{"id":211240,"date":"2025-09-08T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:30:13","slug":"terror-propagandist-dark-foreigner-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211240\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ sentenced to 10 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This story contains descriptions and images of racist online content targeting Jewish people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Gordon MacDonald\u00a0has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jewish people and other groups\u00a0with\u00a0terrorist propaganda images, memes\u00a0and videos \u2014 all in an attempt to accelerate societal collapse through a hoped-for race war.<\/p>\n

With three months of credit for the time he has already served, including two years out on bail living with his parents in Ottawa under strict conditions, the 28-year-old\u00a0has about nine years and nine months left to serve. The federal Crown had requested that MacDonald be made to serve half of his sentence until be becomes eligible for parole, but Superior Court Justice Robert Smith declined the Crown’s application.<\/p>\n

In April, Smith\u00a0convicted MacDonald of all\u00a0three charges he faced<\/a>: participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity, and inciting hate against Jewish people\u00a0for one or more terrorist entities, including the now defunct\u00a0Atomwaffen Division and the neo-Nazi James Mason.<\/p>\n

\"AOn the left is a still image taken from one of three recruitment videos for the neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division. On the right is a picture of a skull mask that was found in the Ottawa home of Patrick Gordon MacDonald by RCMP in 2022. MacDonald is accused of participating in and facilitating terrorism, as well as inciting hate against identifiable groups. (Ontario Superior Court of Justice)<\/p>\n

Sitting in the courtroom gallery Monday, MacDonald looked down at his hands when Smith announced the sentence, but otherwise showed no emotion. His parents sat at the back of the courtroom, as they had throughout the trial that began last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The judge said MacDonald\u00a0sought to “terrorize civil society,” and that the court “must impose a sentence reflective of the community’s moral outrage” at his crimes.\u00a0They\u00a0were planned over a long period of time, and encouraged others to commit terrorist acts, including the murder of Jews and others, Smith added.<\/p>\n

He also noted that MacDonald apologized in court at his sentencing hearing, and that MacDonald\u00a0said he renounced his views. He has also participated in counselling and\u00a0done volunteer work for visible minority groups while on bail\u00a0\u2014 showing he has the potential for rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Crown prosecutors had\u00a0implored the judge to hand down\u00a014 years for the “vile” crimes MacDonald committed, while his\u00a0defence argued for six to eight years and 10 months of credit for time already served. Both sides have 30 days to decide whether to appeal.<\/p>\n

‘Stay tuned, shooters’<\/p>\n

In 2018 and 2019 \u2014 when he was 20 and 21\u00a0\u2014 MacDonald helped\u00a0create\u00a0three racist, hate-fuelled terror recruitment\u00a0videos in Ottawa,\u00a0Belleville, Ont., and Saint-Ferdinand, Que., among other places.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0video shows people wearing skull masks moving through a wooded area and shooting firearms. Near the end, the flags of the U.S., Israel and European Union are shown on the ground, being drenched in an accelerant and set on fire, interspersed with shots of armed people in tactical formation storming a building.<\/p>\n

The video includes a slur against Jews.\u00a0“Stay tuned shooters,”\u00a0is the last text\u00a0to appear.<\/p>\n

Under the online alias Dark Foreigner, MacDonald also created dozens of images and memes calling for and commemorating acts of violence, and posted them on various social networks. He had accounts on Telegram\u00a0\u2014 where his work was posted by administrators of the\u00a0Terrorwave Refined channel\u00a0\u2014 as well as\u00a0X, DeviantArt, Instagram\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n

\"AA still from one of the videos played in court shows a group of men in combat fatigues standing in front of burning flags. (Ontario Superior Court of Justice)’Weaponizing the internet’<\/p>\n

Reaction to the sentencing decision was swift Monday.<\/p>\n

“Those who provide their skills to a terrorist entity, to produce videos to be sown indiscriminately among young and vulnerable minds reaching out on the internet, seek to reap a harvest of hate and division culminating in violence across Canada and internationally,” said a statement attributed to public prosecutions director\u00a0George Dolhai of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.<\/p>\n

“Today, Canadian law has made them accountable for weaponizing the internet as a tool every bit as lethal as the software used to produce guns in 3D\u00a0printers.”<\/p>\n

The Jewish human rights organization B’nai Brith, which\u00a0submitted a victim impact statement heard at MacDonald’s sentencing hearing in June<\/a>, applauded the judge’s decision.<\/p>\n

“This is a strong sentence and should serve as a deterrent to future would-be extremists,”\u00a0Richard Robertson, the organization’s director of research and advocacy, is quoted as saying in a news release.\u00a0“We applaud the police and Crown for their respective roles in bringing this hatemonger to justice.”<\/p>\n

Other AWD-related prosecutions ongoing<\/p>\n

The decision is likely to be closely looked at in the ongoing prosecutions of three other Ontario men accused of affiliating with Atomwaffen Division (AWD). Last month, one of the men was\u00a0convicted of\u00a0participating in the activity of a terrorist group<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0trying to join the now defunct\u00a0right-wing extremist organization.<\/p>\n

Two others, Matthew Althorpe and Kristoffer Nippak, are scheduled for trial by a judge alone starting in January. Three of the eight charges in their indictment\u00a0are the same as\u00a0MacDonald’s: participating\u00a0in and facilitating\u00a0terrorist activity for Atomwaffen Division by participating in the production and filming of\u00a0videos in the same locations (Belleville, Ont., and Saint-Ferdinand, Que.) and at the same time as MacDonald, and wilfully promoting hate against identifiable groups.<\/p>\n

Althorpe is additionally charged with five offences relating to the Terrorgram\u00a0organization on the social media site Telegram, including producing and publishing publications for Terrorgram\u00a0that counsel people to commit terror offences, wilfully promote hatred against identifiable groups, and advocate or promote genocide.<\/p>\n

Nippak is facing only one charge in the indictment for his alleged participation. Althorpe is accused of the same, and the remaining seven charges he faces alone.<\/p>\n

The allegations against them have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n

‘Still groups in Canada’<\/p>\n

Evan Balgord,\u00a0executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said in an interview Monday after the sentencing decision that AWD is defunct, but the white nationalist movement is “burgeoning” in Canada.<\/p>\n

“While AWD has had its day and it was very, very extremist, there are still groups in Canada that are pursuing very racist ends, are organizing, and sometimes they’re doing so in ways that could be described as militant,” he said, citing Diagolon.<\/p>\n

“Their rallying cries right now that\u00a0people need to look out for are mass deportations now and ‘remigration’ … the argument that people need to be deported on the basis of their race of ethnicity,” he said.\u00a0“So that’s the state of affairs in Canada right now that I think that people should be aware of.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: This story contains descriptions and images of racist online content targeting Jewish people. Patrick Gordon MacDonald\u00a0has been…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-211240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115171047765068775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}