Thread by @rk_thorpe

A thread on new information about Patrik Mathews activities in the U.S. #wfp

Today U.S. law enforcement arrested three members of The Base from Georgia who were planning to kill a married couple that engaged in anti-fascist activism following an investigation by an undercover FBI agent.

I’ve read the affidavit used to secure the arrests warrants and it includes shocking new details about the activities of Patrik Mathews while he was on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.

It’s the stuff of fiction.

By Oct. 5, Mathews was in Silver Creek, Georgia, at a property owned by a fellow member of The Base.

There were five people at the meeting: Mathews, the property owner Luke Austin Lane, Jacob Kaderli, Michael Helterbrand and the undercover agent.

The meeting stretched into the early morning hours as the men discussed their hatred of anti-fascists and their desire to fight for the neo-Nazi cause.

Eventually, they revealed they were planning a murder.

“These antifa types, all these people, there has to start being consequences for what they are and that’s race traitors and agents of the system,” Mathews said.

Cont: “You know, if you really want to fight these evil, evil Nazis, you better be prepared for when they actually start becoming what you...”

“What you’ve vilified them to be,” interjected Kaderli.

“Yeah,” Mathews said.

“You call them neo-Nazi terrorist enough they’ll eventually show you what a neo-Nazi terrorist is,” Kaderli said.

“Makes me wonder if they’re ever really prepared for that day to come?” Mathews said.

According to the undercover FBI agent, Mathews then began talking about me, saying I'm “essentially antifa.”

Mathews went on to say: “Any engagement in anti-fascist activity will carry the death penalty.”

Mathews then talked about the need to get “snub noses” for “sneaking in and assassination.”

The undercover agent would later learn Mathews and Lane had begun hatching a plan to murder a married couple they identified as anti-fascists.

By November, however, Lane had soured on Mathews, describing him as incompetent and saying they’d all get arrested if Mathews was involved.

But Mathews knew about the plot, and if they carried out the killings without him, he’d be able to link them to the crime.

The solution: murder Mathews before murdering the couple.

Mathews now found himself in the crosshairs of the murder plot he helped hatch.

During the following months, the FBI agent says Lane pulled Kaderli and Helterbrand into his scheme.

The group began meticulously planning and preparing for the murders. They decided to break into the victim’s home, shoot them dead, then burn it to the ground.

On more than one occasion, Lane is alleged to have stressed the need to kill Mathews—alongside another member of The Base he was sharing an apartment with in Delaware—before murdering the couple.

Thankfully, none of this happened.

Mathews was arrested with two other alleged members of The Base Thursday.

Earlier today, the WSJ reported the men discussed traveling to an upcoming gun rights rally in Virginia where they could open fire on the crowd from multiple angles.

On Friday, Lane and his alleged co-conspirators were arrested in Georgia.

All of these details—and more—in tomorrow’s edition of the WFP.