Details Emerge About Accused Coast Guard Terrorist

Heavy.com reports:

In September 2017, he wrote a letter directed to a “known American neo-Nazi leader,” prosecutors said. He identified himself as a white nationalist for more than 30 years. The letter was sent seven weeks after the Charlottesville rally.

In the letter, he said he has “been a skinhead,” since before his time in the military. He wrote, that he fully supports a “white homeland.”

“I never saw a reason for mass protest or wearing uniforms marching around provoking people with swastikas etc.,” Hasson wrote. “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.”

Politico reports:

He appeared to find inspiration in Russia for its antipathy toward American liberalism, and his browser history revealed searches including “what if trump illegally impeached” and “civil war if trump impeached,” according to the court filing. “Looking to Russia with hopeful eyes or any land that despises the west’s liberalism. Excluding of course the muslim scum. Who rightfully despise the west’s liberal degeneracy,” Hasson wrote in a draft email according to the filings.

Hasson also was apparently inspired by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right terrorist who carried out two attacks in 2011 in Oslo and at a political youth camp. Breivik took a cocktail of steroids and other drugs, believing they would help him carry out the attacks. Similarly, investigators found steroids and the pain reliever Tramadol — a highly addictive controlled substance — in Hasson’s home.

CNN reports:

Musing in a draft email acquired by prosecutors, Hasson allegedly wrote, “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth.” When law enforcement agents searched his house they found 15 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, according to the documents. Hasson, who is assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, is a former Marine. He will appear Thursday in US District Court for the District of Maryland for a hearing.

Hasson seems to have heard President Trump’s call for “retribution.” Almost every figure on Hasson’s kill list had been singled out by President Trump for threat or abuse.

— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 21, 2019

High among those Hasson wanted to murder is Rep. Maxine Waters. President Trump threatened Waters with harm at the hands of his supporters back in June 2018. https://t.co/5Ef10q21HO

— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 21, 2019