White Supremacist terrorist failed to derail a train

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A Missouri man with connections to white supremacists has been charged with terrorism after authorities said he brought a cross-country Amtrak train to a halt last fall in rural Nebraska.

Taylor M. Wilson of suburban St. Louis intended to hurt passengers, authorities said.

The 26-year-old has been charged in federal court in Lincoln with terrorism attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, according to federal court records unsealed Wednesday.

The incident occurred overnight as the train traveled through Nebraska during the third weekend of October, according to law enforcement officials.

Early on Oct. 21, Wilson entered a restricted area of the train as it neared Oxford, Nebraska, and triggered the emergency brake in what authorities say was an attempt to derail the train.

He was behaving erratically, goaded staff with profanities and wrestled with them, sometimes reaching for his waistband.

“I’m the conductor, (expletive),” he said.

Amtrak workers held Wilson on the ground outside the train until a deputy from Furnas County arrived. The deputy handcuffed Wilson and while patting him down found a fully loaded .38 caliber handgun in Wilson’s front waistband along with a fully loaded “speedloader” in his front-left pocket. A speedloader enables rapid reloading of bullets.

Passengers on the train also pointed investigators to a backpack belonging to Wilson. The backpack contained three more loaded speedloaders, a box of .38 ammunition, a hammer, a fixed-blade knife, tin snips, scissors, a tape measure and a face mask similar to those used in construction.

During booking at the Furnas County Jail, Wilson was found in possession of a business card of the National Socialist Movement in Detroit, considered one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the U.S.

A search of Wilson’s phone found a depiction of a white supremacist banner over a highway and PDF files of “The Anarchist Cookbook,” and “The Poor Man’s James Bond” and other works about violence.

In the affidavit, Czaplewski recounted statements from an acquaintance of Wilson’s who said Wilson had traveled with neo-Nazis to protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, which authorities believe was the Unite the Right rally in which a woman was killed in August.

The acquaintance also said Wilson “has expressed an interest in ‘killing black people’ ... especially during the protests in St. Louis.” The affidavit notes that Wilson is the chief suspect in a road rage incident on Interstate 70 in which a white man pointed a gun at a black female in another vehicle. The license plate of the man’s car tracked back to Wilson.

St. Louis-based FBI agents searched Wilson’s home on Dec. 21 and found a hidden compartment behind the refrigerator. In that compartment, they found a tactical vest, 11 AR-15 ammunition magazines with about 190 rounds, one drum-style ammunition magazine, 100 rounds of 9 mm ammo, “white supremacy documents and paperwork,” and other items.

Wilson’s father subsequently provided agents with 15 firearms, including handguns and rifles and tactical body armor. One of those 15 firearms was a fully automatic rifle and a converted short rifle, both possible violations of federal firearms law.

millennials are an odd generation.

it'll be interesting to see how things will turn out, once they start running things in a couple decades.

most people form their beliefs starting in their teens through their 30s, and for millennials this is about....right now.