The Ammon Bundy-led militia currently occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon has a new member with computer skills. Meet David Fry—a lawbreaker with a penchant for social media and a special love of Nazis and ISIS. He drove cross country from Ohio, through blinding snow, to join the band of soon-to-be felons.
More on David Fry from Oregon Public Radio:
Fry’s Google+ account shows the Ohio man regularly posts anti-Semitic, homophobic, and pro-Nazi propaganda on social media.
“ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR ISIS TO NUKE ISRAELHELL!” he wrote on the site Nov. 30.
When asked to explain his feelings about Israel and ISIS, Fry spoke at length of government conspiracies, plots against multiple countries, Sept. 11, court records, computer viruses on Japanese computers, Fukushima and a Jewish conspiracy against the free world that involves causing nuclear meltdowns.
He sounds nice, right? Fry also used the federal government’s computer to create a website where you can follow the antics of the Oregon standoff and even purchase the post-apocalyptic novel by Oregon occupier LaVoy Finicum. It’s entitled Only By Blood and Suffering and the Amazon reviews really sell it:
This "book" is a huge pile of crap. It is Junior High level writing at best, written by an unimaginative and craftless mind. I knew I was in trouble by the 2nd paragraph when you are shown the intra-apocalyptic view of Albuquerque, but by page two the "author" revealed I had already wasted too much time. Here is a sample:
“Mom, Mom,” I spoke softly into the night as the first flakes of a winter storm began to fall. “Why did you trust the politicians and turn in your gun? How could you ever believe the government would keep you safe?”
You got it. This was written by a gun nut for other gun nuts only. You could not show your writing students a better example of trite and derivative. I have no more on this. I've wasted too much time here already.
But, not everyone on Amazon hated Finicum’s book:
I'm not usually a fan of homoerotic fan fiction, or slash, or furries, or a capella, or drooling ultraconservative fantasies, or multi-page iambic pentameter explanations of the BDSM lifestyle that bang and pop with the staccato rhythm of a AR-15 rapid-firing blanks on a dirty motel vibrating bed for $0.25 ever five minutes. But this guy makes it work. I feel like I'm there under the tarp, covered in a hot, wet, creamy mess of violent right-wing day dreams and night e-missions to save this country from itself. This book changed my life and it could change yours. This is the best product yet to come. Out of the Bundy Brothers' authors' guild in central Oregon.
Back to David Fry. He helpfully uploaded video committing his crime. Watch this “patriot” offer show off how he gained access to the computers and outline his plan for future social media sharing:
It’s easy to see why Ammon Bundy’s crew might want someone new to document the illegal occupation of the federal building in Oregon. The man they previously entrusted to document the occupation, Pete Santilli, has a recent weapons charge and has was thrown out of a community meeting earlier this week.