Judge describes white supremacist said to be headed to Richmond’s pro-gun rally as “very dangerous”

wsls ^ | Jan 22, 2020 | AP WIRE

[11th_VA]

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist who’s linked to a violent white supremacist group will remain in custody. U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy Sullivan said Wednesday that Patrik Mathews is a “very dangerous person” who “espouses very dangerous beliefs.”

Sullivan ordered Mathews detained pending a Jan. 30 preliminary hearing.

Mathews and two other men were arrested last Thursday on federal felony charges in Maryland and Delaware.

Authorities said they were believed to be headed to a pro-gun rally in Virginia’s capital. Monday’s event in Richmond had ended peacefully.

[11th_VA]

More to the story - Hidden Camera evidence claimed

[Lurkinanloomin]

If this guy really is a nut case, then my hat is off to the FBI for getting him before he could disrupt the rally.

[blackdog]

Most likely cultivated by the FBI.

[11th_VA]

If this guy really is a nut case, then my hat is off to the FBI for getting him before he could disrupt the rally.

Amen ...

[JerseyDvl]

We don’t need this Canadian kook to pop off and try to make us all look bad. The media would certainly and gladly paint us all with their very broad brush.

[dynachrome]

It could be said that all of us here “espouse very dangerous beliefs.” Like pro freedom, pro Constitution, pro American beliefs.

[gloryblaze]

Good. One white supremacist down, about a dozen to go.

[fruser1]

Given the number of adherents, belief in socialism is more dangerous than white supremacy.

[Fedora]

I had to dig into some other articles on this to find the name of the group Matthews is affiliated with. Its name is The Base, which I note would be English for "Al Qaeda". They emulate Hitler and Charles Manson and train in sniper tactics. They have been involved in a series of anti-synagogue vandalisms called "Operation Kristallnacht", linked to Atomwaffen Division, which espouses a similar Satanic Nazi ideology akin to the Order of Nine Angles, a group linked to several recent mass shootings: Atomwaffen also draws influences from Nazi esotericism and the occult, and its recommended reading material for aspiring initiates includes the works of Savitri Devi and Anton Long of the Order of Nine Angles, a notorious British neo-Nazi leader with a violent criminal history.[22][25] Some members of the group also sympathize with the Salafi and jihadist forms of Islam. Atomwaffen Division's founder, Brandon Russell, is alleged to have described Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and perpetrated the Orlando nightclub shooting, as "a hero". The group also idolizes Osama bin Laden in its propaganda and considers "the culture of martyrdom and insurgency" within al Qaeda and the Taliban as something which should be emulated.[31] Samuel Woodward also articulated a positive view of Islam, saying that he preferred ISIL to multiculturalism and liberalism and cited Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey and George Lincoln Rockwell as having been sympathetic towards Islam as well. He also said that Arthurs believed that Islamophobia was being used to promote White Genocide by Neocons.[1].

[epluribus_2]

They act like he was a Keynote Speaker. Pfpffft!

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy Sullivan said Wednesday that Patrik Mathews is a “very dangerous person” who “espouses very dangerous beliefs.”<<<

Replace the name Patrik Mathews with Donald Trump and you would think it came from the Articles of Impeachment?

[11th_VA]

And he’s Canadian … he needs to go home.

[Grampa Dave]

he’s Canadian … he needs to go home.

How dropping him off via a HALO jump over Canada without a chute?!

[kiryandil]

For Maryland, the US Magistrate Judges are appointed to eight-year terms by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

US Magistrate judges are Article I judges - "The magistrate judges therefore operate under the authority of Congress to appoint "inferior courts", set forth in Article I".

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

If. Antifa nuts are free to believe crazy. Other side nuts not permitted? Either everyone is free inside their head and out tgeir moutgs or no one is.

[dsc]

“How dropping him off via a HALO jump over Canada without a chute?”

Wouldn’t that be HANO?

[mulligan]

No Judge you are the dangerous one. You should find a deep hole and fall in.

[piasa]

I was hoping we’d never hear from these groups any more.