05.09.12
Those fun-loving neo-swamp-Nazis
Cute as a button … off an old time-y straight jacket.
Five miles from the nearest paved road, on a compound surrounded by barbed wire in a desolate area of Osceola County, investigators say, Marcus Faella was preparing his troops for war.
Race war.
Faella — who sees himself and his compatriots as “protectors of the white race” — was convinced it was “inevitable” and planned to kill Jews, immigrants and minorities, according to a recently filed affidavit. As they trained in firearm and hand-to-hand combat, members of the white-supremacist group American Front discussed acts of violence and disruption with targets including Orlando’s City Hall, authorities allege.
They also discussed manufacturing ricin …
Another suspect, Richard “Swamp Nazi” Stockdale of St. Cloud, had been painting the house with Brooks but left before officers arrived. Stockdale, 23, has a red-white-blue Confederate flag tattooed around his neck. Anyone who sees him is asked to call Crimeline …
Stockdale was sentenced to more than a year in prison on battery charges in October 2008. Investigators said he attacked a Hispanic high-school student at a party, beating the teen repeatedly while chanting “white power.”
You really have to click the link to see all the mug shots, not only entertaining on an abstract level, but which also decisively answer the question: “Do you think white people with hideous tatts on their faces know how to ‘manufacture’ ricin?”
Now, if they’d just been a little less ragingly anti-social and had a good agent, they might have been able to sell themselves to a minor cable network as a reality show.