Neo-Nazi duo handed nine-year US prison terms over apparent attack plot

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Source: The Guardian

Two neo-Nazi group members were sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison each in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists.

FBI agents arrested former Canadian armed forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews, US army veteran Brian Mark Lemley Jr and a third member of a group called The Base four days before a pro-gun rally in Virginia in January last year.

Surveillance equipment installed in their Delaware apartment captured Mathews and Lemley discussing an attack at the rally at Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/neo-nazi-the-base-far-right-us-prison-terms

[Atticus]

1. So, if you just TALK about attacking a STATE Capitol it's BFD, but if you ACTUALLY

participate in an attack on the US Capitol and several deaths result-----------

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Yeah, you hit it out of the park

WTF? Leniency due to too many cases, fear of acquittals, cost, speed I'd say.

[PSPS]

3. Nine years for plotting, but probation for actual deadly attack/insurrection on the capitol.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. If you want to be a Nazi, then go back to Germany

I don't understand why America who fought to crush the Nazis in WWII has to put up with these traitors.

Go back to Germany and see how well your Nazi crap sells there. Talk about embracing your country's enemies.

They would of been locked up for life as traitors if they had done this in 1945.

It seems to be in vogue to be promoting treason now a days. All Nazis in America are traitors to the United States, it's that simple.