Newly released FBI tapes show white supremacist members of 'The Base' plotting terror attacks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

For a month, FBI agents listened in as two members of a white supremacist group discussed their sinister plans: a plot to use a pro-gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia, to engage in mass murder and attacks on critical infrastructure, which they believed would mark the start of a racial civil war.

Patrik Mathews, a former Canadian Army reservist illegally in the U.S., and Brian Lemley, a Maryland resident and self-described white nationalist, fantasized about the brutal murders they'd soon carry out against law enforcement and Black people, all with the goal of bringing about the "Boogaloo," or the collapse of the U.S. government in order to prop up a white ethno-state, according to recordings of the pair's discussions.

"We need to go back to the days of ... decimating Blacks and getting rid of them where they stand," Mathews said in one recording. "If you see a bunch of Blacks sitting on some corner you f***ing shoot them."

"I need to claim my first victim," Lemley said in another recording. "It's just that we can't live with ourselves if we don't get somebody's blood on our hands."

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/newly-released-fbi-tapes-show-234134115.html

[kimbutgar]

1. I wonder if they were lovers?

[Chille]

2. lol 😂 nt

[Sympthsical]

6. Honestly, something about this story pinged that sense in me

Gaydar went blip blip.

There's an intimacy there in conversation, and pics I saw . . . straight friends don't typically look at one another like that.

Hard to articulate. Maybe other gay men will feel similar to me.

Interesting dichotomy.

[Atticus]

3. Does anyone think it's coincidence that "Al Qaeda" translates as "The Base"? nt

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Not Me

I don't think it's a coincidence at all.
These lunatics root for al Qaeda. Kindred spirits, different countries.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. White faux-Christian terrorism doesn't make the headlines like faux-Muslim terrorism.

Yet another great white privilege, the deadliest of them all maybe.

[sanatanadharma]

5. "It's just that we can't live with ourselves if we don't get somebody's blood on our hands."

"It's just that we can't live with ourselves if we don't get somebody's blood on our hands."

This seems to apply to many (across varied points of view) who hold guns because guns reinforce feelings of supremacy.

"I need to claim my first victim,..." is not said by morally sentient humans; it takes unethical, beastly souls to calcify human hearts.