When it comes to films of this nature there is Donnie Brasco and all the rest. Brasco was simply riveting from start to finish. But the premise is the same. It revolves around an exploration into the complex relationships that can emerge when one particular man is sent to infiltrate one or another extremist organization — a group which is deemed to be either dangerous to “society” or are engaged in behaviors that violate the law.
But things get particularly tricky here because the group is an ideological contraption. Its membership revolves around both moral and political objectivism. And its object is to obtain the materials needed to build a “dirty bomb”. To build the bomb and to use it in order to further “the cause”. The cause here being to create a world where white people – the right white people – rule.
In other words, they are said to be terrorists. Home grown terrorists.
But how do you actually accomplish the task of becoming a successful “infiltrator”? Well, among other things, you have to 1] assume a new identity 2] remain undiscovered and 3] get out alive. And since this is “inspired by real events” the tension here becomes all that more palpable.
It is simply mind-boggling how much necessarily goes into creating his new “reality”. And then he has to live it right down to the bone. No fuckups are allowed. So, if you can’t think – really think – on your feet, don’t become an undercover infiltrator.
And then the part where he wobbles back and forth when confronted with situations in which, in order to prove he is “one of them” he has to do some really crazy [even illegal] shit.
Now, some might criticize this film because it offers clip after clip of one or another white supremacist explaining their world view, of defending it. In the end of course they get thumped, but not before being given plenty of air time.
IMDb
[b]The film takes its inspiration from the real-life story of FBI agent Michael German, who helped co-write the script.
The name “Imperium” is Latin but commonly used in German, meaning “empire”, and is synonymous with the German word “Reich”, although never in the context of the German Empire (“das deutsche Kaiserreich”) or the Third Reich (“das dritte Reich”). However, English-speaking Neonazis do frequently refer to a “Western Imperium” as a theoretical future global empire following their political and philosophical views. [/b]
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(2016_film
trailer: youtu.be/I3lFBq7_CPk
IMPERIUM [2016]
Written in part and directed by Daniel Ragussis
[b]Title card: “Words build bridges into unexplored regions.” Adolph Hitler
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FBI official briefing the team: These containers carried cesium-137. It’s used for radiotherapy applications in hospitals, but it’s highly regulated and had no business being on that truck. When we tracked the shipment back to Baltimore, the customs record showed eight containers, not two. So there’s six more of them out there, all of them in the country illegally. If that quantity made it’s way into a radiological device, we could be looking at thousands of casualties, mass evacuations and radioactive contamination throughout the D.C. area.[/b]
Only it’s not “the Muslims” this time.
[b]Tom: Uh, lab analysis puts the cesium coming from north Africa. So the guys on four, they put together this map. It’s an analysis of Muslim communities in DC, Maryland and Virginia, along with their countries of origin. We’d like each…yes?
Angela: What about leads on the DT front?
Tom: Well, given the cesium came from north Africa, we don’t think domestic is really in the picture.
Angela: The last time anyone tried to build a dirty bomb on US soil was James cummings. He was a white supremacist living in Maine, he was going to set it off at Obama’s inauguration. He had uranium, thorium, and he was trying to acquire cesium. I’m sure you’re familiar with the case.
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Angela: What do you know about Timothy McVeigh?
Nate: Uh…he was some kind of lone extremist…in a militia?
[she hands him a book]
Angela: Here. Timothy McVeigh was a decorated Gulf war veteran. He was not insane; He was not a lunatic; And he was not stupid. He was a white supremacist, following a plan. What plan? A plan from a book called the Turner Diaries. It’s about a “race war” to exterminate blacks, Jews, and “mud people.” You know how the war gets started? The hero drives a truck bomb into a federal building. Timothy McVeigh was reenacting that scene from the Turner diaries. He was carrying the book with him when he was arrested. What he was trying to do was start the race war. You’re focused on the Islamic guys. I get it. We all create a narrative based on what we think is important. We see what we want to see. But just because you’re not looking at something doesn’t mean it’s not there.
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Angela: What do you think undercover work is? Beating guys up and shooting at them? No, it’s people skills. It’s controlling situations.
[She hands him a copy of Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends & Influence People]
Angela: It’s this.
Nate: Seriously?
Angela: This is the only undercover training you’ll ever need.
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Various voices in the background discussing the dirty bomb scenario: A dirty bomb is any kind of crude, explosive device that when detonated, disperses radiation around and beyond the blast. What you would do is irradiate a large territory. Now some of these things have a half-life of 30 years. In many cases, this material cannot be seen, it can not be smelled, cannot be felt, cannot be tasted. The more technically capable an adversary is the more likely they would be to find ways to spread the radioactive material over larger areas. One of things that we’ve been taught in recent years, is that we must be able to prepare for the unthinkable.
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Angela [to Nate]: The Turner Diaries, it’s sold over a half a million copies. Who do you think is buying it? Eric Rudolph, the olympic bomber, Wade Paige, who shot up the sikh temple. Larry Ford, developing typhoid and cholera. Liam Carr, with the cyanide bomb, Anthrax, ricin, botcillism, c-4, ied’s, I could go on like this for hours. And all of them are white supremacists.
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Nate [practicing his new identity]: My name is Nate Thomas. I was in the marines for three years, on a wmd squad in Iraq. But I saw a lot of things over there that changed me. I started to wonder what was really going on in this country. And now I’m back home… Trying to make a new start. I’m starting to figure out the truth about some things. There’s really only a handful of people who know what’s going on. But I want to be one of them. And I want to make a difference.
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Angela [taking a sheet of paper from Nate]: What’s this?
Nate: It’s my DD-214. I was up all night Photoshop-ing it, so if anyone wants to see proof of my service in the marines, they can just…
[Angela rips it up]
Nate: What the fuck are you doing?
Angela: No, no, no, no. Listen to me. If you get yourself in a situation where you have to show somebody your DD-214, then you’re already done. You understand?
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Angela [voiceover]: Lone extremism is not a social phenomena, it’s a tactic. Terrorists call it leaderless resistance. The leaders of the movement provide inspiration, but they also encourage hidden cells act independently like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
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Vince: Look at this bottle. You see anything funny?
Nate: You’re talking about the Jew tax?
Johnny: What’s the Jew tax?
Vince: Tell 'em, Nate.
Nate: Start looking at the food you buy, and you’ll see this little “u.” The union of orthodox rabbis gets paid to perform a “blessing” on everything in the grocery store. For this “blessing,” they rake in billions of dollars in taxes.
Vince: We can’t control the ketchup, but we can control the streets. That’s how it went down in Germany. And we think of ourselves as a Sturmabteilung. We are a thinking man’s soldiers. First here in the head. And then here in the fist. And that is where the revolution starts. We’re not these tired old KKK guys, waiting for some catastrophe to start a race war. We’re the catastrophe.[/b]
Next up: Nate gets a Nazi tattoo.
[b]Nate [to Angelo]: Look at my fucking arm!
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Vince: Stay away from those faggots. They got this fucked up religion where they think the Bible was written for white men and aryans are the lost tribes of Israel. The Bible. Jews invented christianity. Jews invented the printing press, and the Bible is the most published book in the world. I mean, anything seem off to you?
Nate: How about the fact the romans conquered every mud race on earth, and then christianity finished them off in a hundred years?
Vince: You gotta know who to stick with in this movement. You’re with us.
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Madeline: The tree house is to pretect us.
Nate: Yeah, from what?
Madeline: If the mud people come. Always be ready. Always be watchful and stick together.[/b]
Madeline is about 4 or 5.
[b]Nate: I’m kind of surprised you invited those guys.
Gerry: Well, you can’t exclude them. I mean, they’re the next generation. They need our help. Need to understand their heritage, and be proud of it. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? The children. What kind of a world will they grow up in?
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Roy: Hang on, wait a minute…First you tried to stop me, then you try to scare them off, and then you set off that fucking alarm. That wasn’t an accident, was it? Was it, Nate? You wanted them to get away. What the fuck, Nate? Huh? I said what the fuck?
Nate: Okay, you’re goddamn right I wanted them to get away! You want to be a soldier, Roy and not a fucking thug? Then think! You think about security cameras, Roy? You think about the liquor store we were just in? You think about the clerk or the license plates on my fucking truck? You think about any of that shit? Fucking Aryan warrior…A hundred spics and niggers ain’t worth the life of one white man, but go ahead, put us all in prison. That’s how you’re gonna win your race war? Huh?
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Dallas [to a room full of white supremicists]: If you take millions of white people, and flood every country in Africa with them, what do they call that? Genocide. But what’s happening to every white country on earth? You’ve got affirmative action that kills white jobs. Abortion, that kills white babies. Gay rights, that kill white families. Folks, let me explain something to you. “Diversity” is a code word. And what it means is white genocide!
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Nate: So, Gerry, if you don’t mind my asking, how did you end up in the movement?
Gerry: Listen, for me, it was the books. My parents were practically liberals. Totally blinded by the ZOG. You know, I always knew something was wrong; and I had this anger, I couldn’t put my finger on it. Here. It all started with this.
[he hands Nate a book]
Gerry: I was 13. Read it in four days. It explains race, culture, capitalism and how democracy destroyed western civilization.
Nate: Democracy: “Three people form a government. Then two of them vote to steal the wealth of the third.”
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Nate: How do you reason with someone like Gerry? How can you ever hope to change their mind?
Angela: Listen, you need to remember why you’re doing this. We’re not social workers.
Nate: You wanted me to relate to them as human beings, right? “Open up to them?” You said.
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Andrew [to Nate]: Take a look at this. This is the entire DC water system. Plants, pipelines, the whole deal. Now, Nathan, the guys you’re hanging out with, they’re all talk, because they’re punks. They’re amateurs. They sit around drinking beer all day, maybe they beat up a few niggers or each other. We got no use for them. We need men like you.
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Andrew: Let me ask you something, Nathan. What’s your opinion on infiltration?
Nate: Well, how do you mean?
Andrew: How do we prevent it?
Nate: Well, it’s tough. For one thing, you gotta keep guys with rap sheets out of important positions. That’s…that’s how they flip most people.
Andrew: We have a polygraph back at the compound. Maybe we should make everybody take it.
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Andrew: I gotta ask you something. Roy said he contacted the NPRC. Said there’s no record of you having served in the Marines.
Nate: You mean Roy went and filed a 180 with a government that he fucking hates, just to… okay. I was on a wmd squad, so that’s black ops. And he knows that, the fucker. Wait, hold on, are you guys taking this seriously? Is that what that was all about in the truck? Because, I understand you have to do your due diligence or whatever, but that’s a fucking serious accusation! I don’t need to take that shit from anybody!
Andrew: Hey… hey, hey! Okay. Let’s get out of here.
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Dallas [to Angelo]: I know your type. You think you’ve got it all figured out, and you don’t know shit. I’m an entertainer. I do this for money, and for fun. And I don’t give a fuck about ZOG or the race war or any of that shit. I tell these jackasses what they want to hear, and they worship me for it. So fuck you, agent Zamparo.
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Angela: This happens sometimes, you know? I mean, it sucks, but…
Nate [incredulous]: “This happens”?! Is that all you’re gonna fucking say after we find out all of this? Everything you fucking put me through has been for nothing?
Angela: It’s the nature of the work.
Nate: No! This…this happened because of your pet theory! And like an idiot, I went along with it! “Oh, yeah, she’s an expert,” I thought. “She knows what she’s doing!”
Angela: I’m sorry, Nate.
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Nate: I always felt like I could change the world. You know, I could right wrongs, you know, fight injustice.
Gerry: Nate, listen, it’s guys like us that feel these things the most. Idealists.
Nate: Yeah, I just keep thinking about that quote. “For evil to triumph, it only takes good men to do nothing.” But how? You know, fucking how? I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Gerry, I shouldn’t be…I’m just really tired.
Gerry: You know, Nate, maybe you’re going about this the wrong way. The rallies, the speeches, the politics… That’s not how the change is gonna come. It’s gonna come from the unknown soldiers, from the leaderless resistance.
Nate: How do you mean?
Gerry: Let’s go out back. I made some improvements to the tree house.[/b]
Cue “the event”.
[b]Gerry: You guys remember Timothy McVeigh’s last words?
Nate: Yeah, he read Invictus.
Gerry: “It matters not how strait the gait, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
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Nate: And you’re sure they’re not gonna try and test this somehow?
Angela: Yeah, that’s why terrorists love TATP. You can’t identify it without a mass spectrometer.
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Nate: What about the TATP?
Gerry: David got ammonium nitrate instead. He used his name, so the jig is up. They’ll know it’s us. It’s not gonna matter tomorrow. We’re in this to the end now, Nate. Do you understand? They’re not gonna take us alive.
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Nate [on the phone]: The cesium is here!
Angela: All right, everyone! Let’s get ready to do this!
Nate: No! Angela, you have to tell him to wait.
Tom: Wait? No, no, no, we need to get in there now!
Nate: There are three guys in there with machine guns and they’re building a bomb. This is a residential neighborhood. His wife and kids are in the house. If you come in here now, it’ll be a blood bath.
Angela: This is a volatile situation.
Tom: Yeah, which is why we need to move now…
Nate: No, he doesn’t get it! These guys are fanatics! They will not be taken alive!
Angela: Tom, you’re not in there! We have to listen to him.
Tom: And what the fuck happens if the explosives go off while we’re waiting around? Nate, you got 60 seconds to disarm those guys, because we’re coming in.
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Angela: Why do you think I picked you? I knew that you would understand them. And they’d understand you. And the more authentic you became with them, the more authentic they’d become with you. Because when it comes down to it, there really is only one essential ingredient to fascism.
Nate: It’s victimhood.[/b]