Diagolon

Diagolon is a right wing,[1] alt-right,[2] extremist[3] militia network with chapters throughout Canada.[1] It has been described in a report by the House of Commons of Canada as a "violent extremist organisation."[4] According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network the "neo-fascist militia"[5] The Group believes that "a violent revolution is coming,"[1] and is an "accelerationist movement that believes a revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system. It wants to build its ideal nation-state, which runs diagonally from Alaska through the western provinces down to Florida".[5] A member of Diagolon, Alex Vriend, was noted by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network as "one of the most outspoken and influential members" and was reported to be an antisemite and a holocaust denier.[6] Barbara Perry, director of Ontario Tech University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, described Diagolon's ambition to create a "white ethnonationalist state" which would "run diagonally from the Pacific Northwest through Canada to Florida".[7] as irony poisoning to normalise hateful rhetoric through humour.[3] The group's motto is “gun or rope".[6]

The group emerged from the Plaid Army, according to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.[3]

The group's flag was present at the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa.[8]

Following the seizure of weapons, ammunition, and body armour from the property of a murder conspiracy plot suspect during the protest blockade of the Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing, one piece of body armour was identified to have Diagolon patches.[9][1]