North Carolina paratrooper Kai Liam Nix has been identified as one of the Patriot Front members seen over the last several years marching in khakis, a blue polo and face mask. Apparently, the Justice Department may consider such activity to constitute as participation in an “insurrectionist” group.
Nix was arrested last week and charged with lying on a security clearance form for claiming he had “never been a member of a group dedicated to the use of violence or force to overthrow the U.S. Government.”
The DOJ hasn’t specifically named the “insurrectionist” group or groups Nix was allegedly affiliated with, but his arrest comes at the same time as the New Yorker and the Southern Poverty Law Center running exposés on his involvement with the Patriot Front—articles underpinned by information from Antifa researchers.
Nix was granted pretrial release to home detention under the custody of his mother at a hearing Thursday after a week in jail, with special release conditions including GPS monitoring and a ban on internet access.
The Appalachia Research Club, which describes itself as an “antifascist research collective”, obtained Nix’s name by running the license plate of a vehicle involved in a stunt designed to intimidate left-wing journalist Jordan Green at his North Carolina home, according to the New Yorker. […]
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