“The meeting included firearms training, grappling, basic medical training, and a pagan ‘blot’ ritual where a goat was sacrificed,” according to court documents.

By Josh Plank, World Israel News

Five additional members of The Base, a white supremacist group, have been indicted on charges related to a “pagan ritual sacrifice” that authorities say took place at a paramilitary training camp in Floyd County, Georgia, in October 2019, the Associated Press reported.

Patrik Mathews of Canada, William Garfield Bilbrough IV of Maryland, Brian Mark Lemley Jr. of Maryland, Brandon Gregory Ashley of Alabama, and Duncan Christopher Trimmell of Texas were charged with aggravated animal cruelty and all but Trimmell were also charged with livestock theft last week in Floyd County Superior Court.

The five defendants join three Georgia men who already face charges related to the animal’s death and other crimes. Luke Austin Lane, Michael Helterbrand, and Jacob Kaderli have been held without bond in the Floyd County Jail for over a year.

The animal cruelty and livestock theft charges stem from an incident that is alleged to have occurred in October 2019 during a Base training session at the 100-acre property owned by Lane’s family in Silver Creek, Georgia.

Prosecutors claim the group stole a ram from a nearby farm and attempted to kill it with a knife, but failed to do so. They then shot it to death and beheaded it in an act described as a “pagan ritual sacrifice.”

In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin in January 2020, an undercover agent is said to have attended the meeting with around a dozen Base members between October 31 and November 3, 2019.

“The meeting included firearms training, grappling, basic medical training, and a pagan ‘blot’ ritual where a goat was sacrificed,” the complaint said.

The Base is described as “a neo-Nazi group that aims to unify militant white supremacists around the globe and provide them with paramilitary training in preparation for a ‘race war.'”

The Wisconsin complaint linked members of The Base to vandalism of synagogues in Racine, Wisconsin, and Hancock, Michigan.

The group’s symbol, anti-Semitic messages, and swastikas were spray painted on the exterior of the synagogues in September 2019 in a coordinated effort called “Operation Kristallnacht.”

The symbol used by The Base is a black flag with three Runic Eihwaz symbols.

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“Regardless of the viewpoints of ‘The Base’ and its members, the law cannot tolerate the kind of violence that you were facilitating,” said the judge in the case.

By Algemeiner Staff

A neo-Nazi activist has been sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Maryland for plotting violent actions against the US government.

Twenty-year-old William Garfield Bilbrough IV was convicted of conspiracy to transport and harbor Patrik Mathews, a white supremacist and former soldier in the Canadian military who illegally entered the US in 2019.

Both Mathews and another extremist — Brian Mark Lemley Jr., a US Army veteran — are on trial in Delaware, where they shared a house, for allegedly planning a gun massacre of civilians.

The case against Bilbrough formed part of a larger investigation of “The Base,” a violent neo-Nazi organization that first emerged on the US scene in 2018. In January, authorities in Georgia and Wisconsin arrested four other men linked to the group.

According to research by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), members of “The Base” portray themselves as “vigilante soldiers defending the ‘European race’ against a broken ‘system’ that has been infected by Jewish values.”

The group’s founder is American-born Rinaldo Nazzaro, who now lives in Russia.

Sentencing Bilbrough on Tuesday, US District Judge Theodore Chuang said that his punishment was for his actions, not his extremist ideology.

“Regardless of the viewpoints of ‘The Base’ and its members, the law cannot tolerate the kind of violence that you were facilitating,” Chuang said. “You got yourself off this path before it got too far into violence.”

In a separate statement, U.S. Attorney Robert Hur praised local law enforcement for apprehending Bilbrough, Mathews and Lemley before the group was able to execute a mass atrocity.

“Lives were saved due to the skill and dedication of law enforcement in this case,” Hur noted. “William Bilbrough and his cohorts intended to inflict violence on the basis of their racist and hateful beliefs. As long as violent extremists take steps to harm innocent people, we will continue to use all of the tools we have to prevent and deter them.”

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