Members from the white supremacist group, The Base, were arrested this week. Some were caught on hidden camera expressing hope that violence would break out at a Virginia rally and then lead to a ‘full blown civil war,’ prosecutors said. Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews was among those arrested and videotaped advocating for killing people, authorities added. A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday. Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews also videotaped himself advocating for killing people, poisoning water supplies and derailing trains, a prosecutor wrote in urging a judge in Maryland to keep Mathews and two other members of The Base detained in federal custody. But the 27-year-old Canadian national didn’t know investigators were watching and listening when he and two other group members talked about attending the Richmond rally in the days leading up to Monday’s event, which attracted tens of thousands of people and ended peacefully. (…) Mathews and fellow group member Brian Mark Lemley Jr, 33, of Elkton, Maryland, discussed the planning of violence at the Richmond rally, according to prosecutors. Lemley talked about using a thermal imaging scope affixed to his rifle to ambush unsuspecting civilians and police officers, prosecutors said.

via dailymail: Members of white supremacist group The Base caught on hidden camera ‘saying they hoped violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia would start a full-blown civil war’