The father of 20-year-old Lucas Alexander Temple, who was there when his son was arrested, told The Independent that he didn’t want to “inadvertently say anything that might hurt his case.” A 20-year-old Florida man using the online handle “Devilwaffen999” discussed the idea of torturing non-white children, sexually assaulting a man with an electrified baton, and provided bomb-making instructions to associates in a neo-Nazi group chat that the members didn’t realize was under surveillance by the feds, according to court filings reviewed by The Independent. Grocery store worker Lucas Alexander Temple was arrested November 20 at his parents’ Sarasota home, where he lives, on one count of possession of an unregistered firearm after FBI agents found, among other things, an illegal sawed-off shotgun in his bedroom, a probable cause affidavit shows. Agents additionally turned up various pieces of Nazi literature; the diaries of Columbine school shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris; a book titled Two-Component High Explosive Mixtures; a WWII-era sign reading “Kommandant” and bookended by lightning-bolt “SS” logos; and a “large flag” bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol, the affidavit states. They also discovered what appeared to be a plan to carry out and broadcast a domestic terror attack, including “motion-activated bombs in doorways (for cops),” according to the affidavit, which includes photographs of the items. “Write manifesto. Notify friends of livestream. Put flags on car. Play music on speakers during operation,” it read. The Atomwaffen Division, which renamed itself the National Socialist Order after a series of arrests largely dismantled the group, is an accelerationist organization inspired by the tenets of neo-Nazi James Mason’s 1992 publication Siege, according to a case study from the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. It says Atomwaffen is “primarily driven by racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism,” and “ultimately aims to accelerate societal collapse through chaos and violence as a means to establish a ‘racially pure’ white society, which adherents believe can only be established through the destruction of American democracy.” The FBI affidavit describes the group’s targets as having included racial minorities, Jews, the LGBTQ+ community, the U.S. government, journalists, and critical infrastructure, such as energy facilities.
via independent: Florida man discussed livestreaming neo-Nazi terror attack before being busted by the feds, authorities say