Tales From The Movement: Feds Charge Neo-Nazis Who Plotted To Blow Up Baltimore’s Power Grid

BTW, I read the comments in the spam and trash folders.

The trash folder is full of cranks who 1.) are either sounding off about how Christianity is a Jewish religion or 2.) the types of people who are angry that I criticized people like this in my Tales From The Movement series. The guy from Atomwaffen whose roommate went nuts in Florida and killed his other roommates for insulting Islam is back in the news for being entrapped by an FBI informant in an alleged scheme to blow up Baltimore’s power grid. These people always end up dead or in prison.

I wasn’t going to bother to cover this until I noticed that The Base is also back in the news this morning in a large article in New York Times Magazine.

“Sitting in a courtroom in Greenbelt, Md., Brian Mark Lemley Jr.’s long, unkempt hair fell over his green prison tunic. It was October 2021, and for most of the previous two years, Lemley had been in federal custody, usually out of the reach of his family, his lawyer and, because of Covid-19, a barber. So unsympathetic was his appearance, so much did it suggest the domestic terrorist that the government accused Lemley of being, that Lemley’s lawyer felt compelled to apologize for it. “He doesn’t normally look like this,” he told the judge. “He’s gotten one haircut in the two years that he’s been at the jail.”

The federal prosecutors in the courtroom said that Lemley harbored and armed a Canadian man, Patrik Jordan Mathews, who had crossed the border illegally and who now appeared alongside Lemley as a defendant. From 2019 to early 2020, the prosecutors said, the two men discussed killing Jews, Black people, officials, police officers and members of Antifa. The defendants were members of the Base, a hate group that had ambitions ranging from defacing synagogues to overthrowing the United States government. None of them were realized. After a nationwide sting operation, at least 16 members of the Base were arrested.

The evidence against Lemley appeared damning. The prosecutors showed the court photos of guns and military equipment seized at his apartment, footage of him at a Base training camp, screenshots of Lemley’s text exchanges with other Base members, emails with the leader of the Base and selections from hundreds of hours of video and audio surveillance the F.B.I. recorded of Lemley and Mathews fantasizing about committing mass violence in order to help usher in the Boogaloo, code for a new American civil war, and a white ethnostate in its wake. “You need an atrocity to make people angry enough to get serious,” Lemley had written fellow members. In a conversation shortly before he was arrested, on Jan. 16, 2020, he asked Mathews, “Why in the world would you not inflict bloody vengeance upon the world when given the chance?” …”

Maybe all of this is a coincidence … the DNC condemning White Nationalism, the big article on The Base in New York Times Magazine, the return of Atomwaffen to the news and the big conference on the threat of White Christian Nationalism. Maybe the feds needed to put a face on the boogeyman.

Who knows?

Anyway, nothing good ever comes out of getting mixed up with tards like this whether they are real or federal informants. The outcome is always the same.