Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
January 21, 2020

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews also videotaped himself advocating for killing people, poisoning water supplies and derailing trains, a prosecutor wrote in urging a judge in Maryland to keep Mathews and two other members of The Base detained in federal custody.

But the 27-year-old Canadian national didn’t know investigators were watching and listening when he and two other group members talked about attending the Richmond rally in the days leading up to Monday’s event, which attracted tens of thousands of people and ended peacefully.

Last month, a closed-circuit television camera and microphone installed by investigators in a Delaware home captured Mathews talking about the Virginia rally as a “boundless” opportunity.

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[Iliyah]

1. Duh . . .

with shithole and face book egging it.

[struggle4progress]

2. Battle Cry of Freedom

[vercetti2021]

3. Shortest civil war in history

Seriously a bunch of fat overweight and middle-aged old men are really going to start a civil war? Well that would have ended as fast as it began

[Turbineguy]

4. Don't you have to be

a citizen of the country of the civil war that you participate in?

Would being a foreigner be bad form?

[roamer65]

5. Deport him back to Canada.

He can be tried there for hate crimes.