[Twosugars]

FBI arrests white supremacist allegedly plotting to bomb Colorado synagogue
Richard Holzer was arrested Friday after undercover agents brought him supposed explosives.

The FBI says it has arrested a white supremacist who was planning an attack on a Colorado synagogue, describing the plan as “domestic terrorism”.

Richard Holzer, 27, of Pueblo, Colorado, is accused of plotting to attack the city’s Temple Emanuel synagogue. His co-conspirators included two undercover (UC) FBI agents.

Holzer allegedly expressed a desire to “get that place off the map”, and was not concerned if anyone would be hurt in the attack because they “would be Jews”.

He allegedly said that the bombing would be “a move for our race”.

Holzer was arrested on 1 November in Pueblo, after he had gone to a motel with two undercover agents to pick up explosives.

Holzer allegedly described the pipe bombs and sticks of dynamite proffered by the agents – actually dummies manufactured by the FBI at Quantico – as “absolutely gorgeous” and said they should go ahead with the attack overnight to avoid police. Earlier in the evening, he had displayed a Nazi armband and produced a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, a mask, and a knife from a backpack, according to authorities.

In a press conference Monday afternoon, Dean Phillips, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Colorado, said that the agency had started investigating Holzer after receiving a tip in September about his social media behavior. Then followed more than a month in which FBI agents posing as fellow white supremacists led Holzer to reveal the extent of his violent beliefs and fantasies.

Holzer made contact on Facebook with an FBI Online Covert Employee (OCE) who was posing as a female supporter of white supremacy in late September. He allegedly sent pictures of himself adorned with white supremacist symbols, a video of him wielding a machete, photos of him apparently urinating on a Jewish center, and another video of him wielding a knife, saying “**** antifa”.

He repeatedly expressed beliefs indicating virulent antisemitism and a deep inculcation in the beliefs of the white supremacist movement, according to the court documents. He allegedly told the undercover agent was preparing for “racial holy war”.

He also claimed to have paid a “Mexican cook” $70 to “hex and poison a local synagogue” and said the the cook had put arsenic in the synagogue’s water pipes, the court documents said.

The agent offered to introduce Holzer to “friends” visiting Colorado, who were in reality undercover agents. Online, he explained to one of them a plan to once again poison the synagogue.

On 17 October, undercover agents arranged a restaurant meeting with Holzer and his friend “Skeeter”. Holzer allegedly arrived with white supremacist paraphernalia as gifts, reiterated his belief in a holy war, and said he had paid a “witch doctor” to curse the synagogue.

He then canvassed the possibility of attacking the building with Molotov cocktails, in order to “vandalize the place beyond repair” and to do something that “tells them they are not welcome in this town”, according to investigators. The exchange was peppered the exchange with antisemitic slurs, according to the documents. Holzer, Skeeter and the undercover agents then cased the synagogue.

In subsequent online conversations, Holzer allegedly solicited the supply of more powerful explosives from the agents. He met with one of them on 31 October and made a plan to meet at the motel the following night in order to carry out the plot, which would involve bombing the synagogue in the early hours of Saturday 2 November.

When he showed up at the planned meeting, Holzer was arrested. In interrogation, according to the affidavit, he admitted to the plot, calling the plan “my mountain”, and described Jews and the synagogue as a “cancer”.

In a press conference on Monday, the Colorado US attorney, Jason Dunn, said Holzer had been charged with obstructing persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs, through force and the attempted use of explosives and fire, which carries a possible penalty of 20 years in prison.

Holzer remains in federal custody. His next hearing will take place on 7 November.
The Guardian

[Beso]

That would be the far left in the UK.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by parmnion

That would be the far left in the UK.

No it wouldn't

It's far right who idolize Hitler.
Far left are more likely to worship Stalin or Mao or Trotsky

[Livia]

Originally Posted by parmnion

That would be the far left in the UK.

Yes, it would. The Jew-hating far-left are feeling very courageous lately and it appears they're magical, because people on the moderate left can't see them and people on the far right deny they exist! The same people worrying about this, are the same people sticking up for Corbyn and his fellow anti-Semites.

[Kizzy]

This is like the twilight zone... someone mentions the far right and the threat posed by them and without reason it's flipped to the left?
It's really bizarre, why can't the genuine reported fact that this is a far right problem be addressed without the intimation without substantion that its actually the left at fault?

[The Slim Reaper]

We're living in truly bizarro world times, where up is down and left is right.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

We're living in truly bizarro world times, where up is down and left is right.

It's not that its simply a form of gaslighting. . All you have to be is conscious of the facts.. don't get dragged into what ifs, hypotheticals, have actual evidence denounced as nonsense and above all don't accept skewed opinion as fact.
I'm glad this was foiled too, there is a concentration of evil bubbling to the surface and every now and again bubbles of hate pop at certain groups. We are aware of the propaganda and the language used to curry this hate and yet for the most part turn a blind eye when it's right under our nose. ( just my opinion obv)

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

This is like the twilight zone... someone mentions the far right and the threat posed by them and without reason it's flipped to the left?
It's really bizarre, why can't the genuine reported fact that this is a far right problem be addressed without the intimation without substantion that its actually the left at fault?

This is an American news story...not the UK.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

This is an American news story...not the UK.

You brought up the UK

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by parmnion

This is an American news story...not the UK.

Does my post differentiate between the US and the UK? No it is applicable to both.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Livia

Yes, it would. The Jew-hating far-left are feeling very courageous lately and it appears they're magical, because people on the moderate left can't see them and people on the far right deny they exist! The same people worrying about this, are the same people sticking up for Corbyn and his fellow anti-Semites.

true.

But it's not about the jew, it's about the few..who knew the jew can't be the few.

[Tom4784]

It's funny that the right wing response to right wing extremism is always to defend it by pointing the finger at the left. The tribalism of the right wing is weird, they'll defend would be terrorists by using flawed whataboutism regarding the left when, if a left winger did something like this, they would be openly condemned by the left.

The left holds people accountable, the right look after their own, regardless of who they are and what they've done.

At the end of the day, let's be glad that this right wing terrorist failed miserably in his actions.

[The Slim Reaper]

bloody lefties

[GiRTh]

But he wears nice suits.

Cant believe thats all some people had to say about this tw@t

[arista]

Well done FBI
in USA

[Niamh.]

I think we should all just stay in the middle tbh

[Niamh.]

But ontopic, just really glad they got this guy before the attack

[Twosugars]

Dismiss, distract, distort and dismay - four d's of right wing propaganda playbook.
Trump uses it all the time