Thread by @arapaho415

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews Good news (and speedy!). h/t @smp0312
1/ Oct 28, 2021:
"US judge sentences Manitoban🇨🇦 ex-reservist Patrik Mathews to 9 years in prison for role in neo-Nazi plot...described as a plot to instigate a race war in US" @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2

https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/1453806633176506370

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 2/ NYT Jan 16, 2020, updated Jan 22, 2020:
"Patrik J Mathews, 27, a main recruiter for the group [The Base], entered the US illegally from Canada, according to...officials. He was arrested along w/ Brian M. Lemley Jr., 33, and William G. Bilbrough IV, 19."

https://twitter.com/loisbeckett/status/1217855533207572480

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 3/ "US District Court Judge Theodore Chuang delivered the sentence Thursday [Oct 28 2021] in a Maryland courtroom." h/t @smp0312
"Chuang remarked that Mathews never said he was sorry before handing him a sentence that represents a middle ground between...
cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 4/ ...the 25 years prosecutors were seeking and the 33 months defence lawyers wanted."
This is important:
"Prosecutors had successfully argued for a 'terrorism enhancement,' meaning the 👉judge agreed they were promoting a federal crime of terrorism👈, though...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 5/ ...Mathews and his co-accused, Brian Lemley Jr, were not charged w/terrorism."
NYT Jan 2020:
"A federal statute defines domestic terrorism 👉but carries no penalties👈. 1st and 2nd Amendment concerns make prosecuting these cases difficult." @DirkSchwenk
nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/…

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 6/ CBC🇨🇦:
"A U.S. army veteran who served in Iraq, [Brian] Lemley [Jr.] was also sentenced to 9 years in prison Thursday [Oct 28, 2021]."
"Both pleaded guilty in June [2021] to gun charges linked to what the FBI has described as a neo-Nazi plot to attack a gun-rights rally...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 7/ ...Virginia last January [2020], which the pair hoped would lead to clashes between police and tens of thousands of heavily armed protesters."
"American prosecutors had said the pair wanted to instigate a civil war that would 'decimate racial and ethnic minorities and...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 8/ ...👉subjugate women👈,' court documents say."
"Mathews was first publicly identified as a recruiter for neo-Nazi group The Base in 2019 after an undercover investigation by Winnipeg Free Press reporter Ryan Thorpe.
He [Mathews] then disappeared...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 9/ ...after RCMP raided his Beausejour, Man., home.
Mathews crossed into the U.S. and was missing for several months until he was arrested in Maryland in Jan 2020."
"Court documents say the FBI conducted an underground operation beginning in July 2019 when an undercover agent...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 10/ ...went through an online vetting interview for admission into The Base.
The investigation found that Mathews, Lemley and other members of The Base conducted paramilitary training camps in Georgia in Sep and Oct [2019], where they did tactical training and firearms drills...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 11/ ...In December 2019, FBI officers got court orders authorizing them to install a closed-circuit television camera and microphone in the apartment where Mathews and Lemley were living, which captured them discussing their plans to attack the Virginia [Jan 2020] rally." (more)

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 12/ "[I]n one recording Mathews can be heard talking about killing Black people, saying the group needs to start 'getting rid of them wherever they stand.'
He was also recorded talking about killing protestors with the left-wing Antifa movement." (more...)

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 13/ 📷caption: "Mounties found this handwritten list of mass shootings when they executed a search warrant at Mathews' Beausejour, Man., residence in Aug 2019. The list included the year, number of people dead and whether the shooter was on medication. (US prosecution...

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 14/ ...sentencing memorandum)."
I could be wrong, but I think NYT deleted large portions of their Jan 2020 article on Mathews and other members of The Base.
Here's what I believe to be a recap thread of that article: (more...)

https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/1217896680990875649

@smp0312 @kathleen_belew @MelissaRyan @LuluLemew @ninaandtito @selectedwisdom @glennkirschner2 @DirkSchwenk @FrankFigliuzzi1 @ushadrons @jjmacnab @BrandyZadrozny @RVAwonk @MacFarlaneNews @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2 15/ Archive of NYT Jan 16, 2020 article, updated Jan 22, 2020: /end
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