Two Base-affiliated white supremacists were arrested after law enforcement obtained recordings of them discussing plans of mass murder at a Virginia rally. Federal prosecutors in Maryland have recommended that white supremacists Brian Mark Lemley Jr. and Patrik Jordan Mathews be sentenced to 25 years in prison each for their plans to carry out domestic terrorism at a gun rights rally in Virginia and pleading guilty to firearms and immigration-related charges.
Both members of the “Base”, Lemley and Mathews discussed plans to kill people including police officers and Blacks and break a murderer out of prison as well as plans of domestic terrorism.
The Base is a white supremacist group that recruits members through an online presence. Among their various postings on social media are calls for terror attacks and violent revolution against the state as well as encouraging people to seek out those who have committed “anti-White hate crimes” and “balance the scales.” For Lemley, however, the Base is not the first white supremacist group that he has been affiliated with. One of the pieces of evidence presented against him was an email he sent to the Northwest Front, a neo-Nazi “republic”, in 2017. In it, Lemley was notifying the Front that his great grandmother was Jewish and requesting to dispute the “jewyness” in his bloodline. The Northwest Front eventually responded to him, after which he became a member, tweeting in support of the Front and its values.
In 2018, Lemley joined the League of the South white nationalist group and attended its Christmas party. In 2019, he sent an email to the Base with an application to join the group. (…) In recordings of conversations between the two that were obtained via social media, the men discussed murder at length and, in particular, talked about killing a police officer in order to steal his weapons and gear. In another conversation, they could be heard talking about how to break Dylan Roof out of prison. Roof is in prison for the Charleston Church shooting, in which he murdered nine African-Americans during bible study. Another conversation had Mathews describing an idea to mass murder black people in a method that held great similarity to the shooting pits where the Nazis murdered Jews during the Holocaust.
via jpost: White supremacists await sentencing for planning domestic terrorism