The FBI is bragging about how they arrested three alleged White supremacist extremists ahead of the much talked about Virginia gun rights rally. Apparently all of these alleged Nazi persons were planning to attend that rally.
NPR:
The FBI has arrested three alleged members of The Base — which authorities describe as a “racially motivated violent extremist group” — on charges that range from illegal transport of a machine gun to harboring aliens, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
A law enforcement official tells NPR that the three suspected members of The Base had discussed going to a controversial pro-gun rally in Virginia next week.
The three men are Brian Mark Lemley Jr., 33, of Elkton, Md.; William Garfield Bilbrough IV, 19, of Denton, Md.; and Canadian national Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, who entered the U.S. illegally last summer. Mathews and Lemley had recently been living in Newark, Del.
The arrests come days before a pro-gun demonstration that’s slated to take place in Richmond, Va., on Monday — and just after Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency and banned firearms on the Capitol grounds in Richmond in anticipation of the gun rights demonstration.
“We have received credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies that there are groups with malicious plans for the rally that is planned for Monday,” Northam said Wednesday afternoon.
This like almost every other arrest the FBI makes of a “terrorist” or an “extremist” is a bunch of bullshit. These guys were supposedly part of a group called “The Base” and are said to have had some type of connection to Atomwaffen a weird satanic organization that seems to have been a honeypot group setup by the FBI. And at this point I’m not even sure Atomwaffen exists as an organization.
What they’ve been arrested for is a joke and all based off of random online chat conversations. The charge about them harboring a foreign alien because they hung out with a Canadian is particularly ridiculous. As is them facing many years in jail because they transported a single firearm somewhere. Beyond that, I’m not even exactly sure what they were plotting.
And as someone who is declared to be an operator of a virulent White supremacist Nazi website, I can also tell you that I have never heard of this group called “The Base” until this story came out.
The whole thing is so goofy and weird. It’s just the FBI railroading a group of people so they can boldly claim to the public that they’re keeping people safe from so-called violent White supremacists.
