The clinic, which provided abortion, birth control and other health services in Costa Mesa, Calif., was the target of a “brazen attack” in 2022, a prosecutor said.

He also was plotting attacks at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles during a pride celebration and on an electrical substation in Orange County, Calif., which he believed would start a race war, as well as planned home invasions targeting Jewish residents of Los Angeles, the statement said.

  • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8•1 month ago

    and on an electrical substation in Orange County, Calif., which he believed would start a race war

    I know “knock out the power to start a race war” is a neonazi trope as part of various plans for mass violence that go back decades, but man, I feel like the writer skimmed over this one just a bit. Are we really at the point where the average Joe reading the news reads that sentence and is like “oh yes, the neonazi conspiracy to throw the entire country into mass racial violence, I need no further elaboration”?

    • @silence7OP
      6•1 month ago

      People who pay attention to the news know about it because there were several examples of people shooting out neighborhood transformers in the hopes of kicking off racial mass murder about a year ago.

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3•1 month ago

        Back in 2022, yeah. Was there a lot of reporting on the context and origin of that belief at the time? I don’t remember any stories that actually went into the history of it or explained it beyond just mentioning it was a thing and moving on.

        Also seems like bad reporting to assume everyone remembers stories from years ago that happened across the country from the current story, especially since the article itself doesn’t connect them in any way.

        • @silence7OP
          2•1 month ago

          I don’t think I’ve seen a fully history of create-power-outage-to-set-off-race-war — just some discussion going back over a period of several years and how they Metcalf attack seems to have become an inspirational focal point for it, and some historical discussion of the idea that random sabotage and/or murder could do something like that to the benefit of Nazis, going back to Manson.

  • @dylanmorgan
    5•1 month ago

    We have legal precedent for people accused of terrorist acts being subject to military tribunals. This piece of garbage was an active duty marine when he committed a terrorist act. Perhaps a tribunal and public sentencing by the Marines would have been more appropriate, and more likely to discourage other white supremacists in the military.

  • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
    2•1 month ago

    Yeah… if you could not firebomb the free health clinic, that’d be great…

    There are people serving longer sentences for writing bad checks to buy groceries. Fuck this guy.