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Title: Feds: Coast Guard lieutenant compiled hit list of lawmakers
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URL Source: https://apnews.com/e919eb94af514cfc9a43982fc7e2e617
Published: Feb 20, 2019
Author: MICHAEL BALSAMO
Post Date: 2019-02-20 18:12:42 by Gatlin
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Comments: 33
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a Coast Guard lieutenant is a “domestic terrorist” who wrote about biological attacks and had a hit list that included prominent Democrats and media figures. Christopher Paul Hasson is due in court on Thursday in Maryland. He was arrested on gun and drug charges last week. Prosecutors say Hasson espoused extremist views for years. Court papers detail a June 2017 draft email in which Hasson described an “interesting idea” that included “biological attacks followed by attack on food supply.” Federal agents found 15 firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition when Hasson was arrested. Prosecutors say he also had compiled a list of prominent congressional Democrats, activists, journalists and media commentators.
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#3. To: Gatlin, Police State USA, Books, Guns, Thought Crime (#0)
Hasson routinely read portions of a manifesto written by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik That ain't nothing! Ooooh,how scary, he read something! Is that illegal now? Busted for a Federal Thought Crime.
From this article: From hondope: From another article: A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist was arrested after federal investigators uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition in his Maryland home that authorities say he stockpiled to launch a widespread domestic terrorist attack targeting politicians and journalists. Christopher Paul Hasson called for “focused violence” to “establish a white homeland” and said, “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth,” according to court records filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland. Though court documents do not detail a specific planned date for an attack, the government said he had been amassing supplies and weapons since at least 2017, developed a spreadsheet of targets that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- Calif.) and searched the Internet using phrases such as “best place in dc to see congress people” and “are supreme court justices protected.” “The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” the government said in court documents filed this week, arguing that Hasson should stay in jail awaiting trial. Hasson, 49, of Silver Spring, is expected to appear before a judge for a detention hearing in federal court in Greenbelt at 1 p.m. Thursday. Hasson was arrested Friday on charges of illegally possessing weapons and drugs, but the government said those charges are the “proverbial tip of the iceberg.” Officials with the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland outlined Hasson’s alleged plans to spark chaos and destruction, describing in court documents a man obsessed with neo-fascist and neo-Nazi views. “Please send me your violence that I may unleash it onto their heads,” Hasson wrote in a letter that prosecutors said was found in his email drafts. “Guide my hate to make a lasting impression on this world.” A magistrate judge ordered the federal public defender’s office to represent Hasson; that office declined to comment Wednesday. Hasson has been working at the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters in Washington since 2016, according to court documents filed by prosecutors. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1988 to 1993 and in the Army National Guard for about two years in the mid-1990s, the filings state. Agents with the FBI field office in Baltimore and the Coast Guard Investigative Service arrested Hasson, FBI Baltimore spokesman Dave Fitz confirmed. A Coast Guard spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride, said Wednesday that Hasson no longer works at Coast Guard headquarters. “An active duty Coast Guard member stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., was arrested last week on illegal weapons and drug charges as a result of an ongoing investigation led by Coast Guard Investigation Services, in cooperation with the FBI and the Dept. of Justice,” McBride said in a statement. McBride declined to comment further, citing the open investigation. Federal investigators say Christopher Hasson had a cache of guns stockpiled to launch a terrorist attack targeting liberal politicians and journalists. Court documents do not detail what prompted federal law enforcement to begin investigating Hasson but contend that Hasson had been studying the 1,500-page manifesto of right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who unleashed two attacks in 2011 that killed 77 people in Norway, and echoed Breivik’s attack preparations. The manifesto outlined how Breivik planned and prepared his attacks with the aim of providing a road map for others planning similar terrorist operations, the U.S. court filings say. Breivik took steroids and narcotics, believing it would heighten his abilities to carry out attacks. When law enforcement raided Hasson’s apartment, they said they found a locked container loaded with more than 30 vials of what appeared to be human growth hormone. He has also ordered more than 4,200 pills of the narcotic Tramadol since 2016, along with synthetic urine to allegedly bypass possible random drug screenings at work, they said. Breivik encouraged identifying targets and traitors. In recent weeks, according to the court filings, Hasson developed a spreadsheet of targets that included top Democratic congressional leaders and media personalities. The list includes “JOEY,” what prosecutors say is a reference to former congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.), now of MSNBC; “cortez,” an alleged reference to freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.); and “Sen blumen jew,” presumably about Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Authorities seized 15 firearms, including several long guns and rifles, and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his cramped basement apartment after executing a search warrant this month. Over the past two years, he had made nearly two dozen purchases of firearms or related equipment and made thousands of visits to websites selling weapons or tactical gear. The filing was first reported Wednesday afternoon by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. 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. “We are aware of the offensive video on twitter — the Coast Guard has identified the member and removed him from the response,” the service said at the time in a tweet. “His actions do not reflect those of the United States Coast Guard.” That individual was not identified. lynh.bui@washpost.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/self-proclaimed-white-nationalist-planned- mass-terror-attack-government-says-i-am-dreaming-of-a-way-to-kill-almost-every- last-person-on-earth/ar-BBTS5sH
Chuckles Barr is now taking the guns. President Trump's new US Attorney General, William Barr is working with Dianne Feinstein on "Reasonable Regulations" for guns, aka Gun Control including Red Flag Gun Confiscations.
Watch the whole video of the hearing and especially the response by Barr to questions by Feinstein and pay particular attention the follow up question by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) when Cornyn asked Barr to update Congress on his view of the Second Amendment. Here is a good summation of Barr responding to Feinstein and Cornyn: "Do you still believe that prudent controls on weapons won't reduce violent crime?" Feinstein, a staunch gun control advocate, asked him. "I think that the problem of our time is to get an effective system in place that can keep dangerous firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people," Barr replied. That is -- should be priority number one. And it's going to take some hard work. And we need to get on top of the problem. We need to come up with agreed- to standards that are prohibitors of people who are mentally ill. We have to put the resources in to get the system built up the way we did many years ago on the felon records and so forth. We have to get the system working. And as I say, it's sort of piecemeal a little bit right now. We need to really get some energy behind it and get it done. And I also think we need to push along the ERPOs (Extreme Risk Protection Orders), so we have these red flag laws to supplement the use of the background check to find out if someone has some mental disturbance. This is the single most important thing I think we can do in the gun control area to stop these massacres from happening in the first place. Later, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Barr to update Congress on his view of the Second Amendment. Barr said that even before the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision, which upheld the individual right to bear arms, he believed that was so. "I personally concluded that the Second Amendment creates a personal right under the Constitution," Barr said. It's based on the Lockean notion of the right of self-preservation. It's tied to that. And I was glad that -- to see Heller come out and vindicate that initial view that I had. And so there's no question under Heller that the right to have weapons is -- firearms, is protected under the Second Amendment and is a personal right. At the same time, there's room for reasonable regulation. And you know, from my standpoint, what I would look for is -- in assessing a regulation is, what's the burden on law-abiding people? And is it proportionate to whatever benefit in terms of safety and effectiveness will be conferred? As I said just a moment ago, let's get down to the real problem we're confronting, which is keeping these weapons out of the hands of people who are mentally ill. And I think all the rest of this stuff is really essentially rhetoric until we really get that problem dealt with, in terms of regulatory approaches. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/william-barr-explains-single- most-important-thing-we-can-do-gun-control
You, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Barr, and President Trump are on the same page, Take The Guns First, Due Process later. There has been no conviction of anything, but the guns have been confiscated prior to even appearing in court. Guilty until proven innocent. AG Barr is another Eric Holder, fast and furious gun confiscations. When are you going to get off of the Obongo plantation?
Hasson served in the Marine Corps from 1988 to 1993. He was then on active duty with the Army National Guard for approximately two years. He began working for the Coast Guard in 2016.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Hasson#Career Hanson is a United States Coast Guard officer. He wouldn't be there if he had been deemed mentally defective. Your shuck 'n jive BS has nothing to do with this incident. If you weren’t so mentally defective, you'd realize that.
I know of no one who said he wasn’t. I know of no legal authority where he was deemed mentally defective. So, what is your point? But the facts I presented have everything to do with the topic of your post to me which was: Now which do you want to discuss, Hansen’s case or Red Flag laws? The two subjects are entirely different and definitely not mutually inclusive here. Take your time to decide. I realize that making a simple decision is a complex matter for you.
Hogg Wild Tater Nation The topic is President Trump's campaign to disarm military personnel, after demonizing them. IMO, a test run for national gun confiscations. You'd be OK with that, but what about red blooded Americans? You're a wacko, tater peeling officer Gatlin, so we're taking ur guns!
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#7. To: hondo68, Everyone (#3)
15 firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition
Hasson routinely read portions of a manifesto written by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik
That ain't nothing!
Ooooh,how scary, he read something! Is that illegal now? Busted for a Federal Thought Crime.
So….nothing to see here, according to hondope, folks.
Move along now, everyone.
/ Sarcasm
#26. To: Gatlin, Deckard, Sneakypete, Red Flag Confiscations, Take the Guns First tater, Trump, Feinswine, Barr, recycled bushbots, *Bang List* (#7)
Red Flag Gun Confiscations "Reasonable Restrictions", aka Gun Control
Take the Guns First being "Pushed Along". Building up the system. 
#27. To: hondo68, A K A Stone (#26)
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(CNSNews.com) - "In 1994, you said that gun control is a dead end," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told Attorney General-nominee William Barr at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
After viewing the video, you should have no doubt that Barr fully supports the Second Amendment.
#28. To: Gatlin, thought pre-crime, Take The Guns First (#27)
#29. To: hondo68 (#28)
You, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Barr, and President Trump are on the same page …
As far as I am concerned, I recognize the fact that possession of a firearm by the mentally ill is regulated by both state and federal laws. Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.” Restrictions in state laws vary from state to state.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Heller and McDonald decisions are the most important legal affirmations of the right of U.S. citizens to possess and bear firearms under the Second Amendment with the exception of persons with mental illness. Their right may be restricted. Take The Guns First, Due Process later.
Take the guns when anyone is violating federal and state laws that have been enacted prohibiting gun ownership by persons adjudicated to suffer with mental illness, who have been involuntarily committed to an institution or deemed by a legal authority to be dangerous or mentally incompetent.
#30. To: Gatlin, adjudicated mentally defective?, tater tard (#29)
18 U.S.C. § 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.”
Career
#31. To: hondo68 (#30)
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Hanson is a United States Coast Guard officer.
This is true. He wouldn't be there if he had been deemed mentally defective.
This is also true. Your shuck 'n jive BS has nothing to do with this incident.
Of course it doesn’t have anything to do with Hanson. Red Flag Gun Confiscations "Reasonable Restrictions", aka Gun Control
Didn’t they? Of course they did. If you weren’t so mentally defective, you'd realize that.
If you weren’t so damned eternally stupid, you’d be able to stay on topic.
#32. To: Gatlin, Hogg Bro, Red Flag Gun Confiscation, all military personnel turn 'em in (#31)
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