Anti-Lockdown Cop Hosted Far-Right Vlogger on His YouTube Show - 2021-08-09
Anti-Lockdown Cop Hosted Far-Right Vlogger on His YouTube Show August 9, 2021,
Constable Chris VandenBos is an active duty York Regional Police officer who has become well known in Canadian anti-lockdown circles for his vocal stance against COVID-19 regulations. He and other renegade police officers from Ontario teamed up with an anti-vax lawyer to challenge lockdown and masking regulations on a constitutional basis (similar constitutional challenges have failed in the past. ) VandenBos has since started an anti-lockdown policing group called Police On Guard for Thee.
On the group's YouTube page, VandenBos frequently interviews figures active in the anti-lockdown ecosystem. Last week, he invited a vlogger he simply described as "14-year Canadian Armed Forces veteran," onto his show—but he failed to mention Jeremy Mackenzie's history of anti-Semitism and ties to the far-right.
In audio archived on the Anti-Racist Canada site, Mackenzie can be heard describing the Nuremberg Trials as a "kangaroo court',' and saying Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring was killed because he made "too much sense." In other recordings he promoted a immensely influential anti-Semitic text, and a guest he has on talks about "naming the Jew." He also has a bit of a habit of promoting Holocaust deniers to his followers. Like many within the far-right, the vlogger coats his comments in a heavy veil of irony—for example, his small fan base, at times, call themselves "bigots" and he recently posted a photo of himself in a skull mask (a symbol of accelerationist neo-Nazis like Atomwaffen Division and the Base) which his followers then memed.
