WHITE SUPREMACIST ACCUSED OF AMTRAK TERROR ATTACK ALSO ATTENDED ALT-RIGHT EVENT IN CHARLOTTESVILLE,

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek

WHITE SUPREMACIST ACCUSED OF AMTRAK TERROR ATTACK ALSO ATTENDED ALT-RIGHT EVENT IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, FBI SAYS
BY MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN ON 1/4/18 AT 9:40 PM


A 26-year-old white man who attempted to commit a terror attack on an Amtrak train in rural Nebraska also attended the doomed “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August on the white supremacist side, according to a court document.

St. Charles, Missouri resident Taylor Michael Wilson has been charged with an attempt to commit terror by targeting an Amtrak train in southwest Nebraska in October 2017. FBI Special Agent Monte Czaplewski, writing in an affidavit attached to the criminal complaint, suggested that Wilson wanted to murder black people. The document suggests that he had weapons, as well as a National Socialist Movement (NSM) business card with him at the time he was arrested.

Wilson entered an engineer's seat of an Amtrak train after midnight on October 22 and started "playing with the controls" of the train, according to Czaplewski’s account. No one was injured or killed in the attempted attack.

Newsweek reached out to NSM for a comment about the revelations but did not immediately receive a response. The group is neo-Nazi in nature, has ties to the more traditional American Nazi Party and has been connected to other elements of the modern, so-called alt-right movement at rallies and events.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacist-accused-amtrak-terror-attack-also-attended-alt-right-event-771495?piano_t=1

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Taylor Michael Wilson

[John Fante]

1. "B-b-b-ut antifa broke some windows at Berkeley.

They're totally just as bad!"

[Cryptoad]

10. Welcome to DU,,,,,Comrade!

[RhodeIslandOne]

11. Aaaaahahaha

Welcome to DU

[John Fante]

12. Thank you both

Glad to be here.

[aaaaaa5a]

2. Good people.... on both sides. NT

[marble falls]

5. Its just most of the bad ones are nazis, but if you average them out, most of them are still nazizs.

[Hortensis]

17. Speaking of, Fox U.S. news leads with old D.B. Cooper hijacker,

meat tossed to distract conspiracists, and somewhere else just posted brief AP coverage of this new terrorist arrest, with no mention of his presence in Charlotte.

(For those who came along a little later, Cooper hijacked a 747 back in 1971 and parachuted out with a fortune in cash, supposedly never to be seen again. A metaphor for the money being looted from the federal budget now, not that Fox intended this relevance to current events.)

[marble falls]

18. Fox is a loser, bigly. Sad.

[Metro135]

3. I feel so safe . . .

now that Trump is keeping all those Muslims out of the country.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. A wall would keep him out

[Orrex]

6. That just proves that he was a lone wolf acting alone

Probably had a history of mental illness, and he'd recently stopped taking his meds, etc.

[mountain grammy]

7. Glad they got him. Be vigilant FBI and thanks.

[Initech]

8. Ah, some of Trump's "very fine people".

[MrScorpio]

9. I hate St Charles Nazis

[Scruffy1]

13. They only get the dumb ones.

Of course that's true for fundies and a lot of other groups. The people that take the less than intelligent and groom them always get away Scot free. This is why we need zero tolerance for thosse that foment violence. I have watched these neo-nazis recruit the yoyng and the dumb from California to Minnesota. The ones that plant the seeds are truly the guilty ones, but they never pay the price.

[Stuart G]

14. Damn..What about Hillary??

Everyone know Hillary was behind this attempt to blow up an Amtrak train!!

What about Hillary???

[The Wizard]

16. Hannity says

the FBI is covering up for Hillary.

[crazycatlady]

21. but her emails

[Stuart G]

23. Yes... EMAILS, EMAILS, EMAILS..

I agree...what about Hillary's .. EMAILS

[The Wizard]

15. Right off the

set of "Deliverance."

[Gothmog]

19. Who is surprised by this?

[xor]

20. Glad he was caught before he did anything.

Reading up on this nut and he seems to have had an large arsenal and a history of violence. :/

I'd say he's a terrorist, or at least an attempted terrorist.

[skypilot]

22. Someone please enlighten me.

What the fuck is the "more traditional American Nazi Party"?