“When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff’s deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“The text message chain, called “Shadow Moses,” between San Diego plumber Grey Zamudio, 33, and 28-year-old Cody Griggers, a former Marine and sheriff’s deputy in Wilkinson County, revealed plans to steal explosives, dry runs with illegal silencers and boasts of racial violence. In one text, Griggers said he hoped law enforcement and the military would join their side in the coming conflict. “Our only saving grace is that for the time being they have not brainwashed the military completely,” Griggers wrote, according to court records.”

“Twin federal investigations resulted in the arrests and guilty pleas of Giggers and Zamudio on illegal weapons charges that could put them in federal prison for a decade. Zamudio will be sentenced in July; Griggers in August. But Griggers’ involvement shines a light on the growing concern inside the intelligence community about the far-right radicalization of service members and law enforcement officers.”

“”I’m the guy on the inside,” Griggers bragged, and he said he could get law enforcement items, like stun grenades known as “flashbangs” and explosive charges used to breach doorways. “Yeah, I’ll pay big money for bang an (sic) boom,” Zamudio replied. “I’m ready to terrorize LA.””

“In one exchange, Griggers wrote about getting police equipment and explosives in preparation for what he expected would be the racial and political violence to come…The FBI said Griggers spoke approvingly of the Holocaust, and when they raided Zamudio’s home, they found an anti-Semitic and racist novel well known among the radical right for its depiction of an apocalyptic race war. Griggers indulged in such fantasies where the assassination of “famous liberals” could be blamed on Muslims.”