TWO NEO-NAZIS WERE MURDERED IN FLORIDA, AND THE STORY TOOK MANY
DIFFERENT TURNS AFTER THE INVESTIGATORS FOUND
EXPLOSIVES ON THE ñ AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.
THERE WERE FOUR SO-CALLED ANALYSES LIVING TOGETHER AT THIS
PLACE, AND AT ONE POINT THE SUSPECT, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED
WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, DEVON ARTHURS IS HIS NAME, APPARENTLY
HAD CONVERTED TO ISLAM, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD SURPRISED
WITH THIS NEO-NAZI IDEOLOGY.
NOW, AFTER HE HAD DONE SO, NATURALLY HIS NEO-NAZI
FRIENDS WERE DISRESPECTING HIS NEWFOUND FAITH.
YOU THINK?
SO, AS A RESULT HE DECIDED TO MURDER THEM.
AFTER HE MURDERED THEM, HE ACTUALLY WENT TO A STORE, AND
BASICALLY HELD HOSTAGES; AUTHORITIES SHOWED UP FIVE
MINUTES LATER, LUCKILY NO ONE WAS HURT THEN, BUT ARTHURS DID
LET THE COPS KNOW THAT HE HAD KILLED TWO PEOPLE THAT HE
WAS LIVING WITH.
AT THAT POINT, AUTHORITIES SHOWED UP TO THE SCENE OF
THE CRIME, AND THEY FOUND A 21-YEAR-OLD
BY THE NAME OF BRANDON RUSSELL.
HE IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD.
NOW, WHEN THEY STARTED INVESTIGATING, AND THEY
LOOKED INTO THE PARK ñ INTO THE APARTMENT TO SEE IF THEY
COULD FIND ANY EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME ñ AND OF COURSE THEY
FOUND THE BODIES OF THE TWO VICTIMS ñ AUTHORITIES ACTUALLY
FOUND EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS, OR MATERIALS TO MAKE EXPLOSIVES.
"INVESTIGATORS FOUND A COOLER FULL OF A WHITE, TAKE LIKE
EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL KNOWN AS H MTD.
NEARBY, THEY FOUND EXPOSE OF PRECURSORS, CHEMICALS THAT CAN
BE MIXED TO CREATE EXPLOSIVES, INCLUDING POTASSIUM CHLORATE,
POTASSIUM NITRATE, NITRATE ñ NITROMETHANE, AND MORE THAN
A POUND OF AMMONIUM NITRATE IN A PACKAGE ADDRESSED TO RUSSELL."
NOW, RUSSELL SAID THAT HE WAS IN THE USF ENGINEERING CLUB IN
2013, AND USED THE H MTD, IN PART, TO BOOST HOMEMADE
ROCKETS AND TO SEND BALLOONS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
A MEMBER OF THE FBI SAID THAT THESE MATERIALS ARE MUCH
TOO STRONG FOR THE PROJECT THAT HE WAS CLAIMING HE WAS
USING IT FOR, BUT ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT IN HIS BEDROOM,
"INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED NOT SEE NYT PREMISES
PROPAGANDA, INCLUDING A FRAMED PHOTO OF TIMOTHY MCVEIGH."
I WANT YOU GUYS TO BE CLEAR ON THIS, DEVON ARTHURS IS THE
KILLER, HE IS THE ONE "SUSPECT" WHO HAS ADMITTED TO KILLING
HIS TWO ROOMMATES, WHO HE SAID WERE NEO-NAZIS.
NOW, ONE OF THEIR SISTERS SAYS, NO NO, MY BROTHER WAS A SWEET
NEO-NAZI ñ I MEAN, MY BROTHER WAS A SWEET GUY.
BUT THEY DID FIND NEO-NAZI PARAPHERNALIA ALL OVER THE
APARTMENT.
THE BOMBS IS NOT THE KILLER STOP THE BOMBING EQUIPMENT IS
RUSSELL'S.
RUSSELL IS NOT THE GUY WHO DID THE KILLING, RUSSELL IS THE GUY
WHO THE FBI FOUND CRYING OUTSIDE BECAUSE HIS ROOMMATES ARE DEAD.
RIGHT, HE DISCOVERS HIS TWO DEAD REMAINS AND IS CRYING AS A
RESULT OF THAT.
SO, AGAIN, RUSSELL IS NOT THE ONE SUSPECTED OF MURDER IN
THIS CASE; HOWEVER, HE DID HAVE THE MATERIALS NECESSARY TO
MAKE EXPLOSIVES, AND IT DID SEEM AS THOUGH THERE WAS SOME
QUESTIONABLE INTENT THERE, AND SO HE HAS BEEN CHARGED FOR
HAVING THOSE MATERIALS IN HIS HOME.
YEAH, AND SO, THE FBI EXPERT IS LIKE, NO NO NO, THIS IS
HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, AND YOU DON'T USE IT FOR BALLOONS.
I MEAN, I WOULD HAVE COME UP WITH A BETTER EXCUSE.
IF YOU'VE GOT NEO-NAZI PARAPHERNALIA ALL OVER, AND
IN SOME OF THE MESSAGES IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT BOMBING PEOPLE, KILLING PEOPLE, AND YOU GOT A
FRAMED PHOTO OF TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, AND EXPLOSIVES IN YOUR FRIDGE?
AND YOU SAY IT'S FOR BALLOONS?
NOT THE BEST EXCUSE YOU COULD COME UP WITH.
AND REMEMBER, ARTHURS IS THE ONE WHO GOT RUSSELL IN TROUBLE.
HE'S THE ONE WHO DID THE CRIME, SO THE AUTHORITIES SHOWED
UP AND DID AN INVESTIGATION AND FOUND THESE EXPLOSIVE
MATERIALS, AND ARTHURS CONTINUES TO THROW RUSSELL UNDER THE BUS.
HE STATED THAT, "FOR SOME TIME FOR THE MURDERS, HE HAD
BEEN PRIVY TO RUSSELL PARTICIPATING IN ONLINE
NEO-NAZI INTERNET CHAT ROOMS WHERE HE THREATENED TO KILL
PEOPLE AND BOMB INFRASTRUCTURE."
SO, WHY AM I WRINGING THIS STORY UP?
FIRST OF ALL, IT'S INTERESTING TO BEGIN WITH, BUT
SECONDLY, THANKFULLY THE AUTHORITIES WERE ABLE TO
FIND THIS MATERIAL BEFORE IT WAS ACTUALLY PUT TO USE, BUT
THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF THAT NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED.
THIS IS A MAN WHO WAS IDOLIZING TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, WHO KILLED OVER
100 PEOPLE IN OKLAHOMA; INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS, RIGHT?
HE IS IDOLIZING THAT GUY.
THIS IS THE TYPE OF ACTIVITY THAT NEEDS TO GET SOME TYPE
OF ATTENTION, NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED, AND WE NEED
AUTHORITIES TO FOCUS ON.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IN TERMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY COME ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2009,
THEY GOT RID OF A TEAM THAT FOCUSED ON RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM.
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT, HEY, YOU KNOW, THE CONSERVATIVES ARE
COMPLAINING ABOUT OUR FOCUS ON THIS ISSUE, SO MAYBE WE
NEED TO RE-SHIFT OUR FOCUS ON TWO OTHER TYPES OF TERRORISM.
BUT THIS IS THE TYPE OF TERRORISM THAT EXISTS IN THE
COUNTRY AND IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
ANDY ñ IN THE CASE OF ARTHURS, THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO
CATCH HIM IF THEY WERE TRACKING NEO-NAZI ACTIVITY.
BY THE WAY, RUSSELL SAID THERE MIGHT BE TWO RADIATION
SOURCES AS WELL INSIDE THE APARTMENT.
BUT ARTHURS WAS PART OF A GROUP THAT TRANSLATED IN GERMAN TO
ATOMIC WEAPONS, AND ACCORDING TO THE ALLEGATIONS, HE WOULD GO TO
A WEBSITE CALLED THE GLOBAL FASCISTS FRATERNITY, WHERE THEY
URGED, QUOTE, RACE WAR NOW!
NOW, WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS RACE WAR, AS WE SAW IN
CHARLESTON, SOMETIMES THEY MEAN IT.
AND, REMEMBER WHEN NEW YORK WOULD INVESTIGATE INNOCENT
AS LIMBS, AND THEY DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING?
THEY WENT THROUGH THEIR MOSQUES, THEY WENT TO THEIR SCHOOLS, THEY
EVEN WENT DOWN TO RUTGERS WHERE THEY DID NOT BELONG, IT
WASN'T THEIR JURISDICTION, AND THEY INVESTIGATE THEM AND
FOUND NOTHING ANYWAY.
WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE ONLINE SAYING LET'S START A RACE
WAR, AND CALL OURSELVES THE ATOMIC WEAPONS, AND IDOLIZE
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, I WOULD TAKE A PEEK OVER THERE.
I WOULD DO IT LEGALLY, GET WARRANTS, ETC.,
IF IT IS WARRANTED ñ LITERALLY ñ BUT YES, LOOK INTO IT.
AND IF THEY HAD, THEY MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, HUH, THIS NEO-NAZI
KID TURNED INTO A FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIM.
WHICH IS SO CRAZY.
HE WENT FROM BEING A NEO-NAZI TO ALL OF A SUDDEN BEING ANGRY
ABOUT AMERICAN POLICY WHICH MURDERS INNOCENT CIVILIANS
ABROAD.
WHICH, BY THE WAY, I AGREE WITH THAT, WE SHOULD NOT BE
KILLING INNOCENT CIVILIANS ABROAD, REGARDLESS OF THEIR
POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION.
THE KID IS SUPER UNSTABLE.
HE THEN GETS SO ENGROSSED IN IT THAT HE'S LIKE, WELL, YOU
KNOW, IF YOU GUYS AREN'T GOING TO STOP KILLING PEOPLE IN
MY COUNTRY ON WHAT YOU START KILLING PEOPLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.
DUDE, YOU WERE BORN IN FLORIDA, WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU
TALKING ABOUT?
OBVIOUSLY RELIGION IS AN IDEOLOGY AND YOU CAN CONVERT
TO IT, SO HE CONVERTED AND HE IS MUSLIM, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY HE'S NOT A REAL MUSLIM.
I KNOW, NO TRUE SCOTSMAN.
YOU CALL YOURSELF A MUSLIM, YOU ARE A MUSLIM.
BUT IF I AM AN FBI AGENT WHO WAS TRACKING THIS KID IN THE FIRST
PLACE, AND HE IS A NEO-NAZI CLOWN TURNS INTO A MUSLIM
CLOWN, AND HIS ROOMMATE ONLINE IS TALKING ABOUT RACE WARS,
ETC.,
MAYBE THEY COULD HAVE FOUND HIM BEFORE HE DID THE KILLINGS
OF HIS NEO-NAZI BUDDIES.
YEAH, BUT WHAT I ALWAYS HAVE TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING IS
THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NSA.
THE ARGUMENT THAT PRIVACY ADVOCATES MAKE OVER AND OVER
AGAIN, IF YOU ARE INDISCRIMINATELY COLLECTING ALL
OF THIS DATA, ON EVERY AMERICAN, REGARDLESS OF REASONABLE
SUSPICION, OR PROBABLE CAUSE, YOU JUST COLLECT THE
INFORMATION INDISCRIMINATELY.
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE ALL THIS DATA AND IT BECOMES EVEN
MORE DIFFICULT TO ANALYZE IT, RIGHT?
SO, YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME SORT OF HINT, AT LEAST, THAT SOMEONE
IS DANGEROUS IF YOU ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SPY ON THEM.
OR HAVE SOME SUSPICION ABOUT SOMEONE BEFORE YOU SPY ON THEM.
SO, THEY ARE JUST INDISCRIMINATELY ELECTING
ALL THIS INFORMATION, AND ARE WE SAFER?
THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE PART OF ñ
THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN THESE ONLINE FORUMS TALKING
ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE AND IT'S TOTALLY OKAY.
THEY DON'T GET INVESTIGATED.
AND THE STORY CLOSE UP NOW, WHERE TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
MURDERED.
IT IS NOT JUST UN-AMERICAN TO SPY IN ON ALL OF US WHO ARE
INNOCENT, BUT IT IS ALSO INEFFICIENT, TO ANA'S POINT.
IT DOESN'T HELP YOU GET QUICKER TO THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY
MIGHT CAUSE US HARM.
SO START FOCUSING ON THE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT CAUSE US HARM,
AND STOP SPYING ON THE REST OF US.
AND WHEN YOU DON'T, IT LEADS US TO BELIEVE THAT MAYBE THE
SPYING IS TO KEEP US SAFE, BUT TO KEEP YOU SAFE; YOU BEING
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY IN POWER, AND OF SUMMARY
CHALLENGES YOUR POWER, LO AND BEHOLD WHAT I HAVE ON YOU.
MEANWHILE, THESE NEO-NAZI/MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST KIDS ARE
RUNNING ALL OVER FLORIDA.
IT'S AN INTERESTING STORY WHERE YOU HAVE NEO-NAZIS AND RADICAL
MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS TAKING PART IN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.
FINALLY I WANT TO SAY ON THIS, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE GOT TO
A POINT IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE FOCUSING ON CERTAIN TYPES
OF TERRORISM BECAME AN IDEOLOGICAL THING.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS SHOULD FOCUS ON TERRORISTIC ATTACK, OR
ATTEMPTED ATTACK, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEIR AFFILIATION IS.
I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MUSLIM, JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, IT
DOESN'T MATTER.
TERRORISM IS TERRORISM, AND WE NEED TO STOP PRETENDING AS
IF ONE IS A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THE OTHER.
BUT THOSE GUYS ARE MENTAL MAN.
THEY PROBABLY COME IN THEIR PROJECTION, THINK THAT WE
THINK LIKE THEY DO.
THAT WE DON'T WANT THEM TO LOOK INTO MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
OF COURSE WE WANT THEM TO LOOK INTO MUSLIM TERRORISTS, WE
DON'T WANT TO GET BLOWN UP.
JUST WANT THEM TO CONCENTRATE AND FOCUS ON PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE MUSLIM TERRORISTS, OR NEO-NAZI TERRORISTS, RATHER
THAN...
INNOCENT NEO-NAZIS?
RIGHT, NEO-NAZIS THAT ARE DANGEROUS RATHER THAN
NEO-NAZIS WHO JUST WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO PROVOKE
SOME SORT OF REACTION.
RIGHT.
I THINK ARTHURS IS A REALLY INTERESTING SYMBOL OF EXTREMISM.
WHAT DO WE TELL YOU ALL THE TIME?
IT ISN'T ABOUT CHRISTIANITY, OR MUSLIM, OR ISLAM, OR ANY RACE OR
COUNTRY.
IT IS ABOUT FUNDAMENTALS.
ARTHURS WAS A FUNDAMENTALIST.
IS IN HIS NATURE.
HE WAS A FUNDAMENTALIST NEO-NAZI, AND WHEN HE
CONVERTED TO ISLAM HE BECAME A BY THE MENTALIST MUSLIM.
HE WAS GOING TO DO SOME SORT OF VIOLENCE ANYWAY, AND JUST
LIKE ALL OF THEM, LOOKING FOR GLORY.
SO, FIRST HE WAS LOOKING FOR GLORY WITH THE NEO-NAZIS,
AND THEN HE WAS LIKE, I FOUND SOMEONE MORE AGGRIEVED.
I'M GOING TO BE A HERO BY KILLING THOSE NOT THE KIDS.
DON'T GIVE THEM THE GLORY, AND FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT
PROVIDE US THE REAL SAFETY RISK, WHICH IS FUNDAMENTALISM.