The airman who was arrested for leaking highly sensitive classified documents on a gaming site was preparing for what he imagined would be an inevitable race war, according to an investigation from the Washington Post.
Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who allegedly had access to a trove of military documents over a long period of time, had an obsession with guns and liked to analyze mass shootings for “fun.” Based on previously unreleased videos analyzed by the Washington Post, we now know Teixeira was also obsessed with the potential of a race war.
The Post included a video of Teixeira shooting a semiautomatic rifle, commonly called a military style assault rifle, and reciting extremely racist language.
“Jack Teixeira, dressed in camouflage fatigues, his finger wrapped around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle, faced the camera and spoke as though reciting an oath,” the article states.
“Jews scam, n***ers rape, and I mag dump,” he declares in the video.
The article goes on …
“Previously unpublished videos and chat logs reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as interviews with several of Teixeira’s close friends, suggest that he was readying for what he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.”
Those who know Teixeira reportedly noted how his gun obsession went hand in hand with his admitted racism.
“For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. ‘He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,’ said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years,” the Post wrote.
“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview, according to the Post. “I would say he was proud of it.”
Some leading voices in right-wing circles have tried to make a hero out of Teixeira and claim that he is just a good guy that the Biden administration is using as a distraction in some bizarre conspiratorial way instead of acknowledging that he is someone who has been radicalized by the propaganda they are, at least in part, responsible for either creating or spreading.
Right-wing Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted, misspelling his first name, “Jake Teixeira is white, male, Christian, and anti-war. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?”
Tucker Carlson was right behind her with his (now-cancelled) show on Fox News, claiming that Teixeira’s arrest was part of some kind of vast conspiracy to cover up the secret involvement of American ground forces in Ukraine. “Tonight, the news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who told Americans what’s actually happening in Ukraine. They are treating him like Osama Bin Laden, maybe even worse actually, because, unlike Al Qaeda, apparently, this kid is a racist,” Carlson said.
Of course, these marching orders were echoed on pro Trump message boards like “The Donald” on the Discord site. Members were openly hailing Teixeira as a hero. Among the numerous threads dedicated to his arrest were ones titled: ‘Fucking Legend,’ ‘May God Watch Over Him,’ and ‘American Hero Busted for Telling the Truth.'”
Apparently, that propaganda and more put out by radical right wing racist groups had quite an effect on the young soldier, as the Post reported …
Teixeira asserted that “lots of FBI agents were found to have sympathized with the Jan 6 rioters,” and he said naive members of the intelligence community, of which he was technically a part, had been “cucked.” He referred to mainstream press as “zogshit,” appropriating a popular white-supremacist slur for the “Zionist Occupied Government.” Friends said that during live video chats, Teixeira expounded on baseless accusations of shadowy, sinister control by Jewish and liberal elites, as well as corrupt law enforcement authorities.
“He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” the close friend said, adding: “I remember him multiple times talking about things like Waco and Ruby Ridge, and talking about how the government kills their own people,” referring to a pair of notorious armed standoffs that the far right has held up as emblematic of government oppression.
Teixeira appears to not be the innocent pawn some want to paint him as but someone who had been conditioned and radicalized into a racist leader and soldier in a war some racists crave to make a reality by any means possible.
