Judge Orders Man Allegedly Tied To Neo-Nazi Group Detained For Planning Attacks

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A federal judge in Las Vegas ordered a man allegedly affiliated with a neo-Nazi organization detained until trial on a weapons charge because he was planning violent attacks, according to a filing released Wednesday.

“The Court finds that the defendant is not just talking about what he believes and intends to do, but rather is planning, and has engaged in actions,” Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe wrote in her order.

In the criminal complaint against Conor Climo filed last week, in which he was charged with possession of an unregistered firearm, an FBI agent described online conversations in which Climo detailed plans to attack synagogues, a gay bar, an office of the Anti-Defamation League and other targets.

During Climo’s arrest, the agent said, law enforcement found various components that could be used in explosive devices in the man’s home, as well as two rifles. Climo also allegedly admitted to joining The Feuekrieg Division, a splinter group affiliated with the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, which has been tied to several killings.

The defendant admits that he is a White Supremacist and has an ideology regarding certain people, including Jewish people, homosexuals, and African Americans, and that he has hatred towards them, wants to cause harm to them, and kill them,” the judge said.

Climo’s hatred of Jews, the judge said, “appears to be driven by his lack of money and an anti-Semitic trope that people of the Jewish religion control money.”

Climo had admitted to “having suicidal ideations” and discussed “his unhappiness with his life and how extreme his unhappiness is,” the judge noted in her order.

Climo’s aunt said that Climo’s relationship with his mother was “awful,” the judge wrote, and that the defendant’s home “is not an appropriate place to live.”

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  1. Climo’s aunt said that Climo’s relationship with his mother was “awful,” the judge wrote, and that the defendant’s home “is not an appropriate place to live.”

    Shag carpet, linoleum and actual fricking wall paper, on the walls, will render any home unfit for habitation. I mean, look at their place. Gawd.

  2. I bet he voted for Hillary!

  3. All of these Nazi-fucks (I refuse to elevate them with “White Supremacist”) are immature, angry, pathetic losers who blame the entire world for their abject failure as human beings.
    The Reich-Wing Media (AM Radio, FOX, Brietbart, InfoWars, etc.) has poisoned their willing minds with the corrosive venom of vast conspiracies against their self-evident superiority as White Males by the usual suspects; Women, Jews, Blacks, Gays, Muslims, anybody but THEM is solely responsible for THEIR FAILURES. Being the ignorant little assholes they really are, they all run out and arm themselves to the teeth (that is the idea of the Reich-Wing Media, to fleece these rubes for every penny they get) and stock up on Apocalyptic goods like freeze-dried food, bunkers in the desert, etc.
    Sad little immature boys, when they are confronted with reality, they lash out viciously at the rest of us.
    If they weren’t so dangerous, they would just be pitiful.

  4. How long before Toadglans orders dis-Barr to facilitate his release? Perhaps on the grounds that jails are too dangerous.

    Please see EPSTEIN, Jeffrey

  5. Are you referring to 1933, or now?

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