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American Identity Movement (Identity Evropa) Weekly Address, April 3, 2019 Rush transcript: Patrick Casey [00:05:19] Alright, good evening everyone. I hope you doing well. Patrick Casey [00:05:22] I'm Patrick Casey, president of AIM, president of the organization that you are hopefully part of, but in all seriousness, welcome to this week's Weekly Address. I've got a number of very exciting things to talk to you about tonight and I'm glad that you're here. So I'm not using, I'll begin by saying that I'm on my phone. I haven't had Wi-Fi set up at the new place quite yet. So if you guys can't hear me or if I start breaking up please let me know. But we're basically stuck with this setup so we're just gonna have to make do. Patrick Casey [00:05:58] Well it's been an, it, it's been an interesting week, as you guys saw on Twitter, if you've been following antifa's attempts to stalk me, that I did in fact move, I moved out of the crappy place I was in in Harrisonburg, and into a place, and into a far nicer place, we'll say that. I don't wanna give too much detail, although if you come out to the event that I'm going to tell you about at the end of April, hopefully you already know about that, then you will get a chance to see the HQ for yourself in person. So for those of you unaware, my home address was doxed, my place I was living at prior to this, and not much really happened. You know the funny thing is that none of the neighbors really figured out who I was the entire time. I lived there for a year, I invited the NBC crew in to interview me in my living room. The nice friendly black lady with whom I shared a wall, it was a duplex, she was on the other side, she never found out either. So, you know, sometimes it's funny how these things work out, but in the last month of living there my home address was basically public knowledge, right. And despite that, the most that they did was they took a picture of, took a picture of us loading stuff into the vans for the conference. They took a picture outside of the house, that was it, there was, I wasn't out there for that, and they put one flyer up on my car, put one flyer up my car. For whatever reason they didn't flyer the neighbors cars. They didn't put flyers or mail flyers to the neighbors houses. Had they done that, things might have gotten a little weird, right it would have been a bit uncomfortable for me. But they didn't. So, I think that the antia presence in Harrisonburg is very slim. I think that there is probably some cat lady in the neighborhood who felt, you know, very clandestine in putting up the one flyer and realized that was the extent to to which she was willing to go, that was as far, as courageous as she was willing to be. Patrick Casey [00:08:15] But yes, anyways as some of you did see the tweet that, in which antifa said that they had the license plate for the U-Haul. They said that I was leaving, a lot of people thought I was, I was followed. Thank you to everyone who let me know about that tweet. But they didn't follow us. I was actually paying attention to make sure that that didn't happen and no one, no one even tried to. So, safe and sound in the new HQ. I think that we'll be able to... Patrick Casey [00:08:41] The only reason they figured out my address is because we had someone set up, someone who's no longer in the organization set up a holdings company for me and I wasn't aware that my address was public infor-, was public, could be publicly found through that holding company. So it's a mistake that we won't make again. And you know you learn as you go when you do these things. But anyways the whitepill of the week is the HQ. This place is pretty awesome. It's, it's got everything that we need. And again, if you come at the end of the month then I'll be happy to show you show you the HQ, but I'm going to keep most of the details of the HQ on a need-to know basis similar to the conference location, just so that we can have i tbe a secret for as long as possible. If and when you find out that, the address, the state, the general area, you need to keep that to yourself. Again if I hear that you're telling members, telling other people, that's, you're gonna be in the wrong there. This has to be something that is not casual, right, we have to be uptight about this, just because it's going to, I'm not worried about people breaking in and hurting me, I'm worried about, you know, landlord getting harassed, neighbors getting mailed things, people maybe throwing a rock through my car window or something. I'm not really fearing for my life, although I'm not taking chances, but, anyways, it is great to finally have a sizable HQ, one that can fit and accommodate everyone and I'll be talking a little bit more about the action a little later. But that is the whitepill of the week. Patrick Casey [00:10:15] So, activism roundup, let me open up the Twitter page here. Patrick Casey [00:10:22] So, so since we spoke last week, we posted the video for our Down With Globalism action. And that is the action that we, that is a name for the action that we, the name that we gave for the action that we did outside the steps of the Tennessee State Capitol. So this was a fantastic action. Props to our activism department. Props to everyone who participated. Thank you. This was just such phenomenal action. Now this video on our Twitter account that only has 3,600 followers, which by the way isn't bad given we launched it less than a month ago, this video has twenty thousand views, twenty thousand views. All the actions that we did as IE for the past, maybe the past year, all of the videos of that actions,most of them did not get, very few of them got over 5000. So this is evidence of what AIM leadership was thinking, and ,you know, basically what we've been saying is that people want something that's American. They want something, you know, that is, that is American, that is authentic that is nationalistic and identitarian, but that is something that, you know, that's rooted in more in the mythos and the imagery and the history of the country that we're in right, right, because we're not just white. White is part of our identity, but we're Americans right, you know, the German nationalist, he understands that he's white on some level, which, which term means more to him, German or white? Well I can tell you right now it's German. You speak with someone like Henrik Palmgren. He, he's confused as to why people call him a white nationalist. He says no, I'm a Swedish nationalist. Obviously he has an understanding of, you know, obviously given his videos and stuff, he understands white identity and so forth. But part of the reason why I think white nationalism is, in America has been, I think it's just, it's tended to be out of touch with what people really care about, and people tend to care a little bit more about their ethnic identity than they do, you know, a racial identity, though it's understandable. I mean, obviously we understand the role that racial identity plays. But to be a people is a lot more than just your biology, right, it's about having a history, about having a language. Ideally a religion, though given America's pluralism and so forth that that's not [inaudible] Patrick Casey [00:12:58] But anyways, if you've noticed on Twitter who's retweeting this stuff, who's liking it, it's all obviously the people, people like us identitarians, nationalists, a lot of the boomer patriot crowd as well, right, and this is something that I was trying to get across to people, is that we can have something that is identitarian but still appears, appeals to this massive swath of society, right, to them, to the right in America, without being insincere, right, we didn't say anything in that demonstration that that wasn't true. Right. That was that was absolutely everything that we believe in. Maybe not everything, given that it was a quick five to ten minute speech that got edited it down to a two minute video. Patrick Casey [00:13:42] But the point is that we can absolutely advocate for what we believe in and what we care about in a way that a lot of, the average conservative white person and the average Trump supporter, maybe former Trump supporter at this point, finds accessible and finds to their liking.
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