Feds: White Supremacists Plotted To Attack Synagogues, Black Churches

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By Matt Zapotosky November 10 at 3:58 PM

The way authorities tell it, the Richmond area white supremacists got together at the home of one of the members in September with a sinister agenda.

They were supposed to discuss, authorities alleged in an affidavit, “shooting or bombing the occupants of black churches and Jewish synagogues” and “conducting acts of violence against persons of the Jewish faith.”

The FBI, though, was watching the men and soon connected them with an undercover agent. Authorities say the group brokered a deal with the agent, who was posing as an arms dealer, to buy weapons, and they were arrested this week on charges that they conspired to possess guns after having been convicted of a felony.

According to affidavits in the case, the relatively modest charges foiled a nefarious plot. The men, according to the affidavits, planned a reign of terror — shooting or bombing religious institutions, robbing jewelers and armored cars and doing some unspecified harm to gun store owners in Virginia and Oklahoma.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/feds-white-supremacists-plotted-to-shoot-or-bomb-black-churches-jewish-synagogues/2015/11/10/2a0abbcc-87cf-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

[DesertFlower]

1. appaling. nt

[Fred Sanders]

2. Domestic white supremacist recruitment is not much different than ISIS. Except for one major one.

[drray23]

3. they live a few miles from where I do

We have the Sons of Confederate Veterans Mechanized Cavalry often riding around and stopping at the local gas station/burger joint, the Virginia Flaggers and a myriad of other racists. Oh, the joy of living in the south...

One of these guys who got arrested is suspected of having connections with the flaggers as well. At least thats what I heard.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Terrorists. Who know they are terrorists and get a pathological pleasure from it. Sick men.

[drray23]

5. they definitely are terrorist

However, since they are not muslim, they were not charged with terrorism. The charges are "gun conspiracy" and "intend to commit robbery" according to the linked article. This is really outrageous. Anytime a muslim so much as sneezes they are accused of being terrorists, if its a good old boy they are either insane, temporarily lost it or something like that..

[AwareOne]

6. Bullshit

This whole story sounds fake and overblown. Don't eat everything the government feeds you. Key phrases like "were supposed to discuss" and "modest charges" are red flags. Sounds like people being set up and arrested for pre-crime. If there is a conviction here I'd be surprised.

[Judi Lynn]

7. You believe the US is out to "get" poor white supremacists? They can look in Congress, to start.

Republicans, of course.

Just how often do you fear the US Government is picking on innocent white racists?