New indictments shed light on alleged terror cell in Rome, Ga.

[Jilly_in_VA]

The recent indictments of two more men connected to an alleged neo-Nazi terror cell in Floyd County shine new light on the reach of the group known as the Base.

Duncan Christopher Trimmell, 23 of Austin, Texas, and Brandon Gregory Ashley, 21 of Hayden, Ala., face charges of animal cruelty related to the alleged theft and ritual beheading of a ram or goat on Halloween 2019, according to an indictment handed down by a Floyd County grand jury earlier this month.

The charges, first reported by the Rome News-Tribune, reveal more of the web of what authorities describe as a criminal gang whose members planned to kill a Bartow County couple they suspected of being anti-fascist activists. Group members were arrested as part of a undercover investigation by state and federal law enforcement before they could carry out the plot.

Trimmell and Ashley join six other men believed to have come to an isolated property in the Silver Creek community south of Rome where an undercover law enforcement officer said they shot guns, took drugs and planned for a race war as part of a white supremacist group known as the Base.

https://www.ajc.com/news/new-indictments-shed-light-on-alleged-terror-cell-in-rome-ga/FATH4LUOD5G2BKK4D5DMX7RL2Q/

This gets freakier as it goes along.

[Effete Snob]

1. That is in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district

What a surprise, eh?

[SeattleVet]

10. No surprise at all...

it also wouldn't surprise at all me to find out that some of these 'very fine people' are a part of her campaign staff or local congressional office.

[Moostache]

2. They are actually sacrificing goats????

What the actual fuck?

I frequently will joke about sacrificing animals to appease Yahweh, but these modern day morons are actually doing it? I have to remind myself that the religious aspects to all of this nuttiness are never far from the surface.

[Nictuku]

3. America's very own Al-Qaeda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪdə, ˌælkɑːˈiːdə/; Arabic: القاعدة‎ al-Qāʿidah, IPA: [ælqɑːʕɪdɐ], translation: "The Base"

[SledDriver]

4. Y'all Qaeda

Yeehawdists
Vanilla ISIS
Talabamba

[calimary]

9. How 'bout "the TalaBoobs"?

You could make a game out of it! How many insults can you craft the sing the word “Talaban” as a - um -pardon the pun - “base”?

TalaBumble/TalaBumblers
TalaTalaBonkers (for The Crazy - from which they all suffer)
TalaBaters (for the horny pathetic twentysomethings who do this shit ‘cause they can’t get a date)
TalaBimbos (for the female participants and cheerleaders like Margie Traitor Greene?)
And there’s always TalaTubbies for those who just won’t grow up and face reality because they wanna star in the reality show.

Anything that can diminish and shame and scoff and make a joke out of their “mission” or “philosophy” or “belief” or whatever-the-hell they’re calling it this week. Any words or names or terms that smear mud and/or shit on their “great quest” for “freedumb”. See? You can corrupt their presumably favorite battle-cry word TOO!

[dameatball]

5. Real Vikings could afford their own goat.

[stopdiggin]

6. point -(nt)-

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

The Base was founded in 2018 as a far-right, paramilitary organization that sought the creation of a white ethno-state. An investigation by the Guardian newspaper in 2020 revealed the organization’s leader to be Rinaldo Nazzaro, an American expatriate living in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mendelson from the ADL’s Center on Extremism said the wave of arrests and the identification of Nazzaro as the de facto leader crippled the Base and damaged its reputation in extremist circles. But she said such groups are always rebranding or reforming.

“They never lose the committed members,” she said. “They just realign and retool, so they will continue to be a threat.”

Authorities contend the suspects in the alleged murder plot continue to have contact with white supremacists while in jail. At Lane’s bond hearing last month, Assistant DA Johnson said Lane has been in contact with far-right figures while in jail, including Dalton Woodward, a Georgia resident who was expelled from the National Guard after the AJC reported his membership in a pagan sect known for attracting white supremacists.

[IronLionZion]

8. Guns, drugs, hate, and stupidity are a dangerous combination

[aquamarina]

11. Charles Manson would be so proud.

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. Believe me when I tell you that I felt a lot more comfortable when they were just bumbling,

semi-amusing posers. They seem to be a lot more serious, and demand a lot more seriousness from us now. In the early days, I'm sure a fair number of Germans laughed at the brownshirts. Until they didn't.