A self-proclaimed white nationalist who woked as a US Coast Guard officer has been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack with one of his plans being to kill almost everyone on earth.
The ‘terrorist’ spent hours on end planning a wide-scale domestic terrorist attack, even logging in at his work computer on the job at headquarters to study the manifestos and heinous paths of mass shooters, prosecutors say.
He researched how to carry out sniper attacks, they contend, and whether rifle scopes were illegal. And all the while, investigators assert, he was amassing a cache of weapons as he ruminated about attacks on politicians and journalists.
The 49-year-old lieutenant, Christopher Paul Hasson, was arrested last week on gun and drug charges, but intended “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” according to court documents filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Maryland.
A month before his arrest, Hasson performed Google searches such as “what if trump illegally impeached,” the court documents say.
In a similar vein, Hasson wrote — in a draft email from 2017 found in his deleted file, authorities said — that “Liberalist/globalist ideology is destroying traditional peoples esp white. No way to counteract without violence.”
Hasson’s case may suggest that President Donald Trump’s repeatedly calling the media “the enemy of the people” can have consequences.
“I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth,” Hasson said in one of his letters that contemplated creating a biological plague, according to the court’s records.
And it was only after Hasson’s arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors assert he was crafting became apparent, detected by an internal Coast Guard program that watches for any “insider threat.”
The program identified suspicious computer activity tied to Hasson, prompting the agency’s investigative service to launch an investigation last fall, said Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride, a service spokesman.