British Man Sentenced Over Neo-Nazi Plot to Attack Gay Bar

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press, via Courthouse News

British Man Sentenced Over Neo-Nazi Plot to Attack Gay Bar

May 30, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON (AP) — A British man who planned a neo-Nazi-inspired machete attack on a gay pride event has been sentenced to an indefinite stay in a psychiatric hospital.

Ethan Stables was arrested in June 2017 as he walked toward a pub in his hometown of Barrow-in-Furness, northwest England, on what prosecutors said was a reconnaissance trip. Police found an ax, a machete and a swastika flag at his home.

Prosecutors said Stables had posted on Facebook that he wanted to “slaughter every single one of the gay bastards.”

Defense lawyers said the 20-year-old, who has an autism spectrum disorder, had been brainwashed by right-wing extremists. But he was convicted in February of preparing an act of terrorism.

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/british-man-sentenced-over-neo-nazi-plot-to-attack-gay-bar/

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is the time the public started being more aware of this creep, before someone is killed

by his grubby hands.



Ethan Stables

[Aristus]

2. Autism-spectrum.

Are we going to be seeing more of that in the future?

"It's not his fault, Your Honor. He has autism-spectrum."

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Probably, FFS, "gay panic" still somewhat works.

Gay people are expendable to some, and our lives are not worthy, which is why the kill us, ignore us, ban us, make fun of us, and the list of heterosexism/homophobia goes on and on.

[Blue_Tires]

5. "Economic anxieties" is out of style already??

[appalachiablue]

4. Kick, awful rising bigotry & hate in so many sick, young, white males.