Neo-Nazi coast guard officer accused of domestic terror plot denied bail

Government says Christopher Hasson was plotting ‘to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country’

Tom McCarthy
Thu 21 Feb 2019 21.27 GMT

A federal judge on Thursday denied bail for lieutenant Christopher Hasson, a neo-Nazi member of the US coast guard who the government says was plotting “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country”.

Law enforcement officers seized 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson’s Silver Spring, Maryland, home earlier this week. Court documents quoted an email in which Hasson wrote he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth”. He was arrested this week on drug and gun charges.

In arguing against bail , federal prosecutor Jennifer Sykes said Hasson would log on to his government computer during work and spend hours searching for information on such people as the Unabomber, the Virginia Tech gunman and anti-abortion bomber Eric Rudolph.

Sykes said the charges so far are just the “tip of the iceberg” and called Hasson a “domestic terrorist” who appeared to be planning attacks inspired by the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian rightwing extremist who killed 77 people in a 2011 bomb-and-shooting rampage.

In court papers this week, federal prosecutors said Hasson compiled what appeared to be a computer-spreadsheet hit list that included the House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and presidential hopefuls such as senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. Also mentioned were such figures as MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Joe Scarborough and CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Van Jones.

....The judge called the evidence “concerning” and gave prosecutors two weeks to file additional charges tied to the terror plot allegations.

Court documents included evidence that Hasson searched online for “civil war if trump impeached” and “what if trump illegally impeached”.

Hasson, a former US Marine, also corresponded with a white supremacist leader, said he had been a “skinhead” for more than 30 years and discussed plans to established a breakaway white homeland inside the United States, prosecutors alleged.

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Where's this guy's passenger jet?

ADL

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/c ... est-threat

I was going to post this under the Nihlist right wing thread but thought it probably deserves its own thread. One of these days one of these nuts will be successful again. This is a direct product of the toxic invective, extremist viewpoints, incessant lies of the right wing and elevation of mits like Trump who are the human embodiment ofall these things.

Anyone remember a few years ago when the DOJ issued a briefing on the coming rise of Right wing domestic terrorism and the conservatives had a shit fit?

Here’s a little trip down memory lane for putting conservative friends with selective memory:



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-domest ... ngers-gop/

To be fair, as per the article, the right-wing kooks commit more attacks by the attacks by Muslims cause more deaths.