Man Who Founded Short-Lived Hate Group Running For Mayor in Manitoba Town

We have the fine folks in Winnipeg with FF1 to thank for this tip.

So far we've seen a number of examples of far-right individuals running for mayor in major cities in Ontario. Toronto has Faith Goldy, James "ew!" Sears, and Chris Brosky (who has the added distinction of spending time in an American prison for a racially-based killing). In Mississauga and Hamilton yapping poodle Kevin Johnston and Paulie Fromm are running respectively. However we also suspected there might be a few who were running in smaller communities that we had yet to come across.

That brings us to Ryan Brady who is running for mayor in the town of Thompson, Manitoba:

Second mayoral hopeful, second incumbent councillor registered as municipal election candidates

With less than 24 hours to go before the nomination period ends, Thompson has a race for the mayor’s position for the time being, with Ryan Brady having put his name forward to run against current councillor Penny Byer, who announced her intention to run back in May.

and

Bumper crop of 35 candidates for 2018 municipal election, including four wannabe mayors 

It will be a four-way race for mayor in the Oct. 24 election, with three of the current councillors – Penny Byer, Colleen Smook and Ron Matechuk – seeking to become the head of council, with Ryan Brady also in the running.

As it turns out, Brady had come to ARC's attention back in 2009 when he attempted to help fill the vacuum left by the temporary absence of the Aryan Guard while it's founder Kyle McKee was awaiting trial for attempted murder; he eventually pleaded to lesser charges and upon release the Aryan Guard "patched over" to Blood & Honour.

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The identity that the Ryan Brady running for mayor in Thompson is Ryan Brady who posted on Stormfront under the username "honoryourlife" is confirmed here:

Top photo posted to Stormfront by Brady in 2009; bottom two posted to Facebook by Brady in 2018

Now it has been a number of years since Brady was active on Stormfront. For example, this is his last post:

As such he may not hold the same views that he once held. However, considering he was a sustaining member of Stormfront while active (meaning that he financially supported them) and his posts include the following, I think that as a candidate for public office Ryan Brady needs to explain himself:

Day Two of Canadian Combat Coalition Rally Even More Poorly Attended: Also More Information On Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau's Participation

Canadian Combat Coalition president Dan Dubois said yesterday that he was disappointed by the turnout at his anti-immigrant and anti-government rally on Parliament Hill on Saturday.

If he was disappointed by the dismal attendance on Saturday of no more than 100 people, then he should regard the second day as an unmitigated disaster:

At best, there were 40 people.

At best.

It's at this point I would post audio of a sad trombone, but this was so pathetic I can't even bother myself to make fun of it any more.

One interesting development though was learning more information about Kevin "No Show" Goudreau:

ARC had speculated that, given that Dubois is an avid reader of the blog, he would well aware of who Goudreau was and that his presence at this rally was a tacit acceptance of Goudreau's as a "patriot" however perversely Dubois and his ilk define the term.

Well it would appear that Dubois was not only aware of Goudreau's presence during the rally, he had interviewed Goudreau the previous evening at their camp site:

The "work beyond the past" bit is in reference to Goudreau flat out lying by claiming he isn't a white nationalist or an antisemite:

Dan Dubois is either willfully lying when he suggests he believes Goudreau's lies or he incredibly gullible. Goudreau's embrace of Nazism wasn't a youthful lark. It is a philosophy that he still very much holds to:

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And if that isn't proof enough of his beliefs, some of the posts on his Twitter and Facebook profiles should put all that to rest:

Ronny Cameron Meltdown On Full Display

Sometimes it is fun to sit back and watch the show.

When Ronny Cameron cancelled his rally and wrote that he would only be doing "journalism" (such that it is), ARC speculated that his peevishness was a result of both the attacks he was subject to on the event announcement page and how little support he received. While this may or may not be the reason, it was easy to surmise that he was upset.

His petulance was not confined to his Twitter account however:

I happened to stumble upon this thread when I logged into one of my sock puppet accounts. Many of the posters seem hell-bent on outdoing each other in what a horrible excuse for a human being they are:

Remember, most of these people will claim that they aren't racists.

As disgusting as they are, these comments really don't shock me since they could very well have come straight off of Stormfront or VNN. However, the thread would provide a degree of entertainment when Ronny Cameron arrived.

Trust me. He puts on quite the show:

Bigots and Hate Groups Lie About Toronto Tragedy

On April 23, 2018, a van swerved onto the sidewalk in Toronto in what appears to have been an intentional act. When the carnage was over, 10 people were dead and more than a dozen injured. The people killed and injured were men and women, young people and old, people of different faiths, Canadian citizens and tourists.

As for the attempted murder charges, the alleged victims are: Sammantha Samson, Samantha Peart, Morgan McDougall, Mavis Justino, Catherine Riddell, Aleksandra Kozhevinikova, Amir Kiumarsi, Yunsheng Tian, Jun Seok Park, Amaresh Tesfamariam, So Ra, Beverly Smith, Robert Anderson

— Tamara Khandaker (@anima_tk) April 24, 2018

Very little was known about the accused (for example, while Canadian law enforcement has said he was unknown to them, some have suggested American law enforcement was aware of him though I've come to consider this claim to be rather dubious), however as time went on we learned more about him. We learned his name was Alek Minassian, a 25 year old from Richmond Hill who had recently graduated from Seneca College having attended from 2011 to 2018. Accounts from those who knew him in high school and during his post-secondary studies paint a picture of a socially awkward individual who might have had special needs; in a 2009 article in the "Richmond Hill Liberal," his mother expressed concern that an unnamed son who was said to suffer from Asperger syndrome would no longer have access to a program called Helpmate:

“My son would spend afternoons working with Helpmate. They were sensitive to his needs and now he has a job at Compugen here in town,” she said, referring to an IT company in Richmond Hill. 

“He was able to take the experience provided by Helpmate and apply it. This kind of service for my son wasn’t available elsewhere. I am convinced that if we didn’t have Helpmate, my son would not have had such an opportunity.”

It was also reported that Minassian had tried to join the Canadian Armed Forces in August of 2017, however after 16 days of the 13 week basic training schedule, he asked for and received permission to leave.

Initially there wasn't any information regarding a motive for the Minassian's actions, however eventually his Facebook page was discovered and though it has since been removed by Facebook administrators Minassian posted the following status update just prior to the horrible events that were soon to take place:

Initially this post was met with skepticism as it had not been verified when the media started reporting on it, however Facebook acknowledged the authenticity of the profile:

Facebook has confirmed this post is real. The language used (i.e. "Chad") strongly indicates that Minassian was reading 4chan or another alt-right forum. After Bissonnette, this may be the 2nd murder spree in Canada associated with alt-right media diet. https://t.co/GdmgNH33OJ

— Evan Balgord (@ebalgord) April 24, 2018

Facebook says the post from Alek Minassian referencing the "Incel Rebellion” and Elliot Rodger is real, and was posted publicly on his profile before Facebook shut it down.

— matthew braga (@mattbraga) April 24, 2018

Toronto Police have also confirmed the post in a press conference. "It's something we'll take into account in this investigation," says homicide detective Sgt. Graham Gibson.

— matthew braga (@mattbraga) April 24, 2018

Fun fact: Ezra Levant had to roll back his mockery of the "fake news":

Ezra Levant, meanwhile, has deleted a tweet dismissing the "incel" Facebook post as "#FakeNews": pic.twitter.com/pp8Ph3pHob

— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) April 24, 2018

There is, as they say, always a tweet: pic.twitter.com/uUTL3wQw35

— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) April 24, 2018

If this is true, it seems that Minassian may have been inspired by Elliot Rodger:

Elliot Rodger, of course, refers to the 22-year-old who, motivated by his self-professed hatred for women and frustrated by his status as a virgin, murdered six and injured over a dozen before killing himself in Isla Vista, California, in May 2014. The “incel rebellion” refers to the involuntarily celibate community—people, though almost exclusively men, distraught with their lack of sexual experiences, and often expressing this disappointment as anger towards women writ large. For violent-minded incels, Rodger is thought of as a hero, and it’s believed Nikolas Cruz—the shooter responsible for the massacre in Parkland, Florida—also idolized Rodger. 

“Chad,” for those unaccustomed to the Neanderthalic corners of the internet, is a reference to a meme that contrasts the qualities of a “virgin” with his confident, well-endowed opposite, Chad Thundercock. The opposing, poorly drawn men of the meme are applied to everything from character picks in Overwatch to astronomy; but true to the meme’s origin’s on 4chan—another radicalizing force Minassian mentions—the subject matter tends to veer towards subjects of traditionalism, ethno-centrism, and misogyny. 

00010 is the trade number for the Canadian infantry, and C23249161 appears to be a military service number. Minassian joined the CAF for approximately 2 months, and requested a voluntary discharge without completing his recruit training, Vice reports.

I wrote/helped write a few stories about the Toronto van attack today. If you want to read them they are here: https://t.co/ySetrQ2SOphttps://t.co/7bz6RTGg2hhttps://t.co/IhYbWoiOkt

— Mack Lamoureux (@MackLamoureux) April 24, 2018

There are still a lot of unknowns. One thing that doesn't matter at all is the religion of the accused. Since his name is of Armenian origin, it suggests that he MAY be a Christian, but really it doesn't matter if he's a Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, or other.

But damn if some people really, REALLY, want him to be a Muslim:

Almost all of what Myatt posted here is not true. The accused appears to have been in the country for close to a decade at least and may have been born in Canada. He did not arrive from Aleppo six months ago and his Facebook profile never made that claim. No where is there any evidence of his religion and the there is no indication that Trudeau has ever said or written any of the statements that are attributed to him in the picture Myatt provided.

Steven Myatt is a liar, and I believe he know's he's a liar because he has since removed this post and the accompanying comments. He has not acknowledged that he was wrong and continues to stoke religious and ethnic hatred however. This post was also shared hundreds of times and resulted in whipping his fans into a frenzied rage that is potentially very dangerous:

There were some who did question the accuracy of Myatt's claims:

Myatt's response then was to both double-down and to state something incredibly stupid:

"Armenia doesn't exist anymore"

Yeah, he actually wrote that:

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Steven Myatt is an idiot.

But he's a dangerous idiot with a fairly large following of increasingly radicalized anti-government racist and Islamophobes whose violent rhetoric is reaching a fevered pitch and seems ready to explode.

He of course isn't alone: