Posted on 01/17/2024 2:42:50 PM PST by Beowulf9
The FBI has arrested a 56-year-old Cottage Grove woman accused of making threats online to harm Jews and Black people in posts displaying a Nazi flag and multiple guns.
Elizabeth Ballesteros West, who was found with a cache of guns and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was arrested Friday and is being held in the Lane County Jail, according to federal agents and court records. She has not yet made her first appearance in federal court in Eugene.
Agents first were alerted in late September to a Facebook post that West put on a transgender women’s support group page, saying she was “at the end of my rope,” was being bullied by “trans phobic” co-workers and was left with no alternative, above a photo of two guns, according to a federal affidavit.
West’s post said she will “have to go out in a blaze of glory” and will “have to do what I have to do and pray for the gods to forgive me,” according to the affidavit.
Further investigation revealed violent rhetoric West subsequently posted on X, formerly Twitter, in December, sharing her hatred of Jews, Black people and immigrants, with photos of a Nazi flag and other guns, the affidavit said.
The posts reference white supremacist tropes and how she was proud of how Nazis “herded” Jewish people into gas chambers during the Holocaust.
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“A Nazi woman?”
Or a university president
Another violent tranny.
Stupid is as stupid does!😐!!
A Trans? I did nazi that coming....
Cottage Grove. Swampy leftist enclave.
I was there when the statue of Jefferson was torn down in 2020. A woman dining with us spouted off that the destruction was a good thing. I walked out. Without food!
My date wasn’t as conservative as he pretended to be with friends like that.
Looks like Seinfeld in drag.
Yeah. I picked the wrong article. Didn’t notice it avoids the trans mention.
I just posted the one that does. Sheesh! The spin doctors.
Nuts or Feds where do these people come from.
The former very likely but I never discount the latter this kind of stuff presented to us dished out to deflect from our very sizeable Muslim minority whose hatred is very much more potent and refined.
That Hatred is at the core of Anti-Semitism in this country and God forbid the public would know that as the narrative.
It’s a MALE.
This is one very troubled woman, with all the means to make her violent fantasies come true. She has been writing notes about all that she hates in her journals at least since 2008. The FBI has “visited” her three times so far. A planned bloodbath just waiting to happen, is the way it sounds. She apparently has the money to have acquired a large collection of small arms, a collection she does not chose to surrender at this time. She needs help.
That’s a very nice picture of Maxine Bernstein reporter for “Oregon Live/The Portland Oregonian” not the suspect in this case but the journalist reporting this case.
She’s a great fan of basketball by the way.
I posted that this pic is of the reporter covering the story Maxine Bernstein not the accused.
That was my first thought.
That thing is a she?!
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