The Man in the Camp Auschwitz Shirt Made National Headlines. He's Far From the Only Nazi Arrested for January 6th.

     Robert Keith Packer is a worthless piece of shit, even if he wasn't accused of any property damage or violence on January 6th. This 57-year-old Virginia man made national headlines for wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt to the U.S. Capitol insurrection; he said he wore it "because [he] was cold," ignoring the obvious question. While it was falsely claimed that a separate rioter wore a "6MWE" (Six Million Weren't Enough, a reference to the Holocaust) shirt (a picture actually taken at a different far-right event), Robert Packer was simply the most visible example of the rampant Nazi ideology present on January 6th. While no sentence will feel like enough for his misdemeanor guilty plea, exposing and punishing the other Nazis there that day will help bring about justice.

     Due to be sentenced this week is Bryan Betancur, a white supremacist with a long criminal history who FBI agents claim wanted to be a "lone wolf killer." Sadly, because social media posts are not crimes unless they are specific and actionable, he, like Packer, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor trespass charge for his actions on January 6th. This Maryland man who admitted to his actions and uses the alias "Maximo Clooney" was actually busted because he was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor when he stormed the Capitol. He claimed to a probation officer that he was going to D.C. to sell Bibles, which is actually a believable story for a conservative white supremacist. Betancur's case brings to mind that of Hatchet Speed, a Navy reservist who was arrested just weeks ago. Speed is also a Nazi and listed among his inspirations the Unabomber and the Olympic Park Bomber. Yet again, as of right now, Speed is charged only with misdemeanors because of what he did on January 6th.

     The sad fact of the matter is that the majority of these Nazis arrested for their actions at the Capitol are military men and women. Elliot Bishai, a military college student from South Carolina who was sentenced to 14 days in jail with a year of probation and $500 restitution for picketing or parading in the Capitol, had Nazi images on his phone because he "found them humorous." Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, a military contractor from New Jersey, was convicted by a jury in May and will face sentencing in September for a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding and numerous related misdemeanors. Hale-Cusanelli sported a Hitler mustache, took selfies doing a Nazi salute, and hosted a show called the "Based Hermes Show" in which he spread far-right, racist conspiracy theories. He had a long history of racist speech and actions, including an incident in which he shot through a window with a potato gun labeled "white power;" even behind bars, when he wasn't illegally harassing the prosecutor, he reportedly drew graffiti on a table in the D.C. jail that featured a drawing of Israel with the crosshairs of a missile over it. Not a military woman, Riley Williams, who stole Nancy Pelosi's laptop, was seen making a Nazi salute in a video filmed at a different date and was also a member of a neo-Nazi chatroom.

     Of course, it's not just Nazis: just look at Kevin and Hunter Seefried, the Delaware father and son convicted of felony charges after flying a Confederate flag inside the Capitol. Sometimes, they are both Confederate flag carriers and open Nazis. Now, both of these ideologies perpetuate and perpetrate the same bigotry, as much as Confederate sympathizers may try to deny that Hitler was inspired by the American South. However, David Blair, a South Carolina-born Maryland resident, was both. Blair was sentenced to five months in prison on a felony charge of civil disorder for using a lacrosse stick with a Confederate flag taped to it to check a police officer; Blair also had a knife in his backpack. Around the time of the insurrection, he was engaging in anti-Semitic conversations with a man unrelated to the events of January 6th; Blair's apparent motive for even being there was that he was upset about the removal of Confederate statues like those of Hampton Wade, who was an ancestor of his. Blair admitted to being a white supremacist during his sentencing.

     On the issue of the racial justice protests we saw in 2020, plenty of villains from that theater showed up at the Capitol in 2021, as well. Lillith Saer, a Satanic, transgender, far-right Harvard dropout from Oregon who participated in violent demonstrations with the Proud Boys; was recently arrested and charged misdemeanors for her actions inside the Capitol on January 6th. Saer has a long history of spreading racist, anti-science, and mostly anti-Semitic content online. One despicable display that didn't earn enough attention out of the chaos on the 6th but deserves it was what happened between Jackson Kostolsky and Samuel Rodriguez. The "George Floyd Challenge" was a racist challenge that mocked the death of Floyd by recreating it. Kostolsky, a Wisconsinite, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced, while Rodriguez, a Pennsylvania man, was just arrested on misdemeanor charges. These two men performed the "George Floyd Challenge," recreating and mocking his death, on the steps of the Capitol.

     The narrative that January 6th insurrectionists were good people who were misled by Donald Trump needs to end. Yes, Donald Trump is the most responsible person for what happened that day and in the weeks and months before and after that day. However, the people who showed up to the Capitol were among the most extreme people in the country. They drove or flew hundreds or thousands of miles, leaving family and taking off work to swallow the bitter drip of cum from his wrinkled, limp little cock. The people above are just a handful of one particular category of degenerates who showed up that day, and they need to pay dearly.