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The RawStory article ( above and here) by a RawStory journalist, Jordan Green, who was directly targeted and terrorized by American neo-Nazis and had his family life upended led me to change the story I originally intended to write this morning.
You can read the article without charge where it was also published on The Assembly here.
On the RawStory artilce note that the shirt the man in the lower left pictured in front of Jordan Green’s house says “Support Your Local Einsatz-Kommando'.” This is what the Einsatz-Kommando'” was:
Note that the shirt the man in the lower left pictured in front of Jordan Green’s house says “Support Your Local Einsatz-Kommando'.” This is what the Einsatz-Kommando'” was:
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front.[1][2] Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, convicted, and executed. Read more here.
I woke up at 5:00 like I usually do and was thinking of writing my daily Substack about what America would be like in a few years with an unrestrained ICE. This was prompted by this local story: “Immigration arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents" and the fact that in the morning after the arrest we were at our granddaughter's soccer game in the town where it happened.
Here’s what occurred:
Parents at a preschool in a Portland suburb are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school during morning drop-off hours, breaking his car window to detain him in front of children, families and staffers.
“I feel like a day care, which is where young children are taken care of, should be a safe place,” Natalie Berning said after dropping off her daughter at the Montessori in Beaverton on Friday morning. “Not only is it traumatizing for the family, it’s traumatizing for all the other children as well.”
Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, a 38-year-old chiropractor and citizen of Iran, was initially pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, while driving his child to the school Tuesday. After asking if he could drop off the child first, he continued driving and called his wife to tell her what happened, according to his wife, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to privacy concerns for her and her young child.
His wife rushed to the school, took their child from his car and brought him inside. Khanbabazadeh stayed in the vehicle in the parking lot and asked if he could move somewhere not on school grounds out of consideration for the children and families, his wife said. He pulled out of the lot and onto the street and began to open the car door to step out when agents broke the window and took him into custody, according to his wife.
There were lots of Hispanic families at the soccer game and I could see them being targeted by ICE. There were some multi-racial Black/White families where the children could be mistaken for being Hispanic too. I was thinking of how, with ICE on a rampage, nobody who could be wrongly or rightly be identified as Hispanic could feel safe. Ironically, considering America’s history of anti-Black racism the only people who can feel safe from ICE are those who are either Black or White.
I also thought about the talented lead dancer at the Kona Hilton Hotel in hula show we went to on our recent Hawaii vacation and his tan skin and tattoos. On the mainland, where people aren’t familiar with Hawaiians, he could easily be arrested by ICE agents thinking he was Hispanic despite his being an American citizen traveling with a real ID. His protestations that he was of Hawaiian descent and that his family, dating back for generations, were American citizens, would would fall on deaf ears. They’d only see his tatoos and skin color.
After composing the gist of what I wanted to write in my Substack in my mind, I read the riveting and chilling article about what could be unofficial subsidiaries of ICE, organized groups of American Nazis. In this instance it was about members of such groups terrorizing a journalist working for my favorite news and opinion website, RawStory (read about them on Wikipedia).
It hit home that a threatening email message about one of their writers was received at Raw Story’s email inbox for corrections:
Then, on March 28, 2024, my editor alerted me to a threatening message received at Raw Story’s email inbox for corrections.
The anonymous sender said they were delivering “a warning for the workers of the Raw Story,” and that they belonged to “another group with an international team.” Thanks to 2119’s efforts, they had my personal information.
I have sent hundreds of corrections to that address. Everyone who reads my emails at RawStory and then makes the usually minor typo corrections I alert them to sends me a prompt "thank you" back. They know who I am. For example:
For all I know that Nazi email was sandwiched between two of my emails.
Why Jordan Green has been targeted the horrible way he has, rather than a better known journalist, is a mystery. Perhaps it is because they thought he was an easier target than someone who worked for a TV network or mainstream newspaper. As recently as last night everyone on an MSNBC panel has said they’d received death threats. None of them went into detail. If they had American Nazis on their front lawn as happened with Jordan Green perhaps they didn’t want to give them publicity. Hopefully, law enforcement is aggressively investigating such threats, although if it’s up Pam Bondi’s DOJ and to Kash Patel’s FBI I don’t have any confidence that this will be done.
The target of such American Nazis could be anyone who has reported the truth about the MAGA Nazis. It won’t be someone like me since I am really obscure, but it could be anyone else who writes for a wide audience.
Green’s is a story which should be reported on far and wide in the non-MAGA media. Green should be interviewed on MSNBC and CNN. His is a story that must be told alongside the stories about ICE.
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