Devon Arthurs
A dumb kid, who was radicalised by the Daily Stormer, and murdered his two roommates after they mocked his adoption of "White Sharia" in 2017, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison following a plea deal.
As reported by Florida media:
A former member of a neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty Monday to fatally shooting his two Florida roommates in 2017, abruptly avoiding the start of a murder trial in which he had planned to use the insanity defense, according to court records. Devon Arthurs, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and will serve a 45-year prison sentence. The plea deal with prosecutors means Arthur will not face a possible life sentence.[...]Arthurs admitted killing the roommates, Andrew Oneschuk, 18, and 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman, nearly 6 years ago at the Tampa apartment they shared. Arthurs told police after his arrest that all three had been part of a small, mostly online neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division and that he shot the pair with an assault-style rifle because they ridiculed his conversion to Islam.
Some will be confused by the conflation of Islam and Neo-Nazism, but in 2017 the most influential Neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer was pushing a meme directed at incels called "White Sharia", according to which women would be converted into chattels and traded like cattle in a manner similar to what was happening under the ISIS Caliphate, which was then operating in Iraq and Syria.
The Stormer and the toxic memes it was pumping into the social media space was all part of an operation pushed by Russia, as you can see here, that aimed to radicalise and weaponise impressionable and sexually unsuccessful young men ("beta males").
The Stormer and the toxic memes it was pumping into the social media space was all part of an operation pushed by Russia, as you can see here, that aimed to radicalise and weaponise impressionable and sexually unsuccessful young men ("beta males").
Russian-backed trolls like Anglin shaped the battlefield of Arthurs' mind
The goal was to create actual acts of terrorism, both from the Left and the Right, that would further polarise and destabilise Western societies.
Another Atomwaffen roommate Brandon Russell was sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison on weapons and bomb charges. Since his release, he has been rearrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Baltimore's power grid with the intention of stirring up racial unrest.
As he ages in prison he is going to regret being manipulated by Anglin. But of course it’s too late, his life is essentially over.
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