White supremacists await sentencing for planning domestic terrorism

• Published date: 09 October 2021
• Author: ARIELLA MARSDEN
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Both members of the "Base", Lemley and Mathews discussed plans to kill people including police officers and Blacks and break a murderer out of prison as well as plans of domestic terrorism.

The Base is a white supremacist group that recruits members through an online presence. Among their various postings on social media are calls for terror attacks and violent revolution against the state as well as encouraging people to seek out those who have committed "anti-White hate crimes" and "balance the scales."

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For Lemley, however, the Base is not the first white supremacist group that he has been affiliated with.

One of the pieces of evidence presented against him was an email he sent to the Northwest Front, a neo-Nazi "republic", in 2017. In it, Lemley was notifying the Front that his great grandmother was Jewish and requesting to dispute the "jewyness" in his bloodline. The Northwest Front eventually responded to him, after which he became a member, tweeting in support of the Front and its values.

In 2018, Lemley joined the League of the South white nationalist group and attended its Christmas party.

In 2019, he sent an email to the Base with an application to join the group. When asked for more information, he sent another long email stating his white supremacist values, calling for another civil war in the US and denying the Holocaust. He was apparently admitted and the Base's leader then posted a photo taken by Lemley of a Base flyer that he had posted to a fast food restaurant.

Lemley then retweeted a series of tweets by the Base that encouraged violence and white nationalism, as well as tweeting to multiple people, encouraging them to join the white supremacist group. He also attended two training camps run by the Base where he was taught survival skills and how to use firearms.

He also took part in encrypted online chats with other Base members, discussing plans to evade law enforcement and what to do if law enforcement showed up to arrest them. In messages he sent to the group, Lemley expressed his urge to kill people, specifying in one message that he wanted to kill a federal agent.

PATRIK JORDAN MATHEWS was identified as a member of the Base by a reporter from the Winnipeg Free Press who infiltrated the organization in 2019. In order to be accepted to join them, the reporter had to attend an in-person interview...