The Miami Herald reported the suspects' names as Tyler Tenbrink, and the Fears Brothers, William and Colton, all from Texas. They are a thoroughly Red-Pilled lot; William Fears refers to himself on social network sites as "the charismatic leader of a White breeding cult." He and Tenbrink were hobnobbing with the other Alphas up in Charlottesville during the riot last August. And like many of the other Red Pills, the trio are no strangers to jails.
William Fears also describes himself as an 'Internet Troll'. He boasted to the Corporate Media that he was radicalized by reading Red Pill sites. Although he didn't specify which sites, the fact that he was arrested in June for a violent confrontation with Oath Keepers is strongly circumstantial evidence as to which ones. He was also jailed in 2009 for kidnapping a young woman at knife-point and also served time for drugs, trespassing and assault.
Tenbrink has been spotted at several Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right events in between his "extensive" jail terms. The most recent was another Felony Assault in 2014, meaning that the firearm he wielded in Florida was illegally possessed.
We see here once again specimens of radicalized men such as ex-President Bush spoke of this week. When we read their interviews and writings, Tenbrink and the Fears Brothers spout most of the Red Pill talking-points common on Manosphere websites. As a society, we need to do some serious soul-searching as to why these radical movements are appealing to so many.
Ex-President Bush spoke of defective education; President Trump has elsewhere stated that the breakdown of family and religion are responsible. Pope Francis has addressed the issue too, pointing out that young men are losing their moral compass. All of these are true to some extent.
The problem that we really need to address is how we, as a society, discriminate against men and have been closing all avenues for healthy masculine expression. The Boy Scouts and the Military have been pushing men out and allowing girls and homosexuals in. Sports have become corrupt; the business field encourages gender-competition, as does the media. Even marriage has become so anti-male---at least on a legal and social level---that many men eschew it altogether.
We need to reverse these kinds of social trends. Men are biologically and psychologically built for achievement and their energies need to be channeled into socially constructive ends. Our society though is bent on deconstructing masculinity; i.e. social emasculation. If men don't find outlets in constructive ways, the gangsters, the revolutionaries, the cultists, and others like them will offer them plenty of less constructive outlets. And it's not too hard for them to recruit men when so many males have come to believe that Civilized Society has turned their backs on them.
Enlisting in radical movements, however, because what is needed is faith and patience. Faith that things can be turned around and the patience to do so. But as a society, we need to be doing much more.
I really appreciated this post,especially the part about "we really need to address is how we, as a society, discriminate against men and have been closing all avenues for healthy masculine expression." I see that too. The response of course needs to be culture wide, multi-faceted, but one thing I try to do is to encourage churches to engage in men's ministry. We tend to spend a whole lot of money on youth ministry, kids outreach, youth pastors,and then women's ministry, when in fact the best bang for your buck is to invest in your outreach to men. Where men go, women tend to follow and than kids see that, and they come too. One problem is that we're often trying to reach broken and wounded kids, but if you succeed, you've won over one child. Children can rarely reach out to all the adults in their life. Try to reach that kid's dad however, and if you succeed, he'll bring along his kids,his wife, his ex-wife, his coworkers, his in-laws, half the neighborhood. That's the genuine "alpha power" of men, they lead by example and often have a far bigger impact than they realize.
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