I was wondering if anybody made a thread on this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.c592917b5837
Authorities said Hasson has harbored extremist views for years.
"The defendant is a domestic terrorist," the government said in court filings, "bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct."
In an email drafted in June 2017, he contemplated biological attacks and targeting food supplies, according to the court filings. He considered the merits of a "bombing/sniper campaign." And he included a "Things to do" list that mentioned purchasing land "out west or possibly NC mtns" for family and researching tactics used during the civil war in Ukraine.
"During unrest target both sides to increase tension," Hasson wrote in the email, according to the court filings. "In other words provoke gov/police to over react which should help to escalate violence. BLM protests or other left crap would be ideal to incite to violence."
In another letter drafted months later to an American neo-Nazi leader, cited in the court filing, Hasson called for a "white homeland." He sent the letter to himself nearly two months after the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, where torch-carrying white supremacists clashed with anti-racist protesters.
"I never saw a reason for mass protest or wearing uniforms marching around provoking people with swastikas etc.," Hasson said in the letter, according to court filings. "I was and am a man of action you cannot change minds protesting like that. However you can make change with a little focused violence."
Hasson's commitment to destruction appeared heightened in recent weeks, according to prosecutors. He created a list of "traitors" and targets on Jan. 19 in an Excel spreadsheet on his work computer, they said, which was created two days after he conducted several Internet inquiries:
8:54 a.m.: "what if trump illegally impeached"
8:57 a.m.: "best place in dc to see congress people"
8:58 a.m.: "where in dc to congress live"
10:39 a.m.: "civil war if trump impeached"
11:26 a.m.: "social democrats usa"
The arrest marks the second time that the service has responded to an incident involving alleged white supremacy in recent months. In September, the Coast Guard reprimanded a service member who flashed what some people identified as a white-supremacy sign in the background of a televised interview with another officer during the response to Hurricane Florence.
