Neither agreed to interview requests. But over time McInnes accelerated his drift to the political fringe. The days of the West are numbered, and I will be the impetus that destroys it. I am turning America inside out from the outside in.
By , his unseemly pronouncements had become a part of American political discourse. In November , he reluctantly stepped down as leader of the Proud Boys. He wanted to cause chaos. He wanted to break America—and remake it in his imaginings. Though McInnes immediately struck me as someone to avoid outside of work, nothing then indicated he would hatch an organization as vitriolic and violence-prone as the street-brawling Proud Boys.
He and I were never friends. Founding editor Suroosh Alvi—who remains at Vice Media with the title of founder—brought me on board as a writer at the same time as McInnes. By then his title was cofounder. Close since the age of 12, they shared everything from mescaline then the Canadian name for PCP or horse tranquilizer to lovers. How tight were they? Smith today serves as executive chairman of Vice Media. He is considered an internet-age pioneer, having expanded an indie magazine into a global powerhouse.
Smith declined to be interviewed for this story. VICE unequivocally condemns white supremacy, racism and any form of hate, has shone a fearless, bright light of award-winning journalism on extremism, the alt-right and hate groups around the world, and has created one of the most inclusive, diverse and equitable companies in media. Our respective records of the last decade and a half speak for themselves.
Shakespearean or not, McInnes started both Vice magazine and the Proud Boys, and one metastasized out of the other. His family immigrated to Ontario when he was five, settling in suburban Ottawa. Was there any foreshadowing that he would go on to form a group as extreme as the Proud Boys?
McInnes and his Monks were stoner freaks, on a different planet entirely than the Carpies, rural farm lads from up Carp River. Moving on from bongs, some of the Monks, by age 15, were dropping acid and huffing Pam cooking spray.
In , a police officer came to their school to screen a PSA about the dangers of drunk driving. As McInnes relates in his autobiography, the students at Earl of March Secondary School watched the sobering account of a young woman paralyzed in an accident. The origins of Vice can be traced to a rehab facility 30 minutes south of Montreal.
In , Alvi was 25 and had been shooting heroin for five years. Nothing worked. Days before entering rehab, Alvi had gone with his family to the mosque to celebrate Eid.
As a Pakistani-Canadian, Alvi was raised Muslim but had never been observant. Everything after that started changing, quickly. During treatment, the therapists asked the inpatients to do a career exercise: Write down their ideal job, imagining a time when they would be sober and try to reintegrate themselves into society. After rehab, he attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting where a stranger named Walter walked up to him, offering to become his sponsor.
Walter asked if he was interested in writing. The job was part of a government program that supplemented regular welfare checks. Alvi, already on welfare, was hired on the spot. The exercise from rehab had come true. He would think things and they would happen, he told me. Knocking the remote with the vacuum cleaner, he accidentally turned on the TV and the video for that exact song came on. Alvi knew his magazine would cover it.
Hate groups are apparently unwanted in Larchmont. And now? Seems like it would have been easier to write how terrible a style choice oversized T-shirts are.
But maybe I missed something, so I called McInnes. It was pointless to try to leave a message anyway — his mailbox was full. But he says he does get texts, so I texted him. And waited. I considered McInnes an associate. In a case of strange bedfellows, I considered Goad a pal.
But he was direct, frank and baffled in regards to the Proud Boys. Goad paused and sighed. But on McInnes, he drew a blank. Not race, sex or religion. Fuck those guys are good at getting you in the ribs.
I won after three rounds but he cracked my ribs so I kind of feel like I lost. How you doing, man? I tell him I need to talk to him.
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In the post, which was written in Spanish, the actor said that he felt "relatively well" and was "a little more tired than usual.
Then my doctor called me and said, 'Oh, congratulations. You've had it. Dwayne Johnson shared in an Instagram video on Sept. He added that they were all on the mend. She said she's tested negative over a dozen times since. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately.
Trey Songz announced on Oct. The musician said he tested frequently since he has a month-old son and has begun quarantine. At times, McInnes appeared to contradict his promise to quit. Members have been involved in repeated incidents of street violence around the US, including a declared riot in Portland, Oregon. Earlier this month they were banned from payment service PayPal.
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