Here hoping he gets whats coming to him.
Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell — a South Carolina resident and white supremacist who worships Dylann Roof — was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting a terror attack.
The Washington Post reports that 29-year-old told an undercover FBI employee that he wanted to do something on a “big scale” and then tag the building “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.”
“I seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred and I … I want to do that shit. Like, I got desire … not for nobody else … it just … I want something where I can say, ‘I fucking did that’ … me personally.”
According to the complaint, Horry County, S.C., police knew McDowell as someone who had made white supremacist connections while serving prison sentences for various criminal offenses. He posted rambling, expletive-filled white supremacist rants on Facebook, and in early January, requested an “iron”—or gun—from someone through Facebook instant messenger, according to the complaint. Less than a week later, he was in touch with an undercover FBI employee whom McDowell believed handled problems for the Aryan Nations, a group that espouses racist and anti-Semitic beliefs.
McDowell’s case is somewhat similar to Roof’s in that Roof, too, expressed frustration that, in his view, white supremacists were not taking enough action. Roof, who was sentenced to death last month for shooting and killing nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, wrote in a journal that he “would rather live imprisoned knowing I took action for my race than to live with the torture of sitting idle” and suggested he hoped others might follow suit.
McDowell reportedly didn’t have a specific plan, but was frustrated with other white supremacist not taking enough action.