The first individual mentioned in the intelligence report, Brace Belden, co-hosts the popular left-wing podcast “TrueAnon,” and fought with the YPG in 2016. Their information appears to be partly drawn from a 2017 article on Belden in Rolling Stone. Belden is described as “a minor criminal and drug addict who started reading Marx and Lenin in drug rehabilitation treatment and became involved in a number of political causes before deciding to fight alongside the YPG.”
The report goes on to describe an encounter between Belden and border authorities.
U.S. citizen (USC) Brace BELDEN was encountered on 08 April 2017, arriving in San Francisco, California from Frankfurt, Germany. BELDEN was returning from a six month tour of volunteering to fight with the YPG under the umbrella of the Syrian Democrat Forces (SDF) fighting ISIS in Syria as part of the ongoing Raqqa offensive starting in November 2016 to retake Raqqa from ISIS. BELDEN stated he recently learned that an open source article had been written about him and his “Anarchist” fighters.
Belden scoffed at the association. “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of any antifa organization,” he told The Nation. “The US government has been spying on and smearing communists for 100 years but they usually have the decency not to call a Red an anarchist!”
omg, right? like, yes, I know im gonna be kidnapped and taken to a concentration camp, but they can at LEAST label me as the right type(s) of undesirable when they do. can't be sporting the wrong patches in camp.
i kind of meant this ironically, but it just sorta got away from me. now I don't even know.
The first individual mentioned in the intelligence report, Brace Belden, co-hosts the popular left-wing podcast “TrueAnon,” and fought with the YPG in 2016. Their information appears to be partly drawn from a 2017 article on Belden in Rolling Stone. Belden is described as “a minor criminal and drug addict who started reading Marx and Lenin in drug rehabilitation treatment and became involved in a number of political causes before deciding to fight alongside the YPG.” The report goes on to describe an encounter between Belden and border authorities.
Belden scoffed at the association. “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of any antifa organization,” he told The Nation. “The US government has been spying on and smearing communists for 100 years but they usually have the decency not to call a Red an anarchist!”
I'm an anarchist, but goddamn do I love brace
omg, right? like, yes, I know im gonna be kidnapped and taken to a concentration camp, but they can at LEAST label me as the right type(s) of undesirable when they do. can't be sporting the wrong patches in camp.
i kind of meant this ironically, but it just sorta got away from me. now I don't even know.
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Gotta love how they start a character assassination of Belden as well in the beginning