Charles Pierce: Alleged Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixiera Posted About Getting Ready for 'Race War'

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43893605/jack-teixiera-race-war-posts/

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Over the weekend, the Washington Post went deep on Jack Teixeira, the 21-year old National Guardsman who is being held for leaking a trove of classified documents onto a group-chat platform. When Teixeira was first arrested, as improbable as it sounded, he was regarded as a cyber-geek who was trying to impress his fellow cyber-geeks with his proximity to the country's secrets. As the Post made clear over the weekend, Teixeira wasn't exactly Kevin Mitnick.

Previously unpublished videos and chat logs reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as interviews with several of Teixeira’s close friends, suggest that he was readying for what he imagined would be a violent struggle against a legion of perceived adversaries — including Blacks, political liberals, Jews, gay and transgender people — who would make life intolerable for the kind of person Teixeira professed to be: an Orthodox Christian, politically conservative and ready to defend, if not the government of the United States, a set of ideals on which he imagined it was founded.

Teixeira’s love of guns, which first drew him to an online community of friends, was intertwined with a deep suspicion of the government that he served as an enlisted member of the Air National Guard. But Teixeira did not consider himself a whistleblower, according to friends. By the time of his arrest, filings by federal prosecutors show that Teixeira had amassed a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, as well as a helmet, gas mask and night-vision goggles, all under the roof of the house where he lived with his mother and stepfather. The Post obtained and verified two videos taken at their home in Dighton, Mass., where the FBI arrested Teixeira last month.

Oh, lovely. It turns out that leaking government secrets may have been the most benign thing Teixeira allegedly thought of doing in opposition to whatever enemies were rattling around in his head.

Teixeira’s preparations for civil chaos weren’t limited to arms; knowledge was also power. His job as a computer technician at Otis Air Force Base, on Cape Cod, gave him access to the Pentagon’s network for top-secret information, where, according to his friends, Teixeira viewed thousands of classified documents on a vast range of topics, from the war in Ukraine to North Korean ballistic missile launches to attempts by foreign governments to interfere in U.S. elections. Teixeira shared some of this intelligence bounty with a band of about two dozen people in a Discord server he came to control called Thug Shaker Central. (The server’s name, the most often used of several, is a racist allusion.) Teixeira’s goal, they said, was to reveal truths that powerful people had hidden from ordinary ones.

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1. GOP still think Texeira's a whistleblower?

Because from here he just looks like a garden-variety punk craving the attention and adulation of like-minded dolts and dunderheads who were impressed by his big talk.

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2. And this chowderhead who thought he was getting his information from his fellow travelers on social

.... media sites was most likely getting Russian planted disinformation in order to stir up shit in America
just like a lot of those anti vaccine memes and most of those can be traced back to Vlad & Russia.

In the summer of 2019 about 200 dumb ass crackers got their ARs and waited for the river barge loaded
with BLM and Antifa folks coming down the OH River from Cincinnati to attack a civil war monument to
the 2nd place side in Brandenberg, KY. And that shit came through Facebook and other social media sites
but the black guys are going to attack meme was started in Russia.

BTW if Teixeira goes to prison for stealing classified information so should Trump too.