What they found was troubling: an assault rifle and two other guns, plus extremist white-supremacy material on his cellphone, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit that came to light recently.
The group was to be “operational” as soon as this past November, in case Donald Trump lost the U.S. presidential election, according to the document, which was inadvertently unsealed and obtained byThe conspiracy appears to have popped onto law-enforcement radar thanks to that ill-fated border crossing in Michigan.The affair marks the second time in the last year that Canadians have been accused by U.S. police of associating with far-right terrorists there.
Barbara Perry, an expert on extremism at Ontario Tech University, said the case underscores how violent far-right groups have extended their tentacles into Canada, helped by the Internet.Article content continued On his phone, they found multiple images of Nazi, white power and anti-LGBTQ propaganda, said the affidavit. Some of it appeared to evoke the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi terrorist organization founded in the southern U.S.
In a series of texts, the pair discussed taking out student loans to buy a bus and convert it into a motor home. “If we aren’t going to be alive to pay it back, it’s free money,” Chris exclaimed at one point.Article content continued
Why is everything white supremacy now?
Crock of 💩! Fake news
All these 'terror plots'.. I am so scared, maybe I shouldn't leave my house lol