Documents: Extremist group wanted Virginia gun rights rally to start a 'civil war'

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Source: Associated Press

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

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.

“And the thing is you’ve got tons of guys who … should be radicalized enough to know that all you gotta do is start making things go wrong and if Virginia can spiral out to (expletive) full blown civil war,” he said.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/extremist-group-wanted-rally-to-start-civil-war

[dweller]

1. And the thing is you've got tons of guys who ...

enuff with the fat jokes, kay?

✌🏼

[ArizonaLib]

2. What a genius

Why do these guys always think that a few gun shots or causing a rally to get out of hand will cause large scale civil or race war?

[material_highlighter]

4. delusional,

folks like Alex Jones pump crazy talk into their heads. hell even Mr. Trump has taken part.

[Nitram]

3. Well, it didn't work. Virginia learned well the lessons of Charlottesville.

It was managed perfectly.

[sandensea]

5. They'll keep trying

I ga-on-tee.

[BlueIdaho]

6. Civil War?

A few drones loaded with Hellfire missiles would end it before it started...

[winstars]

7. Charles Manson shit: Helter Skelter... 50 years later, same asshole thinking...

[AnnieBW]

8. Y'all Qaida

The only difference between these morons and Al Qaida is a turban.

[roamer65]

9. I have no problem using the military against them.

What ever the outcome.

[jimmil]

10. I was on YouTube and clicked a weird link

It was some right wing stuff about Trump being the last Republican president (I can only hope so) and how the right will have to rise up against the left. Of course, the right has all the guns and will massacre the left wing socialists. He was all in a dither to start a war and do some killin. Obviously this moran has never been in a war and would shit in his drawers if a bullet hit close to him.

[dware]

12. Apparently these RW assholes don't know

that there are just as many combat vet liberals out there who will defend themselves,. including myself.

Semper Fi.

[rwsanders]

13. Maybe you can shed some light on a hypothesis I have...

that many of the loudest right wing vets never served in combat, but did have time in the military.
During Bushes presidency, there was a website dedicated to tracking his poor performance in the TX National Guard and how he should have been placed in a combat unit. The site listed all in congress and the cabinet who served and who didn't. Overwhelmingly those who served were Democrats while the right wing ranks were full of chicken-hawks.
Your views?

[oldsoftie]

11. Canadians??? WTH?

[RandiFan1290]

14. Same groups come to Seattle to cause trouble. nt