Several members of white supremacist group “The Base” were sentenced in late October to nine years in prison. Another white supremacist group is working to spark a civil war, according to a video captured by the FBI. WABC reported Friday that for months the FBI watched the group “The Base” as they plotted a terrorist attack using a pro-gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia. The men were sentenced in late October to nine years in prison, but ABC just obtained the 2019 audio from the secret recordings at their Delaware home. The extremist group has been recruiting members since 2018 in the U.S. and around the world. They’ve used “online chat rooms, private meetings, and military-style training camps” that prepare them for a new civil war. The recordings cite the men plotting acts of terror around the rally that would ultimately bring down the U.S. government. “Patrik Mathews, a former Canadian Army reservist illegally in the U.S., and Brian Lemley, a Maryland resident and self-described white nationalist, fantasized about the brutal murders they’d soon carry out against law enforcement and Black people, all with the goal of bringing about the ‘Boogaloo,’ or the collapse of the U.S. government in order to prop up a white ethno-state,” the report said citing the recordings. “We need to go back to the days of … decimating Blacks and getting rid of them where they stand,” Mathews said in a recording. “If you see a bunch of Blacks sitting on some corner you f*cking shoot them.” “I need to claim my first victim,” Lemley explained in a different recording. “It’s just that we can’t live with ourselves if we don’t get somebody’s blood on our hands.” “You wanna create f*cking some instability while the Virginia situation is happening, make other things happen,” Mathews said. “Derail some rail lines … shut down the highways … shut down the rest of the roads … kick off the economic collapse of the U.S. within a week after the [Boogaloo] starts.”
via salon: FBI releases secret recordings of white supremacist group “The Base” plotting terrorist attack