US Coast Guard officer held in plot to kill 'leftists'

By Michael Hernandez</p> <p>WASHINGTON (AA) – A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who was arrested last week should not be freed from custody while he awaits trial because he was plotting to &quot;murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,&quot; prosecutors said in court documents Wednesday. </p> <p>Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-avowed white nationalist, was arrested last Friday after allegedly plotting to kill journalists, professors, doctors, politicians and &quot;leftists in general,&quot; according to the filing. </p> <p>The Marine Corps veteran and Coast Guard acquisitions officer stationed at the guard's Washington, D.C. headquarters has been charged with illegal firearms possession and possession of a controlled substance, but prosecutors said those charges are just &quot;the proverbial tip of the iceberg&quot;.</p> <p>&quot;The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct,&quot; they wrote in the documents, asking for a judge to order him held in custody pending trial. </p> <p>Prosecutors cited a lengthy letter Hasson drafted, but never sent, to friends from June 2017 that winds between a screed against liberals and several plots to kill them that included biological attacks and attacks that targeted food supplies.</p> <p>&quot;I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on Earth,&quot; it says. &quot;Liberalist/globalist ideology is destroying traditionalist peoples esp white. No way to counteract without violence.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Much blood will have to be spilled in order to get whitey off the couch. For some no amount of blood will be enough.&quot;</p> <p>That letter was followed up by a letter Hasson sent to himself in September 2017 with the intent to send it to an unidentified neo-Nazi leader. In that letter, Hasson allegedly said he has been a white nationalist for more than 30 years, and advocated for &quot;focused violence&quot; to establish a white homeland, prosecutors wrote. </p> <p>Hasson routinely read portions of a manifesto by Anders Behring Breivik — the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in dual attacks in 2011 — starting in 2017 up until he was arrested.</p> <p>Prosecutors said Hasson compiled a hit list of prominent Democrats in Congress as well as activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities. </p> <p>He is set to appear in court for a hearing that will determine whether he remains in custody on Thursday afternoon. </p> <p>