Two with Ties to White Supremacy Suspected in Plot to Bomb Boston Sites

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[jonatron]

Leo V. Felton, 30, and Erica Chase, 21, were indicted June 20 on federal charges of plotting to blow up property perceived to have a Jewish or African-American association in order to incite a "racial holy war."

Felton and Chase were arrested April 19, 2001 when the two fled from police after Chase allegedly attempted to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill at a donut shop in East Boston.

A subsequent investigation by law enforcement and a search of the couple’s apartment by federal officers reportedly revealed:

• Notes on bomb-making;
• Detailed pictures of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, which was named in memory of the deceased former director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Boston Regional Office;
• A calendar with April 20th (Hitler’s birthday) circled;
• Books on terrorism and subterfuge;
• Newspaper clippings about a planned remembrance service at the New England Holocaust Memorial.

Investigators seized writings by Felton that allegedly suggest he contemplated gunning down blacks in New York City. It was alleged in the indictment that days before his arrest in April, Felton had purchased materials that could be used to construct bombs, including a 50-pound bag of ammonium nitrate and a coffee maker from which Felton had allegedly removed the heating and timing mechanisms. Felton reportedly ordered additional bomb components from a company in Arkansas.

Felton, the son of a white mother and a black father, from whom he is purportedly estranged, was released from a New Jersey State prison in January 2001 after serving 11 years for attempting to murder a black taxi driver in New York City with a crowbar. While serving his sentence, Felton tried to slit the throats of two black inmates. Felton, who is 6’7" and 225 pounds, has an array of neo-Nazi and white supremacist tattoos that indicate possible adherence to the White Order of Thuleand the "Straight Edge" movement.

Chase, whose body also bears neo-Nazi and white supremacist tattoos, reportedly is a member of the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC), the virulently anti-Semitic and racist hate group headed by Matt Hale, and an Indiana chapter of the Outlaw Hammerskins. She allegedly began writing to Felton in March 2000. Prison outreach is one of the roles carried out by The Sisterhood, an arm of the WCOTC, specifically designated for women. The WCOTC believes in the coming of, and necessity for, a "racial holy war."

Felton and Chase are charged with conspiring to make a destructive device, firearms violations, making and passing counterfeit currency and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Additionally, Felton is charged with attempting to receive explosive materials in interstate commerce with intent to use them in an explosive device and for illegal possesion of a handgun.

Chase was arraigned on Monday and pleaded not guilty to all charges. Felton’s arraignment was delayed until Friday, June 29, 2001. He made an apparent suicide attempt early Sunday by inflicting wounds on his arm, neck and wrists with a prison-issue razor. If convicted, Leo Felton faces a maximum of 65 years in prison while Erica Chase faces a maximum of 35 years.

[jonatron]

Good thing these fools' unbridled donut-lust misled them into using counterfeit money because it got them busted. Maybe Leo Felton will get some good lovin' in prison.

[jonatron]

ping

[concerned about politics]

Leo V. Felton, 30, and Erica Chase, 21, were indicted June 20 on federal charges of plotting to blow up property perceived to have a Jewish or African-American association in order to incite a "racial holy war."

These people have gone so far to the right, they've become left. They should be called a left wing anarchist group now.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Straight Edge has absolutely nothing to do with white power or any racial supremacy movement. It's a sobriety and clean living movement.

[ellery]

I've always thought the political spectrum was a circle -- with the extreme right and the extreme left being one and the same....

[iguanaman]

How does this have anything to do with the left? Or was it just a requisite that every thread on this board have left-bashing?

Fight when there's a fought to be won, but your attack is just worthless. These two are nutty right-wingers. We made 'em. Let's own up to the fact that we make mistakes occasionally.

[AppyPappy]

Felton, the son of a white mother and a black father,

I'm surprised he didn't blow himself up.

[sinkspur]

These two are nutty right-wingers. We made 'em. Let's own up to the fact that we make mistakes occasionally.

"We" aren't racist anarchists.

These people are fringe lunatics whom "we" had nothing to with creating.

[AppyPappy]

These two are nutty right-wingers

What are there political beliefs?

[AppyPappy]

there=their

[Pharmboy]

I'm surprised he didn't blow himself up.

I think--in his own way--that is exactly what he is trying to do.

[doryfunk]

"Felton and Chase are charged with conspiring to make a destructive device, firearms violations, making and passing counterfeit currency and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Additionally, Felton is charged with attempting to receive explosive materials in interstate commerce with intent to use them in an explosive device and for illegal possesion of a handgun" --- These sound like despicable people. I dont have the evidence for any of the charges, but regardless of evidence, the only one of those charges I would even conceive of convicting them of is counterfeiting. The rest of those 'crimes' are bogus and unconstitutional.

[doryfunk]

"I've always thought the political spectrum was a circle -- with the extreme right and the extreme left being one and the same...."

Many people view the political spectrum in this way, with Fascism (total government and State socialism) on the right and Communism (total government and international socialism on the left) with various levels of socialism in the middle. I prefer to look at the political spectrum as having no government, anarchy, on the far right and total government(be it fascism, communism, or despotical monarchy) on the far left. Traditional american government as established after the revolutin is one of federalism with the government greatly limited in its powers. This is a far right position just to the left of anarchy and it is the position I espouse. The U.S. government is currently one of Fabian Socialism that has taken us further and further to the left in the last 140 years. We are not far from total government at this point.

[steve-b]

allegedly attempted to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill at a donut shop

That has to be about the dumbest place to commit a crime, with the possible exception of a shooting range.

[KSCITYBOY]

These guys are often dumber than sticks.

[denydenydeny]

Felton, the son of a white mother and a black father,

At this point I am wondering what the now-banned Who Is George Salt? would say about this one...

[KSCITYBOY]

***We made 'em. Let's own up to the fact that we make mistakes occasionally. *** Pal you may be making these morons I'm not. The more I look at your statement the more it pisses me off. So I suppose Katie Couric made the little MN leftie that was blowing up mail boxes.. Whatever.

[Bohemund]

Ignore him. He's just another disruptor:

iguanaman

member since June 4th, 2002

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was released from a New Jersey State prison in January 2001 after serving 11 years for attempting to murder a black taxi driver in New York City with a crowbar. While serving his sentence, Felton tried to slit the throats of two black inmates.

attempted murder three times only gets eleven years sentence in Jersey?....Wow.

[Rodney King]

These two are nutty right-wingers. We made 'em

1. How did we make them?

2. How are they right-wingers? They are racists, traditionally the territory of the left, and they are socialists.