Posted on 01/16/2020 11:27:23 AM PST by Brilliant
Federal authorities arrested three men allegedly linked to a violent white-supremacist group who had discussed traveling to a pro-gun rally Monday in Richmond, Va., and preparing for a possible race war, according to a law-enforcement official.
Two of the men, one a former Canadian Army reservist in the U.S. illegally, face charges including transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland. One was also charged with transporting a machine gun, and the third man was charged with transporting and harboring an illegal alien.
Online court records didn’t list attorneys for any of the men. They are scheduled to appear Thursday afternoon in federal court in Greenbelt, Md.
Virginia authorities are preparing for thousands of people to attend a pro-gun rally Monday at the state Capitol. On Wednesday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam temporarily banned firearms from the Capitol grounds, citing law-enforcement concerns about weaponized drones and armed militias.
Rally organizers are responding to gun-control bills Democratic lawmakers have aimed to pass since they won control after November elections over both chambers of the state Legislature. Several bills have cleared committees since lawmakers convened last week, including one to expand background checks for gun purchases and a red-flag measure to disarm people deemed dangerous.
The three men arrested Thursday are members of white supremacist group “the Base,” authorities said. Members in encrypted chat rooms have discussed topics like creating a “white entho-state,” ways to make improvised-explosive devices and violence against African-Americans and Jewish Americans, a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent said in an affidavit filed in court.
White supremacist groups like the Base also discuss “accelerationism,” a concept that refers to a desire to speed up the collapse of modern society, according to the Anti-Defamation League...
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Worth repeating in LARGE FONT
So this really has nothing to do with the rally other than a couple of shitheads may have thought about going.
If this is the type of “intel” Coonman is using to clamp down on the rally, it doesn’t seem justified to me.
kiddie pr0n
So none of them were very close to the rally venue and at least two of them were not even in the same state it seems.
Mathews is from Manitoba and crossed into Minnesota. I believe the feds have been tracking him since then and have been waiting for him to commit bad acts.
I thought they were already wanted or deemed really *bad guys* prior to this. But they waited?
I'm curious, if the FBI was tracking them, why did they not arrest them when they crossed the border into the U.S. or long before they got close to VA?
I’m going to correct myself. There is nothing in the charges regarding the rally on Monday. The subjects had been in the area for months. Perhaps the feds took the rally into consideration for arresting at that specific time, but I do not know.
I’m curious, if the FBI was tracking them, why did they not arrest them when they crossed the border into the U.S. or long before they got close to VA?
And I ask this due to the fact there is always a chance or risk they lose the suspects while tracking them.
I wonder how many of the arrested were FBI plants.
That's odd, based on this headline, the FBI's friends in the media have associated or linked these suspects directly to this rally.
The reason they say he’s from Canada is so it’s hard to prove his identity!
I can only assume it was because locking some Canadian up for immigration law violations isn’t something that’s very sexy. So track him, see who he talks to, see what they plan. And unless he’s about to blow up a church, gather more evidence. Guess between transporting a full-auto rifle and the proximity to the rally, they decided to grab them.
Yes I believe the WSJ made the leap from the arrest to the rally. The rally is not referenced by the FBI in the charges.
Yes I believe the WSJ made the leap from the arrest to the rally. The rally is not referenced by the FBI in the charges.
Where do ya think the Wall Street Journal might have received this information which directly linked these bad people to the upcoming rally?
What a crock of Bull.
As if some guy who modified a rifle to go full auto is gonna go to a gun range to try it out. AND, at a range where the FBI happens to be.
Bump Stock?
And we ALWAYS trust Faking Bogus Investigations.
The rally is HUGE news around here and they are predicting it may be worse than Charlottesville. Or, the FBI gave it to them. I don't know. What I DO know, is that the FBI does not mention the rally in the official instrument.
This means obviously that the feds are working with the Virginia governor to take our guns. The urgency must mean they are making a move on Trump soon. Like um.....maybe......impeachment...
This is exactly what the pro-2nd people should be looking out for .... a false flag by the Progressives. These were outsider nut cases. This happened repeatedly when Trump was campaigning in ‘16. You heard about them but they were never prosecuted even when Project Veritas proved that they were Democratic plants.
The 3rd man was arrested and charged with transporting the illegal immigrant man.
Can you imagine the outcry if a republican had a citizen of this country arrested for providing a ride to an illegal immigrant?
I mean, if it is illegal to drive an illegal immigrant, it should be legal for every taxi and uber driver to ask for proof of legal residency before giving anybody a ride, right?
And shouldn’t every school bus driver be worried about getting arrested for driving illegal immigrants to school and back?
I am glad, assuming these people are what they say they are, that they were arrested. We don’t need that crap in Virginia. We have serious problems with an overbearing democrat legislature do deal with.
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