'Right-Wing Death Squad': Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say

[Suburban Warrior]

An active-duty U.S. Marine came under federal investigation for allegedly plotting with at least two others to assassinate minorities, drug users, and employees of the Democratic National Committee with explosives, rocket launchers, and automatic rifles.

That’s according to a newly unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast, which indicates USMC Private First Class Travis Owens and his partners in the unrealized murder plot were influenced by Timothy McVeigh, the former U.S. Army soldier behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead and injured nearly 700. The document also states that one of the suspects had links to the Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group linked to at least five murders. A handful of active service members and veterans have been identified as being members of Atomwaffen, which calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government.

The investigation began in late August 2019, when a tipster contacted the FBI about disturbingly violent conversations they had observed in a private Facebook Messenger chat group named “Right Wing Death Squad.” According to the FBI, three men were behind the troubling chats: James Wisdom of Arkansas; mechanic Jason D’Juan Garfield—also of Arkansas—who went by the noms de guerre “Moon Man” and “Jugger Bugger;” and Owens, a Marine Corps E-1 from Arkansas stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

“Rhetoric in the private chat messages was consistent with racially motivated extremism ideology, to include aspirational violence against religious and racial minorities,” states the affidavit, which was signed by Special Agent Ryan Crump of the FBI Little Rock Joint Terrorism Task Force.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/active-duty-marine-travis-owens-plotted-to-bomb-dnc-murder-black-people-feds-say?ref=home

[Thomas Hurt]

1. and the DoD doesn't have a clue how many of these fascists are in the ranks...not sure they care.

[Hortensis]

9. The new SecDef does, and his appointees. Those who always care still do.

Those who didn't are obliged to, at least to some degree, now that they have new bosses and upgraded standards requiring more of them.

[smirkymonkey]

2. And he's probably just one of thousands.

These people aren't right in the head. There is no telling what they are capable of, but they are angry, filled with hate and armed to the teeth.

Lately, I just don't see much of a reason to leave the apartment these days and if I do, I pretty much stick to my neighborhood.

[Elessar Zappa]

7. Remember that most people

aren’t as crazy as guys like this. Your chance of having a run in with one of them is pretty minimal, even if you live in a red state.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I hope you're right.

They really scare me. I live in a very blue city in a very blue state and we just had a white supremecist murder a retired State Trooper and an Air Force veteran in Winthrop, MA, both of whom were black.

The attack was entirely unprovoked. He was some young right-wing punk who just came into the neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon, crashed his vehicle, got out, walked right past the white people he saw and shot his victims in broad daylight. It is known that he is a white supremecist.

"Law enforcement officials are still determining what motivated Nathan Allen, 28, to steal a box truck, crash it into a building, and kill Cooper and Green. This much is already known: Allen held white extremist views about Black people and Jews. In notebooks later found by authorities, he drew swastikas and espoused white supremacist rhetoric."

“We are learning more every day, but I am confident saying that there was hate in this man’s heart,” Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at a Monday news conference. “Whether that was the only reason he did what he did, we’re not going to be fully sure. But I can tell you I’m certain of his language, in his own handwriting, and certain of the fact that the two people that were murdered are Black.”

If something like this can happen here, it can happen anywhere in this country.

[lindysalsagal]

3. Great. Using the US military to start race wars. Fantastic.

[UpInArms]

4. At least

Rush Limpbags is dead and no longer spewing hate on Air America … the station that military tunes in to

[Boomerproud]

5. Obviously the military culture attracts and nurtures this type

of mindset and behavior , at least currently. Makes me look at the institution with a jaundiced eye.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Have fun pounding rocks in the hard sun

I hear Leavenworth is great this time of year.

[Dan]

8. Well, fyi

They don’t pound rocks in the sun - that’s a southern thing…smile.

What prison does is even worse…. When you have a few minutes, sit down somewhere with no distractions and don’t move - for just 5 minutes. Now imagine years of something like that.

[Kingofalldems]

10. A marine at Ft. Leonard Wood?

[SeattleVet]

12. Lots of 'em...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Detachment,_Fort_Leonard_Wood

The Marine Corps Detachment at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri hosts the largest United States Marine Corps detachment outside a Marine Corps base. With over 1200 students and support personnel, Ft Leonard Wood hosts Marines training at the Motor Transport Instruction School, Military Police Instruction School, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defense School and the Engineer Equipment Instruction School.

[keithbvadu2]

13. One of Laura Ingraham's conservative evangelicals

One of Laura Ingraham's conservative evangelicals

https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-defund-military-general-milley-critical-race-theory-defense-1603625

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017663494

In a Wednesday night segment on her show The Ingraham Angle, she said: "We are sending out tax dollars to this military in an attempt to weed out so-called 'extremists,' which just means conservative evangelicals as far as I can tell.