GUILTY Canada - Patrick Mathews, 26, Beausejour, Manitoba, 28 Aug 2019 *possibly armed* arrest in Delaware*

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They worship mass killers and they want to carry out terrorist attacks to accelerate what they see as a coming race war in Canada and the United States."

One of The Base's stated goals, Balgord said, is for members to get into the military in order to receive training and then spread that to others in their group.

"This is something that the Canadian Armed Forces needs to take extremely seriously," Balgord said.

Although membership in The Base is estimated at 50 to 100 members, Balgord says its goal is not to recruit a large number of people.

"Even one individual like this, with the kind of training that this person has, could be extremely dangerous. Just like if we had found a member of ISIS within our military, it would be a national story, there would be immediate action."

"My reaction is that that kind of stuff is deplorable and an insult to the intelligence of thinking people," said Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister.

"We have laws against these things. When those laws are violated people should be prosecuted."
  • All people have a responsibility to "eradicate hate from our society" by being careful with the words we use and the examples we set, said NDP Leader Wab Kinew.
"I would like to send a message that for those who are perhaps on the margins of being radicalized, those who are seeing YouTube videos that make you feel a certain kind of way, that it's not too late.

"You still can rejoin our society, but at the same time, it's not going to be easy. You've got to put in the work, too."

A spokesperson for the Winnipeg Police Service said it is aware of the posters in Winnipeg and is monitoring the situation, but declined to comment further.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...GHDy9GzqfJBTx_8tnKAX-Fv73dtNoH2snpQT6A0IaLRrM
 
indicolite22 said:
Neo-Nazi Terror Group Harbouring Missing Ex-Soldier: Sources

According to information VICE has learned from confidential sources, a U.S.-based neo-Nazi terrorist group is currently harbouring a missing ex-soldier from Canada.
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Eeeks!

"VICE, which obtained the encrypted contacts for The Base, requested comment multiple times, but never received a response from the group. Soon after those messages were sent, two social media accounts affiliated to The Base posted a death threat against a VICE journalist."
 
The information suggests members of The Base are hiding Patrik Mathews, 26, whose whereabouts have been the focus of much speculation.

Mathews went missing after being outed as a recruiter and organizer for The Base by Winnipeg Free Press reporter Ryan Thorpe. Federal authorities raided his home and seized multiple firearms. The former soldier was last seen by his family on August 24 with his abandoned car found less than 10 miles from the American border shortly thereafter.

While not charged with any crimes, U.S. police warned the public not to approach Mathews if he was spotted.

A source in the Department of National Defencein Canada confirmed to VICE that military intelligence has an open investigation into Mathews.

Recently, an anti-racist organization in Canada heavily criticized authorities for not taking the pursuit of Mathews seriously. A 2018 VICE investigation documented the internal machinations of The Base, which is purportedly led by an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran, as members exchanged bomb-making and weapons manuals and discussed plans for future terrorist attacks.

As a combat engineer, Mathews was taught explosives and weapons skills during his career in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve at 38 Canadian Brigade Group in Winnipeg.
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Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst specializing in white nationalist terrorism at the Counter Extremism Project, said that if Mathews was an ISIS member the significance of his alleged, illegal entry into the U.S. and his training of other members would have likely garnered a more extreme response from authorities.

“Had Mathews pledged his allegiance to ISIS, instead of joining The Base, there is a high likelihood that more resources would have been spent to try and locate him,” he said. “The operation to move and protect Mathews endangers public safety and it’s particularly significant because of his military training and experience and the fact that he crossed an international border. Mathews’ weapons and explosives training from his time in Canada’s armed forces, and that he is passing these skills on to his fellow neo-Nazis is particularly dangerous.”

Last month, the FBI arrested one of The Base's members for allegedly using the group's encrypted communications network to plan and recruit for a national vandalism campaign against American synagogues—a frequent target of violent white nationalists.

While it describes itself as a “survivalist” collective, The Base is a global, accelerationist organization intending to hasten the collapse of society through a future armed insurgency, and establish a caucasian ethno-state from the chaos of a “race war.” The Base is unique in the extreme-right ecosystem as it aims to create a coalition of online neo-Nazis, pooling members from street skinheads to other U.S. based terror groups like Atomwaffen Division, which has already been linked to a string of murders.

The Base has released a spate of violent propaganda online as it attempts to expand and recruit new members to its cause.

In the past six months, U.S. federal investigations against white nationalists have spiked, as authorities worry the upcoming 2020 presidential election will inspire a surge in homegrown terror attacks.

“One of The Base’s mottos is ‘learn, train, fight’ and they have already done the first two; it’s of vital importance that the group is disrupted and stopped before they commit a deadly attack.”
Neo-Nazi Terror Group Harbouring Missing Ex-Soldier: Sources
 
In August, the Free Press exposed Mathews as a recruiter for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group called The Base and as a trained combat engineer with a leadership position as a master corporal in the Canadian Army Reserves.

Shortly after being publicly identified, Mathews disappeared. His truck later turned up near the U.S.-Canada border, although his exact whereabouts remain unknown.

The Base — which extremist experts say represents the most violent, radical fringes of the far-right hate movement — is believed to have helped Mathews illegally cross the border. VICE reports it has evidence to suggest the group has been moving him around its network, keeping him hidden.

"The news illustrates how The Base, previously a mostly online collective of hardcore neo-Nazis, is evolving into a bona fide terror network with a recruitment structure, a paramilitary training apparatus and the capacity to covertly ferry members across international borders to fit its insurgent ambitions," VICE reports.

Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said news Mathews fled to the U.S. to link up with neo-Nazi comrades speaks to the level of commitment he and the organization have towards their cause.
Patrik Mathews shown near his Beausejour home shortly after his involvement in neo-Nazi hate group The Base was uncovered.
"He ran the border to stay with this group. He continues to stay with them. He’s travelled to train them. Other members are helping him hide. That all speaks to their level of commitment. This isn’t a casual association for any of them. They aren’t joking around," Balgord said.

"He’s taking the training he got in the Canadian Armed Forces and he’s giving it to other neo-Nazis who want to use that training to carry out terror attacks. By proxy, these people now have Canadian Armed Forces training."

was exposed as a violent extremist after a Free Press reporter went undercover and successfully infiltrated the group after passing through a multi-tiered vetting process.

While posing as a white nationalist, the reporter documented internal group discussions where members — including Mathews — praised convicted terrorists as "the saints" and called for mass shootings with high casualty counts.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations arrested a member of The Base last month in the U.S. after he’s alleged to have plotted a national vandalism campaign targeting synagogues.

Before he fled to the United States, Mathews lived in this small house in Beausejour. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press Files)
The RCMP said Mathews remains the subject of an active missing-person case, but declined further comment. The Mounties' national security unit was previously probing Mathews’ extremist activity, although it's unclear if the investigation is ongoing.

"We cannot discuss the details of this or any specific investigation," a DND spokeswoman said.

A source who tracks far-right extremism says in the aftermath of the Free Press exposé that identified Mathews, there was a downturn in social media activity associated with The Base.

However, in recent days, that’s changed. The source pointed to two newly created channels on social media devoted to propaganda for The Base — one created in early November, the other on Wednesday.

Shortly after Mathews was revealed as the local recruiter for The Base, his truck was discovered near the American border, fuelling speculation, apparently confirmed, that he travelled to meet up with another cell of the group. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press Files)
The group posted a video to an encrypted social media platform this week showing clips from paramilitary training events. In the video, masked men can be seen engaging in military-style training exercises and firing semi-automatic weapons.

At the end of the video, the photographs of five journalists — including the Free Press reporter who exposed Mathews — flash quickly on screen.

"With groups in the neo-Nazi terrorist scene, the flashing photos—and they’re often of journalists—is their way of sharing kill lists. By putting those journalists on kill lists, it is meant as an intimidation tactic against those who cover them," Balgord said.
Extremist U.S. neo-Nazi group harbouring missing Winnipeg ex-soldier: report
 
Mathews has not been charged with any crimes, but the sheriff of the Minnesota county closest to the abandoned car issued a statement warning citizens not to approach him.

Base propaganda claims that they intend to start a “race war” leading to a white-only state. The group was believed to mostly limit their activities to cyberspace, but that appears to be changing. According to Vice, Mathews taught helped train around a dozen members at a combat training camp in Georgia this fall. And last month, the FBI arrested a New Jersey-based member of the group and accused him of recruiting volunteers to vandalize synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Accused Canadian Neo-Nazi Soldier Who Went AWOL Was Smuggled Into U.S.
 
Little is known about him, but he is apparently driven by a sickening desire to provide Nazis around the world with terrorist skills.

Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst with Counter Extremism Project (CEP), is convinced the group poses a credible threat.

"The Base has previously posted information on explosives and has organized training camps where they have conducted firearms drills.

"From an ideological perspective, it is possible that the group might eventually attempt to commit acts of terrorism to further their... agenda.”

Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at CSU, agreed these “silos of radicalism, incubators of radicalism” were dangerous.

"Even just up to Charlottesville, there was an attempt to mainstream white supremacy,” Levin explained, referencing the bloody 2017 protest in Virginia.

“Now, we have a very splintered and fragmented neo-Nazi and white supremacy scene that includes more stealth groups which are often a bit smaller and more violent."

Levin added that advocating a certain type of violence, accompanied by operational trainings "makes this type of group a more dangerous outfit than [others]."
Neo-Nazi social network The Base sets up secretive paramilitary training across US
 
ARREST!
Jan 16, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...rvist-neo-nazi-group-army-reservist-1.5429218

''Patrik Mathews, who has been missing since he was accused of recruiting for a global neo-Nazi terrorist group while serving in Canada's army reserves, has been arrested in the United States.

He was taken into custody in Delaware on Thursday and is scheduled to appear in court in the afternoon.

Mathews, 27, was one of three taken into custody by the FBI, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The others are a 33-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, both from Maryland.

It's alleged all three are members of the racially motivated and violent extremist group The Base, the release says.''
 
Oh my goddd thanks @dotr for the heads up, I’m so happy to read this news! Lives may have been indirectly saved! I’m sure the love he will be spreading in prison will be really positive too :rolleyes:
So glad though, appreciate the update!
 
FBI nabs Canadian neo-Nazi reservist, two others, preparing for violence at Virginia 'Boogaloo'
"The FBI announced today that it had arrested Mathews, along with two other members of The Base. They were planning acts of violence around Monday’s planned protest in Richmond, Virginia, against gun control measures being planned by the Virginia Legislature."
"According to the affidavit, Lemley and Mathews bought about 1,650 rounds of 5.56mm and 6.5mm ammunition for their planned trip to Virginia to participate in the anti-gun-control rally."

Looks like the worst scenario around his going missing was right since this appears to be a terror plot they disrupted.
 
Missing Canadian Linked To White Supremacist Group, Who Illegally Crossed Border In Minnesota, Arrested Ahead Of Pro-Gun Rally

BI agents on Thursday arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally next week in Virginia’s capital.

The three men are members of The Base and were arrested on federal charges in a criminal complaint unsealed in Maryland, according to a Justice Department news release.


Patrik Mathews (credit: Roseau Co. Sheriff’s Office)

Tuesday’s complaint charges Canadian national Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, and Brian Mark Lemley Jr., 33, of Elkton, Maryland, with transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony. William Garfield Bilbrough IV, 19, of Denton, Maryland, is charged with “ transporting and harboring aliens.”

The three men were believed to be planning to attend the pro-gun rally planned for Monday in Richmond, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an active investigation.
 
dotr said:
ARREST!
Jan 16, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...rvist-neo-nazi-group-army-reservist-1.5429218

''Patrik Mathews, who has been missing since he was accused of recruiting for a global neo-Nazi terrorist group while serving in Canada's army reserves, has been arrested in the United States.

He was taken into custody in Delaware on Thursday and is scheduled to appear in court in the afternoon.

Mathews, 27, was one of three taken into custody by the FBI, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The others are a 33-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, both from Maryland.

It's alleged all three are members of the racially motivated and violent extremist group The Base, the release says.''
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Dotr, thanks so much for the update. This is a most serious capture of dangerous people. There is no doubt in my mind these men were capable of mass destruction and intolerable viral hate.
 
jillybean51 said:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/fbi-arrests-the-base-georgia-wisconsin-1.5432006
The Base was planning to murder Matthews
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Lol, talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
From link, thanks..rbbm.
"Although the document suggests the group member believed to be Mathews stayed with a Georgia cell member for months, he is later reportedly characterized as "incompetent" and "stupid" and is seen as a liability to the local group. In fact, he eventually becomes a new potential murder target.

Local police and the FBI believe the headquarters for The Base's paramilitary training camp was a home and 105-acre tract of land in Silver Creek, Ga.

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These undated photos provided by Floyd County, Ga., police show, from the left, Luke Austin Lane of Floyd County, Jacob Kaderli of Dacula, and Michael Helterbrand of Dalton, Ga. FBI spokesperson Kevin Rowson said Friday that agents assisted in the arrests of the three Georgia men linked to The Base, a violent white supremacist group, on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and participating in a criminal street gang. (Floyd County Police/The Associated Press)
That's where Luke Austin Lane, 21, was arrested on Wednesday. Michael John Helterbrand, 25, and Jacob Kaderli, 19, were scooped up shortly after. They are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and participation in a criminal gang known as The Base.''
 
Jan 21 2020 lengthy and scary.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patrick-mathews-base-violent-revolution-1.5435323

''A former army reservist and two other alleged members of a violent neo-Nazi group discussed "executing" a police officer to steal his weapons and "committing targeted acts of violence" at Monday's pro-gun rally in Virginia, according to documents filed Tuesday in a Maryland court.

Patrick Mathews — who went missing for several months after police raided his home in Beausejour, Man. — also made a video calling for violent revolution and the derailing of trains, expressed hopes of building a network for others with similar views, and predicted an upcoming civil war, according to a sweeping document filed by federal prosecutors. ''

"Derail some f-cking trains, kill some people and poison some water supplies … If you want the white race to survive, you're going to have to do your f-cking part."

At one point, Mathews says wishes he had set explosive devices for the RCMP team that raided his home and took his guns in August.

"In all honesty, I could really wish they f-cking all started searching my place, accidentally trip a pin, and, boom, and the whole house goes boom. Boy, wouldn't that be terrible, a bunch of f-cking RCMP search experts got f-cking exploded," he said, according to court documents''.


''One day before their arrests, Lemley told Mathews that "there cannot be no trust among a group of murderers," court documents say.

"I cannot trust you to keep my murdering secrets. Not under threat of 30 years in jail and torture. Why should I trust you?" Lemley asked.''
 
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