Terrorism – Domestic

They were standing at the corner that would become an intersection of good and evil. They were innocents waiting for the light to change at Hyde Park and South Carriage roads in London, Ont., so they could safely cross. A dark-haired man. Two women wearing kameezes, traditional Muslim clothing. A couple of kids — a teenaged girl and a little boy — who would make everyone take notice.

During a sentencing hearing on Thursday morning, a judge ruled Nathaniel Veltman’s actions on June 6, 2021 constitute terrorism.

Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk on June 6, 2021.

He is the first incel to be sentenced as a terrorist in Canada.

Now 21 and identified only as O.S., he sat lumpen in the prisoner’s box with no sign of emotion as words of anguish filled the courtroom from the family of the single young mother he hacked to death three years ago.

WINDSOR—Moments after he drove into a Muslim family in an alleged terrorist act, accused killer Nathaniel Veltman steered his heavily damaged pickup truck into a near-empty London parking lot, stopped next to a taxi cab, then knelt on the ground and surrendered to police.

Video played at Veltman’s murder trial Tuesday showed the immediate minutes after a June 6, 2021, collision that killed four members of a London Muslim family, and the arrest without incident of their alleged killer.

WINDSOR, Ont. – Federal prosecutors are arguing that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in Ontario was motivated by white nationalist beliefs, branding the attack as an act of terrorism.

Nathaniel Veltman is accused of deliberately hitting five members of the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk in London, Ont., on the evening of June 6, 2021.

Good timing.

Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businessmen and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the stated goal of bringing about the collapse of the modern social order — a violent spree that ended after what was often described as the longest and most costly manhunt in American history — died on Saturday. He was 81.

The projection of dystopian America mired in a terrorist war waged by the Democrats’ political adversaries is false.

Even before the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, congressional Democrats had formulated a plan to project the illusion that the most perilous threat to American national security — not just in our time but in our history — was domestic terrorism fueled by white supremacists. This was, and remains, a political narrative through and through. Democrats are not even subtle in signaling to the public that they should think of Trump supporters — not just the unabashed MAGA faction but any of the over 70 million Americans who found Trump preferable to Democrats — as white supremacists, or at least sympathizers of white supremacists, and ergo abettors of domestic terrorism.