I am no stranger to being cancelled. Since 2004 when I helped found a website called Conservative Punk, I have been one of the deranged lefts’ most favorite targets. I am one of the most banned and censored musicians in America today. This week alone I have lost 5 shows because of a coordinated effort that seems to be championed by a few individuals communicating online who are rallying others to the effort.
These sorts of mobs reveal a very disturbing reality that we have to pay particular attention to.
According to PsyPost.org, “Studies suggest that people with dark personality traits, like narcissism and psychopathy, are drawn to certain antagonistic ideologies and political activities. However, their motivation is not necessarily driven by a genuine desire for social justice and equality. Instead, they use these ideologies and activities as a way to fulfill their own ego-centered needs. The researchers call this phenomenon the ‘dark-ego-vehicle principle.'”
Mental illness and trauma-driven behavior are at the center of all of these collectives of people who rally to these things. These people are sick.
The tour that is being attacked, my means of income, is an acoustic tour across this country to support and promote a documentary film I made about cancel culture called “An American Prayer“.
The current hatred and coordinated actions directed at me this time is mostly because of my affiliation with The Proud Boys and my involvement with J6 it seems. The Cancel Culture Kids have all been brainwashed into believing that I am a white supremacist, racist, bigot and of course a Nazi. Individuals are using lies and slander to threaten and harass club owners and promoters into canceling my shows that have been confirmed and promoted all across the country. To date, there have been 7 canceled events.
My character, integrity, career and good name is under attack and I am being spotlighted as a bad person, a sub-human Nazi worthy of being totally destroyed. In Illinois there is a letter being circulated that has the email addresses of Illinois elected representatives to contact about references, and says that my presence in the community would be “deeply troubling” given my “history of aligning with racist and extremist ideologies“.
This round of cancel culture kids doing what they do best, which is disturbances, destruction, death, and dumb stuff seems to have started when an online Dominatrix from Pennsylvania who calls herself AIDEN FLAME posted on Facebook a call to action to have “this n*azi shut down.” AIDEN FLAME is a Dominatrix who participates in Femdon and Professional Dominatrix work who is happy to have recently made the decision to return to that work. It’s been 3 years since she was forced into hiding after someone had broken into her house and fed her dog poisoned food. You can apply to be a “slave” on her website.
According to Pennsylvania law, sadism which is defined as deriving pleasure from inflicting pain or humiliation on others, is generally not considered prostitution, but depending on the specific circumstances and nature of the act, it could fall under the legal definition of “prostitution” if it involves exchange of sexual acts for money or other compensation, particularly when the act involves inflicting pain or humiliation as part of a commercial transaction.
Many of us understand that consistently labeling someone as a Nazi as a way to dehumanize them is particularly problematic and is straight-up dangerous. This term to define me continually appears across all of the boards and groups that are working together to attack me.
The effort behind this bout of attacks seems to be led by a “persistent and prolific troll” named Adam Rahuba Antifa Leader (Official) who appears on his Facebook profile with an ANTIFA scarf covering his face. Adam describes himself as the founder and primary DJ at Metalcore Night, founder of Pittsburg Emo Night, DJ at Emo Night Brooklyn, web developer, animal lover and a weird dude. He is leading, encouraging and participating in the online effort to have me canceled, defamed, slandered, attacked and destroyed.
Adam admittedly reached out to and communicated with venue owners where I was scheduled to perform at a venue called Sidequest in Lawrenceville, PA just outside Pittsburg and lied to the them about me being at the “Capital Riots”. He lied to them when he told them how I have “espoused all kinds of bigoted views” and my “terrorism” and “criminal behavior”. Adam also put up a post that went viral on Reddit.
The venue eventually canceled the show and issued a statement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/s/gDcv6QWkAf
Adam Rahuba has posted online that “in addition to fucking with conservatives, I don’t have much going on. I’m a DJ. I deliver for Postmates with a friends car that I borrow.I’m broke and stay with a friend. I spend a fuckton of time in treatment for a laundry list of mental illnesses…”
In 2020 Rahuba created a fake ANTIFA recruitment website with Ben Shapiros name included in the source code as a joke. It’s been reported that Rahuba’s real goal was to receive and record calls from those who oppose Antifa. He collected the numerous messages and compiled them into videos that he would then share to social media.
Rahuba has stated that the website called braverthanthetroops.org was a “honeypot” which worked as a “troll to f–k with far-right dorks.”
Penn Live/Patriot News reports that Rahuba’s other works have included making fun of the 9/11 terror attacks and creating a fake online drive to repeal the Second Amendment. The Post reporters said he denied belonging to any formal antifa group but claimed to be a supporter of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He is “a self-described democratic socialist and supporter of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Rahuba said he antagonizes far-right extremists mostly for his own amusement,” the Post wrote. In July of 2020 investigative reporters for the Post said they tracked Adam, a Pittsburgh native, to a friend’s apartment where he admitted to being behind many online hoaxes including the Gettysburg hoax that drew hundreds to Gettysburg, PA on July 4, 2020 to prevent an American flag burning that never was going to happen, The Washington Post reported. Also in 2020 he announced his intent to launch a website that would enable users to see every neighbor who financially donated to Republicans on a map. The site would encourage users to “aggressively (but nonviolently) confront these people. No safety for fascist enablers.”
This has become a real concern for me now that an individual like this has me in their sights. Regardless of the reasons he and the other participants are doing this, it is causing real-world damage to me, my family, my good name and reputation, and my source of income. They are also doing so in a fraudulent manner because the things that have been said to promoters to justify canceling me are just not true.
I continue to find myself on the frontlines of our nation’s culture war. The battles continue, and the danger is real. I do not enjoy or particularly want to be in the middle of all of this.
What I do know is that we need more systems and organizations facilitating opportunities for artists and musicians like me to be able to build things and produce stuff that we can fire into the heart and soul of our culture. That is how we influence things. We have to contribute to the competing bodies of work out there.
There is an ongoing, escalating battle of ideas, images, sounds, and rhetoric. America needs artistic ammo.
I am writing from the frontlines of culture war. Please send help.
