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Iowa HS Teacher on Leave After Making 'Sniper Rifle' Comment About Greta Thunberg Visit

https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-hs-teacher- ... 46064.html

Proud Boys sentenced to four years for attacking Antifa in New York
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... ifa-902310

A man who repeatedly espoused anti-Semitic views has been arrested in a plot to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, federal officials said Monday. The co-conspirators turned out to be undercover agents. Court documents say Richard Holzer was arrested Friday in Pueblo just after the agents brought him what were supposedly two pipe bombs along with dynamite to blow up Temple Emanuel. In fact, the undercover agents had phony bombs incapable of causing damage, authorities said.

The agents said Holzer described the inert explosives as "absolutely gorgeous" and said they should go ahead with the attack overnight to avoid police. He had allegedly earlier made threatening comments about Pueblo's Jewish community and said he wanted to plot "something that tells them they are not welcome in this town," according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

An undercover FBI agent purporting to be a woman who supports white supremacy contacted Holzer on Facebook in September, where he had allegedly used several accounts to promote white supremacist ideology and acts of racially-motivated violence, according to the complaint. The complaint says Holzer sent pictures to the undercover agent of himself wearing symbols associated with white supremacy, identifying himself as a skinhead and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.

On October 3, Holzer allegedly made a reference to a racial holy war, and said in a voice recording he was going to Temple Emanuel to "scope it out." The next day, he sent a video showing a woman outside the temple in which he used anti-Semitic language, according to the complaint. A video he allegedly sent earlier that day showed Nazi propaganda, knives and masks, the complaint says.