Remember Kevin Brownfield, the neo-Nazi Iron March gamer from Arizona? Looks like he’s ditched his old “Iron Lion” and “ZeroSuitSnake” screen names, and has a new handle/persona on social media. He would now like to be known as “BoaraGaming.” How do we know it’s him? Because we can see his face on his twitch stream:

Yup, that’s him. He also has a new Facebook page, which links back to the twitch channel.

The logo on his Twitch channel matches the one on his new Twitter account.

He’s even got a shiny new BoaraGaming Reddit account, which he uses to shill his twitch channel. Unlike his previous Reddit contributions, which you can see documented here (CW), it looks like so far he’s managed to avoid any neo-Nazi references or tasteless jokes about mass shooting incidents on his new account.

His Twitter links to something called GameRebel(dot)net, which he says he’s a member of. Game Rebel doesn’t seem to be super picky about who qualifies for membership — “Anybody that chooses may dawn the `{`GR`}` tag to represent what we stand for” is their official position — but did they really mean to include overt racists, Islamophobes, anti-Semites, etc. in that statement? If their goal is to “lift up those around us and push them to succeed,” as it says on their homepage, they might want to reconsider that standard. Nazis are notoriously selective about who they want to see succeed, and who they’d rather see rounded up and killed.

Speaking of which, Kevin seems to have started a new blog, “The Life of An Everyman,” where he opines about things like George Floyd’s murder, and a potential war with Iran. Spoiler: he thinks the people protesting Floyd’s killing are just trying to retain their “monopoly on victim-hood”; they “believe that police brutality doesn’t also touch other communities”; and “it is obvious they do not care for anything other than themselves and want only blacks to be viewed as victims.” According to Kevin, “this isn’t a race issue,” and police are actually showing race-neutral “institutionalized bias” toward everyone.

And Iran? Well, He doesn’t want the US to go to war there, which is a reasonable position to take. However, when he mentions the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, he takes a little detour into Antisemitic Conspiracy Land, suggesting that the US killed Soleimani solely in the interest of “an ally of ours in the middle east.” And if you’re thinking that wording is oddly vague yet somehow also unequivocally specific, you’re right — and that’s not a coincidence. At the end of the paragraph, Kevin asserts, “To go further than to vaguely say that this war benefits only one country is now illegal in some places of the US so I’ll stop there.” He does not provide a citation for this claim.

Sad to say, it looks like Kevin has changed his username, but not his racist and anti-Semitic worldview. Maybe that’s what he’s talking about here?

Not sure what the odds were of him ever becoming famous in the first place, but at least we’ve finally found an issue where we can agree with Kevin: racists and anti-Semites should be infamous rather than famous. We’d also like to point out that if infamy becomes too much of a burden, you do have another option. Have you considered not being a nazi?

Warning: this post contains descriptions of hateful ideology. We do not use words like “fascist” or “nazi” lightly, and we have chosen to include this content because it is the clearest and most effective way to demonstrate David Hansen’s beliefs. Some links in this post also point to other websites with further information about these subjects. Please consider the nature of the linked content when you decide whether and when to follow those links.
– Utah Antifascists

Iron March was an international fascist web forum that was taken offline in 2017. The site supported multiple far-right extremist organizations, including the US-based Atomwaffen Division. In November 2019 the forum’s SQL database was published on the internet, and anti-fascist researchers began analyzing the leaked data in an effort to identify forum users. You can view and search the data here, thanks to an interface provided by The Jewish Worker. This post was researched and written in collaboration with @savantifa.

We have identified “xor,” Iron March user #14099, as David Hansen of Arizona. He is a self-professed fascist, an anti-Semite, and a big fan of eugenics. He is also an active member of the InfoSec community, having attended various hacker conferences and associated events in the past few years. He’s even listed as an individual sponsor for BSides 2017.

When xor introduced himself on Iron March in 2017, he didn’t pull any punches. He identified himself as a 36-year-old computer programmer from the American Southwest, gave the usual spiel about his political views, and then went straight for the fashy stuff:

“The one thing that eventually turned me into a fascist is the realization that as long as Jews, degenerates, and the weak ruled and controlled the aspirations of our people, we would not only not reach the stars, but we would regress back to animals.”

So that answers that question.

We were able to tie David Hansen to the “xor” identity through the email he used to register on Iron March, me@daxorid dot com. While the WHOIS data for the daxorid domain is private, Hansen used the online verification service keybase.io to cryptographically verify his various online identities and tie them together. His keybase profile tells us that he uses “daxorid” as a screen name at Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub.

Incidentally, his chosen domain name, “daxorid,” can be broken down in hacker-speak to “da xor id.” “Xor” is the abbreviation for the boolean operator “exclusive or”; the symbol for “xor” is ⊻, which looks like the letter V. Substituting the symbol ⊻ for the letters “xor” in the domain name gives us da⊻id, or David. Clever. It also helped us confirm his connection to those accounts.

We were also able to connect him to the Reddit username diolpah because he linked it to a (now defunct) Tumblr with photos of himself, stating “Right now I look like this.” Notice that “diolpah” is the word “haploid” in reverse; he also uses “haploid” at his Linkedin account, and used “diolpah” as an alt at HN after he claimed his haploid account was “silent-banned.”

In addition to his brief stint at Iron March, Hansen used to be pretty open about his ideology on forums like Reddit, in spite of his own better judgement. In a Men of Reddit discussion on opinions that “many other people would find offensive,” he wondered, “do I risk this on an easily-doxed account?” Spoiler: the answer turned out to be “Yes.”

We chose to partially obscure a word in this screenshot; obviously the original post was unedited.

This list is quoted verbatim from his answers:

• The fundamental concept of eugenics is not morally bad and in many cases would do the world enormous good.
• Marriage is a horrible institution, particularly for men. Corollary: men who marry are stupid or irrationally acting against their best interests.
• If labor is permitted to unionize, then businesses should be permitted to collude.
• Democracy is one of the worst forms of government possible.

He’s also been somewhat incautious on forums like Hacker News. When one of the other users notes that the Allies’ opposition to Nazi Germany in WWII was not necessarily ideological, and that “In a way, we have Nazi military imperialism to thank for the fact that many horrible ideas are unacceptable today – otherwise there might never have been a backlash against them,” Hansen responds, “…yes, which is very unfortunate.” He then elaborates,

Without the moral baggage of WW2 and the unfortunate implementation history of eugenics programs in the 20th century, it may be easier for people to accept that encouraging the gradual improvement of the gene pool would actually be a positive thing for human civilization.

So in his estimation, the problem with the Holocaust is that it gave eugenics a bad name.

In addition to Jews and “degenerates,” he spends a lot of time hating on journalists,

doctors,

the InfoSec community,

and … stay-at-home Moms?

He also advocates violence against journalists. Maybe he’s indulging in hyperbole, or maybe he’s “just joking,” as so many neo-fascists claim when they’re called out on their hateful statements. But in light of his stated belief that “degenerates” and “the weak” are causing humanity to “regress,” his designation of journalists as “subhuman” is alarming.

He likes to hang out in subreddits related to rationalism, which he regards as “male-specific” spaces because “For some reason women tend to run screaming from the topic.” He also laments that “far too many women” use sex as “bait”, and further believes the Rebecca Watson incident demonstrates that “asking a girl out for a cup of coffee is perceived as an atempt[sic] to rape.” This really makes us wonder about his Linkedin bio, where he lists his “specialties” as

“Spewing industry buzzwords, embezzling from corporate pension funds, staring at the wall for hours on end, stealing other people’s food from the refrigerator, inciting sexual harassment lawsuits, and fomenting office drama and worker unrest.”

(our emphasis).

But we all have to grow up sometime, and even the David Hansens of the world eventually realize that it’s prudent to save the Nazi apologia and casual sexism for private spaces like Iron March while maintaining plausible deniability in public. Or, to put it in his words, “Dogwhistling is often less dangerous in terms of karma annihilation than actually expressing the thought.”

In his case, this meant deleting – or attempting to delete – previous online expressions of his thoughts, and writing himself a Twitter bio like this:

Code. Futurism. Dad. Defsec. Husband. Pro-Helicopter. Equality is a false god. Usury is slavery. #btfsttg.

(That’s a lot to unpack; if you’re not familiar with these particular dogwhistles, click on the linked terms to see their origins and explanations.)  Apparently Hansen felt that even with the use of coded language, he was signaling a little too blatantly; he has since dialed it back to “Big Igloo Respecter. Equality is a false god. #btfsttg”, although as of publication of this article he is still using the nickname “Bronze Age Bugman.”

After the Iron March data was leaked, he also renamed his @daxorid Twitter account, and deleted a tweet where he expressed the thought that journalists should be hanged.

Hansen is also the co-founder and CTO of Southern California-based fashion retailer Wild Attire, which sells accessories like scarves, ties, sunglasses, etc. at their own online retail sites. We found no evidence that Hansen’s business partners agree with any of his opinions or his ideology; it’s possible they’re entirely unaware that he thinks this way. However, as long as David Hansen is associated with Wild Attire and its online outlets, folks may want to think twice before patronizing, or working for or with the company. Contact info:
info@wildattire.com
714.537.0334
7am-5pm PST

Additionally, there have been numerous reports in the past few years about incidents of sexual harassment, assault, hate speech, and disruptive behavior at InfoSec conferences. This has resulted in some productive public dialogue with conference organizers and attendees about how to make InfoSec events a less hostile environment for women, LGTBQ+ people, and those from under-represented backgrounds. Members of the InfoSec community may wish to consider whether welcoming an admitted fascist, anti-Semite, and bigot like David Hansen as an attendee and a sponsor at such events would work against the goal of making those events safer and more welcoming for all attendees.

Patriot Front members hold a torch march at University of Texas – Austin

Warning: this post contains descriptions of racist and anti-Semitic ideology that you may find offensive. We do not use words like “racist” lightly, and we have chosen to include this content because it is the clearest and most effective way to show what this group believes. Some links in the text of this post point to the group’s chat logs, which contain abundant offensive language and imagery. We have included these links so that you can verify their content for yourself. Please consider the nature of the content there when you decide whether and when to follow those links.
– Utah Antifascists

The hate group calling themselves “Patriot Front” (PF) has been active in Utah for at least two years. Recently they seem to be increasing their activity along the Wasatch Front, so we thought this would be a good time to give Utahns an introduction to the group’s agenda and strategies.

Propaganda from hate group “Patriot Front” was posted recently in a neighborhood in Provo.

The first thing to know about this group is that they are liars (and yes, we can prove it). They’d like you to think they’re just patriots who love their country and want to fight communism, or degeneracy, or some other threat that is more or less vaguely defined. The truth is that regardless of what they claim to oppose or support, they are not patriots. They are racist, they are anti-semitic, and they want to destroy the US system of government, not preserve or protect it. But don’t take our word for it – take theirs.

“Only whites can be American.”

Their manifesto, as it currently appears on their website, is full of dramatic language about national decline, decadence, tradition, struggle, greatness, etc. but oddly short on specifics about what exactly is causing the decline and how they plan to fix it. This is intentional. However, it’s important to understand that this is a revised version of the manifesto – and the original was a lot less subtle.

As an example, a section on citizenship currently reads, “Those of foreign birth may occupy civil status within the lands occupied by the state, and they may even be dutiful citizens, yet they may not be American.” But the original version said “An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American.” The group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, removed all doubt about the intent of this section when he discussed it with his followers online. In the leaked chat logs of a private Discord channel, he refers to the passage about “Africans” and then adds,

“We clearly state in the manifesto that not only are we going to have a White nation, but only Whites can be American.”

This group is fundamentally racist. They know other people think racism is bad, so they changed the words on the website. It doesn’t change what they are. The group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, clearly doesn’t see anything wrong with racism. In fact, if you think racism is wrong, he sees you as his enemy.

You can read the chat log where he said this, and lots of other racist things, here.

“The only answer to the Jewish problem is no Jew at all.“

The group actively promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world’s governments and global financial systems for their own nefarious purposes. PF uses images like this one to suggest that greedy Jews are attacking America, and that communism is part of the Jewish conspiracy.

In their chats, they discuss how to convince people around them that the Jews are their enemy. A user named Dustin offers,

“if you know somebody who views life through the lens of religion, you have to attack from that angle.”

Another user replies, “Just quote some bible verses, get them thinking. ‘But [they] are of your father the devil…'”

Unsurprisingly, the group is also anti-Islamic.

The poster shown at right in the above image tells the viewer to reject the “false dichotomy” between Islam and Judaism. Hate groups love to talk about first-amendment rights when spreading their hateful ideology, and indeed, the first amendment to the Constitution guarantees them the right to say all kinds of disgusting and morally repugnant things if they really want to. But in this case they seem to have overlooked some other, equally important first-amendment rights.

Notice that they are advocating the removal of Islam and Judaism from the country: “both must go.” Since the first amendment declares, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” it’s difficult to imagine how Islam and Judaism could legally be “removed” from the country as long as the first amendment remains in place. This leads us to another principle this group is founded on, and which they intentionally obscure in their literature.

“It would be done by having Whites secede”

PF wants the US system of government to be overthrown and destroyed. This is not an exaggeration. In their private chats, their leader lays out his vision of how this will happen. We quote him here at length to make it clear what this group’s ultimate goal is, and how they believe it will be achieved. Rather than Civil War-style state-by-state secession, Rousseau says, “It would be done by having Whites secede, so to speak, from the state. Fully detach the nation from the State, and once that happens on a large enough scale, not all Whites have to do it, perhaps not even the majority, the State will not be powerful enough to stop them. Keep in mind that Whites are the only race (perhaps besides Asians) that are a net financial benefit. Once the cash cow of White America stops giving milk, the non-Whites, hungry for [welfare], would most likely destroy the State themselves. From then a period of reconquista would begin […]” He gives a few historical examples of “reconquista,” then continues,

“Whites invaded and controlled almost all of Africa in decades, and there’s nothing to say that we couldn’t control what was formerly known as the United States in a similar length of time. The movement would change hats from revolutionary, to one based in irredentism.”

The theme of “revolution” is prevalent in this group’s manifesto and in their propaganda. They proclaim “revolution is tradition,” and imply that they are advocating for a sort of spiritual revival that will “reclaim America” from modern, decadent influences. They call themselves “patriots” and like to use the phrase “America first” to describe their agenda. But they are not patriots in the sense that most Americans use the word. What they want is a violent revolution – literally an overturning of the current system of government. When they say “America first,” they do not mean the representative democracy that is the United States of America; they mean the whites-only American nation that they will “reconquer” from the non-whites that now inhabit the country.

Clockwise from top left, PF propaganda posted in Louisiana and Minnesota; banner displayed at the Utah state capitol.

There’s a lot more that could be said about their rhetoric, and the ways they hint at their true beliefs and intentions while maintaining plausible deniability in public. We have chosen not to engage with the messages in their recent propaganda, because part of their strategy is to post innocent-looking material in public spaces, then wait for someone to call it “racist.” This gives them publicity from local media outlets that would not normally publish or broadcast paid advertising for a hate group, let alone give it to them for free. It also allows them to portray themselves as victims of false accusations, and paint anyone who opposes them as bigoted, anti-free speech, or even racist – “you just hate us because we’re white!”

Don’t fall for it. This group is a hate group. They are racist. They are anti-semitic. They are not patriots. Their own words prove it, and no amount of red-white-and-blue candy-coating will change what they are or what they stand for.

In March 2019 in the Seattle area, PF distributed fliers advertising their website inside plastic bags with candy in them.

If you see their propaganda in your neighborhood, tear it down, or cover it up with something else. Utah should be a place of refuge from hate, not a place that advertises for it.