'Kill it with fire': Pro-Nazi MAGA extremist plots mass public school book burning
A pro-Nazi MAGA extremist was caught Wednesday plotting a mass school library book burning to "cleanse" children's literature of its "filth."
Stew Peters, described by the Anti-Defamation League as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and a white supremacist, can be seen in a newly surfaced video demanding his followers storm classrooms and libraries for books they will burn in a "Nuremberg" themed event next fall.
"If we demand the classroom bookcases and school library shelves be cleansed of filth and perversion...then we're called a bunch of book burners," Peters says. "Well guess what, that's exactly what we are and that's exactly what we're going to do."
A video montage clips of Mel Gibson portraying a militia leader in the 2000 film "The Patriot" as Peters calls on "real men" to go into public schools and destroy books.
Images of books Peters condemns include "All Boys Aren't Blue," a series of personal essays from LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson about his youth.
Peters claims his planned action will remove the books "from the face of the planet for all eternity."
He promise an army of millions will spend the summer seizing books and then, in October, gather in Atlantic City in New Jersey to "kill it with fire."
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"This will only be the beginning," Peters says. "We will begin formulating real plans, together, to take our country back."
The group Right Wing Watch reports an event space at Ceasars, the hotel and casino complex, is listed as the venue for Peter's "Extreme Accountability event."
"It's hard to imagine that @CaesarsAC knew what it was getting into by allowing someone as unhinged as Stew Peters to plan an event and possible book-burning on the property," the group wrote on X.
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As Peters explains on the event's website, the name comes from its theme.
"It will have an extreme accountability, 'Nuremberg' theme throughout the weekend," the website explains, "calling out America’s greatest enemies foreign and domestic, and holding them accountable."
The video quickly spread across social media and caught the eye of national security attorney Bradley Moss.
This dude is coming right up to the line of criminal incitement," he wrote.