FBI: Navy petty officer arrested on Capitol riot charges had arsenal of guns, praised Hitler

[Nevilledog]

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WASHINGTON — A Naval intelligence officer who allegedly told an undercover FBI employee he was studying the Olympic Park Bomber was arrested Wednesday on charges of entering the U.S. Capitol Building during the Jan. 6 riot.

Hatchet Speed was taken into custody in McClean, Virginia, yesterday on four misdemeanor counts. According to court documents unsealed Thursday, Speed is a petty officer first class in the U.S. Naval Reserves assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia. Speed is also employed as a software developer for a Vienna, Virginia, company that conducts advanced analytics for the Department of Defense.

In March, according to an affidavit, Speed told an undercover FBI employee he’d traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with friends who are members of the Proud Boys. Speed said going to the Capitol was “always the plan,” and that he’d eventually gone inside because he was “tired of getting tear gassed.” He also said he’d heard former Vice President Mike Pence had “validated” certain ballots he considered “invalid.

According to the affidavit, “SPEED described Pence’s act as a betrayal. SPEED stated that, at that point, he was like, ‘I’m going in there. Like I have no respect for people in this building. They have no respect for me. I have no respect for them.’”

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What the fuck kinda name is Hatchet Speed?

[hatrack]

1. Well, it's marginally better than "Batshit Speed".

[zuul]

2. Didn't Sarah Palin name one of her kids Hatchet Speed?

[3catwoman3]

3. Hatchet Speed sounds more like a screen name...

...than a given name. If that really is his name, his parents were jerks.

[Nevilledog]

4. Sounds like the answer to one of those name games:

Your first name is your favorite toy, your last name is what drugs your mom was on when she conceived.

[3catwoman3]

10. So it does!

[sl8]

11. "The FBI says Speed, whose birth name was Daniel Abraham Speed ..."

https://www.nbc11news.com/2022/06/23/fbi-naval-reservist-said-he-stormed-capitol-with-proud-boys/

[intheflow]

5. Ooooooo! I smell a dishonorable discharge coming, as well as

the withdrawal of any security clearance he may hold working for a defense contractor. Which means he'll lose his job.

[Cha]

6. The Evil Stupid Burns.. & yeah his

name like a foreboding.

💙💛

[Jedi Guy]

7. It's a weird one, but so was Reality Winner.

My all-time favorite name, though, was a customer at my old job. His name was, and I am being 100% honest here... Hilarius Moose. At first I thought for sure he had to be First Nations, but he wasn't. I guess his parents had a sense of humor and issues with spelling. He was a hell of a nice guy, though.

[Nevilledog]

8. Once represented a great guy named Roy Cowboy.

[John1956PA]

9. Interesting. After reading your post, I did a search on the name "Hilarius."

It is a name which appears in Roman history. There was even a Pope Hilarius, also referred to as Pope Hilary.

The play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has some humorous made-up Roman names such as Pseudolis, Histerium and Erronius.