White Supremacist Threatens to Sue News Outlet Over Photoshopped Gun That He Tweeted a Month EarlierOne of Americas most famous internet grown white supremacists, Baked Alaska, has threatened to sue news outlet AJ Plus over a photo of him holding a gun. He says the image was photoshopped by the news organization. The only problemBaked Alaska tweeted the photo less than a month ago. Baked Alaska, whose real name is Tim Gionet, has been a key figure in organizing the new coalition of neo Nazis, Klansmen, and other white supremacists online. And he helped bring that online movement into the physical world on August 1. Charlottesville tiki torchlight rally and was scheduled to speak at the neo Nazi rally the following day. News outlet AJ Plus recently published a video about Gionet and his admiration for Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, and used an image of Gionet holding a gun. But Gionet made the startling accusation that the news outlet had fabricated the photo. Gionet tweeted, Wow ajplus photoshopped a picture of me holding a gun calls me white supremacist, putting me in dangerBIG LAWSUIT comingMany of his supporters have called the image fake news and have sought to discredit the new organization over the photo. But the thing is, Gionet actually uploaded the photo on August 8, 2. Presumably Gionet created the image, though he has not responded to Gizmodos request for comment, calling Gizmodo a shit news outlet. Its unclear on what grounds Gionet would sue, but one possibility that has been raised by his supporters is defamation. But that would present the question of whether a photo you publish online of yourself could be considered defamatory in some bizarre way. Others have raised the possibility that Gionet could sue for being called a white supremacist. Stormy JFest Southwest Regatta. From October 2122, the eighth annual JFest Southwest Regatta took place on Clear Lake and Galveston Bay, hosted by Lakewood Yacht Club. On July 12th, a member from a popular boating message board posted a photo of some boats he didnt recognize near Dana Point, a small city on the California coast. But then we start to get into questions of who gets to define the words we commonly ascribe to ideologies of hatred and bigotry. If you surround yourself with people doing Nazi salutes and chanting blood and soil, a famous Nazi slogan, can you claim that youre somehow not a neo NaziAre you alt right just because you say you are Gionet, like so many members of the so called alt right, doesnt like being called a white supremacist or a neo Nazi. This, despite the fact that he spreads the same hate filled rhetoric as other neo Nazis by repeating the 1. Words, saying that the Holocaust is fake news, and attending rallies where he shouts hail victory, the English translation of sieg heil. So again, its unclear what Gionet would be able to sue AJ Plus over. There was a remarkable shift in the white supremacist community during the few days immediately following Heather Heyers death in Charlottesville. Many of those radicalized online were suddenly calling for non violence, even though they had previously said Hitler did nothing wrong. When Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Charlottesville rally, tweeted that Heyers death was payback time during a night of mixing alcohol with prescription drugs, other hardcore neo Nazis disavowed him. And Christopher Cantwell, now known as the crying Nazi even made a video about how he was afraid for his life. The macho white supremacist image faded quickly. But then President Trumps equivocating came into play the following Tuesday and the white supremacists were once again emboldened. Trump held an infamously combative press conference where he said that there were very fine people on both sides. Install Type Development Files. And his Phoenix rally the following week was like a big green light for those who espouse hatred and bigotry throughout the country. Theyre trying to take away our culture. Theyre trying to take away our history, Trump said at his rally in Phoenix on August 2. And our weak leaders, they do it overnight. These things have been there for 1. You go back to a university and its gone. Weak, weak people. White supremacists on Twitter were particularly energized when Trump said the word Antifa, when describing the thugs who opposed him. Neo Nazis on Twitter have devoted an enormous amount of time and effort since Charlottesville to get those on the left to denounce the leaderless Antifa movement. And some of it has worked just as cynically as they had hoped, with spineless Democrats like Nancy Pelosi denouncing the anti fascists. White supremacists know they have an ally in the White House and now its an ally who pardons racist sheriffs like Joe Arpaio. Those who were ready to turn tail, previously deleting their social media accounts and softening their tone, found a second wind and a safe space in Donald Trumps words. Its unclear why Gionet would continue to claim that AJ Plus photoshopped that image of him when he tweeted it himself. But it seems unlikely that he wouldve been so emboldened without Donald Trump in the White House. VSKAC32-B.jpg' alt='Virtual Skipper 5 Boats' title='Virtual Skipper 5 Boats' />Society will always have sad white men who blame racial minorities or women or Jews for their own frustrations in life. But its a terrifying change to see that represented so forcefully in the White House. Update 1. 0 3. 0 am The story has been updated to clarify that Gionet tweeted the image. Nuremberg Trial Defendants Karl Doenitz. The course of the war waged against neutral and allied merchant shipping by German U boats followed, under Doenitzs direction, a course of consistently increasing ruthlessness. Attacks on Merchant Shipping. Doenitz displayed his masterly understanding in adjusting himself to the changing fortunes of war 1. PS. From the very early days, merchant ships, both allied and neutral, were sunk without warning, and when operational danger zones had been announced by the German Admiralty, these sinkings continued to take place both within and without those zones. With some exceptions in the early days of the war, no regard was taken for the safety of the crews or passengers of sunken merchant ships, and the announcement claiming a total blockade of the British Isles merely served to confirm the established situation under which U boat warfare was being conducted without regard to the established rules of international warfare or the requirements of humanity. The course of the war at sea during the first eighteen months is summarized by two official British reports made at a time when those who compiled them were ignorant of some of the actual orders issued which have since come to hand. An official report of the British Foreign Office summarizes German attacks on merchant shipping during the period 3 September 1. September 1. 94. 0, that is to say, the first year of the war D 6. A. is report, made shortly after September 1. During the first twelve months of the war, 2,0. Allied shipping, comprising 5. In addition, 7. Nearly all these merchant ships have been sunk by submarine, mine, aircraft or surface craft, and the great majority of them sunk while engaged on their lawful trading occasions. Allied merchant seamen have lost their lives in these ships. In the last war the practice of the Central Powers was so remote from the recognized procedure that it was thought necessary to set forth once again the rules of warfare in particular as applied to submarines. This was done in the Treaty of London 1. Germany acceded to these rules. The rules laid down 1 In action with regard to merchant ships, submarines must conform to the rules of International Law to which surface vessels are subjected. In particular, except in the case of persistent refusal to stop on being summoned, or of active resistance to visit and search, a warship, whether surface vessel or submarine, may not sink or render incapable of navigation a merchant vessel without having first placed passengers, crew, and ships papers in a place of safety. For this purpose, the ships boats are not regarded as a place of safety unless the safety of the passengers and crew is assured in the existing sea and weather conditions, by the proximity of land, or the presence of another vessel which is in a position to take them on board. At the beginning of the present war, Germany issued a Prize Ordinance for the regulation of sea warfare and the guidance of her naval officers. Article 7. 4 of this ordinance embodies the submarine rules of the London Treaty. Article 7. 2, however, provides that captured enemy vessels may be destroyed if it seems inexpedient or unsafe to bring them into port, and Article 7. These provisions are certainly not in accordance with the traditional British view but the important point is that, even in these cases, the Prize Ordinance envisages the capture of the merchantman before its destruction. In other words, if the Germans adhered to the rules set out in their own Prize Ordinance, we might have argued the rather fine legal point with them, but we should have no quarrel with them, either on the broader legal issue or on the humanitarian one. In the event, however, it is only too clear that almost from the beginning of the war the Germans abandoned their own principles and waged war with steadily increasing disregard for International Law, and for what is, after all, the ultimate sanction of all law, the protection of human life and property from arbitrary and ruthless attacks. D 6. A Two instances are then set out On 3. September 1. 93. 9, came the first sinking of a neutral ship by a submarine without warning and with loss of life. This was the Danish ship Vendia bound for the Clyde in ballast. The submarine fired two shots and shortly after torpedoed the ship. The torpedo was fired when the master had already signalled that he would submit to the submarines orders and before there had been an opportunity to abandon ship. By November submarines were beginning to sink neutral vessels without warning as a regular thing. On the 1. 2th November the Norwegian Arne Kjode was torpedoed in the North Sea without any warning at all. This was a tanker bound from one neutral port to another. The master and four of the crew lost their lives and the remainder were picked up after many hours in open boats. Henceforward, in addition to the failure to establish the nature of the cargo, another element is noticeable, namely an increasing recklessness as to the fate of the crew. D 6. A And then, dealing with attacks on allied merchant vessels, certain figures are given Ships sunk 2. Recorded attacks 2. Illegal attacks 1. At least 7. 9 of these 1. D 6. 41 A The report continues By the middle of October submarines were sinking merchant vessels without any regard to the safety of the crews. Yet four months later the Germans were still officially claiming that they were acting in accordance with the Prize Ordinance. Westinghouse J34 Manual'>Westinghouse J34 Manual. Their own semi official commentators however, had made the position clearer.