Antisemitic Ex-Navy SEAL planned to fire explosives at police in San Diego; now convicted, faces 10 years

• Former Navy SEAL Gregory Vandenberg was convicted of transporting explosives intended to harm law enforcement at a San Diego “No Kings” protest.
• Messages on the ex-serviceman’s phone indicated he believed the U.S. government was controlled by Israel, while clothing in his car expressed support for Al Qaeda and neo-Nazi beliefs.

A former Navy SEAL with neo-Nazi beliefs faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of transporting fireworks across state lines with the intent to injure law enforcement at a “No Kings” protest in San Diego, authorities said.

FBI agents found messages on Gregory Vandenberg’s phone indicating he was upset with President Trump because he believed the U.S. government is controlled by Israel and the Jewish people, according to the Department of Justice.

Inside his car agents found T-shirts with a neo-Nazi symbol printed on them, a flag for the militant group the Caucasian Front, an Al Qaeda flag and a Latin message saying “Judea must be destroyed,” among other paraphernalia displaying anti-Israel and extremist beliefs, prosecutors said.

On June 12, Vandenberg stopped at a travel center near Lordsburg, N.M., and purchased six large mortar fireworks as well as 72 M-150 firecrackers, which are designed to sound like gunfire. He repeatedly expressed his desire to use the fireworks to harm law enforcement at upcoming protests in California and urged the store clerk to join him, prosecutors said.

He wore a T-shirt with the word “Amalek” on the front, which he said he designed specifically to mean “destroyer of Jews.”

[He may be a few marbles shy of the typical quantity, but it's hard now to tell actual mental illness from people living in their weird bubbles.]