A white supremacist is accused of trying to destroy an electricity substation in Tennessee in an attempt to bring down the regional power network and disrupt American society, authorities told NBC News.
Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested
after an FBI investigation found that he planned to attach a
bomb to a drone and fly it into the energy facility in Nashville as part of his
extremist agenda, authorities said.
Philippi is charged with the attempted use of a weapon of
mass destruction and the attempted destruction of an energy facility. He
appeared in court last week and is due to appear again on Nov. 13. He remains in
custody and faces possible life in prison.
In messages to FBI sources, Philippi espoused accelerationist views, a theory popular among
far-right extremists that is predicated on large shocks causing chaos and
forcing society to change its racial make-up, resulting in a white-only state,
authorities said.
The theory was popularized by manifestos left by
perpetrators in a number of high-profile neo-Nazi and white supremacist
terrorist incidents, including the killing of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch,
New Zealand, in 2019.
The suspect allegedly told a confidential FBI source in June
that he wanted to carry out a mass shooting at a YMCA facility in Columbia,
south of Nashville, but later in the year decided that this wouldn’t be enough
to achieve.
"If you want to do the most damage as an
accelerationist, attack high economic, high tax, political zones in every major
metropolis," Philippi wrote, according to court documents released Monday.
In September, Philippi showed an undercover agent portions
of his manifesto, which said that "radical armed struggle is the only end
to protecting and preserving our folk."
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