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The article, titled Geert Wilders American connections, discusses the Dutch politicians links to America and his hope to meet with President Trump to discuss what he believes to be the Islamification of Europe. The article notes, Trumps order barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States currently blocked by the U.S. courts echoes Wilders calls for countries across the West to stop all immigration from Islamic countries, which he has been advocating in speeches since at least 2014.

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The article discusses Wilders visit to the Republican National Convention last year and his appearance at MILOs party titled Wake up! also known as Gays For Trump. The article states, Wilders got a ticket to the Republican National Convention to see Trump nominated, and spoke at a pro-Trump event there alongside alt-right journalist and firebrandMilo Yiannopoulos.

MILO has repeatedly stated that he is in no way alt-right, while many members of the movement have also agreed that MILO is not a member or representative of the group, including Richard Spencer.

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Dear Chris Watson:

You identify yourself as an alternative right sympathizer and in your letter to the editor complain about all us lefties and intellectual do-gooders suppressing your alternative right views.

That, my friend, is total B.S. That is a tactic that you and your sympathizers have used for a long time.

We lefties or liberals fully endorse your freedom of speech. Remember we are the ones who embrace the Constitution and all the freedoms it allows citizens in our country.

However, your side, my dear, is the side that tries to divide people, tries to insinuate some are not as equal as others, and tries to destroy our democracy, our view that all are equal, all have a voice and hate is not the way to go.

Your side touts less government, but in the same breath, wants government to rule and censor everything including media and our private lives so only your warped view emerges and our rights are destroyed.

I really wish that all of you would spend a couple of years in a country like North Korea or China, where dissenting opinions and protesting can get you in jail, assaulted and/or killed. Then you will truly know what it is like to live in a country with leaders who share your views.

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Letter: Alt-right letter rife with false complaints - The Daily Tar Heel

Jacob Steinblatt

Feb 14th 2017 7:37AM

White nationalists and "alt-right" commenters on the internet are upset by the sudden resignation of Michael Flynn, President Trump's national security adviser. Flynn, a retired U.S. Army Lt. General, quit late Monday after reports that he'd lied to Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials over the details of his communication with Russia's ambassador to the United States.

Disappointment over Flynn's resignation, 24 days after assuming the role, was felt widely in internet discussion boards like Stormfront and The Daily Stormer, alt-right outlets. Members blamed everyone from the media, Mike Pence, the intelligence community and Jews.

Andrew Anglin, creator of the neo-Nazi news blog The Daily Stormer offered his own commentary, labeling Flynn as "one of our best guys," and describing the resignation as "definitely a loss. To the Jews." The website's readers agreed, several called Flynn "the kind of person we need on our team," "stand up," and that he was "too pro-white" for the administration.

A prominent "alt-right" news blog edited by white supremacist Richard Spencer also aired its dismay over the news, considering the resignation "a huge mistake."

Michael Flynn was no stranger to controversy prior to his conversation with the Russian ambassador. He used his social media account to spread numerous fake news stories and conspiracy theories relating to Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

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Retired Gen. David Petraeus' career includes 37 years ofservicein the US Armyand a role as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In addition to commanding theentire coalition force in Iraq, the four-star general headed US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees all operations in Middle East.

Petraeus was briefly considered for Secretary of State by the Trump administration.

Stephen Hadley served as the National Security Adviser to President George W. Bush from2005 to 2009.

Heservedon several advisoryboards, including defense firm Raytheon, andRAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy. Together withformer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice andformer Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, he helps head the international strategic consulting firm,RiceHadleyGates LLC.

He alsowrotethe "The Role and Importance of the National Security Advisor," which, as the title implies, is an in-depth study of theNational Security Adviser's role.

Asthe interim National Security Adviser filling in forMichael Flynn, retiredLt.Gen.Keith Kellogg wasthe chief of staff for the Trump administration'sNational Security Council (NSC).

Prior to that, heworkedin the Joint Chiefs of Staff officeand was part ofcomputer software giant Oracle'shomeland security team.

Tom Bossert, a cybersecurity expert,servesas theHomeland Security Adviser in the White House.

The formerDeputy Homeland Security Adviserto PresidentGeorge W. Bushco-authored the 2007 National Strategy for Homeland Security, the governments security policies established after the 9/11 terror attacks.

In a 2015column in The Washington Times, Bossert seemed to defend the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by writing, "To be clear, the use of military force against Iraq and Afghanistan was and remains just ...The use of force inIraqwas just and, at the time, necessary, even if Mr. Obama disagrees with how things went."

Retired Vice Adm.Robert S. Harwardis a US Navy SEAL and the formerDeputy Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM).

He served as thecommander ofSEAL Team 3 and was the Deputy Commanding General of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Harward also servedon the National Security Council as the Director of Strategy and Policy for the Office of Combating Terrorism, andisalsotheCEOfor Lockheed Martin in the United Arab Emirates.

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Last week, Shia LaBeoufs He Will Not Divide Us live-stream was shuttered by Queens Museum of the Moving Image, who cited the serious and ongoing safety hazard associated with so many people, of all political stripes, furiously wanking in a single area. Since it was conceived by the team of LaBeouf, Nastja Sde Rnkk, and Luke Turner as a response to the inauguration of Donald Trump, the performance art piece had become a target for 4chan trolls and maybe-ironic white nationalists who were eager for a new medium to shout their memes into as a way of drowning out the ever-present void, creating a tense, generally irritating atmosphere that led to a 24/7 police presence, numerous arrests (including LaBeouf himself), and eventually, the whole thing being shut down. But before it was over, it gave the world a lasting, poignant image of Americas newest political force: a bunch of shirtless, bellowing, internet outlaws chugging milk while joking about racism.

Yes, milk, long beloved of babies, is now associated with attention-seeking, sort-of-kidding white supremacists, who have adopted itlike New Balance shoes and Wendys before itas a winking symbol of their own racial superiority. As with every aspect of the alt-right culture, of course, understanding how this happened requires digging through multiple layers of internet irony and eye-stabbing 4chan threads: Essentially, somebody once posted a scientific study on higher instances of lactose intolerance among certain populations; some of 4chans legion of shitposterswho were just being edgy!used this a springboard to joke about how the ability to drink milk is a mark of white purity. The meme then entered our bleary-eyed waking world when Internet-famous rapper Paperboy Prince told 4chan personality /pol/blart, live on Shia LaBeoufs stream, that drinking milk is hate speech, thus giving their trolling the transformative power of someone actually caring.

In response, /pol/blartalong with his various other message board bandits riding roughshod across the hardy terrain of message boards, rebelling against the hegemony of not being dicks to everyoneswarmed the museum to strip to the waist, dance around, and drink milk straight from the bottle. As they dribbled that milk like big, manly toddlers into their goatees, one of them dripping it down the LOL-Nazi tattoos on their chest, they cheered their exuberant display of peak masculinity. They flexed and bragged about how much they could squat. They rubbed their pale, glistening, milk-fed bellies together, did cartwheels, straddled their balls across each others necks, and shouted about cucks and the vegan agenda. And they laughed at how they were making fools of all the triggered, gay libtards down in their safe spaces and the silly things they do, shouting out their alpha male community of dudes who spend their entire day trading in-jokes on the internet.

And hey, it worked! Not only did they make a bunch of museum employees sick of dealing with grown men giggling about Hitler, then triumphantly force them to cancel an art installation, the media actually wrote about how Nazis love milk! Thanks to this, the alt-rights love of milk is now officially a meme we all have to hear aboutwhich is why you will see people like Richard Spencer, the punched face of the movement, ceremonially replacing the cartoon frogs with milk emojis in their Twitter handles and joking about how cows are racists and the lactose intolerant left. All in all, a successful act of proving to Shia LaBeouf that, when it comes to being obnoxious solely for attention, these pasty bros spitting up milk on themselves into a webcam are truly superior.

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