Two neo-Nazis were Arrested for threatening to attack electrical substations to “demolish” Baltimore. A “Boogaloo Boi” was arrested in Missouri for owning a bunch of guns. And a Maritime was promoted to a best intelligence job immediately after being at the Jan. 6 insurrection (he has since been arrested). 

Moreover: The FBI’s dislike criminal offense figures are “worse than ineffective,” but a congressional committee chairman promises the bureau inflates the issue of domestic extremism. 

It is really the 7 days in extremism.

‘Hate-fueled attacks’ planned on ability stations

A properly-regarded neo-Nazi and his suspected accomplice have been arrested very last 7 days and appeared in court docket Monday charged with plotting to assault electrical power substations in Baltimore. Brandon Russell, who started the white supremacist team Atomwaffen Division, had just lately been produced from prison, where by he served a few years for explosives charges. 

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Neo-Nazis arrested for plot:Neo-Nazi, female accused of plotting ‘hate-fueled attacks’ on Ability Stations, federal complaint suggests

• The arrests occur as the FBI has been warning of elevated attacks on the nation’s electricity grid by extremist groups.
• Why? Attacks like this are a tactic in the playbook of “accelerationist” white supremacists. Accelerationists find to hasten the demise of Western civilization and foment a “race war” by committing functions of terrorism. Atomwaffen was based on this philosophy.   
• Deeper: As I documented very last yr, Atomwaffen was greatly affected by the writings of Joshua Sutter. Sutter, it turned out, was on the FBI’s payroll.
• Russel’s suspected co-conspirator, Sarah Clendaniel, experienced also been not long ago incarcerated. She allegedly said she wished to “absolutely ruin this full city” and prepared to concentrate on 5 substations situated in a “ring” around Baltimore, according to the criminal criticism.

Suspected ‘Boogaloo Boi’ arrested

Federal regulation enforcement officers arrested a Springfield, Missouri, person in possession of 11 guns, a silencer, additional than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, human body armor plates and many lbs of explosives previous 7 days. Timothy Zegar appeared in courtroom Monday and is alleged to be linked to the considerably-correct “Boogaloo” movement.

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• Who? Boogaloo is a leaderless, mostly on-line phenomenon, pushed by a heavy emphasis on memes, iconography and in-jokes. Central to the movement is an anti-federal governing administration ideology, an anticipation of a second civil war and an obsession with firearms. 
• Zegar was charged with getting a felon in possession of a firearm. Prosecutors say he was trafficking firearms.
• Further: I wrote about how Second Modification activism can be a pipeline to extremism in 2021.
• Context: The Boogaloo or “Boogaloo Bois” had mainly light away as a motion but underwent a short resurgence right after the FBI lookup of Mar-a-Lago previous 12 months.

Jan. 6 rioter acquired intelligence function

A few of weeks ago, I wrote about the arrests of 3 lively-duty Marines for their alleged roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection. This week, The Intercept had a bombshell report that 1 of those people Marines was transferred to “a highly sensitive intelligence assignment at the headquarters of the Nationwide Security Company” after the insurrection.

• The Marine confessed to his role in the insurrection last summer but was arrested only in January.
• The Intercept studies: “Sgt. Joshua Abate, a specific communication signals analyst, was assigned to the Marine Cryptologic Assistance Battalion, which acts as a liaison among the Marines and the NSA at Fort Meade. The transfer into the liaison device soon after the Capitol riot placed Abate inside of a person of the most sensitive facilities in the full U.S. governing administration.”
• Context: As I noted again in 2021, the U.S. armed service has a sizeable dilemma with extremism in the ranks. 

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