Naming a Neo-Nazi Livestreamer: Angela Pagniello (AKA:Posty)

We have been monitoring the online presence of a woman who has been hosting livestreams with various far-right figures and Neo-Nazis, including but not limited to Chris “Hammer” Pohlhaus from the American Neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe. She goes by the username “Posty”.
CW: racism, homophobia, slurs, antisemtism, violent rhetoric, Nazi imagery

Screenshot from Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Posty’s original screen name was “Proud Terf”. She also puts the number 1488 in her screen name. 1488 is a number often used by Neo-Nazis.
14 represents the white supremacist “14 words” slogan and 88 represents the eighth letter of the alphabet or HH which stands for “Heil Hitler”.

Posty has shown support for multiple Canadian white nationalist/Neo-Nazi groups including Second Sons, Nationalist-13, Toronto Pioneers, and the Dominion Society.

“Posty” hosts a weekly Twitter space with other Canadian far-right women. The space often invites Neo-Nazis and far-right figures from around the world, including members of Diagolon/Second Sons. All the other hosts of “Canadian Nationalist Thursday” have been named. They are Joanna “Blonde Bigot” Evenson, Leigh “Womenwaffenss” Stuart, and Bethan “Based Maidens” Nodwell. But until now “Posty” has not been named.

Meet Angela Pagniello a Pickering woman whose LinkedIn profile says that she is a DTWC coordinator at Downsview Services for Seniors and a crisis and distress intervention volunteer.

Angela’s online rhetoric is just as bad if not worst than that of the hate groups that she supports. She uses an emoji set on Telegram called “Waffen-SS Divisions HQ” that is all nazi symbols.

Let’s take a look at some of the other things she has said.
Unsurprisingly, during the pandemic she was an anti-masker.
“I almost lost my job, I’ve been kicked off social media for saying stuff… Especially when you have a soft opinion like masks don’t work… this was back when the convid scam started.”

She is a proponent of the debunked white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory which has inspired multiple racist mass shooters.

According to Angela, “Indians” can’t be Canadian and she wants Canada to be more hostile towards “Indians” .
“I have seen many stories about Canadians making Indians feeling very unwelcome here, and that’s very important. Because we don’t want to make Canada seem like the welcoming country that the government is portraying us to be….”
“We need to make it seem like it’s just so hateful that you’d have to be crazy to fucking move here from another country. That’s what we need to do here.”

She often uses racial slurs, such as “sh*t skins” for people who aren’t white.

Angela is a residential school denier.
“they used ground penetrating radar…. where those residential schools were… the ground penetrating radar detected the ceramic tiles… but they still went ahead based on just the testimony…”

She has also praised the violence committed by the now banned National Socialist Network in Australia.
“I just wanna say, if you think this was the craziest thing you’ve ever seen, please review the the video of the NSN vs antifa during the March for Australia….. that’s what needs to happen in Canada.”

In this clip Posty describes to Chris Pohlhaus how she became racist and antisemitic. According to her it stems from her time working in healthcare.
“As far as the Jew it was during covid… I have a friend who is very anti-Jew… he would kind of tell me stuff and send me jokes…. I went down a rabbit hole during covid…. and then obviously coming on to X I got exposed to all the HT(Handsome Truth) stuff…”

Angela describes a situation where she worked with someone who isn’t white, but felt sad that she would have to be deported.
“I was her boss many years ago and she wrote her first children’s book, and she sent it to me… and a letter, and basically explaining how I inspired her to write, and how I was such a great manager, and she love talking to me… and I’m sitting there thinking fuck, I’m gonna feel really bad when she has to go back home…”

In April Posty described how she is currently on leave at her job, and she plans to use that time to advance the nationalist cause.
“I’m off work, recovering from a surgery, and I’m fortunate enough to have a job where I am getting partial wages for being off… do I take advantage of this time off and do as much as I can now that I’ve pretty much recovered from the surgery, do I do as much as I can IRL for the nationalist cause…”

One of the ways she is advancing the cause is with her “Canadian Nationalist Thursday” streams. Let’s check out some of the things said on these streams by other people.
Someone says that “Indians” aren’t human. The person who said it sounds exactly like Christine Loughead(CanadianGirl), who has been charged with wilful promotion of hatred and isn’t supposed to be using the internet.

Joanna Evenson(Blonde Bigot) uses racial slurs and says that Canadians should commit smash and grabs at politicians offices. Posty seems to laugh along with her.

Blonde Bigot also openly wishes that the far-right was far more violent.
“I wish the far-right was even a fraction as violent and dangerous as they like to portray us.”

And if you’ve made it to the end of this and feel that Angela is a horrible person, you’ll be comforted to know that her daughter feels the same.
“unfortunately now ladies, we really have to talk to our daughters, we have to watch our daughters, we have to warn our daughters, I’ve gone through this with my daughter where I’ve been called every name under the sun because you know whatever I’m racist, I’m this and that…”

Justin Dufaure (AKA Hamilton Hardwick) of Centretown Ottawa

This guy’s a little weirdo. Diagolon simp, distributor of hate propaganda, and possessor of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). Introducing: Justin Dufaure aka Hamilton Hardwick of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

In 2010, Justin Dufaure was caught with thousands of images (7,730 images, 3,830 of which were unique…to be exact) and videos of children that a child exploitation investigator ranked as “quite high” by level of abhorrence, but we’ll get to that. First we want to talk about Justin’s white nationalist activities. You may remember him from an earlier thread we made this year, where he has been putting up antisemitic thermal printouts all over Ottawa and publishing videos of himself doing so. After putting up the posters he brags about it to his dag friends, seemingly to win their praise. It’s kinda sad, actually.

Some racist and antisemitic posters put up in Ottawa by Justin Dufaure, with slogans such as “Race mixing is white genocide” and “Tell that k*ke to take a hike”.

Screenshot from one of Justin’s videos of him putting up antisemitic posters in Blackburn Hamlet.

Justin is not just simply a Diagolon fan boy though. Him and Alex Vriend (aka The Ferryman’s Toll) frequently engage online, especially on Twitter Spaces. Most recently the two of them have been hanging out IRL along with some other Diagolon buddies, including Alex Cabana of Veterans 4 Freedom(V4F). He was also seen hanging out on Wellington near Parliament Hill with the group known as the Wellington Street Regulars, who spend most of their time yelling Fuck Trudeau at empty buildings and screaming weird nonsense at passersby.

Justin Dufaure, Alex Vriend, and Alex Cabana walking near uOttawa encampment.

Justin Dufaure, Alex Vriend, and Alex Cabana walking near uOttawa encampment.

Justin hanging around with the "Wellington Street Regulars"

Justin hanging around with the “Wellington Street Regulars” aka the Wellington Dipshits.

Using some old screenshots of a Diagolon chat, Justin wasn’t that hard to find. He was one of the earliest members of this chat and had a photo of himself with a recognizable face. Lucky for us, he had also made a post confirming that he is the owner of Hamilton’s previous Twitter account.

Screenshots showing Justin is Hamilton Hardwick

Screenshots of Justin’s telegram account, and posts from him showing he is Hamilton Hardwick.

He had revealed a couple things about himself in this chat. His dog, some of his hobbies, and his old place of employment. This was enough to lead us to the LinkedIn page of Justin Dufaure, which contained a picture of someone who dresses and looks remarkably similar to Hardwick. So, we had an arborist with the same first name as Hardwick, a picture that looked remarkably similar, and a potential last name.

Messages from the Telegram chat of Justin discussing his work.

Justin's Linkedin profile showing he worked at Asplundh and was an Arborist.

Justin’s Linkedin profile showing he worked at Asplundh as an Arborist.

A quick Google search returned the shocking information about Justin Dufaure: In 2010 he was arrested after a search warrant was executed on his apartment when the Guns&Gangs unit was looking for an AK-47 that had been posted on his brother’s Facebook page. While searching the apartment, the cops found thousands of CSAM images on his devices. Infants, overt sexual acts, the most disgusting stuff one could have on a device. Unfortunately, a judge ruled that the cops had breached his Charter rights when searching his devices since it was out of scope of the warrant they had obtained. Justin was found not guilty after the evidence had to be tossed. You can read about the case here, but be warned it does get into graphic details of the content.

Hardwick/Justin had talked about being in some legal trouble previously in the chat and that he had a good criminal lawyer.

Justin talking about committing violent acts, his good criminal lawyer, and a history of being in a detention centre.

Now, we still needed to confirm if this is the same Justin Dufaure as we don’t want to make false claims about someone, especially for such a serious accusation. So, we read the legal decision for the CSAM case to get some details. It contains some real vile stuff, and it’s truly a miscarriage of justice that Justin was not convicted.

A few family members were mentioned in the case, all of whom we managed to find on Facebook. One of them had posted this older photo with a familiar face. Another family member posted a Thanksgiving photo, helpfully tagging an old account of Justin’s (that he changed the name of) as well as all the family members mentioned on CanLII.

Justin in some family photographs we found while searching family members Facebook accounts.

Through said family members, we came across a Facebook account named Justin Joseph. An arborist with a dog that looks remarkably like the one Justin had posted about in the Diagolon chat. A lot of coincidences occurring when we look at the information from CanLII. We learned everything from it (like how someone tried to toss a bag of cocaine out of Justin’s window after the cops came through the door)

Pictures of the dog which Justin has shared and talked about multiple times.

Pictures of the dog which Justin has shared and talked about multiple times.

At this point, we were very confident that Hamilton, Justin from the Diagolon chat, and Justin Dufaure who had been caught with CSAM were all the same person. But just for good measure, Hammy himself gave us some more confirmation.

Hamilton talking about how his brothers best friend was murdered. Two different excerpts from CanLII and an article about the murder showing they were in the same building.

Hamilton talking about how his brother’s best friend was murdered. Two different excerpts from CanLII and an article about the murder showing they lived in the same building.

It’s not much of a secret at this point that the “podcast fan club” called Diagolon is in the process of publicly launching a new organization using their existing network full of white nationalists. Some “podcast fan club” members have even described this upcoming organization as the Canadian version of Patriot Front. But the vetting process for this group doesn’t seem to weed out child exploitation. Either they aren’t vetting properly, or CSAM doesn’t get you kicked out. Makes you wonder who else has made it into these circles.

Just something to think about.

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Alex Thompson and AJ Willan

Alex and Ashley posing for a photo.

Today we would like to introduce you to Alex Thompson, Ottawa Active Club member and friend of several white nationalist extremists such as: Patrick MacDonald aka Dark Foreigner (alleged propagandist for terror group Atomwaffen Division who’s currently awaiting trial for multiple terrorism charges), Ben Mockler aka Aquila the Eagle (neo-Nazi recruiter for Ottawa Active Club), and Ryan Immel & Ryan Marshall  (senior members of the Vinland Hammerskins).

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Nationalist-13 – Unmasking the Neo-Nazi Active Club from Southwestern Ontario

In late 2021 or early 2022 a group of “frens” from southern Ontario got together, drawing on their experiences with previous nationalist groups, to form their own neo-Nazi active club for southwestern Ontario.  Beginning with stickering campaigns and now having moved on to meetups and training in boxing/MMA, they are becoming more active with potential for more of their form of hate, threats, and “activism” on the horizon. With that said, it’s time to unmask some of them before they do.

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