store personal or biometric data or conduct any kind of facial recognition.”

News articles ranging from six days to one month ago describing three different city school boards that have approved the installation AI detection systems in their school

A news article from two days ago detailing another school board implementing AI detection systems

Every thought I had, put it in a box (Box) Everybody see it just before the cops”

In December of 2013, Childish Gambino released his second studio album Because the Internet. Accompanying the album was a 72-page screenplay for which the songs acted as the de facto soundtrack for. The narrative of the screenplay is vague, but centers around an affluent and emotionally despondent young man simply referred to as “The Boy”. The Boy, seemingly unable to escape the luxurious but disassociating monotony of his life, spends most of his time perusing videos on WorldStarHipHop and trolling celebrities on Twitter. The themes presented on the album, in the screenplay, and accompanying short film Clapping for the Wrong Reasons, is eerily prescient. Gambino told MTV that the artist Beck gave him the idea for the album title, explaining “Because the internet I’m here, because of the internet we’re all here. It’s the language of earth. Everyone keeps saying by this or that year, Mandarin or Spanish will be the most dominant language, but the internet is already a language we are all connected to; even my dad can understand the meme format. But the thing is, there are no rules, which is also the awesome thing.” Gambino is completely right in this regard. The lingua franca of the future is the internet, and it has allowed a connection between social groups unprecedented in human history. Maybe that’s why The Boy is so emotionally despondent, only able to feel when he’s watching snuff videos on WorldStarHipHop. How many Boys are there across America right now, just like Solomon Henderson? Eyes glazed over as a waterfall of images and videos depicting the cruelest acts known to man just scroll by. Satanism, neo-Nazi Hitler worship, child abduction and torture, all just irreverent jokes used to shield whatever true anger you harbour, targeting the most vulnerable members of our society. Most prescient about Because the Internet, was Gambino’s decision to add an alternate title to the final track on the album “III: Life: The Biggest Troll (Andrew Aurenheimer)”. Andrew Aurenheimer, better known as ‘weev’, is a neo-Nazi and computer hacker who is known for being the webmaster of the neo-Nazi website Stormfront. Starting in the early 2010’s, Aurenheimer has been partly responsible for a series of, for lack of a better term, criminal shenanigans using his technical proficiency. He exposed a flaw in AT&T’s security that compromised the emails of over 100,000 people, he was responsible for sending thousands of white-supremacist flyers to WiFi printers across multiple university campuses (in promotional support of the now-cancelled television show Million Dollar Extreme, created by fellow neo-Nazi and pedophile Sam Hyde), and released undercover Planned Parenthood videos (which he was quoted as doing ‘for the lulz’).

Aurenheimer was once a rare spectacle. He may have congregated with other likeminded bigots on web forums, but there was a time where behaviour like Aurenheimer’s was seen as the death throes of a quashed ideology. On the contrary, Aurenheimer, and the “alt-right” as a whole, are one tentacle of a larger, much more evil octopus. I wish there was a more conclusive end to this essay. I wish there were more follow-ups to the cases I talked about above. I wish Solomon Henderson was able to find some sort of intervention before his descent into radicalization. In his own words, he claims to have started browsing 4chan at nine years old.

If you have young siblings, children, cousins or any youth in your life that you care about, please be aware of the kind of behaviour they exhibit online. It may be cliché, but an invested adult or caring figure might have changed the lives of a lot of these kids turned perpetrators. It might have changed the lives of countless families.

audhubillah min al-shaytaan ir-rajeem “I seek refuge in Allah from the outcast Shaitan.”

Glossary

1. 764: A subgroup of the com network that engages in transnational sextortion and transmission of CSAM using O9A adjacent iconography.
2. Accelerationism: A collection of schools of thought that recognize modernity, liberalism, and capitalism’s inherent contradictions will inevitably lead to their own demise.
3. Atomwaffen Division: A now-defunct international militant neo-Nazi network that was infiltrated by FBI informant Joshua Sutter.
4. Column 88: A British paramilitary neo-Nazi organization that was formed in the 70’s under the military training of a former Royal Marine Commando.
5. Militant accelerationism: An action-backed political ideology that seeks to accelerate society’s contradictions through violent acts, enabling its collapse.
6. The Maniac Murder Cult (MMC/MKU/MKY): A Ukrainian militant accelerationist group that has identified themselves as connected to 764.
7. The “com” network: A loose and decentralized connection of underground netizens whose online behavior ranges from the mischievous (doxxing, hacking) to the criminal (sextortion, CSAM).
8. Operation Gladio: The name given to the collection of clandestine “stay-behind” paramilitary operations in Western Europe during the Cold War.
9. Satanic Panic: A term used to describe the moral panic of the 70s and 80s centered around unsubstantiated cases of satanic ritual abuse.
10. Strategy of Tension: A political strategy used in Operation Gladio wherein violent struggle is encouraged rather than suppressed, with the goal of instilling insecurity into the population.
11. Tempel ov Blood: The American “nexion” of O9A, founded and headed by FBI informant Joshua Sutter.
12. Terrorgram: A collection of fringe right-wing Telegram groups whose interest in satanism, the occult, national socialism, and right-wing ideologies are a breeding ground for militant accelerationists.
13. The Order of Nine Angles: A right-wing satanic organization allegedly created by David Myatt in the 1970s that has been influential in the modern militant accelerationist movement.