Eric Lichtblau
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building a budding organization of several dozen young men in Florida of neo-Nazi followers, and they were calling themselves Atomwaffen, and they wanted to build a more activist group that would actually do things, not just talk about white supremacy, as they said, and neo-Nazism, but do something.
And so they were stockpiling weapons.
They were talking about attacks.
They were talking about hate crimes.
He had kids coming down from Massachusetts, from other places in New England.
There were some in Texas.
And Atomoff was already spreading.
It had spread.
It had name branches in a number of states by then.
It had relocated to Texas with a pair of brothers in Texas who were very willing to assume the mantle of Atomwaffen.
They were doxing minorities all over the country at that point.
They were taking what he had built and putting it into action.
And Sam Woodward was attending a hate camp in Texas at that point.
They knew some of it.
He had told them of some of his beliefs, and they were worried.
Fair to say that that much came out at trial, at his murder trial.
They thought about doing a few things to stop him, but didn't actually do.
take any measures.
They thought about calling an old friend of his father's in Texas to maybe trail him.
They thought about trying to cut off his money.