The arrests include a former Canadian soldier, who was smuggled into the U.S. to train the group. Authorities have arrested three members of the neo-Nazi terror network The Base, including a missing Canadian soldier who used his military experience to provide weapons training to the group last fall. The New York Times first reported that Patrik Mathews, a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist, was among the three arrested. The FBI confirmed Thursday that Mathews was arrested in Delaware by Baltimore FBI officers. The two other men were arrested in connection with Mathews. Mathews went missing last summer after a Winnipeg Free Press investigation outed him as a recruiter for The Base in Canada. The Base is an international neo-Nazi terror network with active cells around the world and affiliations to the domestic hate group Atomwaffen Division, which has been linked to several murders in the U.S. A VICE investigation showed that Mathews hopped the border with the help of the neo-Nazi network. Once smuggled into the U.S. the 26-year-old man was hidden with the help of other members of The Base, including its leader. While in the U.S., Mathews continued to be active in The Base training other members in a paramilitary training camp held in Georgia this fall.
via vice: The FBI Has Begun Arresting Members of a Notorious Nazi Terror Cell
siehe auch: F.B.I. Arrests Suspected Members of Neo-Nazi Group Before Virginia Gun Rally. The three men had obtained guns and discussed traveling to Virginia for protests against new gun control measures, officials said. A gun rights rally is scheduled for Monday at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Gov. Ralph Northam has declared a state of emergency and announced a temporary ban on weapons on the grounds of the Capitol.
A gun rights rally is scheduled for Monday at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Gov. Ralph Northam has declared a state of emergency and announced a temporary ban on weapons on the grounds of the Capitol. The F.B.I. has arrested three men suspected of being members of a neo-Nazi hate group, including a former reservist in the Canadian Army, who had weapons and discussed traveling to a pro-gun rally next week in Richmond, Va., in anticipation of a possible race war. The men were taken into custody on Thursday morning as part of a long-running investigation into the group, known as The Base. The men were charged with various federal crimes in Maryland, according to the Justice Department. They were scheduled to appear in federal court before a judge on Thursday afternoon. One of the men, Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, a main recruiter for the group, entered the United States illegally from Canada, according to the officials. He was arrested along with Brian M. Lemley Jr., 33, and William G. Bilbrough IV, 19. Mr. Mathews was trained as a combat engineer and considered an expert in explosives. He was dismissed from the Canadian Army after his ties to white supremacists surfaced. Mr. Lemley previously served as a cavalry soldier in the United States Army.
siehe dazu auhc: The Base. The Base is a neo-Nazi, white-supremacist network that describes itself as an “international survivalist and self-defense network” that seeks to train their members for fighting a race war.* The network is active in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. The Base is influenced by the race war called for in the book Siege by neo-Nazi James Mason. The Base is an accelerationist group that encourages the onset on anarchy and so it can then “impose order from chaos.”* In a September 2018 episode of the podcast The Roper Report, Base founder Roman Wolf claimed The Base’s goal is to unite white nationalists for the coming race war that will overthrow the government and reshape society.* The Base has described itself as a “white protection league” and has organized training camps around North America for their members in weaponry and military tactics