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Denver furry convention canceled: Unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender

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nynt9

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...sex-offender-denver-furry-convention-canceled

DENVER – Fur is flying between different sects of a niche community of Coloradans over allegations of neo-Nazism, unpaid taxes and fake legal threats that has led to the cancellation of the popular annual “furry” convention in Denver.

The journey down the furry wormhole started with a tweet Monday night from JJ MacNab, a Forbes writer who covers anti-government extremism.

“Last month, we were faced with a sudden and drastic increase in security costs amounting to more than a third of our entire existing operating budget…[which] stemmed directly from the very public threats of violence against one another by members of this community, as well as the negative backlash from misinformation spread about the convention, its staff and attendees,” the announcement of the convention’s cancellation, written by one of the board members, “Sorin,” said.

“Therefore, Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2017 is officially canceled,” the message continued. “I will no longer continue to subject my staff and our community to the lies, hate, violence and slander that was disseminated by a small, vocal minority.”

One of the leaders of the Furry Raiders, a Fort Colins man who goes by “Foxler Nightfire” (an apparent combination of Fox and Hitler, according to many in the furry community), usually wears black shirts and a red arm band similar to those worn by Nazis, but with a paw print instead of a swastika. Foxler was photographed making a Nazi salute at one point (screenshot from Twitter below), then used the hashtag #altfurry in another tweet, which he pinned to the top of his profile.

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At one point, one of the “antifa” furries threatened on Twitter to “punch these Nazis,” setting off a string of replies – one of which involved the threat of a shooting, which was reported to Twitter.

In the letter, which the reporter, Twitter user DeoTasDevil, posted to her account, Emery accused her of “spreading false information about RMFC,” making “false statements,” and threatened criminal action against her, calling the letter a “cease and desist” letter.

“Further, this letter constitutes an official ban of our attendance at Rocky Mountain Fur Con. If you register and send a registration fee; your registration will be canceled and you will forfeit your registration fee,” the letter says.

Head of company that operates RMFC exposed

But the letter was not signed by an attorney, nor did it contain language or punctuation consistent with those typically used by lawyers. But it did contain a red thumb print, sometimes associated with a movement the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as extremists.

And Kendal Emery, the man who signed the letter and the self-identified “Chief Executive Contract Law Officer” for Midwest Anthropomorphic Arts Corporation, is a convicted sex offender.

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But that isn’t the end of Emery’s issues: though he registered Mid America Anthropomorphic and Art Corporation in Colorado in 2005 at an Aurora address and also with the IRS, the IRS revoked the company’s status in May 2011 and has not reinstated it.

The rabbit hole goes really deep on this one, so I recommend reading the whole thing. Also, good job on this local news outlet for doing all this digging.
 

BatDan

Bane? Get them on board, I'll call it in.
God damn this is like four levels of "degenerate".

Someone consult the Onion, see if they're okay.
 
This is what happens when an online community based entirely around factionalism starts incorporating real world factions into it. And given the rampant, almost daily and unending drama of the community before all this happened for damn near two decades, yeah.

Shit gets ugly. And none of this is surprising. Wounds were allowed to fester and become infected for too long.

Now there needs to be things to deal with it.
 
I don't believe Adolf would approve.

On a serious note I agree with Frozen above me. It's interesting to watch these online communities emerge and receive the spotlight they never got before.
 

Slayven

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This is what happens when an online community based entirely around factionalism starts incorporating real world factions into it. And given the rampant, almost daily and unending drama of the community before all this happened for damn near two decades, yeah.

Shit gets ugly. And none of this is surprising. Wounds were allowed to fester and become infected for too long.

Now there needs to be things to deal with it.

I am skyping to the BCT cookout
 

Timedog

good credit (by proxy)
Of course the worst, most downtrodden dorkwads need to find excuses to feel superior to others.
 

BigBeauford

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This is what happens when an online community based entirely around factionalism starts incorporating real world factions into it. And given the rampant, almost daily and unending drama of the community before all this happened for damn near two decades, yeah.

Shit gets ugly. And none of this is surprising. Wounds were allowed to fester and become infected for too long.

Now there needs to be things to deal with it.

Hopefully they will be allowed to lick their wounds clean.
 

It was that thread or another furry thread that got infiltrated by, well, furries. I visited the Furrygaf thread that was so graciously linked by a furry and saw that a user had directly linked to hardcore porn involving Kass (Zelda: BotW). I called that user out, they got banned, and now they are unbanned!! I just don't understand how someone can openly post porn on a 13+ forum and not get perma banned.

Not to mention I still fuckin think about that wack ass shit when I'm doing shrine quests
 

Breads

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Oh look a furry thread in ot. Time for projections.

RMFC thing was bubbling up for a year now at least. Last time these nazis took up the remaining con block of hotel rooms when they found out they were banned. Money wasted on empty rooms out of pure spite. Amazing how hard they try to be hated by as much people as possible.
 

judhudson

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I just got back from coming from a fur con this past weekend - FWA. Didn't see anything that was deemed racist / crazy there (outside of the usually furries in costume) but I'm baffled with furries being fascinated by Nazis. Like...what the hell...what does colorful / cute animals have to do with murderers?
 

ghst

thanks for the laugh
comforting that if hitler was alive today he'd probably still be living at home wanking over politicised furry doujins.
 

Par Score

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Furries are an incredibly diverse and welcoming group.

That said: Nazi furs can fuck off.

Furries were a mistake

Nope, Furries are fine. Nazis are a mistake.

Furry convention

can't say i'm surprised.

Have you been living under a rock?

I just got back from coming from a fur con this past weekend - FWA. Didn't see anything that was deemed racist / crazy there (outside of the usually furries in costume) but I'm baffled with furries being fascinated by Nazis. Like...what the hell...what does colorful / cute animals have to do with murderers?

There has been a long history of fetishisation of Nazism, so it's not too surprising for it to intermingle with other similarly fetishised sub-communities.
 
The journey down the furry wormhole started with a tweet Monday night from JJ MacNab, a Forbes writer who covers anti-government extremism.

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